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you entered your. russia and turkey reach a deal to allow kurdish back to fight is to withdraw from ne in syria. and i understand the italian this is al jazeera live from cairo also coming up another delay for breakfast after boris johnson's bid to fast track his law to leave the e.u. is rejected by britain's parliament. the top u.s.
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diplomat to ukraine testifies in an impeachment inquiry and explains how the president tried to pressure kiev to discredit his political rival. and an apology and a plan chile's president announces new economic measures aimed at stopping violent protests. turkey and russia have reached a deal to clear out kurdish backed fighters from northern syria and iran launched an offensive in the area last week but suspended that operation following a u.s. brokered cease fire said boston has more from such in russia. with only hours left of the u.s. brokered cease fire in syria russia stepped in president put an offer to help to remove and this goodish fighters at the turkish syrian border together with syrian border troops it was delayed we share turkey's concern about the growing threats of
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terrorism and the growth of ethnic tensions in the region east tensions and the separatist mood in recent times where in our opinion artificially created by outsiders. goodish fighters have until next tuesday evening local time to clear turkey's 30 kilometer so-called safe zone russian military police will then start joint patrols with turkish forces along almost the entire north eastern syrian border. is on the barren moving threats posed by either terrorist organization this operation in syria guarantees syria's territorial integrity and political unity we never had eyes on the country's territory and sovereignty as turkey all steps we are taking in the field we have taken with sensitivity. both leaders agreed that the syrian constitutional committee should start its work on october 30 despite the current actions on the ground put in insists the courts should be part of the
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political solution for syria after a long discussion with president putin not only manage to become the main power broker in syria he also gain territory for his allies syrian president assad who now gets back control over crucial border areas but we can only call this a russian success if they manage to remove and this arm goodish fighters from this 30 kilometers zone. only down will the turkish military operation and according to the russian foreign minister who spoke after the meeting put and also made it clear that for any future solution in syria the turkish and syrian government have to reach their own deal russia wants to revive the 998 agreement between syria and turkey in which syria committed to stop supporting crude ish fighters russia was quick to fill the vacuum left by the u.s. withdrawal from north eastern syria but by moscow's own admission achieving any kind of lasting solution will be
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a long and complicated process steps last an al-jazeera sochi. well let's take a closer look at that safe so in that wants to creates like we mentioned it will be along the turkey syria border about 30 kilometers inside syria and the joint patrols would be 10 kilometers deep on both sides of an area which runs between tel aviv and russell lyon where osama bin jawad has more from up to col a that's on the syria turkey border. so another deal is now in place in northern syria this one is between the russians and the turks turkish government has decided that it will give kurdish fighters another 5 another 6 days rather 150 i was as a was declared by a president to do on when he met the russian president putin that turkish forces will give another 150 i was just to leave this area and after that they are going to be going in to destroy if there is anything that is remaining with kurdish
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fighters which turkey calls terrorists it is very interesting that it review for the 1st time that joint patrols between the russians and the syrian government is also going to be carried out on the border on parts which are not covered by the turkish offensive on its border with syria this will be the 1st time in 8 years that assad forces would be able to come back to this border area between syria and turkey we haven't heard officially from the syrian democratic forces the mainly kurdish led fighters but some commanders have been saying that they would not essentially want to leave these areas because they feel that this is demographic engineering that is being carried out by various parties and similar statements have been made by turkey as well that it was the kurds who carried out this demographic shift and turkey wants this safe area which is 30 kilometers deep in syrian territory so it can send back up to a 1000000 syrian refugees including 350000 according to the turkish president to read out of the one who are kurds who want to go back to their areas so that they
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can rebuild their lives but that is only going to happen if peace returns to this part moving on and britain's parliament has rejected prime minister barak's johnson's plan to fast track his bex a deal with the european union and means there's a little chance of the u.k. needing the. fast growing challenge 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 its withdrawal 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 hear on tuesday the legislation for leaving the european union was facing 2 hurdles would
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m.p.'s vote to give it more consideration and would they agree to the government's breakneck timetable the prime minister hoped he could focus minds with this warning that if parliament refuses to allow the brics to happen and instead gets its way in decides to delay everything until january or possibly longer is 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 a writer may not like it we'll have to go forward to a general election 1st up would m.p.'s give his withdrawal agreement build their approval in principle so the guys have it the ayes have it 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. the guys to the right 308 it's no use to the
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last 322 so the notice having the 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 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 the 31st looks 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
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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 short 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. now the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine has wrapped up 10 hours of testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry against president onil trump democrats leading the deposition say william taylor has provided the clearest account the trumpet did pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival and exchange for military alan fischer reports. william taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine a career diplomat who served democrats and republican administrations the white house ordered him to ignore the impeachment inquiry he defied that instruction his closed door testimony may be highly damaging to president trump he was what he the white house meeting with ukraine's new president vladimir's alinsky was being held
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up until he delivered ukrainian help in investigating donald trump's political rival joe biden in his opening statement he said he spoke with ambassador gordon saundra and the u.s. envoy to the european union during that phone call ambassador sunderland told me that president trump had told him that he wants president selenski to state publicly that ukraine will investigate burst and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 election taylor said in the statement joe biden's son hunter had been a board member of a ukrainian gas company killer continued ambassador sunderland also told me that he no recognized he made a mistake by eliot telling the ukrainian officials to whom he spoke that a white house meeting with president selenski was the pendant on a public announcement of investigations in fact ambassador saw and said everything was dependent on such an announcement including security assistance while the president wasn't calling this a quid pro quo taylor suggests that's exactly what it was soliciting foreign help
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in u.s. elections is illegal in my 10 short months in congress it's not even noon and this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. a growing number of americans believe donald trump should be impeached and removed from office for the 1st time that number is more than 50 percent the president has tried to discredit the investigation tweeting all republicans must remember what they are witnessing here a lynching the president should not compare it constitutionally mandated impeachment inquiry to such. a dangerous and dark chapter of american history other democrats called the lynching reference disgusting but one of the president's biggest supporters wasn't ready to back down in every sense this is a mob taking over the rule of law all this is fundamentally un-american and until that changes i will fight back as hard as i can in the house investigation
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continues largely behind closed doors there are plans for open hearing soon on impeachment could come before the end of the year alan fischer al jazeera washington indonesia's president has named his election rival as the country's defense minister during the unveiling of a new government cabinet you're watching live pictures now from jakarta from the inauguration of those ministers as well but dodo one aprils busily contested presidential vote against the boaster bianco but otoh was sworn in for a 2nd term this week other cabinet appointments do include the co-founder of a riot hailing up as the education and culture minister. weather is next but still ahead on al jazeera human rights groups raise concerns about the way guinea is dealing with anti-government protesters. and a town in bosnia takes drastic steps to try to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
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hello there more severe storms across southern sections of the united states than in the last 24 hours a few more warnings in place as we go through tuesday into wednesday clear skies now in doubt as the course is not the case on sunday night in really the late hours into monday and this is what the residents of dallas are facing certainly on monday in the daylight hours a lot of damage has been done and they sent out the rescue teams because of course of all that debris and downed trees not sure if any people were actually underneath all this but the good news is there really have been no reports of even any injuries now as we go through wednesday it will warm up again across much of the south in the wake of that so rain and that so cool ad 900 celsius so wednesday into atlanta warming up in new york at 17 and very warm out across the southwest 32 celsius in los angeles by thursday it stays about the same but we'll see then as a system working its way fairly rapidly south was pushing once again into the
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central plains and eventually down towards the south so again along this line of rain showers and planted we could have a some thunderstorms but they shouldn't be quite as strong because of course the air is not as cold as it was i mean one across into the caribbean the so if you were scattered showers the heavy rain really across the areas of mexico to go through wednesday and thursday very little change 21 celsius is the high temperature. the population growth. is increasing the movie pregnancies. itself increase. introducing the family planning into the future. is a challenging task the fire resistance to come through men when a woman can decide for you. in how many children she wants to think should be in policy and. perseverance is transforming her community women make change on
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al-jazeera. and again i missed us here today and a reminder of our top stories this hour russia and turkey have reached a deal that allows kurdish fighters in northern syria to withdraw further away from the turkish border under the agreement russian and turkish forces will also conduct joint patrols. person's parliament has rejected prime minister barak's johnson's plan to fast track his back to deal with the european union that means there is little chance that the u.k. will actually leave the bloc by the 31st and the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine has wrapped up 10 hours of testimony as an impeachment inquiry
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into donald trump democrats leading the depositions say william taylor has provided the clearest account that the u.s. president pressured ukraine to investigate a political rival in exchange for military aid. chile's president sebastian pinera has announced social reforms in the hope of ending protests that have already left 15 dead he's apologized for not anticipating the un rest and promised to end. pensions as well as reduced electricity and medical costs reports from. another day of protests are paralyzed much of downtown. tensions in the city remain high as thousands of demonstrators continue to flood the streets. this is a professional driver he hasn't participated in the protests but he shares the prescriptions of demonstrators. i have my own vehicle and i work with dignity and abide by the law but what has that meant for me it's meant throwing my money away
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in tax and if i don't pay my share i can lose my house but not that big businessman they don't pay and then they get bailed out what about me you are there since the weekend protests have continued to intensify every day it seems more sectors of society are joining in the demonstrations on tuesday evening chilean president. announced a national plan to improve social programs in an effort to calm the unrest. this situation abuse has led to a general movement on behalf of millions and millions of hands i recognize and demand forgiveness for the lack of vision. social analysts like mine will get i don't believe the unrest is part of a growing movement of young people who he says are rejecting the very notion of political system. there is a commonality among that the mystery theme of calling for equality and denouncing abuse but also the possibility of
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a better future the perspective people have to do things are bad now but the future will be even worse for those children. apart from anger over growing inequality protesters have also denounced it heavy handed crackdown by police and armed forces against peaceful protesters a state of emergency and a military enforced curfew remains in effect here in the chilean capital for the fore. today in a row that means thousands of the city's residents are forced to return to their homes every day before sunset or run the risk of being arrested for a curfew violation that 7 more than 5400 people have been arrested nationwide since the start of the crisis with thousands of protesters continuing to defy curfew and declaring a national strike for the coming days that number should arise when little followed by disease. and in bolivia protests have broken out across the country that after the main presidential candidate rejected sunday's provisional result
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a delay in the vote count cause confusion and led to accusations that incumbent president evo morales had manipulated the results are on his of his tribe and 9 percent lead over his main rival qantas messa have correspondent john hall now has the latest from the paths thousands of people are taking to the streets of uprising the consulate in libya. on tuesday night and day after tasting. what they see as very suspicious prices in the electoral process in bolivia basically the rocky cow has been frozen a couple of times so we still don't have just the rock the count the results from the believe the election that was on sunday and the suspicion for those in the over in the opposition movement is about is hiding some sort of manipulation of numbers behind the scenes we do know as well now that one of the vice presidents of the electoral tribe you know has resigned because he says that he would agree he didn't like the 3 without suspension of the vote with our free and saying of the vote
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count there now the government for its part has said that they will allow the oas that they want the oas sue to get isolation of american states. the binding count still if you go this is the route because this is the 4 vote count that's on the way at the moment so it's also trying to make some sort of gestures to show. the process isn't. being manipulated but you have what a lot of people out here and we've seen that the police here are not allowing them to get any closer to where the supreme electoral tribunal is and where the 1st page is actually taking place we've seen tear gas we're seeing stones throw out through this so let's see how protester look. brazil's politicians have voted to overhaul the pension system in a bid to boost a sluggish economy politicians from across the divide agreed to raise the retirement age for men to 65 and 62 for women the decision is expected to save the
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state almost $200000000000.00 over 10 years. after an election that's all prime minister justin should i say liberals returned to office but the minority government canadian politicians are offering starkly different views of the results should a lost support in the country's west but held on to parliamentary seats in the east and center and till now have to govern with the support of smaller parties to the left of his nipples than a lack reports. meeting the voters taking selfies in the day after his government was reduced to a minority justin trudeau must be both relieved and disappointed his liberal party lost parliamentary seats but not power he put a brave face on things and he spoke to the country early tuesday morning you are sending our liberal team to work to ottawa with a clear mandate we will make life more affordable we will continue to fight climate change we will get guns all of our streets that were able to. hear.
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those when was welcomed in other countries us president trump tweeted it was a hard fought and wonderful victory tweets from spain's pedro sanchez and british prime minister boris johnson so they look forward to working with the new government in canada opposition conservative leader andrew scheer took a different view he said large swathes of the country had rejected her toes policies he needed to change course so it cannot continue to attack our energy sector to kill big projects that get our natural resources around the world and that we will do everything we can to get our energy sector back on its feet and make sure that all canadians understand that when western canada succeeds all canadians succeed that may be true but in both parts of the country there are differing views the west thinks the east is stifling its petroleum based economy a lot of eastern voters favor aggressive action against climate change even if that
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hurts western oil production a trudeau minority government will have to seek support from smaller parties to its political. left making deals to get legislation through that might not be well received in the west it's a challenge for the opposition as well where the smaller parties it's a challenge to sort of know how much they can they can push for because i think trudeau does know that he does he can hold this sort of hammer over their heads of an election and i don't think that those smaller parties want an election the candidates had minority governments before and they've been relatively stable few though have lasted a full 4 or 5 year term on average folding in parliament much sooner canadians may be going to the polls sooner than they'd hoped when they cast ballots on monday with its vast geography and often conflicting regional interests canada's always been a tough country to govern and with a minority in parliament as justin trudeau is about to find out it's even tougher than usual daniel locke al-jazeera toronto. egypt says the u.s.
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has offered to break a deadlock with ethiopia over a multi-billion dollar dam project on the nile river of construction a 70 percent complete and when it's finished at both provide electricity for ethiopia but egypt is worried the project will shrink its share of the river ethiopia's prime minister ahmed says negotiations could resolve the issue but warned that his country is ready to go to war if necessary robyn kriel has more from. just less than a week ago is here because prime minister abi out that was being hailed for his peacemaking and statesmanship abilities and now these comments a strong warning to egypt over this disputed $1000000000.00 project that he says if you're here is willing to go to war over he said in parliament choose day that we could get millions is ready but that's not in the best interests of all of us.
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about egypt saying that they will take action and what ican we want you to understand is that a quarter of ethiopia's population is poor and young so if we are to go to war with the africans we can have many millions on the front line but was do not have many benefits it will not benefit egypt will not benefit sudan and it will not benefit us some may have the capability of firing missiles and some bomb karo if it is from my country and my flag but peace cannot be brought by bombing and by fighting talks over the construction of a dam project collapsed earlier this month it is prime minister as you talk to egypt's president on the sidelines of a conference in the russia later this week the opium maintains it desperately needs the power generated by the sound project for its population of more than 100000000 people. has sentenced 5 people to up to a year in prison for demonstrating against president alpha condé the convictions
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follow a rally last week against efforts to allow. the president to seek a 10 security forces killed at least 10 people 2nd time expires next year and he's refused to rule out running again because haq has moved 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 incentive violence following a following last week protest against alpha con does that tempt to change the constitution and stay and extend his time in power now these protests led to 10 people being killed 70 injured and hundreds being arrested now in these civil society remain defiant and plan more processed meanwhile for calm day is in russia attending the africa russia summit before it took off for this summit he said that he would stay in power as long as god will allow him to meanwhile the kremlin has
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backed him as guinea is a former soviet outpost it's rich in minerals and the russians have interests 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 councils and these elections are supposed to place presidential elections are supposed to place in the years time the government were hoping through this sentencing to bring this crisis to an end but it seems it's just the beginning. and iraqi government inquiry has found security personnel used excessive force against protesters during the recent wave of anti-government demonstrations at least 157 people mainly civilians were killed during weeks of anti-government protests the violence posed the biggest challenge to the government since the defeat of myself and 2017. a town in bosnia
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has cut off water to an overcrowded refugee camp local officials say an attempt to pressure the government into relocating thousands of people. is the 2nd day without clean water for around 2000 migrants and refugees living in camp near the northwest city of b. 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 the devoted has been cut off from the can and no one is sending it from they come looking for of water 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 in 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
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a doctor would come every day but now no one comes here these wounds on my legs after i return from the croatian border and other people have the same problem. many of the people in this camp lack basic necessities they traveled from 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 we're 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 late june the bones need more in the 1990 s.
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local authorities what they moved to centers need sarajevo and muster but say the central government has been too slow to respond. based on their experience so far we don't expect a response from them or any assistance unless the e.u. and the european commission exert pressure the issue will not be adequately resolved. while cools grow louder to find better living conditions for these refugees the police continue to round up hundreds of new arrivals for him hundreds al-jazeera. hello i missed us here today with the headlines on al-jazeera russia and turkey have reached a deal that allows kurdish fighters and northern syria to withdraw further away from the turkish border now under the agreement russian and turkish forces will also conduct joint patrols and launched an offensive in the area last week but suspended that operation following a u.s.
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brokered cease fire persons parliament has rejected prime minister barak johnson's plan to fast track his breck's a deal with the european union that means there's little chance the u.k. will leave the block by october 31st and we now face further uncertainty and the e.u. list now make up their minds are over how to answer parliament's request for a delay in the 1st consequence with the speaker is that the government was taking the only responsible course and accelerate our preparations for a new deal. the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine has wrapped up 10 hours of testimony as an impeachment inquiry into donald trump democrats leading the deposition say william taylor has provided the clearest account that the u.s. president pressured ukraine to investigate a political rival in exchange for military aid now indonesia's president joko widodo has named his election rival as the country's defense minister during the
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unveiling of a new government cabinet you're watching live pictures now of the inauguration of that cabinet from jakarta widodo one april's busily contested presidential vote against her boys to be on to but otoh was sworn in for a 2nd term earlier this week chile's president sebastian pinera has announced social reforms in the hope of ending protests that have already left 15 dead he has promised to increase pensions as well as reduce electricity and medical costs antigovernment protests there are being described as the worst to hit the country in the 30 years the unrest started in the capital santiago of an increase in the cost of train tickets since been scrapped but the demonstrations have continued and protests have broken down and bolivia after the main opposition candidate rejected the provisional results from sunday's elections incumbent president to evo morales is facing accusations that he manipulated the results well those are the headlines join.
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