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ALJAZ NEWSHOUR October 13, 2017

Again im peter w. Watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes turkeys military moves into syria in a new operation to enforce a truce in its live province. Kurdish forces on high alert in Northern Iraq over what they say are possible threats from iraqi forces in kirkuk. More trouble ahead for jacob zuma south africas top court up holds a ruling to reinstate corruption charges against the president plus. The money gallacher no wonder why more than thirty thousand Puerto Ricans arrived to escape Hurricane Maria were looking at how Recovery Efforts are going our reaction to president drugs like his tweets. Top stories so far today turkey has started its. Military operations inside syria dozens of soldiers have crossed on Armored Vehicles into the province is part of an agreement between russia iran and turkey to enforce its socalled deescalation zone. Reports now from the turkey syria border. Turkeys cross border operation is underway these are soldiers from a special unit tasked with setting up a surveillance post in it live province. Turkey aims to enforce a cease fire agreement that was signed last month. President. Said the move was crucial for turkeys national security. Is it our front here we have to take our precautions no one has the right to tell us why are you doing this we are the country with nine hundred eleven kilometer border with syria where there was that under harassment and threat no one has the right to tell us why did you do this turkish soldiers are seen here in. A village on those border with. Not far from areas controlled by their white p. G. D. Syrian kurdish faction turkey has repeatedly insisted it wont allow fighters to expand further to worse the northwestern provinces of and thanks this is a delicate operation for turkey. Is those controlled by hate. Or. If former al qaeda affiliate. With jack the deescalation agreement vowing to fight to the death its not yet clear if the group will be turkeys next target turkeys main concern was all new. People by. Changing this generation. And referendum process. Securitas of the kurdish more what. They say best and border off to syria to turkey on thursday egypt and opposition fighters a cease fire agreement in the east of the. Rebel stronghold in the syrian capital damascus the deal would allow the rebels to get humanitarian aid in their besieged areas but would also allow Government Troops to shift their focus to the east where they are on the move against i sailed. So hashem it looks as if the Turkish Military is ready for any possible eventuality here. Passion we can see theres. A crowd of aljazeera viewers there in the background maybe if you can hear us alaska the question one more time. It would appear as to the Turkish Military is ready for any possible options here. Yes just to give you an idea of whats happening behind me see these are syrias who have just returned from. These refugees who live in turkey but they managed to go to see their relatives for some time and now its been really a very tough journey for them i mean the latest developments on the ground now for turkey this is quite a significant move and you shes basically they are trying to. Ensure that the kurdish factions which we have over the last few years makes fandor that influence has a missionary in the northeastern part of syria all the way to manage across the euphrates and now they are moving from a free into different turkeys very skeptical its very concerned its suspects the kurdish factions of trying to implement a state of their own along the border of turkey and this is something which is rejected by this explains why they are now stationed in south found to try some ansari to try to prevent the cars from further expanding and their biggest obstacle will be definitely to try to take on. Which is one of the most powerful and well organized rebel factions operating it. Is the Turkish Military well enough resourced to do both of the things that people were anticipating it was going to do move to the east and move to the south. You know peter the problem with that and the incursion is the risk of casualties among the troops in two thousand and fifteen turkish. Border operation inside syria seventy turkish soldiers were killed and we were talking about very limited operations now its quite different theyre going deep into the province of heres territory talking about a network of caves and mountains thousands of fighters from different factions. Isnt estimated to have Something Like ten thousand fighters operating to those areas so the potential for casualties is really high and i think this explains why the Turkish Military is moving through phases phase one surveillance both face to having Free Syrian Army factions do the fight on their own three once the ensure that the situation is under their control then they move deeper into the province of hashem thank you the Kurdish Forces in iraq are reportedly mobilizing after kucing baghdad of sending its forces to areas near kurdish controlled oil fields close to kirkuk the Kurdish Regional Security Council says soldiers have been seen south of the city the Iraqi Government has denied is planning a military attack on the kurdish controlled region tensions have been rising between the two governments since the kurdish session referendum last month lets go straight to Charles Stratford whos in erbil in Northern Iraq tensions have been high charles and theyre getting higher. Thats right yes and very worrying reports here certainly from the k r g saying that there has been movement of iraq and shia militia forces towards peshmerga positions to the south and the west of that oil rich city kid a cook i mean theyve been flat denials from the Iraqi Government and the rocky military with respect to these allegations the head of the joint Iraqi Military operations saying that this was completely untrue Prime Minister allawi body yesterday in his weekly address and hes just tweeted these comments in the last hour or so saying that all forces cannot and will not attack our citizens whether arab or but it is very much a worry for the k r g the Kurdish Regional government here is saying that they have deployed at least six thousand troops down towards kirkuk in the eventuality of any potential attack there of kirkuk of course of huge importance because of its oil wealth and in a disputed area of Northern Iraq and the. Control of kirkuk in two thousand and fourteen when iraq the Iraqi Military fled and i still offensive theyve been in control there ever since i did cause it participated in this very controversial referendum last month and the kurds say that basically they are not going to give control of that city back so certainly mounting tension here but as i say according to the Iraqi Government to the Iraqi Military these allegations are true giles thank you. Close most all to come here on the news including. The range of others harrowing story of how she watched me in ma soldiers throw her baby into a fire plus. Im. Blind with. People and theyre very few to r e. Y. N test cricket set for some big changes details with in the sports news in about thirty minutes. The trumpet ministration has released a document outlining the problems with the Iranian Nuclear deal now the white house says its the culmination of nine months of discussion with congress and u. S. Allies trumpet previously criticized the iran deal for not going far enough the same bus ravi is following developments from tehran. When it comes to the United States here in iran its hard to talk about the future without looking at the past the cia coup in the one nine hundred fifty s. The breakdown of relations after the revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine for iranian leaders those things are still very fresh in their minds so when they experience a war of words coming from the white house attacking what the time of its signing was a very popular publicly popular nuclear deal for them thats an example of the white house not being a reliable negotiating partner on the International Stage so leaders have been pivoting to europe and russia and hopes of those countries being able to save the Nuclear Deal Ali Larijani the speaker of parliament is in moscow and has said that he hopes that russia can help to save the nuclear deal for irans government to deal represents a few very important things it was an opportunity for iran to come out of the woods so to speak and return to the club of nations and it was an opportunity for iran to be seen by World Leaders as it sees itself a country that is mature with thousands of years of history and one that can be dealt with through negotiations and not necessarily through the threat of sanctions or the threat of force and so even though we are likely to see a proportionate response observers tell us that that response is also likely to be a measured one. Well thats the story in iran kimberly following the other end of the story for us out of the white house kimberly what are we expecting mr trump to do i mean this is quite a change in strategy for the u. S. Presidency. Theres no question that this is a major shift in iran policy the president is set to depart the white house in about thirty minutes time he will head to a hotel here in washington d. C. To make this announcement and what we expect and have been hearing for days is that the u. S. Will not withdraw from the twenty fifteen agreement to limit Irans Nuclear program but at the same time and this is the key will not certify comply. Riots under the terms of the deal as we have seen this administration do twice already since january so certainly what we expect is this will be a tougher u. S. Strategy the president will lay out in an effort to in his view counter what he sees as irans influence in the region particularly with respect to funding when it comes from the i. R. G. C. In the words of many of those ive talked to here in recent days it seems the concern is any funding for hezbollah as well as for syrian president bashar last so what we expect is this will be not only. Not recertify cation of compliance but there will be another key component to this and that will be that the u. S. Congress will as a result of this be tasked with the next steps if you will what this could look like could be doing nothing or it could also be a reimposing of sanctions became really as far as the congress is concerned ok theyve got sixty days but theyre already dealing with what immigration taxes getting rid of obamacare is congress up for having another huge issue that they have to deal with. Congress wants to deal with this issue i believe i mean obviously its a divided congress youre going to get a myriad of opinions but this triggering that takes place in the certification process was actually put in place by the u. S. Congress because there were many on capitol hill who felt the agreement had been negotiated in secret was not a deal that was in the interests of the United States and so there was concern about compliance but i think it goes beyond compliance because as we know the trouble administration has already certified twice that the that the iranians are and hearing to the letter of the law if you will what weve been hearing in recent days from various members of the administration is that they feel that iran is not complying with the spirit of the deal in totality theyre particularly interested in targeting what they call destabilizing activity in the region and so thats why we see what we expect will be a changing course tougher action one that the United States believes projects American Power but also comes at the risk of upsetting many u. S. Allies particularly the European Union which has cautioned against taking this type of action but if point mr trump delivers his speech he says things like focusing in on unnecessary unwanted influence on the part of iran in the region if he uses the word terrorism or terrorists might there be a risk then that the government in iran will come back and say look we cant trust you were walking away. Theres definitely that risk and weve certainly already seen these words of caution coming from top i. R. G. C. Commanders like farai who have in fact said that the u. S. Missiles or rather the u. S. Base and soldiers in the region could be at risk by iranian missiles if there is any reimpose posing of sanctions so certainly this is a concern that has been taken into account by some of the top advisers of the president what we do know and what we expect is that the president will stop short of something that many had wondered whether or not this would occur and that would be naming the i. R. G. C. As a terrorist organization we do not believe that will happen but certainly it may be targeted in other ways that will be outlined by the president in terms of trying to in the eyes of the United States stop some of the funding that it feels has contributed to instability in the region to many thanks very much. Now these two percent specific demonstrations against changes to kenyas electoral law rallies have happened across the country despite a government ban police in nairobi dispersed protesters with tear gas opposition supporters took to the streets ahead of a planned rerun of the president ial election straight to for me to miller whos in nairobi first two people shot dead from religious will cross through what happened there. Well peter this point we understand that protesters in fact tried to storm a Police Station in a bondo town in a western kenya and its then that police opened fire and killed at least two of the demonstrators if you look back over the last couple of weeks immediately after the august eighth elections weve just had a report released by a kenyan human rights body which indicates that at least seven thirty seven excuse me people are working in protests in the week immediately following the elections so the deaths weve seen today and also looking back over these past weeks there is a concern around Excessive Force by police in that number of thirty seven all but two of the cases were due to what the report indicates as Excessive Police brutality we also know that the opposition says despite protests being back and in the Central Business district specifically of three major cities in kenya the opposition says that it will continue with these protests that are concerned by that ban in fact saying its unconstitutional so they continue to be concerned around how exactly police will respond in protests were expecting to see leading up to a rerun of elections later this month about their rerun if this violence continues if the protests continue in there already questions about whos going to be on the ballot paper anyway as of this time yesterday how can they successfully rerun the election with any kind of big democratic credibility. Well the Electoral Commission is saying that it will have these elections on the twenty six of im told and thats despite the Opposition Leader raila odinga withdrawing from the elections there is a technicality the Electoral Commission says that he hasnt signed a specific form his party saying that he doesnt need to because this is a rerun and thats also so much of the confusion thats happening at the moment around technicalities the law what the constitution says exactly who will be included on the ballot paper weve also had a recent court case where a minor candidate has now been allowed to participate in these elections based on a Supreme Court ruling that took place after the initial elections in october or rather in august the Supreme Court had said that only the two top contenders that raila odinga and her kenyatta take part in the coming elections because the Supreme Court had found that there had been areas committed by the Electoral Commission there were a number of irregularities now theres also the question many kenyans are asking if you only have the incumbent president who work in the arts are participating how legitimate will these elections be given that raila odinga got at least forty four percent of the vote back in august so they are concerns around a major contender not taking part what role these minor. Minor contenders will have in this coming election also the political environment at this point considering the level of protests and also violence that we are seeing sporadically i mean the force in iraq we thank you. Well the rerun of the election is dividing the public and as weve been seeing most people support the new vote but there are concerns the political process is hurting the economy catherine so i want to see how the Political Uncertainty is affecting one coastal town its called khalifa. A man will move that depends on this for a living he lives in kill a few in the kenyan coast a town largely reliant on tourism every morning he comes here to choose the very best of fish to supply to dozens of hotels times are tough the industry has for years suffered because of Security Problems and competition from other de

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