Intensifying. And not playing by the rules why a tweet by the manager of an American Basketball Team has sparked a political firestorm in china. Now turkeys defense minister says its forces are ready to begin a military offensive into Northern Syria the u. S. President has begun withdrawing troops from the region and threatened to destroy turkeys economy if a tax cut is fighters there will be live on the turkish short Syrian Border in a moment but fast can be how could reports from washington d. C. Where 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 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 isolating 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 a 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. At the syria turkey border charles out on has been saying that his army is ready to launch operations at any moment so how soon are we expecting to his trip movements where you are. Well certainly there has been Troop Movement in this area behind me across the border is the town of. Which is obviously controlled by the s. D. S. We know that they are on the scene weapons heavy weapons close to this position and as you report the government says that it is ready for any kind of offensive there were unconfirmed reports overnight certainly of heavy weaponry being moved into positions along the border certainly in the last couple of hours as well weve had unconfirmed reports according to local schools use of whats being described as a bombardment by Turkish Forces of a town called el key which is in the far east along the border but as i say no official statement from the military. Obviously theres a lot of tension here a lot of people very concerned and the s. D. F. Describing this announcement by dont trump as being a stab in the back and they have promised to respond any to any attack by the Turkish Military to defend what they describe is that people and there of course huge concerns about the kind of security ramifications this could have been thousands of of eisel prisoners being held captive by the s. D. F. The s. D. F. Saying that any kind of move by the turks against them would threaten. Their endeavor and their success in containing these these i saw feiss so yeah huge ramifications here but potentially but very difficult despite this announcement from the military saying that its ready very difficult to predict exactly when any kind of military operation would start well charles is as you say there are many many eyes the fight as in caddis custody at the moment the u. S. Has said and made their pull out that they are handing over responsibility for those detained i suffices to taki any indication yet as to how tech is going to deal with all of them. Thats right yes President Trump said that any any kind of move by the turks would incur will mean that the the the would would take over responsibility for these eisel prisoners and theres a lot of them. Around 8000 syria and iraq are still prisoners in prisons controlled by the s. D. F. There around 2000 i salute prisoners from approximately 50 other countries and then of course there are all the 5000s of thousands of tens of thousands will of family members that are held in refugee camps so there has been no indication as yet by the turkish government about any kind of plan on how to deal with those prison this if indeed we are to see a military operation in the coming hours or days ahead. Had watching things for us at the syrian taki border thanking china on Joshua Landis is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and he says that trump has little knowledge of what might become of kaddish forces if techie doesnt launch a military offensive but this shows the real collapse of the Foreign Policy process in the white house weve seen this before in it in korea decisions and tweets that were made about the iran situation in the gulf just a week ago people are guessing what americas going to do next and this is this is clearly not good trump wants to get america out of syria which is understandable he promised in his campaign that he would end the stupid wars in the middle east and he wants to fill some of that now that makes sense the trouble is he knows very little promise of lee about the long history between the kurds and turkey he doesnt realize how brutal the turkish army will be once it gets amongst the kurds. And in news just in at least 13 people have been injured in an explosion as university in afghanistan local media are reporting that the blast happened at university in the southeastern city of gaza any on tuesday no group has yet claimed responsibility now iraqs president has condemned attacks on protesters during violent antigovernment demonstrations in a t. V. Address barham saleh urged parliament to address protesters demands and called on Security Forces to ensure the rights of all iraqis are protected. And i support the formation of a committee made a professional is credible experts he said opening the door for a constructive dialogue with the main powers especially our son. We will also work to make sure that the committee will have National Consensus and independence so we can identify the problem for the solution he had so we can start in a flexible process of reform and so yes well our correspondent in iran can join us live from baghdad iran talk us through whats been happening overnight in the capital after all this violence is it beginning to calm. Well there is certainly a sense that there was a lull in the clashes between the Security Forces and the protesters overnight not just here in baghdad but across central and southern iraq now what we saw in baghdad was very small protests take place in southern a city and another neighborhood so the city has been under. Surrounded sorry by the army for very for a few days now and thats really angered the protesters because they believe that the army has been firing indiscriminately at the protesters the government seem to have listen to that concern from the protesters they are replacing the army with federal Police Forces and that may well be a reason why the protests in Southern City here in baghdad didnt werent in the kind of number that we have seen on previous days but in the rest of the country were also hearing that the crackdown may have actually scared people what were hearing in some of the cities in the cell is that police have been stopping young men theyve been taking a look at their mobile phones and if theres any protest pages on the any protest video on there theyve been asking the men to delete that video if there is over a certain amount we dont know how much what amount to that is the videos of pitches those men have been taken into custody this is an unconfirmed report but its coming from multiple sources. Has spoken to in the cell so its a combination of 2 things its beat it may well be because there is now a kind of a sense that the protesters need to give the government some sort of chance to react but its also to do with the heavy handed tactics the government of using that may well be putting protesters off and run does this mean then that protest so waning and is this being driven by politicians what developments on the political front. Well problem is the luddy is under a tremendous amount of pressure at the moment hes actually formed a committee to investigate the events of the last 7 days that hasnt been enough to appease his political opponents are all gunning for his job they are now taking a real look at whether theyll be able to force this government into early elections this government is just over a year old is not very old at all and they inherited a lot of these problems in the protesters actually understand as well that they blame the political system generally not just any one Political Party or any government in particular they say its the system thats corrupt now the opposition politicians the religious parties are taking advantage of that and theyre piling all the pressure but the reason were seeing this lull not just in the protest but in the politics as well is the everybody seems to be getting their ducks in a row as it were they trying to figure out what to do next whether its worth putting pressure on the government for elections or whether the protesters wont accept that and will keep protesting and have a large number in the days to come so were in a bit of a reset period has to be said both politically and for the protesters and noncon that life for us in baghdad thank you emma. Well weeks of violence in eastern democratic republic of congo have left at least 100 people dead and tens of thousands there displaced the fighting has been happening in south kivu and military officials have told aljazeera that more troops have been sent to the affected areas that theyre dealing with fighters who are well equipped and organized catherine so it reports. You know if camilo with what evan little they could solve each other with 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 to attack from a local Militia Group called by my buffalo are all dead now living rough outside this compound of a u. N. Peacekeeping space the letter delivered to the us we left our food in the village and now were just back if the my my that have done this to us he said there will be. They took our cows goats and all other belongings 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 of 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 fighters. 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 my my militia we are hoping to restore order. In another village limits 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. Well still ahead on aljazeera violent protests in ecuador as anger grows over shop price rises following an i. M. F. Debt deal. So i think its very sad for a country i think it makes it harder to do my job and more trouble for the u. S. President as democrats expand their impeachment inquiry issuing subpoenas to both the pentagon and the white house. Hello there it is a very unsettled picture across much of europe at the storms in the southeast working away through the Central Eastern mediterranean and then look at this is a massive cloud across the north tied toward it big systems like a star with that it so working for a fairly quickly south was bringing some very heavy amounts of rain through france the low countries germany own poland and also back up in the sky on the nagle some snow on the vocals there as well some very strong winds are those warnings in place along these a coastal areas facing the will see where we could see some very strong winds indeed and then look at all this rain across the southeast but it is moving fairly quickly bringing those temperatures down of course and up to the not coming back up very quickly as we head through wednesday but there will be some nice sunshine 22 in athens 21 celsius in ankara the temperature of moscow is a lot cooler 5 degrees on tuesday 7 celsius on wednesday and that is why because hes in sleet pushing in theres a mix really there of sleet and rain as you can say and then its very unsettled wednesday across much of Central Western Europe that rain really quite heavy along the line of the house pushing across into austria as well and that same system impacting the Central Eastern med this will continue to work its way very slowly east would say weve got rain showers in the 4 calls tuesday and wednesday into tunisia and across into libya. With a sponsor tone and. What are you protesting about how does this impact their online life face minstrelsy comes directly out of translated slavery or if you join us on saying this is an attack on Academic Freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice in the trenches through d the discussion issue over the Northern Europe we talk about the solutions on aljazeera. Hello again im mr entire hour in mind of our top stories this hour. Turkey says its all set for a possible military offensive in northeast and syria the Defense Ministry says artillery 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 and media during violent antigovernment demonstrations more than 110 people have been killed in iraq just over the past week and thousands have been injured. At least 100 people have been killed and thousands displaced and violence in eastern democratic republic of congo more troops have been deployed to stop rival groups there from fighting. Now protesters in hong kong are expected to again defy an order banning face masks chief executive kerry lad 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 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. Well Chinese State television has now announced it will not and the n. B. A. Preseason games thats in response to a tweet by the manager of the American Basketball Team about those protests in hong kong kristen rockets general manager daryl morey has apologized after posting an image saying fight for freedom stand with hong kong his comments angered many of the teams chinese fans and some chinese businesses have also cut ties with the rockets from matheson 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 busked ball is the number one sport in