has left several dead thousands of others have been arrested that. the repression has been horrible they beat a bully to date with claps and didn't. ask the reach out on top when we always get stepped on. demonstrators blame the government for a long list of social problems from economic inequality to growing lack of access to public health care. there is no medicine there is no supplies to treat wounds we don't have enough stuff there is a massive deficit. according to medical professionals dozens of protesters have suffered wounds from firearms and have sustained injuries to the face and torso from projectiles like tear gas canisters and rubber pellets the united nations along with international human rights groups are calling for security forces who have been documented using excessive violence against peaceful protesters to be held accountable. there have been specific cases not only violating the right to

peaceful assembly but also the right to life and bodily integrity there have also been cases of sexual assault things that cannot be tolerated. on wednesday some secretary of the interior said he expects that any alleged human rights violations will be thoroughly investigated. we are live in state of emergency and i'm really tired. but this doesn't not just to fight human rights abuses. well the majority of protests in the country have remained peaceful there's also been widespread vandalism and hundreds of businesses have been looted a military enforced curfew has been announced for a 5th night in a row and has been extended to other cities of cheating the concern now as more people continue to join in the demonstrations and violate that curfew is that the violence that we've seen over the past few days will only worsen. between protests that continue to intensify and a government who seems unable to regain the trust of the public. a peaceful

solution to the unrest appears to remain out of reach. something. time for a short break here now to 0 when we come back allegations of a coup and vote rigging protests rage on up to a disputed election in bolivia. sending money should be as easy and secure sending a message. and how did facebook boss mark zuckerberg defend his company's efforts to create a digital currency in the stay with us. how i was a game we still got some lovely weather across much of eastern europe but other sort of the met its regular season rather lively storms latest crop of storms just pushing up into that eastern side of the med heading up towards cypress just around the levant countries had coastal flooding in cairo other side of the med we still have this slow moving area of low pressure now making its way away from that

northeastern corner of spain southern parts of france crashing makes its way across the ne and of course will bring some very heavy rain the possibly some flooding coming into parts of italy as we go on through the next couple days along the islands here as well of course well a wet and windy to up towards the northwest eastern passed looking fine and dry but as i said we've got some very stormy weather into that eastern side of the mediterranean and that will continue to be the case as we go on into friday for the north the sunshine continues saying settle in sunny warm weather piling into the northwestern corner of europe feeling very autumnal here northwestern parts of africa has also seen some bits of cloud and rain as a result of that storm in the western medicine making its way further eastward northern parts of libya could see some wet weather notes that cloud right still in place into the far north east of egypt over the next couple days for the flooding to come.

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president donald trump has lifted sanctions on turkey saying he has assured him a cease fire ne in syria will be permanent launch an operation against kurdish y p g fighters earlier this month and has now made a deal with russia to create a so-called safe zone. lebanon's president micheline to to address the nation in the coming hours protesters have been calling for political change during demonstrations across the country of the last 8 days the army is now trying to reopen main roads blocked by demonstrators. and footage of chilean police in the military using what's being described as excessive force on protesters has been condemned by rights groups at least 18 people have died in 6 days of demonstrations . results from bolivia's presidential election show the incumbent has a 10 point lead over his main rival if you maintain that level would give him an outright victory avoiding a 2nd round run else but the opposition leader carlos meserve claims he has evidence of electoral fraud and wants protests to continue unless a runoff vote is held has more now from the past. as live in an election

dispute continues both the opposition and government supporters took to the streets . the latter to show their support for leftist president ever more rallies and some francisco plaza for them is the only one who took the people into account. i identify with this person who's changed the destiny of the country and the government before just looted the natural resources and this person is distributed that wealth and stipends for our older children. women. they say morale is who was the front runner in campaign polls when the election fair and square you live a.t.l. let him by sight of the opposition who have a loses in the voting booth has to respect the democratic perseus democracy is not coming out with sticks and burning public buildings or not recognizing results democracy is respecting the people have decided. that there are significant doubts

about the election the supposed rapid count on sunday showed president more on this in challenger carlos missa heading into a 2nd round runoff with 83 percent of the votes counted. then that count froze for 24 hours when it resumed president more on his was suddenly on the brink of winning outright in the 1st round the vice president of the electoral tribunal said the delay discredited the electoral process and resigned. the organization of american states. says peaceful protests will be needed to be to see you all see if we don't mobilize if we don't show our democratic power in the street this government will do what it wants with the election results. opposition supporters scarcely needed telling wednesday was the 3rd day they marched. is that we are fighting to defend our fight because every morale is not respecting the will of the people he is not respecting the laws he is not

respecting anything his time in government is over and it isn't just in the pies but across the country there are many people here that feel that especially in recent years democratic standards have been slipping. especially the country's industrial center santa cruz street battles. president more on his has called it an attempt to kook sites in the burning of government buildings your position say instead it's a cry for transparency and change john home and. the pas. the south korean prime minister and his japanese counterpart i've met in tokyo at a time of heightened tensions. have agreed that strained relations needs to be mended it's the highest level meetings since tokyo introduced export controls and materials that are crucial to the south korean tech industry that was in response to seoul's demands for compensation from japan for wartime forced labor under.

both prime ministers have agreed that they are important neighboring countries in the region and we can't leave the difficult situation of bilateral relations as it is in terms of north korean issues we need to collaborate together prime minister lee urged for dialogue and a prime minister are they once again said we need to keep promises between the countries and hopes to continue the dialogue to resolve the issues. and has the latest now from seoul. this has been an important meeting between prime minister lee of south korea and his japanese counterpart shinzo with the 2 prime ministers agreeing to try to restore relations between the 2 countries prime minister lee also passing on a letter from. the president of south korea to shinzo in which president moon says that despite their differences japan remains a very important partner in maintaining regional peace it has led to speculation of

a possible meeting between the 2 leaders maybe as early as next month at a gathering of asia pacific leaders in chile certainly relations have gotten to their lowest ebb in a number of years they have been getting progressively worse over a number of months it began with a legal ruling against japanese companies for using forced south korean labor in their factory joining world war 2 it quickly then developed into a diplomatic route and then a trade dispute with actions been taken on both sides it is also had a fallout in strategic alliances in this part of the world which has alarmed washington because these 2 important allies of the united states japan and south korea have suspended an intelligence sharing agreement that was meant to counter the threat from north korea so there does seem to be a push in the business world but also in diplomatic and political circles in tokyo

seoul and washington to have this resolved. now the 1st black leader of south africa's largest opposition party has resigned musina mani's said they had been internal conflicts in the democratic alliance as he made the announcement he added that he'd struggled to attract black voters to the historically white liberal party is the 2nd senior black politician to quit in a week. left on monday the way the da and the race relations over the past few months it's become more and more kids to me that there does exist a few with them that would look the eye to eye with. their own share the vision for the party in the direction it was 3. they've been several months of consistent and a coordinated attack. on me and my leadership to ensure that this project. vote counting is underway in botswana and what's expected to be the country's

closest ever presidential runoff president sisi says he's confident his democratic party will win another term but a united opposition is posing the 1st viable challenge to the ruling party since independence 53 years ago results are expected by the end of the week. saudi arabia's foreign minister has been replace stop that less than a year in the role abraham bin abdulaziz our stuff was only appointed to the job in december last year has been replaced by the kingdom's ambassador to germany by cell been thought to hand the saudi minister for transport has also been replaced. flooding in egypt is said to get worse especially around alexandria at least 10 people including 4 children have died after 2 days of heavy rain the capital cairo has been badly affected with roads submerged in large numbers of people staying away from work the interior ministry says that the 3 of the deaths were due to electrocution 2 people died after falling from the roofs of their homes and sort of

people have died numbers are missing after flooding hit parts of southern europe in italy flash floods left at least 2 people dead and one person died in northeast spain where a search is taking place for 5 people including a mother and her son and in france rivers burst their banks blocking roads about 2 months worth of rainfall fell in just 6 hours in the southern town a busy year the remains of spain's former right wing leader francisco franco have been in zoom from a state more than a m b really buried alongside his wife in a cemetery north of the capital madrid franco rule spain from the end of the civil war 939 until his death in 1975 the government wants to turn the site into memorial for the half a 1000000 people killed in the war. facebook's chief executive has been grilled by u.s. politicians for several hours about the company's efforts to create a global digital currency zuckerberg insists that libra as it's called will be a force for good but critics believe it'll be used by drug traffickers and other

criminals it was also a challenge to the claims you had lied to us regulators in the past and i believe that this is something that needs to get built but i get that i'm not the ideal messenger for this right now we faced a lot of issues over the past few years and i'm sure there are a lot of people who wish it were anyone but facebook who are helping to propose this. well larry maggette is the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org which gives security advice to companies including facebook he says brooke uncertain government bonds currencies. they're competing with governments i mean governments have always been the institution that issue currently they regulate them they have the 4th of a law behind them they can arrest somebody who abuse their currency all the power of the state and the fed and the if up to it for shame of private companies if threatening the government you know that's the beginning of it then you get into the issue of what would be properly regulated will have your preventer fed it will

be used for criminal activity think that nature and of course that too with all crypto currency but it crept up there in the back by facebook and several other large companies and i think it's gotten a lot more for that reason an artistic revolution is happening on the streets of sudan artists that discovered new freedoms often they helped to define the uprising which ousted the longtime president and ushered in a new transitional government even when reports now from the capital got to make think color is a 2nd nature for a young man opposite of mine but after painting for years it was only once a dance revolution began in december that he started feeling like a real artist and that every stroke of the brush now gives him a chance to show his family and that's when it's feel like a part of the revolution by spreading its messages. by the sort of some of the you know use of goodwill and some people have become close to art since the revolution in the started paying more attention to it so this is to show the sudanese ott's to bring it out sudan's visual lot has been oppressed people from the field would not

know and there was a clampdown on out for 30 years now we want to bring that out. since anti-government protests started last december over the rising costs of bread and fuel artwork has appeared on walls in sudan's capital many told president bashir his time was up and so it was his 30 year rule brought to an end by the military after. everyone was covered with reflected the demands of the protesters and their hopes for future art has become a symbol of defiance for many here and these by pro-democracy protests. but whitewash by the military following the killing of dozens of protests 2 months later within a few weeks. and that's not the only form of thriving. music was strictly regulated during the sheers rule with anyone deemed to write anything

viewed even remotely critical to the government harassed or arrested now poets and musicians say they feel no fear. played a big role in the revolution most of the slogans chanted during protests came from poets who wrote to fuel the revolution and motivate the protesters empowered and continues to. the songs that i used to sing at parties were turned down by radio stations and there were other artists who face the same thing i'm happy that such a day has come where we can express our ideas through our music not like the past where it had to be careful about what i write in the song. the revolution was spearheaded by the sudanese professional association which includes. some of their work was destroyed during the political turmoil but they say they knew work should be preserved for future generations. people will carry the message that those

drawings and other arts. are preserved for future generations so that they know about the history and the role these arts have played in the revolution and the loss. i've sacrificed for it to succeed so dance revolution provided space for still a man and many other artists to unleash the creativity giving him freedom which he says he'll guard with every color. he morgan al-jazeera hard to. die for a quick check of the headlines here at al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has lifted sanctions on turkey saying it has assured him a cease fire in northeastern syria will be permanent ankara launched an operation against kurdish y p g fighters early this month and has now made a deal with russia to create a so-called safe zone al-jazeera some course is in istanbul with more turkey assured that the military operation is halted and the cease fire is permanent so

turkey will no longer conduct any offensive against the current syrian kurdish fighters group wide and also the other esurance turkey gay was securing the imprisoned are still are still fighters in the area that was as it made today as a safe zone lebanon's president michel aoun is due to address the nation in the coming hours protesters have been calling for political change during demonstrations across the country over the last 8 days the army is now trying to reopen main roads blocked by the protesters police in england are still questioning a man after 39 bodies were found in a container truck the driver was arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery in graze on wednesday morning it's believed the container traveled from boulder area and arrived in the u.k. by the belgian port. and he said working to identify the victims footage of the chilean police and the military using what's being described as excessive force on protesters has been condemned by rights groups at least 18 people have died in 6 days of demonstrations. the south korean prime minister and his japanese

counterpart of met in tokyo at a time of heightened tension the knock you on the lobby have agreed that strained relations need to be mended the highest level meetings since tokyo introduced export controls on materials that are crucial to the south korean tech industry in response to seoul's demands for compensation from japan for wartime forced labor. saudi arabia's foreign minister has been replaced after less than a year in the role abraham. was only appointed to the job in december last year he replaced by the kingdom's ambassador to germany. and facebook's chief executive has been interviewed by u.s. politicians for several hours about the company's efforts to create a global digital currency zuckerberg insists that libra as it's called will be a force for good but critics believe it will be used by drug traffickers and other criminals so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after

inside story watching. there are we. believe in the 2 state solution do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i said was that pakistan would never start a war i am anti war we meet with global news makers the stories the world is their own. russia and turkey agreed to push kurdish forces out of the north east syria after us brokered cease fire expired but as washington post back is russia becoming the region's new power broker and what are the implications for the wind middle east this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. russia and turkey are on opposite sides of the

war in syria moscow backs the syrian president while support opposition rebels who want to remove the shuttle whether to science have been working more closely in recent months by some is to police have started patrols in northeast syria as part of a new deal with turkey on tuesday president vladimir putin and was a little and gave kurdish fighters 6 days to put back from the syrian turkish border they have breached the agreement just before the end of the u.s. brokered cease fire that's whole to turkey's military offensive in the region unclear consider the kurdish fighters to be terrorists and wants them out so it can create the so-called safe zone for syrian refugees to return. i examined by removing threats posed by the terrorist organization this operation in syria guaranteed 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 that is delaying this book we still today we share turkey's concern about the growing threats of terrorism and the growth of ethnic tensions in the region the stenches and the separatist mood in recent times where in our opinion artificially created by outsiders so let's look at how moscow has been expanding its influence in syria and the middle east in 2015 its send troops to syria in support of president bashar al assad 2 years later russia began talks aimed at resolving the conflict sidelining the us moscow sale of its ass 400 missile defense system to turkey has also angered washington and driven a wedge between the 2 nato allies and there's russia's recent alliance with saudi arabia earlier this month president vladimir putin made his 1st official visit to the kingdom in over

a decade. let's introduce our panel on skype in. turkey near the syrian border use of. a retired colonel of the turkish armed forces in moscow pavel felgenhauer a defense and military analyst and also on skype from oxford in the ok somewhere romani a researcher at oxford university a member of the discussion club a moscow based think tank and discussion forum welcome to you or. yourself how do you see the new agreement between. don and vladimir putin is it a continuation of what they have achieved in the past over syria particularly in the northern part of the country. person 13 and turkey is also

a continued nation if the agreement or deal which has been signed between united states and turkey that means that united states and russia are board are very there but the concern sort of turkey about it is security concerns and the refugee concern sock it has been proved by the united states and they talk to the white b.g. forces the was out because turkey has legit the met concerns about the security and yesterday it has also been approved by the mosque or that turkey has legit the mint concerns or security saw them i p g forces should move to the south and never pass that through out to the turkish border security a golden opportunity puff of the should be for the russians they have been expanding their influence except for the northeastern part over of syria and suddenly when the america's ports are this they saw the opening and they saw their porch in it and decided to take action. well yes this is a great opportunity and

a lot has been already achieved russia's trying to be allied or have very good relations that the same time with turkey and with the white b.g. . the americans tried to do that and but they failed miserably and now they have bad relations with the y p g and better way sions with turkey at the same time so it's a kind of 0 sum game american rules this russia gains and that's a very important thing because it changes actually the balance though arch extent in the region that washington and what prompted talking about withdrawing that only from syria but most likely from other places and russia is trying to fill in the boots some well is this a win win situation for both to keep and russia do you think the other watches and making most of the gains from this agreement. i think that compared to the us east

fire that was last week i think that turkey is in a weaker position now with the russian navy and why because they're confined now to in terms of territorial expansion they only have 120 kilometer why thief's down 440 kilometers they can add before and diligence they can be she in some other areas are no longer part of the turkish your insights so i think that russia basically knowledge that the y.p. you were security threat to turkey which is not something outside of their previous policy because it supported the operation olive branch offensive against the french in january 2018 a change for turkey recognizing the presence of syrian government forces patrolling their border effectively turkey is partially recognizing a sad rigidity in that area so i think that overall if last territorial reach last prospects for expansion and they now have to work with the side which isn't something that's very good for him to answer is not use of do you see this

agreement as the only last chance given for turkey because initially somewhere was basically saying they were saying they would further expand their more military operation now they are confined to a particular area they're not going to go to kill bonny they're not going to be able to go to members and what kind of impact will it have on national security for turkey in the future. suppression has started. some bad press 3030 has to go all scared to go goals none of the military operations are conducted to be taught said think appalled gogol luckless the turkey's particular goal is to keep white b.g. poor source 30 kilometers south of its border sort this particular goal vill be completed build be achieved with the agreement which has been done with the russia so i don't agree with my counterpart who says that turkey is controlling less area

or less territory than it is compared to beat it is a grim and united states but let's remember that turkey has not intention to conquer your uncontrolled lanced turkey has an intention to clear 30 kilometers off the security zone from all kind of by p. g. forces so if you take a look at it from this perspective that turkey is particle goal has already been established has already been achieved if by p.g. forces read through all it is forced to 30 kilometers to the sub so i have only 8 and analysts disagree ation a cording to do not military goals and targets but the political goals are goods as you know mr advani address at the united nations also address that that he said that 35 kilometers or 30 kilometers should be free from all kind of terrorist groups so that you take a look at from this perspective turkey achieved it is goal puddle but don't just

say this new agreement or something that could pose enormous challenges for russia in the near future because they will have to deal with the turks with the. with the . assad in and of assisting political landscape. yes that will require a lot of skill in performing inside syria bank we the russian leadership the russian military there believe that they can manage it there's as a great opportunity to push the americans out to get control of important areas and what has not yet been decided and apparently was not decided in such here at least we don't know it was not maybe but it's not in the published memorandum is where there's go the control of the syrian oil fields the very important strategically important syrian oil fields that were under american kurdish control

in the north of the euphrates and which russia very much wanted to take control of not for itself not that we need more oil but for the syrian government per se because that would give them a source of income that they don't have and that would also help iran that was mostly financing the assad government because now they're also very short on currency free currency because of the american sanctions so right now it's not clear who's going to control the oil fields and barrels or and in the other parts of the former kurdish rajab. some well i mean from a took his perspective the c.f.l. the wind out of existence a threat to the national security a myth that perspective do you have any concerns that the potential for a confrontation in that area to rick and it's time soon is that. i think it depends obviously on how the evacuation takes place i think that certainly after

the operation restraint there after the trump cease fire deal there were some syrian kurdish leaders who were talking openly about northern syria as our homeland we had control money order syria we have had the right to autonomy here and we have seen our time to mean our susan. by the international community by russia the united states and especially by turkey's military and so as long as those kurdish nationalist autonomy girls still persist i did see the kurds bring up some resistance but it appears that for now the syrian kurds have complied with the regulations that were sleeping at it they've withdrawn their on the process of withdrawing from that you're trying to sell i think that an immediate confrontation is not likely but in the long term as long as there are national there and there's distrust of the americans russians or turks are regime time. in northern syria it's certainly possible in the months to come use of what's the endgame for turkey here

is it just to establish this safe corridor or to prevent stiff fighters from being closer to the border or do you think it's the beginning of a new phase where the turks will. create the more 'd more than 4000000 syrian refugees back into the villages or into the north is some parts of the of syria ok as i said before that 30 has to pay out goals 'd one of them is to secure their area the other one is that is dealing with more than $3600000.00 refugees inside its country giving them how schools all kind of facilities and spent billions of dollars from on these on budget for this isn't turkey wants them to return back to the a secure song on free veal if turkey can achieve not all of them but maybe in the 1st phase 1000000000 in the 2nd phase is the 2000000 for this reason the game now is starting you know very different. striation that turkey will try to resettle

almost 2000000 refugees to these secure area because that bank you take a look at to the international community no one cares about what is going on inside to care in terms of refugee crisis for this reason the turkey has to pol tical goals and the 2nd phase probably been start no sooner than in 6 months because turkey will 1st prepare those territory in order to enable for eg good life like in the case of us as gerard loose and in the other parts of our feed in the other parts of the parts of the african area for example schools are operating hospitals are caring giving people have to care for this reason that should be lots to done the other issue that if the p.k. k. and by p. g. forces go to the south of these area probably it will also got on to the

territorial integrity off to syria because by p.g. was the biggest trap together of the united states to the territorial integrity of to syria ok. syrian refugees don't you see this as a more of a political issue that will have to involve both the russians and the syrian government of the end of the day. creating such as own that's going to be a housing quite a big number of syrian refugees that ran from the war but many of them ran from syria because they don't like i said and there's going to be of course the free syrian army that was the spearhead of the turkish invasion forces moving into northern syria and will stay in control the same area so that's kind of creating an anti asaad zone of a lot there's going to be a big population and. apparently there's going to be armed forces on the ass and

the acid won't like it of course damascus won't like it for russia maybe it's a bit of a different issue because russian perspective is much more wide there it's the entire region the standoff with the united states globally we're in this standoff maybe turkey is more important than not that if turkey can be pulled further away from nato and from america and of course there's also a role for the y.p. g. to play with which russia has a very warm established relationship with the java has an embassy actually in moscow de facto for some years so this is going to be a very complicated put a there in not only involving the northern part of syria the former a job ok also all of syria i see a point where russia will be minding its own business primarily some well as the americas are putting do you see now that and the russians most likely the to keep

by as who are going to shape the future of syria with or without its political agreement. i think that yes version turkey have now ensconced themselves lacked and they will be in control of the northern part of the very base of course iran looking at the country more broadly has influence in southern syria but he ran it cleverly exempted how detached itself from the core conflict over here so it criticise turkey and act it's not really necessary getting involved the mess it has been silent on it led largely april so the other area where this will be resolved in chile to the us and a suspect over the course of a 6 hour meeting it was likely discussed well. if the russians are knowledge you might be easy gerty threat they will expect turkey to make similar compromises on h.t.s. and that has a couple of problems 1st of all will turkey basically want to see that city to us not and secondly does turkey have been friends or e.c.s.

now the rebel groups that russia believes that hats i think the answer to both of those questions are unclear and turkish influence over the rebel groups certainly as in less than advertiser in the past year you know the focus from northern syria the anger agreement in secret in your own research into areas are the key areas and russia and europe your central in both of those areas use of it's really interesting what's happening in turkey for decades is spit on what's than acquiring weapons may live from the us nothing seems to be quite changing they're doing business with russia's charleton gnutella 2 of the russians acquiring 400 from the russians are trying to redefine the. basic orientations of the turkish state. actually to tell the truth the rest is redefining it is border to speak to turkey to relations with the turkey because turkey has also or or for tonight states that he wants to buy an air defense

missile system from the united states but united states congress for years didn't provide all got turkey is a nato ally and also you know that if you talk july that happens that crew at camp inside turkey and that main suspect all these crew especially is living inside the united states for this reason you know it states especially for store key to buy. guns from the russia the 2nd issue is that although in the september 11th attacks turkey was the 1st country to accept that united states all for the global war on terror and san carson saw fit to stroup sound masted soldiers inside afghanistan together with united states after the cold war b. s. turkey to tell the truth are mostly didn't see any collaboration and coordination with the united states just on the contrary to that united states sent hundreds of passengers of trucks full of ammunition full of that on systems and complicated

weapons systems now the turkish you know the force was not used struggling inside the residence or soft rustle line and columbia in order to. explore the dam and weapon systems came from united states to the turkish border we know it very well for this year isn't to say that ad is trying to reshape the turkey's foreign policy in line with russia does not reflect the real picture of the situation i said when asked asked mr avlon to reshape the relation in between russia some. puddle we've seen the russians at the same time further testing new territories saudi arabia the u.a.e. were putting made a visit recently is here trying to build new parts of the ship with countries that were for many many decades traditional allies of the us. world the

just the russian follett they oppose political game in the middle east is that pressure has a great advantage that it can speak and has a working or a way shin ships with everyone we speak and have good relations with iran and israel at the same time with turkey and. saudi arabia and egypt at the same time with turkey and their way p.g. at the same time so russia at that puts russian a very unique situation position to be a broker that can speak to everyone and also that has assets on the ground and capabilities on the ground that make it just not also a broker but also a power broker there and that gives russia more weight than its overall no actually in the konami keep ability should actually their rife so that's a yes that and that's working out that's a very smart policy strategy that russia is running in the middle east while the

united states doesn't seem to have any kind of strategy we're talking about it all somewhat it could be the lot of capabilities i see your point some well as puddle said this is a smart move from the russians bus. given the fact that russia does not have the financial might that the west and the americans in particular have done just see this as a gamble there could backfire in the future i think that russia is not to replace the united states and the imprint of our in the middle east or in the security guarantee or orders even economic responsible reasoners their investments in development of china's human and yet russia is in direct competition with the u.s. and china after disgusting u.s. attorney but i think it's completely baseless i think what we're moving towards is the tribal or middle east with varying degrees of responsibility us being the primary security and her china being the primary economic can't development can guarantee an investor and russia being

a diplomat that can navigate the conflicting interests of our time i think if russia sticks to that's where it can be very successful of course we can do when it wants to marry that. with higher power and likely after ally an external capitals organizer in reconstruction after the china and some others back in diplomatic rock talking are not it has the potential to be uniquely successful and you serve if the russians decide in the future to step in trying to mend fences between turkey address syria turkey saudi arabia turkey and the u.a.e. is that fine from a turkish perspective i think i can say that turkey is in the region has for more than 1000 years and he is neighboring facing forward to divest for more than again 1000 years so i don't say that turkey veal turning to face to russia turn into space to turkey is towards the space and building policy in the relationship with

the best but the same time in the relation with russia but at the same time we thought not up in relation with all kind of asian countries and middle east thank you that does not mean that there is turning its face completely due to the russia but after the cold war you know that there are merely different if they are worse emerge or on a limb a question to pummel no with with the russians. into the opec plus the 2016 with saudi arabia where they have become very crucial in. controlling the output of oil and the russian using and as you to replace the americans in the middle east. well russia does see itself as a kind deaf successor to the soviet union and that does see itself when the kind of standoff with the united states not only in the middle east but then many other

parts of the world around its border other parts of its borders yes russia does not have the keep a bill at these of course to going into a kind of a greek court how agreement with the with opec and primarily the saudi arabia is important that's a practical move because russia wants to maintain a stable price of whoa the saudis need it the russians need that without that the russian state would cannot function if they were force again and price very magically but they're making him using energy to find if take over the entire region that's not in russia's reach i don't think anyone here in moscow has such ambition thank you it's good to talk to you public affairs we have to leave it there thank you see and to use of a lot of that and to some well run money and thank you too for watching you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com pfoa slash a.j.

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a coup and vote rigging as a morale this appears to increase his lead in bolivia presidential elections. and why the remains of the leader of spain 36 years of being in from the state muslim. the u.s. president has ended sanctions on turkey saying ankara's offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria is over and as turkish and russian troops take over territory previously patrolled by u.s. troops donald trump says it's time for someone else to fight over this blood stained sand the reaction out of turkey in a moment but 1st this report from white house correspondent kimberly halkett he promised a withdrawal but on wednesday u.s. president donald trump announced that some american troops will remain in syria trump says a u.s. brokered cease fire between turkey and kurdish fighters known as the s.d.f. was a success as a result u.s.

sanctions opposed on turkey earlier this month are no more so the sanctions will be lifted or less something happens that we're not happy with. trump left open the possibility there could still be new sanctions and tariffs on steel exports from turkey to the united states the invitation for president wretch of thai of error to one to visit the white house next month is also still on for now trump says it may happen in the meantime he says america's work in syria is mostly done we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out let someone else fight over this long blood stayed and sand truck fired back at critics abroad pushing them to pick up where america has left off he wants washington's allies to help detain eisel fighters and repatriate them to their home

countries. but trump syria policy faces domestic criticism in the u.s. congress even from within his own republican party senator mitch mcconnell is promising bipartisan legislation to push trump to cancel air to ones white house visit and halt the u.s. troop drawdown. the senate needs to speak up we cannot effectively support our partners on the ground without a military presence the democratic senate leader fears u.s. actions will have grave consequences for kurdish fighters fought alongside u.s. forces to defeat eisel he's particularly concerned with reports the united states withdrawal has now allowed some myself fighters to escape the president's incompetence without a one in syria has handed isis a get out of jail free card and put simply put american lives in danger

well it was about foreign policy president trump white house address was geared to a domestic audience already campaigning for reelection president trump is keen to show he's keeping a campaign promise withdrawing u.s. soldiers from a generation of war kimberly hellcat al jazeera the white house russian officials have told the chief of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces that they only increase the number of military police near this turkey syria border the s.d.f. leader spoken to video conference with russia's defense minister moscow says they discussed the progress of the deal announced by russia and turkey on tuesday the s.d.f. need to thank moscow for its work to end hostilities in northern syria so them concealed it has more now from istanbul. took agave to assure insisted the united states so that they could lift the sanctions imposed on track at the 1st song was halting the military operation that was launched in october 9th against the syrian kurdish fighters group wipe each of which turkey designates as

a terrorist organization and make the recently deal recently signed deal the cease fire there as permanent so that turkey would not again attack the syrian kurdish fighter group y p g in northern syria again and the 2nd best surance was that turkey would secure the arsenal fighters who are in prison who were captured by the syrian kurdish fighter group during their can't counter eisel operations in northern syria and turkey would not let them escape or anything happen both the united states and turkey market this deal as a very historical success as u.s. president donald trump is prepping up for an election next year and president our don who lost some support in the last one year is trying to gain more domestic support through a successful military operation but one thing is clear u.s. say is that if turkey resumes the military operation against the syrian kurdish fighters grow the sanctions are always on the table and from the turkish side the

u.s. sanctions who are that have been imposed or that have been possibly imposed on turkey have always been seen as politically motivated or job marker on as a fellow at the arab center and washington d.c. he says president from slack of clear foreign policy the middle east won't just affect its involvement in syria trump views or positions being like sporadic like the stock exchange going up and go so they want to withdraw in december the changes more and know if they withdraw them they call him on them or the view of the old field and furious when he changes more and look you 200. he's going to send 1000 maybe 800 to iraqis and as you said the iraqi said no once you show weakness on the ground of all ability or no commitment people not going to take you seriously as well the iraqis are saying what the kurds are saying and what the russian and the turks are saying so he already show that he doesn't want to commit so they are

ready to pressure him back of the van to pressure him on the operation recently and that he was due immediately so yes there is look you know i asked people of the pentacle nobody knows what's next and that deployment there if they're going to stay for longer for weeks for months for this look leave us policy in the endgame in syria so it's the moment of of color lapse of u.s. foreign policy not only in syria but what then an across the middle east. lebanon's president michel aoun is due to address the nation in about an hour's time protesters have been demonstrating on demanding political change for 8 days so reports from beirut. they tried 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 they 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 saad and heidi 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 school buses but he's 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 is now entering its 2nd week of necessity because. my son graduates next year and all he thinks about is leaving lebanon he can't find a job he. i don't want my children to leave i want those in power to return the money. 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 we are 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 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 to for their beirut. well since protests began in lebanon been huge turnouts every night in tripoli the northern city is traditionally a support base for the prime minister hariri but critics say the sunni majority city has been neglected some of the poorest areas in the country people are united against their leader. we are scared. and we are aware that. we are going to a bit of a chaotic period after this but when you are aware. you're ready and when you're ready if this is the 1st. year when you're scared

you either do things you're either withdraw or this gives your perseverance to continue especially. when you've got strong out of many disappointment. provisional results from bolivia's presidential election show the incumbent has a 10 point lead over his main rival if he maintains that level it gives him an outright victory in avoiding a 2nd round runoff but the opposition leader claims he has evidence of electoral fraud and wants protests to continue unless a runoff vote is held home and has more now from us. there as the bolivian election dispute continues both the opposition and government supporters took to the streets . the latter to show their support for leftist president ever more rallies and some francisco plaza for them is the only one who took the people into account. i didn't affair with this person who's changed the destiny of the country or the

governments before just looted the natural resources and this person's distributed that wealth and stipends for older children either pregnant women. they say morale is who was the front runner in campaign polls when the election fair and square you live i say to the opposition whoever loses in the voting booth has to respect the democratic process democracy is not coming out with sticks and burning public buildings or not recognizing results democracy is respecting the people have decided. that there are significant doubts about the election the supposed rapid count on sunday show president more on this and challenger carlos messer heading into a 2nd round runoff with 83 percent of the votes counted. then back out to 24 hours when it resumed present.