the eisold remnants to make them feel ashamed of themselves on the one hand and then to pump up his own base i don't think in the end that either goal will be achieved the eisold guerrillas are not so fragile as to be harmed by some. insults aimed at their former leader although i think there will be a hit to eisele more owl and i think the ability of that organization to conduct terrorist operations has in general been much diminished. tens of thousands of people in lebanon that formed a human chain that's crossed the length of the country demonstrators say they want to present a unified front in the cold for the government to resign stephanie becker has more from beirut. they came out in their tens of thousands connecting 170 kilometers of lebanon's coastline and breaking sectarian divides by holding hands so we're making this a human chain to show the full support of all the lebanese people from the north the south. the national anthem and people are linking hands all the way to the northern city of tripoli and stretching down south. there was i'm a great human chain that you have. t

the eisold remnants to make them feel ashamed of themselves on the one hand and then to pump up his own base which as you say has been feeling rather discouraged recently because of his erratic behavior i don't think in the end that either goal will be achieved the eisold gorillas are not so fragile as to be harmed by some. insults aimed at their former leader although i think there will be a hit to eisele more owl and i think the ability of that organization to conduct terrorist operations has in general been much diminished and with regard to trump's base i think trump probably will. face impeachment proceedings i think a lot of dirt is about to come out about him and the way that he has behaved in office and so i suspect that his base is in for a bruising ride ok one coed thank you very much indeed for a as your thoughts and analysis that life from michigan thank you. well i saw made out of control much of iraq and syria anymore but it still maintains a covert network of supporters counter-terrorism officials briefed the un security council in august and revealed that the group has a

of 7 people have been killed in attacks in northeast nigeria local people say gunmen linked eisold raided a military post in the town of gusher guyana and borno state on friday and thereby but it was also attacked. now a powerful typhoon has pounded japan's capital and surrounding areas with heavy rain and strong winds coming up at least 10 people die from. tokyo on saturday before moving to the north a cleanup operation has begun and rescue efforts are now underway 16 people are still missing only half a 1000000 homes are without power when he has the latest from tokyo. we were told to expect a short sharp storm and that is exactly what happened as you can see it is a clear blue sky day in the capital tokyo on sunday in stark contrast to what we saw on saturday with a lot of rain falling and some very strong winds we still have some wind about but no sign of that rain certainly coastal areas on saturday saw some damaging winds but the main feature of this storm seems to have been the huge amount of rain that fell causing flooding in many areas and indeed there are still alerts in place f

soldiers died communities in borno state have been repeatedly attacked by groups affiliated with eisold and he's 16 people have been killed in attacks on a mosque in but. a group of men opened fire inside the grand mosque in south in the country's north but in a fast so has been struggling with conflict for the past 4 years west african heads of state met last month to discuss how to try and end the violence the final campaign rallies of taken place in mozambique in the run up to choose days general election this time around though the ruling party it faces a strong challenge from its main rival malcolm webb has more now from the capital the puter. president felipe a new see has mozambique for 5 years. first the economy has grown so has inequality some officials from his ruling for a lemo party have been jailed over a $2000000000.00 corruption scandal and the army's trying to put down an insurgency in the north so it's almost like we are the best political party well prepared to continue building mozambique as a contrast peace security and political stability the parties ruled ever sinc

the movie for actively abandons kurdish crisis who helps defeat eisold the turkish government considers the syrian kurdish forces an extension of kurdish separatists. inside turkey. subpoenas to the defense secretary and the white house budget office for documents as part of their impeachment inquiry the documents relate to donald trump's decision to delay military aid to ukraine and whether that endangered us security. in canada the candidates vying to become the next prime minister have made their case on t.v. in the leaders' debate the current prime minister just. standing in the poll slip because of several scandals one of which include involve pictures of him wearing blackface makeup. iraq's president has condemned attacks on protesters during violent government demonstrations in the t.v. address. parliament to address protests as demands and called on the security forces to ensure the rights of iraq is a protected. yeah. i'm told i would support the formation of a committee made a professional incredible experts on opening the door for a constructive dialogue with the main powers

let's get more now on our top story the death of eisold leader the group may not control much of iraq and syria anymore but it still maintains a covert network of supporters counter-terrorism officials briefed the u.n. security council last august and reveal that the group has affiliates stretching from afghanistan to nigeria which is considered to be its strongest affiliate with more than 4000 fighters of the 40000 foreign fighters the joint i still along with their families up to $30000.00 of them survived the u.s. led campaign to topple the group and i saw remains very rich with around $300000000.00 at its disposal according to some estimates what thomas pickering is a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations he says baghdad is death does not mean it's the end of isis. this is the end of buck duddy but isis is a very differentiated and broken set of franchises with lots of initiative clearly being taken by local leaders local scenes in local regions and so this splitting up is part of isis's defense mechanism i think the disappearance of buck duddy means in fact that one leader

here kurdish forces have warned any military escalation in northeast syria could lead to a return of eisold and cause a mass displacement of people turkey is preparing for an offensive against the kurdish s.d.f. which it considers a terrorist group. yes democrats say they'll subpoena the ambassador to the european union the state department barred him from testifying in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. u.s. senate intelligence committee has found russia was behind a social media disintegration campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election it says social media platforms are used to help get donald trump elected. the president of the european council has accused u.k. prime minister of engaging in quote stupid brain games as the bracks at that line edges closer this is the british media say the german chancellor has made it clear to boris johnson that it breaks it deal is overwhelmingly unlikely words the report . by the time boris johnson's cabinets arrived for their morning meeting westminster was awash with the news that downing street had decided to play

to clear the area of kurdish fighters kurdish that syrian democratic forces say a prison holding eisold detainees has been struck by turkish troops and emergency u.n. security council meeting has been called by members to discuss what is happening all in the has more now from paris on the european response to tech is offensive in northeast syria. in this statement the e.u.'s foreign policy chief federica mockery really outlines the e.u.'s position and that is that the e.u. is calling on turkey to stop all military action mongering he says that that military action simply cannot lead to any form of sustainable solution that could only be achieved through negotiations or talks marini also says it is member states are extremely concerned over the issue of security over further destabilizing an already volatile region and possibly seeing a resurgence of eisel fighters the coalition partners including turkey have been working very hard to combat moderate any also says that turkey is of course a a close ally of the european union and has hosted many syrian refugees and there is real concern i

correct there when it comes to implementing policy occurs to me that maybe yes the russians do hate eisold but obliterating i so may not be the number one priority and it's exactly right ice and yes i sold in syria has not been a russian ari from day one their priority is in bolstering the assad regime and assuring the assad regime survives the current syrian civil war and russian succeeded ensuring that their operations in syria have not been focused on targeting eisel they have a much wider objective politically so as a result we may have certain beliefs about eisel that we share with the russian federation but there are checkers are not the same of course this area that he was found in the russians could have easily and they are not easily could have found in themselves and so maybe their heart rate was not as focused as ours if we assume that it would have been an impossible for the americans to do this without getting the russians on board and informing them even if that informational that informing of them rather i should say happened quite close to the event why would the russians r

between the united states and the kurdish fighters that worked alongside the united states to defeat eisold that that is not being repaired in all of this in fact what he says is what we have done to the kurds will stand as a blood stain on american history. thank you very much. robert pierson is a former u.s. ambassador to turkey he joins me live via skype from chapel hill in north carolina just to pick up on one of. the question there of whether turkey will actually abide by this agreement what do you think with your view i mean your experience of with turkey what you think they will abide by. i think they should abide by it they have gained territory they want it without firing a shot and he of the kurds don't withdraw on time and in a manner that is acceptable new now to be on the responsibility of the us so turkey had to says want to clear victory here and they should make sure that the agreement is abided by and not do anything to interfere with it and what about russia's role in this and desist this throw tekken more into the ambit of russia after all tech has recently bought their m

led coalition which was fighting eisold killed civilians in mosul in the iraqi city of mosul in the syrian city of rekha the turkish president also asking today dozens of rockets landed in turkish border towns and more than 20 turkish civilians were killed in the ongoing operation why didn't we see world condemnation then so they feel that the west really didn't side by turkey in its operation in syria they didn't even get the support from the international community for their plan to return refugees the european union saying that no we don't accept this we want refugees to return safely to syria but the question turkey has been telling them you're leaving with us to handle this problem alone why don't you start admitting refugees if you're not going to help us implement some plan to deal with this crisis ok is enough without thank you. the rest of the day's news is still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour and ivory dealers in the u.k. pushed back against the ban on all ivory products even antiques made long ago. on poor recent lapland sweden where the indigenous sami people say by way of l

the kurdish led forces may actually be freeing eisold fighters as a way to draw the us back into thebattle in northern syria he tweeted this saying kurds may be releasing some to get us involved easily recaptured by turkey or european nations from where many came but they should move quickly big sanctions on turkey coming do people really think we should go to war with nato member turkey never ending wars will end the foreign policy chief federica mockery me has condemned turkey's advance into syria and raise concerns about that very rise of eisel the influence in the region their conclusions we call for a ministerial meeting. of the global coalition because we see as one of the most immediate consequences of this military to it is in the northeast of syria the fact that. refined its briefing space inside that territory that worries us and normally this is a direct security threat to the european union not only to the european union 1st and foremost to the region and the international community so we want to see. this tackled in the global coalition format. on to other news in there