not to target kurdish on groups in northern syria when american forces leave soon new address the texas parliament a day off to u.s. national security advisor john bolton reiterated the request in ankara bolton's comments to president resit top but one who says it takes he will not compromise on cut his white b.g. fight as it regards as terrorists or iraq today with headlines on a lot more news coming up here on out is there right off the inside story from a new plant that is by now. turkey's president criticizes the conflicting messages coming from the trump administration over its rounds to pull out troops from syria and national security advisor john bolton has been seeking reassurance on teri's fridays but turkey warns it won't compromise this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm fully battle many were caught off guard last month when u.s. president donald trump announced he would pull american troops out of syria immediately but since then his administration has sent conflicting messages about how and when that withdrawal will take place is national security

syria national security advisor john bolton has been seeking reassurance on terror but turkey warns it won't compromise this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. many were caught off guard last month when u.s. president donald trump announced he would pull american troops out of syria immediately but since then his administration has sent conflicting messages about how and when that withdrawal will take bass is national security advisor john bolton has been in turkey to seek protection for u.s. banks kurdish fighters in syria have been a major part of the battle against eisel but turkey sees them as terrorists and president. has warned he won't compromise on the kurdish issue will bring in our guests in just a moment but first here's more of what the turkish president had to say. the. bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this has also made a mistake it's not possible for us to make compromises those who are in halls of the terra corridor or in syria who face the necessary lesson there is no single difference between the p.k. k y p g p d and i saw this

moment we've got the latest system making its way across turkey than stretching down through syria and then that will activate this system to the south so we're going to see some heavy rain across this region and a fair amount of snow as we head through wednesday that will then work its way eastwards and behind it we'll see another weather system begin to knock on the door of turkey as we head through thursday so generally speaking for many of us really quite unsettled at the moment with a good deal of cloud of rain and snow pushing through here in doha though the winds are feeding up from the south on wednesday and that does mean they could be a little bit of mr fog first thing but when that clears it's going to be quite a warm day i'll talk temperature about twenty six degrees but this woman weather isn't going to last as we head through thursday may be a change in the wind direction this time the winds will be firing down from the northwest it will be quite a blustery day and the temperatures will be dropping so a maximum just of twenty three degrees which is seventy three in fahren

rami you mentioned earlier you weren't surprised but what will this mean for civil society in syria. it's going to be destructive i mean one of the things that we've been fighting over the past eight years is obviously extremism and the problem is that i've also see i've always seen that extremism can't be battled with just gun ships and planes from the sky and bullets it doesn't work that way there's a process in which we seek and find out what the original what the actual problem is what caused all this and i i continue to believe that it's politically in directly politically motivated that these people members of isis if i'm to speak particularly. in the lower ranks or maybe fundamental but in those high ranks it's very politically motivated and when there isn't justice and accountability when we go back to a situation like syria was seven or eight years before and let's get happening for half a decade you go back to that situation you're telling people in stripping them of their voice and they become susceptible to the language of fundamentals and extremism and that's what's cal

people bought. hi i'm femi oke a. three day update on the war in syria it's a show that you our community voted for so join us with your syria related comments and questions live on you tube or on twitter. my name is the marker for the boy on the beach and you are. a big thanks to everyone who voted in last week's twitter poll to help us choose today's topic you can follow us at the lookout for future polls so today we're looking at some of the latest headlines from the war in syria and a pullout of u.s. troops rebuilding diplomatic relations with bashar al assad and how displaced syrians are coping with harsh winter conditions with us to talk about all of this in istanbul turkey me an architect and activist also in istanbul dillema mr vice president of the national coalition or syrian revolution and opposition forces. a journalist and activist really good to have you with us everybody or we begin with the u.s. troop withdrawal last month president donald trump made a surprise announcement that u.s. troops will begin leaving from syria have a listen to what turkey's president sa

conflicting messages coming from the trump administration over its plan to withdraw troops from syria as america's top diplomat tries to reassure middle east allies beginning with jordan. you're watching out to zero life from a headquarters and down i'm dead you know bill gates also ahead north korea's leader heads back to beijing ahead of a possible second summit with donald trump. and europe prepares for a more freezing cold after heavy snow killed seven in the alps. hello the turkish president has lashed out at what he says are mixed messages coming from the trumpet ministration about its plans to pull troops out of syria regift tell you berta one is also unhappy that the u.s. is asking turkey not to target kurdish armed groups who fought with american forces against eisold earlier on says his country will not compromise on fighters it regards as terrorists. he says bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria who receive unnecessar

discusses in syria troop withdrawal with donald trump says turkey is ready to take over security in the kurdish town of manby. somalia says it's plan b. a major offensive against al shabaab after u.s. airstrikes killed fifty two of the group's fighters. pitch battles in greece is capital is tens of thousands of people protest against a name change deal with macedonia. last hour licensing nor is signing the death knell for type one's traditional medicine industry. so turkish president resit top one has spoken with donald trump to discuss u.s. troop withdrawal from syria the phone conversation comes just days after the fate of kurdish fighters in syria strained relations between the two nato allies has told trump that turkey is ready to take over security in the kurdish controlled syrian town of manage without delay according to the turkish government when told that an attack could manage that killed four u.s. personnel last week was a provocation to influence united states troop withdrawal plan announced last month take a closer look at man bitch near the border the turkey the town i

withdraw troops from syria however how it is going to be done what will be left behind to morgan happen to the. heavy arms left behind and. various other matters needs to be clarified we've discussed these matters in detail and in the days to come including today military officials and intelligence officials will continue their discussions we continue our relationship with the united states as within the framework of allies being allies and we'll continue to do. our best. i'd like to remind you number of things first of all turkey's position in relation to the territorial integrity of syria has not changed since day one. yes the. another important principle. is that they syrian land must be cleared of all terrorists including. border. yeah they got the so what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria are the guns of who they are what what their origin is must be protected and safe from terrorist persecution and attacks there is no question of. turkey is stopping turkey's fight or posing turkey's fight against terrorists and terrorist organizations. turkey has been an imp

the truth as a boy. that's what this job. welcome back you're watching out of syria time now to recap headlines i saw has claimed responsibility for an attack on u.s. and kurdish forces in northern syria a kurdish y p g's have a suicide car bomb exploded near the entrance to the city of. the blast went off a z. u.s. patrol passed by but there are no u.s. casualties israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu is warning iran it will face consequences for threatening to destroy his country the remarks came just hours after israeli jets launched nighttime air strikes against what he described as iranian weapons depos in damascus. afghan taliban fighters have killed at least forty three members of the security forces at the military base and what of that province not far from the capital fighters stormed the base after a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb inside. the head of the main trade union confederation in zimbabwe has been arrested just said moya was detained as robert mugabe international airport is currently in a police station in the capital harare the union was behind the gener

jazeera. another tack against u.s. and kurdish forces in syria al is off to israel fired missiles to rein in targets near damascus. hello i'm the star of the attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. dozens are killed in a taliban attack in afghanistan as the u.s. begins another round of direct negotiations with the group. to resume a present another version of how breaks that plan but it's not terribly different from an already rejected proposal. and the family of a sudanese doctor killed while treating injured protest as says they're sure he was killed by the government. while u.s. troops based in syria have become the target of myself i says for the second time in less than a week a bomber rammed his car into a checkpoint in syria's kurdish controlled northeast just as a joint convoy of u.s. and cut his forces passed by at least five people were killed no u.s. troops were among the casualties the incident comes just weeks after the u.s. president announced a pullout of troops from syria well monday's incident happened and has stuck a province where residents say the

military offensive against kurdish troops in northern syria. present. a call for unity among country. for the sake of regional security. longer on the run former italian communist. extradited to face murder charges more than thirty years as a fugitive. and anger and frustration the president doubles the price of fuel. threaten to devastate turkey's economy if it forces attacks on kurdish fighters in syria the us president took to twitter to make various foreign policy statements the syrian army is preparing for an offensive by turkish forces on the kurdish rebel stronghold of damascus has deployed soldiers artillery and tanks to the northwest suburbs of the city as u.s. forces prepare to leave let's get more now from castro who is in washington d.c. heidi turkey is a nato ally what else did donald trump say about them on twitter. right on this late night sunday tweet from the white house donald trump went on to say that starting the long overdue pullout from syria while hitting the little remaining isis territorial caliphate hard and from many directions will attack again from existi

jazeera. and i so suicide car bomb in northern syria targets u.s. and kurdish forces. color from doha everyone i'm come all sons of maria and this is the world news from al jazeera taliban fighters have killed at least forty three members of the afghan security forces in a suicide bomb and gun attack. i cannot support the only other way in which to take no deal off the table which is to revoke article fifteen theresa may present her plan b. on break the parliament but there's still no sign of any breakthrough. and open for business one of the older streets in baghdad debts a new lease on life. so in syria there has been an overnight attack on damascus by israeli forces who say they were targeting iranian weapons depots in the capital and then later on monday in the north the kurdish why p.g. said a suicide car bomb exploded near the entrance to the just as a u.s. patrol passed by there are lots of potential ramifications for all sides has more israel has repeatedly struck targets inside syria for years but rarely admits doing so now it is confirming the attacks and providing info

extremism despite donald trump's order to withdraw troops from syria president jordan has more from washington. one thing is clear the u.s. military may be ending its direct mission in syria but it's not going to stop the fight against eisel on thursday the secretary of state mike pompei o said that u.s. aircraft would be for paired to target and to kill eisel fighters if they try to retake any territory either in syria or in iraq meantime the pentagon is confirming that some equipment that the u.s. military had been relying on while deployed in syria is now being moved out of the country but for security reasons they are not saying how quickly this some two thousand u.s. troops in syria are going to be leaving where they will be based after they leave

messages coming from the trumpet ministration over his plan to withdraw troops from syria. this is a live from doha also coming up in the program north korea's leader heads back to beijing as nuclear diplomacy with washington still. and politicians launch a campaign they hope will lead to another referendum on britain's membership. former chairman of the makes his first court appearance since his arrest for financial misconduct. so then the president has lashed out of what he sees as mixed messages coming from the trumpet ministration about its plans to pull troops out of syria reza talk about iran has also rejected a condition that turkey agree not to talk at washington's kurdish allies he says his country will not compromise on fight as it regards as terrorists. he said. it's impossible for us to accept the message that bolton gave from israel the americans don't know who out of my quote the citizens who are the white. i guess they don't know them these terror groups that. can never be a percentage of my kurdish citizens. well i was reacting to comments made by donald trump's natio

israel says it's iranian. syria says most of the missiles were intercepted by a. somali he says is planning a major offensive against the us a strike is killed fifty two of the groups fighting. pitched battles in greece's capital as tens of thousands of people protest against a name change deal with macedonia. and licensing. taiwan's aging traditional medicine industry. so that the israeli military says it's carrying out strikes on iranian targets in syria video posted to social media purports to show the missiles intercepted near damascus on sunday israel said it threatens iraq and its side intercepted a rocket fired the gun and heights from syria harry falls are reports now from a lot in southern israel. well in a highly unusual move the israeli military is confirming that strikes have been taking place against targets inside syria as the operation has been going on these removed she is saying that it's striking iranian quds forces targets inside syrian territory and it is warning the syrian armed forces against striking against israeli military targets or against israeli territo

damascus syria says most of the missiles were intercepted by its air defenses. but i won't discuss this syria troop withdrawal with donald trump says turkey is ready to take over security in the kurdish town of man beach. florida. i'm sick of this is i just did a live from doha also coming up somalia says it's planning a major attack against al shabaab after a u.s. air strikes killed fifty two of the group's fighters. pitch battles in greece's capital as tens of thousands of people protest and name change deal with macedonia . the israeli military says it is carrying out strikes on iranian targets in syria video posted to social media purports to show missiles intercepted near damascus on sunday israel said it intercepted a rocket fired at the golan heights from syria harry foresaid reports from in southern israel. well in a highly unusual move the israeli military is confirming that strikes have been taking place against targets inside syria as the operation has been going on these removed she is saying that it's striking iranian could forces targets inside syrian territory and it is w

. it's. where ever you. israel takes aim at iranian military targets in syria killing at least four syrian soldiers. down in jordan this is al jazeera law. also coming up the u.s. and turkey discuss the withdrawal of american troops from syria with ankara ready to take over security in the kurdish town. seeking peace voters in the southern philippines cast their ballots in a referendum aimed at ending a decades long conflict. our licensing laws in the death knell for taiwan's traditional medicine industry. for syrian soldiers have been killed in israeli airstrikes on iranian targets in syria the video posted to social media appears to show missiles intercepted near damascus russia says during those strikes early on monday syrian air defenses destroyed more than thirty cruise missiles and guided bombs on sunday israel said it intercepted a rocket fired at the golan heights from syria but a solid binge of aid is live for us now in gaziantep that's on the turkey syria border the russians there saying that syrian air defenses shot down more than thirty israeli cruise missiles what more

yeah very much so i mean russia is the provider to syria all of pretty much all its defense systems syria currently has. blue and s. three hundred as far as we know from what the russians have said it was only the panacea and boot systems that were used to defend syrian positions against the cruise missile attacks and guided bomb attacks etc from israel over. overnight and in the attack that took place at the end of the week and there is as you say diplomacy going on as well we have gear peterson who is the new u.n. envoy to syria arriving in moscow sitting down and having a meeting with sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister this is pedersen's first trip to moscow in this capacity and i think this is really a chance for these people to get to know each other so lavrov in the meeting was trying to impress on get a certain that russia has made numerous achievements as lavrov put a chief ment's in the territory that russia and syria have taken back from the terrorists as he put it achievements in laying the groundwork for the return of refugees and better than present himself was

into syria against kurdish fighters the foreign minister says the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria does not affect chris' operation the gates of kurdish why p.g. and the group has been an important american ally in syria in the fight against isis and her considers wife e.g. a terrorist from dozens of countries are boycotting the inauguration ceremony for venezuela's president nicolas maduro starts his second six year term on thursday overseeing worsening shortages and soaring inflation that's caused latin america's west have a migration crisis as millions of venezuelans escape growing poverty. people . one of the largest in latin america i desperate to say anything to make ends meet . but those who are left here are the survivors because everybody's leaving we're not we're staying and trying to survive in any way we can. street vendors say the government is trying to stop them from making a living the government says the vendors charge too much and that it should be able to control their prices this is it and i meant that over the years this is difficult the government wants

want to be in syria forever. it's sand and it's death donald trump defends his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria plus why life is about to get harder for palestinian prisoners in israeli jails and apple says it expects to lose billions in the coming months and its boss blames the u.s. china trade war. u.s. president donald trump has asked congress to return to the white house on friday after both sides failed to reach a deal to end the partial government shutdown trump said his prepared to let the shutdown go on indefinitely unless he gets funding to build a wall on the border with mexico. for some washington. the garbage cans were overflowing outside the white house on the twelfth day of the partial government shutdown inside the president had convened his full cabinet to extol the virtues of his wall and blame the democrats for a budget impasse that donald trump and said he would take full responsibility for just a few weeks earlier i will be the one to shut it down i'm not going to blame you for he then spoke to the press to be said he was now insisting on five point six bi

a growing dispute with turkey over the future of kurdish fighters in northern syria the president has spoken to turkish leader. on the phone and it follows a tweet from trump on sunday night warning he devastate turkey's economy if its forces attacked the kurds the saudi teenager who fled her family and was granted asylum in canada says she hopes to inspire a change in her first t.v. interview conan says she wants to use her freedom to campaign for others those are the headlines next stop inside story. confronting iran is donald trump's foreign policy obsession he sent his secretary of state to the middle east to drum up support but what action is the united states prepared to take and what will be regional implications but this is inside story. and i welcome to the program i'm nick clegg reassuring allies and talking tough on enemies u.s. sector state might pump a has been touring the middle east to try and win support and put pressure on iran he's pushing for an arab military alliance to counter threats from tehran the aim would be to curb iran's influence in the region from yem

suggesting it will protect the kurds after a syria also by the u.s. on board toss with resolve in the blockade of qatar has resigned. u.s. president dollar trump has made his first oval office address to the nation it was a harsh leewood a speech criticizing democrats for failing to fund the war he wants to build along the us mexico border and painting illegal immigration as an almost existential threat to the united states let's go now to our correspondent mike hanna he's joining us live from washington d.c. there was a lot of attention on this mike being trans first oval office address to the nation it was billed as a big deal did it live up to those expectations. well most observers believe that it did not leave president trump out of that within the last half hour he has been tweeting self-congratulatory tweets he says thank you so many nice comments regarding my oval office speech he goes on to say it was a very interesting experience well certainly democratic opposition did not see it as such they saw it has nothing more than fear mongering and there was a bit of surprise that p

syria a car bomb went off near the entrance to the city of us should be in the house countryside last week four u.s. troops were killed in the attack by fighters. as war. this is significant because this is the second entire on u.s. forces and their allies in northern syria in a matter of a week and this is coming on the heels of president donald trump announcing that he will be pulling out his troops from syria and confirming that isis has been defeated a view that has not been shared by many commanders inside the u.s. military at least for syrian soldiers have been killed in israeli airstrikes on iranian targets in syria video posted to social media appears to show missiles intercepted near damascus russia says during those strikes early on monday syrian air defense destroyed more than thirty cruise missiles and guided bombs on sunday israel said it in the sense that a rocket fired at the golan heights from syria israel's president said the strikes were retaliation against iran. very. close to the an acceptable we should follow formats yes runyan forces from syrian territory this is

southern part of syria so there is a a large degree of complicity between the turkish and the russian presidents but that doesn't mean that they see one hundred percent eye to eye on those issues and i think these kinds of meetings like the six other seven other. personal two way meeting between them the last year are meant to. be an eight that division of labor that they need to do in syria between them when one of us on facebook live elizabeth has asked what is bashar al assad's position on all of this. is it just that bashar al assad's position is the position of russia is that just work is simply is that. well look i mean you know for the last year or two or three since the russians intervened in two thousand and fifteen we saw the syrian opposition basically diminish in terms of its political representation and despite bashar assad's. victories if you will supported by the russians against his own people. unfortunately for him he doesn't have much of a voice much of what we see now going on in terms of the future of syria is happening between four or five none syrian. pow

. we're talking about. that's what we're talking about why the u.s. president thinks syria is a lost cause plus. day of nine hundred thirty million dollars that's a lot of money you know it's free though not bombing it's netflix's criticized after it pulls a comedy show that offended saudi arabia. and novak djokovic has put to the test at the open will be here with that much and more in school. at least thirty one people are dead after days of intense fighting between two armed troops in northern syria it's happening in parts of two provinces aleppo and al-qaeda linked fighters and turkey backed rebel forces are blaming each other for starting the violence it's the west fighting in this part of the country in three months mohammed a doctor has the latest from near the techie syrian border. syrian rule one it does describe the latest spate of fighting the last in mosul syria in the past three months fighters and loyal to the al qaeda affiliated heya to friedel shum are said cut it out an offensive against talk peace block syrian rebels with a view of dividing the free and on the other

in the region from yemen to syria lebanon and iraq compares visits included eight arab countries jordan iraq egypt bahrain u.a.e. qatar saudi arabia and mon and he had this warning the nations of the middle east will never enjoy security achieve economic stability or advance the dreams of their people of iran's revolutionary regime persists on its current course america's economic sanctions against the regime are the strongest in history and will keep getting tougher until iran starts behaving like a normal country well pump as said the arab coalition would include g.c.c. countries as well as egypt and jordan but he raise concerns that the rift between four of the countries and kata would affect the alliance his effectiveness and he called for an end to the dispute. today in our conversations i stressed the importance of unity among the gulf cooperation council members president trump and i both believe the ongoing dispute in the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests our nations do important work and we have important w

reassure washington's allies about the trumpet ministrations plan to withdraw troops from syria national security advisor john bolton says to keep a small target could groups that the u.s. has been arming and training after the americans leave and that demand has angered the president. has more from. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced on twitter the t.v. withdrawing american troops from syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when that withdrawal will take place a day earlier bolton was in israel meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negatively on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkish president's had this to say he's lying done that bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on that point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will receive the necessary lesson there is no difference between the p k k the y p

whether we're talking about iran whether we're talking about syria so with respect to iran you're right we did see this sort of underscoring by the secretary of state this statement that the united states is redoubling its efforts diplomatically commercially to counter iran's malign influence in other words what the secretary of state is saying is look at we haven't shifted our priorities dramatically we've seen that jordan has been very much a partner in trying to make sure that iran does not have a sanctions and we also heard in that same press conference the secretary of state saying look at the united states is still committed to the missions that it signed up for so this is certainly something that's very important not only is he kind of trying to clarify and put a finer point on some of the more confusing statements coming out of donald trump and his twitter feed when he says when he leaves air force one or returning to the white house these are the sort of the folks on the ground with the knowledge now going out into the region as we mentioned this is an eight nation tour jordan

relied on top stories u.s. president donald trump has described syria's war as sand and death while defending his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the country still hasn't provided a timetable for the military exit he announced last month. also a team of u.s. prosecutors is in the turkish capital of ankara to discuss the possible extradition business but. turkey says it is the mastermind behind the twenty sixteen failed coup attempt to overthrow the government and president trump has asked congressional leaders to return to the white house on friday after both sides failed to reach a deal to end the partial government shutdown. to let the shutdown go on until he gets his mexico border war funding. and staying in the u.s. the congress starts its new to us national transfer public and party will have a slightly larger senate majority but democrats will be in charge of the house of representatives as rosslyn jordan reports that priorities will be a challenge to trouble on many levels. new year new session of congress the public's expectations of success are high the american publi

capital as israel says it's hit iranian targets near damascus syria says most of the missiles were intercepted by its air defenses. and i want to have them speak of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up somalia says it's planning a major offensive against the u.s. air strikes killed fifty two of the group's fighters. pitch battles in the greek capital as tens of thousands of people protest a name change deal with macedonia. boss how a licensing law is sounding the death knell for taiwan's ailing traditional medicine industry. a lot of the israeli military has announced the airstrikes on iranian targets in syria video posted to social media reports to show missiles into sept it near damascus on sunday israel said it intercepted a rocket fired at the golan heights from syria. reports from in southern israel. well in a highly unusual move the israeli military is confirming that strikes have been taking place against targets inside syria as the operation has been going on the movie is saying that it's striking iranian quds forces targets inside syrian territory and it is war

settled. now lives in cologne has been learning german and has made himself a home but syria is never far from his mind. although fully and i. can show. you what that has. oh and i. assume. you are a smart one. because she's going to. die but not everything is new he's hung on to the clothes he wore on the long road to get hair delivers confusional or. when to leave night and alicia doors are surely. a sit fever among convention philosophical. maillard keeps in touch with did out who lives in do it and only an hour away by train. the lights. go out and look down the queue. i see. it. every time they meet the memories come flooding back. on their arrival in germany in late june two thousand and fifteen there are was reunited with his wife and now they have the child they want streambed of bringing up and safety. just as with me lad the uprising and the homeland they left behind is never far from there are stuart's indeed these days he works full time for the cause on a website devoted to a free syria. jani mark and other than a charlatan on a land sort of her family can look down my story.

republicans say proposed legislation from the democrats is a no go. fighting intensifies in northern syria at least thirty one people have been killed. protests in the indian state of kara after two women defy an ancient babylon entering a hindu temple. and will visit an exhibit of one of the wilds most famous graphic artists. u.s. president donald trump has asked congressional leaders to return to the white house on friday after both sides failed to reach a deal to end the partial government shutdown trump said he is prepared to let the shutdown go on indefinitely unless he gets funding to build a wall on the border with mexico she had written to reports from washington d.c. . the garbage cans were overflowing outside the white house on the twelfth day of the partial government shutdown inside the president had convened his full cabinet to extol the virtues of his wall and blame the democrats for a budget impasse that donald trump and said he would take full responsibility for just a few weeks earlier i will be the one to shut it down i'm not going to blame you for it he then spoke to the

well as other issues such as syria and counterterrorism. landed in qatar from the united arab emirates after visiting egyptian and behave in his flying to sandy arabia which have all imposed their eighteen month long land and sea blockade on qatar the accused the title funding extremism allegations strongly dismissed by the qatari leaders. america's top diplomat has also visited jordan and is due in amman and kuwait on his middle east jaw it's being seen as an attempt to rally support among key players in the region to counterbalance the growing influence of iran and i don't think that the administration plans for dealing with iran by virtue of trying to organize a larger coalition are going to work simply because most states do not agree with us in our policies canceling the joint comprehensive plan of action that would have prevented iran if implemented from ever attending a nuclear weapon the u.s. is due to host a conference in poland next month to discuss ways to curb iran's activities in the region and ensure middle east stability the us is keen of building a bridge an al

relationship to have full access and. we have the abrasions on especially the situation in syria. about the agreement and it bled agreement and the collateral syria agreement especially. the development on the field that we have assessed. after the withdrawal of all the station of united states we have assessed that decision. serious peace and solidarity. dialogues and cooperation is very important and we will continue. to reach success on that path. we are going to continue on our work and the terror organizations. it's very critical that our organizations don't benefit from a power. vacuum in the region that's turkey our main aim is especially cleansing terror organizations as he why i g y p g and especially. this is our responsibility and i expressed that he is supporting these and here is provoke. provoking these we we know very well. especially terror organizations we have a common fight. we are going to cooperate and we are going to. actually act on our decisions rapidly especially about the constitution committee. is very important and its completion is and we are going to focus

airstrikes on iranian targets in syria video posted to social media reports to show missiles intercepted that damascus russia says during those an strikes syrian military adventures destroyed more than thirty cruise missiles and guided bombs. turkish president says he's ready to take up the control of man but he spoke on the phone to president trump about the u.s. withdrawal from northern syria they agreed on the need for and negotiated settlement and joint steps against christ. and polls have closed in the southern philippines for an historic vote on autonomy holding two million people in mindanao region were asked if they back a plan by separatists in the government to create a self administered area known as fox more. now police in athens have used tear gas to prevent angry protesters from getting into greece's polman building tens of thousands of people rallied against a proposed main chains deal with neighboring macedonia johns or office as this report from the capital. it took only an hour of peaceful protest before a small group of demonstrators clashed with police dec

from syria boston an opinion piece in the new york times over the wants of the process must be done carefully he says only turkey can provide the leadership in the region to create stability there are fears that the u.s. pullout will pave the way for a turkish soldier gets to american and wind kurdish fighters in northern syria. the u.n. special envoy for yemen will brief the un security council on wednesday about his latest trip from griffiths has been in saudi arabia as part of an effort to convince yemen's warring sides to comply with the recent cease fire agreement before going to riyadh he met with the rebels in samara. but u.s. president will make his case for a wall along the mexican border when he addresses the nation on tuesday donald trump wants more than five billion dollars to build the war the democrats are against the idea trump are set to travel to the southern border on thursday the dispute over the funding has led to a part. government shutdown former chairman of car company in the sun has appeared in court in tokyo where he's declared his innocence carlos cuellar i

sees as mixed messages on the u.s. troop pullout from syria. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program north korea's leader is back in beijing ahead of a possible second summit with donald trump. nationwide protests in nigeria's them in strangers' them and a rise in the minimum wage and we report on a controversial scheme to handle moscow's rubbish that is i'm good environmentalists. tell us thank you for joining us a strategic corner of syria that was once a battleground against isaw has again become the focus of tensions this time between turkey and the u.s. washington wants its kurdish allies protected at all costs once its troops leave northeastern syria and that has infuriated the turkish president who says the fighters are nothing but terrorists allied with kurdish separatists in his country . reports now from the turkish capital ankara. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced from. syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about ho

assertion of doing so but yes as you said there are mixed messages from on the question of syria as well that trump after a phone call for. session with the with the turkish president says oh yes yes i will get it with the withdrawal after all it was my. promise during the campaign i need to fulfill my promises we have to get the soldiers out we can do it in thirty days or cannot we do it in two months three months four months we don't know now i would say we're doing prudently we'll take our time we will check with our allies but we need to withdraw our troops confusing because just while bolton on paper are saying we are staying trump are saying the same day we are withdrawing or it's going to be quite a thing to keep across all the lines over the next week it has legs it mowen thanks very much for helping us do it though former chairman of car company in assam has declared his innocence and court in tokyo saying he's been unfairly detained down as accused of underreporting his salary by millions of dollars he was fired by the board of medicine and mitsubishi but kept on by rent well m

withdrawal from syria will now happen slowly this is a crummy announcement last month that all two thousand american troops would be brought home immediately after what they called a victory over eisel. the saudi coalition and the rebels are being accused of stealing and of selling on food aid that's meant for millions of starving yemenis and food agency has threatened to suspend shipments unless the thieving stops. in hong kong pro-democracy activists say they faced an unprecedented demand from the government organizers of of new year of the new year's protests rally but told to prevent protesters from displaying pro independence symbols at government headquarters civil human rights front complied with describe the demand as a threat to freedom of expression. about kryten by two turkish and this is attempting to shed new light on the planning of the murder. it includes details about the preparations by the saudi operatives in the hours before the killing the book also contains previously unseen pictures of the same agents outside the saudi council's residence with bags reportedly

that accuses iraq of posing a threat to israel. today the chaos in iraq has spread into syria entire provinces are beyond the control of baghdad and damascus. and the west has a new enemy the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis also known as dice the united states bears considerable responsibility for the fact that the islamic state exists. but not because the united states intended to create the islamic state rather that the islamic state came into existence as an unintended consequence of this immensely foolish war the americans and the british had they not occupy the country have had they cut of corruption when it started we would not have that the violence has claimed hundreds of thousands of victims day to many and it's up rooted million innocent iraqis in the seventy's you have hundreds of thousands of refugees leaving the area and nobody asks nobody asked what caused this what caused this terrible human catastrophe it was an earthquake and was a typhoon it was an invasion of a country that was reasonably intact when we invaded. the iraqi deception has cost americans almo

his decision to withdraw forces from syria but certainly this is not bold well neither in washington security establishment nor in tel aviv for that matter or jordan or riyadh or other places especially after trump said we would draw the troops and the iran can do whatever it wants to syria well that's not american foreign policy certainly not well thought through statement according to the john bolton's one players of the world so i think they're probably talked into some kind of a new narrative that says we might withdraw our forces militarily but we will remain engaged in the reason politically hence john bolton came to deliver a message to the turkish president saying you can't do anything another in syria without core do you think first with the americans something that sounded very insulting to the turkish president who said look i'm dealing with the american president not with his lieutenants but as you said from istanbul and the turks are correct they said you know why don't you folks in washington agree amongst yourself . and then come and tell us what is it that you really

members of the religious minority in syria who fear for their safety of the u.s. for the draws is true. delays fears of violence and u.s. troops on stand by the disputed presidential election in the democratic republic of congo suffers another setback and i'm. standing up against a so-called slave law unions in hungary call for a national strike against the government's controversial labor reform. united states government shutdown of tracking on for its fifteenth day with another round of negotiations failing to break the deadlock senior troponin astray ssion officials met democratic congressional members but they still haven't found a way to reopen the government is remaining defiant refusing to sign a bill to restore a government until he gets over five billion dollars to build his mexico border wall is live for us in washington d.c. so they have been meeting over the weekend where do things stand now diane. well it doesn't look like these meetings this afternoon saturday gained much headway or bear much fruit and it kind of depends on who you ask vice president mike pence jarrett cu

as the politics gets ever more complicated the human misery of the victims of the war in syria continues a snow storm is now adding to the misery of the more than three million refugees who have fled the conflict in syria snow and ice are blanketing many of the tents and this camp in southern lebanon is bekaa valley for many it's their fourth winter living in makeshift camps with just the plastic sheeting for warmth the lebanese government doesn't allow permanent refugee settlements in this area well still ahead on the al-jazeera. opposition m.p.'s and conservative rebels defeat the u.k. government on preparations for a no deal gregg said and the state of emergency in southern germany where heavy snow storms have left hundreds of people snowden. hallow the snow is falling heavily it's still falling out it still will hold a warning out for southern germany the very now and austria and to friday the driving force of this low pressure area now some scandinavia a cold northerly wind adding to the chills already there on this one contains all the moisture so there's yet more to come

gaza israel's missile defense system is reported to have shot down a rocket fired from syria israeli commanders say the missile was fired from the northern part of the occupied golan heights all of this followed reports that syrian government forces had prevented an israeli air strike which targeted an airport in damascus. with us in the studio in kabul on director of policy analysis at the doha institute for graduate studies and it's nice to have you with us as always more i would think it's worth actually explain to our viewers how israel fits into the syria picture because we know all about the other major players turkey iran even if you want to include hezbollah is how does israel fit in and why is it if this report is true attacking an airport in damascus. there was an agreement between russia and. on how is it i could actually protect its own security since the russian intervention in syria in two thousand and fifteen. according to that agreement the russians would allow the air force to target iranian and has been law targets inside syria when the ball is serious threa

eastern med once more the spell of wintry weather for northern syria and northern iraq for friday. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on saying there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has codebase and a legal protest i'll start to police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice vote for lots of different reasons what's different types of bricks join the global conversation on how does iraq. welcome back here what charges are with me said robin a reminder of all top stories a car bomb has exploded in the northern syrian city of a freen it happened near a base for a rebel group that's backed by turkey this latest attack in syria comes as turkish president reza per the one is in moscow for talks with his russian counterpart. cattles amir shaikh to mean how middle carney says he supports sudan's unity and stability as he met sudan's president omar al bashir in doha bush's visit comes during the longest antigovernment protests of his time i