a couple of weeks ago the special envoy for afghanistan reconciliation zalmay khalilzad was apparently having meetings again with talabani officials to try to find a way to restart those talks let's remember u.s. president donald trump ended the negotiations after the taliban carried out an attack just before the september 11th anniversary in which among others one u.s. soldier was killed and at the time trump said that if this sort of behavior is going to be carried out while we're trying to negotiate some sort of eventual peace accord between the taliban and the afghan government well this is not being taken seriously and so we're going to put those talks on hold but it has been making contacts we understand in order to try to get negotiations back on track as for the pentagon the fact that defense secretary mark asper is in kabul is not

unexpected it's something that every defense secretary has had to do since the u.s. went into afghanistan back in 2001 but p. and other pentagon officials have been steadfast tammy in saying that the diplomatic issues have to be dealt with by the state department the pentagon for its part is only focused on its 2 missions in afghanistan one training and supporting afghan forces as they try to build up the resiliency of their military and to taking part in the nato led operation to basically not just support afghanistan but to engage in counterterrorism activities as well. and from washington d.c. . the most still ahead on the news hour including. chillies government cracks down on protests we'll find out more on what's called the demonstrators so worked on. feeling inspired why there's

a record number of ethnically diverse candidates running in cali this upcoming general election and in school or find out which baseball team is headed for the world series the deal with that story like with. turkey says one of its soldiers has been killed in northern syria it says it happened during a reconnaissance mission the death comes despite a truce in the area turkey's president is vowing to press on with his offensive in northern syria and crush kurdish forces if they don't withdraw from a proposed safe zone under a deal brokered with the u.s. could his fighters have to leave an area 32 kilometers deep into syria. meanwhile a convoy of ambulances has evacuated wounded people from

a hospital in the roster line near the syria turkey border. joins us now live. near that border so what can you tell us. that's right sami this will be the 2nd convoy that has managed to get into iraq. and evacuate some of the wounded we believe were did soldiers sorry wounded fighters kurdish fighters and wounded civilians. we understand that this convoy was led by the kurdish red crescent yesterday there were complaints being made by volunteers leading that 1st convoy that they were being denied access by what they described as members of the free syrian army these are these syrian fighters that have been very much at the forefront of turkey's military campaign so this is good news now that we're hearing a 2nd convoy has been allowed in trying to pull some of the civilians and wounded fighters out we also understand that there were s.t.s.

kurdish fighters that left who were not wounded in that convoy as well suggesting that at least some of those fighters are leaving in accordance with this u.s. brokered agreement however we have spoken to free syrian army fighters inside russell and they still say that there are kurdish fighters still in the city seemingly not wanting to move and we also understand that in terms of although the ceasefire is holding in terms of the area the whole area that kurdish forces still control there's been very little movement there in terms of a withdrawal which of course is worrying. when you consider that the turkish president president has said that if those kurdish forces do not pull back by the end of this 5 day so cool cease fire pulls in fighting then took

a military operation he says will continue. talking with accusations u.s. troops have been relocating and evacuating their bases but they're heading. to iraq what does that tell us about their future operational posture. oh yeah we've seen videos now all u.s. forces heading east towards the iraqi border let's not forget that this announcement or an announcement was made by president trump in december 2008 saying that he would be pulling u.s. forces out from that area on the syrian border they was then this delay and then when we saw those what was described as a dozen or so u.s. forces that were moved away from the border. around i think it was october the 7th it was 2 days later that the turkish military moved in and of course those kurdish forces that have been so effective so the u.s. said in fighting are still describe this as being a stab in the back by the u.s.

in terms of where they're going now to iraq let's also not forget that the battle against isolate iraq is still very much an issue there are reports of sleeper cells attacks in iraq in places like province and so logged in every day. and let's also not forget that you know there are critics all this critics of this withdrawal is saying that this could well weaken the fight against are still in the same area of along the border northern syria so turkey says that it's going to step up its campaign is telling everybody not to worry we've seen the turks. bringing in some myself yesterday into it but i think at the end of the day in terms of the politics of what we're seeing going on here now that these u.s. forces are finally being moved out of syria the real winner is on the outside regime with a big back because russia and turkey itself so yeah lots of questions as to how

the battle against are so will continue not only here along this border and in northern syria but in iraq also. right thanks so much. now hong kong police a fired tear gas and water cannon the protesters throwing petrol bombs as thousands of pro-democracy activists rally against the battle of faiths mosques and demonstrations began 5 months ago sponsored by an extradition bill which was later shelved protests of why they're calling for more democratic rights they do in brown is in whole call with the latest. once more another tense standoff here in nathan road which is the busiest sort of face in hong kong the police have just charged down the street after reclaiming it earlier in the afternoon but the local people 7 are unhappy because the police have been firing tear gas and of course that tear gas is seeping into their homes but the police officer feel that that is

a tactic they have to pursue in order to try and restore some sort of order to the streets now the protests that began on sunday was against a ban on face masks that was imposed by the government several weeks ago people in fact face fines or even arrest if they're cool wearing face masks but people to fight that ban in their tens of thousands and of course people also run the risk of arrest because they were taking part in what was an unauthorized protest now we don't know how many people for sure were detained or arrested on sunday but once more we did see some pretty graphic examples of violence the protesters once more targeting businesses with links to the mainland of businesses that are owned by the chinese people we passed one mobile phone shop chinese owned it was completely trashed but nothing inside it was taken now there is concern that many of the people who've been arrested during recent weeks have been children aged between 12

and 15 more than 100 of them and that's something that's concerning human rights groups here in hong kong and indeed beyond. now in chile a sky. aps all soldiers are patrolling the streets to enforce a curfew and state of emergency at least 3 people were killed in santiago in a supermarket was set on fire metro train stations have also been ransacked because of plans to increase ticket prices president sebastian pinera backed out on the fare rises but anger continues the high cost of living porous vendor spec is founder of chile today an independent news website he joins us by skype from santiago welcome. thank you so as i mentioned there the government has already withdrawn the hikes on metro for metro tickets what are people really protesting about then so you're like you said the president yesterday

announced he will decrease the metro biases or at least not increase them but every seen now as last night the violence has spread out through cities throughout and really shows that it is way more than this something about metro fare and this is going about the cost of living the inequality in the country the pension system the education systems the health care there is so much going on and so much discontent in a society of children there's this was something that was going to happen some way or another is it surprising though that we're seeing these kinds of economic protests happening in chile which has the highest per capita income in latin america. well i mean it's not surprising actually because it has the highest income per capita in latin america but on the same time it's now we see the country and it's one of the most unequal countries in the o.e.c.d. so there's a lot of discontent and if you see how many people have to work to pay their bills

how many people have to work to get a small pension and still work sometimes until they're 80 years old people who study one university study and they still have to pay the debts over 50 years so you can say well they have a high income per capita in chile that doesn't matter because there's still so much inequality and also the response of the authorities in these protests which would have been very violent of course deploying the army. you know just that has just provoked more violence and more aggressions by these protesters to truly and properly address inequality that'll take a little bit of time what is it that the government could do right now well you see that the government at this moment is really baffled by the amount and the violence and the grocer and the aggression of the protests here in chile and what they are doing right now is they're gathering with the president of congress the president

of the senate the president the supreme court they're trying to get everyone together to talk what can we do right now so there's not that much that they could do at this moment and that's makes it so difficult for the government because decreasing inequality changing a country that has been so unequal for the last decades that's going to be a very hard and very difficult and of course a process of one of years or right to live there thanks so much for your analysis thank you very much. now polls have opened in bolivia's presidential election after 14 years in power even more dollars has a fine on his hands to get reelected his rival is the former interim president who's trying to support by condemning what he calls or rather this is dictatorial leadership. and speak to our desire as well or to join home and live in the altos voting has started any indication of where it's going will he be able will not ours

be able to pull off a surprise victory. it. was quite early in the day to be talking about that yet let me just show you quickly some of the people. here behind us in the sea that allow talk real mixture of people remember that bolivia's got more than 60 percent of its people are from indigenous backgrounds ever more or less being come the president is also from an indigenous background so that may have some sort of resonance with the race but he is the front runner going into these elections the nearest challenger is carlos messer who's a prominent x. journalist and now he's running for the presidency as well now they've got very different visions for what should happen in bolivia let me tell you a little bit about that ever more rallies his campaign slogan has been total pseudo a secure future for the country and he's basing that on the fact that under his time in charge he's been the longest running president in bolivia's history there's

been a really good rates of growth in the economy one of the highest in latin america and he's managed to cut poverty almost by half so he's saying keep me in power and i'll keep doing that on the other hand carlos meserve the challenger is saying yes that might have gone well but in the meantime the country's hold on democracy appears to be slipping and he points towards a fact that the judicial authorities even the electoral body the legislative bodies all seem very much under the control of the president evermore ollie's and they are worried that he might become more authoritarian if he's granted this full term in power. it is a controversial run thanks so much john home and. now there's a record number of ethnically diverse candidates running in monday's general election in canada one of the most politically successful groups in the country have been the sikhs from india the outgoing government had 14 sikh members of

parliament and 4 cabinet ministers from the india based faith al-jazeera as daniel lak looks at why the group's prospering in canadian politics. the face of historic achievement in canadian politics the 1st nonwhite federal political party leader judgment sing of the leftist n.d.p. the new democrats a canadian whose parents came from india he's a sikh who wears his uncut here bound up in a turban because of his faith nearly half a 1000006 live in canada and they belong been politically active just meet singh is a role model for a new generation he was one the people the inspired me to get into politics he's always been a community organizer you know when i was 20 and i was looking for somewhere to be he taught me the importance of politics in this toronto suburb nearly every candidate is a sikh justin trudeau liberals won all 5 seats in the 2015 election now with opinion polls showing him less popular than 4 years ago there's a chance for another party to make gains old fashioned retail politics putting in

lawn signs and knocking on doors that's what it takes to get attention in a constituency like this one very diverse and where the voters need to see and hear from their candidates sick temple's known as gurdwaras prepare meals for all who come no matter their religion it's an article of faith this is the largest gurdwara in north america with tens of thousands of worshippers these days most 2nd and 3rd generation canadians all political opinions can be found i think sometimes some steak is made that somehow. thinks alike are always walks lockstep with one another you know there's diversity within the diversity of those folks that have a lot of different opinions during a trip to india last year justin trudeau faced intense criticism for putting sikh community interests ahead of canada's with one of its most important trading partners supporters of the prime minister denied wrongdoing and said he or any other canadian leader has to listen to voters you want every vote doesn't matter

what the background is to the photo and so you reach out with respect to the trip to india that did not improve tritos it came across as appalling with food and he was. to lampoon not just to the country but i think internationally and i think he was very poorly served by the foreign policy aside elections are won here and across the country on the basic bread and butter issues proving the economy creating jobs and keeping the country safe and prosperous daniel acknowledges here of brampton ontario. the european weather system has got stuck again with some pleasant consequences tell us why we have persistence of type is the phrase to remember at the moment it looks like going to big clear area over here and cloud behind it that is about right which means you get the normal autumnal weather a bit of morning fog in prague for example in the countryside in belarus and fact many countries in eastern europe this is down towards turkey a foggy start and nothing else changes in the sky that cloud is pretty much

persistent from spain up through france and through the northern countries towards scandinavia so what happens when it gets nice and warm and maybe surprisingly well just to have a look at these temperatures remembers the end of october 24 degrees in bucharest $21.00 in warsaw yeah they're above where they want to be compared with the average we're talking about 910-1112 greece above average in this part not quite so extreme in athens it's supposed to be will increase at least for a little while longer but it's a little cooler in for example madrid and in paris and you buy a little bit but significantly so and that's because the cloud of course his persistent as is the rain this is a huge amount of rain that fell in the northwest of italy and he joins a mass about half as much but in the hard grind of spain and france where there has recently be flooding and i think with this picture in sunday repeated on monday there will be some more sunny. well still ahead of al jazeera what next in the

brags it drama will have a live update from london. why refugee women in jordan had to learn to be plumbers and why rooney's time in the u.s. comes to an end in frustrating fashion details coming up in sports. every week news cycle brings a series of breaking stories. they're listening as we turn the cameras on the media when the entire service is control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they report 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 post on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now mass protests are spreading in lebanon demanding the top political change launch crowds are out on the streets for a 4th day voice against rising taxes that are legit government corruption. hong

kong police have been firing tear gas at protesters throwing petrol bombs as thousands of pro-democracy activists rally against a ban on face masks and government demonstrations began 5 months ago they respond by next tradition bill which was like the shell. mark asked made a surprise visit to kabul on its 1st trip to afghanistan as u.s. defense secretary the u.s. is trying to kick start stalled peace talks between afghanistan and taliban president donald trump broke off negotiations last month. back to our top story now the rising anger against the government in lebanon that a whole lot is standing by at the scene of those protests in beirut the protests going on also we've heard that smear job does calling on his members of government to resign how is the government responding to that. now the

ruling alliance has been very defiant every few saying to resign the prime minister saad holding discussions with his ministers to draft them economic which will effectively be the budget for 2020 and that plan what we understand there will be no more taxes imposed on the population they're going to impose taxes on banks they're going to slash the salaries of officials in an attempt to calm the anger in the street the government needs revenues in order to cover the fake expenditure that it has but people here are saying if you're if you're able to do that now why didn't you do that initially because these protests 2 were triggered by reports that new taxes will be imposed so people are saying that this will be too little too late what we understand is that there will be a cabinet session tomorrow afternoon the prime minister on friday gave himself a 72 hour deadline to come up with this economic plan after the cabinet session

we're expected to hear from the prime minister but like i told you the response in the street has already been it's not enough for us we don't trust the officials why should we trust them they're corrupt but we have the money is that they return the money that they have stolen from the state so defiance from the street defiance from the ruling alliance but it is not clear you know what these people can do yes they're piling pressure they're calling for a general strike on monday the bank association says banks are going to remain closed it will be the 4th straight day which means they're going to be no financial transactions this puts more and more pressure on the government school. universities and people here are threatening civil disobedience campaign but like i mentioned the politicians those who are in power they control the army they control the security forces yes on 'd friday those security forces use and used heavy handed tactics to disperse the crowd since then they've taken

a step back but people of course here are worried that that can change. is a holdover from. now the u.k. is asked for the e.u. ours asked the e.u. rather for a 3 month break that extension prime minister barak's johnson lost a crucial vote in parliament on saturday forcing him to send a letter requesting a delay however he didn't sign it and also included another document saying an extension would be a mistake the u.k. was due to leave on the 31st of october let's go live to paul brennan in london now for the latest on this so today of all obviously is the sunday we saw everything that happened yesterday with the let's win amendment now the drama over multiple letters from the prime minister what happens next. well next the european union considers whether or not to grounds that extension and

there will be a consideration of the format that it was sent in deficit there were 3 documents actually sent by downing street to brussels overnight 1st was the letter itself as stipulated by the law at the ban act saying that the prime minister wants an extension but that letter was in the format of a photocopy from the legislation it wasn't signed by the prime minister and it came with a covering letter from suits him barrow the u.k.'s ambassador to the e.u. essentially saying to the e.u. look we're sending you this because we have to and then there was a proper letter from the prime minister signed by boris johnson saying i think it would be a really bad idea if you gave us an extension now it's likely that that is going to land the prime minister in court in the coming days by m.p.'s and campaigners unhappy that although he appears to have abided by the letter of the law he hasn't had bided by the spirit of the law forcing him to ask for an extension in the

meantime we've had a succession of senior pollen terry ends and politicians on the sunday morning political shows saying that essentially as far as they're concerned from the conservative side the bracket is still on schedule for october 31st dominic rob the foreign secretary saying as well that he believes that the government does have the numbers now although they were defeated by the in the lead to an amendment on saturday they're hoping to put a political vote an endorsement vote again before parliament on monday and dominic rudd the foreign secretary believes the government does have the numbers to get that passed and then during the rest of the week from tuesday onwards we're expecting the withdrawal agreement bill to come before the house and that is the bill that would give legal effect to the provisions of 'd the deal which was agreed in brussels last thursday that bill is going to face all kinds of shenanigans and guerrilla warfare and amendments attempted to be added to it such as. for example labor will support the idea of a confirmation referendum being attached to that bill however to the bottom line is

that the government is slowly ticking off the days we are getting closer and closer to october 31st and as far as the government is concerned they are still on track for britain to leave the european union on that date. or pull britain but. now the e.u. says it has received prime minister johnson's letter but it has not yet indicated how it will respond the barber has more from brussels. well the message from brussels is basically we're carrying on as normal on sunday morning michel barnier the e.u.'s chief present negotiator met the 27 e.u. ambassadors for a short meeting and the subject of the requests for an extension hardly got talked about money a saying that it was basically to agree on the next steps in ratifying that any deal now we know that nobody here wants to see a no deal breaks it so what they're trying to do is give boris johnson his

government time to get the deal passed the european parliament meets in plenary session in strasburg this week and they would love to be able to vote on the deal but they're waiting to see what happens in westminster we've got germany's economy minister calling on boris johnson to reach across party solution we know that chancellor merkel of germany told her counterparts behind the scenes at the summit this week that if it came down to it to avoid a no deal breaks it it would be inevitable that they'd have to grant an extension but they don't want to be pushed into acting they want to push the british parliament into ratifying into passing that deal but in a note in the worst case scenario for them all of the signs are that they would be prepared to grant britain that extension even though boris johnson says that he doesn't want it in the short run though what it means is that they are waiting they're saying we are going to look at our options the consultations with tween

donald tusk the head of the european council and the e.u. leaders we hear will take several days those several days of the time span they hope that it could take the british parliament to get that deal passed. spain's central government has dismissed a call for talks with catalan separatists despite a week of mass protests people in barcelona are angry after separatist leaders were handed lengthy jail sentences for their role in the band independence referendum in 2017. with them astray sions have been largely peaceful there have been flare ups. donald trump's looking for a new venue to host next year's summit of g 7 leaders he's abandoned his plan to use his golf resort in florida after criticism of misusing the presidency for profit the u.s. presidents denounced the opposition as crazed and irrational hostility the camp

david presidential retreat is a possible alternative venue for the summit. the united nations security council is due to visit south sudan for the 2nd time since it gained independence in 2011 the visit comes 3 weeks they're head of the formation of a transitional government as the country tries to recover after 5 years of war here morgan reports from the capital juba. this is the only lifeline for margaret a guy with 4 children to feed and care for she says the high prices in the market make it hard to provide for them out of a civil has that. life is hard we struggle to support our own children since the war started my own kids haven't gone to school for years because i couldn't pay for the fees here at this place i can provide meals and if i get enough then they can go to school. margaret's children dropped out of school

a year after the outbreak of civil war in south sudan they are among at least $2000000.00 children missing out on education according to unicef the war began in 2013 when the country's president accused his deputy of attempting a coup to peace deals have since been signed rights groups estimate over 400000 people were killed in the nearly 6 years of fighting and damage to the economy has left inflation running at over 50 percent it's not just the economy that has suffered as a result of conflict in south sudan in various parts of the country fighting has forced people to leave their homes creating a refugee crisis that has 4000000 people displaced many of them in dire need of aid . in total more than half of the country's 12000000 population now rely on help the u.n. says since the last peace deal was signed there has been improvement but stability is needed to be able to properly cater for them the bureaucratic hassles and that's particularly in the opposition areas and there are stoppages on the road by our

government forces particularly in the south of the country and in the northwest but overall we're seeing. an improvement and we hope that that will just continue on. last year's peace deal find between president salva kiir and opposition leader rick much are stipulated that a new government be formed by me that deadline was extended to november so all sides could settle on security arrangements and the number of states in the country it was very clear when we made that century when we made the extension it was clear and we had agreed that no more extension so that. we are setting up a government. that's setting up the government and any other security issues or whatever aspects or parts of the agreement which are not implemented were really implemented in due course margaret says she feels any discussion about stability has gone on long enough she wants to see peace become

a reality not just for her family but also outside unease heba morgan al-jazeera. argentina's frezza machree is hoping to defy opinion polls away next week's election he's up against alberto 59 those who beat him heavily in the primary vote in august when there's been a huge show support from achree to raise about reports. it was called the 1000000 march hundreds of thousands of people gathering in the center of one of scientists to saying yes we can. and show their support for argentina's precedent. was. that about me a little bit i have terror if parent is and comes back we are here to defend the republic because if the others come back they will destroy everything the others are opposition leader of the farm and this and former president cristina fernandez a kershner from the peronist party. presidential elections are.