activists say has killed at least six people speaking to supporters in bursar turkish present recipe the one says he's anticipating a quick resolution to the campaign or stephanie decker is our correspondent joins me now live from the turkey syria border let's just begin with bring us up to speed in terms of the turkish assault on those y p g positions very close to where you are. that's right well just just before you came to me i could hear artillery shelling this is been going on here throughout the day also heavy machine gun fire coming from turkey spaces behind us and aircraft in the sky i have to say there are from what we understand far less airstrikes and there were overnight and in the late sort of off to noon yesterday but as you mentioned this ground offensive now seems to be well underway with fighting in particular in the northwest of syria from what we understand f.s.a. those of the free syrian army fighters that turkey supports it has its own troops on the ground as well have taken to villages but the fighting is ongoing again it's very difficult to confirm reports the

side of the border where turkish tanks have been massing this week. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present one has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area for almost a week now there has been sporadic shelling. side after thousands marched on thursday in protest at turkey's aggression how to have the most with 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. we came here to protest the attacks on offering we will stand by offering an outreach that. is one of three autonomy as kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p y d party and its armed wing 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 us in europe consider a terrorist organization but the y.p. g. has been working with the us to push ice a lot of syria not enough lean but further east of the euphrates river the americans have never had a presence

turkish relations are under continued strain and it's likely to mean more anti-u.s. rhetoric coming from turkey at a time when things are very tense in the region kristensen me there joining me live with the latest on that from new york thank you to senior members of germany's far right f.t. posse of being investigated for alleged incitement to hate shit over social media polls and beatrix film store to criticize the peace in cologne wishing follow us online a happy new year in arabic so when it came has more now from berlin. the decision by the police to investigate alice vida the co-leader of the alternative for germany party alongside their investigation into the comments of her colleague bed weeks one stalk came at a point when we knew already that several hundred people had complained themselves about the point the points that the bear took from stalk had put out on social media the interesting thing to to say here is that following new year's day news it into news the new law has come into effect in germany which regulates what can and cannot be said online as

the heaviest turkish. government stepped up threats to take military action against the kurdish region and tens of thousands of people have lined the streets of her room. to welcome the pope on the final leg of his south american. leader has appealed to the pontiff to help resolve a political crisis following the pardon given to the former president alberto fujimori. the u.n. says syrian refugees in lebanon are more reliant now than ever on international aids and with harsher winter weather forecast extra funds are urgently needed a survey shows three quarters of the one million the under one million syrian refugees in lebanon are living on less than four dollars a day many in makeshift camps sixty percent are in extreme poverty an increase of five percent on the same time last year nine out of ten refugees are regularly going hungry un agencies in lebanon say last year they received a third of the money they needed to meet the needs of refugees there appealing for two point seven billion dollars in fundin

into friday morning a y p g spokesman told words or is this mark the heaviest turkish showing since the turkish government stepped up threats to launch an offensive stephanie decker joining us from the. crossing that's on the turkey syria border you're monitoring the situation in the this was expected somewhat stephanie but however the turks seem to be stepping up of the operation rather quickly. well certainly the rhetoric has increased we've just in the last hour or so turkey's state news agency reporting that the russian they of course have a presence of around a couple of hundred military personnel in the area that they were withdrawing you know in all the sort of local channels this is breaking news nothing official still confirmed we spoke to a source who say that there is some movement light withdrawal but in terms of the heavy military presence of the russians in that area they remain why is that important because to be honest turkey can probably not do anything without russia's tacit approval russia also controls the air space but certainly when it comes to the rhetoric als

is a senior editor with news it's a turkish english outlet focuses on turkish affairs he says many western countries don't support military action by ankara enough. then we look at offering often is under the russian influence so even turkish ration has been attacking include desire easing us for offering it really not make sense because from the beginning that it had been no american military forces present there and a couple days ago americans saying that you know this has nothing to do does even though today u.s. state department spokesman came out very strongly and called on turks not thing gage in wireless and not in way of free and very clearly told them not to do that so at this point term fish delegation a general chief of staff and turkish a chief of intelligence in moscow today a kind of a get the russians blessing for this offering operation and we have not heard anything about those meetings yet so for now the president seems to be very angry and wants to take out those elements who he sees them as threat to turkey so far it doesn't look like that turkey has any support from ei

hello we begin on the turkish syrian border where tensions are rising on two different fronts. turkey is reported to be massing forces near the kurdish controlled on klav off in the northern syrian town as part of a so-called deescalation zone now turkey regards the kurdish party that controls the enclave as quote terrorists ankara is also unhappy with reports that the united states is forming a new kurdish military force that's further east in the area around the town of co bonnie media reports have spoken up for u.s. sponsored force of thirty thousand something the turkish foreign minister says would cause irreversible damage to relations with the united states and after a meeting with his turkish counterpart wednesday the u.s. sectors they rex tillerson says those reports are not accurate he says the u.s. is only training n.t.i. so kurdish fighters in the area something it's been doing for a long time 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 defea

turkish troops and tax against kurdish fighters and northern serbia.

and turkish forces there now as you mentioned turkish forces have been firing artillery across the border into the northern syria in recent days targeting the kurdish militia there the white p.g. which the turkish government sees as a terrorist group but the conflict arises because the u.s. sees the y p g as an ally in the fight against eisel in syria thus leading to this rift as you mentioned though the interpretation of this call is very different when listening to how turkish media is reporting it they dispute that this concern by donald trump of the escalation was even brought up saying rather that it was a sharing of views and that trump said to earlier gone that the u.s. is no longer supplying the y.p. with weapons that is not mentioned at all in the white house description of the call which a senior administration official has defended as accurate martin. thank you for that live in washington d.c. . now an undercover report into sexual harassment at a men only charity fund raising event in london has caused outrage the financial times sent two women reporters to work as his steps i

the turkish foreign minister is visiting germany to try and improve strained relations methods cassava has called for a fresh start ahead of talks german leaders have been outspoken in their criticism of turkey's crackdown after the twenty sixteen failed coup following those talks as dominic came here joining us from berlin dominic. yes well the point to make here as you say is that in the course of the last twelve months perhaps eighteen months relations have been rocky to say the least between the the two countries the some of the actions of the turkish government have incensed the ruling classes as it were here in germany particularly the fact that several german citizens are currently in detention in turkey seven of them on what are called political grounds that is something which the german government wants to see changed very quickly to give you a sense of how they feel right now certainly mr governor the german foreign minister yesterday was saying that the world is now seeing an era in which the democratic states of the world are in competition with the author tarion states of

on the turkish syrian border. meanwhile syrian activists say turkish airstrikes during the battle enough rain have damaged an ancient temple activists say the endowed a temple was reduced to rubble following strikes on sunday it was built sometime between the eighth and tenth centuries it's unclear what condition the site was in before the attack the turkish military is investigating the reports. and a forty eight hour ceasefire in syria's rebel stronghold eastern go to has expired but it's been reported that it's been broken several times the russian brokered truce went into effect on friday but there's been little calm with reports of government shelling and air raids at least eight people including a child are believed to have been killed during the forty eight hour ceasefire. russian opposition leader of on the has been released from custody without charge after he was arrested during an anti-government rally in moscow more than two hundred fifty others were also detained for taking part in protests across the

and they're warning that if the bombardment continues a million displaced people will amass at the turkish border so then costello reports. up to your email had lost his home when the syrian government bombed an assistant hama in december he arrived in ram a refugee camp in l a province fifteen days ago with his wife and five children the fifteen year old farmer's things he had very good business back home but he had to leave it all behind the family went to st george first taking refuge in a cave but the safety they found there didn't last for long government forces were advancing on the area abdel and his wife say they were afraid of being killed and i'm not happy i'm not used to living right this here you don't feel free we are sleeping with our children one now we were hiding in a cave with the regime forces of pants towards our lads we were afraid they would kill us and left them and after the bombardment. a lot of people moved to sunder the first few bombardments of deisel of the regime started their fight we had to leave again and stay out in the world sleeping under trees aid organ

the turkish opposition has been very concerned about corruption there and so the hence their interest in this case but in terms of the long term we still have to have sentencing of until he comes back in april to be sentenced and there are seven turkish citizens still at large to remain uncharged in this case i think it's safe to assume they're going to avoid traveling to the united states and time in the near future but many experts expect that the turkish government will have more bad things to say about the united states as a result of this and that anti-u.s. sentiment in turkey will also be fueled by this verdict let's leave it there because some think. it is fourteen people have been killed in nest reich's in northwest syria this footage shows the off to moscow in a strike which destroyed a hospital on the outskirts of the three people were killed and eleven people died another strikes across the syrian opposition says russian and government forces carried out the attacks. norway is banning weapons exports to the united arab emirates of its participation in the war in yemen the u

but opposed by turkey stephanie decker has more from the turkish syrian border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on after the turkish officials had said all week that the operation was imminent. president legit tired everyone spoke just a few hours before the jets took off. we would wipe out this corridor will step by step starting from the list after the operation has defectors started in the field this will be followed but. since the promises made it look and kept so far nobody can say anything we do what is necessary. 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

turkish backed forces take on the troll of the mountains north and soon. now yemen's prime minister is calling for an immediate cease fire in the southern city of aden earlier here q separatists of staging a coup well 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 abdurrahman sword had the. they're backed by the saudi led coalition this is session this is supported by the government of the united arab emirates which is supposed to be also part of that coalition the u.a.e. is part of the saudi led effort let's get the latest from osama bin. yemen's prime minister said secessionists have staged a coup in the city of wade and. that's where 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 separatists. this mobile phone footage appears to show people arriving in the city thousands of protesters have been gathering against the internationally recognized and saudi bac

to shoot down turkish fighter jets. stephanie decker joining us from. turkey near syria's north western our border to tell us about the the reports of troop buildup perhaps in or close to are free and by the turks stephanie yes it's been happening for a week now and more rivals according to turkish media today a couple of times so they've been basically building up their tanks and so their troops along that border so that's the western and northern part of this morning's news news that to the troops has been put on the highest state of alert also over the last couple of days if you might remember during that turkey's built this wall along this border with syria that the army has taken down some of that part for a potential let's say incursion into that area all of this is still premature because it hasn't happened yet yes there's been sporadic shelling but it is a very complicated situation there in also not because russia has troops inside this area and it also controls its airspace i think that's why we're also seeing. turkey's head of intelligence an

turkish russian. plan and the with the support of iran of course to try to basically have control of those a blip so now you see the u.s. reaction with both the you know what's the end game is the force that are already on the ground there are changing there are there there are men that basically to be a border zone which means if they're going to have a border control they want to stop the progression of those inside syria this is what is a bit reacting this way but the end game of the of the u.s. france is not clear where they are now also far is they want to finish the fight the guinness's stabilize those are senior and coat iranian influence when they went to congress to yourself or should look to to put forward their policy they will have answers about what's the endgame the most crucial issue that is 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

calls the turkish offensive sudden and of warranted says the syrian people need to focus on political reconciliation and rebuilding the country certainly decker's is our correspondent on the turkey syria border and joins me now from there what seems to be happening in africa at the moment because it's very unclear about where the turkish offensive is focusing its attack and whether they might have even entered ground troops at the moment. well they have entered just past the border on the western side just a little north of where we are and also on the northern front because turkey borders are fleeing to the west and to the north so those are the two sections as they've sort of started penetrating as of yesterday the front to the east which is i think what most people expected maybe the first front these are the f.s.a. fighters even though those f.s.a. fighters are also being used to come and cross the border from turkey into syria but the build up that we've seen inside syria because some of the villages in that area places like dollar to fots which was taken by the y.p. g. last year

now and all the stories are following french president want his turkish counterpart that democracies must respect the rule of law during a meeting between the two leaders in paris visit to france was russia first since the failed twenty sixteen who one of only a handful to europe it was confronted by a dozen human rights protesters who were attempting to block his arrival to the ne safe. said recent developments in turkey did not allow any progress on its. turkey's group or law europe always tells us that the judiciary must be of the well in turkey. but that they make their own decisions independently. terrorists just not just happen to look for those who support them. they prime it. they nourish tara. i really do believe that we have a challenge which is wonderful leaders but also modern democracies democracy must be strong against terrorism because the legitimacy of the state means it must protect its citizens but at the same time democracies must respect the rule of law of action there is that ash about i was at that showing is conference and has more . well this was an opportunit

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geo of using the mountain to fire shells across the border into the turkish town of funky piece here stephanie decker. from. the battle for amount an intensified on. the called subaru of jets and artillery targeting this important high point along the turkish border. explosions echoed over the border town of killis during a crowd. is strange fascination watching. but for some it's a little too close to home. even though we are hearing killis we've become used to the school 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 to safety but i'm staying. turkey's offensive against the y.p. the kurdish group it considers a terrorist organization is very visible here. it is also stirred nationalist fervor. 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 calls to. turkey says it only targets y p g positions. but as is often the case in war facts can be ha

fears regarding turkish turkish policies in germany and other issues where as we have seen that turkey had good relations with the united kingdom in the european union and also we had all or we had some problems with the prince but also with france turkey had good relations saw i think now both sides are. seeing that there is a need to racialize relations. will take a more pragmatic approach because each other in many areas especially if you think about perkins are all in the european union security in refugee issue and also in combating the terrorism which is when you say turkey needs the e.u. more it is the e.u. need turkey more because ergo i mean it has recently erdogan has recently said that ankara is quote tired after a sluggish you membership process and we know that turkey's relationship with the e.u. has somewhat deteriorated over the past two years. i mean nobody can say which side is dependent on the other side how much i mean it's more like an interdependent if both sides need each other on different levels on different issues and that's why the cutting off relations with t

the kurdish fighters and narrow offensives against the islamic state have angered the turkish government especially recently when word got out that the united states was considering a border security force with the kurdish fighters so they are treading very delicately in the situation we had defense secretary motus in the last couple days making comments that they understood that turkey had legitimate security concerns within its own country so the united states walking very delicately while russia is putting the blame for the situation on the united states saying that unilateral actions in syria by the united states are what enraged turkey and led to this point so a very tense situation the french called for this to be discussed at a previously scheduled syria meeting here's what the ambassador had to say ahead of that meeting. were priority is about eastern ghouta and where there is a tragedy happening before our eyes that is totally unacceptable. we also have discussion on the latest developments that also require were attention. so that was the french ambassador talking about the sec

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

the turkish president has told his french counterpart his people are tired of waiting to join the european union is a recipe i've heard one first visit to france and see twenty sixteen failed coup but one rollback turkey's crackdown on dissent is blocking progress on its entry to the group. now saudi arabia has intercepted a ballistic missile fired from yemen by who three rebels the missile was shot down over the drop in a region straddling the kingdom southern border before it could hit its intended target riyadh says the attack is proof that iran is supporting the who claim the term ron denies is the for such attack since november. the u.n. aid chief says yemen could become the worst humanitarian disaster in fifty years the war is having a devastating impact with widespread food shortages are the major cholera outbreak and stephanie decker reports. forced to live out in the open these yemeni families of escape the fighting near the border with saudi arabia now they have to bear the elements on the streets of data their daily routine now for everyone to see this war has displaced hundreds

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 all that ahead and then 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 at least twenty one people suffered breathing problems all true ledge chemical attack on a rebel held enclave need the mask of a rebels in the syrian observatory for human rights are accusing the syrian government to being behind the attack they say that white smoke was released off to syrian government forces fired a barrel of rockets into duma a si

the turkish president is pretty angry then that u.s. support for the why p.g. and this proposed border defense force but what a result right now. well our green. president sounds very determined and resoldered about the government's decision to launch this operation in often by the way our friend is just right behind us there are the kurdish villages in off inside here on my left side and you can see the wall that turkish government built to provide security between syria and turkey but the villages are very close to each other so it is also a concern but when we look from turkish perspective despite the u.s. says that this stationing of border security forces is for providing security and stopping the infiltration of radical groups turkey sees it as a threat for itself for its national security and yesterday a presidential spokesman had a written statement delivered mentioning that turkey reserves its right to respond and in the national threat very rever it has outside or inside turkey and whenever it wants so present and on today als

the turkish one and the russian ones that they have arrived at a certain understanding so the russians whether they're giving the green light or whether they are simply were doing because they don't want to have a confrontation with their new partner as it were the turks in syria but certainly the kurdish forces are being exposed and being alone now so the russians of basically with drone the americans are not doing much except having a phone conversation with that there is a foreign minister so unfortunately while you know as our correspondent there says that it's. getting more and more complicated but there's one thing quite simple is that the syrians continue to die. is that violence continue to escalate and that the kurds continue to be exploited whether it was by others assad of syria before whether by the americans later and so on so forth and they continue to die and so we saw our situation before in the last few years where the turks have always been unhappy about the territory that the kurds in the white peachey have been building up in the north of syria the u.s. as you say w

to move out of there just to briefly remind you last year there was a tense situation between turkish forces and the white b.g. image and the americans sent in troops and vehicles to calm the situation so you can see the sort of spillover effect that that might have in the future and the president also mention that he was going to go and clear the wipe all the way to the border with iraq well that area is where the s.d.f. operates this is where the americans say they're going to set up this so-called border force even then they said it's not a border force it's internal security but anyway you can imagine it's a very complicated situation with different international players backing different sides allies backing you know sides that offend each other it's very complicated so the implications of that i think it's a message practically can the turks move to membered and further to iraq will be very very difficult all right stephanie becca. russia has accused the us of trying to undermine efforts to end the war in syria washington has denied setting up of force along the turkey syria bor

is the free syrian army flag that flies high here we're on a media trip into as as organized by the turkish authorities they take us close to where there's been fighting with a y p g the 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 though i'm not sure that we ask one of the f.s.a. fighters why he is involved in turkey's operation for some it seems it's personal. we're fighting the white b.g. because they betrayed us and especially because they took over my city taller thoughts i've been displaced along with many of my neighbors for two years living in the camps there are such bad conditions especially now in the winter. what our target courts are telling us is that the front line with the kurdish fighters is just further along. which is over. what is clear here on the outskirts of city is how much of a presence they are of course supporting the free syrian army the syrian rebels that are already taking

various forms that different global locations but the fighting continues near to you as far as the turkish offensive is concerned. it does it is relatively more quiet than what we saw yesterday because that strategic killed point behind me a mountain has been taken we have heard airstrikes in the distance but it does seem a sort of regrouping day to day from the turkish side at least of course it is a very different situation for civilians in those areas that have been bombarded in and a lot of shelling also going on and as you mentioned as those talks go ahead yes we have this offensive we have air strikes in provinces just supposed to be deescalation zone we have violate cease fire violations at least and water which is also supposed to be a deescalation zone so if you look at syria as a whole there is really no change the war simply changes its form as the years go on we do have talks in sochi today i think expectations are very low as to what they're going to decide if it's going to make any difference as to the conflict going on inside syria. well for the moment so full leave it there

turkish president dredger type edging defiant as he addressed a large crowd in the city of. this is a national struggle and then this national struggle to 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 proud considers terrorists but they're also the u.s. is best ally on the ground in fighting eisel regardless of international complications turkey is fully committed to this offensive we're in 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 other 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 heads an

shelled as it is a city held by turkish backed forces and there are already reports of turkish troop movements both along the northern syrian border and at the edge of y. p.g. held territory well this move comes after reports that the u.s. coalition is planning to build a thirty thousand strong border security force in the same region in northern syria and that would include the y.p. g. the u.s. had previously supplied to the kurds turkey is condemning the move with and warning the u.s. not to interfere in its operations. god willing in the coming days as we will continue the operation to purge our southern border from terror which the first step was taken with the euphrates shelled operation and now i with the frame. is genuine in that we expect the market to support turkey and its legitimate outlets we expect our friends to display not achieved a perfect system and this issue of survival let is so sensitive and so critical for our country during the african operation i hope these powers will not give rise to error by appearing on the same side as the terror organization well bill s

turkish officials have been slamming the u.s. court decision that found hakan until guilty officials have been claiming that this is a politically motivated trial and this is a shame for u.s. judiciary as an unfair and unjust decision this has to be corrected to accuse foreign ministry stated today since the beginning of this trial turkey and u.s. pilots through the ration have been strained due to critical comments by both sides but turkish officials claim that this court trial has been influenced by the unionists since the beginning again goodness are accused for allegedly orchestrating the failed coup attempt in turkey in july two thousand and sixteen. eighteen people have been killed and more than two hundred have been injured in a train crash in south africa many of the victims had been on the way home after the holidays when a truck smashed into the carriages at a railway crossing tanya page reports from johannesburg. the shosholoza main is a popular train for families during the busy holiday season it was hitting from the

in syria a fragile cease fire in the south as a turkish military offensive continues in the north plus. gives the survivors first and foremost the self what it department is universally in my family an opportunity . to heal more fallout from the u.s. gymnastics sexual abuse scandal the entire governing body resigns. and the saudi believe there is five star prison the collapse of a construction giant and what both of them say about the kingdom's economic reforms . i least seventeen people have been killed more than a hundred injured in a suicide car bombing in the afghan capital it happened near the old interior ministry building comes a week off the road toward a bomb attack on the city's intercontinental hotel jennifer gloss has more now from kabul. all right so jennifer let's start with casualties what are officials saying about. the ministry of health says seventeen dead and more than one hundred ten wounded in this car bombing it happens on what is usually a very busy street the taliban have claimed responsibility al jazeera spoke to the taliban spokesman just in the last half hour

now the french president has warned his turkish counterpart that democracies must respect the rule of law during a meeting in paris it was rest of their birth or one's first visit to france since the failed coup twenty sixteen remember mccraw said developments in turkey are blocking progress on its e.u. session and proposed a partnership between turkey and the regional bloc instead had one defended his government from criticism of ankara's crackdown on dissidents over the past year. but turkey is ruled by law europe always tells us that the judiciary must really that while in turkey our judiciary is independent they make their own decisions is independent. terror just not just happen after the killing there are those who support terror they water it they prime it they're like gardeners who grow plants they nourish tera clear as far as membership of the e.u. is concerned there is no progress at all on that we had a very frank and open discussion on that but there is a need for more dialogue in the context of the current circumstances natasha butler has more from paris. well this was an

along the syrian turkish border i think if the united states does not take action soon to deescalate the current trajectory we could actually see turkish troops opened fire one of the things that's been mentioned is course the trial of the u.s. attempt to try and rein in the iranians not necessarily operating in that particular area in syria is that do you think part of the of the consideration for increasing the u.s. presence in syria possible kind of anxiety about what the iranians are doing. sure so the u.s. schools in syria are to pivot away from the narrow focus on isis and to begin to pursue larger u.s. national security objectives that the u.s. essentially put on hold while countering isis so the decision for the us has been how do we exploit what we've gained and what we've built on the ground to accomplish objectives beyond the military destruction of isis the problem is we are finding that as we pivot away from isis we're actually losing our common interest with the turks and common interest potentially with other allies within the anti isis coalition who are united in a de

it's almost becoming routine shelling and heavy artillery fired by the turkish army into syria. the monday border new development with turkey opening a new front in the ground offensive free syrian army fighters will now move towards africa and from the us. initially the f.s.a. forces entered syria through turkey from its west and more than borders and after the airstrikes and heavy shelling helped pave the way in the first twenty four hours turkey says it is targeting y p g fighters a kurdish group it says is a terrorist organization which also happens to be america's strongest ally in fighting isis and in syria as ever complicated web of regional and international allegiances enter russia key to allowing turkey to operate in a free in something many already knew but the turkey's president admitted to on monday for the first time. we will handle a free there's no stepping back from a free and we discussed this with our russian friends we have an agreement with them turkey's top military officials and intelligence chief for in moscow in the run up to the offensive russia had mil

has interfered in its domestic affairs by convicting a turkish banker for violating sanctions against iran. a teller and eight others were accused of moving but he ends of dollars worth of iranian money through american banks disguised as food and gold sales kristen salumi reports from new york. attila took the stand and insisted he never conspired to evade u.s. sanctions at the deputy general manager of hulk bank his attorneys suggested his boss and others were to blame but it was a tila who was arrested while traveling to the united states while his boss and others charged in the case remain free in turkey the only other defendant to face trial in the u.s. turkish iranian gold trader and reza rob he pleaded guilty and became a key witness for the prosecution making accusations that rose to the top of turkey's government saurabh testified he paid tens of millions in bribes to government ministers and the scheme that president rest of type and want himself had authorized when he was prime minister turkish officials who initially lobbied u.s. officials for release have now moved to con

is urging turkey to use restraint in its operation against kurdish fighters in northern syria turkish soldiers have entered the enclave of a free part of an assault to drive out kurdish people's protection units a y p g talkies president is vying to crush the group which views as a terrorist organization al jazeera stephanie decker reports. the border echoes with the sounds of war turkey's offensive on africa is now well under way the ground operation started on sunday turkish soldiers supporting free syrian army fighters inside syria. turkish president brigitte type edging defiant as he addressed a large crowd in the city of course and. this is a national struggle and in this national struggle to crush anyone who stands against 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 eisel regardless of international complications turkey is fully committed to this offensive we're in turkey's borde

could turn a blind eye to the turkish military operation there's certainly a domestic component to all the rhetoric coming out of turkey and even here in washington there's an understanding of why president early one needs to conduct this military operation in fact i would go as far as saying and there there might be even a tacit acceptance that as long as circus troops remain on the west bank of the euphrates river that washington might decide to look the other way and not come to the assistance of its kurdish allies on the ground now if turkey decides to cross the river to the east side that's a whole different story because that's where u.s. national interests are at stake i think washington after quite some time president trump coming into office articulated a syria policy one that aims to preserve u.s. gains in syria the u.s. had been involved in trying to push isis out and now that they have they want to hold on to the territory that they and their allies have and also to try and put some pressure on iran in syria financial pressure because they are rainy and spent up to fifteen

stephanie decker al-jazeera kilis on the turkish syrian border. in their frame have reportedly damaged an ancient temple pictures of the temple show it with jews to rubble following strikes on sunday it was built sometime between the tenth century school play what condition the site was in before the attack the turkish military is investigating the reports coming up this news hour and anger in kabul as the death toll from saturday's suicide bombing rises to one hundred three former fox rebels focus on colombia's lower classes that seek to into parliament for the first time and in sports and new champion at the golf and to buy stories coming up with only. in russia dozens of people have been arrested in opposition rallies across the country including opposition leader alexei novelli he called the protests in response to being barred from standing in the presidential election in march were a challenge reports from moscow are years lover i knew for years it's just it's become a familiar routine for novelli demonstration days while supporters in mosco

stephanie decker is an anti care on the turkish syrian border she'll tell us about what's happening on the ground in syria but first to her in vienna where it's the last day of those u.n. sponsored talks on syria's future and as i mentioned the opposition saying hold on they're not going to solve she didn't really explain why. well they said that all they had met here in vienna is actually stubbornness on behalf of the government delegation there was a new working document that was floated around that working document was written by . britain the u.s. france saudi arabia and jordan and the opposition describe it as a documented basically provides new mechanisms to revive these peace talks that seem to be going nowhere i think you know one has to bear in mind that they're not even able to start talking about peace or even start negotiating anything or any of the points of these should be negotiated really to reach anything like constitution elections none of that has happened russia and syria out what rejecting that ten point zero working document at the end of the meeting then the oppo

diplomatically the turks because they're very well aware of turkish. sensitivity to the kurdish issue so they have and americans and the russians have been driving this wedge between turkey and us and the rest rest of the metro by constantly you know playing on this particular issue and they haven't produced any clear distancing themselves from the kurds the russians insist on a federal decentralized future syria which by you know default would mean some sort of role for the kurds which turks cannot accept when in fact i mean syrians and iranian their iranian backers also are not going to align with this particular mine or russia but russia needs that because in some ways russia does not want to see the emergence of a fully sovereign and powerful syrian state because in that at that point it would loses its necessity for dependence on russia so far for not a number of reasons russia cannot fully distance itself from the kurds knock can it at this point in time totally innate well antagonize turkey but over the last years what we see is that russians ac