now for the civilians in this in this area that these joint patrols will be taking place in the so-called safe zone we're already hearing that some $300000.00 fled sense turkey's operation began so what is the situation for those who have remained well let's be clear this is not a safe zone this is a war zone for all intents and purposes it's still an area riddled with explosives with unexploded bombs with landmines that are just destroyed hospitals civilian infrastructure it is an area where people are fleeing from the latest figure from last night to reach iraq to cross over to iraq is 1235 only in one night people are fleeing from this area so let's not make no mistake there is nothing to humanitarian about the zone being proposed it is purely a military and political construct with no humanitarian considerations for the hundreds of thousands of people living there without any water without medical

supplies without aid most most of the aid services by international aid agencies are still suspended because it is still too volatile too insecure to carry out aid services that have kind of zone we are talking about some of the chamber how does you know that situation board for president ever once plans to repatriate millions of the 3600000 syrian refugees in turkey that's one of the reasons for this operation can that be done in a way that respects international humanitarian law with the situation being what it is now. no it can't the repressed relation of the return of refugees 1st of all has to be voluntary has to be in their places of origin many of the syrian refugees living in turkey have nothing to do with northeast syria they're not from there you are going to displace them to an area they do not belong to so that the worth would be against international law and also forcing them

they have to it has to be a voluntary on them form decision that the refugees decide whether to return or not they cannot be forced onto this shows boards as political pawns on this deadly just board so who is going to protect these refugees from forced returns obviously organizations such as your speak up for their rights but what about you know the you when the e.u. organizations that have given turkey billions of dollars so that essentially these refugees wouldn't be their problem but have a sense criticize what turkey's done with the refugees and how it's handled them. and did i think 4 on the humanitarian front one who has to laud there for what it has been doing with the millions over 3000000 refugees hosted as the most generous countries country when it comes to refugee hosting over the last years that has to be recognized and many of the european states have done

a very awful job of brushing the problem under the carpet and keep it on turkish borders yes giving millions of money which turkey has to be accountable for but also making making sure that they have no sight of this of this crisis which is really a global crisis it's not it's not just in the region it's not just in the middle east it is it is of concern to everyone as we've seen over the last days countries several countries are now being involved and they have to be involved in making sure that the conditions for refugees in turkey in lebanon in jordan in iraq where they are they have been very generous to the hosted over the last years that can continue no refugees should be forced to return because their conditions are so abysmal wherever they are being hosted and that that means financial aid has to keep coming to help these countries but also are there other forms of support such

as the resettling refugees the most vulnerable refugees who can who can be hosted in much richer countries around the world rather than building walls and abstracting the free flow of refugees as is their right by international law we thank you very much for your time on the set very important aspect of the story that's very live and a man thank you. now egypt says the u.s. has offered to help break a deadlock with ethiopia a very multi $1000000000.00 dam project on the all river construction is 70 percent complete and when it's finished it will provide alyque tricity for. egypt as worry that the project will reduce its supply of water from the river ethiopia's prime minister says he hopes the goshi asians and not conflict will resolve the issue well let's take a look now at the dispute that stems from ethiopia's decision 8 years ago to build the dam nearly a quarter of a 1000000000 people rely on the waters but egypt and siddhartha claim to have

exclusive rights to its use and object to anything that might affect the river when the dam project will threaten egypt's control over the waters which were set out and 20th century treaties by britain ethiopia contests egypt's control saying it's trying to maintain a colonial era grip over the nile or robyn kriel has. just less than a week ago is here because prime minister met was being hailed for his peacemaking and statesmanship abilities and now these comments a strong warning to egypt over this is using $1000000000.00 project that he says is to go to war he said in parliament she's day that we could get millions ready but that's not in the best interests of all of us. about egypt saying that they will take action and what i can only 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

other africans we can have many millions on the front line but was do not have many benefits it will not benefit egypt not been if it's done and not benefit us some may have the capability of firing missiles and some bomb cairo if it is from my country and my flag but peace cannot be brought by bombing and by fighting talks over. construction of the dam project collapsed earlier this month if europeans prime ministers you talk to egypt's president on the sidelines of a conference in russia the european maintains it desperately needs the power generated by the sam project for its population of more than 100000000. well let's go now to our correspondent step boss and she's at a summit of russian and african leaders taking place in sochi and russia so not many details about this meeting that the u.s. has proposed step but this is something that egypt has called for an outside party

like the u.s. to mediate in this dispute before. exactly after egypt has accepted the invitation from the united states to to have a meeting in washington on the foreign minister level el-sisi is now here in charge maps president vladimir putin is actually cheering this very 1st historical meeting between russia and africa and as he also has announced at least his foreign minister announced on sunday that there will be this meeting also on the sidelines of the summit between ethiopia and egypt on thursday to morrow no details has been you have been given about this meeting and also at this stage we don't know formally if it's going on still because of the tensions that have been building up in the last couple of days but it is on the agenda and it is also some speculation that russia might be one of many mediators steps have been mentioned in recent days

because of course all the leaders are here ethiopia. and egypt and of course of last minute and i hear they are in intense conversations over these next 2 days so everything is possible in our star what we've seen yesterday happening in the middle east where russia has stopped really significantly forward being a major power broker now in the middle east and in syria it's also very possible that president putin is very interested to get involved in this conflict as well step thank you for that for now that step bottom line in sochi thank you. and we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including the diplomat helping to put together the pieces of an impeachment puzzle the coerced accounting yet of the u.s. president's dealings with ukraine. bent and broken pirates on the only problem in one of the most dangerous waterways in the world. and

a 20 year old stars in the 1st game of this year's world series will be here with the action sports. and you can governments also as far as johnson will try to call a general election of his faults to accept a long breaks that today ministers rejected the prime minister's proposed timetable for ratify has that something on tuesday johnson must now wait for him to approve an extension to the withdrawal of deadline. and we now face further uncertainty and the e.u. miss now make up their minds over how to answer parliament's request for a delay in the 1st consequence because the speaker is that the government was taking the only responsible cools and exonerate our preparations for a new deal. let's get more on this our cost for a challenge is joining us live from brussels is at a given rory that the e.u.

will allow an extension and doesn't depend on you know what session countries like france have to say now. it's not a given but it's certainly pretty likely what donald to the council president is doing at the moment is trying to get an idea from all the member countries what sort of views there are out there for 'd this extension he is saying that he's going to recommend the extension as it has been requested by the british prime minister pushing the bracks a deadline through till january 31st they what we will see next i guess will give us an idea about how much agreement there is for that position he wants to do it by written procedure if he can get the consensus view that this is the right thing to do then yes i think we'll get an idea pretty quickly if we started to see moves towards gathering e.u.

members together leaders together for some sort of emergency council that would suggest that there's a bit of disagreements about whether this is the right way forward you might get some kind of mo. inning and grumbling from say mccrone and the french but it is most likely as i think island has come out in favor of an extension through still jenny the 31st that that is what the e.u. is likely to do it might be flexible though that's probably the let the outcome that they will say yes you can have up until johnny 31st but if you get your breath to deal sort of before that then you can leave but back and brush over it is a general election and nothing more and more likely regardless of whether the extension. well i think that depends on the extension it depends on. a couple of other things as well and well i'm depends on whether boris johnson decides that they are going to have another go at

getting this timetable through parliament whether reason allowed to do that by the speaker of the house if he can get parliament to come on side and negotiates this bill through parliament quickly then we might still get a break that happening before a general election. botts i think the most likely outcome of this is that the parliament will want to scrutinise this properly they will be attaching various amendments to the withdrawal agreement bill and that means that there is very little chance that boris johnson is going to be able to get breaks it down before an election and then he what he will to as he has promised or at least indicated is pull a withdrawal agreement bill go to the country for their say for an election and that we won't get any kind of bret's or happening or a referendum perhaps and sell off a new government has been elected as ever so many moving parts following thank you

very much for that we're a challenge live and brussels thank you. now the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine has testified for 10 hours as part of the impeachment inquiry against donald trump democrats say william taylor provided the keris to count but the president pressured ukraine to investigate a political rival in exchange for military aid priyanka got their reports. william taylor is the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine a career diplomat who has served democrats and republican administrations the white house ordered him to ignore the impeachment inquiry he defied that instruction his close to testimony may be highly damaging to preston trump he was worried a white house meeting with ukraine's new president what amuses lensky was being held 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 some learned the u.s. envoy to the european union during that phone call ambassador solon told me that

president trump had told him that he wants president zelinsky to state publicly that ukraine will investigate brisk and legit ukrainian interference in the $26000.00 election taylor said in a statement joe biden's son hunter had been a board member a ukrainian gas company taylor continued ambassador solo and also told me that he now recognized that he had made a mistake by telling the ukrainian officials to whom he spoke that the white house meeting with preston selenski was dependent on a public announcement investigation in fact ambassador solon said everything was dependent on such an announcement including security assistance why the press and wasn't calling this a quid pro quo taylor suggests that's exactly what it was soliciting for help in the us elections is illegal in my can short months in congress it's not even. and this is the 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. a 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 this is fundamentally un-american and until that changes i will fight back as hard as i can in the house investigation continues last behind closed doors but they are plans for open hearings soon a vote an impeachment could come before the end of the year. dizzier. and if iran

it will have the weather with an attendant still ahead on the new south. or round the block across lebanon and anti-government protests continue for a 7th day. the war in yemen 2 children are among those killed in an f. strike by the saudi an erotic coalition and tell you how an environmental disaster spilled onto the pitch in brazil that's coming up with jones or. hello there we have some stormy weather either side of more in africa at the moment courtesy of these 2 storms at both ends of the mediterranean so we're seeing some wet weather across more than algeria pushing towards tunisia say some very lively showers to northern parts of egypt recently as well and there has been some

flooding there has been some disruption in fact a state of emergency has been declared right into the weekend because we will see further showers here as we go on through the next couple of days as it was the weather into the eastern side of the med nudging a little further north with so cyprus things and wet weather pushing across lebanon into syria as we go through the next day or so notice to be have this western weather also just making its way away from tunisia across most of having to ward italy fisting out as it makes its way further east was but this wetter weather that we have across the eastern med will return see just hugging the sinai peninsula as we go on through friday so i think for northeastern parts of egypt we could see further flooding as we go through the next couple of days are seeing some flooding too into the central african republic the scenes of very heavy rain here last week and then over the last couple of days we've had some very heavy downpours which have led to these are very difficult conditions that wetter weather will continue across the heart of africa over the next few days. sponsored by count on

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his legacy lives on. that's going to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories and the urgency service in the u.k. have found $39.00 bodies and a container truck in essex and southeast and 25 are all mad from northern ireland has been arrested following the discovery of a call is believed to have been driven from bulgaria. russia says syrian kurdish fighters must pull back from the border with turkey or face further military action . have 150 hours to patrol at least 30 kilometers a day but into syria under a dayton accord between turkey and russia. the u.n.

says no. yemenis are in need of humanitarian aid as tens of thousands of children die every year from malnutrition mohamed that has more on the human toll of yemen's conflict in a warning has report contains some distressing images. suffers from severe malnutrition his grandmother there is from the worst she says bassem the father died in their long journey from an immense north problems. my grandson who's been suffering from malnutrition since we were in the region of shot i must regional who's like my only son. the medical center. one of the poorest districts in north korea might try to do their best a 7 year old severely malnourished girl named hussein made headlines around the world last year was treated here before her. and many cases continued to be

transferred here it's the only remaining clinic in ops district about 50 kilometers from the saudi border so. it's due to the shortage of medicines and that families around able to have a safe and warm shelter rather than putting food on their table that are behind the deaths of children. those working to distribute aid here say the international community need to do more to help yemenis displaced by years of for war we are trying to make our best but unfortunately what we are making is in addition to the other organizations like the united nations on some indios organizations not enough . according to officials here more than $6000000.00 children could be at risk. before the beginning of the society war in our country there were 500000 children

suffering from severe malnutrition 1500000 suffer from mild not interested now we warned them. case the war and it a blockade continues we could lose 6000000 children from severe malnutrition all of them with. severe malnutrition and other chronic diseases as a result we are interrupting our report to take you live to london where we are hearing from police about the discovery of the 39 bodies found in a truck containing let's listen park on eastern avenue in gray's we believe the lorry is from pole garia and came into the u.k. through holyhead on the 19th of october emergency services attended but sadly all 39 people inside the container who died early indications suggest that one of these people was a teenager the rest are believed to be adults a murder investigation was launched and the lorry driver a 25 year old man from northern ireland was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in place custody at this stage we have not tried densified where the

victims are from or their identities and we anticipate this could be a lengthy process i would like to thank the local community and in particular those who have been directly affected by the police cordon at the industrial site thank you for your cooperation and i appreciate the impact roe closure will have on businesses within the quarter. i'm not able to say at this stage how long the coding will be in place but please let me reassure you that my offices and partners will be doing everything they can to release the scene as soon as possible this is an absolute tragedy and very sad day for essex police place in the local community we will continue to work alongside many other partner agencies to find out what led to these deaths. i'd like to pilfer anyone who has any information to contact my office is that the major investigation say on one o one or by visiting out a 6 piece website we will update all of our channels as we are able to but please appreciate where in the early stages of what is likely to be

a lengthy investigation or how much and you seem. not to. know at this stage and obviously the identification of the victims remains our number one priority so that we thank you and seeing what we just don't see just we received a call from the ambulance service to take in a citizen very honored to receive i'm not sure that information at this point in time or. not at this point in time i'm sure you tell us a lot more information about. a lot. of that came through how you had a ballgame and you know how lori and you dial and you did. so as you said it's the early stages of the investigation but obviously that will break a line of inquiry and as i've said it's anyone's got any information relating to that now ray and its movement since entering the country on the 19th of october then please do contact us on what i want what's the joy of your version of the movie in dealing with the voice of its very early stages it's a complex

a and we've got expert officers working with partners at the scene to identify it and that the best way forward to do that and they all feel like. in terms of the identification of those don't those same individuals not not in a position to say oh i didn't mention i'm going to try that so we're going to have time for this morning thank you very much for attending here it seems we update tonight michael thank you. so we've been listening there to protect the mills that is the deputy chief constable for essex police about the $39.00 bodies that have been found in a truck container in essex that's east of london for the bills calling it an absolute tragedy. information she was able to provide i was that they believe the truck came from bulgaria on a tobin 19th that emergency services attended but all 39 people on board were dead they believe they were all adults except one teenager

they said the 1st priority is the identification of the victims they haven't identified where they're from and there is a cordon and place and they can't say how long that will be in place for that is all the information that paper mills had and we will bring you more on that story as it becomes available to us. now russia is looking to double its trade with the african continent within the next 5 years president vladimir putin made the announcement of the opening of the 1st russia africa summit being held in the black sea resort of sochi the events being co-chaired by egyptian president and the fact that l.c.c. with more than 40 african heads of state attending the kremlin kremlin hopes the summit will boost its relations on the continent so how exactly does moscow plan to increase its influence will 1st stop is debt putin announced to write off more than

$160000000.00 for ethiopia is part of russia's debt for development program and mozambique madagascar and tanzania have already benefited russia's increasing its defense relationships on the continent since 2014 military cooperation agreements have been signed with 19 african countries moscow is also offering nuclear power technology construction of the continent's 1st nuclear plant will begin in egypt next year funded by a russian well let's get more on this now we're joined by you re bomb and if out of it russia international affairs council and he's joining us live from sochi very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so what does russia want from investing all this time and money and to african countries. all of the good what russia wants is to position itself on the african map because we're seeing how a lot of actors are withdrawn from the continent the the french the americans are playing a lesser role on the continent now but at the same time we see that other emerging

powers such as china are really going to becoming huge in africa so i think russia is kind of doing as an extent is jumping on the bandwagon joining china on the one hand but on the other hand i think russia feels that it's it's it's it has outgrown its its role in the post cited union's they space in the eastern europe in the middle east and i think russia is looking to fill that void that a lot of traditional powers are living in. never can that requires obviously a lot of political pushing that also requires a lot of business as well and it also requires a lot of money do you think that russia can compete with china on that front. i don't think that there is an objective of competing with china because it's simply not possible with the with the magnitude of chinese investment in africa is simply not possible i think what russia is opting for is more calculated investments here and there a powerful instrument is obviously counseling debts that you have already mentioned

a lot of african countries really need that there's a there's a lot of powerhouses business powerhouses in russia that moscow is trying to politically bring to china such as russia's state corporations these are the ones that russians are going to rely on in their expansion of the african continent and if we look you know back to i guess the benefit of russian or rather the soviet union's time in africa it had great ties and influence for many african countries does russia want to recreate that kind of power and influence. i don't think it does because the soviet experience in africa was a little different the soviet union was investing a lot getting the returns on its investments on propping up regimes investing into militaries of those african countries i think russia's opting for a different approach where it's looking for a mutually beneficial arrangement where the russian business comes but at the same time on that investment russia gets some returns infrastructure on gas sector all

of these things is where russians are looking to invest but at the same time get the returns on these and this means this development is going to get your expertise on this we do appreciate your time that siri baumann live in sochi thank you. now roads across from lebanon to being blocked by anti-government protesters calling for political change protests are now in this 7th day and the army is trying to reopen the roads the government has valid schools and universities will reopen but staff threatening to strike the demonstrations continuing despite the approval of unprecedented economic reforms well let's go now to our correspondent dana although she is joining us live from the capital beirut and we were hearing of a possible standoff an attempt by the army to break up these protests clear the roadblocks they know what are you hearing. well we are on that highway the main highway that is linking the lebanese capital beirut to the north of lebanon if we

just found the camera you can see the standoff for yourself people protesters refusing to leave the streets determined to keep the pressure on the government to resign or the lebanese army was sent in approximately an hour and a half ago to try to disperse the crowds there were skirmishers a few arrests were made but then the army stepped back now the army has been given the order to open the roads by the prime minister sort of how do you yes all the lebanese people you do have the right to protest in the squares but the army has to open the roads we don't want public life to be disrupted but so far the army has been careful not to use excessive force it's not clear why is it because there are cameras filming the scene or are the politicians aware that the more they use force

the more anger it will create people are defiant if you talk to people here and they say we are not leaving the streets we want the government to resign even if they manage to open this road we're going to block another road so what protesters have been trying to do really is paralyze the country to file more and more pressure on the government to resign. but so far the government's position has been for presenting a new economic reform plan but for people here they don't trust the leadership they want them to leave power so it seems lebanon is in for a prolonged * period of unrest if this crisis is not resolved zain thank you very much for that for now that is there in a hall the with elations live in beirut thank you. father for trial of oil john to exxon mobil has begun in the supreme court of new york state environmental activists held a protest outside the state's attorney general follow the civil suit against the company accusing them of misleading investors on the financial risks of climate change exxon denies the allegations it is the 1st of many similar lawsuits against

major oil companies to go to trial. i mean i hope it's a president holding companies in all major polluters and corporations in general accountable for the information given that they hide to the american public and sort of technical level i hope that today brings us more documents from exxon mobil and covers even more of what they knew and how long they have known about climate change and what work they've done to cover it up and. now anti-government protests in chile are being described as the worst to head the country in nearly 30 years 15 people have been killed in the past 2 weeks a curfew and a state of emergency have been imposed the protests started with anger over a rise in rail prices but now protesters say they fighting government oppression. to haiti now where catholic church leaders have joined protesters calling for political reform thousands took part in

a peaceful rally in the capital port au prince they have been anti-government demonstrations for the past 6 months protesters are angry about corruption and rising prices and many want president show mornings to resign at least 20 people have been killed in the violence. polls are now open in botswana as a presidential election wednesday's vote has the potential to be one of the tightest races in the country's history the president says he's confident has botswana democratic party ball when another term in office at a united opposition is in the 1st viable challenge to the ruling party sens botswana's independence 53 years ago. now the gulf of guinea is one of the most dangerous waterways in the world but risks of piracy and kidnapping are no longer the only problems mariners face now there's an increasing number of sunken and abandoned ships obstructing traffic in the region but address reports from lagos on

the coast of the gulf of guinea. one of the many graveyards for all the retired chips found along the nigerian coast. in the middle of this shipping lane the bridge of a sunken ship sticks out of the water and weighing down on it is another abundant vessel on its way to the bottom. uprooted say the shipping routes here keep getting shallower and narrow and that's a problem for not only sailors but also the economies of countries in the region russian.