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al jazeera. where every. techie and russia agree a joint security plan in northern syria giving kurdish fighters 6 days to fully withdrawal from the area. hello i'm maryanne demasi and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up. so the odds are the odds of. a praxis boris johnson's 80 will draw dale secure support but plans to fall strike that legislation are rejected. protesters returned to the streets of london for a 6 the night despite emergency reforms announced by the government. and the top
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u.s. diplomat in ukraine testifies in congress as part of the impeachment inquiry into president on the trump. lead is of tuckey in russia saying a deal has been reached to move out of syrian border areas now this announcement comes as a u.s. brokered truce in the region comes to an end turkish president says syrian kurdish fighters will move 30 kilometers away from the border in northeast syria within 150 hours after that time turkey and russia have agreed to conduct joint patrols both me to say they'll work to ensure the safe return of syrian refugees currently in turkey. we are not going to allow any separatist agendas in syria we gave kurdish rebels 120 hours and said they would withdraw they would move 30 kilometers deep we're going to have 10 kilometers deep and russian security will operate there in
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man beach and teller thought all the y.p. g. will be removed with their arms. to achieve a stable and long term stabilization in syria on the whole in l. view it's only possible while observing sovereignty and territorial integrity of this country it's the very basic position and we discussed it in detail it's necessary for syrian refugees to return to their motherland we will help relieve strain on countries who host them is there a step vos has been want to train those talks in sochi and sent this report. this means that after the united states of failed as the minister of defense here described earlier the russians are now in place to make this cease fire work and they will start tomorrow at noon on the 23rd of october military police from the russian side together with syrian border patrol will go into an area which is outside of the turkish operations zone right now in syria it as it is actually
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a stretch along the syrian turkish border where the russian military police and the syrian border patrol will make sure that the kurdish fighters will be removed and this arms they have 150 hours to do that and if they succeed the minister of foreign affairs here the russian foreign minister sas then the turkish military operation will be finished it will be done if the kurdish fighters are all gone from this area what happens next is that the turkish and the russians will patrol together in a 10 kilometer zone next to the military operations on that turkey has right now so that's the deal that's been discussed here 7 hours it goes further than that it's not only the military solution but also a political solution both leaders have stressed that the constitutional commission that also was brokered by by president putin very much in these style talks that that will be the way to go and the 1st meeting of this commission is on the 30th of
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october and some avenger very joins us live now from market charlie on the turkey syria border what does this agreement mean. people that are living in that affected area in northeast area what happens to them now. details are still emerging on how this is going to be implemented but as you've seen one of the points that was discussed in the meeting between the 2 presidents and that date is going to be from noon on goods tomorrow that it's on wednesday there's going to be a joint patrol joint russia syria and turkey implementation of this plan where 150 hours are going to be given to these kurdish fighters to leave this area and after that there is going to be joint patrols by the russians and the syrians on the area which is not being covered by this turkish offensive
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and then 10 kilometers deep into syrian territory they are going to be joint patrols that are going to be carried out between the turkish and the russians so it is going to be a difficult one how it is implemented on the ground what it looks like that aside the strength to give more time to these kurdish fighters which it calls terrorists to leave this area we've heard some commanders of the p.g. saying that they would like to defend their areas because if they lose they'd be left with nothing but so far the syrian democratic forces the main the kurdish fighting force has not commented on not this deal and the deal which has lapsed as well it is worth reminding ourselves that there was a deal up till a few hours ago which was brokered by the united states between turkey and the kurdish fighters very for the last 5 days. cannons which of been fighting from behind us have been stopped and this deal has lapsed and from to morrow noon on
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birds there's going to be a new deal where kurdish fighters would get more time to leave these areas where turkey wants to send back syrian refugees thank you very much an attack in syria brought us some of enjoyment bringing us the latest on developments that. the e.u. council president says he will recommend the block grant person another break that extension in order to avoid a no deal scenario the u.k. is you to leave the e.u. on october 31st employment is to boris johnson had been hoping to have his withdrawal agreement ratified by parliament this week but m.p.'s rejected that plan saying it didn't give them time to scrutinise the legislation or reach out as reports from westminster. it is as m.p.'s point out unprecedented for parliament to pass such a large and important bill so quickly yet the governments wanted his withdrawal
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agreement bill through the commons before the end of the week mr speaker i was incredibly concerned when i was reminded by my wife earlier today that we spent my wife and i spent longer choosing a school for then we have city bay this incredibly cool to kill on tuesday the legislation for leaving the european union was facing 2 hurdles would m.p.'s vote to give it more consideration and would they agree to the government's breakneck timetable the prime minister hopes he could focus minds with this warning the deal if parliament refuses to allow bricks to happen and instead gets its way and decides to delay everything until january or possibly longer there's a great regret i would say that the book the bill will have to be pulled and we will have to go forward much as the right order may not like it will have to go forward to a general election 1st up would m.p.'s give his withdrawal agreement build their
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approval in principle so the guys have it the ayes have it the m.p.'s gave it a nod through to a 2nd reading a crucial victory for the prime minister the 1st time in this tortured saga that parliament has given any breaks a deal any kind of approval but glory was short lived next up was the vote on the timetable for. the guys to the right 308. to the last $322.00 so the no does have a nose have it once again m.p.'s have slammed the brakes on brakes it tonight's the house has refused to be bounced into debating a hugely significant piece of legislation in just 2 days with barely any notice and an analysis of the. impact of this bill the prime minister is the also of his own misfortune jeremy corwin offered to work together to find
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a mutually agreeable timetable for us johnson responded by saying he was putting the bill on hold for now his do or die dreams of leaving the e.u. on october 31st look to have been dealt a mortal blow so what i was next depends on the e.u. it's been considering that letter boris johnson was obliged by parliament to write last saturday requesting a break that extension if it grants a long 1 january or further then as we've just heard from the prime minister he is going to try pushing for a general election if we get something shorter all more flexible then that suggests that the e.u. like boris johnson just wants to get the brakes it done will reach alan's al-jazeera london. thousands of protesters in lebanon have taken to the streets for a 6th consecutive day despite emergency reforms announced by the prime minister demonstrations began last week over the government's plans to impose new taxes but
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have since widened into course for the entire political class to step down stephanie decker reports from tripoli and north lebanon. day 6 and many roadblocks remain in place banks and schools are closed across lebanon many bank machines don't have cash the prime minister's proposals for forms haven't changed the situation on the ground that are the shit people are going into the streets for their future and the future of their children in reality the political class that we have has less than nothing before this uprising if we can call it that the government tried to pick the pocket of every poor person until they were left with nothing prime minister sad how did he has met ambassadors of various countries including the u.s. and russia as well as the arab league they welcomed the reforms but also urged him to address the demands of the people but what these people who remain on the streets really want is for the government to go and adviser to the prime minister had this to say is that a chance or a possibility for
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a cabinet reshuffle or something like this i think this will be determined in the coming few days and it is one of the options being put on the table we drove up from beirut to the northern city of tripoli roadblocks here too on the main highway when we got to tripoli the square was starting to fill up many of those graduates everyone is unemployed but people here for these areas are living in very horrible of institutions to see how we live in their houses. to understand. all of this will have an election system that is highly sectarian this is not the people who have been in charge for 30 years keep surviving so for me the most important thing right now i mean i know people are saying yes to the exam which was a good translates to you know the big almost like a dictatorship least of all because it's more about the. electoral law that needs to change than even the most important thing right now or else the same people we
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voted for was coming. as the sunset more and more people. it is the night that this where our. second city has traditionally been a support base prime minister. but the belief has been neglected the majority of its people are poor there has been a huge turnout here over the last 6 days it seems the jews have had enough here the message is the savings in beirut in other cities across this country they don't want the same people who got them into this dire situation to be the ones who try to fix it stephanie decker al-jazeera tripoli north lebanon. so i have for you on the program catalonia is regional government calls for dialogue with spanish latest following days of unrest and struggling to deal with refugee numbers the water supply to camp and bosnia is caught to pressure the government into helping.
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the a. hello there it is going to be about the heat across the south on the east of australia in the coming days not last few hours not a great deal of cloud and as we know not really had any rainfall coast over the last few days and really none in the forecast in this coming week either as a couple enjoying the warm sunshine in sydney it's very nice but it's actually going to get very warm and of course we do desperate need the rain so what's going to happen to go through this week of these temperatures actually rise even further they're coming down from the north the winds they can be brisk as well as the fight is also on the increase those who are in adelaide on wednesday 24 across empath and then thursday one of the warmest days look at this 36 celsius in adelaide that's actually 14 degrees above the average for this time of the year meanwhile $33.00 in adelaide again
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a good $12.00 to $13.00 degrees above the average and eventually to go through the week that heat will actually shift towards the east across into new zealand nowhere near that will make up ended. full cost as well 11 celsius in christ church on wednesday 14 orcon and the showers in the winds really continue across both islands as we go through thursday and then up into japan we've still seen some rain across areas a home show the worst it's own it's way out but there's more rain just waiting in the wings and that will push in as we head off into thursday quite heavy at times particularly across the west. germany's capital there is a barber like no other 22. goes from across what you have to. but as he said he changes his movie with. the stories. told by the people who live.
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on al-jazeera. welcome back a look at the headlines now the leaders of tokyo and russia say a deal has been reached the kurdish fighters to move out of syrian border areas is comes as a u.s. brokered truce in the region comes to an end versions parliament has rejected the government's plan to fast track brakes at legislation in order to leave the european union by october 31st prime minister boris johnson had been hoping to see as withdrawal agreement ratified by parliament by thursday and thousands of
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protesters in lebanon have taken to the streets for a 6th consecutive day despite emergency reforms announced by the government calling for prime mrs saad hariri to resign all the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine has been testifying and congress sponsored the pitchman inquiry into president donald trump democrats leading the closed door depositions i william taylor has provided a care count of the president pressuring ukraine to investigate a political rival whilst withholding military assistance idea castro has more now from washington. did president donald trump have corrupt intent when he pressured ukraine to open investigations into his political opponents this man may know the answer william taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine his closed door testimony given in defiance of the white house order to ignore the impeachment inquiry make it to the heart of trump's reasoning it was taylor who reminded state department colleagues last month that
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ukraine did not want to be an instrument in washington domestic reelection politics he texted i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign democrats a tuesday taylor has been connecting the dots of a clear quid pro quo in my 10 short months in congress it's not even noon and this is the my most disturbing day in congress so far polling shows a growing number of americans believe trump should be impeached and removed from office for the 1st time that number has reached 50 percent the white house has struggled to articulate a clear response last week trump's acting chief of staff confessed u.s. security aid to ukraine was in part conditioned on ukraine opening an investigation into democrats then he took back the statement and now trump has been tweeting all republicans must remember what they are witnessing here
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a lynching thousands of african-americans were slaughtered during the lynching epidemic in this country for no reason other than the color of their skin the president should not compare a constitutionally mandated impeachment inquiry to such a dangerous and dark chapter. of american history other democrats called the lynching reference disgusting while republican senator lindsey graham said the impeachment was a lynching in every sense other republicans though were divided as not the language i would use republicans say democrats are conducting the impeachment inquiry behind closed doors to deliberately hide information from the public democrats say they're doing it to protect the integrity of the investigation and are said to be planning public hearings soon their strategy to bring the most damning evidence forward and
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to vote on impeachment before yours and i do joe castro al-jazeera washington. alan fischer has worn the story now also in washington this is a pretty comprehensive opening statement from william taylor how how revealing is his testimony. it's 15 pages long it's unusual that it would be that long but it certainly gives us a clear indication of what he said to the committee which of course that hearing was held behind closed doors essentially he's saying that when he arrived in ukraine he was surprised to find that there was a secondary line of communication to ukrainian officials that was acting not in the best interests of long term u.s. foreign policy and that was largely being coordinated by rudy giuliani who of course has no official role in the government he is president donald trump's personal lawyer now there's a point in this statement where he says that donald trump insisted there was no
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quid pro quo or that of course has been his defense since the very beginning but he did want the ukrainian president to go out and make a public statement saying that he was investigating joe biden and certainly as far as william taylor is concerned that was very clearly a quid pro quo what was also interesting is that taylor says there was no doubt that aid was being held up because donald trump wanted this investigation to get under way and when he spoke to gordon sunderland who is the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. he said he made it clear that it wasn't just a white house meeting between donald trump and president so they only so last may that was being held up it was everything that was being held up that includes the aid so what are the implications for this war 1st of all this is bad news for donald trump both he and a number of his people close to saying there was no quid pro quo that is the phrase that continually use but there sure is that actually was another problem there is
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in this 15 page document there are a lot of people who are named some of people haven't been interviewed by any of the impeachment inquiry is under way and they no doubt will be receiving subpoenas in the post very soon this is going to expand even farther but this definitely no good news for donald trump thank you very much allan fisher washington. an official iraqi inquiry has found security personnel used excessive force against protesters during the recent wave of anti-government demonstrations that the report says 149 civilians and 8 security officers were killed 2 to life i and excessive force it held senior commanders responsible but stopped short of blaming the prime minister and all the top officials more than 70 percent of the deaths were caused by shots to the head or the chest the government committee investigating the violence said there had been no order to shoot protests erupted on october 1st of a high unemployment public services and corruption and non-con has more now from
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the capital 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 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 and then to corruption they ended by demanding an investigation into the deaths of the
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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 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 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 to chile now if the opposition has declined to meet with president sebastian pinera after riots that left at least 15 people dead and more than 2 and a half 1000 arrested 10 cities remain in a state of emergency is the country's military investigators kinds of human rights violations during the last few days of protest the u.n.
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is call for an independent investigation. into the deaths. catalonia as regional government is urging spanish leaders to start negotiations after days of violent protests began last week when 9 separatist leaders were jailed for their role in the 2017 independence referendum but spain's acting prime minister has so far refused dialogue with pro independence leaders as charlie angela now explains from barcelona. when susanna's husband said he wanted to lead a peaceful protest they never imagined the price he might pay for seeking independence for catalonia jordi sanchez head of the catalan national assembly was sentenced to 9 years physician imprisoned 50 kilometers away susanna tells me she can only visit him twice a month but if e.o.f. . the personal price is high because my family is suffering and we will be for a long time but my husband didn't commit any crime so there's nothing for us to be ashamed of he didn't deserve prison he continues to believe in the idea of
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independence and the way to do it is through dialogue and referendum with the agreement of the spanish government. this was the reaction to the sentencing half a 1000000 catalans converging on barcelona calling for the release of what they call political prisoners hopeful they would be heard but those protests led to street violence the worst in spain for decades more than a 100 protesters were arrested and for many that hope 20. maria is a student they make up the majority of protesters and say they believe this is about more than just independence oh my god love him but yes of course we are nervous we are taking unprecedented action in our city we can't just stay at home and hope other people will protest for us we are the youth this is our time to fight it's not just about independence anymore it's about justice and democracy. but another 48 percent of catalonians believe passionately in the unity of spain
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and support the sentencing while the politicians continue to trade angry words they've offered no practical proposals about how to diffuse the standoff but catalan society is now fully. divided properly and. i think there are many grays in the middle but like those supporting to stay in spain just can't vote for state level parties. but those voting for cotton enterprise dependence parties also would sanction fairly theirs if they went to negotiate actions like this is taking place every day now in barcelona while it is very peaceful it is disruptive this is normally one of the city's busiest streets but these demonstrators say they are going to go anywhere until their leaders sit down. with the general election just the way the government is more focused on campaigning than increasing the trolley and others there barcelona. authorities in bangladesh are saying they plan
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to begin the relocation of 100000 rainbow refugees within the coming 2 months the 1st $350.00 families will be moved from the world's largest refugee camp and cox's bazaar to the small island of basilan char in the bay of bengal bangladesh says it's working to convince more refugees to move to the island which is several hours by boat from the mainland the government has been building infrastructure there including homes schools and mosques but the u.n. and rights groups say the island is prone to flooding more than $700000.00 rangle live in bangladesh after fleeing a violent crackdown in manama police in bosnia have pulled dozens of asylum seekers off a train to stop them from reaching already full camps in the north west of the country local officials are struggling to deal with numbers at the camp temporarily causing the water supply to pressure the government into helping out thousands of migrants are stuck in the area near the border with member croatia bring them home it has male. it's the 2nd day without clean water for around
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a 1000 migrants and refugees living in which camp near the northwest city of be hunch local authorities cut the supply on monday they want to the central government to relocate these people but some local residents are taking matters into their own hands trying to help the migrants how can you not provide the water to these people and you have to get huling that the voter has been cut off from the can and no one is sending it from they come looking for a voter so i have to give it to them the 1st water tank arrived at noon some rushed to quench their thirst and others to bathe but poor hygiene and the campus posing a risk to many getting infectious diseases. through a month ago we had medical assistants here at the camp every day except on weekends a doctor would come every day but now no one comes here i got these wounds on my legs after i returned from the croatian border and other people have the same problem. many of the people in this camp lack basic necessities they traveled from
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asia africa and the middle east looking for a better life in europe from. we've had no water for 2 days in 24 hours they give you only 2 pieces of bread and a small serving of food that is not enough for 24 hours the red cross is calling on the international community for more support and. we are not only helping the migrants but also local people and we provide these people with food and water they're no longer hungry and it's better security for the local community where reducing the risk of a humanitarian crisis this area has seen an influx of migrants over the past 2 years and that's raising security concerns because the site is the minefields laid during the bosnian war in the 1990 s. local authorities want them moved to centers named sarajevo and last but say the central government has been too slow to respond. based on our experience so far. are we don't expect a response from graham or any assistance unless the e.u.
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and the european commission exert pressure the issue will not be adequately resolved. while cools grew louder to find better living conditions for these refugees the police continue to round up hundreds of new arrivals the hill of mohammed al jazeera. just want to take you through the top stories this hour now the leaders of turkey and russia are saying a deal has been reached the kurdish fighters to move out of syrian border areas the announcement comes as a u.s. brokered truce in the region reaches a conclusion turkish present russia type other one says syrian kurdish fighters will move 30 kilometers away from the border in northeast syria within 150 hours after that time turkey and russia have agreed to conduct joint patrols both leaders say they'll work to ensure the safe return of syrian refugees currently in turkey here regions parliament has rejected the government's plan to fast track bricks
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legislation in order to leave the e.u. by october 31st. the rise to the right $386.00. to the marrow of $322.00 so the know who's having the nerve is having. prime minister boris johnson had been hoping to see his withdrawal agreement ratified by parliament by thursday but many politicians said that didn't give them enough time to scrutinize the legislation and earlier votes or a majority of parliament vote in support of johnson's with short agreement in principle marking the 1st time the u.k. parliament had voted in support of a break sit deal. we now face further uncertainty and the e.u. list no make up their minds are over how to answer parliament's request for a delay in the 1st consequence mr speaker is that the government was taking the only responsible course and except for a top reparations for a new deal our. thousands of protesters in lebanon have taken to the streets for
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a 6th consecutive day despite emergency reforms announced by the government demonstrators gathered in the capital beirut calling for prime minister saad hariri to resign they reject the economic measures announced on monday including a 50 percent cut in the salaries of politicians and the establishment of an anti corruption panel protest began on thursday of the cash strapped government's plans to impose new taxes but have since widened into a call the entire political cost to step down coming out next this is a year at the last a barber of but when that surprise graham coming up next and that will be more news from doha after that in half an hour's time stay with al-jazeera. in this life the most incredible stories are often true. and cheering go on experiences. makes the unfamiliar for me or.
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