i. the powers believe via a confusing election is being disputed on the streets. was. it started peacefully opposition leader khaled turning out the head of a march that killed a prado the captain's main avenue. tens of thousands was angry because a supposedly rapid vote count from sunday's election has been repeatedly suspended they fear that's because the government is manipulating the figures ensures a complete her because if they can worry they. are worse to make a final decision right but it is an order she's already know a work in progress obviously there is something that is not going where i was they wanted to reach the electoral tribunal to voice their discontent but the seemingly irresistible force in the movable object and it began was some protesters throwing

stones curtains of tear gas loot by police. they tried to resist knocking down lighting small fires to disperse the gas and i was going to work on this area within the truth is that we've never felt like this before the yesterday was bad but today they're really kicking us hard in the fire smoke helps us to feel better the ballot papers proved a popular choice of fuel but it wasn't enough people are running here because 7 they're trying to block off the center there are birds sing with tear gas so there is a lot of nerves here. for good reason she was hit by a tear gas canister. a wednesday morning president ever more on his coup these protests an attempt to cuckoo and said the opposition were at fault for the delays in the vote count because of. how does the coup expresses south they detain the counting process burned government buildings and regional electoral tribunals threatening elected candidates and they don't guarantee the safety of the members

of the electoral tribunals was he called on bolivians to come out and defend democracy that's what these young people also say that doing that means more not less conflict ahead. these protests are only continuing today on wednesday in santa cruz which is really the industrial business hub of the country there's a general strike there also the opposition crowd closing the border with brazil so a lot of commerce and a lot of economical things are being halted in that city here in the powers in the capital there's also a protest being called for just under an hour now in one of the main plazas here in the capital city president morales as you heard has been calling for bolivians to come out and defend the vote so you can expect mobilizations from government supporters as well so this situation isn't calming down at all if fact it seems to

be heating up because the government isn't really changing its position and the opposition don't seem to be changing theirs either john thank you for that but one of the pentagon's top policy officials for ukraine is appearing before the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump laura cooper is likely to be questioned about the decision to freeze aid to ukraine it's a day after the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor testified that trump made a condition that ukraine investigate he's rival joe biden before releasing the aide or cooper's appearance comes after the defense department told congress it will not comply with a subpoena to provide documents related to the case but cooper who is responsible for policy for russia and eastern europe including ukraine has volunteered to testify she would have overseen u.s. military assistance including the $250000000.00 security package to ukraine well i'm joined castro is live in washington d.c.

take us through some more of that testimony and what we've been hearing from this inquiry. sure stan so today's testimony from laura cooper which is unfolding as we speak she is expected to be asked about the pentagon's objections to freezing that military aid to ukraine and according to yesterday's explosive testimony given by the acting ambassador to ukraine william taylor we've learned that not only was the pentagon objecting to the white house's order to freeze that aid as well as state officials and taylor himself he detailed himself as leading what appear to be the official u.s. foreign policy toward ukraine which diverged from of a shadow foreign policy led by the president's own personal attorney rudy giuliani and another presidential confidant or did someone who was appointed ambassador to the e.u. and taylor said in his opening statements yesterday that sunland implicated trump

himself for this decision to withhold u.s. military aid to ukraine conditioned on ukraine opening a public investigation into joe biden trump's political opponent here in the u.s. and into the democratic party and in fact taylor said that someone said everything was dependent on ukraine making this public statement including security assistance and that the president had wanted the president of ukraine to be in a quote public box by making this public statement about ordering such investigations so that testimony going contrary to the denials from the president himself and from the white house that a quid pro quo existed and in fact the white house released a statement yesterday saying that this entire impeachment inquiry of donald trump is quote a cordon aided smear campaign from far left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats

waging war on the constitution however it's notable that these witnesses have been serving. multiple ministrations and democratic ministrations as well as republican and today again we see it another witness on capitol hill was considered to be a career professional possibly offering more insight into this impeachment inquiry stan. castro live for us then from washington d.c. well 2 associates of president trump's personal lawyer who are linked to that ukraine scandal a jew in court accused of violating u.s. campaign finance laws live pontus and eagle froome and a close friends of former new york mayor rudy giuliani the russian born business men were arrested earlier this month now they're accused of helping funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of the ukrainian government official into the us political system facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg is appearing in front of a u.s. congressional committee again this time to defend the upcoming launch of the digital

currency members of the house financial services committee concerned the system could disrupt the global financial system threaten users privacy and facilitate money laundering facebook announced its plans in june to launch a crypto currency called libra which could be used to pay for goods online and send money worldwide there are more than a 1000000000 people around the world who don't have access to a bank account but could through mobile phones if the right system existed and that includes more than 14000000 people right here in the u.s. being shut out of the financial system has real consequences for people's lives and it's often the most disadvantaged people who pay the highest price people pay far too high a cost to have to wait far too long to send money home to their families abroad the current system is failing them the financial industry is stagnant and there is no digital financial and architecture to support the innovation that we need i

believe that this problem can be solved and libra can help. well she had the chance he joins us live now from washington d.c. we just heard a little bit of buck suck a big day she had taken what else she's been saying in the tough questions of his vice. top question he seems to be facing is what's in it for you really out truism you just want to help the world's poor that hasn't been the record of facebook so far what you are doing is hoovering up everyone's information and making a huge amount of money out of it but you're saying that this is entirely separate that seems to be one of the main areas of contention this isn't going terribly well for mugs are going to get us we said about this a lot of it is always you know grandstanding but there's a lot of pent up anger with facebook not just because of the potential for labor but just because of its effect on information the discourse of political discourse democrats still angry about alleged russian interference in the election and so on so that's the main problem we have the skepticism so suddenly you really care about

the poor one congressman just said so what the world's richest man is coming here and hiding behind the world's poorest people and this is all kind of stinging stuff zuckerberg says no to all i want to do is make make the world a better place and level that financial playing field make it as easy to send money between people as sending a text message or a 1000000000 people around the world don't have access to financial services we will give it here's another message too if we don't do it china will try to appeal to that nationalistic kind of thing this is about american leadership even a leader would be based in geneva it has to be said but there are all sorts of concerns being raised one previously given facebook's record you already have a lot of social information now you want our financial information to look at x. as though there won't be any connection but what facebook doesn't have a great record on this secondly financial stability capitalism is already pretty unstable because of global capital flows and that's with national currencies regulated by central banks and things like that now you want a d.

centralized a decentralized global currency with but with who's going to regulate that for a start you know and it just it's. it sounds a bit concerning for the financial well being of the world and then there's the issue of crime and who will really benefit from this is it really the poor or is actually one congressman said it's the terrorists criminals and drug dealers who have an unmet need need which you will now which you will meet these are the sorts of arguments he's having along with all sorts of other arguments about facebook in general the conduct of facebook and as the chairperson maxine waters said frankly you already control a 3rd of the world's population in some ways 3700000000 people. 2.7000000000 people actually. if anything you coming down saying now we also want to control your financial transactions is yet another sign that you are just too big and need to be broken up. she out thank you so much for that update she advertises joining us live from washington d.c. well ideations boeing says its quarterly profits a full of more than 50 percent and that's due to the grounding of the 7 $37.00 max

aircraft after 2 crashes killed $346.00 people boeing says it expects regulatory approval to return the plane to service like this year the company is also cutting production of the 707 dreamliner because of global trade. protesters in lebanon are blocking roads across the country as part of a 7th day of demonstrations the army is now trying to reopen by routes demonstrations continue despite the government approving unprecedented economic reforms protests now calling for complete political change reports from beirut. they try to reclaim the streets but the people stood their ground lebanon's army has been ordered by politicians to open roads across the country the same politicians these lebanese want gone there were skirmishes a few injuries but at the end the military took a step back they're trying to intimidate the city on this. thing that by

a show of force we're going to back up people are going to be afraid to come and actually publish the opposite all of us rushed early on instead of coming at like 5 or 6 pm for a party this is the main highway connecting the capital beirut to north lebanon protesters have been blocking roads in the hope of pressuring the government to resign prime minister saddam had who said protests will be tolerated in squares ordered the security forces to clear the streets he has ordered stop process he has all the stop. this he's seeing that the people there are not using any violence they are so peaceful it's not clear if the presence of cameras stop the soldiers from using excessive force but not long after the army command issued a statement making it clear daily life must not be disrupted people chant revolution revolution we want the fall of the regime protesters are still very much

defiant they are refusing to leave the streets it seems levanon will witness a for a long period of unrest if the lebanese government refuses to resign. the governing coalition has not been able to write off the protest movement which has spread across lebanon it isn't. entering its 2nd week has anybody. my son graduates next year and all he thinks about is leaving lebanon he can't find a job here i don't want my children to leave i want those in power to return the money they stole. for decades protests like these were ineffective because the majority of the lebanese people allied themselves with one political group or another that may change hard it's different now the people on the street and when we're talking specifically about people who are affiliated politically and maybe still affiliated but it's clear but they want to hold their parties accountable maybe they didn't do it during the elections they are doing it now on the street no

one can pretend to represent the street today the protesters are trying to seize their country from politicians who have been in power for decades for now they have overcome sectarian and political divides and are controlling the streets this is the 1st time lebanon's political leaders face such a serious challenge but that may change if the army chooses to protect those in power set up for their beirut. well stephanie decker joins us live now from tripoli in northern lebanon as we've seen and we can see behind you there these protests now are continuing 7 days what's the feeling you're getting there about the results and the determination to keep this up. it's very a strong stand i would say a particular here in tripoli across the country but this is lebanon 2nd city it's a disenfranchised city neglected by politicians and really used to be a support base of prime minister saad had even while that is change and we've been

looking at these pictures certainly over the last week of tripoli really coming out in force thousands of people saying the same slogans of radar to cross the country people want the downfall of the regime revolution and what people have been telling us here particular what is so important you are that say now insane as packages well is how the cross-section of society has come together this city status a city that a couple of years ago through gun battles on the streets because of a spillover of the syrian war it felt stigmatized by the rest of lebanon and i really feel like it's changed its face you had to know on saturday night a d.j. played to the crowd here that video went wive viral rave music everyone 1st thought it was beirut no it was tripoli and people are saying that this has given them new hope because they lost their hope of core they've been to put disappointed so many times before that they say this seems to be a turning point they're under no illusion it's going to be difficult of course it's

going to be difficult i think we are at a stalemate we don't know how things are going to move forward the government isn't resigning the people aren't going anywhere nobody knows how things are going to play out at the moment. stephanie deca locksmiths there tripoli in lebanon thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera. police and protesters face off on the streets in chile as the conservative president announces measures to tackle inequality. bent and broken pirates out they are the problem and one of the most dangerous waterways in the world. at a new to it just announced the barcelona's match against real madrid leo we'll have that and the rest of the day's big sports. and i once again we've seen some rather heavy write in c. parts of the middle east recently and as is often the case here in this part of the

world where the ground is dry we have seen some flooding this is the same in cairo actually on she's day off may we have had some disruption as a result solve the a west the weather pushing for many flights cancelled once but destruction on the road wet weather just lingering around cyprus that eastern side of the med as we go on through the day that cloud actually stretches across northern parts of syria will then essential parts over iraq more than areas of iraq could see some showers longest spells of right over the next couple of days that went to weather a cloudy weather pushing a little further south as we go through friday and that is by friday you could see some wet weather just pushing back towards the sinai peninsula for the arabian peninsula it is looking like a fine and dry temperatures here in a pleasant $334.00 celsius over the next couple of days and a bit of cloud there pushing into northern parts of the gulf could catch a little bit of right on that but otherwise it's lots of blue skies all the way but

it goes for good parts of southern africa as well but we have got some grey skies and cloud pushing across the southern type at the moment possible to see a sweater weather coming in on that and that's all making its way from west to east . to deal with poverty unless you deal with the gap you just said oh i disagree with that toy it sounds like blaming the public the country for the accident holiday mean everybody these people ah well trained as much a part of the islamic state machinery and have been very and the inspiration of popular you know search feature you join me many often as i put it up from questions to my special guests to challenge them to some straight talking political debate. al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are.

china is calling on taiwan to reunify with the mind. bites the consequences one of 150 gates taiwan's determination to remain independent on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories this hour. the u.s. president has called a deal struck between russia and turkey to remove kurdish fighters from syria to the border a big success under that agreement by president so the one and person y.

p. g. fighters have 150 hours to be draw at least 30 kilometers deep into syrian territory . emergency services in the u.k. have found 39 bodies in a contained a truck in essex in southeast england a 25 year old man from northern ireland has been arrested following that discovery . believe he and president evo morales says he will take measures to defend democracy and is confident he will be declared the winner of sunday's election that there have been demonstrations across the country after the main opposition candidate carlos missa accused of manipulating the results. and he government protests in chile being described as the worst to hit the country in nearly 30 years at least 18 people now have been killed in the past 2 weeks a curfew and a state of emergency have been imposed originally there was anger over a hike in raw prices but now protesters say they fight in government oppression

president sebastian pinera has apologized in an address to the nation and promised to tackle growing inequality manual rappel and joins us live from santiago nice to have you with us we can see behind you more of those protests continuing there tell us how this is growing something that began about economic measures is now becoming much more of a political question isn't it. that's absolutely right there's been an evolution in what these demonstrations started out as and what they've become at this point in fact even now we're at a small demonstration that 2nd place away from the front lines of the fashions that we've seen over the few days and what we're seeing here these are medics these are medical professionals doctors nurses people who are complaining about the state of the medical system here in the country say that the public health system has deteriorated that the government doesn't care about public now and you see protests

like these across the board when it comes to pensions when it comes to minimum wage when it comes to education so this is no longer just about the the increase in the cost of metro as these protests began people are now demonstrating against almost all things and there's momentum behind these demonstrations as you mentioned already on tuesday ending the country's president i.c.m.p. and yet i went on national television apologizing for lacking vision and understanding the demands of protesters but it seems as though the demonstrations have taken a life of their own they don't have a leader. there's no opposition party that's behind these demonstrations they're entirely spontaneous and without without a leader without a way without any public figure behind the demonstrations it's tough to go to a negotiating table to find a solution out of the crisis the big concern moving forward is what is being

characterized by the united nations and human rights groups as clear violations of human rights the way that the military and the police have been responding to the peaceful protests on the streets of the chilean capital has been heavy handed it's been a crackdown as you mentioned already at least 18 people have been killed more than 5000 have been detained nationwide and the videos that are circulating on social media while difficult to confirm are very troubling. but joining us live from santiago to another one of those demonstrations that are continuing across china. indonesia's president has named his new cabinet and that includes the opposition leader he defeated earlier this year in his reelection campaign proposed to be linked to the kidnapping and disappearance of several pro-democracy activists during the rule of former dictator saga victoria has more. on the steps of indeed it is a presidential palace

a new cabinet and president djoko we don't day's biggest political gamble for those . days once basic and twice defeated political rival is now part of his government for the. first i will study the lead to situation in the ministry of defense after that i will immediately start work i think that's what i can say for now the ex general and for my son in the war of indies he is late military leader. has been linked to human rights abuses we don't has made him his defense minister human rights activists have cooled propose appointment. dr a the new cabinet especially the appointment of a former commander of a minute in a special forces to be minister of the family sans worrying signal that our leaders in indonesia have forgotten the darkest base and the worst human rights abuses committed to the so hard to era that we don't have having an opposition

leader in his cabinet may make it easier to push economic reforms 3 parliament. southeast asia's largest economy is slowing down foreign investment is shrinking and many see corruption as a major problem daddy and what about yeah but i found them and we want to pursue those related to the trade balance deficit the current account deficit opening up employment opportunities by attracting as much investment as possible so that big employment opportunities are right and we data has retained his finance minister sri mulyani indrawati a former world bank executive and added other business leaders to his team but some say that's not enough to tackle the economic slowdown if we look at the cabinet right now those who are in charge of the. minister of industry and also in investments and. hopefully you are actually at the one those who are

coming from the political set of. a so it's actually quite yet challenging for them put these persons. to carry out. their duty. the president was once hailed indonesia's new hope for reducing poverty and improving living standards but his 2nd term is beginning with protests save the corruption and what many indonesians say is a weakening of democratic institutions victoria gates and be al-jazeera. security agencies in pakistan are preparing for days of nationwide antigovernment protests they fear could trigger widespread violence the so-called independence protest is led by a conservative party that's being supported by some opposition groups now they're calling for prime minister imran khan to resign and for new elections has more from islamabad. if you are traveling from. province on the ground

trunk road you'll be coming down day 3 crossing and then crossing into. the opposition parties are going to be marching from all the provinces and converging on some of the provincial governments and up on job and. are also led by the project. that is the party and. of course elaborated it being made to. the chief ministers of the province that have been. dropped a protest that all cost. is heading for another round of political instability. of the. last in the last elections that go to elections were rigged and now he has mustered the support of major political opposition parties like the pakistan people's party led by.

now why should. leaders of course are in jail right now their party will be trying. to bring it to a word george state of lockdown the government on the other hand is making a last minute preparations digging trenches and blocking access roads writ large. the trains are on they will just lift. and. be on the opposition parties read that there is a bridge too much that kind of support their expect. their demands of course that the prime minister brown countered resign they've already accused the government of being involved in rigging of the elections were brought them and. it is going to be a major test for the op. if they're fair.

mean that. 3rd but if they don't they're going to be. for emraan cons government. power. up protesting their doctor dry and people like complaining that their neighbor to call red riding inflation. may bring people out of power d. . the situation. of course the government. record of previous governments who have been voting heavily. and nothing short of done. russian oil giant lukoil is pulling out of a guess exploration project in saudi arabia that look at oil is to transfer its 80 percent stake in a guess explore ation project to the study done saudi aramco says the saudi government has not been able to make the project economically feasible so let's

take a closer look at the story now the joint venture between saudi arabia and russia it was launched in 2004 started on around cove has been trying to expand its reserves of petroleum gas as trade struggles to return to its $2812.00 peak at that and so will most likely lie in the energy industry which was valued last year at $194000000000.00 we're going to take you to the united states now where u.s. president. believe he's going to address the situation in syria and turkey let's have a listen it's a major breakthrough thwarted choosing a better future for syria and for the middle east it's been a long time over the last 5 days you have seen that a cease fire. that we established along syria's border has held and it's held very well beyond most expectations early this morning the government of turkey informed

my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in syria and making the ceasefire permanent and it will indeed be permanent however you would also define the word permanent in that part of the world as somewhat questionable we all understand that but i do believe it will be permanent i've therefore instructed the secretary of the treasury to lift all sanctions imposed on october 14th in response to turkey's original offensive moves against the kurds in syria's northeast border region so the sanctions will be lifted or less something happens that we're not happy with this was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation very simple and we're willing to take blame and we're also willing to take credit this is something they've been

trying to do for many many decades since then others have come out to help and we welcome them to do so other countries have stepped forward they want to help and we think that's great the nations in the region must ultimately take on the responsibility of helping turkey and syria police their border we want other nations to get involved but we've secured and therefore a small number of u.s. troops will remain in the area where they have the oil and we're going to be protecting it and will be deciding what we're going to do with it in the future in any event by the moves that we've made we're achieving a much more peaceful and stable area between turkey and syria including a 20 mile wide safe zone an interesting term safe zone that's the term we're using hopefully. that zone will become safe thousands and thousands of people have been

killed in that zone over the years but it's been sought for many many decades and i think we have something that's going to be strong and hold up turkey syria and all forms of the kurts have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out a long time we were supposed to be there for 30 days that was almost 10 years ago so if for 30 days and now we're leaving supposed to be a very quick hit and let's get out and it was a quick hit except they stayed for almost 10 years let someone else fight over this long blood stayed and sand i want to thank vice president pants and secretary of state pump aoe for leading the american delegation

so successfully to turkey several days ago along with national security advisor o'brian want to thank them very much the american delegation negotiated the original 5 day ceasefire that ended kurdish fighters to safely leave it just got them to a point where frankly they were able it enabled them to get out to go and move really just a few miles in a slightly different direction so this enable them to do so countless lives are now being saved as a result of our negotiation with turkey and the outcome reached without spilling one drop of american blood no injuries nobody shot nobody killed i have just spoken to general muslim. it

wonderful man the commander in chief of the s.d.f. kurtz and he was extremely thankful for what the united states has done could not have been more thankful general muslim is assured me that isis is under very very strict lock in key and that detention facilities are being strongly maintained there were a few that got out a small number relatively speaking and they've been largely recaptured i'm also sure that he will be issuing his own statement very shortly we had a great talk but we've saved the lives of many many kurds he understands that the war was going to be vicious and probably not very long and i'm very happy to of been involved in it as our of vice president or secretary of

state and all of the other people on our team by getting that cease fire to stick we've done something that's very very special but by getting the cease fire after a tremendous amount of really tough war for a very short period of days that is something very special our troops are safe and the pain and suffering of the 3 day fight that occurred was directly responsible for our ability to make an agreement with turkey and the kurds that could never have been made without this short term outburst should turkey fail to honor its obligations including the protection of religious and ethnic minorities which i truly believe they will do we reserve the right to reimpose crippling sanctions including substantially increased tariffs on steel and all other products

coming out of turkey. we are now an economic powerhouse like never before and very importantly like no other our economic might is stronger than it's ever been and our competitors are not doing very well we also expect turkey to abide by its commitment regarding isis as a backup to the kurds watching over them should something happen turkey is there to grab them further we implore he european countries to come and take those fighters that the u.s. captured and bring them back to their countries for incarceration and for trial until just recently europe has been very unresponsive in doing what they should have been doing for a long time now is their chance to finally act american forces

defeated 100 percent of the isis caliphate during the last 2 years we thank the syrian democratic forces for their sacrifices in this effort they have been terrific now turkey syria and others in the region must work to ensure that isis does not regain any territory it's their neighborhood they have to maintain it they have to take care of it there were some political pundits who responded to turkey's offensive in syria by calling for yet another american military intervention i don't think so but halting the incursion. by military force would have required deploying tens of thousands of american troops against turkey a nato ally and a country the united states has developed

a very good relationship with including president earl one the same people that i watched and read giving me in the united states advice were the people that i've been watching and reading for many years they are the ones that got us into the middle east mess but never had the vision or the courage to get us out they just talk how many americans must die in the middle east in the midst of these ancient sectarian and tribal conflicts air for all of the precious blood and treasure america has poured into the deserts of the middle east i am committed to pursuing a different course one that leads to victory for america through much work

we have done things that everybody said couldn't be done today's announcement validates our course of action with turkey that only a couple of weeks ago were scorned and now people are saying wow what a great outcome congratulations stuart to me to be congratulated but we've done a good job we've saved a lot alive most importantly we have avoided another costly military intervention that could have led to disastrous far reaching consequences many thousands of people could have been killed the last administration said assad must go. they could have easily produced that outcome but they didn't in fact they drew a very powerful red line in the sand you will remember the red line in the saying and when children were gassed in killed but then did not honor their commitment

as other children died in the same horrible manner but i did honor my commitments with 58 tomahawks 8 long years after president obama's ill fated push at regime change us troops are still on the ground in syria more than half a 1000000 people are dead hundreds of thousands are terribly injured and millions more syrians are displaced it really is a nightmare of misery across the middle east we have seen anguish on a colossal scale we have spent 8 trillion dollars on wars in the middle east never really wanting to win those wars but after all that money was spent and all those lives lost the young men and women gravely

wounded so many the middle east is less safe less stable and less secure than before these conflicts began the same people pushing for these wars are often the ones demanding america open its doors to unlimited migration from war torn regions importing the terrorism and the threat of terrorism right to our own sure's but not anymore my administration understands that immigration security is national security. as a candidate for president i made clear that we needed a new approach to american foreign policy one guided not by ideology but by experience history and a realistic understanding of the world we are building up america's military

might like never before investing 2 and a half trillion dollars since byelection but we will not be depleted we will not happen again it will not be allowed to happen again where our military is depleted fighting in areas of the world where we shouldn't be when we commit american troops to battle we must do so only when a vital national interest is at stake and when we have a clear objective a plan for victory and a path out of conflict that's what we have to have we need a plan of victory we will only win our whole basis has to be the right plan and then we will only win nobody can beat us nobody

can beat us i want to again thank everyone on the american team who helped achieve the ceasefire in syria save so many lives along with president of turkey a man i've gotten to know very well and a man who loves his country and in his mind is doing the right thing for his country and we may be meeting in the very near future i also want to thank general muslim for his understanding and for his great strength and for is incredible words today to me but me just as a representative of the united states because he knows that we saved tens of thousands of kurds. and we're not talking in the long term we're talking in the short term we're talking something that was going on immediately and something frankly that was planned for

a long time the job of our military is not to police the world other nations must step up and do their fair share that hasn't taken place today's breakthrough is a critical step in that direction thank you all very much and god bless america thank you thank you president yes that was the fighter to. come on. the banner and you're listening there to u.s. president donald trump of course talking about the situation on the syria and turkey border announcing that he the u.s. will lift all sanctions imposed on turkey he believes that that cease fire will in fact still hold now that cease fire has been put in place for 150 hours that's 150 hours after the previous cease fire of 120 hours now the 150 hours ceasefire is to allow for

turkish kurdish forces to pull back and for turkey to be able to impose what it calls that safe zone the safe zone of course will be patrolled by turkey and also russia president earlier one and president putin of russia involved in that negotiation well white house correspondent kimberly how it is going to join us now live from washington d.c. kimberly you were listening in to president trump there taking a lot of credit for this outcome praising the outcome but of course we shouldn't forget that this was heavily criticized in the united states not just by his political opponents but some of his own sort of politics as well. but the absolutely right there's a lot to unpack in this but it certainly was intended for a domestic audience for a president who is running for reelection looking to tout what he sees as a success and also putting in place sort of the ideas that many of his supporters

would like and that is that it is time for not only in his you the united states to not be embroiled in conflicts in the middle east but for other nations to step up and do their fair share in his words he said that america doesn't need to be the world's policeman is something we've heard before but he reiterated that i think it's notable ok in terms of the relationship moving forward with a nato ally namely turkey that the u.s. president did a global this ceasefire he says was holding he did a goal the possibility that should as he said in the past turkey misbehave there could be new sanctions put in place instructing the treasury to lift the ones that are currently put in place as of october 14th those not in place any longer but the option in the future for more as well as very steep tariffs on steel one other thing i think that is really notable in all of this is that the president seemed to suggest that this could only come about because of what he's called in the past his

unconventional approach namely that there had to be conflict in order to bring about resolution and this is where many of his critics will differ in fact so much so that we have members of the president's own party like the top republican in the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell working on legislation in the u.s. senate to essentially condemn turkey's invasion and ask the u.s. president to rethink that november 13th visit to the white house by president erda one so this is certainly something that the president left open as a possibility. kimberly just a there we're going to have a listen now to a little of what u.s. president donald trump said particularly about lifting sanctions imposed on to turkey but also a warning that ankara must honor its obligations in this cease fire early this morning the government of turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in syria and making the cease fire

permanent and it will indeed be permanent however you would also define the word permanent in that part of the world as somewhat questionable we all understand that but i do believe it will be permanent i've therefore instructed the secretary of the treasury to lift all sanctions imposed on october 14th in response to turkey's original offensive moves against the kurds in syria's northeast border region can really help is still with us from washington d.c. just listing they believe you're going to president trump saying he will lift all sanctions he was very praiseworthy wasn't he of president earlier one intimating there that he could be meeting him soon. yes we did know that this was still on the books what i found interesting was the word may seems the president is leaving open the option to cancel that visit if he feels that events on the ground are not going

as he hoped or as planned i think there is another thing that we need to point out here though is that the u.s. president is declaring victory if you will but this is not looking anything like what he initially said was going to happen namely that there would be a withdrawal of u.s. troops what we're seeing here is a replace this thinning of u.s. troops which is very different than what was initially announced the u.s. president acknowledging there that some now will stay to guard oil fields we believe it may be up to 300 the others being repositioned potentially to iraq although we know there's a problem there because iraq's military leaders say they're not welcome as some may also be going to saudi arabia this is not keeping a campaign promise that was made on the campaign trail in 2016 to bring troops back to end america's endless wars but certainly being packaged in that way so i think that's important to note i think there's one other important note in all of this

and again this speaks to donald trump discussing in the messaging to a domestic audience as he campaigns for reelection that what he's saying is the sort of america 1st policy he is putting the onus now on other nations to do their fair share particularly when it comes to eisele fighters suggesting that it is up to european nations for example to not only in his words capture make sure they're contained but bring them to trial. he is putting the onus on other nations but he's also has a deity's been criticised for this. space for russia to continue to impose its influence in the region in fact russia has moved as the real power broker now being able to negotiate both with turkey the kids and also syria. yes and this is a real concern for members of the president's own party on capitol hill we've heard those like marco rubio a republican senator and others who are concerned about the increasing presence in

prominence of russia not just in syria but in the broader middle east there's also concern about iran as well but donald trump is is trying to counter some of his critics and you heard there when he was speaking acknowledging what many have said even prior to when donald trump came into office and that is that the united states for for more than a. presidency but almost a decade has not had a clear serious strategy in the midst of this he's making the argument this is why the united states needs to withdraw it needs to pull back so he's countering that but at the same time there is action being taken on capitol hill we know that this legislation is working its way through to essentially end of the drawdown citing the grave consequences the growing influence of russia being among them. kimberly thank you for that kimberly helka joining us there from washington d.c. and just to repeat u.s. president ronald trump has been talking about the ceasefire between on the syria

turkey border that ceasefire negotiated between turkey president and russian president vladimir putin that's got to be in place for 150 hours more which will allow time for kurdish forces to pull back and for turkey to be able to impose what it calls this site zone along with russia throughout the region there we're going to take a closer look now at that so-called site sign that ankara wants to create now to run along an area around 30 kilometers inside syria along the turkish border and russian and turkish joint patrols to run up to 10 kilometers deep on both sides of an area that runs between tel aviv and wrestle i'm asama been joins us live now from sun the earth on the turkish syrian border i don't know if you were listening into too much of what donald trump had to say there but he was very adamant that that cease fire is holding you know it's been extended now for another 150 hours

and turkish forces expected to pull back what are you hearing and seeing there on the border about just how this is playing out on the ground. 6 and cautious optimism would be the word that the turks would describe their reaction as so far we haven't heard from the turkish government after the these remarks that the sanctions that the u.s. imposed after its offensive that the peace spring offensive that it launched mode in syria have been lifted but it is very interesting the term polluted to some of the previous points of the previous administration's failings including that of a red line and getting rid of the bashar al assad government which under the new agreement that seemed to be in the russians and the turks the bashar assad government is actually coming back to its border. areas between syria and turkey it is already starting to carry out some patrols in areas like mamby age and it is going to be carrying out more patrols along the border and some of some defense

ministry officials in syria saying that there is also talk of establishing security posts on the syrian border this again is something that is coming out for 80 years of this war what is happening on the ground is that many of the factions who are fighting under the syrian democratic forces the mainly kurdish that forces who are in these northern parts which turkey deems as terrorists are going to be retreating and there has been another warning that's been that's been given to them by the russians as they have said that to try and make the best use of these 150 i was just over 6 days to leave these areas because if you don't then according to our agreement the turks are going to come in and they will take these areas by force so it is a fluid situation on the ground we have a turn in official reaction from the kurdish side there have been some commanders making statements in the last 48 hours saying that they would like to stay in those areas and defend those areas because once they leave those areas they won't be

allowed to come back so it is a complicated situation on the ground but i think a lot of people who've been watching syria will see this as a sign of progress that stalemate that had existed for many many years seems to be over turkey and russia are talking about the other an agreement an agreement with which the assad forces would allow for hot pursuit of kurdish fighters if turkey deemed fit and it will consider taking out the kurdish fighters from all of these areas but it also brings into question the whole humanitarian situation we can't talk about the politics and what leaders are seeing and men in suits are saying and not talk about the people millions and millions of people in syria have been displaced a few 100000 according to united nations 170000 have been displaced since this latest offensive and all this talk about. trying to send them home and making it voluntary is going to be worth watching because that is the key to this because turkey again has said that and criticize its european partners saying that if you

are so serious why don't you try and resolve the issue of these people that turkey is hosting more than 3000000 syrian refugees that he's older and it wants to send them back home so again the humanitarian situation the return of refugees is going to be the crucial aspect to watch out for but again this is something where more what sides all sides rather between the americans the russians and the turks have decided at least for now for the next few days to make sure that the guns fall silent. thank you for that under that agreement of course russian and turkish forces will patrol that border area and russian military patrols have indeed started in northeast serious part of that deal now they've arrived in the border town of kabaddi under the deal agreed by president. and putin why p.g. fighters 150 hours to draw at least 30 kilometers deeper into syrian territory moscow's being the kurdish fighters face defeat by turkey if i don't comply which

i'll strike that has this update now from a chuckle that's along the turkey syria border. the 6 day countdown for kurdish forces to withdraw to 30 kilometers away from the border has begun as per that agreement between turkey and russia we're also getting reports that russian forces have began moving towards the town of vision kabbani as per the agreement meanwhile f.s.a. fighters free syrian army fighters that have been fighting alongside the the turks in this operation say that forces began destroying tunnels destroying their tunnels in the town of a buddha but we also know that thus far there has been no official response with respect to this agreement by the s.d.f. meanwhile as an indication of how fragile the security situation is we hear reports of by an i.e.d.

exploding in the town of commission which is controlled by kurdish forces at least 2 people injured in that attack nobody claiming responsibility and also a car bomb in the town of salut which is controlled by the free syrian army those turkish backed forces at least 3 people we understand there have been killed and again nobody has claimed responsibility for that attack. turning now to the u.k. were emergency services have found 39 bodies in a container truck in southeast england the discovery was made on an industrial the stating graze a 6 which is east of london early on wednesday morning police arrested a 25 year old man from north island on suspicion of murder prime minister bars johnson says he is a poor by the incident. it is hard to put ourselves in the shoes of

those emergency services as they are running the gentleman opposite said as they were asked to open that container and to expose the appalling crime that had taken place and i must say i do share a strong desire now for the perpetrators of that crime and indeed all those who engage in similar activity because because we know that these trade is going on all such traders in human beings should be hunted down and brought to justice. before britain joins us live now from grays in essex and told the police have spoken one of they say. well they've announced that they are removing the bodies in fact they have now removed the bodies the whole tractor trailer combination of that articulated lorry has left the industrial estate over my.