turkey relies audio of warnings it says were given to the russian fighter jet before it was shot down. ♪ ♪ hello i am darren jordan with the world news from doha. admitting human area was to blame for bombing a hospital in afghanistan. a court in china rejects an a beal by a 71-year-old journalist in prison for leaking state secrets. plus. pope francis begins his first ever tour of africa with a call for healing between different

faiths. ♪ ♪ turkey has released an audio record to go try to prove it did give a warning before shooting down a russian fighter jet. it invited russia's military attach sheas for talks when they were told the crew did not respond to the repeated messag messages. >> turkey and russia have released conflicting versions of what happened. turkey says the russian aircraft flew in to their airspace for 17 seconds, the red line on the map. russia insists it stayed overseer vinnie territory, that's the yellow line. and the russian navigator who survives says no such warning was given. >> translator: there has been no warning given, ninther on the

radio, nor visually no contact whatsoever. so we started the got course as usual. keep in mind the speed of the bomber and of an f-16 fighter jet. >> and russia is sending a long range air defense missile system to its base in syria to protect its jets. the s-400 is the most advanced kremlin which can hit targets up too 400-kilometers away, they have also moved a close cruisere to the coast. our diplomatic editor james bays has the latest no u.n. headquarters. >> reporter: the angry words and very different versions of events are coming from ankara and from mass could you. but other countries watching this are very keen to deescalate the situation because it remains a dangerous situation. they are keen, too, that this should be a dispute between turkey and russia.

a bilateral dispute, not a dispute that widens in to one between russia and all of nato. i am told by diplomats here that they think it's interesting and worth noting the fact that this has not yet been referred to the u.n. security council, russia is a permanent member of the council, any member of the council can request a meeting. turkey could also ask one of its allies on the security council to call a meeting. both have decided not do that for now. and i think that's because, according to diplomats, they believe that would be an escalation if things if it were to come before the u.n. security council. turkish prime minister has warned russia not to attack turkmen in syria under the pretext of fighting isil. their ethnic turks have lived across syria, iraq and, iran for hundreds of years and were the first to take up arms against syrian government forces. stefanie dekker reports. >> reporter: she was forced to leave her home in the turk man

mountains. she says she had to escape attacks by both syrian government forces and the russian air force. more than 300 turkmen families are said to have made the journey over the man in the last few weeks. they have arrived in an area close to southwestern turkey, but the border is closed so they are stuck here. >> translator: we hope we won't have to stay here for long. but at the moment, we need nothing more than for our children to feel safe and secure. >> reporter: the turkmen are ethnic turks who have been living in see ya, iraq and iran for centuries. supported by turkey, they took up arms against president bashar al-assad from the start of the syrian conflict. russia has recently been bombing this area which borders the ancestral homelands of assad. there are no ice i fighters here the mountains are controlled by dirkmen fighters including a group affiliate today al qaeda. >> translator: i was forced to leave my house due to unpress defensed shelling.

but when we arrived we discovered they were bomb this is area too. >> reporter: government leaders had already expressed their frustrations with rauch and it was wrong. i targeting the turkmen. it highlights syria's war with multiple countries backing different armed group. this major diplomatic mission where turkey shot down a russian jet just across the border fighting in the same area has inning tess identified. doctors without borders has condemned the u.s. military report which said human error was behind the bombing of a hospital in afgha afghanistan. the cherry i charity says the rt raises more questions than it answers. it had been taken over by the taliban but they identified the wrong building. and bombed the charity hospital instead. 30 people were killed. jennifer glasse has more from

kabul. >> reporter: eyewitnesses say it was a terrifying tack. in the early morning hours of october 3rd. a u.s. plane rained bombs and bull oats the doctors without borders hospital in kuhn dues. patients burned to death in their beds, staff were decapitated and at least three children were among the 30 people killed in the attack. the commander of u.s. forces says a u.s. investigation shows it was a tragic but avoidable mistake. >> the report determined that u.s. strike upon the trauma center in afghanistan was the direct result of human air kinded by sometimes and procedural failures. the u.s. forces directly involved in this incident did not know the targeted compound was the msf trauma center. >> reporter: doctors without borders had given the u.s. and nato forces exact coordinates of the hospital three days before the strike. campbell said the mistake happened because the attack aircraft was diverted from another mission the on board

electrics malfunctioned the plane veered off course and the crew visually identified the building without fair vying it t was a military target they thought it was another building a few hundred yards away. making the distinction between protected and legitimate targets are the basic tenants of every war. which you learn in basic training. u.s. officials wouldn't say why these tenants were not followed but they did say some involved did not follow the rules of engagement. >> those individuals most closely associated with the incidents have been suspendsed from their duties pending consideration and disposition of ahead minute straight i have and disciplinary matters. >> reporter: doctored without borders asked for an independent investigation. that requires the consents of the united states and afghanistan who believe military investigation are sufficient. >> we are basically left with a catalog of errors of what happened and led to the attack

in kunduz could be percentage, technical, procedural. so today when i look and i just returned from kunduz from last week, and if i have to go back to kunduz and ask my staff can you resume activities, i don't have the full confidence that the history would not repeat itself. >> reporter: u.s. commanders said they would like to help rebuild the hospital. but doctors without borders does not accept donations from governments. and they say they don't want to rebuild until they know this kind of attack won't happen again. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. oa court in china has rejected an appeal by a 71-year-old journalist imprisoned no leaking state secrets, however the court's reduced her sentence from seven years to five. adrian brown has more from beijing. >> reporter: well, no surprise that her appeal has been rejected. but very unusual that the same court has decided to cut her sentence from seven years for five. that is railroad ver very rare .

she is 71 years old and has been a prominent campaigner for human rights and freedom of the media here in china. in april, she was found guilty of passing state secrets to a news organization in hong kong. it was known as document number nine. and was an internal party document outlining what the party feels are the threats at the moment to the party. namely, multi-party democracy and calls for freedom of the media here in china. all, of course, ideas that are very close to her heart. she has served two terms in jail before. just after the 1989 protest when she served a year in jail. and again in the early 1990s when she served a 6-year sentence. now her son has said he doesn't think his mother will survive another long stint in jail. and there have been new calls today from various human rights groups around the world for her to be released.

isil has claimed respond for tuesday attack in tunisia which killed 12 presidential guards. a state of emergency is now in place. a report from tunis now. >> reporter: flowers at the scene of the attack. the wreckage of the bus has been removed, investigators are trying to work out how this could have happened. many tunisians want answers. the bomb went off in the middle of hus rush hour. the target appears to have been the presidential guard. but four members of the puck puc were also injured. >> translator: a dozen people lost their lives. that's weighs too much. true niche an people find their way to coverral but we are not used to this kind of thing. >> reporter: the president has declared a state of emergency. this gives the police swing powers to arrest and detain.

it also means people can't protest or go on strike. and there are restrictions too, on media coverage. >> the state of emergency is actually giving a possibility for security forces, but also justice to be more flexible and more quick in terms of taking actions. >> reporter: in a show of defiance the international film festival will continue its screenings. this individual says tunisians must continue their way of life. >> translator: arts and culture are as important as economy. i hope the government stops the curfew and the film festival can continue. >> reporter: tunisia's tourism industry has been badly damaged after two previous attacks on tourists this year. the country needs investors and visitors to come back soon. that will be difficult now after this. the previous state of emergency and increased security in the country failed to prevent this

latest attack. the tunisian government will have to come up with a new strategy to deal with an armed group clearly capable of hitting one of the most elite forces in the country. right here in the capital. al jazeera, tunis. time for a short break here on al jazeera. when we come back. protests in chicago. as graphic video of the shooting of a black teenager is released. plus the license to kill how police brutality has made brazil one of the most violent countries in the world. more on that in a moment. stay with us. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,

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♪ ♪ welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera. turkey has released an audio record to go try to prove it did give a warning before shooting down a russian fighter jet. but the navigator who survived said they were given no such warning. the u.s. military blamed human error for bombing a doctors without borders hospital last month. it says it was a tramming i can accident. 30 people were killed in what the charity says was a war crime. china has rejected an peel by a 71-year-old woman in prison. however they reduced her sentence from seven years to five. she reported on plans to curtail press freedom among other

things. angela merkel said her country will do more to fight isil. later in the day, hollande is meeting russian president vladimir putin. he's expect to urge for an international coalition against ice and i'll look for a political solution to the syrian crisis. well, earlier the french parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of extending airstrikes against isil in syria. french forces stepped up their air campaign after the assault on paris. it joined the u.s.-led coalition against isil in iraq last year and, expanded in to syria this september. mean while, schools and the under ground metro system have reopened in brussels after four days of lockdown. but the police are still hunting for suspects they believe have been plotting an attack on the city. nearly two weeks after the killings in paris. from brussels here is neave barker. >> reporter: after four days on high alert, brussel is his tentatively lifting some of the most destructive restrictions. most underground metro lines are

open again. returning a semblance of normality to the morning commute. the people are still ankl anxio. >> of course we have to be careful. because any moment something can happen. danger is everywhere. >> reporter: below and above ground, there is still a level i military and police presence. the vehicles pulled over for random checks. a thousand extra personnel have been called in to patrol brussels and other belgian cities. every few minutes a reminder that this is a country hunt for this remaining suspects in the pair ace at. along with people who may be planning more. as well as the metro system, schools and universities have reopened also but the government has maintained the highest security level, level number four which basically means that an attack is viewed as imminent. the government says it's not just playing it safe, it's acting on credible intelligence. belgian has issued an international arrest warrant for this man, mohamed, he was seen

driving a car used in the paris attacks. but despite several raids and multiple arrests, there is still little progress in the manhunt for 26 yearly sale abdeslam. thought to be one of the paris gunmen, police believe he may have still been wearing an explosive vest when he escaped. at brussels free university student are arriving back on campus. armed police stand guard. and the mainly prairie remains closed. here students try to make sense of the chain of global events that suddenly, without warning, have had such a big impact on their ordinary lives. >> maybe in a few weeks there will not being cops in the streets but the threat will still be present. it's not just in the media, it's real. >> reporter: the government says

the alert level will remain at the maximum for at least another week: the price of keeping europe safe. but many question how long this can last. neave barker al jazeera, brussels. there have been more protests in chicago after the release i've video showing a white police officer shooting dead a black teenager last year. several hundred people have been hold being a largely peaceful demonstration. officer jason van dyke has been charged about first degree murder for killing the 17 year olds. the police said they were threatened by the 17-year-old who refuse today drop a knife. a local opposition leader has been shot dead. luis manuel diaz was at an event ahead of next week's congressional elections. several activist have his been hurt by government support nurse recent days, a charge the government denies. more than 85% of the world's most violent cities are located in the lat even america, according to a mexican think

tank which tracks crime figures, brazil is home to some of the most dangerous yo urban mayors,e have a report where police brutality is blame today many deaths. >> reporter: murder in the streets of sao paulo. witnesses say 21-year-old died while trying to rob a passing car. his friends say he was a they've but didn't deserve to be killed. >> translator: instead of stopping the robbery the police shot him. >> reporter: hundreds of kilometers away, she can't overcome the pain. she says her son was not a they've, but he was also killed by police in august. >> translator: they shot him, then kicked him and shot him again. they said he is a criminal and must die. >> reporter: even though sao paulo is one of the least violent states in brazil. people fear the police. this is the moment when masked police killed 19 men and women

in august in sao paulo, only eight of 22 police involved in the killings have been detained. brazil says police killed more than 3,000 people in 2014. now very few cases make to court, but when they do the majority of the officers are acquitted. brazilian police force has a history of brutality and impunity. a group demands justice after police killed her son and 504 other young men during a week of raids in now mow 20006, 59 police also died then. >> translator: we demand that the state acknowledge its mistake. and ask for forgiveness. because our children were killed by the state. >> reporter: only one policeman was condemn ed in this case. police told al jazeera it has cut the number of people it kills by nearly 8% in one year. through training and supervising police operations.

but critics say this is not enough to change a culture of violence. a recent poll says half of brazil's population do not condemn police brutality. giving police an unspoken license to kill. al jazeera, sao paulo brazil. pope francis has called for healing between christians and muslims as he begins his five-day african tour in kenya. [cheering and applause] >> cheering crowds welcomed the lead are the of roman catholic church. kenya and uganda where the pontiff will continue his tour have both been attacked by al-shabab. the roman catholic church has continued to grow in african. it's dominance in some countries being challenged by many religious especially i van gel cat christianity. cathery soi reports.

>> reporter: she has been a remember of the roman catholic search for 37 years. she has sung in the choir for most of her adult life and hopes her children will keep the faith. she's one of the close to 2 million catholics in africa. >> translator: i know there are many other churches that are moore, siting and where people might want to move to. but we stay here because of the faith. >> reporter: this form he priest says he was excommunicated because he bought a piece of land. he is now married and is a bishop at a breakaway church which is not recognized by the vatican. >> we are called [ inaudible ] we review to tow the line to be blind we have decided to follow the bible the way it is. and they are not following. yes, because of that some of them appear to hate us.

>> reporter: the pope is shaking up things in the church. he has allowed priests to absolve women who confess for abortion, made it flexible for catholics who are devote to take holy communion and he hasn't endorsed s homosexuals he hasn't condemned them eitherrer. even as the church tries to conform if pattern tied, faith must make sacrifice. >> it's not easy. and people have to struggle. we have to struggles and work for our faith. >> reporter: the church is also facing fierce competition. other religious groups, besides islam, now the religion for almost one in three africans, the mainstream church is also up against the evangelicals and meant costals which are feeding

in to the africa's love of music, dance and self expression. >> we help people to understand god in a way that is the real god. that is there for you right now. and is able to be there for you right now. it'it's not about something that will happen when you die. >> reporter: despite competing denominations and conflicting ideals within the church. catholicism is growing in the continent. the last 35 years the number of catholics here has risen more than threefold which makes africa one of the most important continent says for the future of the catholic church. catherine soi, al jazeera, nairobi. now, streets are flooded and cars are under water after heavy rain in saudi arabia. people took photographs of the unusually wet weather. flooding forced the closure of some roads in the capital are yoriyadh, schools were close toy the third day in a row.

now, the u.n.'s weather agency says 2015 will be the hottest year on record. it's just a few days until a crucial climate change summit in the french capital paris. 200 countries will meet to try to hammer out an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. the u.n. wants a deal which will help stop temperatures rising more than two degrees above preindustrial era levels. >> for us we need long-term goals. the long-term goal is clear he e have to [ inaudible ] in the protocol because now two degrees are nothing -- in the protocol, they are a declaration in cancun and we must enshrine it as a global binding objective for all of the parties of the convention. a palestinian teenager has died from his injuries after being shot by israeli troops earlier this month. so far 91 palestinians and 15

israelis have been killed since the latest wave of violence broke out in october. many other palestinians have been left with serious injuries by israeli gunfire. we have a report from the occupied west bank. >> reporter: he has been lying in bed for two months, he is now semi paralyzed. he suffers from memory loss and his speech is slurred. >> translator: nobody knows where i was picked up. i can't remember much. i was hit by a gun on the head. and after that, i can't remember anything. whoever goes there doesn't know what will happen to him. >> reporter: mohamed was captured by members of the israeli military who infiltrate aid protest. this video shows him bleed from the head and dragged biplane cloapghted soldiers during a confrontation. it's young people like him, teenagers and students who are at the forefront of the unrest across the occupied west bank. >> they know what's happening they get involved, they see

around them. they feel, [ inaudible ] but being deprived of everything in your life in fact. what's your dream? >> reporter: dreams are something mohamed has already lost at the age of 17. he was shot with a steel-coated rubber bull net his leg during a protest in bethlehem. >> translator: i am still a minor. why did they forbid me to go study abroad. i am still young, he know nothing of this world. why did they take my dream away from me. every day it's like this. every day they raid our refugees camp. every day you expect to be detained. we are always worried at home. my mother cries all the time. it's not fair. >> reporter: the wounded usually appear as a figure in statements. but behind each number is a name and a face and for those who end up here, injuries that will take a long time to heal. israel uses a term neutralize when referring to the wounded. the military told al jazeera

that it means to stop someone from complete their actions and to block the threat. but many are disabled for life, like mohamed who at 19, has lost the use of one hand and can barely take a few steps. >> translator: the stones are not having any impact on the soldiers, we are the ones paying the price, stones are useless. the most difficult thing is to see my mother suffering because of me. >> reporter: he was supposed to graduate from high school next summer. instead the road to recovery is as challenging as ending the occupation he was fighting against. al jazeera, in the occupied west bank. now, u.s. president barack obama has spared two turkeys from being served up as part i've white house thank giving feast. the bird says name honest and abe will now go to turkey hill an historic farm in virginia. u.s. presidents have been pardoning turkeys in a tradition that goes back 68 years, the

first family also served a thank giving meal to a group of momentless people. and a quick reminer that you can keep up-to-date with all the news on our website. there it is on your screener the address, of course, aljazeera.com. that's aljazeera.com. game down? >> absolutely not, no one was slowing the train down. >> and the white house trying to rein them in today. thank you for joining us i'm joie chen. tonight a look at crime, justice and what may prove president obama's last major campaign. an all-out effort to force change in the criminal justice system. a key part reducing the sentences that many consider excessive for minor drug crimes. much identified is ied