The rules why a tweet by the manager of an American Basketball Team has sparked a political firestorm in china. Turkeys 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 threaten to destroy takis economy as a tax cut despite his there will be live on the takesh Syrian Border in just a moment but fast can be helped at 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 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 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 care about pleasing most kimberly help at aljazeera the White House Well lets go live now to the the syria turkey border where Charles Stratford is live for us and. Charles as weve been hearing just there from kimberly turkeys already saying that the army is ready to launch operations at any moment are we expecting any tuchis Troop Movements where you are. Well certainly there has been quite a lot of Troop Movement in this area we understand having seen pitches all of. The heavy weapons being moved into position and were hearing reports literally in the last hour that this seems to be. Additional movement of Turkish Forces of turkish every weaponry into this area im standing in front of the town of tel aviv which was taking control of by the s. D. F. With the help of Coalition Forces from eisel into sals and 15 i mean one of the 2 locations where we understand u. S. Soldiers a small number of u. S. Soldiers were withdrawn and withdrew a couple of days ago as weve been reporting theres a lot of tension as you can imagine and tension mounts as we get these increasing reports of a heavy weaponry build up interestingly in the last hour or so there seems to be some sort of protest that seems to be happening in tel aviv. Over the back of my Left Shoulder you wont be able to see it on camera but it seems that people have come out they waving white p. G. D. Flags now they says this is the group that he considers to be a terrorist organization with links to the p. K. K. Which is for an insurgency here into key for decades and is the reason why to he says that it has every right now to go in and launch potentially an offensive to set up what he describes as a safe zone to read this border area he says all of this organization that poses a Security Threat to it and to set up some sort of environment some sort of place where some of the 3600000 Syrian Refugees residing and he can be returned to but of course there are huge security questions regarding this plan the chief of which could be argued is the ice will separate tens of thousands of eyes. So prisoners had family members that are in prisons being held by the s. D. S. And of course the s. T. s have been so very instrumental and successful in the fight against us and very much congratulated by the u. S. So any kind of military move made by the senses you can imagine huge security ramifications well as you say it has tens of thousands of isis fighters in kurdish custody so whats going to happen to all those detained 5 says when the u. S. Pulls out they said that theyre going to hand them ive had a techie any indication as to how they went to manage that. Theres been no response to those comments from theres been no response from the turks with respect to that certainly President Trump said that yes that would be taking responsibility for any actual captives that the s. D. F. Had in territory that anything anything that the turks took across the border around 8000 syrian and iraqi eisel detainees around 2000 other foreign myself ices tens of thousands of family members but no real clear plan or no major announcement made by the turks as to how they are going to deal with this potential situation because of course a huge concern the European Countries have dragged their feet and said that they were would be not interested in taking back our eisel members yet theres a lot of very serious on illicit questions as we move forward and as i say were hearing increasing reports now of even more heavy weaponry being moved into position along the border stratford keeping an eye on things for us at the 3 attack you want to thank you charles. 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 texas full of Kurdish Forces im sorry if turkey you know want to as a military offensive 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 you knows very little promise oblio 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 iraqs president has condemned attacks on protest as during violent antigovernment demonstrations in a t. V. Address barham salih parliament to address protest as demands and called on Security Forces to ensure the rights of all iraqis upper texted. Yeah. Im told i may support the formation of a committee made a professional incredible experts who have been opening the door for a constructive dialogue with the maimed powers of the especially our some of the protesters we will also work to make sure that the community will have National Consensus and independence so we can identify the problem for the solution he said so we can start an effective process of reform and c. I. S. Correspondent imran khan has the latest from baghdad. Theres been a lot in the violent clashes between protesters and iraqi Security Forces here in baghdad there were 2 very small protests one taking place in Southern City another in another neighborhood but this other city one is very interesting for the last few days people from so the city have been telling us that they feel like theyve been under siege by the army and they say that the army has been firing indiscriminately at the protesters however and the government says that thats not the case and what its done is removed the army and replaced those forces with a rocky Police Forces federal Police Forces that seem to appease the protesters somewhat and they were in the kind of numbers weve seen over the last few days but its not just here in baghdad weve also heard in the self the center of the country is very much a quite annoyed the protesters now what were hearing in the south of the country is that young men have been stopped of the police of take a look at the mobile phones if they have pictures of the protests on their mobile phones theyve been made to delete them if they have a great number of pictures and videos on the phone theyve actually been taken into custody were not hearing that from any kind of official source iraqi. Police and army and the government havent commented on that but from multiple sources in the south we are hearing that thats actually the case also what were hearing is that the protesters may well be taking a look at what politics are going on right now and thats why there seems to be this kind of lull in the protest movement. 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 in south kivu and military officials have told aljazeera that more troops have been sent to the affected areas but theyre dealing with fighters who are well equipped and organized catherine so i reports. Weve come here with whatever little they could solve each of the some just the clothes theyre wearing. Has been fighting in the area thats in the Eastern Region of south keevil 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 by my buffalo are all dead now living rough outside this compound of a un peacekeepers base. We left on food in the village and now were just a bag of the my my that have done this to us. 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 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 is. When i arrived in this area i met thousands running away because of the situation the 2 rival groups that are fighting from the number led to a community and a coalition of the maimai militia we are hoping to restore order. In another village meet 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 4 like this they have also killed or a lot of. The problem within the unwilling gate 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 sawyer. All still ahead on aljazeera. Our ability to continue to redefine every single day what it is to be canadian what it means to be canadian canadas Prime Minister attempts to put scandals behind him as he fights for his political future. 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After the genocide the most vulnerable. Times has been lifted the. One woman uplifted many close to. Resistance they still talk you see Football Team poem in transforming lives in her community on the pitch able to take their children to school. But was a future gets good women make change. And again im just. A reminder of our top stories this hour turkey says its all set for a possible military offensive in northeastern 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 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 there. Now protesters in hong kong are expected to again defy an order banning facemasks police now say 77 people have already been arrested for violating the law carrie lam has defended the territorys ban on face masks and says that 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 then no options good people if we want hong kong to at least to have another chance when Chinese State television has now announced it werent any n. B. A. Preseason games its in response to a tweet by the manager of an American Basketball Team about those protests in hong kong Houston Rockets general manager daryl morey has apologized after posting an image thing fight for freedom stand with hong kong and response some chinese businesses have cut ties with the rockets from matheson has the view 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 busker ball 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. Matches that are being held in china this month one of which is in shenzhen one of which is shanghai and one of them is featuring the l. A. Lakers but the industry itself in china is enormous as well kids buy basketball jerseys basketball shoes bags anything branded with the n. B. A. And anything to do with basketball one of the reasons for its popularity is actually the time difference between the United States when the games are broadcast and when the games are shown here theres about a 12 hour time difference and that means that the games are shown predominantly around lunchtimes here in china particularly on saturdays