right and to be i suspect. it's great to know the person from. turkey's presidents in russia for talks just hours before a cease fire deadline as kurdish fighters keep pulling out of the northeast of syria. piece it all that you're watching on syria live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up lebanon's government pledges swift and sweeping reforms to revive the economy but will the moves keep protesters off the streets. back in office but challenges do await the canadian prime minister justin trudeau in forming a new government in ottawa. it could be the most crucial testimony yet in the impeachment inquiry into donald trump the u.s.

top diplomatic crane testifies behind closed doors. turkey's president to ones in the russian port city of sochi for talks with lot of the a putin has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in the north east and 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 the kurdish syrian democratic forces a pull out of some areas along the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the troops before heading to sochi is what mr cohen 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 to this area including a ceasefire we want a lasting peace in syria i hope our meeting will make progress meanwhile bashar al assad has called president a thief he made the remarks during a visit to areas of italy a province taken from turkish backed rebels by government forces not to gambia and the whole of the thief he stole our plants and factories our produce and he stole our oil with the help of ice so now he is 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 been trying but couldn't or rather not authorized he said to have informed the americans as he you are simply a servant you were ordered to enter and you did. ok let's go to war in the talks between the russian and turkish leaders our correspondent stan vasant is there for us this hour step how long until we get an idea of the direction of travel of the

cease fire i mean might the even extend it if only to give those last remaining kurdish fighters the chance to leave. well it's only 3 hours now until the deadline of the cease fire expires and both president putin and president are the one are still in talks here in the residency of president putin put him in sort cheat we had expected them to come out and give a statement about what the result of these talks are hours ago already but we are approaching this that line now pretty rapidly raising speculation if that might be the moment that they're going to announce something president putin of course is now considered a major. power broker i have to say in syria after the united states has pulled out and that's of course the reason the president travels to starchy today president putin has a very big trees plan in mind that's what we you have been hearing from several

government officials in the past couple of days he's thinking about the going back to this diana agreement which is dated back to 98 basically he wants to make a deal between ankara and the massacres which will be very challenging but based on that agreement from 1908 the syrians should make sure that the kurdish fighters at the peak aka the white piqué has no influence at all anymore in syria that they don't get any support that's what is the basis of that deal and that's something that president putin tries to broker here in the last 4 or 5 hours already and it might take even a lot longer of course this is going to be a long and complicated process as putin spokesman said before these talks started step thanks very much. ok let's take a look back at the events that led to the ceasefire in northern syria the us president confirmed on october the 6 that u.s.

forces that started to leave the region they were allied with the kurdish syrian defense forces or s.d.f. to defeat eisel but turkey considers the s.d.f. terrorists with the u.s. withdrawing turkish artillery and air strikes began on kurdish positions they quickly claimed a syrian border town kurdish fighters and their former foes the syrian and russian governments created an uneasy alliance to stop turkey's progression last week though the u.s. negotiated a 5 day ceasefire kurdish fighters were told to move south to create a 32 kilometer safe so along the turkey syria border or face continued turkish operations shall stratford's is in jail and can are on the turkey syria border johnny with the clock ticking to the end of the cease fire is a matter of hours away now what are you seeing and hearing on the ground there. was certainly the cease fire seems to be holding in this area. the town behind me is town called russell and we saw some of the heaviest fighting in the build up to

this cease fire and indeed there were ongoing clashes off to the cease fire was declared we've been speaking to one of the free syrian army commanders who has been operating in that city the free syrian army of course very much in the forefront of this campaign working with the turks and he said that they only had around 70 percent control of that city russell and he said there hadn't been any fighting in recent days but he said this 30 percent of the town was still occupied by s.c.f. kurdish forces and he also said that those kurdish forces were very much in control of vast areas to the east and west of the town of tel aviv now tell abby out was taken control of by the turkish forces. over a week ago now he said that there had been convoys deployments of more turkish back

for season the turkish military to the east towards the iraqi border only turkish side of it and to the west down towards kabbani. yes certainly an indication according to him and from what we've been hearing in the build up to this deadline expiring that seemingly the s.d.f. a still in control of areas within this proposed safe zone the president wants them out solved and he's threatening to resume his his military campaign if indeed they do not move beyond that area just to put it in perspective in terms of the kind of humanitarian challenges that aid agencies are working up against over the border according to the kurdish red cross and they are saying that at least 5 hospitals in the area are not functioning they say that 2 temporary clinics have been evacuated they say that around 500000 people have been disconnected from war to haven't had

any water because of damage done to water infrastructure and he said that if there was a resumption in violence this organization says if there is a resumption by the turks in this military campaign then up to 1000000 people could well be affected and could be seen to have to flee the area and he said that in towns like tell time out sorry it said in towns like tell time out on a number of other towns in this area people were buying food gathering their belongings and beginning to move out already so a great sense of fear and trepidation the closer we get to this deadline as those talks continue in sochi thank you. iraqi military says u.s. forces who crossed over from syria don't have permission to stay in the country the soldier is a part of forces who withdrew from northern syria as the turkish operation against kurdish fighters began the u.s.

secretary of state might pump aoe says washington has to play a fine line between respecting turkey's concerns and avoiding a catastrophe in northern syria the work that we did to build up that team united around the destruction of a caliphate in syria iraq was important and effective and that kurdish forces there the arab fighters that were part of the us the op 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. is terrorist for an awfully long time we take those concerns there's seriously the president used america's economic might our economic power to avoid a kinetic conflict with a nato ally and its present trip through that very day that needed to be some tough law in order to get it done. protesters in lebanon a demanding more reforms despite the government yesterday approving sweeping economic measures to improve the state of the economy the prime minister assad how dealing announced a plan to diffuse the biggest demonstrations and he is against the nation's

leadership activists say they'll keep going on to the streets until the entire cabinet steps down stephanie teka joins us live now from the northern city of tripoli steph does anyone in this crisis have any idea what might happen next. i mean everyone involved i'm a soon to tell you know you can see here in the northern city of tripoli the atmosphere remains electric peter it's day 6 people continue to come out not one t.v. set up people in government to implement the actual reforms i'm going to bring in i guess that deep chat ani's from teddy from tripoli and he's at mechanical engineers today that's take a listen to what he thinks there might be your student tell me why are you here what do you want we're here to do. you know we are here all lebanese people to please the people to say to the politicians to say to everyone stop stealing from us stop making text that says we want to live here in

peaceful peaceful life we want to i can't live if you fear mechanical engineer when i graduate this year there is no jobs and if i don't i am i am of next door travel i must migrate outside i don't want to say i want to live here in the final did you agree with that ak economic reforms the prime minister said yesterday no no there are not enough there are i don't believe him nobody believed him nobody believed everything they say because they are lawyers from 30 years till now they are lying to us we don't believe i knew where they say so now why now why now what happened now we want. them all to escape all of them want them to leave there see it make another a lot to come and. become pilots says we don't want them anymore and just tell us

briefly because you've been in beirut tell our audience about tripoli what is important about tripoli what is different about tripoli as tripoli had any help from this government. tripoli. it's a very poor city is the poorest city or the middle east is the poorest city. also one of the sounds don't help us very much they help beirut more we are. for that now we are here to say to them we are here to express our feelings and to tell them what we want. and what their minds so so that's probably also why you're seeing such fervor here. they've been going at it for 6 days we were talking about it earlier that viral video of the raban of the people responding at the d.j. playing to the crowd 1st people that was in beirut no that was here in tripoli so you get a sense of the atmosphere and certainly people we've been speaking to say that

they're going to continue coming out to purchase until something changes but certainly at the moment we seem to be at a stalemate peter between a government that doesn't want to go and the people that want the opposite step just to go back for a minute so it's an interesting conversation you're having there with your guest in tripoli clearly none of the protesters trust mr hariri at all anymore if he were to resign would that then expose the so-called ruling elites more directly to the wrath of the demonstrators up and down the country because they're the people who are perceived as perhaps i think it be fair to say is having damaged the country that certainly the claim from all the protesters. yes well that's the problem it's that they say that how can the people who got us to this point solve it i mean i did was telling me earlier how all the posters of saturday this is a site that is stronghold peter the sunni majority stronghold. they have ripped

down the posters of their ode if you will which is unprecedented it's not just here are also in shia areas there's been direct confrontation of shia against their shia leaders this is what makes it so i'm precedented in this country and yes exactly as you say they say that these are the men responsible men and women responsible for taking millions and millions of dollars taking our money as they will tell you and they're not going to be the ones to fix it and also the irony of how could they have come up with a plan in 3 days that seeps or not tax the people that seems to get money from somewhere why haven't they done it 10 years ago why did they now want to put more taxes on us why have they taxed bribed why have they taxed you why did they want to tax social media applications so these are the questions and i think the challenge is this we don't know where this is going to go how long is this government going to let this go on for are there going to be resignations we heard from an adviser to saudi today who hinted that potentially there could be

a cabinet reshuffle ringback but i get at the moment certainly everything remains up in the air staff thank you. still to come for you here on al-jazeera. come japan's prime minister playing a big part in an elaborate ceremony for the new emperor. how the weather sloshy set fatha southeastern parts of china 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 and that wetter weather just pushing the 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

a fair bit of dry weather to into india china india itself and all the parts of india will be allowed to dry as well but down towards the south seeing the rain really peping out recently says coachy in the carolina where we have seen some flooding a recently and flash flooding looks set to remain a problem here is we go on through the next couple of days actually much of that western side of india continuing to see some very heavy rain we've got. 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 says i should do started to see more wetter weather jenny dry across northern parts of india though across pakistan it's dry staying dry here kristie right in peninsula doha with a high of 34. rewind

to 10 days with a new scenery. and brand new updates on the past about to seen these documentaries if i would compare it to it i mean we have been down in the 3 to sparta so hard to listen to this is the old city rewind continues with motown to greytown being out here in the soil learning about health by eating good it's changed my life i can't imagine doing something else on al-jazeera. let's recap the top stories for you so far this hour u.s. officials say the kurds have told them that their fighters have left

a safe zone in northern syria this news comes to turkey's president wants in sochi russia for talks with the russian president vladimir putin earlier mr erdogan repeated his threat to stop his military operation to syria if the kurdish forces didn't leave that border area. iraq's military says u.s. troops across from syria do not have permission to stay the soldiers are part of forces who withdrew from northern syria the turkish operation against kurdish forces got underway. protesters never known a demanding more reforms despite the government approving sweeping economic measures to improve the economy prime minister saad hariri supplants diffuse the biggest demonstration in years against the nation's leadership. to washington the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine is testifying right now in congress as part of the impeachment inquiry into donald trump william taylor will be asked behind closed doors about military aid and the role of donald trump's personal attorney rudolph giuliani in

ukraine policy now the investigation was launched after acquittal blowers said mr trump pressurised ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden while withholding military assistance let's go live now to washington and my colleague joe castro so heidi clearly bill taylor a very significant person to hear from today. that's right he is considered to be a key witness in this and each man inquiries peter because he may have the answer to the question that's at the center of all this which is whether president trump had corrupt intent when he pressured ukraine to open an investigation on his political adversaries taylor is the us ambassador to kiev and he in food with sli asked in a text message exchange with fellow diplomats that was made public he said i think it is crazy to withhold u.s. security aid in exchange for help with a political campaign now what exactly led to that campaign where there are

conversations he had with other with the white house or other government agencies that prompted him to ask that question those are the things that investigators are now asking of him and these proceedings are done behind closed doors in secret but we have had a little bit of an update from a freshman democrat who addressed reporters briefly as that in the secure room he said that in his 10 months was serving in congress this was the most disturbing day yet so a lot more to be reported about exactly what's being said behind those closed doors we do know that ambassador taylor is a career diplomat and widely respected among professional circles mr strong taking to twitter get us up to speed what's he been saying. that's right now while attention has been focused here on democrats in the capitol hill trump has also made his voice heard on twitter writing this morning so some day if

a democrat becomes president and the republicans win the house even by a tiny margin they can impeach the president without due process or fairness or any legal rights all republicans must remember what they are witnessing here a lynching but we will win those are the president's words on twitter and it's that 2nd to last paragraph that lynching reference that is really causing people to react saying that it is disturbing that the president is equating what's happening to him now to essentially the racial terrorism of not of the not too distant past in american history when whites killed thousands of african-americans in the south democrats saying drawing that parallel here is simply disgusting even the minority leader republican kevin mccarthy saying that those are not the terms he would have used here ok heidi you'll keep us posted i'm sure in the meantime many things counted 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 now that's all means mr trudeau will need to rely on the support of the n.d.p. the new democratic party to push through legislation from toronto. for justin trudeau it definitely could have been worse. 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 10 days voted in favor of

a progressive agenda and strong our chin 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 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. politicians in the u.k. preparing to vote on legislation that would pave the way for a negotiated exit from the e.u. breck's it by the end of the month october the 31st the debate has started on the so-called withdrawal agreement bill although 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 by

halloween let's speak to our correspondent lawrence lisa lawrence in a few hours they going to have 2 key crucial votes here. yeah let's just take them one by one the 1st focus is what's called the 2nd reading of boris johnson's plan which which effectively takes the whole of the u.k. out of the european union except for northern ireland in terms of trade and the only reason why that vote looks like it might pass is in order as you say that opposition m.p.'s can then try and change it and amend it on wednesday and alter it to try to keep for example of the u.k. in a customs union changing their trading arrangement with the new frankly it is an extraordinary situation the this is the version of breck's in the boris johnson a sense is that it is now the best one available because even 6 months ago not and neither boris johnson nor the conservative party nor frankly anybody else in

parliament would have would have gone for this at all you know that that that the conservative party really especially the hardliners are only prepared to vote for it because they think that time's running out they might be their last chance to do any sorts of bricks it but the opposition party still hates it's both communities in northern ireland nationalist and unionists both hate it and 50 percent of the population that there will sustain the european all or all hatred as well and boris johnson's only argument is get it through because it's the only way of getting on with whatever else he thinks that britain's worried about but it's it is a bizarre deal and he's also enormously complicated which gets us into that into the 2nd vote is there a chance however lawrence that they might crash anyway because the european commission or people at the european commission seemed to be signalling saying look we don't really care we're not really bothered because of the the extension as to whether there's clarity or not coming back to us from the british parliament you know you've got the date we've done the deal mr johnson over to you that's your

problem october 31st is still may be going to happen. well only if johnson still goes through and that and the point of the 2nd vote is is pertinent to this because it is what johnson wants to do is to get the drive the whole thing through discussion inside parliament in just 3 days by the end of thursday night that's what m.p.'s are so worried about that's the vote that they might lose face on that then he think downing through the probably take a little tiny bit of extension which to your opinion would grant them just to dot the i's and cross the t's and get and get it through but then your opinion would run to longer extension i think they were under the terms of the law has already been passed if there were to be a general election i think there's every chance by then it's a night so in the coming days of that could easily happen ok lawrence we'll talk to you later thank you. now a centuries old ceremonies taking place in japan as emperor another hito ascended

to the throne representatives from $180.00 countries attended ceremony in tokyo charlotte bellis has the story. 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 an 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. exclaiming benson long live the improve 3 times completing the ceremony. 2000 people attended the once in a generation of ain't including representatives from more than 180 countries the

festivities was scaled back in the wake of typhoon haggis some japanese still lingered outside the imperial palace. which will be nice if the new year i'm 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 royal dynasty goes back 2000 years this was the interim and have never he took his grandfather in 1928 in peru hirohito he was treated as a goal and in his name japan into it will. after its defeat he renounced divinity and subsequent imprison lost all their political powers it's now a symbolic role the next emperor was acca hito seen here in 1946 on his 1st day of high school he spent his life working to improve japan's international relations in may he became the 1st jeff anees monarch to abdicate in 200 years emperor and

narrow he took his reign will be called bright one meaning order fortune and. pace shallop dallas al jazeera. this is al jazeera my name's peter told me these are your headlining stories u.s. officials say the kurds have told them that their fighters have left the safe zone in northern syria this news comes as turkey's president wretch up type are the ones in sochi for talks with let me put in the leaders are discussing the turkish ceasefire which is due to expire in a matter of hours iraq's military says u.s. forces who crossed 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 got on the way protestors in lebanon are demanding more reforms despite the government's approving sweeping economic measures to improve the economy on

monday the prime minister saad hariri announced a plan to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in unions against the nation's leadership but activists say they'll keep going to the streets until the entire cabinet steps down. politicians in the u.k. are preparing to vote on legislation that will pave the way for a negotiated exit from the e.u. by the end of this month the debate has begun on the so-called withdrawal agreement bill even if the bill is approved m.p.'s could still vote down the government's tight timetable 3 days the government wants to secure britain's departure by halloween if parliament refuses to allow bricks to have them 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 we will have to go forward how much is the right order may not like it will have to

go forward to a general election. the u.s. top diplomat in ukraine is set to testify as part of the house democrat impeachment investigation into the u.s. president will trump william taylor will be asked about military aid and the role of donald trump's personal attorney rudolph giuliani in the ukraine policy investigation was launched after a whistleblower alleged mr trump pressured ukraine to investigate democrats whilst he was withholding military assistance the iraqi government's released a report on an initial investigation into the killing of protesters the report found that security forces used excessive force at least 17857 people were killed up next is rewind also you have more news after that.

and i welcome again to rebuy and i'm elizabeth purana our task here on the wind is to dig out some of the best and most influential films from the past decade and to find out how the story has moved on since one of the earliest series launched here on al-jazeera was earthrise a show which tackles increasingly important issues of climate change but also tries to find good news.