Yet to return to base for. Al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me it is a problem also ahead the United States and russia agree on how to end the fighting in syria. They almost canada eleven pacific rim countries agree on the basis of a free trade deal and breaking records chinas Online Shopping spree shows no sign of slowing down. Lebanons president is demanding an explanation from saudi Arabia Michel Aoun wants to know whats preventing promised to solve her d. D. From returning to beirut its been a week since her d. D. Appeared on a cell these fashion channel and announced his resignation but its not. Being accepted not unless he delivers it on lebanese soil well the u. S. Has joined calls for him to return home and the un too is calling for stability in lebanon one of the regional powers against using the country for proxy conflicts and lebanon to Political Parties and factions have asked for the return of the Prime Minister his own party says it hasnt heard from him since saturday even had a days political adversary hezbollah refused to acknowledge his resignation. Says saudi arabia for study to quit and accuse israel of holding her d. D. Against his will saying the holder has the latest from beirut. Faith is still open to question lebanon has been Holding Contacts with the western as well as arab diplomats to find out and seek information about you know the whereabouts the well being of their Prime Minister yes that they believe he is in the saudi capital but lebanese leaders from across the political spectrum including saddam own Political Party believe that he is being held against his will that he is somehow under house arrest and his freedom of movement is curtailed and all of the different lebanese factions of course its a deeply divided country with a deep political divide right now theyre putting this aside and they are uniting all of them calling on the need for heidi to return to the country for more than one reason the military and to maintain what theyre calling the internal Balance System of government said they balance theres a sectarian system of government the Prime Minister should be a sunday muslim and the Sunni Community here consider their leader the very fact that he is no longer here they feel marginalized even further it is a community who over the years feels that. Of course with its patron iran has a grip on lebanon and it is in control of the country so this will really upset the balance of power so this in the community worry that this is this political crisis is saudi iranian rival. It has played out in lebanon for many many years now there have been attempts in the past the curve has been but they have all failed so right now all sides are avoiding political escalation because the situation is so tense in the past the political crises like this have led to security incidents so a lot of uncertainty for now there is rare unity where consensus but boy it could be just short lived it is a question many fear especially since they do not know what further steps saudi arabia intends to take against lebanon. Lets move on to other news now russia and the u. S. Have struck a deal to map out an end to the war and said here the u. S. State Department Released its version of their joint statement after the kremlin well u. S. President donald trump and his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam both leaders confirmed their commitment to maintaining serious sovereignty trump said hand putin reached the agreement very quickly adding that it will save a tremendous number of lives on potent spoke earlier about the agreement. Just now weve adopted that document with the prism of the United States its a very crucial document because we see it for some principles firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria thats most important for the United States and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there to do with recent terrorist acts because of sit weve been confronting that evil for quite some time now its important for the whole International Community that we continue to apply joint if its of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the sovereignty of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over well start the political process under the auspices of the united nations. Lets go to washington and they say now were joined by our correspondent and gallagher and weve just heard from the state department and in the last hour what are they saying. Well this is a joint statement its hard to say this is an agreement i think thats probably fair to say but in this joint statement perhaps nothing that new but there is a commitment here between russia and the United States to free and Fair Elections to continued cooperation between the military forces of both countries and i recommitment to the sovereignty of syria so some fairly significant agreements there between these two nations of course President Trump only as only met at a mere putin maybe three or four times potentially three times at the apec summit very short chats there and of course President Trump saying this agreement this joint statement will save many many lives but of course the implementation of all this that will be key this these are very difficult things to actually make happen in syria itself of course is potentially very important for the people of syria who have suffered under this war for the last few months and years to a great extent but potentially i think its how this plays out that will be important because these are not easy things to do on the ground but i think initially when president trunk was talking about the agreement he made light amir putin we were waiting for that state Department Release and it really doesnt say anything new theres nothing potentially new in here that hasnt been said before but again i think its how its implemented and how these two countries Work Together and of course the background to all this is that President Trump is really in trouble domestically with potential ties or or potential investigations into collusion between him and the russians the headline here at the moment in the u. S. Is that present trump believes lied to me putin when he said he didnt meddle in the elections but of course thats an aside to whats going on here with syria because President Trump also wants russia on his side when it comes to dealing with north korea one of the other hot bed issues for the trumpet ministration but i think the proof really will be in the pudding. If they can actually begin to implement these things of free and Fair Elections is not going to be an easy thing to do increase amounts of cease fire and holding those cease fires again is not easy so i think Going Forward its what concretely that they will do together that will show the people of syria and the rest of the world that russia and the United States can Work Together when it comes to syria and they thank you very much for that thats our Andy Gallagher joining us with the latest from washington d. C. Lets go to our russia correspondent roy chalons now hes joining us live from moscow and as andy was saying theres nothing new in this statement but what we are expecting it. Thats a good question its difficult to know whether were expecting anything new there was some chat in the last few days there was a time article that i read yesterday which suggested that russia and america. In in talks so put together a fairly significant agreement on how to move the syrian Peace Process forward now that begs the question is this is well on the face of it it doesnt look like this is particularly significance there as andy was saying there theres no new grounds really thats been broken here so that i think means that perhaps the u. S. And russia did not find as much Common Ground as they were looking for and that was hinted at on thursday by Rex Tillerson when he said that Vladimir Putin and stunnel trump would only have a proper bilateral so sit down meeting if there was something substantial and significant that the two men could agree on and talk about well we didnt get a proper bilateral meeting which suggests that perhaps they came up short when they were looking at moving a proper step forward with the syrian Peace Process now but to me in person has been talking about this statement and he says that he believes the necessity of it comes about because the fight against i still is nearly over as he puts it the fight against the terrorists so therefore the conditions are now right to move forward with the geneva process as to whether as to why there was no meeting with donald trump no problem meeting he said well it was just a shared julian problem and the two teams just couldnt make their protocol formalities work but he also alluded to the fact that perhaps as the americans that were shy of this meeting taking place when asked about what it signifies he says well it shows that the russian u. S. Relationship is still in deep crisis roy thank you very much for that thats very challenging but the nations from moscow i thank you. Iraqi forces have launched an offensive to capture one of the last remaining areas on the ice in control in the country so infantry divisions and sunni tribal forces are carrying out the operation and province its believed as a holding ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of adama and ron cohen has the latest from the capital of baghdad. The operation began early on saturday morning as iraqi forces went in to the town of ramadi is described as a town however its a series of small villages where i still fight as i have been holed up after they fled operations against them in ramadi and fallujah now this is on the border the Border Crossing with jordan which has been a strategic stranglehold for isolate managed to stop traffic coming in and out of that Border Crossing so this is quite key although were not expecting huge amounts of isis fighters to be in the area the fact that they are still there means that they were controlling that territory and this is all about who gets to control the territory now were not expecting this to be as large an operation as weve seen perhaps say in mosul or against eisel in syria what were expecting is the operation to be concluded fairly swiftly in fact what militia sources are telling us from the ground in amman is that ramana has already been liberated that hasnt been confirmed by the joint Operations Command that also the joint Operations Commander told ill just say that theyre very concerned about civilian casualties and they want to avoid them so theyre going to go in and a step by step basis theyre going to surround romana first take ramana and then likely to move across the Euphrates River and into and do exactly the same as a tactic that weve seen the Iraqi Security forces before take over areas outside of the areas i still control and then use that as a staging post to go in now like i said were expecting this operation to take months or weeks its going to be likely it is going to take days and we will have a news within the next few days about the operation itself but the Iraqi Security forces very confident that this they can they can route i saw the last remaining strongholds in iraq. Still ahead on the bulletin another resignation and australias jewel citizenship crisis what it means for Malcolm Turnbulls government. Hello there a Tropical Storm is making its way across the South China Sea at the moment its here has already made its way across the philippines and now its gradually tracking its way towards the west is strengthening a little bit and gradually drifting west woods at the risk slow pace so i dont think its going to reach bit now until about monday towards the north fine and dry for most of us in the southeastern parts of china for now but the cloud really begins to build as we head through into monday and so were likely to see some heavier rain that will run its way towards the northeast now for us cross india in the north is fine and dry the moment but there is a major problem with small thats not only across parts of india but also into pakistan as well further south you see plenty of cloud of rain here giving some of us a very very active rain and there were plenty more wet weather as we head through the next few days so sunday lots of rain particularly in the southeastern parts of india also affecting us in the northern parts of sri lanka though here in doha the temperature is definitely easing now is feeling rather pleasant outside thirty two degrees is the maximum there on sunday things do change a little bit on monday though the winds will be rather more active so it will be rather a blustery day and thirty degrees will be the top temperature here for the south for muscat is not as hot were at twenty nine. Provoking debate the corporate taxes not her job growth on the brock obama the what went on in georgia that one thats not true tackling the tough issues restrictions on Media Freedom of a tree killings torture maybe you giving me a road between if we wrap challenging the established line every single one of the three and a half thousand people who was killed with a drug dealer yes how do we know that you didnt try them you didnt prosecute them you didnt show them you show them on sawing join many has done for up front at this time on aljazeera. Good to have you with us on the al jazeera news out of these stories the lebanese president is demanding an explanation from saudi arabia on the circumstances surrounding promise to. Return to lebanon. Whats preventing her from leaving to the ob to surprise resignation a week ago russia and the u. S. Have struck a deal to map an end to the. U. S. President. Counterpart Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam both leaders confirmed their commitment to maintain. An offensive to capture one of the last remaining areas controlled in the country to infantry divisions and forces of carrying out the operation and province its believed. Ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of dawa. Members of the Transpacific Partnership partnership trade deal have agreed to proceed with the pact without u. S. Involvement president to withdraw support for the deal to assume an office throwing its future and doubt about the remaining leaders agreed to proceed on the sidelines off the apec summit and vietnam. And vietnam. The Asia Pacific Economic cooperation summit ended with yet another photo opportunity the twenty one leaders came together in vietnam on the back of a difficult year for trade that continued on the sidelines of a pic with canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau at the center he initially balked at a deal to push ahead with the Transpacific Partnership trade agreement involving eleven apec members but after further often heated discussions between government ministers all t p p members finally agreed on the core elements of the pact. All over an aversive agreed on the continent weve maintained exactly the same high standards to twelve i think weve maintained a balance weve avoided opting for lower standards there are lots of areas where if you rush to agree high standards will be sacrificed but if you insist on high standards we can take a long time or some countries might drop out so all eleven countries are on board and this will send a very strong message to the us and other countries in the region that messages asia pacific countries see regional trade deals as the best way forward thats in contrast to the views of u. S. President donald trump who withdrew the United States from the t p p the Transpacific Partnership isnt finalized yet some parts of the deal still need to be negotiated but the fact that its still alive without the us combined with chinas increasingly assertive role in this region means that this apec summit has come to a close with a sense that the United States is looking more isolated. Even the final statement from apec leaders was contentious and took longer than usual to finalize reportedly because of u. S. Concerns about the wording the leaders called for the removal of market distorting subsidies came after President Trump was highly critical of unfair trade practices during his speech on friday. The promotion of free trade and investment in the Asia Pacific Region is a mission for apec member economies to maintain a pact as a key driver for regional integration. Despite the statement again showed that the United States under donald trump has a different view on trade to most other asia pacific nations wayne hay al jazeera donning vietnam. Th