Acting as he says the worlds policeman and it was something that he campaigned on in 2016 and you know if nothing else were in another president ial Campaign Season and you could argue that the the u. S. President is trying to bolster his record by saying that he is keeping u. S. Forces out of harms way all right thank you at the latest from washington that doesnt enjoy an. Honest. About this and specifically about president obamas recent statement and whether those comments of causing an ankara. I have no d doubt that that trumps our shifting positions is a matter of concern. Without because weve been this way before in 2000 a team trumpet at the end of the year promise to withdraw troops and never did and the Turkish Operation long anticipated there was a race so clearly it is tied to trumps winning this so allowed this to happen and his willingness to do withdraw the troops so the question is how far will trump allow the Turkish Operation to to develop its was a definite as i said and theres a lot of opposition in congress they have not been withdrawn the pentagon is going from that theyre still there i think only about 50 were in the immediate area on the border and those are the ones that were joined i dont think there to go d back to your question i dont think that there is much opposition within the administration the metis is gone bolton is gone the ones who actually opposed that in the process gone its much more chance colleagues in the senate mcconnell. Graham and others were actually leading the opposition and in times of International Reaction wild leaders have been calling on ankara to exercise restraint france has strongly condemned the move and its unease Prime Minister says the military incursion risks destabilizing the region and harming civilians russian president Vladimir Putin want his takesh counterpart to want to avoid any steps in syria that could damage its Peace Process moscows also called for a dialogue between the Syrian Government and the nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has called on techie to act with restraint as well an issue that any actions taken are proportionate and measured and an Emergency Un Security Council meeting has been called for by any Member States as well as diplomatic editor james bays has the latest from un headquarters in new york. After days of discussion the u. N. Security councils agreed to have a meeting on current developments in syria but theres very little chance of agreement on anything other than expressions of general concern what do you hope to achieve these discussions and babs the conventions that. Should if peace is that be a chance to solve issues and see to it its the european members of the council have been pushing for a meeting some of them have strongly condemned turkey but the u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorists issued a statement that stops well short of that civilians and civilian infrastructure should be protected in accordance with international law. The secretary general believes that there is no military solution to the syrian conflict the same language the un has been using throughout syrias bloody 8 and a half year long war there is nor military solution because there is no military solution as i have said repeatedly there is no military in solution to the syrian prizes so how does that apply to turkeys current operation if there is no military solution and thats the firm view of the secretary general is the clear inference to that that he is not in favor of a new military operation. We have been proven correct on this time and again people have believed that particular fences could win the conflict from one side or another none of that has happened and it will not be able to happen the parties need to come together they need to resolve their differences diplomatically many of been questioning whether president shrub effectively gave a green light to turkey ahead of its military operation but theres also attention to on russia after recent comments by its foreign minister Sergei Lavrov that the syrian kurds should start negotiations with the Assad Government russia like everyone else knew exactly what turkey was planning president made it quite clear in front of other World Leaders even showing them a map last month at the u. N. General assembly perhaps russia is prepared to tolerate turkey taking a corridor of land along syrias northeast border while it and the assad forces continue the bombardment of it live in the northwest with the hope it will eventually lead to the kurds coming under the control of the Syrian Government jamesburg zira at the United Nations well the e. U. Has been reacting as well Natasha Butler has more from from paris on that on the news response to tackles offensive in northeast syria. In a statement the e. U. s Foreign Policy chief federica mockery really outlines the e. U. s position and that is that the e. U. Is calling on turkey to stop all military action mongering he says that that military action simply cannot lead to any form of sustainable solution that could only be achieved through negotiations or talks mockery and he also says that even Member States are extremely concerned over the issue of security over further destabilizing an already volatile region and possibly seeing a resurgence of ice will fight as the Coalition Partners including turkey have been working very hard to combat greeny also says that turkey is of course a close ally of the European Union and has hosted many Syrian Refugees and there is real concern in the European Union that this violence in Northern Syria could lead to a new wave of refugees in europe. Much more to bring you on after a quick break behind bars since august and jailed tunisian president ial candidate is now released just days before the 2nd round Runoff Election. How i once again with us look aimlessly try the moments across australia we have of course got those bush foster blazing away that just around the eastern side of the country southeastern parts of queensland into the north of New South Wales as we go on through the next couple of days they say things will at least up to cool down brisbane of about 22 celsius last couple days were getting up into the mid thirtys so that does show some signs of improvement further west says generate dry its hot into the interior alice about 30 degrees 21 there in perth on thursday some a temperature as we go on into friday in a similar temperature to as you can see for brisbane so the temperatures really fully back quite nicely here i notice by friday showers so long. Just drifting their way in that he says out of queensland anywhere from around townsville right down into the eastern side of victoria 17 celsius the full melbourne on the other side of the tasman same got some wet weather making its way into new zealand see this hook of cloud that will bring some rather stormy conditions into the west of south South Auckland we are going to see some really wet weather pushing in here them as we go on through thursday and increasingly wet and blustery for the north of the friday oakland 70. Teach on from office a photo opportunity for many. Big profits for a few days tourists flock to europes must see destination. Tensions are rising. With local communities paying a heavy price for the popularity. Power to the true economic and environmental costs of europes tourism on al jazeera. With aljazeera live from london al top story this hour turkey says its hit more than 180. 00 targets as part of a major ground an air offensive in North Eastern syria aimed at clearing the area of kurdish fighters the kurdish that Syrian Democratic forces say a Prison Holding i still detainees has been struck by turkish troops and emergency u. N. Security Council Meeting has been called for thursday to discuss whats happening. On our other top story this hour 2 people have been shot dead near a german synagogue and shop in what authorities are calling an anti semitic attack the attack coincides with young kapoor the holiest day only jewish calendar shooting took place in the eastern city of holly gunfire was also heard in the nearby town of landsberg about 15 kilometers away its not clear if the 2 are connected Andrew Simmons has more now from the scene in holly. More details now emerging on the sequence of events pieced together from Police Sources talking to german media after the attempt to get to the synagogue the killer opened fire on a possible woman shooting dead instantly he then went into a nearby took his restaurant opened fire there as well killing a man he got into his car and drove 17 kilometers out of the city to get away he went to a workshop demanding a car they didnt have one the workers just couldnt help him he then pointed to a taxi wanted to get to hijack that taxi and as he was doing so he turned around and fired an electrician who was critically injured hes been lifted to hospital he then drove away and a pound according to all reports were hearing there was a car chase a Police Car Chase and he in his car was rammed by a truck that came to a halt not clear whether he was injured but hes in custody he has been named by german media. Its a 27 year old from this district and whats emerged online yet to be verified is whats effectively a manifesto written by him showing pictures of his weapons and ammunition referring to his objective to kill as many antti whites possible jews preferred. To ecuador now a protest that clash with Security Forces in a 7th day of antigovernment demonstrations thousands of Indigenous People are on the streets of the capital quito angry at the fuel price hikes introduced by president lenin laureano roads are empty and business is a closed across the country as part of a one day strike against the austerity measures right now has refused to resign and says he is negotiating with thousands of indigenous groups about this when i latin america and its only seen human is following the story from kale so clearly these protests have been happening not just thinking but really in other parts of the country causing a fair bit of paralysis how widespread of a pain. The paralysis maram is pretty much nationwide in some places the the demonstrations have been bigger and others smaller here and there have been street protests both in favor and against the government and a very very large deployment of Security Forces including now for the 1st time members of the army i have seen here on the streets right behind the police riot police they too are armed with that with riot gear and this is significant because the armed forces has just put out a communique saying that it will not take responsibility for any consequences that may occur in the line of their duty to preserve public order and they say that the only ones responsible for these consequences would be those especially the leaders of the groups that are calling for social unrest and this is again very very significant but its also a demonstration that the armed forces continues to back the besieged president leonine what i know who is at this hour we understand in the capital people even though he had said that he was transferring the seat of government to the building that you see right behind me here in hawaii. Hell no this is he about this because hes refusing to resign so he seems to be digging in his heels. Hes refusing to resign but that is really quite what more significantly i think at this moment is the fact that hes refusing to back down on the austerity measures that called all this to happen exactly 7 days ago he. Posed these a sturdy measures which include a huge hike in the price of fuel and thats what brought hundreds of thousands of people out onto the street and at least 700. 00 people have been arrested so far according to the president s own press secretary he is at this hour allegedly or we understand he is trying to negotiate some kind of a way out of this crisis which is a huge crisis the worst one ecuador has seen in more than 12 years and so he must be nervous but unless there is some kind of a way out some kind of a concession made on his part and they are on his opponent then very he may very soon or may be forced rather to resign in the coming weeks or days madam thank you very much our latin america and its a new c and human reporting to us from on those protests against the governments austerity measures. Now jail tunisian president ial candidate now bill crowley has been released just 4 days before the 2nd round Runoff Election has been behind bars since august accused of Money Laundering and tax evasion the media mogul came 2nd in the 1st round of tunisias president ial elections last month his party heart of tunisia also came 2nd in mondays parliamentary election. Has more now from the capital tunis. His archivist dayak unfair you can see here you can hear him. Over there. And this is exactly what is trying to do now is once to tell that it is yours thats his word therefore that political moment and that you want to. Rally behind him to live there when i was talking to his own people over the last few days they would tell you thats against the political divides into this year this could potentially be the right candidate to his ears and fix the problems that the country faces. But at the same time he faces the delicate task of convincing people to vote for him and then have to tell you that if that happens there would be a huge political upset here inside is the. Real environment minister says the oil washing up on the countrys northern beaches is likely from Venezuela Oil has appeared on more than 100 brazilian beaches over the past few weeks a cargo silas says a report by the state run Oil Company Petrobras has confirmed the oil is not brazilian but more than likely from its northern neighbor he described the spill is enormously difficult to contain more than 100 tons of oil is already been collected from the coastline. Hopes are fading of finding any more survivors from a boat that capsized in the mediterranean on sunday it was making the dangerous crossing from north africa to europe packed with refugees and migrants at least 15 people are still missing how many june has more now from the italian island of lampedusa italys coast guard still searching for migrants whove been missing since a boat capsized off the coast of lampedusa on sunday that boat were told originated in tunisia there were about 50 people on board most of them tunisian and west african were also told that the migrants who were on the boat 22 have been rescued 13 have been found dead weve been told that those 13 were women and there is a fear that of the rest who have been missing that many of them are women and children now the u. N. Refugee agency says that what happened proves yet again that urgent action is needed when it comes to the situation in the mediterranean here in lampedusa as we said the search is ongoing the mayor here tells us that the search will continue tomorrow that at that point robots undersea robots will also be deployed to assist in the search were also told that this evening there will be a Memorial Service for those who perished in that boat capsized well as more and everything were covering right here all the latest on our breaking news story but dont forget you can watch us on life streaming here as well if you want. It recap of the headlines before we go take has launched a ground offensive in northeastern syria hours after its warplanes in artillery began hitting territory held by kurdish fighters and Syrian Democratic forces say a turkish as strike as a Prison Holding i still think cheneys Turkish Military operation is designed to clear its borders of kurdish fighters and the army says its 181 target so far u. S. Secretary of state might pompei are saying washington did not give the green light for attacking to invade syria following president trance decision on sunday to withdraw troops from the region Charles Trafford has the latest now from the turkey syria border. As you say that they are targeting s. D. F. Positions only we understand that one of these positions according to turkish media was in a stiff weapons. We are trying to make contact with people across the border its interesting that i suppose in the last 3 of those the lights all for to lobby out a big of gold out. And certainly the people that we have spoken to i suppose about 3 hours ago saying that they had been told by the state to remain in their homes but great concern for the hundreds of thousands of people who live along this border on the syrian side. Now in our all the headlines this hour 2 people have been shot dead near a synagogue in germany the interior minister has confirmed it was an anti semitic attack it coincides with a young kapoor the holiest day in the jewish calendar shooting took place in the eastern city of holly gunfire was also heard in the nearby town of landsberg about 15 kilometers away but its not clear if the 2 are connected. And in ecuador protesters have been clashing with Security Forces in a 7th day of antigovernment demonstrations that thousands of Indigenous People are on the streets in the capital