Joining us live there from belfast this plenty more ahead on the news hour including foreign fighters will have more on what came out of talks between iraqi and french delegations the aftermath of more violence in Mexico Police are among dozens dead as fears grow for this security. Added support a short call by englands rugby coach ahead of the world cup quarterfinals live today to. A high level u. S. Delegation has arrived in ankara hoping to convince the turkish president to hold his military campaign in northeastern syria u. S. Vice president mike pence and u. S. Secretary of state. Have been holding talks with turkish president richard typer to one name while Turkish Forces and kurdish fighters continue to battle border town of ras alain considered a Strategic Point for both. Stratford is in jail and close to the scene of fighting near turkeys border with syria but 1st were going to sin and cos the ogre whos standing by near the president ial palace in ankara where the u. S. National security advisor is meeting the turkeys foreign minister said nice to have you with us just talk some of this diplomacy and how its likely to play out given what weve heard from President Trump in the last 24 hours and also from president sighing no matter what people say hes going to pursue his mission to the end. Well yes it was a very bitter busy day and still is a very busy day in the turkish capital ankara the delegation from us is the top line right now on turkish media. U. S. National security adviser completed the talks with the foreign minister and kurd to present add on is in a meeting with the Vice President mike pence and others from the u. S. Delegation its been more than half an hour that they came together of course everyone is curious whether our don is going to stop this military operation upon us request and pushing actually but present our don has been very clear about that he said that if you want to persuade us wild by coming to the capital and asking us to stop this operation you dont need to bother but of course its a negotiating table it depends on what youre given what you get and we have witnessed that the relations between washington and in ankara isnt afraid to face but also they come around the same mission from time to time and u. S. Is threatening churkin to impose sanctions the this also puts turkey in a corner especially given given a fragile fragile economy and for joy National Currency these days also to the fences industry is on the table after meeting with mike pence and others present are done is going to come together with a delegation from a u. S. Defense industry because the sanctions that targets turkey also targets the defense defense the Defense Industry trade between the 2 countries where turkey is the pendant on the u. S. Imports and u. S. That be fairly or that this Defense Industry might be exempt from those sanctions of course this will be interesting to see if i don don comes and Agreement Term with the u. S. To stop this operation for now it seems unlike the only other hand the palace set a surprise gas today at the location from russia led by russias. And boy to syria they matts what president ial spokesperson Ibrahim Cullen so far we know that they discussed the ongoing issues and north of syria and both sides on continuing the fight against what they call terrorism in order to protect syrias territorial integrity russia is the strong hand has a strong hand in the battlefield right now which makes it which also gives them a leverage on the negotiating table and now. There are weve been hearing that the russians are trying to bring the Syrian Government and the turkish government around the table during the saatchis summit which is going to take place on october 22 for the constitutional process of syria so it will be interesting to see the developments so far we have no clue who no clear about what theyre talking inside but it is always full of surprises but for now turkey doesnt seem to be giving up on its military operation because it is the only thing that they can depend on and turkey is trying to trying to get along with every player each player on the ground like iran russia United States and the Syrian Government thank you so much for that cinema lets go now the situation on the ground how is this military offensive playing out shall strike 1st joins us now from joe and peter and charles we know throughout the president earlier one has talked about establishing what he calls a safe zone your nearest so i and youve been hearing and seeing whats going on there whats the extent of the resistance still to Turkish Forces. Well certainly where we are here as you say overlooking the town of russell lyon weve seen what can only be interpreted as fierce resistance over the last couple of days by Kurdish Forces in that town there was a very heavy bombardment this morning sustained by turkish artillery on targets in that town a lot of heavy gunfire as well. We understand according to the pro turkish rebels the sorry the Syrian Rebels that are operating with Turkish Forces across the border they saying that they have controlled large areas to the west of the city and to the north of the city now at least weve seen a lot of. I suppose in the last sort of 34 hours increasing kind of artillery fire on the east as well suggesting that there is some sort of attempt by Turkish Forces to push in all the city bear in mind the fighting started here over a week ago and also line is integra will to turkeys what it describes 1st phase of this military operation we are at the eastern flank if you like of what is or already the claim of this 120 kilometer stretch that theyre pretty much in control of part of a 440 kilometer wide stretch of border that they want to make into the security zone for so they say Syrian Refugees we know that the Russian Military at various locations around 30 kilometers out along the m 4 highway in towns like. I and elissa we understood speaking to syrian rebel forces this morning they said that they were pushing up towards that area this morning there were reports of clashes myna clashes around the town of month beach further west which is the end of this 120 kilometer stretch i was describing. You can imagine there is a lot of tension in this area all eyes on these negotiations all eyes on what russia is going to do about it and those potential talks in sochi later this month and as we heard cinemas say that idea of bringing potentially the syrians and the turks around the table there the russians very much calling the shots here meanwhile aid agencies the concern continues there the International Red cross saying up to 200000 people have already been forced to flee this area and many of them are desperate for shelter and aid so that kind of pressure on from the International Community from International Aid agencies and the u. N. On turkey continues. Charles thank you for joining us live this hour on the turkey syria border where the French Foreign minister has made his iraqi counterpart in baghdad to discuss the security of. Northern syria took its offensive against kurds is led to concerns that many detained ospel fighters may escape european governments are concerned the operation will allow some of the 12000 suspected fighters to get out of detention as ball from baghdad the press conference began as these things almost always do with diplomatic niceties and talk of warm bilateral relations but i sill and want to do with i saw fighters it was high on the agenda now it was Iraqi Foreign minister who spoke 1st what he said was that any iraqi fighters crossing back into iraq from syria and their families would be tried under iraqi law he then went on to say that there were foreign fighters that came from 72 Different Countries and that those countries should take them back however he also talked about syria being high on the agenda of the talks and iraq has been pushing for syria to be readmitted to the arab league you know you finished with by saying he agreed to find a mechanism by which foreign fighters would be tried in iraq he territory then it was the turn of the French Foreign minister now he began by saying that there was an International Summit that needed to be set up to discuss i so i want to do with eisel fighters there was no talk about who might take part in the summit or even when it might take place he also said all of the 13000 fighters one in 5 is european and about 60 of those of french now he went on to say that they were discussing this idea of this International Mechanism to deal with ice or fighters and how to put them on trial and he also talked about trials within iraq itself so this was a very positive press conference. Well the fighting has forced more than a 1000 Syrian Refugees to cross the border into iraq in the last 3 days but i groups are concerned that the tightly secured borders may not only those who can afford to pay smugglers are in fact i will to get out the trash can i reports from a refugee camp in the door who province of the semi autonomous kurdish region of Northern Iraq. On board these buses refugees could begin to relax a bit after days on the run they knew when they close their eyes to try to sleep tonight the v. C. The airstrikes frightened us it took us 2 days to reach the border definitely when you have children you will suffer. Turkey says its doing everything it can to avoid civilian casualties the number of Syrian Refugees streaming over the border is slowly picking up 2 days ago that number was less than 200 on wednesday more than 800 syrians primarily kurds crossed over the border into Northern Iraq they tell us theyre paying smugglers between 150. 00 to 200. 00 to escape to safety. The shelling isnt scaring us as 2 or 3 days but the sleeper cells in the escaped are still fight as of what skitt people. Refugees also expressed concern that eisel fighters might end up slipping into Iraq Iraqi Security sources say there are 3500 eisel fighters with iraqi citizenship and telling them look you have to be afraid because theyre not finished. The Kurdistan Regional Government Security forces are stationed along a section of the border where refugees are being smuggled in it is not an official checkpoint named by name theyre conducting background checks before letting them proceed deeper into Northern Iraq no one spoke to seemed willing to address the possibility that eisel fighters might sneak in undetected and the greater the flow of refugees the harder it may become to track people from going i dont think the thai civil to manage to disappear among the aisles if so we have always Security Department that hes taking all the necessary precautions. The turkish incursion into Northern Syria comes at a time when many people had been living as though the war in syria was largely over now these refugees are here in this camp he still e reopened for their arrival shell shocked after that sense of safety was shattered in a matter of days. To hook province in the kurdish region of Northern Iraq. Hong kongs leader terry lamb has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the Territories Legislature opposition members protested in the china burned cold for her to step down at least 10 people were removed by security lam was trying to answer questions regarding her annual policy address she was forced to deliver that speech through video and told wednesday after the legislative session was cancelled some brought probe aging politicians have condemned the outpost to gods land in the legislature that always think that all the hong kong citizens of would not accept anyone to use a while and in any way also we all also know that while this cannot solve any problem still as a Legislative Council i dont think that any electrical members should use any kind of one that is including. Old physical law and in the chanda to express their will. Scott hardly brings us more now from all. For the 2nd day running chief executive of Hong Kong Carrie lamb drowned out in the Legislative Council chambers by prodemocracy members of that body thursday was supposed to be a 90 minute question and answer session based on her policy address that she gave on wednesday twice it was interrupted by prodemocracy members chanting and interrupting the proceedings many of them were escorted out of the chamber now this is supposed to be something that happens every day after the policy address she received criticism for that policy just because she didnt directly talk about the 5 demands of the protesters again on thursday she did not address those there are only a handful of questions because the time is constrained to be kept to that 90 minute schedule even though its stopped twice now how do we move forward now when shes talked about what she wants to do how she wants to tackle the social situation here the social crisis in hong kong she says she wants to appoint an independent committee to look into why their divisions are so deep here in hong kong there are no real explanations of what she wants to do right now to stop the social crisis in hong kong thats where shes receiving a lot of criticism and no clear answers coming out of this question answer session that lasted about 90 minutes well the organizer of the Hong Kong Protest Movement has been left bloodied and bruised after a group the tech team would have been she was on his wife as well meeting in tel lu when the attackers confronted him as being one of the public faces of the antigovernment protests which a group home call for 5 months has been attacked for a 2nd time since the protests yet. It was time for the weather now with jenny and flooding rain in mexico yes don this is in particular so what state is in the southwest and its because of how does it all system just sitting off the coast actually just about here for the last few days a Tropical Development trying to develop actually not managing to develop into a Tropical Storm but jeez in some very heavy amounts of rain so this gives you no example of the size and will have to say and this is really been the scenes across that many areas in that entire region but this morning the full cost and in fact on the east coast of mexico this mass you can see here that such another possible Tropical Development decision and a bit of cum peachey and that producing wind says day across the eastern side as well as the west now that works its way quite speedily across the gulf of mexico taking all of that heavy rain with it however it almost just allows the system to still continue to produce rains across this entire region so thats a scenario that no real sign of any dry weather in the fall calls meanwhile up in the United States Central Regions are under a red flag warning for the 5 conditions its so dry and its so hot weve got that system pushing in along the gulf states bringing the heavy rain across the gulf of mexico and then this really is where were focusing for the next 24 hours this is a big noreaster thats producing some flooding rains across into connecticut its a very powerful storms and very strong winds that are warnings in place right the way from delaware up into maine but its on its way stand up into the final days but not before were going to expect to see some pretty strong storm damage from this particular where the moment where the storm. Jenny thank you still ahead on al jazeera tension remains high after days of unrest against the president on the streets of guineas capital and the battle over a constant threat to the elephant our britain is trying to stop silos the precious offer that in sports showing off at the beijing incredible goal by brazil of the world each games into. To strengthen the good you have to shoulder good all the more with it comes to fight against corruption. Is for news heroes heroes like no who are about to be refused a 15000000. 00 brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the International Ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a dark used to shine a light lets make the road to a better place nominate your Anti Corruption era. You stand the differences. And the similarities of cultures across the world. Aljazeera. Youre watching aljazeera heres a reminder that top stories this hour. U. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson is appealed. To m. P. s back home to back his deal that was agreed after intense negotiations in brussels johnsons thanked e. U. Leaders for this or European Commission president. Is calling it a fair and balanced agreement but it still needs ratification from both the e. U. And u. K. Box britains Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbin has already spoken out against that record saying it doesnt meet life has to respect actions and the Democratic Unionist Party has released a statement saying it cannot support johnsons plan a palm tree is expected on saturday. U. S. Vice president mike pence and u. S. Secretary of state. Have been holding talks with the turkish president the u. S. Delegation is trying to convince richard burr to want to call off his offensive in northeastern syria. The u. S. Ambassador to the European Union is currently testifying in the ongoing impeachment inquiry against donald trump its expected that gordon song will be questioned about Text Messages from the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine discussing trumps if it to pressure you crying to investigate his rival joe biden now and wednesday a former Senior Advisor to u. S. Secretary of state mark pompei or was the latest person to testify Michael Mckinley was quizzed for 5 hours by house committees abruptly resigning last week now a key figure in the impeachment inquiry Us Democratic congressman alija tell means is died aged 68 as chairman of the house oversized and inform Committee Cummings led multiple investigations into President Trumps governmental dealings cummings passionately advocated for the poor in these black majority district of maryland he died in hospital due to complications from longstanding Health Problems were going to bring in holly joy castro now to join us live from war on all of this from washington d. C. And well start with todays hearings and of course gordon song lund how critical is this going to be as a read because weve already seen evidence has been very critical of President Trump thus far. Thats right stand and someone has an interesting background he was a wealthy hotel owner and donor to Trumps Campaign before trump appointed him to be the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. And as you mentioned he is a central figure in what democrats have labeled this shadow u. S. Foreign policy campaign directed at ukraine which was trying to pressure the Ukrainian Government to dig up dirt on trumps political rivals here in the u. S. And someone played a central role in these Text Messages that were privately exchanged between himself and other u. S. Diplomats that were made public as part of these impeachment inquiry hearings. And in those texts we see that sunlight and other u. S. Ambassadors were trying to convince ukraine to release a Public Statement saying it would investigate a company linked to the son of joe biden trumps one of his primary political rivals here when another u. S. Ambassador said that this appear to be crazy to link u. S. Foreign aid as leverage for something that the president wanted for his own political gain sunderland famously texted back saying that this was not the case at all that it was in this misunderstanding and that the president was not asking for a quid pro quo well today as someone is testifying now before these 3 house committees hes reportedly expected to say there was a quid pro quo only not a corrupt one what exactly he means by that whether or not the president as accused by democrats was withholding military aid to ukraine as additional leverage all of these are questions that the investigators certainly are pushing asunder sunland now in these closed door hearings stan you want to also follow up and just get a reflection from you on the legacy of the u. S. Democratic congressman the logic cummings and his passing as well. Thats right and the chair that he is leaving empty today and these proceedings which he would have been one of the 3 leaders of is certainly a very sad and symbolic image inside that hearing room now cummings of course was chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and he was a critical voice of trump throughout the presidency and he had a lot of credibility even among republicans cummings was born the son of sharecroppers he rose to be a leading voice in the Civil Rights Movement he served more than 20 years in congress and he often drew upon this moral outrage in his criticism of the president of his trumps policies as well as what cummings perceived as an attack on u. S. Democracy he had this way a very eloquently putting all of this in greater context and although he leaves the the chair now the chairmanship now open he will be replaced by another democrat eventually of course today this puts a very heavy has on what everyone in congress is waking up to the news of his sudden passing overnight however the imp the impeachment inquiry will continue as scheduled so far theres been no changes to the schedule and weve heard that republicans are preparing for the president to be put on trial in the senate once this impeachment is officially voted upon and that the trial could begin as early as November Stan how does your castro law for us there in washington d. C. Will of course President Trump not only dealing with these impeachment hearings at the moment but also the situations on playing in syria and turkey and of course hes Vice President mike pence there at the moment negotiating with president richard typo to want to bring in Christopher Hunter a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council new joins us live from Tampa Florida. Nice to have you on the program and i want to get a sense from you and others of you i suppose of President Trumps position right now hes looking at these hearings hes hearing criticism of him at these hearings from inside and who would work for him and also a criticism from his own side of politics over his handling of the situation with turkey and syria President Trump is in a very precarious position right now because of all the Different Things are going on i think its worthwhile to highlight some words of john boltons and use those words to illustrate the threat that he faces to his presidency john bolton serve ery very briefly as National Security advisor to President Trump and then resigned or was fired depending on your choice of word but john bolton recently was disclosed to have said that he doesnt want to be any part of a quote unquote drug deal that Mick Mulvaney and gordon someone were doing with ukraine john bolton is a republican and a conservative one of that the fact that john bolton was so deeply concerned about the nature of the conduct that is driving the current impeachment inquiry ought to deeply concerned the president and those aides around him just all on the christopher of course the president is dismissed this is a democratic he says its a coup but does it actually make a difference now that its not democrats that are being critical the usual they are about john bolton weve also heard from the on the hill in whose testimony and she was working for donald trump she was hes russia expert and critical of what she saw unfolding in you in ukraine does this change the night of the pressure on donald trump at the moment that its its not democrats but its people who have been inside his own tent if you like. Very much so its material that its john bolton that its fiona hill who are raising these concerns and these arent generalized concerns these arent partisan political concerns these are concerns that go right to the core of a well functioning government you know the United States has a law that prohibits soliciting foreign powers interference in domestic electoral politics the entire ukraine episode is in fact a violation of that law and what were going to see is a level of culpability for that conduct that will start at the core of that and will will extend outward will see how far the culpable how far the culpability ring extends but it certainly is significant that its john bolton its fiona hill its. We seem to have lost Christopher Christopher a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council joining us from Tampa Florida where mexicos president has called on people to lie down their arms and not solve their problems for violence after 2 Mass Shootings the attacks happened in 2 of the most violent states where drug gangs battle for control of smuggling routes reports from mexico city. 2 days of terror have left dozens dead in southwestern mexico. On monday 14 Police Officers were killed in the state of michoacan the officers were ambushed by gunmen associated with the. Cartel. The families of the lawman blamed regional leaders for the deaths saying local police are under equipped to battle the regions well armed and highly organized criminal groups. Yet you sent innocent people to their that why didnt you train them to defend themselves these boys were 18 and 19 years old now dead dead on tuesday a gunfight left another 15 dead this time in the state of get a little the incident involved mexican soldiers exchanging gunfire with armed civilians. Between 6 and 8 people managed to escape into the bush we are conducting a sweep in cooperation with other Security Forces deadly incidents like these are becoming increasingly common in mexico. And add to the 27478. 00 homicides nationwide since president and that is monday Lopez Obrador entered Office Despite the escalation in violence the president insists that advances are being made as if. Theres a lack of peace in the country but we will achieve it however there is momentum behind this problem it was allowed to grow for far too long but we will find a way to resort. All of it while a majority of violent deaths are increasing in only a handful of mexican states theres also been an increase in crimes so along with an increase in the perception of insecurity nationwide in a National Public security poll conducted by the government in the summer more than 70 percent of people say they consider the city they live in unsafe many here worried 2900 all previous records for homicides nationwide if the current trend of violence continues that may just be the case but. Mexico city the president of spains catalonia region can torah has called for an immediate halt to violence thats rock bottom line a for a 3rd not the protests for sparked by the juggling of 9 separatist leaders on monday over their role in catalonia as fire on independence bid 2 years ago torah says the riots are harming the image of the separatist movement protester escalating in guineas capital of repose change to the constitution that would allow the president to run for a 3rd term 81 year old alpha conde is also accused of fueling ethnic tension 9 people have died in the violence nicholas hike reports from cannot carry and a warning you might find some of these images disturbing. A city divided this is where ethnic susu invading to live side by side in peace and this is where the full on the live. Move shouts this paratrooper theyre armed with live rounds of ammunition since the beginning of the protest against president alpha conde is attempt to extend his stay in power the capitals for money districts look in feel like a war zone Security Forces are shooting down protesters this is mobile phone footage of mr and mrs barclay unconscious when was shot in the leg the other had a large rock thrown to her head. They were mourning the loss of 2 of their nephews who were shot dead by armed soldiers when they came back after them. They survived the attack still in grief and seeding with anger. This is the best the soldiers told me they are paid to kill the colonies and that they will kill us one by one the one responsible for this is all fucked all day soldiers are being paid by the president to assess an aid us while fulani is make of the ethnic majority in guinea never has a felony come to power hundreds of them are being rounded up and arrested because theyre protesting against the 81 year old president s attempt to change the constitution and to run for a 3rd mandate. Opposition leaders and huge other q. s is the president of fuelling ethnic divisions. Within it that we have to fight tribalism and ethnic politics because its dividing us and it could create so much hatred and violence that it could cause a civil war. And the information minister why the government are targeting for money but he would not allow us to broadcast the interview this is a touchy subject he explained after several days of protests calm has returned in most neighborhoods but not in full on the areas. This is what remains
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