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we're traveling and it starts nov 6th on d w. this is deja vu news line from berlin is this ceasefire in northeastern syria already crumbling kurdish led forces accuse turkey of violating the troops but ancora says there are no more clashes in the area also coming up thousands take part in a mass rally in catalonia in northern spain to protest the jailing of separatist leaders bringing parts of the region to
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a standstill. charm or strong arm boris johnson begins his campaign to persuade the british parliament to back is new breaks the deal and he has just one more day to do so. plus qatar promises to reform the labor laws for the migrant workers building the venues for the 2022 world cup will it be enough to improve the dire conditions the things. i'm calling on ball come to the program turkey's president rush of to tie up air to one is denying reports that his troops have broken the ceasefire in northeastern syria kurdish led syrian forces accuse the turks of failing to stick to a deal brokered by the americans after sporadic clashes broke out in one border town ancora has hailed the deal as a victory for turkey saying. it got quote everything it wanted. sporadic clashes
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and artillery strikes are hitting the syrian border town of saleh. this is just hours after top turkish and u.s. officials agreed to impose a pause in the fighting in the region. today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. turkish side will pause operation for peace spring in order to allow for the withdrawal of white p.g. forces from the safe zone. for $120.00. the americans claim to the 5 day cease fire as a diplomatic victory but the kurdish y p g militia was not at the table for the negotiations before the agreement to pause fighting syria's brossel lane was already the scene of heavy clashes local humanitarian groups say civilians were being caught between the fronts. the announcement to freeze combat surprised some
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observers turkish president recha tie affair to one had previously announced he would not agree to halt the offensive he's denied rumors that mike pence threatened turkey with new sanctions should he fail to support the plan. shortly after the vice president announced the cease fire the turkish foreign minister gave the press his government's view of the day's events. out of it it's not the end of the operation it's not a ceasefire you could only have a ceasefire between 2 legitimate governments were suspending our operations so the terrorists the targets of our operation can leave the security zone. the turkish government also expects the y.p. g. militia to give up all its weapons and will continue its dialogue with russia assad's military backers have moved their forces into position in northern syria in conjunction with syrian troops. damascus and moscow so far have shown little
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willingness to accept turkey's security zone. for more let's bring in our correspondent dorian jones he is in istanbul for us now dorian we're getting reports that fighting is continuing in the region and now we're hearing a kurdish military spokesperson saying that turkey is in fact violating this cease fire agreement what more can you tell us about all this. well yes the blame game has already started over these sporadic clashes that have been going on since the morning mainly in this town to teach equally important town of ras al-ain kurdish fighters the same blaming the syrian rebels that are current that are fighting with the turkish forces for violating the cease fire and saying that they are defending themselves we haven't had any reaction from the uncreate over this other than the turkish president reject the one speaking before prayers saying that they are committed to this deal to create this safe zone that will cover several 100
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kilometers and be 30 kilometers deep and they say that they see this is a very important step forward but on the ground it does appear that the cease fire isn't at least in the town of ross i mean he's not holding with even reports that turkey should have hit a hospital we haven't got confirmation of that at this hospital and rusty i was apparently treating the wounded of fighting are just another indication that of how difficult and tense the situation is at the moment now this cease fire which clearly is quite fragile of the moment does ask kurdish forces to leave this 30 kilometer zone what's being called a safe zone by turkey are they doing that. well this really is the key point of this deal and there appears the americans have reached 2 separate agreements the agreement struck in un crowd which i understand is that there will be this safe zone of over 400 kilometers and 30 kilometers deep but the leader of the kurdish militias in syria muslim bani said that no this deal only
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applies to the strategic towns of. which has been the center of heavy fighting and the more or less 100 kilometers difference between different. gap between these 2 towns they will retreat from so there is a major chasm of difference of understanding in the green that itself doesn't lie and how big this safe so will be and that adds to the ambiguity and beyond that there the kurdish militias are voicing concerns about the safety and security of the people in this safe so given the fact that they are alarmed what they see this syrian rebels they claim are being to hard it's groups and even al qaeda an islamic state now one critter nice and but there is profound concern about the safety of the people there and given the fact the vice president mike pence on speaking after the deal ruled out any deployment of u.s. forces in this area only adds to that concern so yes at the moment there does seem to be a big difference in the understanding of this agreement is very much a ceasefire a work in progress but time is running out and i do i am president i don't want to
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say he wants to resettle one and a half to 2000000 syrian refugees from turkey and put them into this area what about the refugees themselves and would they be willing to make that kind of move. well that is a very big question turkey's hosting over 3 and a half 1000000 refugees many of them who have been here for many years now and have carved out a new life for themselves what they prepared to move back to the safe so much turkey wants to create many of these people don't even come from this area given the fact that there will be big concerns over the security of this area is very unclear whether they are prepared to go on course if they won't be forced out but this is a major problem but for earth one this is a key part of the deal because the presence of refugees in turkey is becoming deeply unpopular boy in jones for us in istanbul as the situation in the area continues to develop thank you very much or as we've heard part of turkey's plan is to set up a so-called safe zone in northern syria the turkish government also wants to
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resettle up to 2000000 syrian refugees there who are currently in turkey he has been speaking with some of the refugees who could be affected. in the distance i mean a mohammed can still see her homeland just over the horizon the syrian city of course . when i say kabbani i remember my childhood my life there all my memories are over that. 5 years ago militants of the so-called islamic state laid siege to me forcing amina and part of her family to flee to so rich in turkey . from here she watches as their homelands fate once again hangs in the balance the kurdish fighters who are driven out to jihadists and 2015 after months of these fighting are now on the back foot in northeast syria in the wake of turkey's military offensive and there are growing concerns that i as militants could regroup
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. we've heard that many i.a.s. fighters managed to escape and that scares us we're still afraid of the islamists and the fighting we have family over there and we're worried about them. we talked to many syrian refugees who are in the border area and they all told us more or less the same thing how grateful they all on the one hand that turkey has taken them in and all skeptical they are on the other hand that the so-called safe zone president reza type ad on wants to establish in syria will really be safe. a villa has sons family fled to turkey 5 years ago from their wrists or in syria they live in tents and try to make ends meet with odd jobs currently there helping with the cotton harvest. it's not an easy life but it's still better than living across the border in the conflict zone says
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a dollar all of. the snow and this man who work with us all month we hear they want to set up a safe so descend back syrians who are living in turkey syria. but i don't think you'll be safe one. nobody wants to go back to a place where they feel scared. if it's safe or go if not we'll stay here. schundler fors one of the largest cities here in the border region with around 2000000 inhabitants every 5th president is a refugee from syria most of the turks we speak with support the military offensive it's important they say because of the refugees and for their own safety. the operation is a great thing otherwise terrorists will turn into a big threat for us and drag our country into war. because they think. we can do what almost all homeland and when this area is cleared and free of terrorists they
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can return so i'm not good at this. video here turkey is hosting many refugees it's difficult for our economy. and i think the operation peace bringing will bring good results at least our syrian brothers can return home when they get there. i mean a mohammed who fled qubani with her family is not that optimistic she would rather stay here in turkey it's hard to see a future for her children she says in the images coming out of syria. a mass protests and a general strike on the way in the spanish region of catalonia protesters there want a long prison sentences handed out to qatar independence leaders overturned hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in rallies in the country long couple of barcelona on friday many backed independence for catalonia protesters say
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they are furious at the tough sentences and the region's former leaders are holding out long referendum on independence in 2017. let's go to barcelona now that's where stephen bird. is for us now stephen we just saw those images of this strike i mean we're hearing that roads are closed and we're now even hearing that the big football match so barcelona madrid as also been postponed and just walk us through the situation there for us. the situation is right now is the sign as much as they were converging on the city from various parts of. our arriving there of about 60 or 70000 people in the city center i expect 2 groups or several 100000 bar this awful news which is where the right. is but as a result the city is pretty much. impossible or to very difficult.
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is the services story there's the delays and. cancellations at the airport. there's a demonstration going to happen at the cruise port to try to stop people on cruise ships. as the biggest tourist board. through december. last night we saw those intense clashes with between demonstrators and police are we expecting any more of those violent clashes now today. yes i think of the short answer is that nothing has been. given the way this week has planned out so far it would be surprising if there was basically a person. peaceful demonstration as it disperses it breaks into smaller and smaller groups. that were just a few 100 people. shooting with the police into the small hours and i think that
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was more later on given what we're seeing i mean they timed massive protests one time those sorts of violent violent images what have you heard from the spanish government. but this government has done nothing except predictably condemn the violence doesn't know the spanish government nor the council on movement on making any constructive moves to towards her. talks and try to find some some way out of this film people beyond what really because of her frustration has descended into violence there's nothing really happening on the political front all right stephen bergen for us he's in barcelona thank you very much thank you brian. our now a check of some of the other stories making headlines around the world protesters in lebanon are holding a 2nd day of rallies against government plans to impose new taxes the
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demonstrations are some of the biggest in years in the country overnight rioting protestors set fires in the capital beirut with 2 people reportedly killed by those blazes. china's economic growth has slowed to its weakest pace in nearly 3 decades weaker demand at home and abroad is hitting production in the country 3rd quarter data shows its growth slowed to 6 percent fueling fears of a possible global recession in the months ahead. us democrats say act say comments by the acting white house chief of staff to implicate president trump in wrongdoing wish they could move a knee appeared to tell reporters that the white house did withhold aid to ukraine to pressure officials there to investigate trump's political drivers of any nonsense his comments were misconstrued 3 years ago u.k. prime minister boris johnson is on a mission to secure supports and british parliament after reaching a brac said withdrawal deal with the european union on thursday government
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ministers are meeting today ahead of a key vote in parliament on saturday on that new bracks a deal johnson who leads a minority government will need the support of some opposition lawmakers in order for the deal to pass he says though that he's confident he can get enough support see it through even some of his allies however a valid to vote against it. our correspondent charlotta ponts joins us now from london charlotta you've been speaking to m.p.'s at westminster all day today what are they telling you i mean does it seem that the prime minister has enough support to get this deal approved tomorrow. nobody knows that is the short answer it's going to be a very very tight vote for boris johnson and to downing street so. actually said this morning that boris johnson will have to act both as a salesman and as a cheerleader in the cause of the day to convince those parliamentarians that not
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on board yet with his deal. let's crunch the numbers a little bit of the do you have a northern irish unionist party have said they are against this deal they will vote against it tomorrow so that's 10 votes less he has trouble within his own conservative policy the hotline a seems to be on board the rebels said boris johnson kicked out of the party a few weeks ago they are considering but not sure and then there is the labor opposition party where a few m.p.'s are actually considering voting for boris johnson it's going to be a very very very tight vote that is what we're hearing and i was talking to a labor m.p. before who has told me how busy things are and westminster right now in the hallways behind me in the offices people are crunching the numbers themselves looking at the legal text and considering if finally voting for this deal and that labor m.p.
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i was very surprised to hear that he will actually vote for the deal let's listen and. i'm going to vote for the deal i think people in this country politicians who thought this so well next for 3 yes and every. bill being put in front of would stop with. all the remain as of you all are. usually. even the queen was involved in the supreme court i mean everybody should be involved and. paul and. noble go to do you think we should grab a both sides might be the best course not to deal. with the work and we'll leave in europe when i. need a lot more of those sorts of votes tomorrow let's look ahead towards tomorrow what happens now if this deal is. in fact turned down in part. well of course it would be a huge political disaster for johnson and boris johnson himself is presenting this
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to parliament parliament as a binary choice he's saying look here's my deal with the european union go for that one or let's the u.k. crash alex of the european union on october 31st that is the next breaks that deadline but it's not really a binary choice the reality is that there is a law in place polman have put has put that in place as a safeguard that makes boris johnson asked the european union for another extension and so if the go it fails tomorrow then he will have to go to the european union and ask for another extension and this whole process could be prolonged even further and that is what boris johnson is on the other hand counting on he's hoping that this stretch of another extension maybe will convince m.p.'s to finally get a deal over the line and get bricks that done get your calculators ready as are all the parts and london for us thank you very much. government in
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mexico have waged a fierce battle against security forces after police detained the son of a notorious drug lord walking. it's all took place in a town and guzman's home state of sinaloa police later released over the months saying that they had done so to calm down the streets and save the lives of civilians that even caught up in the shoot out. mexican security forces were on a routine patrol in similar as capital city when gunmen opened fire on them. security forces returned fire initially capturing 4 men among them the son of the former head of the senate alone drug cartel. guzman. one of them was identified as a video. last result several organized crime groups around of the. with the 4th graders and out of the patrol unit other criminal groups initiated violence against other citizens. caravans of cartel
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gunmen took over the city setting fires blocking major intersections and killing civilians indiscriminately the force wielded by the cartel gunmen so superior that the authorities decided to release the video guzman in order to avoid a further escalation of violence the incarceration of former cartel top man el chapo in one of the highest security prisons in the united states has left a dangerous power vacuum in the sinhala and drug cartel it's triggered a surge of violence in mexico as various would be contenders fight for control of the powerful drug cartel. somali now in a country that's been battling a 7 year long insurgency and the scene is almost forces take control of large parts of the country thousands of civilians have also been forced to flee their homes because of enter ethnic violence many of these people have been displaced within
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mali he does use funding for sharks sent us this report from the capital city of. it's only a stone's throw from here to downtown the only short ride from the bustle of the city to this camp but it may as well be on a different planet many in the city say they are unaware of this camp for displaced full on herdsman built on a waste dump this is definitely not the home or anybody would want to leave for anybody should live yet it has become the home of more than 1000 people who fled from interethnic violence in central mali and yes this is their home on a landfill full of waste and their homes also made of waste the smoke that you see around me is because of the waste that's being burnt around them. the smell is overpowering. people burning weights to clear a little space creating thick smoke there drifts through this site.
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we will file a complaint against the government this can't work like this it's not ok to leave trash here if you have trash you how are you supposed to keep healthy this is not easy or even possible. to deter some to the 1000000 man the camp receives occasional donations of food and water every day the children play in the trash the threat of disease is constant. this woman is 63 like everyone here she fled from a region in central mali when the violence broke out. but you and i'm living with her mother and her newborn they are sick i used to have a good life there we lost everything and came here she says her village was burned by dog and people farmers who fight the flooding over land and access to food. i want to find out from the government if there is plan in place to help these
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people but they insist they don't even know that the camp exists. i haven't seen anyone living in a waste dump and telling me honestly if i said i had seen and then i would be telling a lie i saw people in tents yes well arranged nice tents and a temporary shelter. the mullion government is busy trying to distinguish different fires at once expanding islamist militancy and ethnic violence. the whole challenge that needs a global response not just to mali in one by. one if they cannot come up with a plan together then the whole challenge stays are the. people in just one of many makeshift camps across mali living in a dire situation 1000000 government says it can't even begin to address on as
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there is peace. or qatar has promised labor reforms ahead of hosting the 2022 football world cup the gulf state has faced intense international criticism for exploiting the migrant workers or building the venues for the matches the changes are expected to come into effect at the beginning of next year. migrant workers in qatar many of whom have been building the country stadia for the 2022 world cup require approval from their boss before they can change jobs or even leave the country and that is said to change next year the gulf state has agreed to abolish labor and introduce a minimum wage law that would not discriminate against nationalities. it is very important because we are looking at the law to be an attractive place for investors for the skilled workers to have productive communities.
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amnesty international has long called for an end to the abusive system in qatar it praised the announcement as a major step forward but the organization also remains cautious the devil will be in the detail far too often workers have continued to face exploitation and abuse despite reforms. the pressure to reform has been a sticking point ever since the working conditions of could toss migrant workers were exposed as specially under the spotlight of woodcut preparations one agency that has been working closely with qatar on the forming it system is the united nations international labor organization. well you know for us it's it's been long overdue a date it still exists in many other countries and we're hoping the other countries will also follow suit on fleet of all the stuff i love because it's not in line with international standards qatar is in need of an image boost before they host
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