students to my special guest i'm challenged them to some straight talk big political debate. turkey's president is in russia for talks just hours before a ceasefire deadline as kurdish fighters keep pulling out of northeastern syria. hello again i'm the stasi attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up lebanon's government just swift and sweeping reforms to revive the economy but will the marines keep protesters off the streets. and preliminary research report says it was excessive force by iraqi security forces that led to the death of dozens of anti-government protesters alyea this small.

town back in palau but challenges await present prime minister justin trudeau and forming a new government in canada. now tuckey's president. right now in the russian port city of sochi for talks with vladimir person who has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in northeast and syria the leaders are expected to discuss the turkish ceasefire that was brokered by the united states which is usually to which is due to expire in just a matter of al is the kurdish democratic forces of pulls out of some areas along the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the truce now before heading to sochi here's what one had to say. vladimir putin and i will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizations

we will also be revisiting the efforts made for drafting a new constitution and we will also discuss it live and the significance attached of this area including a ceasefire we want a lasting peace in syria i hope our meeting will make progress and meanwhile bashar al assad has called president i don't want a thief he made the remarks during a visit to areas of the province taken from turkish backed rebels by government forces i don't want to put on of the gumby and the whole. he stole our plants and factories are fighting us and he stole our oil with the help of ice so now he is stealing our lands and who we are called to not hold but i do want to ledges to have entered syria of his own choice however over the past 9 years he's been trying but couldn't or rather not authorized he said to have informed the americans. you were simply a servant you were ordered to enter and you did well let's go to such enough and more on those talks between the russian attack us need to step fasten is there for us step we've been counting down to the end of the cease fire and we've also been

expecting some word from treason and i don't for a couple of hours now kelly these on easy discussions. now we're now to 3 and a half hours into it he said discussions here in the residence of president putin in sochi and it's around 5 hours to the end of deceased fire we've seen some vision coming from this meeting through smiling presidents showing to us that the meeting is kind of relaxed and also it was sad that the turkish president has laid all the cards on the table he has traveled to because he wants to meet the man who is now seen as the main power broker in syria after united states forces have left the country so putin is has the cards in his hand that's what a lot of observers here believe what put in ones is to achieve a main a major peace deal for syria including also turkey wants turkey and ankara and

moscow sorry to talk to a charter and also the kurds and the syrian government to talk to each other to have this very grand grand peace plan but of course on the ground to situation is still very different going to be a lot of talk about this this safe zone that no one so badly wants russia has said that it doesn't agree with this large safe zone of 32 kilometers it was more thinking of a much smaller like 5 to 10 kilometer safe zone so that's part of the talks that will be on the table here in sochi we are expecting any minute actually that the leaders will come out and give a statement to the media but we have been waiting as you said for quite a while now step back and that for us and such a should be staying across those talks thank you step on the meantime let's go to china strategies in july that's near the turkish syrian border charles the clock is ticking down to the end of the cease fire was you seeing on the ground there are forces preparing to resume fighting. well in the last half an hour or so we spoke

to a commander with the free syrian army these are all the syrian forces that have been very much. forefront of turkey's military campaign this particular commander who's been operating inside the town behind me which has been the focus up until this cease fire of some of the most intense fighting he indeed says that they are deploying troops forces alongside on the seat on the turkish side of the border both to the east and the west over areas that they've taken control over already and he acknowledged that a lot of the kurdish forces have still not withdrawn from this proposed safety zone area that president wants just with respect to russell line he said that the free syrian army of turkish forces were earning control of about 70 percent of it meaning that 30 percent was still under control of the kurds meaning that they

haven't withdrawn interestingly in the last 24 hours the commander of the s.d.f. muslim out they gave an interview to an american network can he say that the s.d.f. did not agree to this u.s. brokered cease fire in its entirety he said trust in the u.s. was at its lowest ebb and he described the withdrawal of u.s. forces from this border area as a strategic mistake now we've been looking at some of the main events since this crisis started around. the 8 and this is our report. into going to fisher was democrats republicans and european leaders said the withdrawal of u.s. troops gave turkey a green light to act militarily against the kurdish and in syria. the kurdish s.d.f. called it a stab in the back turkish president received the one has long described kurdish

fighters in northern syria as terrorists who pose an existential threat to turkey. with the aim. turkish artillery and strikes began targeting kurdish positions across the border. erdogan says operation peace spring is a campaign against terrorism not the kurdish people and he's rounded on international critics him. with 3600000 syrian refugees in our country whiting to go back to their homes the european union look at yourself i repeat at the moment you cannot kohl or to find no operation as an invasion is easy we could just open the doors and 2600000 refugees seen them back to you turkish forces and their syrian rebel allies made quick gains on the battlefield larry control of the border town of. the 14th. un and aid organizations warned of

a new humanitarian catastrophe as tens of thousands of civilians fled the turkish forces of bonds as the fighting intensified international pressure on turkey continue to mount european countries including germany france and the netherlands counseled weapons sales to turkey on the 14th of october the us treasury announced targeted sanctions on turkey's defense energy and interior ministers and to their respective ministries fears grew about the military operation weakening the battle against eisele when it was claimed up to 800 eisel prisoners and family members had escaped an s.d.f. controlled jail shelled by turkish forces. with their former us allies moving out of the turkish military and turkey back syrian rebels advancing kurdish s.d.f. fighters were forced to go to the syrian regime and their allies the russians for help. it is a deeply easy alliance the assad government which had days before described the

syrian kurds as traitors and separatists was quick to act the syrian army deployed to various positions around 35 kilometers from the turkish border russian military vehicles patrolled some of the areas in between to prevent a potential confrontation to turkish banks syrian rebels and the syrian army in a letter dated october 9th trump had warned not to launch an operation against syrian kurdish fighters don't to be a tough guy it said thought so but the 17th a u.s. delegation led by vice president mike pence flew to ankara for emergency talks and is traded insults and threats with world leaders criticizing his military operation no one expected a pause in the fighting to be announced today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. turkish side will pause. operation peace spring. in order to allow for the withdrawal of y.

p.g. forces from the safe zone. for 120 hours. president are a lot of valid that if kurdish forces haven't completely withdrawn from within the proposed safety zone by tuesday night then full military operations would continue the kurdish s.d.f. said they would only withdraw from a contact line stretching around 120 kilometers between the towns of russell and i'll be out. over the 21st the day before the ceasefire was due to end kurdish residents of the town the proficiently spat u.s. military vehicles with route as american soldiers headed to the iraqi border leaving their one time allies behind the ceasefire is still holding the deadline tonight as per the u.s. brokered agreement for all kurdish fighters to pull out of turkey's proposed safe zone is tonight at this stage it seems doubtful whether they have withdrawn enough

to prevent turkey from restarting its military campaign in old syria charles strafford al-jazeera close to the turkish syrian border well for more all of this we can speak to alexey klebnikov he is a middle east expert at the russian international affairs council and he joins us now from moscow mystically make of what's russia's thinking here one of their primary motivations around dealing with the situation it does appear that they're somewhat trying to step into this vacuum that's been left by the americans after the trip. well certainly russia got an upper hand in the situation after the us decision to withdraw its forces from syria although washington again. doesn't do it completely as we know it from the side decided to leave about 200 u.s. troops to protect us so it is controlled by kurds and also from possible russian

turkish or iranian or syrian offensives on that as for the current talks between police and a gun one of the primary goals of russia here is to strike a deal which will. design parameters for final settlement of north east issue and that's kind of a hard nut to crack because in the 1st place russia allowed to eliminate the chorus so it going to push much on aid because it also and it needs it and bored with us in the process and political settlement and also russia wants to start there are talks with damascus because without those talks it's impossible to find the allies the northeast syria deals and kurdish issue and i think that what moscow is trying to do is to push the 1998 meant in one form or another or use it as a basis as a foundation for

a new agreement which will. settle the final arrangement in the area well none of this also is happening in a vacuum today we also saw president assad visiting parts of could these negotiations go the way of compromise so tacky gets its buffer zone and then in the northeast and damascus and moscow get more of it did. yes i think that that's been . circulating around for for months now that this sort of a swap deal is in works between moscow and ancora and it makes a lot of sense because for turkey the most. ne is a more strategic than. lip and for. damascus and for moscow. area especially getting control over them 4 and them 5 highways which connect. with coastal cities and with damascus that's very important because that will

contribute to the economic integration and revival of the of the other countries so an excellent way possible that. i'm sorry think i missed a chemical of oh yeah i just think it's this what do is it's quite possible that syrian army and russia will have an upper hand in lisbon will go up north of getting m. 4 and 5 under its control and turkey will get sort of a burman. temporary temporary save zone in the north east syria probably between. and. mystic there a middle east expert at the russian international affairs council thank you for joining us and as. well iraq's military says the u.s. troops who crossed over from syria do not have permission to stay in their country the soldier is a part of those forces who withdrew from northern syria as that takesh operation against kurdish fighters began. moving on to other news now in protest as an

11 on demanding more reforms despite the government approving sweeping economic measures or authorities appear to be tightening security as police and military dispersed protest as trying to erect barricades prime minister saad hariri announced a plan to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in years against the nation's leaders but activists say they will keep going to the streets until the entire cabinet steps down but our correspondent stephanie deca joins us now from the mall the city of tripoli staff your number one second largest city and where seeing those huge numbers of people there behind you what's the atmosphere like outside beirut. what it's very similar to happy atmosphere it's juvie over and over or is a very serious. turn out here and to your bench and you have been on the 2nd largest city is the majority of the need to cheat is traditionally a support ringback base of the prime minister so this certainly is usually

significant these people ringback are still returning to the streets and saying that they do not agree with the records they will ringback ringback they will the prime minister ringback ringback to ringback go they want. to work all ringback of the system and this is a city. that is reforms promised to the overtime it's not all this is of cash injection that promises to improve what is probably the most impoverished major city ringback of lebanon or that is never a couple go through that this is a turning point for them to come out and to raise their voices and to say enough is enough but also i think a lot of people were surprised by the amount of people that came out in this city this city sides almost doesn't take much attached to it the spillover of the syrian war here would see gun battles between 2 neighborhoods in the malls a couple of years throughout 2014 which really marked it with a sort of cliched brush so when people leave it in beirut on saturday night not

video that went viral of a d.j. playing brave souls ringback in the crowd. while that was the art ringback that was in the square. civil was a barrier different image that is being projected as you can probably see from these pictures it's a very make you know what relation that is coming out to ringback protest it's families it's elderly we've just seen a priest or through the crowd sandwiches that ended out so it's a very sort of community atmosphere the people of course remain united just in other cities across lebanon with the same message which is that the reforms are not enough they don't trust the politicians and they want them to stand down. stephanie had to have that with that update from a rather loud but peaceful rally in the lebanese city of tripoli thank you steph. well still ahead on al-jazeera it could be the most crucial testimony yet in the impeachment inquiry into the trunk of the u.s. as top diplomat in ukraine testifies behind closed doors.

hello the weather slushy set fair for southeastern parts of china and that doesn't think a cloud over towards the west of the country and it's sinking its way a little further south was it will be thick enough at times but to some outbreaks of right as we go through wednesday in that wetter weather just pushing to northern parts of vietnam as we go on through thursday further east it does generally stay dry and settle the 28 in hong kong $24.00 celsius for shanghai affected dry weather to into window china india itself and all the parts of india will be a largely dry as well but down towards the south seeing the rain really peping up recently says coachy in the carolina where we have seen some flooding a recently and flash flooding set to remain a problem here's a go on through the next couple of days actually much of that west is out of india continuing to see some very heavy rain we got to watch area of low pressure just

pushing more showers into the western ghats as we go on through thursday those showers pushing out up into maharashtra mumbai could see some very heavy rain as well by this stage the eastern parts as they should do started to see more wetter weather generally dry across northern parts of india though across pakistan it's dry staying dry here kristie raven peninsula doha with a high of 34. what are you protesting about how does this impact whether online life faced minstrelsy comes directly out of translated slavery or if you join us on saying this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice on this tremendous real discussion this real and arguably the solutions on

al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories the south techie's president about iran isn't such a way he's meeting his russian counterpart has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in northeast and syria a cease fire there is expected to end and later on tuesday. iraq's military says u.s. troops who crossed from syria do not have permission to stay there the soldiers are part of forces who withdrew from within syria as that technician operation against kurdish fighters got underway. on protesters in lebanon demanding more reforms

despite the government approving sweeping economic measures authorities appear to be tightening security as police and military dispersed protesters trying to erect barricades. now the u.s. has top diplomats in ukraine is set to testify as part of the house democrats' impeachment investigation into president donald trump william taylor will be asked behind closed doors about military aid and the role of trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani in ukraine policy the investigation was launched after a whistleblower alleged that trump pressured ukraine to investigate democrats while withholding military assistance well let's go live now to washington d.c. with our correspondent castra heidi just how important and how important of an impeachment witness is bill taylor here me i seem to have lost your audio but william taylor is a very important witness to democrats in this impeachment inquiry because he may get to the heart of this question of whether or not there was corrupt intent in

trump's ask of the ukrainian president to offer an investigation into trump's political opponents here in the united states you may recall taylor's name coming out in these text messages that were previously given to congressional investigators in which he conversing with other u.s. diplomats he said i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign that seemingly incredulous response the question is what led to him saying that the attacks did he have conversations with members of the white house or the state department or any other agency in the u.s. that may shed more light on exactly what was the president's thinking when he made that phone call with the president of ukraine in july asking for the favor in an opening investigation into joe biden trump's political rival here at home.

caster there for us in washington d.c. thank you heidi. well iraq's government has released a report on a preliminary investigation into the killings of protesters the report found that security forces used excessive force and i find against demonstrators at least 157 people mainly civilians were killed during weeks of anti-government protests the violence poses the biggest challenge to the government since the defeat of iso in 2017 correspondent imran khan has more from baghdad. the report has actually been released to the public there was a statement read out on iraq he state t.v. from the promises office the key points of the reports this the government has admitted to life being used against the protesters also admitted to excessive force but it's also put some of the blame on the protesters saying that the protesters used petrol bombs that they threw at the iraqi security forces and therefore the

iraqi security forces how to defend themselves however a number of very senior military officials have been removed from their posts we're hearing at least 7 of those have been removed from their post across the country and we're also hearing that the entire dossier has been sent to the iraqi judicial reform investigation will this be enough to appease the protesters the protesters began demanding basic services demanding jobs to morning more opportunity an end to corruption they ended by demanding an investigation into the deaths of the people protesting with them this is the result of that investigation supposed to come out a couple of days ago it didn't it's now still been released in full to the public but we now know what's contained in the report will it be enough to actually appease the protesters and stop them coming out onto the streets while it's highly unlikely another big protest has been called for friday the 25th of october and the protesters will be looking at what's contained in the statement to see if it's

going to satisfy them highly unlikely that it won't what the protesters want is the people responsible to be to be put behind bars. now a course in guinea has sentenced 5 people involved in recent demonstrations there against president alpha condé to up to one year in jail the protest leaders were found guilty of inciting civil disobedience protest as rallied earlier this week against a proposed change to the constitution that would let the president seek a 3rd term condé 2nd time expires next year and he has refused to rule out running again at least 10 protesters were killed by security forces. now tension has escalated between india and pakistan after shelling the other cush mia border on sunday the 2 countries have been blaming each other for the incident the pakistani army says 5 civilians and one soldier were killed by indian forces has also said it killed 9 indian soldiers but india denies that and insists its forces killed at

least 8 pakistani soldiers and destroyed a military bunker new delhi revoked indeed administered kashmir as autonomy and early august while politicians in the u.k. are preparing to vote on legislation that would pave the way for a negotiated exit from the e.u. by the end of the month debate has begun on the withdrawal agreement bill although opposition m.p.'s fear they aren't being given enough time to consider it even if that bill is approved and could still vote down the government's tight timetable to secure britain's departure by october 31st if politics refuses to allow breaks to happen and. gets its way and decides to delay everything until january and possibly down in those circumstances can the government continue with and great regret i must go directly to point to the owner of the gentleman raises a great regret i would almost say that the bill the bill will have to be sued and

we will have to go food a much easier i don't like it we'll have to go forward to a general election. canada's 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 that means that should i will need to rely on the support of the new democratic party to push through legislation the main opposition conservative party picked up votes where liberal support fell down a lack reports from toronto. for justin trudeau it definitely could have been worse this. series. before the campaign polls showed growing public mistrust with the 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 archon punk 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 us 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. one of new zealand's biggest construction projects and broke out on the roof of a convention center that's being built in the heart of oakland hundreds of people work at the site which has been evacuated along with the nearby sky city tower

that's new zealand's tourist building local media is reporting that at least one person has been seriously injured. this is al jazeera and these are all the headlines turkey's president dressed up tight about 0 on his insults the way he's meeting his russian counterpart has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters north east and syria a cease fire there is expected to end later on tuesday iraq's military says u.s. troops across there from syria do not have permission to stay the soldiers a part of those forces you withdrew from northern syria as that takesh operation against kurdish fighters was getting underway protestors in lebanon are demanding more reforms despite the government approving sweeping economic measures dorothy's appeared to be tightening security as police and military dispersed protest as it

trying to erect barricades. now politicians in the u.k. are preparing to vote on legislation that would pave the way for a negotiated exit from the e.u. by the end of the month debate has begun on the withdrawal agreement bill ovo opposition m.p.'s fear they aren't being given enough time to consider it even if the bill is approved m.p.'s could still vote down the government's tight timetable to secure britain's departure type of a 31st we go if politics refuses to allow the pixie to happen and instead gets its way and decides to delay everything until january possibly longer in those circumstances can the government continue with and great regret i must go directly to point b. the owner of the gentleman raises a great regret i would almost say that the bill the bill will have to be pulled and we will have to go forward much as the right over there may not like it will have to go forward to a general election the u.s.

is top diplomat in ukraine is set to testify as part of the house democrats impeachment investigation into president donald trump william taylor will be asked behind closed doors about military aid and the role of trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani in ukraine policy the investigation was no one's stuff to a whistleblower allege that trump pressured ukraine to investigate democrats while withholding military assistance iraq's government has released a report on the preliminary investigation into the killings of protest is the report found that security forces used excessive force and live fire against demonstrators at least 157 people were killed. all those are the headlines the news continues here on out after the stream. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home i'll just bring in the news and current affairs that

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