bombed an airfield in syria believed to be associated with a chemical attack syria's ally the russians question the u.n. source of information saying syria continues to act within its rights going to do is teach the counterterrorism operation which has continued by the syrian military is not in contradiction with resolution twenty four zero one the government of syria has every right to try and remove the threat to the safety of its citizens the cease fire resolution proposed by the united states would take effect immediately with no exceptions for groups on the un's terrorist list it would require russian support to pass highlighting yet again the limits the border divided security council can do for the people of syria christian salumi al-jazeera the united nations and the u.s. has also called for an urgent meeting in jordan following reports of syrian government as strikes on divide the first in months to rise in southwestern syria near the jordanian border some of the provinces still under opposition control but it's also part of a so-called deescalation zone negotiated last year b

between home and kurdish groups in syria. russian's foreign ministry and summons western ambassadors to announce it's expelling fifty nine diplomats from twenty three countries. a popular opposition leaders jailed for five years in senegal willing him out of next year's presidential election. and then split and you look australian cricket team aims to put a week of scandal behind them they began the final test against south africa with some of their biggest names. their warm welcome to this hour of news thirteen palestinians have been killed in gaza many of them many of them by israeli gunfire after thousands marched to the border with israel they were taking part in protests on the forty second anniversary of landing a palestinian health ministry says more than one thousand four hundred of those were injured after israeli forces fired live ammunition into the crowds using tear gas to push them back it's the start of a six week protest. the great march of return palestinians have set up camps in different places along gaza's

of syria are it is good to see. at last a few thousands of people have been able to leave these hellish conditions in any single day enough. but let us remind ourselves these are just a minority of those people living in these areas in eastern good don't we estimate that mid february before beyond. this military operation two hundred thousand children were living in eastern we had unicef we stand ready to support these two hundred thousand children as long as the parties allow us to do so we stand ready to receive fifty dollars and when children are coming out of eastern good guy and all the children who have come out so far have been that then. their conditions are really dreadful the number of children suffering for example severe malnutrition is impressive if we don't even talk about that the psychological condition the emotional condition in which these children finding themselves having suffered day off that they are at hour after hour up and garments having seen their friends their families kill the situation

in the kurdish areas the war in syria is now entering. a phase where russia turkey and iran are in the process of bartering for their strategic interests. the kurdish y p g currently controls around twenty percent of territory in syria the second highest area of land up to president bashar al assad and his forces turkey wants that to change it's anyone's guess how it will play out stephanie decker al-jazeera. i'm joined in the studio now by a good deal there is a visiting fellow at the european council on foreign relations thanks very much for coming in to speak to us so if we start with some of the latest diplomatic developments what has prompted the french offer of mediation now well france for president mcconnell's define defining his presidency in also in foreign policy terms and he's you know bringing in a very strong a presidency as opposed to you know we can say actually that france is the most people to country in europe when it comes to syrian crisis but also what is happening in syria in northern syria especially is a national s

turkey's president issues a warning to france about getting involved in syria's war. and giving a speech in ohio president trump changes course on issues from syria to south korea . and in sport a new look australian cricket team looks to put a week of scandal behind them they've begun the final test again south africa but out from there. israeli forces have killed seven palestinians during protests in gaza. palestinian ministry of health says that at least five hundred fifty people have been injured the demonstrators are marking the land day an annual protest against israel's occupation and seizure of palestinian territory we'll have more on those deaths in gaza in just a few moments i was there was one of the how he joins us now live from out of beirut in northern israel which has great significance doesn't it order to these protests that are underway today. yes absolutely this is actually where it all started now on this day some forty two years ago back in one nine hundred seventy s. sake it's. israel had announced the confiscation of five thousand hectares of lan

policy when it comes to syria because the u.s. president has always said that being in syria is all about i so at the same time you have the outgoing secretary of state rex tillerson who's always said that the u.s. goals in syria include preventing eisel and al qaeda from regrouping supporting the u.n. process and curbing the influence off iran has the u.s. really had any coherent policy when it comes to syria doesn't know what it's doing there. i mean the policy in the past has been to intervene in as little of a way as possible to try to. address the humanitarian situation without getting him broiled in a broader conflict in the middle east that's kind of been the policy but really clearly has not worked with this administration there is clearly a disconnect between what the president is saying what his military and political advisors are telling him which is the united states should remain in the areas it is in to use it as leverage against the syrian regime the iranians and russians and to keep an eye on potentially eisel retu

bombed an airfield in syria believed to be associated with a chemical attack syria's ally the russians question the u.n. source of information saying syria continues to act within its rights going to the domestic counterterrorism operation which has continued by the syrian military is not in contradiction with resolution twenty four i one the government of syria has every right to try and remove the threat to the safety of its citizens the cease fire resolution proposed by the united states would take effect immediately with no exceptions for groups on the un's terrorist list but it would require russian support to pass highlighting yet again the limits the border divided security council can do for the people of syria christian salumi al-jazeera the united nations. well hundreds of civilians have fled the syrian city of afraid on monday as turkish troops and their rebel allies continue to close in on kurdish why p.g. fighters turkish troops have destroyed water and power stations that supply affray in making it difficult for people to survive there alan fischer reports from gaza on th

in syria iraq and overseas prompted the formation of a u.s. led military coalition next year in september russia and to the conflict directly say it's targeting iso and troops it calls terrorists but what it really did is dramatically alter the battle lines in favor of its ally bashar al assad q robert has areas like if to the lead there are homes came under government control twenty seventeen saw the final push against isis by the u.s. led coalition forces which forced to to retreat from what strongholds of rock and a resort into small pockets inside syria which brings us to now by the syrian government is trying to push opposition forces from key rebel enclave near the capital damascus over twelve hundred people have been killed in eastern go-to since february well as priyanka mentioned there the start of the uprising began when a group of children screen and sacrificed sea on a wall in the southern city of daraa some of us yes name was one of the boys involved this is his story. my name is. and i'm twenty one years old i was fourteen when t

thousands of civilians leave the seeds eastern gouda with another round of talks on syria's war beginning an astonishing plus. i'm catherine saw in nairobi i'll tell you about keep their superheroes and every other child he wants to be just like the . russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says moscow will expel british diplomats it's in response to britain ordering out twenty three russian embassy staff over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. last week moscow denies any involvement last rough out of that moscow had stopped paying attention to comments from u.k. after the u.k. defense minister told russia to quote go away and shut up so a moment we'll go live to barnaby phillips is standing by and london first though let's talk to john hall who is in the russian capital moscow so jonah a couple of times now lever office and announce the intention to expel diplomats in response to the expulsion of the russians when do we expect an actual concrete and now about how russia is going to respond. well it's pretty interesting i think is that two days in a row now

is not neutral in syria the russians definitely are not neutral in syria the french off more neutral than anyone else perhaps well they have a long history in syria and i think they're respected by all of the players and really what we have to do particularly between united states and turkey is drawing the line in the euphrates river now and i heard the small wanting that two americans were killed in syria i thought if that was the turks that would create a disaster for the united states and for the nato alliance and i think that's what the french president is trying to avoid and clear up one thing for us as well larry as far as this french offer is concerned is this about offering to mediate purely for its own sake or is this an issue of national security so emanuel macron the relatively new french president he can still appear to be an internationalist but at the same time he can appear to get a grip on domestic issues because there is a very strong sense coming out of the security agencies in paris that the quotes terrorist incidents we see in france they originate or they all tho

has more than two thousand military personnel in syria helping local groups defeat isis. and by the way we're knocking the hell out of isis will become a serial like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon very soon will come and we're going to have a hundred percent. of the caliphate as they call it sometimes referred to as the land take it all back quickly quickly the u.s. went into syria during barack obama's presidency to help in the fight against i saw the pentagon says that around two thousand troops are still there to prevent the group's resurgence many of them are now concentrated around man beach in the north close to the border with turkey that's part of the yellow area under the control of kurdish fighters some of which are backed by the u.s. turkish controlled territory of syria is marked green turkey considers the kurdish y p g a terrorist organization and has vowed to push the group out of syria well these pictures emerged just days ago showing american troops including the man in charge of the u.s. led coalition working with in man bitc

al-jazeera world meets the children who have become victims of syria's civil war. i am a syrian child on al-jazeera. with every. this is zero. watching the news hour live from our headquarters in doha and daddy navigator coming up in the next sixty minutes russia responds in kind to nations who have expelled the diplomats over the poisoning of a former spy. will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it but the u.s. president declares a looming syria withdrawal catching washington off guard low voter turnout casts a shadow over a gypsum president i've been five hundred ccs landslide election victory after he ran virtually unchallenged into. the. sandy this year full homecoming for the australian cricketers caught cheating during a match in south africa. fellow russia is kicking out sixty u.s. diplomats and dozens more from other countries in response to the expulsion of its own diplomats this is the latest development in a worsening diplomatic dispute over who is responsible for poisoning a former russian spy in britain mike hanna rep

the disappeared of syria but this time on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. we will not weaken our resolve we will stand for. britain take this case against moscow to the u.n. not pronouncing russian diplomats will be expelled over the poisoning of a former spy russia says it wasn't involved. from coast to coast students in the u.s. walk out of class to demand change a month after a school shooting in florida. got a one day some friends and i wrote on a wall still to dr ross and seven years on we revisit one of the protesters who said to help trigger syria's war plus. a mentor thomas at the opening of sydney's b.n. ali this year is the first ever to have an artistic director from asia i'll be explaining why that's significant and what it says about broader changes in australian society . welcome to the program moscow has told the u.n. security council of accusations by the u.k. that it's behind the poisoning of a. former russian spy and his daughter unf

fire in the deescalation zones were important steps to end the war in syria. the successful international initiative to decrease tension in syria a sauna is where the political situation to the crisis will be found. for now agreeing on the paramita years of post war syria is being decided on the ground turkey is leading a military operation against the white p.g.d. in the mainly kurdish populated northeastern town of africa and the russian and iranian government are supporting the syrian government's campaign to recapture the rebel held. the foreign ministers meeting will be followed by a summit in april that will be attended by the three countries president turkey said it will host the meeting and said it's will be to revive peace efforts the last time the three leaders met was in november at the time they were discussing post conflict syria and a peace conference that was held in sochi in late january since then there has only been military escalation. this week countries may have their differences but they share animosity. towards the united states turkey's

all the various wars in syria thank you very much. now russia's election commission says the turnout in this year's presidential vote is much higher than the last one which was six years ago earlier the russian president cast his ballot in moscow lattimer putin is seeking a fourth term which would give him six more years in office the opposition leader alexina valmy use been barred from running called for a boycott of the vote and we understand he's due to speak shortly his anticorruption group has reported that dozens of apparent violations in polling stations across the country i would be pleased with any result that would give me the right to continue serving as president i'm sure the program i'm offering is the right one. for some of the seven other candidates vying for a share of the votes are cast their ballots in polling stations across the capital moscow none of them though are considered a real threat to vladimir putin who is leading by a wide margin let's take a closer look at who they are and what they stand for a high prof

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more on that shortly but first a tour of the situation in northern syria. in the center of a free free syrian army fighters are still celebrating. after seizing the town from syrian kodesh forces at the weekend the rebel fighters were backed and directed by the turkish military the syrian government has criticized what it calls turkey's occupation of the town and blames the united states for allowing it to happen if turkey is part of the nato and the nato is involved into the bloodshed in the area in iraq as well as in syria so the nato is protecting turkey don't believe in this hollywood show you are seeing in. turkey is doing what it is doing with the blessing of the americans. and turkey says it will expand its military operations to other kurdish held towns in syria president says his forces could also intervene in iraq. after controlling the city center of afrin yesterday we completed the most important phase of operation olive branch now we will continue this process with. and ras al-ain and chemistry until we remove all of this corridor. this is how

we saw earlier on the report about the syrian refugee refugees from syria and the u.n. refugee agency saying that the biggest challenges facing these women are early marriage and violence so obviously the violence is something that needs to be addressed but what about that issue of early marriage would you say that's one of the biggest challenges there is. it's a big it's a really big challenge and what we've seen in recent years is particularly in crisis when like the syrian crisis that where parents maybe in the past would not have married their daughters off early they do so now because they they feel and it's it's a wrong sense of security but that it gives them some sense of security but of course if a girl is forced to marry early it's she's just you know in the hands of one man rather than at risk of being being sexually harassed by more and more men and so what would you say the most practical measures are on international women's day what would you like to see in future that would that would make a really big difference to to women's lives. i think that the bas

in syria is a very important fourth of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. this is al-jazeera. hello there i'm laura kyle this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes has a solace in beijing laid the groundwork for one precedented meeting between the u.s. and north korean leaders. in control of the northern syrian town of affray in turkish forces prepared to move east towards man beach. france pays tribute to the policeman who died after voluntarily replacing a hostage during last week's supermarket attack. i'm joining us roscoe with all your sports including australia's disgraced cricketers steve smith and david warner a banned from playing for twelve months for their part in the balloon tampering scandal. north korea's leader has met china's president on his first foreign trip since taking power seven years ago kim jong un's first secretive meeting was huge and ping was revealed

be left to the palestinians themselves the same is now true syria syria is far too important to lift the syrians and now we have instead the regional states international states each pursuing their own agendas in the country and of course the people who are paying the biggest price of that are the civilians and selves and we're seeing this matter mass exodus going on in eastern also in africa in a lot of people are running it does feel now that the vestiges of those areas that any kind of opposition to assad has been and is still there is almost like a cleansing then i was always like a finishing our we did looking at an awful lot more people going to be killed before it's written well currently receive a fifty percent spike in casualties since the start of the summer agreement they came up with the as you describe them so called the escalations i think we should use that term at all because they are escalation zones are exactly what we're seeing in these areas so i think there's no sign that syrians here in common can finish there are things international unity can do mainly around

russia offers to allow rebels in syria's eastern daughter to leave the area which has been under government bombardment for more than two weeks. sri lanka declares a state of emergency after clashes between buddhists and muslims. and the u.k. threaten to take whatever steps are necessary moscow's behind this is back to poisoning of a former russian spy. welcome to the program after years of refusal and threats of war north korean leader kim jong il and finally seems willing to discuss suspending his nuclear program and to begin talks with washington where the u.s. state department has confirmed it will be holding a meeting with south korea later this week to discuss potential denuclearization talks with p.r. young it follows an agreement between the korean states to hold an historic summit of their own next month well the u.s. president has welcome the new saying he believes the north motives for the talks a genuine i think that they are sincere but i think they're sincere also because the sanctions and what we're doing with respect to north korea including you know the great help that we'v

it was on the brink of it has more in the situation in syria from turkey southern border. more details of deaths despair and misery out of eastern huta as this united nations security council resolution passed on saturday continues to go ignored by warring sides we've been hearing from the ground more reports of more attacks artillery shells an air strikes happening in residential areas people saying that everywhere is a frontline in eastern guta activists on the ground saying that the net now the death toll that has been climbing in the last few days has gone over the grim mark of six hundred people more than six hundred people have been killed in eastern router people have been besieged since two thousand and thirteen food aid and medical supplies have been very limited and they've been waiting on these promises that have been reiterated by the syrian government today as well that aid will be allowed in but so far no aid has come in and none of the evacuations have happened in for the north of syria in the are free region we've been hearing that the international committ

near the turkey syria border. and i hosp on the say one hundred is joining us live from beirut in neighboring lebanon for more on this now saying that we're hearing about the government dropping leaflets with information for pain from the next and go to what more can you tell us. oh yes the syrian army encouraging civilians to leave yet again aircraft dropping leaflets some of them have maps actually showing what they're calling safe exits humanitarian corridors that civilians can use to leave there also in some of those leaflets encouraging rebels to surrender lay down their arms promising them amnesty this is what the government wants it wants the rebels to surrender the people to leave and this has been the aim really of this bombing campaign which began two weeks ago if that happens it really would be to the government's advantage why the operation has been very costly the ground offensive for example began approximately a week ago and very limited advances have been made on the ground in the government pro-go

where thousands of civilians are also fleeing the main city in africa in syria's north as the turkish military closes in images have emerged of people cramming on to trucks and tractors drawn carts to get away people who've stayed in the city lining up to buy food in preparation for a siege turkey is trying to retake the area from the kurdish y.p. gene which it considers a terrorist group. well seventy seven years on the syrian war began with p peaceful protests against bashar asad but it has descended into a complicated quagmire involving many other countries and groups there's iran and hezbollah which back assad russia and to the war in two thousand and fifteen also on assad side turkey join the fight against i still but its main priority has been stopping the kurdish y p g the us has backed kurdish fighters in several rebel groups while israel has carried out multiple air raids mostly targeting hezbollah in terms of resolving the crisis there have been eight rounds of un backed geneva talks with no result talks in a stunner establish so-called deescalation zones but they're essenti

in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their families right near the most terrible thing though syria used to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship through the other sometimes the call to complete the other two guys that continue to be sure to tune called. the disappeared of syria but this time on al-jazeera. perceptions powerful documentary. from around the globe it was a big sound like the plane coming down. felix journalism. debates and discussions there's a lot of misunderstanding a distortion isn't the only argument i find against that is all over the corridor the history. see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. the mind of our top stories he announces iraq and the seventy people have been killed in a russian airstrike on a besieged syrian strike at a market in the town of kufa but now with the rebel held east and. south africa's former president jacob zuma is set to face prosecution for sixteen corruption charges prosecutors say the charges include can

and fish as more natural gas and tep in the turkey syria border. we had a choice stay and face more bombardment or leave to an uncertain future they choose to leave it started with hundreds it grew to thousands grabbing what they could carry what they could stuff into vehicles and a mind of a home they may never see again my mind as it is there is no water no medicine that could be provided to our children that even food situation is miserable. that we're so happy because we're safe right now in the hands of the army we were living in a jail not in the gates are we not. a mass exit bizarre procession on the seventh anniversary of the start of the syrian civil war was leaving came from how maria a city that's been under attack for three solid weeks and the area once controlled by anti assad forces are completely surrounded by their enemies something like this had been expected since the syrian government forces backed by the russians effectively cut guta in three they've used their military pressure to force people to leave i mean i'll be looking at

kurdish fighters in syria's northwest and a fleeing region have valid to fight on after the main town this taken by turkish forces and their allies taking launched its operation to clear the enclave of kurdish y.p. g. forces in january. attack against the turkish army anderson's reports from turkey's southern port. they reached a friend at sunrise columns of free syrian army fighters turkish special forces have been active on the ground ahead of them kurdish y p g fighters have withdrawn in large numbers there was limited resistance on one of the rebel fighters backed and directed by turkey with ground forces and airstrikes prepared to declare victory here. the one and after we enter the freen with all the center buildings we will declare a victory statement on the terror we are telling the civilians to come back to our friends it's safe now. within hours celebrations in the city center. for the syrians and the turks. this is a gift from the turkish armed forces to the turkish people and our glorious martyrs on this day a reference there to the victory of turkish forces against the we

and their free syrian army allies capture a strategic aim town in northern syria. and the football world is mourning the death of italian international footballer media story. hello and welcome to our international weather forecast as we take a look at conditions across europe you see we got some snow across some of the baltic states on friday with some fairly brisk winds it's generally milder air though further towards the west indeed across these western there are some very heavy rain pushing we will see some snow on the northern edge one system pushing through the u.k. presume you on through into the weekend heavy rain milder conditions pushing up from the south so stormy picture really without rain extending down through into the iberian peninsula more snow across the alps southeastern parts who have been joining quieter weather fine enough ins there at one thousand degrees but still the cold air hanging on across parts of russia minus seven has a high in moscow now on the other side of the military for the most part is looking dry and far we have got some show

turkey says its forces have taken full control of three in town in syria from kurdish. this president assad visits syrian troops a newly captured areas of eastern. and republican senators urged president trunk not to shut down robert while this investigation after he steps all his twitter attacks. i'm joined in doha with the day's top sports stories goodbye pyong chang south korea closes the paralympic games on the historic five weeks of sports and politics. polls have officially closed in russia's presidential election which is widely being viewed as a foregone conclusion russia's incumbent president vladimir putin is expected to take a commanding victory in a contest without any serious opposition candidate in the absence of credible opponents the kremlin has focused on boosting the turnout to give the election as much legitimacy possible people have reported being pressured to go to the polls and some polling stations have offered free concert tickets and even cancer screenings to vote or russia's opposition leader alexina valley was barred from running in the vote h

very defiant it was defiant in facing criticism about syria we can expect given the . defiance in the denial of responsibility coming from the kremlin that we will get more of that kind of reaction from russia most likely when we hear from them at the top of the hour and we will of course be carrying that meeting here on al-jazeera for the moment chris and salumi at the u.n. thank you. senior officials in myanmar say that they've begun talks with u.n. agencies to see how they can help with the repatriation of range of refugees who fled that to bangladesh myanmar says it has a list of three hundred seventy four he and joe who are free to return at their convenience bangladesh originally provided a list of more than eight thousand names but memoirs of a string of foreign affairs a says it couldn't verify all of their identities. the philippines is being accused of ignoring human rights abuses after announcing its withdrawing from the international criminal court the i.c.c. announced last month that would investigate reports of extrajudicial killings in what president of

if the kurdish forces in syria and the third is to return. to its rightful owners that's what caroline said and by that this is where the ethnic cleansing worry comes because evidence suggests that it belongs to both turman and syrian arabs who lived there before erratic saying that this is just i mean i mean the what do you how do you assess then that fear coming from the ca's that this is about ethnic cleansing because we know that turkey does not want anything remotely resembling a kurdish homeland on his border and contiguity between the two pockets of of kurdish donated territory is what we understand the kurds to be seeking themselves i indeed and we saw this stokoe bani almost two hundred thousand kurds were driven out of obama by isis forces that turkey. assisted at a certain level so the kurds have every reason to believe that this could be at this some form of ethnic cleansing war after all turkey will worry that if they left all the kurds and it's why people back should their forces withdraw so. this is been the worry of course and

in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their family right near the most terrible thing and syria just to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship who the mothers sometimes the call to be better to die than continue to be sure to the new culture of. the disappeared of syria at this time on al-jazeera. a bank that a plane crash lands in katmandu at least fifty people are killed. hello again i'm not sure that is there are live from doha also coming out.

turkey syria border . non-native species to eastern interview just a few kilometers from syria's capital damascus when the siege typed in two thousand and thirteen food supplies riggs lost it quickly one of the answers for growing protein needs was mushrooms. after testing they weren't poisonous biologists grew spores in the labs they taught people how to up cycle dam better kitchen waste and shock from grains so everyone with a small dark room could become a farmer by last year charity workers say they are producing close to two tons of mushrooms every day i want hasn't had to be you need the right environment and tools after we succeeded in production it became an independent project to provide the spores for a good time it was difficult for people to go from the staple red rice and meat to mushrooms but when a kilo of salt cost thirty three dollars a kilo of flour costs six dollars and a kilo rice is that eleven dollars a kilo hungry people don't have much choice another problem with fuel because hooter

welcome to the program fighting on two major fronts in syria is forcing people to flee in the tens of thousands as airstrikes rained down on civilians in rebel held eastern goods at near the capital damascus at least ninety people have been killed most of them with a busy market was hit by an airstrike but activists say the bombs were dropped by russian jets the united nations estimates up to sixteen thousand. people have escaped the enclave in recent days meanwhile in the north west activists and the kurdish why b.g. are important the only functioning hospital in a frame has been hit by turkish forces killing fifteen people which turkey has denied well the battle for control of the freeness forced almost fifty thousand people from their homes turkish troops and a lot of rebel groups now have the city surrounded they're trying to capture it from the white pages alan fischer reports from gaziantep it's a beauty of stark brutal contrasts. with a line between life and death a sharp and arbitrary this is a fringe a city that's been shelled by the free syrian army backed by the turks. with

forces would be out of syria very soon stephanie decker with more. the americans have long had a presence in this part of northern syria supporting the syrian democratic forces arrest in the fight against eisel the turkey views the kurdish y p g which makes up the bulk of the s.d.f. as a terrorist organization and the latest twist french president met with an s.d.s. delegation on thursday night in paris an offer to mediate which isn't going down well in ankara why biggio there's dick. says that he gave guarantee of support to the y.p. g that france can be mediators between turkey and the s.d.f. who gave you this judy do not engage in things beyond. turkish armed forces have already taking the troll of much of the syrian problems about free in pushing out the y.p. g everyone has long threatened to push further east on to members where the u.s. has military bases and all the way to the iraqi border the americans have also been monitoring the potential front line between kurdish fighters and the turkish backed syrian rebels who are nearby and to complic

in iran syria longer europe and the us. i feared it was really excited it's like a new journey has become and we are learning from them they are learning from not only an exchange of. patience and have experiences and very incomes are times of relative calm and the safety and security situation improves organizers believe it will encourage people to participate in events like they know is a opportunity. for people to come and visit. for. casual. and to be able to see the whole to be able to see focus on that we all are living and we're all a part of the same global culture and its business as usual here things go up and down but these days things are going up and down a little that was back at the old museum one of the seven locations for the event it is not difficult to understand their rich tapestry. but their message heritage that long border. with this rich traditions of. the war pakistan it is time for sports. thanks very much chelsea are through to a second successive english f.a. cup semi final but they needed extra

in syria say they'll form a human.

children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning of beyond struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war this time on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes no break for syrians in rebel held eastern guta activists released video of what they say are phosphorus bombs falling on the on play. florida politicians approve new restrictions on rifle sales in response to a school shooting that left seventeen people dead. a case of attempted murder british police believe a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent. and the e.u. warns the u.s. it may retaliate if washington imposes tariffs on steel and other many and. there's new video of what activists say appear to be phosphorous bombs being dropped on a rebel held on klav in syria the pictures emerged after eighty eight people were killed in another era assault on eastern ghouta and that's one of the highest number of casualties in a twenty four hour period since polls and fighting b

already several years ago syrians stopped exiting syria in large numbers because borders are basically closed they've become more internally displaced but now as we see in ghouta even that option to flee for safety is becoming impossible people in what i spoke to my colleagues who were there a few days ago people don't know anymore what to do to stay there is the injurious to go out of the enclave is dangerous how much worse can it get for civilians anywhere in the world well what do you think it mr grant of the international community needs to step up to because you have the situation the way that a lot of these camps that need extra long term funding and of course as you mentioned you're making preparations for the eventual return of refugees to wherever they came from so just how much money and focus and energy needs to be directed towards this cause. i think it is very important to help the host countries like i said that we will have this conference in brussels this is about humanitarian aid which is still needed but he's also like i said about investments for example in water whi

surviving syria's war people in eastern groups a longing for safety and basic necessities. italians go to the polls on sunday we'll tell you how the issue of migration is tearing the vote. us president will trump heightens threats of a trade war with europe. and the top court in egypt rules that two disputed islands belong to saudi arabia after a deal last year. syrian government forces continued to bomb the rebel held and club of eastern. these latest pictures published by syria's state news agency appear to show night operations by government fighters activists say they have taken almost complete control of the town of fallujah and in the last two weeks more than six hundred people have been killed syrian airplanes have been dropping leaflets telling people to leave the area but residents say simply not an option so to hold a report from beirut and they bring lebanon. through or is desperate he is just one of about four hundred thousand people trapped in eastern huta which is under attack he is very ill and poor living in a besieged enclave means medicine and food are har

there is alan fish as more now from the turkey syria border. but what has happened in dumas happened elsewhere in syria we've seen it before where first of all the split the area as they did in eastern guta on saturday and there's no surrounded one tire in the syrian government forces and backed by the russians then tend to use their military advantage to try and gain a political advantage by saying to the fighters maybe you should leave him move to another part of syria as a see that has happened before in this conflict meanwhile in a free and we are hearing that the wipe e.g. the kurdish militia are calling on civilians to help form a human shield to police themselves between the y. p.g. and the advancing three syrian army which of course are backed up by the turkish military no it's not just cards who have responded to this call and we hear that there are buses heading towards our friend but also groups here in turkey clearing women's groups and socialist groups although how they will get across the border which is currently closed is anothe

in syria citizens are collecting evidence and i want a little bit guilty as charged of crimes committed against civilians moved out of syria and there are both six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human face syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for getting this is that he was out live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes box like a book finally speaks up but is it enough to rebuild trust lost in facebook over the cambridge analytical control to see. china will not sit idly by while just about rights and interests are hurt tough talk from china as donald trump prepares to slap beijing with billions of dollars worth of tariffs. on. an emotional prison for one nigerian father as he desperately waits for his daughter while dozens of other schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram go free. and on fire a small have all the day's sporting including serena williams is coming back to tennis hence an

to stop kurdish fighters from traveling to a freend in northern syria members of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces are heading there to help fight off a turkish offensive against their fellow kurds ankara says the operation is necessary to tackle terrorism alan fischer reports and on the turkey syria border. it's not just in eastern guta we're fighting scars the syrian landscape north of a green the syrian free army backed by the turks continue operations the intention to take the moment of near the city a strategic military target. all the villages and towns controlled by the kurdish people's protection units a very strategic for us we need to clean up this whole area of these terrorists who want syria to be divided syria must always be united and unified with the help of almighty and the heroes of the free syrian army the fighting in and around our friend provides a snapshot of how complicated the civil war in syria has become so why p.g. the kurdish militia enjoys american support when they're taking on i saw in other parts of the country they're now moving seven

might be prepared to take action in syria if things don't change well the debate changes a little in the security council with the united states leading efforts on one side to push for the cease fire and the russians. backing up the syrian government in its continued attacks on civilian areas saying that it has a right to do this because it's going after so-called terrorist groups to give you a little context this was a briefing fifteen days after a cease fire resolution was passed by the security council the briefing revealed that the facts the intended effects of that resolution really haven't happened not only is the fighting still continuing aid humanitarian aid is still having trouble getting into the area and civilians are having trouble getting out so what the united states said is they are prepared to offer up this second cease fire resolution which would go into effect immediately and would not have any kind of a loophole for so-called terrorist groups which is what the russians and the syrians have been using to justify their continuing attacks in the area saying that this

the last time i spoke to him he told me he was thinking of going to syria the world wants to see syria's fighters up close and personal but those behind the camera pay the price filmmaker yes it is amazing chillingly intimate footage on and behind the front lines cost him his life his body was good with an exclusive documentary syria the last assignments at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. hundreds of thousands demonstrate in the u.s. demanding tougher gun laws processed sparked by the recent school shooting in florida. only one rebel group is left in eastern kentucky as pro-government forces it's close to taking control of the enclave. crowds demonstrate in tel aviv against the proposed deportation of thousands of african migrants we'll examine what's behind the israeli government's plans. also this the wounds of history are still open demands for justice for those who disappeared during argentina's military dictatorship. the top story hundreds o

in syria citizens are collecting evidence. of crimes committed against civilians move out of the six hundred thousand pages so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice but so she will face on the charges it's a. syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al jazeera. this is. and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour on live from my headquarters in doha the problem coming out the next sixty minutes. after days of silence facebook c.e.o. addresses privacy concerns that have taken tens of but he is of dollars off the company's a value. airstrikes in syria as a live problems kill at least twenty two people most of them children. french authorities open a formal investigation into ties between former president nicolas sarkozy and libya and three months off to bed he surviving an impeachment vote president has resigned . the head of facebook says he would welcome regulation of the social media platform if it was the right kind mark zuckerberg is promising tough the steps to restrict developers access to informa

envoy to syria is urging all sides to implement a cease fire across syria that the un security council unanimously approved last week we will continue asking and read in defeat blue in the face for both sides i see both sides because they have been on both sides shelling not comparable in terms of propulsion but have been both sides to stop shelling each of those areas and for convoys to be allowed to get to east including in particular because the other way become to be cut off a little. more ahead on the news hour including warnings of a potential trade war with china has the u.s. sharpens it stands on foreign steel imports by imposing heavy tariffs. the controversial video showing israeli soldiers beating a palestinian man just hours before he died in custody. and in sports more misery for arsenal has manchester city extend their lead there at the top of the premier league. venezuela's that presidential elections been postponed by a month the decision to delay the votes the result of an agreement between the government and some parties of a divided opposition president nicolas madur