President ial election and states vote has the potential to be one of the tightest races in the countrys history president mark whats in mississippi says hes confident his Botswana Democratic Party will win another term in office but a united opposition is posing the 1st viable challenge to the ruling party since botswanas independence 53 years ago. At least 5 civilians including 2 children have been killed in yemen and an airstrike by the Saudi Coalition the attack targeted a moving vehicle and the Northwestern Province on tuesday the u. N. Says millions are in need of humanitarian aid as tens of thousands of children die every year from malnutrition. Has more on the human toll of yemens conflict and a warning his report contains some distressing images. From severe money to his grandmother from the worst she says the father died in their long journey from and womens north problems how to tell my grandson has been suffering from malnutrition since we would have shot im afraid to lose him like right when we saw on. The medical center. One of the poorest districts in north and try to do their best a 7 year old severely malnourished to be named hussein made headlines around the world last year was treated there before. And many cases continue to be transferred here its the only remaining clinic in ops district about 50 kilometers from the saudi border so. Its true to the shortage of medicines and that families around able to have a safe shelter rather than putting food on the table that are behind the deaths of children. Working to distribute aid here see the International Community need to do more to help displaced by years of war we are trying to make best but unfortunately what we are making is in addition to the other organizations like the United Nations on some indios organizations not enough. According to officials here more than 6000000 children could be. Solvent. Before the beginning of the saudi war in our country there were 500000 children suffering from severe malnutrition 1500000 suffer from mild not attrition now we warn that in case the war and if the blockade continues we could lose 6000000 children from severe malnutrition. Severe malnutrition and other chronic diseases as a result of shortage of medicines the only reason behind the high mortality rate among children here is also the more the frequency how do you hear a strikes whos an even more immediate danger. Since the beginning of this. War in yemen against the whole of the fighters over 250000 children from mental diseases the u. N. Says more than 2000000 people being displaced from their homes while the majority of yemenis are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. Some. Quick at the headlines right now on al jazeera. Syrian kurdish fighters must pull back from the border or face further military action from turkey under a deal agreed to by president artois why peachey fighters have 150 hours to withdraw at least 30 kilometers back inside syria. To turkey syria border with the latest. So fall certainly the Turkish Military says that it will at this stage not resume any kind of military action against the goods the Kurdish Forces but hes on them of how they will respond to this agreement because russia is saying now that if indeed those forces do not withdraw to 30 kilometers within the next 6 days then turkey has the right to resume its military campaign against them they were all u. S. Defense secretary mark esper as in baghdad to discuss the deployment of u. S. Troops in iraq as for said all u. S. Troops leaving syria will go to western iraq them will continue to fight eisel but Iraqi Military said they dont have permission to stay. Egypt has accepted an offer from the u. S. To help break a deadlock with ethiopia over a multi 1000000000. 00 dam project on the nile river construction a 70 Percent Complete and when its finished will provide electricity for ethiopia but egypt is worried the project will shrink its share of the river roads across lebanon are being blocked by antigovernment protesters are calling for political change protests are now in their 7th day and the army is attempting to reopen the roads the government has vowed schools and universities will reopen but staff are threatening to strike Boris Johnson will call for a general election if he is forced to accept a long breaks it delay abouts according to a government source ministers voted down the prime ministers proposed timetable for ratifying his new divorce on tuesday johnson missed now await approval on an extension to the withdrawal deadline which he was forced by parliament to request last week but he insists britain will leave on october 31st do or die the fraud trial of Oil Giant Exxon mobil has begun in the Supreme Court in new York State Department activists held a protest outside. Or so the headlines keep it here on aljazeera theres more news to the stream thats up next. If we want. To we unify with the my. Bike the consequences when i want to use this to great ones determination to run my depend on aljazeera. Have had me ok i really could be alive and here in the stream today the kurds in syria how will turkeys plan to establish a safe zone in Northern Syria impact the regions kurdish population if you have questions or comments on this issue well try to get them answered so share your thoughts with us via twitter or in our live you tube chop. A 5 day ceasefire has just ended in Northern Syria and now turkey and russia are ready to establish a safe so the Syrian Refugees so what does this mean for the kurds who are already living that following the sudden withdrawal of u. S. Troops from the region turkey embarked on operation peace spring a military tend to pushing kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces away from the syria turkey border its goal is to create an area where Syrian Refugees could be repatriated after a week of fighting with Kurdish Forces turkey agree to a 5 day ceasefire last thursday despite that agreement shelling and other military action have been reported around 180000 civilians have been displaced thats according to the e. U. And the aid groups are worried that turkeys operation could spark a humanitarian crisis so today well discuss how the latest Foreign Policy moves in syria will affect the kurds joining us to discuss this in erbil iraq shiran fazio a kurdish political analyst in doha aljazeera Senior Correspondent of the pasha gun im in london i live sara khan and anthropologist at the London School of economics shes also an activist with the kurdish womens movement. And in istanbul you said aaron a political analyst with the world its good to have you all with us and guess as we were getting ready for this show there was a news break on aljazeera we saw these pictures as president and president putin in conversation in a News Conference which directly related to the conversation about so many and of course that is what is dominating our feeds right now people online especially on twitter are talking about it so i wanted to share this tweet from sonar sonorous the director of Turkish Research program at the Washington Institute for near east policy and sonia writes the outcome of that News Conference the president one meeting in sochi today indicates that erdogan has become a master of leveraging the u. S. And russia against each other to maximize gains turkey got the safe zone it wanted all this time so he seems to put it out there as though this was a very strategic move what is your take on what we saw today in this press conference and on the operation that preceded it well thanks for having me like to differ with mr sonner charkha by actually for your remarks there is no president actually president clinton i mean this sort of is u. S. Withdrawal in northeastern syria its actually the person managed to drive a wedge between here and new 2 hours turkey has been. Acting against the interests of the west and more specifically the nato in the middle east and northwest of italy in syria for the past 6 years and i think the winner of the us withdrawal and the turkish incursions in North Eastern syria its mr putin who finally achieved its objectives by driving a wedge between nato allies he said you know president set of president putin my dear friend pointing what difference does involvement of russia make to the current operation in that no eastern side of syria. It makes a great difference because while youve reached a deal diplomatically at the table with the americans via deep cuts add one to 3 minutes last week to that that for that diplomacy trickle down into the field you need to sit down and also have that we have a permit with the russians because theyre the ones with boots on the ground and theyre the ones where the guarantor of the regime so i partly agree with some that. Says tweet saying that turkey got what it wanted to cover most of what it wanted not everything but most of what it wanted it had to make some compromises but this is the plane a c. And b. And turkey launched an operation that lasted 7 days and in that 7 days it was able to secure 120 kilometers by 300. 35 kilometers deep and for the rest of that safe zone area the rest of the 440 or qualm matters outside of the 120 kilometer area it was able to secure most of what it wanted and it did this diplomatically without loss of life it was able to avoid sanctions from the United States it was able to save its relationship with the u. S. Without escalating it further it was able to produce cement its relations with the russians also and most importantly address its National Security concerns purses the group known as the white b. G. The Peoples Protection unit this is a kurdish Paramilitary Group operating in the area right or views of this terrorist americans call the Coalition Partner a frank b. They have direct links to a group that has tried to buy a faction of the territorial integrity of turkey purported here site he said he was having the whole debate by himself hoping in a few of the people have now tasha. And the suppressed talking about this 7 day operation during those 7 days on the ground refugees and syrians moving from north east syria into iraq i want to play just im showing people he. Twitter feed because you were there actually doing some reporting this lady is called nada and i want you to tell us more about the stories of the syrians who had to flee and when they sooty we are syrian but we hit our country we dont want to go back and nedra and her sister each paid a smuggler 600. 00 she says she and her 2 Young Children walked for 5 day. Visit a bit out of that i was alone in the desert. Everybody left it was just me and my children i was suffering on. This latest senator or of the on the very high level of those policy its done in a very high level you were down on the ground with real people what was he saying what we inherit. Well 1st of all despite the seas fire the number of Syrian Refugees that continue to be smuggled over the border spike in that duration so were now at about 4 than 7000 Syrian Refugees primarily kurds who has been smuggled over the border into iraq to escape this turkish incursion so why are they being smuggled people tell us they told us repeatedly and aid groups are confirming that kurdish fighters on the syrian side at checkpoints were prohibiting them from crossing so they were forced to pay smugglers in some cases a few 100. 00 a head and as you just heard from one of the women i spoke to in a nutshell they walked in the desert. To his they were. Honestly have no idea how they made it but in any event these people were saying yes weve been displaced several times in our own countries throughout this more than a year long war but for many of them this is the 1st time they had actually left syria and this was their 1st stint in an actual refugee camp and look i think theres been a lot of discussion about geopolitics gaining whos losing and at the end as is often been the case especially in my firsthand experience its the Syrian People who are suffering the syrians that i spoke to do not want to go back home theyre afraid of eiffel sleeper cells they are afraid of eiffel fighters who were in detainment camps whove escaped there are afraid of what will happen to them once Syrian Forces move into cities that had been predominantly controlled by kurds worry about persecution and repr cautions and simply again the people that ive spoken to have no clue and whats different is throughout the war when ive spoken to refugees theyve talked about the hope of going home and the dream to return to their home. And this time is very different i think that they are really at their with and and the people that ive spoken to said that they are now looking to begin their lives a new. Life as. I think you know i i agree with natasha focus on speaking about the human aspect of whats happening because when it comes to big geopolitics often this is missed and its important to understand you know whether its the one where there was the socalled 120 hour ceasefire or before you know in practice we seen and its been widely reported that there was actually never a ceasefire either the turkish state and its allied forces on the ground as well as violated the cease fire 27. 00 times theres been an amnesty report saying that theres been damning evidence of war crimes committed by the Turkish Forces and its allied to Syrian Forces and its shameful disregard for human life a british chemical weapons expert Hamish Debrecen Gordon has said the wounds of many of these people who were taken into hospitals were consistent with the use of the chemical weapon White Phosphorus so when we talk about these geopolitics lindsey hillson who is a British Channel 4 reporter put it perfectly she said there is a good Old Fashioned phrase for what turkey is trying to do and that is ethnic cleansing if there has been hundreds of thousands of people already disciplined if theres been countless civilian lives affected and killed we need to say what it is because there is clearly a play on the. Again a century on another play on the dynamics in the power play of the middle east so we need to make sure that the people are not losing again you know after. After you know how you know several years long war against the against isis by the Syrian Democratic forces 11000 fighters were killed to save the whole world from the evil of isis and what does the turkish stay. Try to do essentially go on an isis rescue mission and what does this mean the gains of these people who while fighting against isis will building democratic ecological and womens liberation a system is at risk now and this risks the stability the future the civilization of that region but potentially in the world when we have a whole world crisis we are desperately in need of alternative systems and this is what the forces the Syrian Democratic forces that are not just because theyre arabs turkmens many christian groups were building is now being risk is being attacked and therefore again trying to impose a century old sectarian conflicts and these people who just want to live together now and dont want also or terry and dictatorial states messing with their livelihoods and this is exactly what dons turkish state is doing and if i hear what youre saying and i think a lot of people in our community but agree with you im seeing those comments coming on you tube but i want to bring this up this is a tweet from someone whos handle is lone walker and you said ill give this to you says syria is currently in turmoil with several actors contributing towards its instability however creating a safe zone by turkey is a good idea as it lowers the weight coming with the refugees settlement in that country and of course we recently had a show in which you were on where we talked about that issue in turkey and the numbers of refugees there so turkey says that this idea this is a safe zone is to deal with the numbers of refugees that they have in their country what do you make of what arraf was saying and what this person says is a good idea. Well 1st i want to address the chemical weapons accusation by. Parts of the western media that is totally inaccurate turkey has never had chemical weapons turkey has never own chemical weapons it is never used chemical weapons in the history of its military and it never will its played prohibition on its chemical weapons now as for refugees now turkey has taken the brunt of refugees during this syrian conflict and i think everyone on this program is going to agree that what turkey has done is very commendable and the safe haven that its provide not only for the 3600000. 00 refugees inside the country but also for the 6000000. 00 people that it protects in the upper Euphrates Shield zone and also in the isle of grain so it is well also turkey has raised either you money rights. So i couldnt take care so this is what we were going to spend say with her because if it did you hey he said he sat and he listened through to all the points she wanted to make he sat and he allowed you to make them and now hes going to have the conversation back with him to allow him the same question just how time for moment so you can hear him respond go ahead listen and i guarantee you know that he