his president arrives in sochi just hours before a cease fire deadline as kurdish fighters continue to put out of northeastern syria . well i'm down in jordan this is on a 05 coming up lebanon's government just rift and see the reforms to revive the economy but will it be enough to satisfy protesters tomorrow. back in power the challenges await prime minister justin trudeau in forming a new government in canada. on trying to clear the air how south korea is playing a high price for what it calls a social disaster. turkey's

president russia typo on as arrived in the russian port city of sochi the top of the vladimir putin otoh one that repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria the leaders are expected to discuss the cease fire that was brokered by the u.s. which is due to expire in a matter of hours when the code is suing democratic forces have pulled out of some areas along the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the truce which is and near the turkey syria border child so the ceasefire is set to end in a few hours time there are turkish worries about the saves and we have the leaders of russia and turkey meeting now in sochi so what does all of this mean on the ground charles. well certainly the ceasefire seems to be holding but some interesting statements by president of the one before he left for sorties saying that turkish forces were in his words they had freed from terrorists

around 2200 square kilometers including $160.00 settlements now that in terms of turkey's initial plan or what it that the plan for this safe zone is no way near like the the area that they want for this safe zone that they want those kurdish forces to withdraw from when you think it's 440 old kilometers long and around 30 kilometers deep in desir e.-a so there are serious concerns that the kurdish forces have not withdrawn sufficiently enough to prevent potentially turkish military regime in their military operation inside syria also interesting lee yesterday the commander of the s.d.f. muslim the gave an interview with an american network and he said that. the s.d.f. had not agreed to the u.s. turkey cease fire in its entirety he said that trust in the u.s. was at all time low off to those u.s.

forces left the area which many people say gave turkey the green light to move in. and he said that the withdrawal of those u.s. forces was a strategic mistake on the ground here as i say the ceasefire is holding is pretty interesting in the loss of the 24 hours or so we've heard reports of pro turkish forces moving east and west potentially one would think readying for another front but we cannot confirm that there's also be interesting lines coming out of syria itself with respect president asked sides take on things president assad visiting syrian troops around southern italy. now and he described president. on as a man that had stolen wheat stolen oil and was now stealing territory this is reference to the fact that turkey are monitoring certain areas in leap that's an

agreement that was set up also by the russians but is a massive indication of the kind of challenges potentially that president putin has in bringing the turks and the syrians to some sort of understanding in relation to a long term settlement. for their on the turkey syria border in our child stand thank you. mean on iraq's military says u.s. troops who crossed over from syria do not have permission to stay in the country the soldiers are part of forces who withdrew from northern syria as the turkish operation against kurdish fighters began him and khan has more now from the iraqi capital. the statement was issued by the joint iraqi military operations command it said that the us troops have permission to enter from the kurdish region but they're only allowed to transit to a location outside of iraq now that's in stark contrast to what we've been hearing over the last couple of days what we've heard is that the u.s. troops are going to base themselves in

a military base in the west of iraq where they would mount their operations continue their operations and if need be moved from there back into north eastern syria now we do know the prime minister abdul mahdi met with the u.s. ambassador when they discussed this troop movement it was agreed at that meeting that the u.s. troops could come through into the kurdish region of northern iraq and then go to a no military base that seemingly has changed almost overnight and it just goes to show you a lot of the iraqis we speak to here are wondering what the u.s. policy actually is whether it's being made on the fly whether people of thinking about it let's lot of confusion here in iraq has to why this situation has changed it's a very sensitive topic to u.s. troops on the ground in iraq it's something that a lot of the political parties certainly don't want they say that iraq the americans left iraq and that should remain the case and that the only people that

should be here are advisers to the iraqi military particularly when the war against eisel was going on so now we're in a situation where the u.s. troops have been told that they can only transit in iraq where will they go it was likely what we've been hearing the last couple of days that the rebase to a very large military base in kuwait meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state has indicated that washington is still prepared to take military action in the region if required. where we see american interest at stake or fundamental norms around the world that need to be in force we'll use all the powers that we have you suggest that the economic powers that we've used will certainly use them we'll use our diplomatic powers as well those are our preference we prefer peace to war but in the event that kinetic action or military action is needed you should know the present trump is fully prepared to undertake that action . now protesters in lebanon are demanding more reforms despite the government approving sweeping economic measures to improve the economy authorities appear to

be tightening security as police in the military disperse protesters trying to erect barricades the prime minister saad hariri announced a plan to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in years against the nation's media is to say they will keep going to the streets until the cabinet steps down is north of the capital beirut. it seems the country is paralyzed then for another day protested remain on the streets roads are blocked just on us what's happening on the ground so you know. well the lebanese army and security forces out in the streets trying to in many ways regain control of the street. protesters still remains defiant there on the streets there blocking highways this is a main artery the highway that connects the lebanese capital beirut with northern lebanon yes there are side roads that remain open but it just makes it more and more difficult for the public really to get from one place to another now so far the

army has forced to forcibly open road there standing on the sidelines people here still feel that the army is here to protect them but nobody knows whether or not that will change because yesterday the prime minister. held a phone conversation with the lebanese army and what they agreed is that people will be allowed to protest it is their right to protest they can stay on the street as long as they don't disrupt public life what is happening behind me is considered disrupting public life so the prime minister saying that yes you can stay in the squares for as long as you like continue demonstrating your demands are legitimate really the prime minister trying to reach out to the people trying to calm their anger but protesters as you can see behind me are still defiant they are demanding that the government through. but the biggest question is are there can they achieve this how realistic is it for them to achieve this goal. to really address the

nation yesterday but i mean what happens next with the various options the the scenarios going forward. well for the government their message to the people is we're not resigning we're going to push ahead with implementing this new economic plan now some people are saying ok fine we will give the government the chance but there are others who say no these are corrupt leaders they have been in power for decades why should we now this popular anger this is it began as a spontaneous protest it's a leaderless movement but some politicians are riding the wave of popular or some other supporters are in the streets but how powerful is the opposition politically weak he has. this is the president of the country who has the largest christian party or has the largest representation in parliament has a law the president there the governing alliance and right now they are refusing to resign and they hold the power in this country so i don't.

situation. we are on the main beirut. and you can see it remains blog this is one of the arteries of transportation in the country and this is an effort by the protesters to keep the pressure on the government were in the area of be both you can see tense have been set up people is making she show they're playing games they've brought in food there's a couple of camping tents further down because people will stay here overnight because they want to make sure this remains closed they're not happy with the reforms that the politicians i'm just going to bring in jessica obeyed who's been here protesting why are you still here we heard the reforms are they don't good enough shows a high level of incompetence because they are realistic their own profession and their. and not implemented but and it shows also that the government is not winning but anyhow of corruption and this is why we hear the government has run out of

options whatever they do from here even if people are out of the streets and will not be able to govern not implement any of the necessary in the study measures necessary for the economic reforms because if completely lost the trust of the citizens and the people are the source of power and just getting back to action and her wonderful thank you so that's a message you've been hearing from people in beirut who are now on our way to tripoli to give a sense of course that these protests are not just in the capital they're affecting every element and sector of society in the significant thing is that people are united whether christian whether it's to me whether shia whether druze or pointing the finger at the government that it's not good enough it needs to go they want accountability our time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back israel's prime minister fails to form a government again we'll tell you what that means for the country. protests and confusion in bolivia as the country waits for presidential election results on the government's accused of manipulating the outcome more in the state of the us.

how i once again i'm afraid we have seen yet more rain into parts of japan seen in tokyo where we had $64.00 millimeters of rain and 24 hours status in the process of pulling out of the way to try whether we'll start to push this way back you know as we go through the next couple of days but you see and this tropical system will soon fall like a little sink below this one level just push over towards the open waters by the time we come to one state dr bracci weather coming back here behind us but a cloud into q sure into the korean peninsula. just not a little further eastward so it will cloud over some wet weather once again into the fosse of japan. meanwhile into china well hey we do have a lot of but dry and sunny weather into the southeast and cold with essential parts you can follow that same area clapped out of japan through the east china sea that

it's essential passed down towards the southwest some of that wet weather will be in place and in that will push its way down towards the fall north of vietnam as we go on through stay a while across southeast asia will probably a shot was there across the philippines sentiment's other parts of the philippines things in levy down poles pushing across into more than pos all borneo big show so if a southern thailand malaysia. welcome

back at the top stories here this hour turkey's president. has arrived he's meeting with russian counterpart. has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria ceasefire there is expected to end later on tuesday. meanwhile the u.s. troops crossed over from syria into iraq when the turkish operation began do not have permission to stay there that's according to the iraqi army and us government says that troops pulled out from areas to defend. and protect us in lebanon are

demanding more reforms despite the government approving sweeping economic measures to improve the economy authorities appear to be tightening security and the military disperse protesters trying to erect barricades. or less allowed to such an album or our top story where those talks between russia's president vladimir putin and turkey's leader russia want to taking place step vastness live for us now so step the clock is winding down to the end of the cease fire and significantly that in that putin is perhaps being seen as the main power broker now in the syria conflict so what are you expecting to come out of this meeting between both leaders . absolutely daryn we're now inside the highly secured residence of president putin here in such a and the talks are under way for a little over half an hour now and before the beginning of these talks president putin has described the situation in syria as acute and he also said that he hopes that russia having this good relation with turkey and he has this personal

relationship with the one that russia is in the main in the best position to grow could this deal for syria basically put in. a really big he wants to make this long term peace settlement he wants to bring the syrian government together with the turkish government and also bring the records together with the syrian government but of course there are a lot of obstacles on the way and his spokesman had of these stocks called these negotiations will be long and complicated basically the russian president wants to go back to an agreement from 1980 agreement between turkey and syria which was basically based on the fact that syria was going to reign in the. fighters to assure turkey that there wouldn't be any threat so basically the russian government doesn't really want to save so on on the border. syria is in control of that territory then there wouldn't be a need for this safe zone that's basically the thought behind it but of course this

is a very big scenario and there's still a lot of steps and the main issues of course today will be about how big is this safe zone going to be who is going to maintain it there's a lot of debate still about that or just that vast murder and so if you step thank you for that. at least 5 civilians have been killed in yemen during an airstrike by the saudi coalition that struck a moving vehicle in quetta district in the northwestern province of solder 2 children and 2 women are among the dead the u.n. says ending the war as soon as possible is crucial the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting hutu rebels along yemen's government since 2015 taliban fighters have killed at least 16 afghan police officers happened in the only about district in conducing problems 3 taliban fighters also killed. they've been violent protests in bolivia the president's being accused of trying to manipulate sunday's election results and going to void a runoff in december in

a morale as appears to have a 10 percent lead over his main rival but message is a fusing to accept the result john heilemann reports now from the fight that was the streets abilities capital disappearing into a haze of t.v. . it was aimed at the thousands of mostly young people who came out of the night against the lection they saw this fraudulent. practice done we are protesting because we are tired of this government which many places which doesn't respect our god they will bins into the road to block the police and lit fires to counteract the effects of the tear gas was elsewhere those fires were more harmful burning down voting centers and sue clearly and pull to see. it was strange to think that on sunday night they've been celebrating the preliminary vote count show challenger color heading into a 2nd round behind the incumbent president ever moralise won the last 2 elections

by a landslide and then the vote count froze when it came back 24 i was later ever more or less was far ahead and suddenly on the brink of a 1st round victory. it wasn't just these protesters who questioned so did the organization of american states officially observing these elections. the electoral court presented dasa with an inexplicable change in trend which dress to clean modify the end result of the election and generates a loss of trust in the electoral process. president moralise is not yet declared himself the winner but his opponent colas messer has already denounced the process . the government's trying to stop us going to a 2nd round that was clearly established yesterday to revoke counting system that was stopped arbitrarily. they were is remains the country's most popular

politician he's grown the economy dramatically cut public but in recent years he's lost some of his overwhelming support partly through what many have seen as a gradual erosion of democracy. for many this would be the last rule is mostly young people that been protesting here into the night basically they say that what's happened in this election is a fraud and that they don't accept that they want change. there are already calls for a national strike a mass protests these people is just the beginning of the struggle john holdren does it or the past jimmie's government has and forced a curfew for a 3rd night after another day of violence and santiago police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters in the capital and he said leaven people have been killed in the demonstrations which started 2 weeks ago over an increase in train ticket prices that since been scrapped well earlier people in santiago spend hours queuing for food and fuel most schools and businesses remain

closed the grocery john wal-mart says more than $100.00 of its stores were looted on the weekend and in some cases set alight israel's prime minister has failed to form a government for the 2nd time this year president ruben rivlin is now expected to ask netanyahu centrist rival benny gantz to put together a coalition force that has more now from western fear. well after the end of the last of a series of jewish holy days and on his 70th birthday benjamin netanyahu admitted defeat in his efforts to try to form a coalition government he laid the blame for that squarely at the feet of the head of the opposition blue and white party benny gantz saying that he and his colleagues had rejected all of his efforts to try to form a unity government indeed they have rejected those efforts they say because they are unwilling to sit even in a rotational arrangement as prime minister with a man who as netanyahu is is facing indictments in 3 separate corruption cases than

young is accusing benny gantz of wanting to form a minority government with support from the outside from the 10 members of the joint list the mainly palestinian israeli parties who have committed their support to benny gantz as a prop attentional prime minister the head of that joint this grouping has accused netanyahu of inciting against arabs again and he says that he hopes that will be the last time he does so as prime minister now the israeli president riven rivlin has indicated that he will give the mandate to benny gantz potentially on tuesday he would then have a 28 day period in which to try to form a government but his prospects either of forming a minority government or indeed of a unity government with could with the could potentially jetted status inning was prime as prime minister in their leader they both look extremely unlikely prospect so he may well fail as well if that happens then the mandate would go to the knesset as a whole potentially with anyone from the knesset any member of the knesset who was able to muster enough support potentially trying to form

a government him or herself but that too is exceptionally unlikely and that period could well coincide with the attorney general's final decision on whether to indict nessun yahoo or not in these 3 corruption cases if there is no government formed after all of this the netanyahu could stay in office until a 3rd election in less than a year that would be potentially in march next year but there may well 'd be a legal challenge as to whether a prime minister could continue to sit in office while being indicted and so it does seem that there is a very turbulent bumpy few weeks and months ahead in israeli politics. as justin trudeau has secured a 2nd term as prime minister but his liberal party hasn't gained enough seats to form a majority in parliament and me will need to rely on the support of the new democratic party to push through legislation the main opposition conservatives picked up votes where liberal support fell away down like reports now from toronto. for justin

trudeau it definitely could have been worse. with before the campaign polls showed growing public mistrust with a man who won a resoundingly jordi just 4 years earlier. then photographs emerged that showed him wearing racist black face makeup as a young man adding to earlier scandals about ethics and accusations of broken promises in the end the canadians gave him another chance tonight canadians rejected division and negativity. they rejected cuts i know a stereotype and they voted in favor of a progressive agenda and strong chin on climate change. the result is disappointing for the conservative opposition leader andrew scheer who had been steadily improving his standing with the voters before the campaign he

faced his own challenges on the hustings accusations of encouraging fake news and online trolling and revelations that he had dual u.s. canadian citizenship and hadn't told the voters he promised to fight on and hold mr trudeau accountable after the 2015 election when justin trudeau looked on stoppable when all the pundits and experts said it was the beginning of another trudeau dynasty that he would have 8 or even 12 years in power but tonight conservatives have put justin trudeau on notice and mr trudeau when your government falls conservatives will be ready and we will win the. climate change policy was a strong issue in this election with the conservatives promising to scrap a carbon tax brought in by trudeau's liberals and do more for the country's oil industry but most voters disagreed and backed candidates including liberals who promised more aggressive steps to fight global warming and the changing climate.

call this if you will a strong minority government mr trudeau's opponents may have the numbers to beat him in parliament but there are unlikely to do so canadians won't have to face a fresh general election for some time to come daniel like al jazeera toronto. facebook says it suspended accounts linked to russia and iran which targeted u.s. users with political messages and social media platforms as the russians tried to influence voters in swing states such as florida and virginia the account holders pretended to be locals and posted comments targeting both sides of the political spectrum while discussing the 2020 as eventual candidates a huge wildfire is threatening homes in a coastal town in southern california it's happening in pacific palisades just west of los angeles burning across a steep hillside close to several houses hundreds of people were forced to leave and there's been a large fire one of new zealand's biggest construction projects it broke out on the roof of a convention center being built in the heart of oakland hundreds of people work at

the site which has been evacuated along with a nearby sky city tower at least one person has been seriously injured now south korea's government has announced a record rise in its budget for the coming year partly to tackle the growing problem of air pollution the country is preparing for the seasonal buildup of fine dust particles which pose a health hazard robert bryant has more now from the capitol so. south korea's expansionary budget comes as the country deals with mounting challenges it's facing severe economic fallout from its trade dispute with neighboring japan and from the trade war between the u.s. and china but also an environmental problem it's termed as a social disaster. chettle cannot read or respond properly now we will have to pay a much bigger price in the near future this is why an expansionary budget is not a choice but a must as south korea prepares for winter it's also getting ready for what normally

comes with it toxic air high levels of micro dust that turns the skies from this into this. spending on the environment will increase by nearly 20 percent much of that earmarked to tackle air pollution. a new warning system allows the government to close schools control vehicle use and shut down construction sites. but environmental groups say it's not enough. money to pay and yes honey the budget to tackle micro dust is higher than ever which shows the government is taking the issue seriously however the government policy mainly focuses on short term measures it lacks measures to reduce sources of mark and asked the government points to longer term solutions such as increasing the number of electric and hydrogen cars to a 3rd of all vehicles in the next 10 years also reducing the amount of power

generated from fossil fuels a task overseen by a presidential committee headed by a former u.n. secretary general. for you know an alcohol consumption is on the rise some are criticizing south korea even labeling us a climate villain. the goal is to reduce micro dust emissions by a 3rd over the next 2 years but there's little south korea can do about pollution from the. bring china which increases as winter sets in and power plants burn more cold beijing has been cutting down on pollution in recent years but people here are still at the mercy of what the prevailing winds bring bride al-jazeera so. a ceremony has taken place in japan as emperor nero hito formally ascends the throne it's all part of a series of ancient rituals that marked their arrival of a new emperor now he to assume his duties are made the 1st day his father abdicated but this ceremony makes it official representatives in more than 180 countries

attended all the news of course on our website there what is on your screen the address al jazeera dot com. our top a quick check of the headlines here on turkey's president russia typer one has arrived in sochi he's meeting his russian counterpart erdogan has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria a cease fire there is expected to end later on tuesday iraq's military says u.s. troops who crossed over from syria do not have permission to stay in the country soldiers are part of forces who withdrew from northern syria as a turkish operation against kurdish fighters again protesters in lebanon are demanding more reforms despite the government approving sweeping economic measures

to improve the economy or thought is appear to be tightening security as the police and military disperse protesters trying to erect barricades out as there was a note it has more now from mikhail that's just north of the capital beirut. the crisis is far from over we are on the main highway that links the lebanese capital beirut north of the country protesters are blocking the highway yes there are side roads that remain open for people to move from one area to another but it makes it more difficult if you talk to people here. they say we will stay here until the government the government presented. saying that we have a new economic plan but. if. we do not trust the ruling elite. taliban fighters have killed at least 16 afghan police officers as it happened in the district and can do is province 3 taliban fighters also killed

a lot of protests are taking place in bolivia where the president is being accused of trying to manipulate sunday's election results so he can avoid a runoff in december and the moron is appears to have a 10 percent lead over his rival. justin trudeau secured a 2nd term as prime minister but his liberal party hasn't won enough seats for a parliamentary majority it's true to have to rely on other parties and i mean homes in a coastal town in southern california it's nothing west of burning across a steep hillside close to several houses hundreds of people before sed to leave those with the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story stations from so much in life an elf.

i'm levanon to hong kong haiti to the u.k. people are out on the streets demanding change the issues are many problems and the climate change so as global protests appear to be on the rise we ask what's driving these demonstrations this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey people in different parts of the world are increasingly expressing their discontent with our government's policies it's impossible these days for us to report the news without mentioning a protest somewhere in the world many of the specific issues may be different but there are common themes at the core.