to the camps as the dire situations and humanitarian too rigid to continues in the province and the turkish foreign minister has criticized a new travel warning us travel warning on turkey he says that and hockey and washington shouldn't waste time on unnecessary actions earlier on friday both the u.s. and turkey issued travel advisories to their citizens warning of what they call the rising terrorism and arbitrary arrests these restrictions from the two countries were lifted at the end of december they had been in place after the u.s. accused turkey of attaining two of its consulate staff are suspected ties to the failed two thousand and sixteen who in turkey. demonstrations have taken place in palestine after groups including fatah and hamas call for a day of rage and response to the u.s. decision to recognize treason as the capital of israel the palestinian health ministry says at least thirty five people were injured israeli forces are still maintaining roadblocks and conducting raids on palestinian villages in the occupied west bank looking for the killer of an israeli settler eighteen

throughout the morning along turkey's western border with the turkish army had brought in bulldozers gravel and concrete blocks appearing to build up their defenses along the border with syria. tank shelled specific locations on the mountain and hours later this mountain would be targeted by airstrikes the army made us move from this position a few hours before the campaign officially began and this is just one of the locations that the turkish army is shelling out free in is pretty much surrounded turkey to its west and north and there's also been a build up inside syria by free syrian army fighters to the east about three now those are the rebels that turkey supports. turkey and reinforce the f.s.a. with thousands more men over the last few days these buses drove the fighters across the border into syria they will be part of a ground offensive against the y.p. ji the kurdish group turkey considers to be a terrorist organization it is also however the group the americans consider their best ally in fighting eisel the international dimensions are vast russia and now wants to pulled o

are holding that if the bombardment plan to use them in the displaced people will amass and in the turkish border. also bombs going off in a car in southern lebanon the army there says the attack in the southern city of sidon targeted a member of the palestinian group hamas he was wounded in the blast but his condition is not yet. at least eighty three countries have been affected by a salmonella outbreak at one of the world's largest dairy firms french dairy giant like tallis says twelve million boxes of powdered baby milk are being recalled more than thirty children have been poisoned and friends of victims groups say hundreds of lawsuits have been filed enough people are on the streets of the two dizzying capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring. and any of the issues which brought people back to the streets are still causing problems today the government's promised more assistance for poor families suffering from tax increases and price hikes after days of recent protests. the iranian oil tanker that's been burning in the east china sea since last w

troops and then a bit as the answer to turkish threat no. one is reading the word to members after so at the end what he wants is to control the area west of the affronts he doesn't want to see good scroope beyond that point so he want to go back to this relay that he felt that the u.s. are not supporting him russia maybe is not. support the forces he was trying to create but these options are limited so he's hoping that at some point in the coming week as as a free as under siege that he would have this compromise and he would take a free and in return for it live for the syrian regime a lot of things he invested a lot of the syrian war and now he's not getting anything out of it so he needs this buffer zone he needs the the syrian refugees in turkey to come back to it he need to have this new he says a part of the syrian party that's being divided everybody got the spot somehow except turkey and israel which are still resisting the new russian u.s. agreement. yet of us have president trumps integration has been marked by a government shutd

jazeera live from doha also coming up in syria a fragile cease fire in the south of the country as the turkish military offensive continues in the north. one of the world's richest men is reported to have been released from detention in saudi arabia plus. i'm lauren free on the river overall it's a land border between turkey and greece but it's also the new front line in the european union's attempts to keep refugees out. at least ninety five people have been killed more than a hundred and fifty wounded in a blast in the afghan capital. taliban has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing using an ambulance near the old into the ministry building glass has more from kabul so jennifer this is a quite a serious security failure what are officials saying about it. official sami are calling this a massacre as you said ninety five people dead at least one hundred fifty eight wounded and concerns of the death toll might continue to increase as a number of those taken to hospitals were sent in very critical condition sami this is the second worst attack here in the afghan capital since a car bo

kurdish y p g fighters in northern syria the white house says the president donald trump urged his turkish counterpart to curtail ankara's campaign in africa which is now to its sixth day turkey says trump did not force concerns of the escalating violence when you see him on i was here right after the stream next. where ever it suits. me ok and you're in the stream today as part of ast special week shows for the sundance film festival you'll meet some brilliant young minds set to change the world their stories are part of a new documentary science fair. city utah with the director of a documentary. from around the world in their quest to win intel international science and engineering where. the winner in the category of medicine. those youngsters you just saw are real scientists at today's science fairs teams of making stethoscopes powered by artificial intelligence i'm researching cures for the sake of virus the documentary science fair showcases these remarkable students and their endeavors at a time when scientific fact is being challenged around the globe the film also raises the ques

turkish president spoke to his russian counterpart putin on thursday stressing strikes needed to stall for peace talks to succeed an unnamed talk his source said ankara had summoned iranian and russian ambassador syrian president assad's back because to express its discomfort those asked strikes in what was meant to be a deescalation. and the un's envoy voiced his concern over the level of violence and go to. where many. find you can shoot you know. right. you know. this was lloyd cook's first mission to syria since is appointment last year. the most russia is due to host the syrian national congress in sochi at the end of january another attempt to start up some kind of meeting. to end the vicious civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since two thousand and eleven. u.s. retail giant wal-mart has announced it's laying off thousands of workers just hours after giving staff a minimum wage increase world's biggest retailer said it would start paying its u.s. employees at least eleven dollars an hour from starting next month and would give some workers a one time cash b

kurds who control almost twenty percent of syrian territory are also not attending there the focus of a turkish military operation in a free in northern syria ankara says the kurdish fighters are terrorists al jazeera stephanie decker reports now from the town of killis on the turkey syria border there's just been incoming from syria into turkey we were actually preparing for a live when we heard a whiz over our heads. and then we saw the smoke landing around five hundred meters from our position when the police have now come to inspect the crater this is a reminder of course that this is an active conflict and there are consequences for these border towns these border cities cholas has had rockets and shells land here before also the honey on the other side of the border but people that residents that we've spoken to here will tell you that they are concerned they're used to it because i saw was here just a couple of years ago along the border and there was this kind of tense situation as well but one gentleman we spoke to yesterday said he was worried and he was already wife and children away

iran agreed last year to be guarantors of cease fires in those mainly opposition held areas now the turkish government says the syrian regime is claiming to attack what it calls terrorists targeting the so-called moderate opposition. ninety five percent of the violations are carried out by the regime or the groups who backed the regime why is the aim to exploit this process to completely wipe out the moderate opposition in the civilians iran and russia should meet their obligations as guarantors and stop the regime this is not about simple airstrikes near the border the regime is advancing toward the inside of it live so here the intention is different. but the syrian government's russian allies disagree saying recent drone attacks on its air and naval bases in syria were launched by opposition groups from italy russia's defense ministry released photos it said was of a downed drone in a statement russia says data for the attacks could only have been obtained from one of the countries that possesses no how in satellite navigation. and with the kremlin knows the perpetrators russia will incr

on friday it also says that trump took credit for saudi arabia's political shakeup last year now the turkish president has told his french counterpart his people are tired of waiting to join the european union it's a recipe for the ones first visit to france since the failed coup in twenty sixteen but a man will micron's that turkey's crackdown on dissent is blocking progress on its entry into the block and saudi arabia has intercepted a ballistic missile fired from yemen by who think rebels they miss are was shot down over the ciaran a region straddling the kingdom the southern border before it could hit its intended target those were the headlines i'll be back with more news in thirty minutes next it's inside story do stay with us. the hotline linking north and south korea is in use again young wants to talk about next month's winter olympics but saul also wants to discuss its nuclear program when next week's meeting ease tensions all make things well this is inside a story. around welcome to the program. north korea's leader kim jong un started of two thousand and eighteen by extending an

as fighting intensifies between kaddish and turkish forces in northern syria the u.n. says civilians are being blocked from escaping. and an uneasy truce allows families to return home in the democratic rank of congo but can the peace last. how the real cold winter air in europe is in the east in fact is going over into western russia as this gray stuff is slow moving cloud that's way feels like it should do but further west this a reasonable thing like winter is when the smile to contains lots of rain in the forecast now could be a problem so waltz we have got for thursday's forecast max when temperatures subzero for book rest in kiev the sun might be up for the be fog around as well and in turkey it's snowing as it is indeed in finland if you look through germany and france and even spain and portugal were up to double figures we've got right now this rain is falling on top of snow a vast amount of snow in the alps so we've already had something in the way of too much water flooding on the rise in the run for example on the smaller rivers in switzerland and now are a

and turkey is something that really needs to succeed from the german perspective likewise from the turkish government's perspective germany represents a very important country. the eastern united states and canada are waking up again to wreck or low temperatures in the wake of what meteorologists refer to as a bomb cyclon temperatures in some parts of poland as far as minus forty degrees celsius with gusts of more than one hundred ten kilometers per hour dumping half the meter of snow at least eighteen deaths of so far been blamed on the snowstorms the national guard has been mobilized to assist with emergency response temperatures on expected to rise significantly until monday. when out to australia where the great barrier reef has long been under threat from manmade pollution but now the world heritage site is being destroyed by one of its natural predators tens of thousands of crown of thorns starfish a carny eating their way through coral at the southern end of the reef this is the fourth major starfish outbreaks since the one nine hundred sixty s. and authorities have started culling

thousands of people are fleeing financing in the northern syrian region of africa amid turkish shelling and the ground operation turkey's offensive is now in its fourth day it's believed some eight hundred thousand civilians are living there many of them displaced from other parts of syria the u.s. and justice department has confirmed attorney general jeff sessions with questions last week over alleged collusion between donald presidential campaign and russia it's believed to be the first time a member of president thomas cabinet has been questioned in the inquiry led by the former f.b.i. director robert muller. two car bombs have killed at least eleven people in the eastern libyan city of benghazi according to officials the attack happened in the. district of worshipers were leaving a local mosque after prayers. and venezuela the pro-government comes to church or assemblies ordered presidential elections to be held by april the thirtieth president nicolas maduro is expected to seek reelection but some clear from the divided opposition well stand against those are the headlines coming n

of unprecedented interference in its domestic affairs after an american court convicted a turkish banker of helping iran invade sanctions and that ha kind of taylor and eight others have been found guilty of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through u.s. banks disguised as sales of food and gold turkish president of egypt a about a one has also been implicated in the case. this is a scandalous to see show of a scandalous case it was clear from the beginning that this case was a setup aimed not interfering in turkey mystic affairs i just tearing up turkey's dumbest politics illegally shameful a scenario he's been put into practice now we want to how long the us administration we don't allow fear to look willing to let work with blood demi can just assist them in their favor through the lean they how to stop. i want to storm system known as the bomb cycle own is causing travel chaos in eastern us the mayor of new york city has declared a weather emergency as there is expecting up to twenty five centimeters of snow fall they stream weather has forced schools and offices to c

shelled aziz a city held by turkish backed forces now there are already reports of turkish troop movements along the northern syrian border and at the edge of the white peachey held territory now turkey has been angered by u.s. confirmation that it's helping syrian kurdish fighters set up a border force containing thirty thousand personnel marianna honda reports. turkish president today chip tayyip erdogan and using a party address to look staunch in the face of a u.s. specked could use force on his southern border he promised to respond with a show of force saying tikki will launch its own military operation and the northern syrian city of buffeting not so still a lot of religion that just like we do not let the kurdistan workers party or open their eyes within our borders we are determined to vanquish them on the other side of fall toward god willing in the coming days we will continue the operation to purge our southern border from terror. turkey has fought kurdish factions within its borders for more than thirty years and doesn't want to see the kurds gain power in neighboring syria th

of unprecedented interference in its domestic affairs after an american court convicted a turkish banker of helping iran evade sanctions macbeth and eight others have been found guilty of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through u.s. banks disguised as sales of food and gold in large parts of the eastern u.s. so in the grip of a historic winter storm system being called a bomb cycloid in new york the mayor has declared a weather emergency forecasters predicting up to twenty five centimeters of snow. in china at least three airports have been shot and nine others are experiencing delays because of heavy snowfall the weather alert has been raised to its second highest level parts of the central northern and eastern regions could see up to thirty centimeters of snow right those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us people and power is coming up next thank you very much for watching. on counting the cost of a look at the economic reasons behind the rest in the middle east's second largest economy plus new year new rules for european finance but that's not all l

in the syrian town of a train the turkish army has intensified its shelling on the area in recent days and says a ground assault could happen soon. u.s. vice president mike pence is on his way to the middle east for a three day trip discussed moving the american embassy in israel to jerusalem the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital provoked international anger pen's will go to egypt and jordan and spend two days in israel i have addressed parliament since have made it clear he is not welcome there is all the headlines i'll be back with more news on al-jazeera that soft inside story. counting the cost why the jury's still out on a nomics despite wall street's delight we delve into china's better than expected growth story and count the cost of negative publicity. counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. the u.s. with hold aid for palestinian refugees the trumpet ministration says the u.n. agency responsible for the money needs reform palestinians say they are being punished for defying the u.s. over jerusalem so with humanitarian aid being used for political bl

hello i'm sam is a dan this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes turkish backed forces fight for a strategic mountain in northern syria. one of hong kong's most prominent activists barred from standing for election. after more than one hundred people are killed in a car bomb attack in kabul new questions about a long running war. and as russia's opposition organizes antigovernment protests police strike back. u.s. president dolled trampas called for decisive action against the taliban after it claimed responsibility for saturday's suicide bomb attack in afghanistan at least one hundred and three people were killed in kabul. more than two hundred thirty others were wounded by explosives hidden inside an ambulance the bomber managed to get through security in the city's most heavily protected area jennifer glass has the latest from kabul prison ashraf ghani has declared several days of mourning here in afghanistan you can see the national flag flying at half staff as all the flags will be across the country it is to allow at the afghan people to mourn with t

this is rama refugee camp in northwestern and left by the turkish syrian border there are five thousand refugees here who came after december fifteenth when the syrian regime started its airstrike on civilians and it's there in hama most of those people are from mr in hama and they are mainly very poor families you see the kids they are walking even on barefoot they don't have shoes to wear and people need immediate humanitarian assistance we have been talking to the people who have been residing here and the people in charge of the camp they're telling that the medical equipment they have is not enough the food they have is not enough for those people they need immediate extra medicine they need immediate extra food to feed those people here and there are some other extra camps around this area close to the border people have fled their homes from it's there in hama after the airstrikes started. for the first time the head of the roman catholic church will celebrate mass for the world day of migrants and refugees on sunday but francis is asking that governments and societies welcome pr

these are our top stories turkish president. kurdish stronghold in northern syria to attack in the coming days that's controlled by the . terrorists. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has labeled. the slap of the century saying. at a meeting of the p.l.o. central council abbas reiterated he want to accept the trump of ministration as a mediator and talks with israel and u.s. president trump says he's not a racist trump has been accused of using vulgar language to describe african countries haiti and el salvador he has denied the accusations after attracting global condemnation. now hundreds of people have protested in the capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring but as reports many of the issues that brought people to the streets then still causing problems today . a day of national unity into his year people from all walks of life conversion here on heavy bookkeeper square to commemorate the two thousand and eleven pro-democracy movement that brought the end of president diem bin ali's gov

targets after turkey threatened to attack fighters in syria which it considers to be terrorists the turkish military is preparing to strike kurdish y p g fighters who form part of a new u.s. backed border force turkey's president called on the nato military alliance for support accusing the us of violating its interests he says his military's operation is likely to center on afrin al-jazeera said i'm cacio reports now from the turkey syria border. that is one of many kurds whose grandparents left northern syria years ago but he still has family in africa which is close by on the syrian side of the border to maine and his relatives there are growing increasingly worried as turkey prepares for a military operation against few aspect kurdish why previous fighters. the military has i'm no friend of the y. p.g. they recruit young boys and girls that's why my brother in laws fled after in a move to stumble four years ago the weapons provided to those fighters by the us scares me my village is the closest to afrin we don't feel at peace while our people are there. the wife is in control of the lan

to keep up with demand amazon is reporting a two to four week wait to get a copy of the german and turkish foreign ministers have agreed to work towards improving recently strained relations ahead of his visit to germany and the turkish foreign minister called for a fresh start german leaders have been outspoken in their criticism of turkey's crackdown after the twenty sixteen failed coup. those are the latest headlines on. thirty is coming up next to stay with us. look at the economic reasons behind the rest in the middle east. for european for. the chief global economist at u.b.s. . dangerous idea. at this time. in northern india beautiful impoverished overwhelmingly rural. expectancy is the new india only half the population can read and write. people flee the hardship of the countryside unity in the capital. a city of three million is a magnet for those seeking to escape the limitations of that. is the story of this. but. these people are almost all backgrounds what they share is a talent for mathematics today they're sitting the first round of an exam that could change the entire cour

planes or turkish backed syrian rebels are also reported to have mobilized a free and turkey's president says the next target will be the syrian town of man beach which a u.s. backed kurdish led force captured from i still in two thousand and sixteen. we will wipe out this corridor will step by step starting from the west africa operation has defectors started in the field this will be followed but. since the promises made about have not been kept so far nobody could say eighty three when we do what is necessary. stephanie deca joins us live from near the turkey syria border and stephanie give us the latest on. military action in and around our free. will certainly those airstrikes have begun they began at five o'clock local time that's two hours ago we were actually at it ok should opposite syria watching the turks shelling throughout the day sporadically not that much we were told to move and two hours later they watched that campaign in that mountain also is being targeted turkey's also mobilized f.s.a. fighters free syrian army fighters these are the rebels inside syria that turkey s

the number of people fleeing syria for turkey always a huge concern for the turkish government isn't it. yes and at the end turkey has established very long concrete walls on its border with syria to stop the illegal crossings but. since this many tarion crisis erupted after mid december in two thousand and sixteen the numbers of the displaced are increasing and it seems we are going to be seeing more many tarion tragedy at our border inside syria according to the n.g.o.s. which we can say actually the opposition government numbers there are one hundred sixty thousand one hundred seventy thousand people who are displaced and who have a right to the camps near by the turkish border like and killed by it and n.g.o.s again say that across all syria the number of the displaced since december fifteenth has reached up to two hundred seventy five thousand people and fifty thousand of them are families more than eighty thousand of them are children fully and this is actually becoming a drama because there are no places left in these refugee camps because those camps were already being used b

as turkish troops massed along the syrian border of the u.s. secretary of state denies washington plans to support a border force a bike.

the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present to one has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area of africa and for almost a week now there has been sporadic shelling. inside africa and thousands marched on thursday in protest to turkey's aggression how the wealthy and that's the goal of this large demonstration is to send a message to the world and especially to turkey concerning the turkish threats we will not be a fright. you know we came here to protest against the attacks on offering we will stand by african and our troops the wife. is one of three autonomy's kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p why do party and its armed when the y p g turkey sees the y p g as an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the u.s. in europe consider a terrorist organization but the white p.g. has been working with the u.s. to push ice a lot of syria not enough lean but further east of the euphrates river the americans have never had a presence in africa but the russians do and africa has b

this is rama refugee camp in northwestern and left by the turkish syrian border there are five thousand refugees here who came after december fifteenth when the syrian regime started its airstrike on civilians and is there in hama also those people are from mr muhammad and they're mainly very poor families you see the kids they are walking around on barefoot they don't have shoes threw away and people need immediate humanitarian assistance we have been talking to the people who have been residing here and the people in charge of the camp they're telling that the medical equipment they have is not enough the food they have is not enough for those people they need immediate extra medicine they need immediate extra food to feed those people here and there are some other extra camps around this area close to the borders people have fled their homes from it's there in hama off to the airstrikes started and they didn't even gets money in their pockets this is what they tell us we said the kids most of them are coughing they're about to get sick and the weather conditions are getting worse and

turkish russian. plan with the support of iran of course to try to basically have control of those lips so now you see a u.s. reaction it's not clear what's the end game is the forces are already on the ground they are changing their their their amended basically to be a border zone which means if they're going to have a border control they want to stop the turkish if it was inside syria this is what is the bit reacting this way but the the end game of the of the u.s. troops is not clear where they are now so far is they want to finish the fight again isis civilize those are senior and go to run if those when they went to congress of u.s. official to look to to put forward their policy they don't have answers about what's the end game this is the the most crucial issue that two thousand and eleven there's no clear strategy for for syria so this might backfire because you don't have on the ground support you have turkey on one side you have syria already on one side and then you have also iran so who a

forces are advancing on the rebel held territory forcing thousands of civilians to flee to what the turkish border opposition forces have been reduced to a few strongholds that are currently under siege turkey is to extend its state of emergency for a further three months it's the sixth time it's been extended it was imposed after a failed to attempt in july twenty sixth mean thousands of people suspected of involvement have since been arrested and people close to the media personality and business woman oprah winfrey say she's considering a run for the u.s. presidency oprah twenty twenty began trending on twitter on sunday after she gave a rousing speech at the golden globes awards in hollywood she just missed rumors she would run for office those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness of that so much better. on counting the cost we'll look at the economic reasons behind the rest in the middle east's second largest economy plus new year new rules for european finance but that's not all we'll ask the chief global economist at u.b.s. what's his dangerous idea

talk peace a dairy a different global locations but the fighting really does continue as far as the turkish offensive is concerned very close to where you are. yes you wouldn't get an indication that any sort of peace talks and negotiations were going on from where we are yesterday certainly was more intense when there was an active fight for a mountain strategically on the turkish syrian border just a little behind us but what we've seen today even though we can say it was relatively quiet as to yesterday intensive airstrikes are to be rocket fire throughout the day but where we are now we're hearing sort of also constant rockets outgoing just an adverb rub rates around these mountains also we were just in kilis which is just a little down the road from where we are also on the border and we had a rocket fly over our heads we heard incoming we had to duck and it fell just about five hundred meters away in an open field to give good indication also of the consequences of this operation turkey's operation inside syria you do have mortar fire rocket fire forming in kilis and also reports of m

turkish officials are disputing the white house's version of a phone call about its offensive against kurdish y p g of fighters in northern syria the white house says that president donald trump urged his turkish counterpart to curtail ankara's campaign of afrin which is now its sixth day but turkey says the trump did not face concerns of escalating violence turkish officials also said the trouble should turkey that the u.s. would no longer supply. syrian kurdish fighters with us meanwhile president trump is taking his nationalist agenda to the global stage at davos trump arrives there later on thursday diplomatic editor james bays has more now on what we can expect from him this is high in the swiss alps this is the ultimate annual gathering of the global elite captains of industry business commas and finance have their talk fest every year here in davos see you might think the u.s. is first a businessman president in decades would fit right in that these are powerful people but they mostly do business in a sober and polite manner unlike trump they are the richest people and represen

targets after turkey threatened to attack fighters in syria which it considers to be terrorists the turkish military is preparing to strike kurdish y p g fighters who form part of a new u.s. backed border force turkey's president called on the nato military alliance for support accusing the us of violating its interests he says his military operation is likely to center on afrin al-jazeera sin and cos the older reports from the turkey syria border. that is one of many kurds whose grandparents left northern syria years ago but he still has family in africa which is close by on the syrian side of the border to maine and his relatives there are growing increasingly worried as turkey prepares for a military operation against u.s. backed kurdish why previous fighters. the military has i'm no friend of the y. p.g. they recruit young boys and girls that's why my brother in laws fled after in a move to istanbul four years ago the weapons provided to those fighters by the us scares me my village is the closest to afrin we don't feel at peace while our people are there. the wife is in control of the

protected before they back a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown tanks have gathered on the turkish side of the border with syria and corralling it's the syrian kurdish y p g fighters to turkey's outlawed p k k party which has fought for the ptolemy for decades and strongly criticized the u.s. for arming and funding the y. p.g. which has played a significant role in the battle against eisold u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says he will take turkey as the concerns into account but in his speech about syria there was no talk of stopping support for kurdish groups the united states years and takes seriously the concerns of our nato ally turkey we recognize the humanitarian contributions a military sacrifices turkey has made towards defeating isis towards their support of millions of syrian refugees is stabilizing areas of syria it is no liberate. we must have turkey close cooperation cheating a new future for syria that ensure security for syria's neighbors israeli forces have reportedly killed a palestinian man during a raid in geneva in the occupied west bank israeli media reli

in the last week alone the turkish human rights group i h h says more than one hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes and the problem this is. the story of this union cut out of true or not it's not controlled by the syrian it's music. regional agreement on the first one. the syrian observatory for human rights says in the last two weeks the government has regained control of sixty villages in its lip including singe our affiliate but that's just the government we have liberated singe are fully this is since our school and these are green silos sinjar has been liberated from the gangs of joe but on this road the syrian government is keen to make gains in northern syria the kurds control all but a small area of territory in the north and dream of it becoming their homeland they're also hoping for a seat at the negotiating table during russian sponsored peace talks later this month the success of those talks is already in jeopardy more than forty rebel groups including previous attendees say they won't be going natasha going to al-jazeera well the spokesman for the un

hello i'm sam he's a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up turkish bank forces take control of a strategic mountain in northern syria. russian opposition leader like sin of and they arrested as hundreds marched through moscow to show their support and one of hong kong's most prominent activist is banned from standing for elections. yemen's prime minister is calling for an immediate cease fire in the southern city of a that earlier here q separatists are staging a coup so far at least ten people have been killed in fighting between security forces and secessionists the security forces are on the side of president. and they're backed by the saudi led coalition the session is on the other hand supported by the government of the united arab emirates the u.a.e. is also supposed to be part of that coalition scan the latest from osama bin jeff eight. yemen's prime minister says secessionists of steve in the city of aden. not speer the government had been based for the last few years there are reports of several people being killed in fighting between pro-government forces and separ

kurdish fighters in syria could be extended to the border with iraq al jazeera has traveled with the turkish army as it continues its offensive to sweep fighters from the region the move risks a possible confrontation with the kurdish y p g militia it's a group backed by the united states and nato ally seventy deca and a cameraman jamil bassil have this report from the city of us us. as we enter syria it is the free syrian army flag that flies high here we're on a media trip into as organized by the turkish authorities they take us close to where there's been fighting with a y p g a kurdish armed group turkey calls a terrorist organization turkish forces are trying to push it out of the region of africa the front line is just a few kilometers west of here both turkish troops and the free syrian army are taking part in the night. we ask one of the f.s.a. fighters why he is involved in turkey's operation for some it seems it's personal. with the white b.g. because they betrayed us and especially because they took over my city telephones i've been displaced along with many of my neighbors for t

the turkish president today chip tayyip erdogan and using a party address to look staunch in the face of a u.s. backed could use force on his southern border he promised to respond with a show of force saying tikki will launch its own military operation and the northern syrian city of buffeting not so soon the lot of religion that just like we do not let the kurdistan workers party or p.k. open their eyes within our borders we are determined to vanquish them on the other side of fall border god willing in the coming days we will continue the operation to purge out southern border from terror. to key his foot kiddish factions within its borders for more than thirty years and doesn't want to see the kids gain power in neighboring syria the u.s. and the european union say the p.k. k. is a terror group but in northern syria the american say this supporting kurdish forces not the p.k. k. specifically the kurds are the most effective fighting force against the islamic state in syria and they've been very successful at that that's the american purpose but the turks regard the kurds and the y

turkish president brigitte type edging defiant as he addressed a large crowd in the city of course. this is a national struggle and then this national struggle will crush anyone who stands against us let this be known. it's been a week of rhetoric politicians promising that turkey was going to attack a free to rid of the y.p. g. kurdish fighters that i'm pro considers terrorists but they're also the u.s. is best ally on the ground in fighting i still regardless of international complications turkey is fully committed to this offensive we're on turkey's border with africa and throughout the day we've heard the sound of jets in the sky also intense artillery and machine gun fire outgoing from a turkish base behind that mountain although why p.g. are extremely well trained they know the terrain in offering but turkey has superiority when it comes to the skies and that gives it a huge advantage. belligerence here heard the airstrikes late on saturday as turkey started its offensive and they are a little uneasy. or. although we are right next to the action with planes flying over our hea

military action is planned and the villagers may also need to seek safety if the fighting that start the turkish military is massed on the border and ses it's ready to supply against the new border force which it sees as a direct threat at stake is the relationship of two nato countries seen. al-jazeera turkey syria border. activists and monitors say the four deescalation zones set up last year by russia iran and turkey are doing nothing to stop the slaughter of civilians they were supposed to be safe havens but regime forces backed by russia are attacking eastern goot or to retake the opposition held territory on the outskirts of the capital damascus when three hundred people have been killed there in just the past two months italie province is also being targeted by a government offensive for than one point one million people fled there to skate the government's onslaught on aleppo the third and fourth deescalation zones are in northern homs province and the rebel controlled south including parts of daraa and canadian provinces. and as osama bin laden and eastern hota all the only places where

have taken a significant why because it lies very close to the turkish border in the area just close to where we are just a further east of a hyundai and it does play into the narrative that we heard from the turkish prime minister just a few days ago that their plan is to establish what he called up to a thirty kilometer security zone pushing the y.p. g. away from its borders it has been a fluid fight however on the ground there are incidents when villages have been taken by the free syrian army and turkish forces and you know a day or so later retaken by the white b.g. but of course turkey has superiority when it comes to the sky they're flying jets they're bombing from the air and that of course carries with it a huge advantage the assert your state says the syrian government may still be using chemical weapons rex tillerson says twenty one people who suffered breathing problems in the rebel held enclave near damascus on monday were victims of a suspected chlorine gas attack rebels say while smoke was released of the syrian government forces fired a white slave was released after

g spokesman in africa and says this marked the heaviest turkish bombardment since and corrupt stepped up threats to take military action against the kurdish region stephanie decker has the latest from montauk out on the turkish syrian border. we've just heard from the target's defense minister he's made it very clear that the operation enough will go ahead it will start he says turkey has no choice other than to clear what he called terrorists from its border in northern syria and that this should happen without delay now concerning those shells the shelling the setting the most intense it's been since the last week or so of tension and he says this de facto means that it is started at the same time he's saying that to the time he's to be right for there to be sort of the minimum civilian casualties. that will move hold of forty five million dollars payment to the un's relief agency for palestinian refugees the money which was earmarked for food aid was promised last month this is on top of a sixty five million dollars to announced earlier this week at the time we provided that note t

of using the mountain to fire shells across the border into the turkish town of killis from kelis. the battle for an intensified on sun. the constant ruler of jets and artillery targeting this important high point along the turkish border. explosions echoed over the border town of killis drawing a crowd. a strange fascination watching the war on fold but for some it's a little too close to home she was. even though we are hearing careless we've become used to this war has happened before when i saw it was on the other side of the border but i've still moved my wife and kids to another area for safety but i'm staying. turkey's offensive against the y p g the kurdish group it considers a terrorist organization is very visible here. it is also stirred nationalist fervor. was shut up. it was. fairly. low at work and this is what that operation looks like inside syria turkey is backing free syrian army fighters and at the moment the main focus is pushing back from the border as the kurdish fighters say turkey's offensive has caused a billion casualties turkey says it only targets y p g

kurdish fighters from the syrian border and could even push all the way east to the iraqi front here the turkish offensive against the kurdish why peachey fight is in syria's african region has already strained ties with its nato ally the united states turkey considers the white beach a terrorist group but the militia has played a prominent role in u.s. led efforts to combat i still in syria and the u.n. says that at least thirty people drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of yemen this week the u.n. says the boat was carrying people from somalia and ethiopia back to africa heading to chip boosie. absent without help still coming up in twenty five minutes time off to insights. the parting shot to me and mars leader from a veteran u.s. diplomat bill richardson says on some suit she lacks moral leadership and resigns from an international advisory panel of the door hinge or crisis while they bicker what about the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm. frustration over me and morris handling of the raw hinder crisis has boil

in the last week alone the turkish human rights group i h h says more than one hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes and the problem in this is. the story of. no it's not. it's basically more regional agreement on the first one. the syrian observatory for human rights says in the last two weeks the government has regained control of sixty villages in libya including singe are. there but it's just becoming we have liberated singe or fully this is since our school and these are green silos sindar has been liberated from the gangs of job out on the road. the syrian government is keen to make gains in northern syria the kurds control all but a small area of territory in the north and dream of it becoming their homeland they're also hoping for a seat at the negotiating table during russian sponsored peace talks later this month the success of those talks is already in jeopardy more than forty rebel groups including previous attendees say they won't be going natasha going to al-jazeera the spokesman for the u.n. secretary general says civilians have been forced to flee in

state department is urging turkey not to invade in syria turkish forces on.

forces are advancing on the rebel held territory forcing thousands of civilians to flee towards the turkish border. french prosecutors are investigating tech giant apple over its admission last month that it deliberately slowed down older phone older phone models and the inquiry focuses on planned obsolescence a commercial practice forcing consumers to periodic replace products if that's illegal in france and apple says the slowdown is intended to extend the life span of phones by putting less pressure on aging batteries larry magid is a technology analyst and joins us from las vegas could have you with us again on the program larry before we just talk about the french where is the investigation as we know it in the u.s. because there were some lawsuits filed in certain states. yeah there's been some civil suits filed against apple and as far they know they're still in the courts but i think apple has given an explanation which is likely to make it very difficult to get any punitive damages from apple and left it turns out apple with completely lying but frankly in the tech world that i liv