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Asked like sending back pastor bronson or other things so everything is mixed up but when you look at from one chorus perspective but they believe that this is a legitimate coast to do this military operation there ok so and thank you for that update from istanbul or now lets find out what President Trump has been saying and bring in ken lay out that she is joining us from washington so whats trumps reaction. Well hes continuing to make the argument to a domestic audience mainly that hes keeping a Campaign Promise made in 2016 to get the United States out what he calls endless wars take a look at this tweet that he sent this morning he says turkey has been planning the attack for kurds for a long time theyve been fighting for ever we have no soldiers or military anywhere near the attack area im trying to end the endless wars the president goes on in his 2nd tweet to say that turkey is a member of nato others say stay out let the kurds fight their own battles even with our financial help i say hit turkey very hard financially and with sanctions if they dont play by the rules and watching very closely so the president giving a little bit of support to an effort in the u. S. Senate to really push back on his impulsive announcement that he was making way for these Turkish Military operations that outraged many members of his own Republican Party and democrats thats what brought to the legislative for if you will foreground these announcement by senator Lindsey Graham a republican who is often a supporter of the president but also Chris Van Hollen senator a democrat essentially putting in place what if its voted on and taken up next week in the senate very strict financial sanctions on turkey and also limiting military support in terms of sales as well and even potentially limiting turkeys leadership in the form of traveling to the United States and visas so the u. S. President actually endorsing what was supposed to be a bit of a measure to restrain the president many saying that this is an effort this announcement by the u. S. President has been not strategic all over the place in terms of strategy and also has really abandoned or turned the backs on the kurdish allies that the United States has counted on for the effort to defeat eisel in the last 5 years. Can really with an update from washington kimberly thank you. Now meanwhile whats happening at the u. N. Is that the Security Council is to begin a meeting in new york to discuss the situation thats going to happen in the next few minutes james bay is joining us from there what should we be looking out for james. Well as you say the Security Council going to be meeting soon in fact the Security Council is currently meeting discussing the situation in colombia that meeting is going on in the Security Council chamber which is just over this way behind me immediately after that meeting theyll be having a closed meeting on colombia and then moving on to the situation in syria the Security Council has been discussing among its members for some days whether to have a meeting on the situation they decided to do so after it was called for by the 5 e. U. Members of the Security Council one of those is germany the deputy ambassador spoke to us earlier. Germany together with the iau partners has requested that the Security Council deal with the situation in syria today under any other business and close consultations germany condemns the turkish unilateral military operation in northeastern syria in the strongest possible terms we fear that this operation runs the risk of further destabilizing the entire region and also restraint from the islamic state. Syria has now been severely impacted by this terrible war for 8 years and were now at the verge of starting a political process with the Constitutional Committee this is what we need within the political process however the Turkish Operation now threatens to unleash another human a terror catastrophe as well as new Refugee Movement with f. A call in turkey to see its operation and to pursue its security interests in a peaceful manner this has also been underlined by the German Foreign minister today in a phone conversation with this turkish kind of. Condemned in the strongest possible terms the words there. Of the german deputy ambassador that echoing other words out of burlington out of paris as well but it is clear that even the e. U. Who called for this meeting dont seem to have exactly the same language the u. K. Is been talking about watching the situation with concern and in a more recent statement the u. K. Foreign secretary went a bit further and said that he was concerned and disappointed at what was going on but clearly a difference in tone in the language even among the e. U. Members who called for this meeting and obviously the u. S. Here at the u. N. Saying very little i think thats because of the confusion theres been in washington with President Trump looking like he gave this operation the green light on sunday and other parts of the administration trying to walk that back then of course youve come to the russian position on this when i asked the Russian Ambassador on the way into the meeting to talk about it that was the gesture he gave me he was saying absolutely nothing and clearly there is some speculation that the russians may see this operation potentially even though theyre on the side of the Syrian Government and have been on the opposite side of this throughout the 8 and a half year war that russia and the Syrian Government may be trying to use this to their advantage because remember while this is taking place on the northeast part of the border in the north west of course they continue their bombardment in fact no longer is in the spotlight and also potentially this pushes syrian kurds from the border area further down into syria they may be weakened and they may be forced to seek a deal with the assad regime ok were actually going to find out whats the word on the street so to speak and russia would step vasant but james thank you for that update from the u. N. So there are steps us and shes joining us from moscow you heard james bays saying that he tried to question the ambassador at the u. N. And he was saying absolutely nothing but we know that sargon lavrov the foreign minister has been speaking what did he have to say. Yes and not surprising that the ambassador didnt say anything russia has been pretty silent about this operation since it started last fall for the foreign minister actually this morning spoke out for the 1st time clearly sort of endorsing the operation so to speak he said that russia always understood the concerns of turkey about their border but at the same time he also said he wants to help create a dialogue between syria on one side and turkey on the other and since then he has been on the phone with the iraqi president and barked out and moscow have now agreed that this dialogue is necessary and that the north east of syria should have a long term stability station and also the territorial integrity of syria should be respected basically russia sort of doesnt seem to mind too much about the Turkish Operation as long as its been contained russia definitely doesnt want the turkish troops to go into the syrian areas beyond the kurdish areas and make this war even longer because russia really wants this war to finish but definitely russia is happy with the United States leaving syria and its also looking at more influence over syria after this whole conflict is is finished ok starve us and thank you yes the of the continue to warn there is a risk i saw fighters could escape detention if fighting intensifies wordsmiths has more from erbil iraq semi autonomous kurdish region. Syrian Democratic Forces officials have again warned that i still find as risk breaking out of the Detention Centers in northeastern syria if the fighting with turkey intensifies this is because syrian Democratic Forces s. D. S. Fighters mainly kurdish would feel pressured and tempted to go towards the front lines in the fight against do to defend that territory that hole leaving these Detention Centers exposed to the risk of break out and this is one of the major warnings that the s. D. F. Has been giving to the International Community we do know that is the turkish invasion started in parts of north east in syria to eisele finds its way to american custody they are british citizens high up on the wanted list for the murder of weston hostages its believed theyre in american custody of them in iraq and these 2 characters actually with isis in mosul so they are akio authorities may have more interest in them before they even get a chance to see any justice in america well lets take a closer look at the syrian Democratic Forces so theyre also known as the s. D. F. Its an alliance of kurdish and arab militias operating in northeastern syria it was instrumental in driving out i saw over the past 4 years with the help of airstrikes by a u. S. Led coalition but turkey considers the kurdish led alliance as a terrorist group why it says its main fighting force is the Peoples Protection units or y p g turkey hugh views the y. P. G. Is an extension of the bands Kurdistan Workers Party which has fought for kurdish autonomy in turkey for 3 decades fabrice put here is the chief Strategy Officer at restless and global and formerly the director of policy planning at nato he says nato members must be careful not to push turkey too hard at the risk of them leaving the coalition the reality is nato cannot be bought so whats one of the. Easier. No says syria. They say no law exclusion legalities or a sense from president hugo lyons i dont feel we need to support such an initiative so apart from commenting but then surely comparing the turkish action nato kind of as an organisation the us who was to be who weve essentially just circle of course and the europeans as well but nato as an organization. Has their hands tight in the back and the reality is the more you need to. Do more and more which turkey out of nato will do more turkey to get girls up to to russia so we also have the game of isolating turkey even though obviously the turkish actions raise no our concerns and with this is a well the military offensive has raised concerns if a new humanitarian crisis the red cross and the Un Refugee Agency warned that 300000 people could be displaced as a result of the fighting syria remains the worst refugee crisis in the world with nearly 10000000 people displaced in 8 years of conflict and turkey hosts the largest number of those whove been displaced more than 3 and a half 1000000 people fabricio bony is the regional director for the near and middle east at the International Committee of the red cross and he says its hard to predict the humanitarian consequences. You have cams with many civilians we mentioned often the case of ill cab where you have all of the civilian population and a population who moved from their last territory controlled by the stymie state group these can be composed mainly of children to 3rd act children 68000 people 30 it means 40000 children are in this camp in the middle of nowhere its a desert close to nobble frontline totally dependent on you might say an aid for health for water for shelter so any disruption in the humanitarian action in northeast syria might have massive consequences i believe that the concept of save zone is not understood presented as you might on concept i believe that the save zone is understood as a military safe zone so i were not going to comment on the on the concept which is not a humanitarian one now the return of the syrians to their place of origin we always obviously welcome this if its a voluntary return and if its a sustainable return if its a return to safety and dignity i cannot predict whether it is return will take place in such a condition but thats really a court we have to follow any party to any part to any country who wants to help the return of syrians yes but with dignity and safety and sustainable. Thank you thank you u. S. And chinese negotiators are meeting for the 1st time in 2 months to try and end the trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies u. S. President donald trump a schedule to meet the chinese vice premier lou here at the white house on friday lew has said beijing wants to Reach Agreement to prevent an escalation in the dispute a new terrify confected 250000000000. 00 worth of chinese exports is scheduled to kick in on oct 15th in the meeting is happening as diplomatic relations reach a new low points on monday the u. S. Blacklisted 28. 00 chinese entities and impose visa restrictions on some officials citing human rights abuses against chinas minority muslim wiggers political hanes joining us from washington d. C. And the president himself has been tweeting about this meeting talk us through what he said and also how does it state in washington how significant is this upcoming meeting. Its very significant and if you look at the stock market right now there basically hate on every word the Dow Jones Industrial has been plummeting now and after this tweet weve seen its gone up in 3 digits by i think last i checked is about 175 points but this is what the president tweeted big day of negotiations with china they want to make a deal but do i i meet with the vice premier tomorrow at the white house and that is the big question does the president want to make a deal theres been a lot of leaks that theyre talking about a minor deal to sort of calm the tensions be able to take the next step in which as you mentioned there are about 250000000000. 00 worth of chinese products that are going to get a 5 percent increase in the tariffs theyre now at 25 percent theyre going to go expected to go up to 30 percent in about 5 days time so the talk is that they would stop that hike put it on hold in exchange the chinese would agree to do something that we not quite clear on with their currency so its not clear though if the president is going to think thats good enough hes often said if hes going to make a deal he wants a big deal he wants to make all of that he basically says weve come this far why do little take little steps now but theres a couple of Different Things going on weve seen the Trump Administration send a message that theyre willing to make concessions the New York Times is reporting that wall way is now going to be able to buy. Security concern to equipment from u. S. Firms theyve been blacklisted but at the same time theyre floating stories in the press that theyre considering pretty harsh measures things that would have the Security Exchange commission really look into Chinese Companies possibly do list them from the u. S. Stock exchanges or basically pull out american pension money out of Chinese Companies so theyre using the press as they often do in these talks to send the message d that theyre willing to make concessions but theyre also willing to get tougher and also the question is does the president need to make a deal he does he needs to win in iowa and this trade war is killing his base there are these farmers his Approval Rating is disApproval Rating is above 50 percent in every single poll that you look at so theres pressure for him but is he willing to accept that well again with President Trump we just dont know all right patty thank you. At least 5 people have been killed in the ongoing government protests in ecuador thats according to the countrys Human Rights Organization for the past week theres been violent demonstrations over an austerity measure sparked by fuel price hikes president s and london merino has imposed a state of emergency and move the government from the capital so the coastal city of. Our latin america editor to see a new man is there. On day 7 a nationwide demonstrations against governmental sturdy measures a nationwide strike paralyzed much of the country as mass protests continued especially in the ecuadorian capital was in quite a key but the president has set up a temporary seat of government a smaller but noisy group of demonstrators peaceful barges of their own ground riot Police Soldiers trying to keep these antigovernment demonstrators away from another group thats demonstrating the group not here the president many and what it has actually left right and wrong to the man in the meeting weve been getting this leaders to try to go to that settlement to the 1st crisis political crisis this country has had and over a decade. Preliminary talks with indigenous and trade Union Leaders are being mediated by the United Nations and the Catholic Church but so far theres no sign of an agreement. The president is talking of dialogue but he stubbornly says i wont repeal the measure is what kind of dialogue is that. But the government is under increasing pressure to make concessions. He has to revoke the measures because the ability to govern ecuador is compromise he cant govern under these circumstances with the people out on the streets he has no more Political Capital some are asking for his resignation so his options are limited to. Opponent. The indigenous led strike held a march of their own in saying they wanted peace. It would or new orleans had joined police on the streets to disperse antigovernment protesters and in what is being interpreted as a show of support for the government the armed forces announced that any quote consequences of their actions would be the sole responsibility of those who they say are generating social unrest. Human rights monitors from the United Nations and the organization of american states have expressed concern over what they call excessive use of force against demonstrators and the media as the initial number of arrests surpasses 700 you see in human aljazeera. To businessman linked to Rudy Giuliani be a person a lawyer for the u. S. President s have been arrested Court Documents allege the men conspire its a funnel foreign money to candidates for federal and state office allan fessor joining us on this story allan what more are you learning about these arrests. Well both these men were detained at Dulles Airport on the outskirts of washington actually in the state of virginia late on wednesday they were on a flight out of the country you shouldnt read too much into that no both men are accused of making false statements falsifying records and trying to evade contribution limits by hiding the source of money that they were funneling into various political campaigns the made a donation to Donald Trumps america 1st Political Action committee they also made a number of donations to Kevin Mccarthy now hes a senior figure in the Republican Leadership on capitol hill but they did saw requesting that he want to remove the u. S. Ambassador to the ukraine the she was actually removed from her position in may this year by donald trump the 2 men are connected to redo giuliani 1st of all because they were making introductions to ukrainian Business People for Rudy Giuliani but also they were allegedly helping his investigation into corruption by joe biden and his family in ukraine as well interestingly enough as well as the giuliani connection they are represented by a gentleman by the name of john we dont know if you know in washington not me mean not very much to you but john dode was Donald Trumps personal attorney until about me last year he was dealing with a great deal of the fallout of the miller inquiry into alleged collusion with russia alan fischer thank you well apple has removed an app used by protesters at hong kong to track Police Movements its no longer available at apples online store following complaints from chinas governments apple says the op was used in ways that in danger of people and Law Enforcement in Hong Kong Chinas government says also succeeded in getting apple to remove the taiwan flag emergency for users in hong kong and macau. 2 major league u. S. Basketball players. Are playing in shanghai despite a t. V. Blackout by chinese broadcasters and china is still furious about a tweet by n. B. A. Team manager daryl morey in which he supported protests in hong kong and reports from shanghai. This in shanghai is the venue for the l. A. Lakers against the Brooklyn Nets the Brooklyn Nets are owned by a chinese billionaire this is a big match for china not least because its an n. B. A. Preseason game but its not being televised this area that you can see to the right of me here is empty it usually is packed full of stalls selling merchandise but theres nothing there there have been no press conferences there have been no Public Meetings with the teams in fact theres been nothing what there is tonight are a lot of chinese basketball fans who are very angry very angry about a 7 word tweet that was put out a few days ago by the general manager of the Houston Rockets since support of the protests in hong kong. Laurie is a troublemaker he causes huge trouble and i hope he will apologize for this this is a little overwrought if you are here he stupid to make that comment that has hurt the feelings of chinese fans and the reputation of being self the fallout here in china from that tweet has been significant very large chinese firms have been severing their links with the n. B. A. Adam silver whos the commissioner of the n. B. A. Is in shanghai tonight to watch this much earlier on in the week he said that he supported double mores rights to freedom of speech while hes in shanghai is going to have a problem on his hands he has to try to salvage and least some of those deals with chinese firms that are worth billions of dollars while apple and the n. B. A. Arent the only High Profile Companies to be dragged into the ongoing protests in hong kong one of the Largest Video game makers in the world u. S. Based activists Activision Blizzard is under fire for banning a professional player who spoke out in support of protesters the company also made him forfeit prize winning at china as a luke. Of market in the video gaming industry Activision Blizzard earns more than half a 1000000000. 00 in the Asia Pacific Region each year but gamers around the world have responded by boycotting the company and counseling subscriptions well among the criticism has been u. S. Senator ron wyden who said on twitter that Activision Blizzard was willing to humiliate itself to please the Chinese Communist party he said no American Companies should censor calls for freedom to make a quick buck taiwans president says growing pressure from china is a threat to Regional Security in her speech to celebrate national day its sighing when said china wants to impose its one country 2 systems policy on the islands she warned the system has sent hong kong to what she called the edge off disorder dont you want to hear and that a year has quickly passed the world is still changing fast and the changes are even going to mattick the us china trade dispute continues and not far from taiwan hong kong is on the verge of chaos due to the failure of one country 2 systems nevertheless china is still threatening to impose its one country 2 systems model for taiwan the diplomatic offensive to military coalition has a serious challenge to regional stability and peace chinas president xi jinping is due to meet the indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on friday for an informal summits the visit comes amid tensions between the 2 countries over the disputed region of indian administered kashmir the talks will also focus on indias 53000000000. 00 trade deficit with china her reports from. The historic city of. New in south india is being spruced up to welcome chinese president xi jinping it is here 17 on videos ago that india and china the 2 asian jains commenced business even signed a security pact this visit however comes right off to pakistans Prime Minister brown khan visit to beijing and beijing we have found it simple to box on the issue of the should be india issued a scathing statement repeated its position that this meat is a matter of india and that china must be all the sizes of the us that despite these disagreements and there are many other such as the festering border disputes between the 2 they call me spoil them together as the 2 leaders meet they will discuss politically sensitive issues and economic ones but only after chinese president xi jinping samples music and some dances. Well take you back to our top story and thats turkeys ongoing military operation into Northern Syria so there have been airstrikes and artillery fire along a broad front and Turkish Forces have crossed into syria through at least 3 entry points a number of foreign leaders have across expressed concern over the offensive and theres an emergency meeting of the u. N. Security council its a closed session and its set to be how to address the situation lets speak to Christopher Hill whos a former United States ambassador to iraq and a current hes currently the chief advisor to the chancellor for Global Engagement at the university of denver hes joining us from santa fe new mexico ambassador thanks very much for being with us on the aljazeera news hour so with politicians over in the u. S. Where you are really concerned and angered in some cases to trumps announcement to pull u. S. Troops out of syria now trump is saying on twitter that hes talking to both the turks and the kurds do you get the sense that hes sort of toning down the defensive rhetoric hes been using recently to justify his decision. This is a pretty typical pattern with President Trump he makes a decision which is kind of uninformed by advisors or anyone else he realizes the decision has a lot of. Lot of opposition at 1st he said some very kind of strong things about turkey he realized that wasnt really helping so i think now hes trying to tone things down and suggest that he wants to help the situation calm down i think a lot of people would consider it a little too little too late a little too little at this point but its a pretty typical pattern you. Sort of maybe you can clarify for us when when he says that he will obliterate the turkish economy if it does everything off limits it sounds like theres a red line there but what is the red line. Well youll have to ask him i mean that was an extraordinary comment to make. Presumably hes tried to say that in a widespread deaths of civilians or something the u. S. Would react against of course theres already some sanctions legislation making its way through the u. S. Senate sponsored by Chris Van Hollen and lindsey Lindsey Graham so an effort to have a bipartisan bill to. War in the the turks but i think the president just spoke in a way that. He often does that is without a lot of consultation or even thinking before he said it and speaking of Lindsey Graham he has broken with the presidencies usually want to staunchest allies on this particular decision and hes also said along with others that the withdrawal of u. S. Forces from the region could lead to the return of isis is that a concern that you sara. I think its a definite concern i mean isis is a very d Amorphous Group consisting of extreme. Sunni islam a says to. Have been defeated now but whose cause i think very much remains the us i think tried to do pursue a policy that had kind of difficult goals one was to in effect cease the seek the ouster of Bashar Al Assad and the other hand to try to seek the demise of isis they ended up involving kurds in the struggle and i think now we have we have a real problem i think the president is correct that this is complex and you know we need to be careful about where we get into these complex things but the fact is we are where we are so i think isis is a definite threat and i think the problem would be whos going to fight the next war with isis if theres a still another isis you recall after after previous bout with with these islamic says we didnt foresee the mergence of something called isis when were fighting al qaeda in iraq we didnt if were see isis well now with isis in certainly in a very tough position with a question whoopi whos next and how were going to fight them so i think there are a lot of considerations and i wish the president would do more listening and thinking before he makes these tweets and when it comes to turkeys operation thats going on right now in the northeast of syria and numerous countries as you know have gone on the record theyve expressed their displeasure currently theres a closed session going on at the u. N. Security council do you think that there will be any effects from this this pleasure from this opposition thats thats being voiced or will it just fall on deaf ears. Well when you have a deliberation in the Security Council i mean i think its a good thing to bring it to the Security Council thats what the Security Councils for but i think the problem is in the Security Council getting a consensus well have to see where russia is on anything that comes out and of course where the u. S. And china are on this question so i think its kind of difficult to expect the Security Council to do something that will change the situation on the ground today i think the real question though is is really planning to bring in a lot of arab refugees and somehow resettle that part of Northern Syria how is this going to work what is he exactly what does he really have a mind he certainly talks the turks talk very generally about it some kind of buffer zone how will that work and does it involve wholesale movements of civilian populations which would mean wholesale suffering by civilian population so a lot of questions and certainly for those of us who are used to seeing the u. S. Kind of on the ground floor of International Problems its a little odd to see as kind of looking in from the outside its a master christopher who we thank you very much for speaking to us from santa fe now indonesia security minister were wrong to know is in hospital after being stabbed by a man who police say was inspired by eisel that happened in the town of pounding on the island of java doctors say he suffered 2 deep wounds to his stomach but is conscious and in stable condition a 30 year old dispute over scarce Water Supplies in central asia looks to be a step closer to being resolved a land swap deal has been agreed by becketts don to just stand on kurdistan from the ferghana valley how did that how meet was the story. Think its cotton picking season here on the edge of the figure in a valley the crop is good this year but its not what it used to be and its not because water is scarce here in kyrgyzstan but because in some parts its become out of reach because of a disputed border. The furthermore there are no doubt by will say every members how he used to spend time at the foot of these mountains with them with a move with them we used to swim in the lake there we practically grew up there we played all day and celebrated all the holidays the whole village would get together to celebrate thats how it was now they have to put in a border. Now demand and the reason why the villages of kalki down relied on are in those big east at the plot of land around the character then reservoir was exchanged for another parcel of land for do away of exactly the same size the characters government says its irrigated flat land which a country lacks this what is part of an agreement between the 2 sides over a border demarkation still not finalised since kyrgyzstan and as big east and gained independence after the fall of the soviet union it runs for more than 1300 kilometers and its dotted with land claimed by both sides this is disputed territory its all world to sources neutral sources mostly water sources close in that territories we have a dams we had we have the lakes and we have a sea we have the lakes and we have a canales which is extremely important for all these neighboring countries and this is also disputed territories over the Energy Sources if again our valley is the agricultural heartland of central asia divided among cagas stand whose biggest stand and southwest the g. Q. Stem the irony is that kyrgyzstan and upstream water rich country will lies on its neighbor for water in some parts of the figure never. Countries are linked by a soviet era Canal Network so the water flows 1st to the kick it down reservoir now on land and then back into. Something that back 1st didnt say so it could be some of. The logic is lost in kurdistan but you cant explain why we have water but at the same time we dont keep on thinking about it its like having a garden but you cant go for a walk its nonsense. Now realise im another reason why our further inland that water remains are so self tension here with many saying ever could chilled its flow would likely emerge as a Regional Power in central asia but up to how many. Hundreds have taken to the streets as anger grows over claims a drug lord tried to bribe president juan orlando or nanda as a peaceful march on wednesday in the capital to turn violent protesters and police crushed president s brother a former congressman is on trial in new york accused of conspiring to import cocaine into the u. S. A witness told the trial on tuesday that mexican drug lord marquis in El Chapo Guzman tried to give a 1000000 dollars to president hernandez to protect cocaine shipments the president has denied the claim. Polish off for 2 guards and austrias peter hand k. Have been awarded the nobel prize for literature 2 winners were named because last years prize was not awarded so garza was recognized for her narrative imagination while peter hank a was awarded for his influential work exploring Human Experience the swedish Economy Academy which oversees the prestigious award suspended it last year after a Sexual Assault scandal. Coming on top of the sports is with peter thank you very much to renie rainy and female football fans have been allowed into a stadium to watch a match for the foods time in a decade. I up to 4000. 00 bowl tickets in the special section of the stadium in tehran to watch iran beat cambodia 14 no on foods that you have that right 40 no sane bans robbie was there an hour before the game got underway you could hear women cheering you can hear them blowing the vuvuzela is and every time weve heard a score this part of the stadium has been much louder than the other side the capacity of the stadium is up 280000 so the 3500 perhaps even the 4000 that are inside now its a very small number and thats what women outside the gates were saying to us one attendee said that as far as shes concerned the whole stadium should be opened up to games for female only attended games another woman we spoke to said that she doesnt even like football but getting into the same games as the men are allowed to attend is an equal rights issue its a womens rights issue now the government has said to us that as far as theyre concerned this is the forward trend the number of women attending stadium games will only go up but there is a proviso they will only do so in so far as authorities are able to maintain islam exile use maintain public order laws that are in line with islamic cohns codes of conduct so as long as they can continue to maintain that they will allow more and more women to enter thats the pledge that the government has made. A boycott by chinese fans ahead of an n. B. A. Preseason game in shanghai failed to materialize on thursday the arena in shanghai was nearly full for the game between the Brooklyn Nets and the l. A. Lakers brooklyn winning this politically charged clash 114. 00 points to 111. 00. The team at the center of the china n. B. A. Well the used rockets are currently in japan on a preseason tour while chinese firms and fans are lining up to cut ties with the league its popularity in japan remains undiminished the rockets are taking on the current n. B. A. Champions the Toronto Raptors at the side thomas super arena in tokyo used to winning one of them 18111. Organize the Rugby World Cup of cancelled 2 matches on saturdays typhoon. Moves closer to the coast of japan the match between england and france in yokohama has been called off with england going through the quarter finals as winners of pool c. And france progressing as the runners up the match against italy has also been cancelled effectively ending italys slim hopes of making the final 4 we always knew they were going to be risks its rare for a typhoon of this magnitude to cause this impact this late in the typhoon season we had robust plans and a say the plans that were implementing now are in accordance with our plans for the pool face we have a different set of contingencies for the knockout phase and last its regrettable weve made we believe the right decision with with everyones safety is the priority were not concerned at all were excited absolutely excited great opportunity who would have thought wed have had to relatively easy games one tough guy and then 2 weeks in a play for a quarter final someone smiling on us because were in gods maybe. The decision on sundays big pull a match between japan and scotland will be made later but should that be cancelled it would end scotlands chances of making the quarter finals as despite their 61. 00 mil thrashing of russia on wednesday a meteorologist rob mccallum week has been tracking the storm. Super typhoon gave us unconstrained in the warm open western pacific is about as big and vicious as it can get his couldnt a category 5 hurricane producing winds around about 3 american is brown and ways of 800 meters now it is still heading to tokyo it wont be quite as strong when it gets but it will still be pretty vicious hence the precautions taking place now hes got 2 days to actually make honshu which means the rain will start to be felt during friday when practiced in suzuka seems likely and you can see much of honshu is covered by the darker green which is the heavy rain the heart of the storm itself makes landfall late on saturday and so cancellations no mass transit stay indoors is the advice but our time get to the time we get to sunday its going offshore again well be that the match to take place in coming she goes ahead on standing as to what happens in tokyo york or hama that depends on how much damage is done when the typhoon crosses the super typhoon could also have an impact on this weekends japanese formula one grand prix at suzuka if one say theyre closely monitoring the storm and its potential impact especially on the safety of its drivers back in 2014 marusia driver jules b. N. P. Suffered a serious crash at suzuka during heavy rainfall he later died from his injuries. In terms of rain we dont need too much for it to be unsafe specially you know when when you throw wind in there as well it gets i think pretty tricky but yeah we can obviously debate a lot and discuss but i think we just have to wait and see what actually gets us and how bad it is and not and you know make the make the right call at the time. Has given up a u. S. Passport so she can play for japan in the 2020 olympics 21 year old d was born in japan to a haitian father and japanese mother but was raised in the u. S. She had to choose between her american or japanese citizenship before her 22nd birthday this week over at the shanghai masters 20 time grand slam champion Roger Federer was made to work cause he needs food round match against belgiums golf fan favorite would win in straight sets 7664. 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Violence between police and Anti Government demonstrators kills 5 people in ecuador. Plus how was hers at the center for a 30 year old border dispute in central asia. Tello turkey has intensified its offensive against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria so there is heavy fighting in border villages on day 2 of turkeys military operation huge plumes of smoke and be seen billowing in the sky as turkish jets bombed kurdish positions and so far 3 civilians have been killed including a child in mortar fire well turkeys president has defended the military onslaught which he said was an operation to quote eliminates terrorists now the violence is giving rise to fears of a humanitarian crisis as thousands of people have begun fleeing to safety and a short while ago President Donald Trump said hes speaking to both the turks and the kurds thats a day after he threatened to ruin turkeys economy we have a correspondents covering developments in washington d. C. The u. N. And istanbul but 1st we cross over to Charles Stratford has joining us from the on turkeys border with syria and that is where charles we are hearing that there are civilian deaths. Thats right yes according to the local government here we understand. At least 2 possibly 3 people were killed here including a 9 month old baby and a woman and another one possibly 2 in another area we understand. Could well be responsible for. Up to 70 people injured as well showing you just what kind of risks taking in this military operation when were seeing the s. D. F. Responding to this incredible bombardment over the last approximate sort of 24 hours or so i suppose now. Bab in the continued right the way through the day its been relatively quiet here in the last hour also weve heard a few outgoing artillery shells oversea charges in positions in the town of tal lobby and we understand which is just behind me i suppose the older is is a round about half a kilometer away and overseas so lets go out to the hundreds of thousands of civilians in these areas across the other side of the border as this military Campaign Continues according to our sources we understand that the 1st phase involves describes a Pincer Movement trying to get control of an area of around 100 kilometers. From the town of russell i into the east and here. We understand possibly that Ground Forces including those f. S. A. Fighters those Free Syrian Army fighters they were pulled over from syria of course the church bands the Free Syrian Army in syria since effectively the beginning of the revolution as he. Said they saw what they saw could well be f. S. A. Fighters going in from positions close. Yeah as i say its relatively quiet now but we expect that bombardment to continue in the lead occasions which. Yes to. Their allies they say moving slowly into syria all right thank you lets bring in santa claus although shes joining us from istanbul and setting out his agenda earlier on today and he had some harsh words for the International Community and those who oppose this operation. Yes there in a in actually hes upset with the rhetorical that turkey is called as an invader in not a syria he said that he called on to European Countries if they call turkey as an invader or the operation as an invasion he will open the gates for the at this 3600000 Syrian Refugees who are currently living in turkey so he is gone played the refugee card again against the European Countries. When i speak to the offer szells and other people in in un crap i understand that the government is upset because they believe they are not internationally understood by the Foreign Countries and we have been hearing from anson italys summoning it turkish ambassador to ask them about the ongoing military operation which is not approved by those circles and turkey lets see it seems turkey hasnt been able to explain its concern about the out the Kurdistan Workers Party the k. K. K. And its what it calls as the syrian offshoot of the k. K. K. So i can say that there is not much International Support for turkey right now even from their op countries even from their large countries another one that the us or the e. U. And thats why prisons are drawn slammed mainly saudi arabia for its critics against this military operation and he said look at what you have you have done in yemen but youre criticizing my country also here again criticized egypt mainly. In egypt president thats why theyre seeking International Support and theyre trying to explain themselves and by saying that they dont have turks dont have any territorial gain. Aim of any territorial gain or theyre not targeting the kurds they are living peacefully with kurds in turkey. And today our don mentioned that in his in his own party there are at least 50 kurdish citizen members and he said i never would like to mention this this way but i have kurdish and peace so no one can accuse me of being against the kurds kurdish population in any way he tried to explain himself but he has them supported domestically but for instance the main opposition who supports the military operations makes a call for to him to say it to contact the Syrian Regime as the legitimate correspondent ok so democrats who are who think you lets bring in Kimberly Halkett are joining us from washington d. C. And trump has tweeted that hes now speaking to both the turks and the kurds are we any clearer on what these discussions have been like what more do we know. Yes the u. S. President certainly often putting things out on twitter before many of his close aides are even aware and many speculate that is exactly what happened on sunday when he hung up the phone after speaking with president air to one and then abruptly announcing that there would be this moving away of u. S. Troops to pave the way if you will some say green light the military operation by turkey you know the u. S. Pentagon and state department say they did have knowledge but it appears especially as we see these recent tweets again that the president often moves faster then the wheels of his staff the u. S. President has been say that hes been talking to the kurds hes been talking to turkey he sees valuable relationships with both but he certainly has disappointed in recent days many here in washington with his downplaying of the efforts by this kurdish fighters in recent years to help the United States in its effort to defeat eisel so the u. S. President talking about that in his tweet but also talking about turkey that it can expect to be hit very hard with economic sanctions if he does not in his view act in a quote humane way the president using that word a lot and that brings us to the point of whats happening in the u. S. Senate and that is the introduction of sanctions bipartisan sanctions by a member of the president s own Republican Party as well as democrats universally upset at this have banded a very reliable ally of the United States namely the kurdish fighters and as a result there is also action being taken in the form of sanctions being introduced likely will get a vote next week in the senate to punish turkey for what many are calling an invasion there would be a number of not only strict economic sanctions but also a limiting of visas for the highest leadership including president ever to one if you were to wish to visit the United States and further it would also prohibits military sales so there does seem to be some support for this legislation incredibly by the u. S. President who seems to back sanctions even as this legislation was designed to in some ways also punish donald trump for his impulsive actions with regard to the syria strategy ok kimberly thank you. So all of this is happening over at the u. N. The Security Council delegates are meeting behind closed doors in new york to discuss the situation our diplomatic editor james raises joining us from there so what are we to expect james. What the Security Council has been in open session in the last couple of hours talking about colombia as you can see down here in front of me lots of my colleagues waiting to get the latest information and you can see the Security Council door beyond that the Security Council chamber and the close consultation room where they are now home further discussions about colombia and we expect them shortly to move on to the subject of syria for several days theyve been discussing whether to have a meeting on syria or not and finally it was the 5 e. U. Members of the Security Council that pushed for the meeting one of those germany the deputy ambassador spoke to us earlier. Germany together with the iau partners has requested that the Security Council deal with the situation in syria today under any other business and close consultations germany condemns the turkish unilateral military operation in northeastern syria in the strongest possible terms we fear that this operation runs the risk of further destabilizing the entire region and also restrain from the islamic state. Syria has now been severely impacted by this terrible war for 8 years and we all know at the verge of starting a political process with the Constitutional Committee this is what we need within the political process however the Turkish Operation now threatens to unleash another humanitarian catastrophe as well as new Refugee Movement with effort called on turkey to see its operation and to pursue its security interests in a peaceful manner this has also been underlined by the German Foreign minister today in a phone conversation with his turkish counterpart. Well i walt weve been listening. The deputy ambassador of germany i can tell you that the discussions about colombia behind closed doors have ended and theyre now going to be moving on to the situation of syria behind closed doors in the Security Council its not at all clear though whether the agree on anything i can tell you that the e. U. Nations would like the Security Council to come up with a form of words that the president of the Security Council could then read to us from the podium just behind me but i think there are problems there there are problems that the u. S. Might after all the confusion in washington of President Trump appearing to give the turks a green light in various parts of the administration trying to walk that back and the situation of russia which has been very quiet on all of this in fact the Russian Ambassador when he walked in simply with him with his hand that to me and said nothing so its not clear whether there are all the members of the Security Council want a statement and its worth also saying that with regard to the fire