>> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> we cannot close our eyes to tanks that are crossing the border from russia and coming into ukraine. >> flying in to support ukraine u secretary of state john kerry arrives as fighting intensifies in the east. >> also coming up on the program, an historic moment for tunisia, parliament approved a new unity government. >> the european bank tightens the screws and lending to

athens. >> in berlin, the film festival is getting underway. find out what the organizers did or didn't do to upset north korea. that's coming up later. >> the u.s. secretary of state says russian aggression poses the biggest threat to peace in ukraine. secretary of state john kerry offered support to president poroshenko. the french president hollande and german chancellor angela merkel arrived for talks. >> we talked about the harmest threat that ukraine faces today and that is russia's continued aggression in the east. there's no other way to call it. >> we highly appreciate the

united states invaluable support to our nation and our people through all the time of ukraine independence. the support has become most evident viewed in russian aggression on crimea and on donetsk. the beyond leading role in consolidation of the plans of solidarity in support of ukraine is critical for pushing of the peaceful solution. we are grateful for the consistent engagement of the state department and you personally mr. secretary, into this effort. >> let's hear now from our correspondent with the latest from moscow. >> president putin on paper at least in his statements will say much the same as john kerry was just saying exempt for the facts of course, that he would resolve himself and russia of any blame that kerries been pointing for the conflict and what's going

on. he will again deny that russia has arms or military material in ukraine. he will deny that border is being used as sort of a porous membrane by which all this material can get across and he will say that it's the ukrainian army that is setting all the environment, really, the conditions for the failure of the minsk peace agreement not the separatists and certainly not russia. putin has never stopped saying that the minsk agreement should be the framework for a ceasefire in ukraine. what putin says, though is that russia has never ceased upholding it, it's ukraine that is to blame for that, not moscow. >> the arab spring may be a distant memory for many countries, but moving forward parliament approved a knew unity

government. we have this report. >> this is a moment tunisia's parliament agreed on a new government. it wasn't an easy decision for many of these members. it will be a coalition government. the opposition will be small and weak but tunisia's next prime minister says it's the only option. >> we're all invited. the government and political parties, national organizations and civil society to work hard hand-in-hand to open the doors of hope. >> most of the ministers are from tunis the biggest party. a small number are from it's named political and ideological rival. >> they seem to put aside their differences on how much influence religion should have on state affairs and focusing on

issues they agree on. >> like improving the economy. that's a priority. she renovated this historical building into a boutique hotel. she wants to see more economic reform. >> i think there are tremendous investment opportunities in tunisia in almost every sector and a lot of educated youth to create jobs for so i think the priority would be to make the administrative process a lot smoother for startups. >> tunisia doesn't have the as he can tearian or ethnic divide that's been a problem elsewhere in this region, but there are security threats here. there's a fear violence in libya might spill over the border, and the government said there are thousands of young tunisians fighting for isil. >> the vice president of parliament said the country

needs unity. >> we agreed that this is a phase we are passing through of dialects agreement and harmony. we should all agree for the interests of the country. >> for some tunisians the new government is a threat to democracy, for ours offers stability. most people here say they're willing to give it a chance to prove it can change things. al jazeera tunis. >> the french president hollande is providing weaponry and support to three african nations fighting boko haram after the armed group crossed nigeria into cameroon wednesday killing more than 100 residents. it happened in a town right on the border. witnesses say the fighters came from a nigeria town close by. gomboro is connected by the bridge there on the right. tuesday, boko haram fighters suffered a heavy defeat there. cad soldiers killed 200 of them

and drove the others out. com ruin and chad have recently taken on boko haram which wants an islamic state in northern nigeria. let's speak now to the cameroon minister of communications, on the phone now. thank you very much indeed for joining us. it is getting an increasingly serious situation, these attacks are increasing in number and in ferocity. >> i want to emphasize the fact that we are very much the head of state and international community to come together. many have problem, boko haram is

a spread of disease cancer, which we call boko haram. many people killed by boko haram, according to our understanding were slaughtered or killed. they burned down a mosque, as well. >> what do you want the international community to do, sir? >> >> what we want the international community to do is to understand that this problem cannot be hidden from by cameroon or the front line countries. we need cameroon and nigeria we need intelligence, we need equipment which will enable us to face this armed terrorist

group. coming from the united states, african union and countries including france, great britain europe to help us work out the problem that we will put at the disposal of the african union whip will increase the security council in order to give us the -- and any country to help us so that we can eradicate boko haram. >> you are saying that the regional countries are not capable of taking on the might of boko haram? >> our military have always been

protecting our frontier, our borders. right now, there is no -- ready to fight to the last drop of their blood to protect the nation but this doesn't mean we have been successful in eradicating boko haram. the reason why we have to ask them to eradicate boko haram the african union have decided to stand in the front 7,500 troops. we need information we need equipment, also to increase efficiency. >> are you calling for just information and equipment as you say or do you also want boots on the ground? >> well, we need to understand

that boko haram is an outgrowth of international terrorism. they are hiding behind religion to pretend that they are in touch we are dealing with terrorist groups. there is international rad occasion. we don't know who are providing them with equipment who are providing them money who are providing them with many things, but the reason why we say that we need the international community as the international community is doing the attempting to address terrorism problem around the world leaving boko haram in nigeria and cameroon to help us deal with this problem. >> we appreciate your time. that's the cameroon minister of communication. thanks very much. >> greece and germany's finance

ministers agreed to disagree after their first meeting with the greek bailout. in berlin to face one of the greece's toughest critics. wednesday, visiting the european central bank to try to gain support for his government's anti austerity view. the e.u. will no longer allow greece to use the national debt for loans. >> the meeting did not go well, saying we didn't even agree to disagree. he said we didn't discuss greece said death. he stated the well known german line that it is important, he said that agreements are adhered to. we the german government have

gone as far as we're able to go in negotiations. he is referring of course to the agreements that have been signed by previous governments not austerity measures that were under discussion in september when the previous government fell. however, this was not an unforeseen outcome. the meeting did not start under terribly auspicious signs with the german government wednesday night releasing a statement calling on the greek government to simply retract statements made after its election victory january 25 and commit to enforcing a program it ran against in the election campaign and of course the greek side saying that to do so would be to numb the election result, so it is not surprising that the two men have not seen eye to eye at least to this point in the negotiations. essentially, the greek side is saying we need to discuss the entire structure of the program because the debt that greece has to carry is over the longer term

unsustainable. the germans saying we may or may not be willing to discuss that but you have to first commit to everything the previous governments committed to. >> rescuers are still searching for the missing after a plane crashes into a taiwan river. >> al jazeera journalist peter greste thanks his supporters and appeals for the release of his colleagues still jailed in egypt.

>> the u.s. secretary of state

said the united states cannot close its eyes to russian tanks entering eastern ukraine. john kerry is in kiev speaking with president pet row sheen co about the growing violence. the french president hollande and german chancellor angela merkel are traveling to kiev on thursday. >> tunisia's parliament video in favor of a unity government. some fear there is no longer a real opposition. >> greece and germany's finance ministers agreed to disagree after their first meeting about the greek bailout. in berlin, facing one of berlin's toughest critics. greek banks will no longer be able to use government debt at collateral for loans. >> jair, shelling has hit damascus and other nearby districts. syrian state media reports 50 are dead, dozens injured and are

being teen surrounding hospitals. rockets came from a group known as the army of is slam. the leader of the group of said the she will is in response to government attacks in eastern syria. stephanie decker reports from beirut in lebanon. >> a significant attack on the syrian capitol, 50 rocket and mortars landed around 7:30 in the morning. people telling of a real sense of fear. this is unusual the capitol has been relatively safe throughout this conflict, the occasional mortars raining down, but a washing on tuesday that damascus was now a military zone and there would be retaliation for the government besieging and bombardment. the fighting around the capitol intensified also along the lebanon border, having a significant impact also on the syrian rev gees seeking shelter heral the border with syria.

>> they've been given 24 hours to leave but have nowhere to go. >> the army told us we have to leave. they said the tents have to be removed all along the border. they gave us no reason. they told us a week go, and people thought maybe they won't go through with it. they came back now and gave us only one day. >> this makeshift camp has been home to 200 families of syrian reef gees and some workers here before the war. it's on the border with syria in lebanon and battles across the border are intense filing. we are told the fighting is 10 kilometers behind these mountains. you can often hear it from here. this is why the lebanese army said that this entire border area isn't safe and why all these people now have to leave. >> local officials support the decision to move the syrians. >> this is a security decision. the army is suspicious from some

of these people, so they are taking precautions. we are directly on the bored we are syria. the syrian army and armed men are causing problems for the lebanese state. we don't know who is who. they are made to leave for their own safety. if the early carries out military operation these people will be in the crossfire. >> some u.n. staff showed up to register everyone forced to leave. they tell us they don't have enough international support no aid and no money to deal with the more than 1.5 million syrians now seeking shelter in lebanon. these people are desperate. >> this man asks where am i supposed to go? do they want me to go to the moon? do we become terrorists? look at my daughter. where am i supposed to take her? there is no justice.

he tells us he has land in syria and hasn't seen his family in four years but they cannot go back. one family's story among hundreds of thousands of ears left alone with no money, no dignity, and powerless to change their fate. al jazeera on the lebanese syrian border. >> jordan's king is in the hometown of a murdered air force pilot who was killed by isil, paying his respects to the family of muath al-kaseasbeh. the debt pilots father has called for his son's death to be avenged. jordan executed two convicts in retaliation. >> a plane wreckage has been lifted from the water. 31 of the 58 people onboard were killed. we have more from the crashing site. >> slowly the wreckage of

transair flight 235 is how would and you have the water. search teams are not looking for survivors, but for bodies. many are still missing. the twisted and tangled parts of the plane are slowly recovered from the fast-moving waters of the river. overnight, industrial cranes were brought to in lift the main fuselage out of the water. it took two hours in freezing conditions. up to 1,000 emergency and military personnel were involved at the height of the rescue. the a.t.r.72 turboprop was on a routine flight from taipei's secondary airport to the island. this footage shows the plane as it dived, clipped the highway and two taxis then plunged into the river below. progress to retrieve all parts of the plane and victims is slow. the military have built a huge pontoon help to go bring wreckage to the surface. divers are using it to support

their search efforts. >> parts of the plane wings are still underwater. we're unable to pull out the wreck only, because the current is very fast today. >> teams of divers have been scouring the surface and bed of the river. they've been working around the clock in teams of up to six diving in short periods in the icy waters. they found the wing, a vital piece of the puzzle. the chilling last words between the cock pits and control tower were released to the public. >> while the search continues for those that are still missing, the investigation can begin. the flight data recorders were recovered from the crash site, as has most of the wreckage. they may hold vital clues as to what caused flight ge235 to crash. al jazeera taipei.

>> al jazeera journalist peter greste has spoken about relief of being released and joy of returning to his family after spending 400 days in an egyptian prison. speaking to the press in brisbane he thanked all those who worked for his freedom. we have this report. >> it was just after midnight in brisbane when peter greste landed back on australian soil. 45 minutes later he emerged to cheers and hugs. he was, he said ecstatic and his thoughts of colleagues left behind. >> this feels absolutely awesome to be here with my family, with you guys, but of course, this is all tempered and i'm going to say this a million times this is tempered by a real worry for my colleagues, mohamed fahmy baher mohammed. >> he is a free man and at home. on thursday at a more formal

press conference surrounded by his family, he talked about how his family's support and knowledge of the global campaign to free him and his colleagues helped get him through. >> you always have the dark days. i often closed my eyes and let my mind drift to where it wand to go and almost in variably, it went to the beach and to the coast of the sea in some form. we andrew mike and my sisters in law we all went sailing in 2013 on sundays and i always went back to those days on the boat. >> in cairo, it was fellow prisoners to helped. >> i want to pay credit to my colleagues. we would support one another very very directly. we knew that people would have their ups and -- excuse me, their up days and down days and we are very careful at helping one another out, listening to one another talking to one

another, supporting one another and giving space when we needed it. we've all grown very close as a result of this process as a result of this experience. >> the same deportation law that saw peter freed from jail is an option for mohamed fahmy. he has announced his egyptian citizenship as part of the effort to send him to canada. baher mohammed is expected to stay behind bars until his retrial starts. while in prison, the father of three missed the birth of his son born last august. his wife can't understand why he shouldn't be freed too. >> i don't know why he's still in prison. i really don't know. his colleagues are being released. they were declared innocent. the new law was only made to set

the foreigners free to give them an opportunity to leave jail. for him being an egyptian, the price he has to pay is he's still in jail for being an egyptian. >> the scenes in brisbane were ones peter peter greste hopes will be repeated soon. >> peter greste is back. he'll celebrate with his family after interviews, but his thoughts very much with his colleagues, two al jazeera journalists still unfairly behind bars. al jazeera brisbane. >> peter greste back home in australia. >> the film festival getting attention can be a good thing but attracting the anger of north korea was not part of the plan all because of a mistake on pyongyang's part. we explain all. >> they love a drama at the berlin film fest very many but as this year's gets underway,

they've been at the center of their own. sony knows how that feels hacked and humiliated, remember, allegedly by his people, and all because of this, the movie "the interview" mocking north korea's kim i don't think unand the fallout from hollywood to here. this is why. >> "the interview" goes on general release here in berlin thursday, but north korea got the city of berlin and the berlin film festival confused, seeing them at one single entity. it was not happy. it described the showing at terrorism and vowed vengeance for the who humiliation. the exact words were merciless punishment. this man the boss here had to race to the north korean embassy and say you've got this all wrong, it has nothing to do with me or the berlin festival, it's just a coincidence and it's opening the same day. pyongyang did eventually pull back privately. aside from that, there is plenty

more to see on screen. the golden bear is the big prize they're competing for with everything from chile to chamber maids to cinderella on show. iran is doing it without their director here. he is banned from making films until 2030 after he upset his government. taxi is in with a real shout for the top priced, as he watches from home in tehran. >> he doesn't stop, because that's what he's doing. easy making films expressing himself via film. he needs to make them and he will never stop. the film he makes are great and for us a great way of promoting his work to the world. >> over the next 10 days, the movie world will watch. the crowds will freeze, trying to watch. and even north korea will be keeping an eye to make sure the crowds keep looking at this, and not this. al jazeera, of the berlin film festival.

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