The deliberations on syria they were held in the closed consultation room next to the chamber perhaps they didnt want yet more division on the latest phase of syrias long war to be seen in public behind closed doors they couldnt agree on words for a joint statement instead the u. S. Ambassador tried to sum up her countrys position after days of controversy and confusion in washington on whether President Trump had given the green light to the Turkish Operation we just finished our consultations on syria and as the president has made abundantly clear the u. S. Has not in any way endorsed the decision that the government of turkey to mount a military incursion into northeast syria. President trump has emphasized to the government of turkey that they bear full responsibility for protecting the kurdish population and religious minorities including christians and ensuring that no humanitarian crisis takes place the ambassadors of e. U. Countries who sit on the Security Council we also came up with a joint statement we are deeply concerned by the Turkish Military operation in northeast syria we call upon turkey to seize the unilateral military action as we do not believe it will address truckies underlying security concerns im told behind the scenes the bin laden discussions about those words with germany and france wanting to take a tougher line with turkey than the u. K. Statements from the German Government and from the french government has said that they condemn what is going on the Turkish Operation in the strongest possible terms the u. K. Government has not used the word condemn why i wouldnt read too much into that weve made it very clear that we didnt support the Turkish Military incursion we dont support the operation and we want to see it ended its clear there were some disagreements among the e. U. Countries who called this meeting and a wider divide among the widest Security Council things are moving extremely fast but again there is little unity on the issue of syria. 0 at the united nations. There are plenty more ahead on the new zeland clearing murders and west of the crime wave president says being neglected by police. After a year of scandal the 2018 nobel prize for literature is finally of water. And sports a historic day for iranian football on and off the pitch peter will explain later in the program. U. S. Congressional democrats have issued subpoenas for 2 business been charged with Campaign Finance violations ukrainian left partners than about a russian ego firman who were arrested and florida are associates of president personally noir Rudy Giuliani according to the indictment both men funneled foreign money to u. S. Political candidates trump is currently facing an impeachment inquiry into whether he withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain they saw political influence not only to advance their own financial interests but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official a Ukrainian Government official who sought the dismissal of the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine. Lets go now to our correspondent john hendren who is joining us live from minneapolis in the state of minnesota where President Trump is holding his laces to rally and Trump Supporters inside but some of the biggest protests weve seen outside the trump rally john. Thats absolutely right what youre hearing right now is the audience turning a chant that once was heard at drum rallies like theyre up in reference to Hillary Clinton turned on the president himself. You could hear them over to go saying now came up which has been one of their favorite chants another has been in the inside of the arena here thousands of people and supporters of the president have been listening to him when i last checked it had been nearly an hour and a half of the president speaking and he was still going strong but outside there are thousands of protesters here in this liberal bastion of minneapolis a liberal town that is the home of illinois no more than fungus women of somali descent trump often like to target these 2 weeks this audience is gathered in large one of the largest as you said they have seen so far and they seem to be fired up by the impeachment debate and that is because this is the 1st rally that he has nailed since impeachment proceedings became official. And tell him it will be interesting to see what he has to say in this Campaign Rally since being engulfed in that impeachment investigation. Well the president in addition to his greatest hits that is talking about his election victory when he 16 he also talked about how much he wants to do in minnesota any only last minute senator by the way to the senate that hes about the 45000. 00 votes last time around. But in the sign actually jack nice President Joe Biden saying he was only a good Vice President because he has president obamas back side used him a protein word for that he attacked 200 omari the local congressmen saying he was very matter of voters here are electing her. And he also said specifically referring to somalis who are popular here in this area that his administration had made a ruling so that. Refugees could only come to the state city if that city every refugees coming that was a big hit inside the arena you hear out here. Its not a big hit in the state john thank you very much for that john hendren for the very latest live and many after this minnesota thank you. Now to ecuador where tensions are rising and at least 5 people have been killed in a week of violent protests and digitals demonstrators took several Police Officers captive parading them on stage in the capital quito protest as the new austerity measures introduced by president let in water which led to higher fuel prices but not in or has moved Government Operations out of quito since the protests began has said he wont step down alas in america editor lucianne human has the nations fall. There is a lot of anger a lot of passion and somewhat of a confused situation here in the capital ttyl where thousands and thousands of indigenous ecuadorians are gathering inside and outside of a Cultural Center that has become now the headquarters for the indigenous confederation of ecuador and its leadership just a short while ago there was a religious ceremony for one of the protesters who was killed in clashes with police on thursday there also were these there were 8 policemen inside one of them was detained early in the morning and then we spoke to a colonel who is the boss of that particular trooper he went there with another group to try to secure his release he said that they were well treated. They were trying to make to have a put a peaceful solution to this but when i asked whether he was allowed to leave whenever he wanted to he told me that he could not they were not mistreated he said after the funeral there were moves from exodus from the confederation at 1st they were calling for the resignation of president many more than over was who is refusing to list of starting measures imposed 8 days ago now they are saying that they will continue to demonstrate that they will continue to be on strike until the quote i. M. F. Has left ecuador but they are calling on the president to stop what they call repression which they have stopped short now of demanding at least for now his resignation now on the audience of taken to the streets as anger grows over claims that a drug lord tried to bribe president Juan Orlando Hernandez on wednesday a march in the capital to goose the gulf between violent as protesters clashed with police the president s brother well the 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 Joaquin El Chapo guzman tried to give a 1000000. 00 to president amendments to protect cocaine shipments the president has denied the claim. Now thousands of students are rallying in columbia demanding funding for education and an end to alleged corrupt practices at universities when mass protests are being held in 17 cities including the capsule. Student and teacher organizations say president Yvonne Duquesne has failed to keep his promises to invest in colombias Public Education system well the situation has escalated since last month when protesters at several universities were tacked by state Police Officers understand there are. What started as a peaceful demonstration with almost 10000. 00 students a vote public and private universities here in the capital of both ended up in more clashes with the police as the protesters arrived here in Central Plaza believe skirmishes broke out some protesters with their face covered started throwing stones at the police and the Police Responded with tear gas and stun grenades and took over the last of the protesters dispersed this is their 6th demonstration in the last 10 days in. As students are protesting a number of cases of corruption in the administration of public universities also demanding more resources for public universities from the government and finally protesting against the Police Violence the violent response are part of the police against the demonstrators and this is what also pushed the students of the private universities to join in a number another number of demonstrations happened in 17 different cities across colombia this this way with the empty placers and the students running away but they are promising that their movement that will continue until their demands are met. To germany now which chancellor Angela Merkel is promising 0 tolerance for hate after yesterdays shooting in the eastern city of hama all security is being stepped up across the country the Jewish Community has criticized what it says was the slow reaction of Police Forces andersons reports from hala this is the only suspect in the house shooting flown in to face germanys federal Supremes Court stefan dalliances charged with 2 counts of murder and 9 of attempted murder had it not been for this law dall prosecutors say there could have been a mass killing in how a synagogue more than 60 jewish worshipers on their holiest day of the year. The leader of howlers Jewish Community alerted the police on his phone and he says he and others watched on security cameras as the lone attackers shot at the outer door trying to get in all of us were very afraid. We take children. Upstairs and we hear for. Every scene chairs tables to. Nearby the door before the Police Arrived the attacker was filmed shooting apparently randomly having given up trying to enter the synagogue a woman passer by was shot dead and a man in a turkish restaurant also died. The german president arrived at the scene to bring flowers and a message he said talk this is a day of shame and disgrace that there should be an attack on a fully occupied Jewish Synagogue on the highest jewish holiday in a country with our history the german president s arrival here is an indicator of the alarm but in the aftermath of such or attack the questions still linger how can the people be protected by the police and Intelligence Services and perhaps more relevantly what drives someone to kill like this that he at 27 years old is a loner this is his home Police Inside and all over the neighborhood its in the small town of bend off 3 quarters of an hours drive from howler he lives with his mother and is reported to play video games persistently neighbors are in shock one says you never think these things can come so close you see it on t. V. All across germany now its here its scary. Another was Holding Back Tears im really scared said this woman i cant do this hell a member of the German Parliament believes politicians need to be more careful and they havent had to go and we have a local parliament and the federal one speeches that are on the borderline of being illegal i think we need to examine what are these hate speeches lead to people who have access to guns taking them out to kill them one of the messages posted in heller reads i wont let an ideology of hate destroy the city we love. Hell or maybe the latest attack of this sort but many people in germany fear its not the last. And drew simmons aljazeera in germany. Still ahead on the news hour fighting intensifies in the mountains of myanmar as efforts on the groups step up their campaign against the government and and sports well let you know if chinese fans carried out their way to work off an n. B. A. Game in shanghai thats coming up with peter. 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Its good to have you with us on the al jazeera news al and these are our top stories turkey has hit kurdish positions of northeast and syria with airstrikes for a 2nd day sending tens of thousands of people fleeing at least 15 civilians have been killed on both sides the Turkish DefenseMinistry Says its forces have killed more than 200. 00. Something operation began. A large crowd in ecuador has held a funeral for one of the protesters killed in days of bada demonstrations in the country the same group also operated a number of Police Officers on stage as they vented their anger of a new austerity measures imposed by president and then more in a. Well lets get more on our top story now the u. N. Security Council Meeting on turkeys incursion into syrian territory a diplomatic editor james bay spoke exclusively to the u. K. s ambassador to the un karen pearce. The turks say that they are acting under the u. N. Charter article 51. 00 which says that you can act in selfdefense youre an expert on these things do you believe this is selfdefense or do you believe this is a breach of International Law when im not a legal expert it is true that the right to selfdefense is in evidence and its also in article 51. 00 of the charter as you say and the turks have written to the Security Council with that justification i think 2 things on that one is that whatever justification countries use it doesnt relieve them of the responsibility to follow International Humanitarian law and the geneva conventions with any military operation and i think the 2nd point as was discussed by the Security Council today is that it wont the military operation we believe will not solve the stated National Security problem that turkey has in that part of syria so we have been urging the turks to get back into diplomatic talks some of those have been with the americans about the socalled safe zone we regret it very much that those talks were broken off and we really would encourage the turks to consider reconsider very seriously starting them again the russians have said very little since the turkish started their operation the Syrian Government been virtually silent what do you make of that. I wouldnt read too much into it except i think the russians are waiting to see if they can tu