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amongst getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy they pose it too late we already had the information and then listening pounced on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter darby you're watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes turkey's president said russia for talks just hours before a ceasefire deadline has kurdish fighters leave northeastern syria. lebanon's government pledges swift and sweeping reforms to revive the economy but protesters say it's not enough. it could be the most crucial testimony yet in
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the impeachment inquiry into donald trump the u.s. top diplomat in ukraine testifies behind closed doors in sport it's a huge night for round madrid in the champions league the 14 time when it's currently bottom of their group. to fight the right. let's get going to accuse president wretch up type are the ones in the russian for city of sochi for talks with lot of me a putin mr repeated his threat to restart his military operation against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria the leaders are expected to discuss the turkish cease fire that was brokered by the u.s. which is due to expire in a matter of hours the kurdish syrian democratic forces the pulled out of some areas along the border but not everywhere as agreed under the terms of the truce before heading to sochi is what mr had to say. vladimir putin and i will discuss all the
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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 to this area including a ceasefire we want a lasting peace in syria i hope our meeting will make progress well meanwhile the syrian president bashar al assad has called president a thief he made those remarks during a visit to areas of italy a province taken from turkish bank rebels by assad's forces. and the whole hairdo as a thief he stole our plants and factories our produce and he stole our oil with the help of ice so now he's stealing our lands and who we are called. but i do want to ledges to have entered syria of his own choice however over the past 9 years he's
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been trying but couldn't or rather not authorized he said to have informed the americans. you are simply a servant you were ordered to enter and you did. well covering this still developing story for us this particle again in washington shall stratford will join us from salon pin on the at the turkey border with syria but 1st let's go to sochi and moscow correspondent step what's coming out of these discussions. so far nothing yet because we are still waiting after 4 and a half hours the meeting is still continuing between the president of iran and president putin here and put in a residence in this archie and it's only 4 hours until the cease fire will expire so all eyes of course are here on this meeting in sochi and some video images that emerged from the meeting showed erdogan and put in very relaxed it looked like they had a very pleasant conversation it also was sad that the turkish president laid all his
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cards on the table he has traveled to sort of course because president putin is now seen as the main power broker in syria after the united states forces have left and president putin has this grand scheme for a peace deal involving turkey and syria and the kurds so russia is now. we seem to lost the line there to sochi we will go back of course to. if we can before the end of the program well as the deadline approaches for that cease fire in northern syria the step with mentioning there let's remind you of the events that led up to where we are right now it's all stuff that. pentagon officials democrats republicans and european leaders said the withdrawal of u.s. troops gave turkey a green light to act militarily against the kurdish s.d.f. in syria. the kurdish s.d.f. called it a stab in the back turkish president received type has long described kurdish
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fighters in northern syria as terrorists pose an existential threat to turkey. but the 8 turkish artillery and air strikes began targeting kurdish positions across the border. earlier gone says operation peace spring is a campaign against terrorism not the kurdish people but 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 call or to find no operation as an invasion our job is easy we could just open the doors in 2600000 refugees we've 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 tell it on october 14th. the u.n. and aid organizations warned of
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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 transworld weapons sales to turkey on the 14th of october the us treasury announced targeted sanctions on turkey's defense energy and interior ministers and 2 of 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.s. control 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. items were forced to go to the syrian regime and that lies the russians for help. it is a deeply easy alliance the assad government which had days before described the
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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 has already 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
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g forces from the safe zone. for 120 hours. president early on valid that if kurdish forces haven't completely withdrawn from within the proposed safety zone by choosing a night in 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 i mean and. over the 21st the day before the ceasefire was due to kurdish residents of the town of spat u.s. military vehicles with route as american soldiers headed to the iraqi border leaving their one time allies behind. and shells transferred joins us live now from that location on the turkey syria border so charles what do we know as to the number of kurdish fighters who are still as far as the turks are concerned in the
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wrong place at the wrong time because the ceasefire is only got a few hours to go. yeah a worrying situation here effectively because certainly according to an f.s.a. commander we spoke to a couple of hours ago he's the free syrian army fighters that have been very much in the forefront of this fight with the turks we spoke to a commander who has been operating in the town behind me which has been the center of so much fighting up until this cease fire came into place what almost 5 days ago now he say's that there are still s.d.f. fighters in a considerable amount of them inside that town which of course is an indication of not having withdrawn from outside this proposed safe area this safe zone that turkey wants them to withdraw from he also said that it's not only in this town but it's in basque rate areas along this border so that is of great concern. when what
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are we now yeah 4 or so hours away from this deadline the ceasefire deadline ending he also interesting lee said that there had been deployments of back forces both to the east of here and to the west's suggesting fools is already in themselves for a resumption of this military operation and it was very telling as well as last night in an interview that was given to an american network by the stiff. he said that the s.t.a. had never agreed to this u.s. brokered deal with that in its entirety so very telling there is to these reports that we're hearing that so many of the s.d.f. still haven't withdrawn that deal also went on to say that trust in the u.s. between among the s.d.f. was at its lowest ebb and he describes the withdrawal of u.s.
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forces from this area as a strategic mistake so yeah the closer we get to this deadline expiring then the more worrying it is certainly according to turkish military all turkish backed military forces in this area who say we're a long way off those if forces sufficiently withdrawing enough to prevent potentially a resumption of this military campaign charles thank you u.s. secretary of state might pompeo says washington has not to play a fine line between respecting turkey's concerns and avoiding a catastrophe in northern syria the work that we did to build out that team united around the destruction of the caliphate and theory in iraq was important and effective. kurdish forces there the arab fighters that were part of the us the up were great warriors. we also are mindful that our nato ally turkey has legitimate security concerns there indeed the united states has designated the p.k.
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as terrorist for an awfully long time we take those concerns there seriously the president used america's economic might our economic power to avoid a kinetic conflict with a nato ally and its present term true that very day there needed to be some tough love in order to get it done. iraq's military says u.s. forces are crossed over from syria don't have permission to state the soldiers are part of forces who withdrew from northern syria as the turkish operation against kurdish fighters began and live now to washington correspondent patty cole hain is there for us this let's talk about the ceasefire 1st what does the united states think slash wants to happen next. loving the most important point is that the u.s. doesn't really have a say in this and you heard the secretary of state said that they were avoiding a kinetic action between 2 nato allies that is what widely been dismissed by all the experts here they think what happened is early on president want told president trump that he was going to invade and the president pulled the troops those troops
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have been keeping turkey from that action so the president says it's between turkey and syria but at the same time they say they want to ceasefire and if they don't get it they'll have sanctions so 2 very different messages being sent out u.s. forces on the ground in iraq never makes a good headline i guess i mean is this just an embarrassment for the pentagon. well i think this shows that the president made this policy by himself he didn't talk to anyone he sent it out in a tweet the defense department is taken off guard they've been sort of scrambling to get the troops out ever since so this is going to be the question the secretary of defense just said they're going to iraq iraq is saying no they're not welcome so exactly what's going to happen to those u.s. troops the president is desperate to send the message that he is not going to let isis reemerge in his watch to do that he needs troops there the president's also change his mind on pulling all the troops out of syria now saying that some are going to stay to protect the oil the president had this to say yesterday will work
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something out with the kurds and that they have some money they have some cash flow maybe we'll get one of our big oil companies to go in and do it properly but they'll have some cash flow which they basically don't have right now basically saying everyone is happy not at all clear what the president means when he says we're going to keep the oil which is what he's been saying so what you're seeing right now is the president had this conversation with president early on he changed u.s. policy longstanding u.s. policy then we saw the defense department really scrambled to try and get their troops out safely while the fighting was happening all around them then the secretary of defense goes the region says the troops are going to stay in iraq only to have say no they're not so that's where we are the u.s. as basically saying we're out of the region the question is where are they going to put them we don't know yet because it's all been very hastily done we will wait and see past thank you so much. coffee's a middle east expert of the russian international affairs council he joins us from moscow alexy collecting cough welcome to the news he'll on al-jazeera so good to
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talk to you again what's the one big thing that mr putin wants out of these discussions today. well i don't think there is a one major thing i believe it's a whole set of things because the situation is quite complicated and in northeast syria problem is just a part of this big bigger picture just one of the puzzles so but if to speculate about priorities so definitely it is to stop and hold completely the turkish military operation also to address turkish security concerns because most going to stand it cannot eliminate turkey completely because it needs it and board with us in the process and further syrian settlement and it also needs. to finally start direct talks with damascus so they could strike final deal which envisages the final parameters of the northeastern syria issue there are also played me for
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interrupting you there are these reports circulating in the past few hours saying that russian forces are moving into the areas vacated by the white p.g.d. that would therefore by definition put the russian forces cheek by jowl with turkish forces therefore does that increase the chance of a conflict between turkey and russia and is that something that both men both leaders mr and mr putin could live with. well i think it is a ration to think about this in this terms i think both leaders. clearly understand that. by all means they need to avoid any clash or conflict or escalation between them if you look back we're going to have a go when their operation started we saw that russian military police together with the syrian army and to mondays and later and to. go bonnie and actually
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the role which russian military police play the role of a debtor and or disengagement force and also which which protects kurds from attacks. from from from turkish side so i think that's kind of. been mr erdogan is ok and fine with the russians or syrians being in charge of the territory vacated by wide p.g. and now i think the big problem is that how to address turkish security concerns about establishing the saved zone in northeast syria what are the it's its size is . and for how long for example turkish forces could stay in that area we're talking about the establishment of that safe zone is it a fair extrapolation on my part therefore to assume that what you seem to be saying the takeaway is this turkey needs russia on the ground in syria russia needs turkey
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on the ground in syria. well i would say that russia. needs turkey on the ground in syria temporary. eventually russia doesn't want turkey to be on the ground because. firstly it wasn't invited by. the syrian government and secondly its presence in syrian territory to fuck to means an occupation what russia why russia needs to accuse russian it's turkey input. terms and later in economic terms because the final political settlement is impossible without tookie being involved and then a revival of syrian economy reconstruction is also a bit hard without turkey and turkey has in the best the interest in being part of the political process and being part of the syrian reconstruction as well what are the chances this leads to direct negotiations between turkey and the syrian government well sooner or later
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you know 2 neighbors cannot be in the internally in the in a conflict and i think that both sides coming to understanding that the talks are navigable the question is whether they happen sooner or later and i think this is one exactly one of the tasks and challenges which russia has now and i think put in is exactly addressing this issue trying to find conditions on which. we'll agree to start talks with damascus i mean go to know that the 2 capitalists have been in contact. through through certain channels of communication but in order to. push the political settlement in north east syria and towards the reconciliation between the 2 governments definitely direct official talks are needed and that's the issue i think which is currently under discussion. alexy collecting cough there in moscow thank you very much. and still to come for
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you here on news hour including we'll have the details of an iraqi report the conduct of its security forces during the recent protests and guinea sentences 5 protesters to jail martin antigovernment demonstrations in the sport with the short list of football's prestigious ballon d'or was announced and there are some high profile the mission will tell you which one. protesters in lebanon are demanding more reforms despite the government's approving sweeping economic measures to improve the economy the authorities appear to be tightening security as the police and military dispersed protesters trying to erect barricades the prime minister saad hariri and i asked a plan to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in years against the nation's leaders to say they'll keep going to the streets until the entire cabinet steps stephanie
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joins us live now from the northern city of tripoli stuff your in lebanon 2nd biggest city we saw those big numbers of protesters in the capital there what's the significance of tripoli as a city. when it's the 2nd city is he said it's also traditionally a support base for the prime minister majority sunni peter but it's been neglected over the years it's not promises given it's had promises made over time and time again and it's never been delivered this is not cut taxes this is where is a look at just look at the mood of the people here. this is day 6 this is also if you remember that terror raid video that went viral with the d.j. playing that was here that was in tripoli and it did surprise people because this is a city that was very much affected by this than they were the syrian war stick couple of years ago you had gotten battles on the streets here between 2 neighborhoods on opposing sides. so these visions of people dancing to dance music listening to
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raves coming out and not talking against the government was something that is very new and we've been talking to people down there earlier who will tell you that this is hugely significant also to change the sort of perception of this city. and they've been coming out for 6 days that peter and the message is the same as when you and i were talking in beirut they're not going anywhere the reforms are not enough they want the government to go they don't trust the politicians. ok steph thanks very much. the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine is testifying right now in congress as part of the impeachment inquiry into the president will trump william taylor will be asked by closed doors about military aid and the role of trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani in ukraine policy now the investigation was launched after a whistleblower said donald trump pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden while withholding military assistance ok let's take
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a look now at who william taylor is and why he is testifying well he came out of retirement in may to lead the u.s. embassy in kiev his predecessor said she was removed from her post after standing up to mr trump in july taylor expressed concerns over foreign policy changes saying he thoughts it's quote crazy to withhold security aid to ukraine in exchange for helping with the political campaign and he threatened to quit warning that mr trump's demands such a can ukraine's faith in the united states let's go live now back to washington and our correspondent following that story for us here on the news castro how important an impeachment witness is mr taylor. hey peter he could be very important because this is the man who may have the answer to the question that is at the heart of this impeachment inquiry and that is whether president donald trump had corrupt intent when he pressured ukraine to open those investigations
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into his political opponents now as you mentioned that text message that taylor exchange with fellow u.s. diplomats he said he thought it was crazy to withhold security aid in exchange for help with a political campaign and we know from the white house chief of staff himself who said last week that this security aid to ukraine which is about $400000000.00 of military assistance he said was in part condition on ukraine opening an investigation into the democrats he later tried to walk back those comments but what we're trying to what democrats are trying to get down to the bottom of this what more detail or know about the president's thinking why did he ask whether this was crazy in fact taylor is the acting ambassador to ukraine he is testifying now behind closed doors which is in defiance of the white house order for state employees to ignore this impeachment inquiry completely so if taylor is being as
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candid now in his answers as he apparently was in these text messages the information he could be sharing right now could be potentially damaging to the president peter how's the police looking for him as of today. right so right now the conglomerate of polls shows a steady increase of the number of americans who believe a president should be impeached and removed from office that number has been steadily creeping up and c.n.n. released a poll saying that now it's at 50 percent of americans polled but peter i should point out that there is a vast disparity among the answers between democrats and republicans and in fact 95 percent of republican voters still approve of the president ok heidi thanks very much let's talk again to formally deputy assistant to the u.s. president for national security affairs she joins us from jacksonville in florida nancy soderberg welcome to the news hour simple question just to unpack this
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completely this is an impeachment inquiry it's not impeachment per se although that was the word mr trump used this time yesterday what's the difference. well an impeachment is a vote to. indicate that the president has violated his oath of office where in the inquiry stage right now which also has the full force of law what the president does not understand is that the congress is a equal branch of government and it has real powers they're defined that just this morning we found out that the office of management and budget people the ones actually held up that aide as the quid pro quo and are refusing to testify but the truth is going to come out there are courageous career public civil servants who believe in their oath to the constitution to uphold and bear witness to the truth and that's exactly what they're doing and there are. people throughout the u.s.
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government at the pentagon at the state department at the cia other areas of our government that are coming to testify so the truth will come out so this obstruction of justice and defying the rule of law is not going to end well for anyone involved i think it's pretty clear at this stage that the house has the votes to. impeach this president but it doesn't really have any impact on the president if the senate doesn't convict him and that's really what the house is trying to do is build a long and detailed case of how the president. committed various acts against his not just holding up aid to an ally that the congress had authorized and it was ready to go they clearly held that up and that's what we're going to hear from bester taylor who's a fine public servant this morning that he was in the middle of why are we doing this quid pro quo rick mick mulvaney admitted on his televised press conference
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that yes we do this all the time so that act will be clearly shown and then of course there's the obstruction of the congressional testimony of the blatant effort. pretend this isn't a real impeachment and i think in the end the president will be found to have not just withheld this aid against the will of congress and you inserted ukraine into his efforts to have a re-election bid but it will be shown that his obstruction of justice just making it worse every time that he refuses to recognize this is a legitimate inquiry ok his numbers are already dipping particularly in certain key states in the united states would his numbers be dipping faster if this wasn't happening behind closed doors i mean would it then trip into being wall to wall coverage on cable news on fox news etc and it would become political drama circus.
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well that is all to come but i think that the reason they're doing these interviews behind closed doors in this early stage is to make sure that they can have witnesses who come up and use their own facts to demonstrate this case and they don't want what they adam schiff and others have said is that they don't want future witnesses to alter their testimony depending on what others heard and that's fairly. standard for these kind of inquiries but what will and and making the case to the public will be very dramatic testimony as they pick and choose which witnesses to put out there and it will be a riveting case most likely by the end of the end of this year now you have to also remember that behind all this inquiry is a house of cards of the structure that the president put in place to use ukraine for his politics you've got. russian crime boss who made billions
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off of the energy with the oil deal between russia and ukraine for tougher use to ukrainian americans to funnel money into the trump campaign and giuliani make inside deals in money off of all of this structure that they put in place and that is another big story that's coming up and it's touching secretary of state mike pompei are now mick mulvaney what did the pentagon folks know about all this and all of that's going to come cascading out and the faster that the president just puts the cards on the table this is what happened don't try and cover it up that's the only way he can survive this is to stop the cover up and just say here's what we did move and he tried to do that in his press conference over the last few days and that got egg all over his face so it's just going to be this cascading nation the they ought to just rip the band-aid off and stop trying to cover it up ok
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briefly nancy you seem to be saying it's a question of when mr trump is impeached if he's impeached. the only question in this process is whether the senate will have enough republican votes to convict and they need i think it's around 20 and i think they clearly have the votes in the house of representatives to impeach him there are the democrats stuck together in this effort to censure adam schiff for his mocking of the president which i think he regrets at this stage having done and those are that's pretty much the votes are going to have for impeachment there so i think it is a question of can they build enough of a public case and it will include public hearings and all of this is going to be laid out for the american people to convince the senate to come over the bets are now that that won't happen but you're starting to see chinks in the republican armor and a lot of it just depends on how it unfolds of the president keeps trying to obstruct justice and hide what happen obvious kate the truth it's only going to
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hurt him in the senate so i think it's better if they just lay out what happened and watch the heads roll around him as this game with the ukrainians unfolds it's un-american unpatriotic and impeachable we'll leave it there nancy soderberg in jacksonville thank you still to come on the news are. going to come under. the it's official japan has a new emperor not a key to ascend to the throne. in the sport england zealander of the central spine well out of the world cup semifinal. some wet weather in the forecast for the middle east chiefly across northern areas of the med for the levant 3 turkey pushing over towards the caspian sea some think
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a cloud which also some showers just a round that east side of the med pushing across northern syria northern areas of iraq central parts of iraq could also see some wet weather northern parts of iran too seeing some weather turkey also seeing some of those large and heavy showers from time to time well as you try though across a good part of the arabian peninsula. a pleasant 34 degrees celsius over the next couple of days now to say i was caught and i was into eastern parts of south africa recently the heat very much on for the most part to get a little bit more cloud into the southern cape as per usual we have got to temperatures in cape town of around 20 celsius over the next couple of days but the high temperatures fire risk the drought that continues across that eastern side of a south africa further north we have got some showers pushing into northern areas of mozambique into tanzan there we say some flooding into
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. al-jazeera. on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha my name's peter dhabi your headlines turkey's president wretched type are the ones in such talks with vladimir putin has repeated his threat to restart his military operations in the most eastern part of syria if kurdish fighters don't leave the border area. iraq's military says u.s. troops across from syria do not have to mission to stay soldiers are part of forces
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who withdrew from northern syria as the turkish operation against kurdish fighters got under way. a top u.s. diplomat in ukraine has begun his testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry from william taylor is expected to give evidence indicating trump pressured ukraine to investigate a political mine. 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 life fire against demonstrators standard 57 people mainly civilians were killed 3 weeks of anti-government protests the violence pose the biggest challenge the government since the defeat of lysol in 20 . con is in baghdad. the report hasn't actually been released to the public there was a statement read out on a rocky state t.v. from the promises office the key points of the reports the government has admitted
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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 had 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 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 results of that investigation supposed to come out a couple of days ago it didn't it's now still not been released in full to the public but we now know what's contained in the reports will it be enough to
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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 this 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. u.k. airlines will be allowed to return to a popular egyptian resort town for years after eisel bombing brought down a passenger plane over sinai flights were suspended in the wake of the russian metra jet crash that killed all 224 people on board the u.k. government says security measures have improved enough to iowans to resume flights to sharm el sheikh. a rocket strike on civilian neighborhoods in the libyan city of tripoli has killed at least 3 children and left one severely injured a number of homes in the city's south were targeted by rockets the latest wave of attacks by the wall or telephone after us forces the nearby airport was also hit by
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air strikes as troops loyal to have to battle to gain more ground. time for some news politicians in the u.k. preparing to vote on legislation that would pave the way for negotiated exit from the e.u. by the end of the month let's take you live inside the house of commons in london debate underway on the so-called withdrawal agreement bill although opposition m.p.'s fear they are being given enough time to consider it even if the bill is approved m.p.'s could still go down the government's tight timetable to secure britain's departure by up to 31st. if parliament refuses to allow breaks to happen and instead gets its way and decides to delay everything until january or possibly longer in those circumstances can the government continue with us and our great regret i must go directly to the point where the only gentleman raises a great regret i will i must say that the book the bill will have to be pulled and
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we will have to go forward how much is the right order may not like it we'll have to go forward to a general election live now to paul brennan who's in london for us here on the news hour so paul when will the we know how the vote goes on to when it comes to mr johnson's desire to truncate the debate into just 3 days. yeah tick this evening essentially is the short answer to that somewhere around 1900 g.m.t. 2 crucial votes are going to take place 1st of all is a vote on the 2nd reading of 'd the withdrawal agreement bill it's parliamentary procedure old necessity and it's sensually is parliament are they giving its consent for the bill to progress or in principle or withdrawing the consent and effectively scuppering the bill so that will be the 1st vote and then after that immediately after that will be what's called the program motion which sets out that extremely tight timetable that forest johnson the prime minister wants for his bill
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essentially demanding that the m.p.'s process and digest and then analyze a 110 complex pages all of this legislation by thursday and pass it into law by thursday as you heard that he is threatening that if they decide not to accept his accelerated timetable for this if they decide to submissive amendments and trying to lay the process and if that happens in conjunction with the european union granting an extension to the bracks a deadline beyond october the 31st then he will decide to pull the bill he's going to pull it out of parliamentary consideration and essentially decide to try and push for a general election to say a general election is not within his gift under the fixed term parliaments act in these 2 thirds majority of the and things in parliament to approve a snap election but certainly he would feel the prime minister that he couldn't progress any further with the bill in the form that he wanted it to go and
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therefore he would feel no point in progressing it so real guerrilla warfare taking place here and parliament the saturnian and 2 crucial votes taking place in the early afternoon pull thank you very early evening. the police in bosnia have pulled dozens of asylum seekers off a train to stop them from reaching already full camps in the north west local officials are struggling to deal with numbers of the b. hutch camp temporarily cutting the water supply to pressure the government into helping out thousands of migrants stuck in the area close to the border with member croatia those at the camp say conditions to remain dire. to a month ago we had medical assistance here at the camp every day except on weekend the doctor would come every day but now no one comes here he got these wounds on my legs after i return from the croatian border and other people have the same problem of course in getting his sentence 5 people up to a year in prison for demonstration against president of the condé the protest leaders were found guilty of inciting civil disobedience people rallied earlier
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this week against the proposed change the constitution with the presidency a 3rd term 2nd term expires next year and he's refusing to rule out running again security forces have killed at least 10 protesters nicholas han has more now from dhaka in neighboring senegal. a small crowd gathered outside the courtroom as the sentence was read out against these members of civil society now we're talking about former journalist economist artists that have been sentenced to jail time because the judges say they have incited violence following a following last week protest against african days attempt to change the constitution and stay and extend his time in power now these protests led to 10 people being killed 70 injured in hundreds being arrested now in the civil society remain defiant and planned more processed meanwhile for condé is in russia attending the africa russia summit before it took off for this summit he said he
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would stay in power as long as god will allow him to meanwhile the kremlin has backed him as guinea is a former soviet outpost it's rich in minerals and the russians have into. in this country the african union the united nations and the european union are calling for more dialogue as the opposition plans more protests because the legislative elections that were scheduled for december are council and these elections are supposed to take place presidential elections are supposed to take place in a year's time the government were hoping there would be a sentencing to bring this crisis to an end but it seems it's just the beginning. in authority. say plans to relocate thousands of the refugees will begin in the coming 2 months administrators in cox's bazar which is the world's largest refugee settlements in the 1st $350.00 families will be moved to the small island of bass and char relocating 100000 others will happen in phases the u.n.
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rights groups say the island is prone to flooding and would complicate the lives of the refugees well than 700000 live in bangladesh after fleeing violent crime in neighboring myanmar. british police will travel to the u.s. to interview the wife of a diplomat who was reportedly involved in a car accident that killed a teenager and was given diplomatic immunity after the car she was driving hit a 19 year old harry dumbs motorbike near an american air force base in central england and she left the country just afterwards carried on as parents travelled to the us and the president trump to campaign for so cool us to return to the u.k. to face charges british officers say it's a cool us is cooperating with their investigation and has agreed to be interviewed . the canadian prime minister justin trudeau has secure a 2nd term in office but his little liberal party hasn't gained enough seats to form a minority in the parliament majority pardon me the results showed the liberals had
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won 156 seats in monday's elections well short of the required 170 it means trudeau will now have to rely on the support of the n.d.p. the new democratic party to push through important legislation the main opposition conservative party picked up where liberal support fell adding more than 20 seats to its previous election result. tensions escalating between india and pakistan after shelling near indian administered kashmir on sunday the pakistani military has taken a group of foreign journalists and diplomats to the line of control 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 it 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 revokes indian administered kashmir autonomy at the beginning of august
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a centuries old ceremonies taking place in japan as emperor nero hito ascended to the throne representatives from $180.00 countries attended the ceremony in tokyo and shelob ellis. this is the highlight of a series of ancient rituals that see japanese emperor never he took a seam to the throne he took over from his father who abdicated in may and the ceremony makes it official. i inherited imperial status based on japanese constitution as well as imperial household law i hereby proclaim to japan and outside the country that i have in throned. for your prime minister shinzo represented japanese citizens although. exclaiming bend long live the improved 3 times completing the ceremony. 2000 people attended the once in a generation of ain't including representatives from more than 180 countries the
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festivities are scaled back in the wake of typhoon hack of this some japanese still lingered outside the imperial palace. which will be nice if the new year i am proud will be kind hearted as the former and stay close to the people a national poll suggests 70 percent told friendly or favorable views towards the royal family despite debate over a law that allows only maine to become impressed japan's road in a city goes back 2000 years this was the inthe romans of naira he took his grandfather in 1928 in peru hirohito he was treated as a gold and in his name japan into it will. after its defeat. and subsequent imprisoned most obey political powers a symbolic role the next emperor was seen here in 1946 on his 1st day of high school he spent his life working to improve japan's international relations and may
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he became the 1st. to abdicate in 200 use. meaning or fortune and. still ahead here on al-jazeera the countdown is on to game one of the 150. at the clash between the pros and the washington national.
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time to sports news his role later many thanks the u.n. for champions league resumes on tuesday and it's a huge night for round madrid the 14 time winners really need to win a galaxy athirst exit at the champions league group stage could be on the cards bottom of group a with just one point from 2 games they're also coming off a one no loss to ryan york and la liga on saturday so fair to say the pressure really mounting on royal coaches in edina that it often overcome yet another so what happens in this match won't change a thing there are a lot too much is left and we're going to try until the end so well firstly we will try to get to 3 points that's what we're here for but as for the rest always talking about the pressure and that they might change the coach we can't change that. one of 8 on tuesday also in round madrid group paris sound your man who are group leaders go to bruges manchester city house after lanta whilst eventis welcome lokomotiv moscow to cheer in. the 31 shortlist for the door is out but most people
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are talking about who's not on the list p.s.g. and brazil star neymar fail to make the grade for the 1st time since 2010 the shortlist is put together by france football magazine and they described the brazilian as having a black year hence his admission they started his injury and disciplinary problems tosses a ball to move back to pass a learner which alienated him from many fans will last when his last years when a little moderate also failed to make the list. well here are some of the players that have been nominated for a tar winner and current holder of the fee for best the warden in all messi of bassline a short listed as his is old rival you vented for christiane of an elder another 5 time winner of the bar on the all time dark is going for his 1st award but the dutch defender is the favorite to win this year after helping liverpool win the champions league in a rugby coach eddie jones has really sparked things up ahead of his wall cup semifinal his team's well cup semifinal against new zealand he claimed someone was
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spying on their training session david starts has more. england's players are preparing for the biggest game of the lloyds this part of training was open to the media but coach eddie jones says there was an unwelcome spectator during the close session with the safely someone in the palm filming but monitoring the japanese train jones at mit's he used to use spice but not since 2001 because times have changed you just time they do it any moment because you see everything. you can watch it runs training on you chave all or whatever there is is everything out this is not of value in doing that sort of thing absolutely 0 his team are unbeaten so far at the world cup and were impressive in dispatching australia in the quarterfinals but you zealand the world number one sided 3 time champions present a far greater obstacle england have one just one of their last 16 encounters with the all blacks put up and it is the money. they get now and now and things we can
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win there's no pressure on us when he's going to have a great way to enjoy it relax try and. enjoy this great opportunity we've got was going to be seeing the world is that they're looking for this world cup so that does bring suppression no sign of any spies that you seen in training but plenty of rain coach steve hansen speaking before jones is spying allegations agreed with his counterpart that there's pressure but not just for his team you're trying. we will care. going to be pressure on burn so form a new zealand star israel dayak says old the pressure talk is just classic psychological warfare for jones. every talon and he's already fatter than a maybe a talking them up in giving them prize and a lot of these little mind games that the coaches play is great in the world cup when lawrence dallaglio agrees with jack and says james is just doing everything he can to keep his players the edge on saturday this is his moment as
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a coach and he knows he's going to say that are capable of going you know all the way to the fall. and winning it to go all the way england have to overcome perhaps the most formidable side in world sport history the all blacks juggernaut has not lost the world cup match 2007 and it's going to take some stopping david stokes al-jazeera. or wild take on south africa and the other semi aiming for their 1st ever world cup farnell the wealth of lost twice in the last almost recently in 2011 to france last week they're on a great run of form against the springboks not having won their last 4 encounters coach warren gatland says this is their best chance to go all the way playing the try. to get these opportunities once something once the last time potentially so. you've got to you've got to grab them with both hands and make the most of it and. i think it's important that we be it well this weekend. and look like the occasion
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take care of itself. now the houston astros are preparing to host a washington nationals in game one of the 115 world series on choose day for how stars are favored heading into this match up they're playing in their 2nd full classic in 3 years having won the our only child title back in $27.00 saying but it's one more title in the washington nationals it's been 95 years since washington last won the pennant but the front charge was called offenses back then the nationals will be well rested they're the easy win against the cardinals and their national league series has given them a week. these guys are fired up to be here. we played a lot of unbelievable games this year we come a long way so i think they're excited like i said excited to be here and ready to play. but looking forward to it now you know i've had. the blessing of experience it once before so i know what to kind of well look for and
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kind of understand that experience i'm just going to try to enjoy cricket indian captain of our carly is celebrating a 12 consecutive home test series win the world number one ranked test team completed an innings when i have a south africa inside 3 days in the test that gives india a 3 nil series whitewash a maintains their lead in the world test championship type. if you become a monday damage to the moment you know it's not one thing that you need to come to when you play against us. if the top order doesn't get runs the middle order will of the dog go to school as well be and he was going to a big school and the lord wants to contribute your digging catches a brilliant fossil is a brilliant. the only thing we need to keep a check on is workloads and make sure that we have enough bench strength to keep this cultured and standard of an intrigue going for us that is what for now all eyes are thank you for a whole thanks very much when we come back on the other side of the break we'll get you an update on those talks in sochi the russian for such if you let me put it up
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type one in a couple minutes we'll see you then. what are you protesting about how does this include where they are on line why face minstrelsy us directly translate its lately 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 that everyone has a voice climate change is real 'd the discussion is real and i'm here to talk about
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the solutions on al-jazeera examining the facts of today's headlines if politics like this one that are trying to research and we forested areas that have been already devastated setting 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 and world class journalists bring programs to inform unspot. on al-jazeera. overthrown and exiled they appoint say insurable don't dismiss me she knew an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know is that the truth was for spying and. nothing to do you think she is still on the along with nutrition which case return of the president on al-jazeera. is know one
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way of telling us all a key thing is to write and speak i suspect there is a great message to know the person from the times to. presidents in russia for talks just hours before a ceasefire deadline as kurdish fighters keep pulling ups of the northeast of syria . among piece of the watching all to see or life from a headquarters here and also coming up lebanon's government pledges swift and sweeping reforms to revive the economy but will the moves keep protest is off the streets. back in office but challenges.

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