Day what it is to be canadian what it means to be canadian and canadas Prime Minister attempts to put scandals behind him as he fights for his political future. Techies defense minister says its forces are ready to begin a military offensive into Northern Syria the us president has begun withdrawing troops from the region and threatened to destroy turkeys economy if a tax cut is fighters there and as can be how could reports from washington d. C. Transactions are drawing criticism from across the political divide. As u. S. Troops begin pulling out of positions in Northern Syria their commander in chief donald trump defended his decision to withdraw now weve captured isis weve done what weve done we had 50 soldiers in the area talking about it and i said we want to bring our soldiers back home its been a long time its a major shift in u. S. Foreign policy one being criticized by members of the president s own Republican Party senator Lindsey Graham one of trumps biggest supporters on twitter pledged to reverse the withdrawal of the u. S. Senate calling it a disaster in the making a move also backed by the top democrat in the senate and i can tell you this it is getting roland condemnation from democrats and republicans and i expect congress will take some form of action either a resolution or something even more. U. S. Officials credit Kurdish Forces with helping take back territory from eisel in Northern Syria but there are tensions between turkey and the kurds the turkish government considers one of its most effective fighting forces the p. K. K. To be a terrorist organization some u. S. Lawmakers are threatening to sanction turkey potentially calling for its suspension from nato if it attacks Kurdish Forces in Northern Syria but trump went even further threatening to economically obliterate turkey if the kurds are attacked i have told turkey that if they do anything outside of what we would think is you main they could suffer the wrath of a an extremely decimated economy still trump has long been vocal about his desire to get the u. S. Out of what he calls americas endless wars trumps impulsive syria strategy has led to key members of his administration resigning last year his defense secretary james mattis and brett mcgurk eisel special envoy what this shows president. All of his predecessors were whether republican or democratic is only concerned about himself we have a moral responsibility to the kurds because without them we would not have destroyed the caliphate in his statement on monday the pentagon made clear to turkey the United States does not back turkish operations in Northern Syria believing it will have a destabilizing effect on the region President Trump campaigned in 2016 promising to withdraw the United States from foreign wars now with the 2020 u. S. Election just a little more than a year away it appears potential voters not his senior advisers are the ones trying to care about pleasing most kimberly help at aljazeera the white house. That is live for us and to cut a on turkeys border with syria but 1st lets go to sin and cos we dont know whos in istanbul for us some turkey is waking up this morning to this. Threat from tromso how is the country reacting i see the leader is already sliding. Yes an aside yesterday in the Late Afternoon the liril lost value against the u. S. Dollar but it wasnt a very very significant run but it was an expected move because the markets are sensitive to these kinds of Political Developments in turkey and the reaction from the public i can say is it is embracing the decision by the turkish government and the military it to conduct an operation to establish a safe zone let me say like this now stands there in turkey in any flight against the outpolled Kurdistan Workers Party which is deemed as a terrorist organization by turkey of the us and the e. U. Is found illegitimate by the public because there was a war between the sorghum ization end the state for decades long more than 3 decades and it cost like almost 40000. 00 lives from both sides so thats why they feel like theyre not fighting against the kurds in syria but and ill go theyre going to zation which is a marxist leninist one which it which the turks also blew will be suppressive for the syrians as well there are reactions against u. S. President Donald Trumps tweets especially the which targeted turkish economy actually that there is theres an expectation that uncle i should go an answer to that but yesterday Ibrahim Cullen president ial spokesperson. Who was guess that by aljazeera in the evening he said that the turkish leader is going to answer this with wisdom so its not sure whether prisons are done took it seriously but this is not perceived positively by the politicians and the public but as i said at the Turkish Community welcomes that the situation for a safe zone again to clear out the p. K. K. Factions and itself in in northeastern syria simcoe say only there for us in istanbul thank you said and well lets now go to Charles Stratford he is live for us in action on the tacky syria border charles how soon could we be expecting texas troop movements where you are because no ones been saying his army is ready to launch operations at any moment. Yeah its very difficult to predict certainly were getting unconfirmed reports in the turkish media that there was some shelling that has taken place in recent hours a town called. Across the border which we understand well its to the east of here quite at quite a distance from here behind me across the border there is the town of. Interestingly there is that in fact a joint turkish and us command station based here and we see the u. S. And the turks taking part in patrols in this area we also understand the reports around 2 dozen u. S. Fool sees certainly some of those 2 dozen actually withdrew from. In the last certainly the last 24 hours its very difficult to say if indeed any military operation does happen when in fact it will we will so hearing though certainly reports last night that troop movements what was described as heavy weaponry being moved into positions and areas along this border. And of course we as weve been discussing you know this has huge ramifications in terms of both the security of this region and the geopolitics as well the s. D. F. Which is made up of the main faction of the group known as the white p. J. Considers a terrorist organization and for years has been as said that its planned to take back control of this area that is controlled by the s. D. F. In the white p. G. Because it sees the white p. G. As a terrorist organization but they have been hugely effective in the fight against eisel in this area and theyve said that any kind of military attack against them they will responds to. Describe defend their people. They say that poses a huge potential Security Risk because they say that they will not be able to guarantee the continued incarceration for example of thousands of prisoners that are held in prisons along this border so you can just imagine the kind of ramifications both in terms of security and geopolitics huge and charles i want to ask you more about the i thought fighters because the u. S. Has said that theyre handing over responsibility for all of those detained i thought feiss to taki so do we have any indication yet as to how tech is going to deal with them on. Know no real indication yet how how thats going to how thats going to play out obviously theres been huge reluctance by europeans to take back members of eisel and the u. S. As well. As a huge responsibility to deal with these i mean i think that the numbers are reportedly 2000 forward fights is held by the s. D. A. When i say foreign im only european and this around 8000 iraqi and syrian fighters as well i still fight is that of being held so any kind of military operation in this if controlled territory has huge Security Risks an off the wall can only really be described as a as a massive success i mean i remember reporting along this border a couple of years ago and you would see i still attacks from across from across the border i still had a huge presence in this area so the s. D. F. Have been massively effective instrumental and has endorsed by President Trump himself so yeah there is a lot of speculation as to whether in fact this operation has started yet but as i say the ramifications in terms of security and geopolitics a huge child strata there keeping an eye on things for us on the syrian taki border thank you johnny. Well on to other news now and iraqs president has condemned attacks on protest as during violent antigovernment demonstrations rallies continued throughout the night butting tires and disrupting roadways despite its caused by a bomb site of a car on friday is edging parliament to address protest as demands and to ensure the rights of iraqis are protected more than 110 people have been killed in iraq just over the past week imran khan met one victims family in the capital baghdad. Look at that look how beautiful he is says in the hate them it is one of the protesters shot dead by Iraqi Security forces he was 27 years old on thursday he joined protesters in central baghdad frustrated with the lack of jobs and opportunities he saw a childs to get his voice heard he left home in the afternoon he never returned clearly in short term haitham just keeps repeating how beautiful her son is a family friend speaks on her behalf i did he didnt hurt anyone he didnt harm anyone what is the crime of these young men these beautiful young men the government is to blame accuse the government of murdering he wasnt just my neighbor he was like assad family. The government and the army say they havent targeted protest is that although its brother must of thought says ahmed was shot in the head by a sniper as he tried to help another protester who had been shot in the leg while. Some people say the shooters are rainy and theyre lying there from our country its the iraqi army killing iraqis. It is the head of the Popular Mobilization people says a mainly shia Paramilitary Group he says his forces didnt take part in the operation against the protesters as i am reaffirming that the interior ministry with the support from the military are the ones who stop these protests however the Popular Mobilization forces in the persian burgo are reserve forces for the commander of the armed forces. Only interfere to fight any conspiracy whenever an order is given and the order was given this time across south and central iraq people are putting up pictures of those who have been killed and placing the blame on the government the army and the government say that they will investigate the deaths of the protesters but that hasnt slowed the protest movement down in fact if anything judging by the jones the deaths have actually field the movement iraq on aljazeera baghdad now weeks of violence in eastern democratic republic of congo have left at least 100 people dead and tens of thousands displaced the fighting has been happening and found and military officials have told al jazeera more troops have been sent to the affected areas but theyre dealing with fighters who are well equipped and well organized Catherine Sawyer reports. With what evelyn. For some just the clothes they are wearing. Has been fighting in the manana area thats in the Eastern Region of south kivu in democratic republic of congo. Thousands of people mainly from the Ethnic Community have fled from their homes after attacks from a local Militia Group called my my. Theyre now living rough outside this compound of a u. N. Peacekeepers base to live the lives we left on food in the village and now were just bagging if the my my that have done this to us in the city. They took our cows goats and all other belongings and we cant go back to the village to collect food and were sleeping outside in the cold. This is what is left back in the villages have to fighting between 2 rival armed groups more than 9000 houses have been banned close to a 100 People Killed and livestock stolen Congolese MilitaryOfficials Say theyre pursuing the fight as. When i arrived in this area i met thousands running away because of the situation the 2 rival groups that are fighting from the community and a coalition of the maimai militia we are hoping to restore order. In another village we made some members of the my my group they say the rival militia provoked them. We did not stop the attack they did they accuse us of stealing their animals yes we did during times of war like this they have also killed or a lot of us. The problem with is that they come to us 1st their Militia Group called in go mino also burn our homes and rape our women thats why our fighters are angry the security situation is still tense fighting is going on in some areas the United Nations peacekeeping mission and Congolese Army have deployed more troops to protect civilians both Militia Groups are say to behave in the armed and neither is ready to back down catherine saw. 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And theres some very stormy conditions across central and southern portions of europe and just look at the satellite just a massive cloud but the heavy rain further to the south is moving fairly swiftly 6 rechy say this rain really stretching through southern italy across to greece pushing up into turkey and eventually up into those Western Areas of russia then to the north another system bringing widespread rain and clouds winds a fairly brisk on choose day but in between both of these systems you got some very nice weather 16 in vienna and a very pleasant 23 celsius in rome and then through wednesday everything clear is really quite quickly away from the southeast a very nice day in athens 23 feeling cool a bit very nice with 21 under those good sunny skies and then really much of Northern Europe is under the sway the cloud those showers and some pretty brisk wind site now on wednesday coming in there from the north and the west but not feeling too bad 15 celsius in london and paris despite the fact you got a lot of the charms of some showers now that same system in the mediterranean is going to linger really across Northern Africa so 3 cheese day libya this is where we like to see the showers and they tend to linger as we head into wednesday so we could see some low class flash floods and slightly feeling cooler the high the a 25 in tunis. Hello again i missed your tape and a reminder of our top stories this hour turkey says its all set for a possible military offensive in northeast and syria the Defense Ministry says ontario has been positioned on a border town a day off to u. S. Forces withdrew from the area. Iraqs president has condemned attacks on protesters during violent antigovernment demonstrations rallies continued throughout the night despite calls by about himself a call more than 110 people have been killed in iraq over the past week. And at least 100 people have been killed and thousands displaced in violence in the eastern democratic republic of congo military Officials Say more troops have been deployed to the region to stop rival groups from fighting. Now protesters in hong kong are expected to again defy an order banning face masks more rallies planned on tuesday days after the citys chief executive introduced the restriction carry lamb has defended the territories ban on face masks and says other measures to restore order remain a possibility. At this point in time i still strongly feel that we should find the solutions of steps that that is also the position of the Central Government that hong kong should tackle the problem on her own but if the situation becomes so bad. That no options could people if we want hong kong to at least to have another chance now a tweet by the manager of an American Basketball Team about those protests in hong kong has sparked political fallout Houston Rockets general manager daryl morey has apologized after posting an image saying fight for freedom and stand with hong kong his comments angered many of the teams chinese fans and some chinese businesses have also cut ties with the rockets but the pressure from china has also sparked a rebuke from u. S. Politicians as a time when trade ties are already tense look at the people of hong kong large protesting for something we fortunately have here in america which is freedom as vs this country symbolized by the statue of liberty to try to gary. A general manager or anybody who is speaking out in favor of the hong kong protester is wrong and i hope that basketball will understand that its unamerican to gag the people when theyre speaking out on behalf of freedom. And our correspondent rob about this and has more from beijing. The overwhelming response on chinese social media to whats been happening in the United States has predominantly being that they love the n. B. A. They love basketball but they love china more basketball is the number one sport in china its eclipsed even the football china back in august hosted the basketball world cup and there are 2 n. B. A. Matc