i take their training very seriously. if. china's property. fields become cities rivers water pumps forests lungs mostly empty. brings international before. the thriving metropolis and the mic the only. time. a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. turkey's military all the move into syria and a new operation across the border. i'm

richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha coming up. celebrations on the streets palestinian political rival some awesome strike a reconciliation deal after a decade of disagreement. families freed after being kept captive for five years by a group linked to afghanistan's taliban. dozens of police are sacked in colombia after the killing of farm workers we look at how the drug trade is still an obstacle to peace. a convoy of turkish troops has entered northern syria and a new military operation that's after turkey said it was sending in troops to enforce a deescalation so it's part of an agreement between turkey which backs rebel forces and iran and russia which support the government turkish media is reporting the

armor groups carrying troops crossed into syria is it live province late thursday. has more from the talkie along turkey's border with syria. this is what we know so far dozens of military vehicles have crossed into syria we know from different sources that the turkish military i was stationed in an area called all of the western outskirts of the province of idlib or however we know that their final destination is going to be of this is part of a deal that was signed between russia iran and turkey to implement the deescalation zone in italy it remains to be seen what will happen to hey attempt to have fighters the formal after you have the other ones will control they're going to put up a resistance to this whole operation are they going to pull out are you going to hand over their weapons but we're going. hearing from sources that he had to his shame is now he's courting the turkish military convoy as it was into syria that many

challenges here first of all turkey needs to implement the deescalation so they have to ensure that nobody engages any fighting in the near future of a second challenge is basically the kurdish factions operating a lot far from where the turkish military is the nation. in syria turkey said in the past that it considers all parties factions particularly s.d.f. and they wipe e.g. a terrorist organization and that it won't allow them expand further to words of the western part of what's to words the military and so these are going to be the most important challenges facing the turkish military as it moves now deeper into syria i mean barky a professor of international relations at lehigh university he says turkey's latest move is as much about regional politics as it is about sending a warning shot to the united states. what the turks are trying to do is also send a message to washington saying look we can now hit the s.d.f. and their y.p.

g.'s are to choose to syria not eyes or the united sates fighting isis. he says and sitting in the crowded front which is composed mostly of the country's fighters go to i.p.g. so by going in they will be very close to wipe egypt was issues enough strength in the turkish press and the turkish government has been talking now for two weeks about how they plan to go in and then go after the us why p.g. what are they to do that and to create a major problem was united states because the united states needs a white beaching to fight isis and to finish the isis threats in syria i suspect that the turks will do anything at the moment but this is not they have because they came to play against united states and have another kind that they confront the united states with a shipment united states and turkey is very tense at the moment twenty car bombings in northeast syria have killed at least thirty five people the attacks reportedly

happened at a checkpoint set up by the syrian democratic forces south of the city syria's government news agency says the bombings targeted civilians fleeing areas and there i saw patrol in torrance or dozens of others were injured isolates being blamed for the attack elsewhere in syria ceasefire deals been reached that could end the siege at rebel held areas south of damascus the agreement brokered by cairo and moscow includes three opposition factions but it doesn't specifically mention the syrian government or eisel which holds an area just outside the capital the deal laos for humanitarian access but not the relocation of civilians or fighters. palestinians in gaza and the occupied west bank have been celebrating a reconciliation deal between fatah hamas the rival factions decade long rift in places gaza and the west bank under one government for the first time since two thousand and seven. reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. in

a grand hall of the egyptian intelligence headquarters. officially signed on to egypt's grand plan for palestinian reconciliation after a decade of division both sides expressed hope that this time. there has been full agreement on empowering the government. the legitimate palestinian government will return to working normally in accordance with its prerogatives and the law. despite the fact that we have some different views different political points we have different disputes but this will never change the fact that we are brothers we are brothers in religion we are brothers in nationality we are brothers in the national interest we suffer the same we have the same future we need to find a way for a unity of our people to secure. this isn't the first time they've been here repeated attempts to reconcile have failed a main stumbling block the future of hamas his military wing appears for now to

have been set aside. palestinian authority security services are to resume running gaza's border crossings including the vital one with egypt and other issues how to run internal security and merge two separate groups of government workers are being addressed step by step along the lines of a twenty eleven agreement also signed with great fanfare in cairo. here in ramallah the palestinian president mahmoud abbas welcomed the deal saying it accelerated palestinian reconciliation delegation head indicated its timelines and targets would ensure that it stayed on track and of course it has egypt breathing hard down the necks of both parties in gaza so damaged by the split the economic blockade and three israeli wars people are talking cautiously in terms of hope. when we used to hear about any reconciliation efforts we would think immediately of the failure of it but we hope this time is different unity could at least solve the power crisis and bring happiness to the gazan people. we've had enough

eleven years of suffering without electricity no medicine for people no travelling we want to live like other nations. so far the israeli reaction has been muted saying hamas would need to recognize israel and give up its arms but without the full bore opposition of previous reconciliation attempts an international push for palestinian reconciliation led by the us who is much more interested in the so-called big deal between the palestinians and israelis and without palestinian reconciliation this deal might not go forward in gaza celebrations were underway not least of the prospect of an end to restrictions on salaries and electricity imposed by the palestinian authority earlier this year to put pressure on hamas but it's clear that this is the start of a process the coming weeks will feature plenty of opportunities to build mutual trust or weaken it very force it in the occupied west bank. the united states and

israel are pulling out of you know sco the united nations cultural agency washington said the move follows what it describes as the need for fundamental reform in the organization and also continuing anti israel bias that it says it's a shame the u.s. with that is withdrawing because it's a founding member of the organization i express my deep regret. i remember what i said in two thousand to eleven already when the united states alone states voting rights and suspended payment to the united states might be for you in a school and you know this whole united states in fact if you go back into history we will see not only that. united states is a founding member of the whole idea that you can build peace through education science a couch your communication. is basically an american idea so exactly what is

the united nations educational science and cultural organization was founded at the end of the second world war with the aim of promoting peace and security through international collaboration projects so to achieve those. you know scope promote education programs scientific and historical research and cultural diversity in an effort to preserve important ideas and also architecture but it's probably most recognized for its famous branding a world heritage sites there are one thousand and seventy three around the world. as co-founder of the online palestinian news organization electronic intifada he believes israel and united states use u.n. agencies to push their own agendas. israel and the united states have been impeding the work as you know just as they impede their work because of the un agency which they see soleus vehicles to push israel's and the us agenda so it is of course symbolic is as israel's desire to push its agenda of colonize

ation and occupation but i think a lot of people of the well will say good riddance to the united states a good riddance to israel and would like to see israel withdraw from more you and agencies rather than using them as vehicles to try to push its legal gender its occupation of colonization of palestinian land so i say i welcome israel's announcement that will pull out and courage israel to go further and pull out of the united nations altogether pakistan's army has rescued a family held captive by the haqqani network an organization ally into the afghan taliban and the army says canadian joshua boyle his american wife and coleman and their three children are afraid and a tribal district along the pakistan afghanistan border after a tip off by u.s. intelligence agencies they were kidnapped in afghanistan in two thousand and twelve

while they were backpacking following their release the u.s. praised the cooperation of the pakistani government and we still have american hostages held by the haqqani network and so again this was a good development and we thank them for it but it's a good sign for the future. hyder has more from islamabad. an intelligence operation. able to recover all five. including mr boyd. american wife children they were under the custody of the. when they were. backpacking the family. and the american they appreciate don however all this happening at a time when friction between islamabad and washington.

changed in the u.s. . but the blog astonished retching that day were nor did allow any foreign troops to operate in any joint operation inside. and they would of course. appreciate any actionable intelligence. operation inside their own. more than one hundred police officers and columbia had been fired in connection with the killing of at least six protesting farm workers then were demonstrating over the removal of coca crops by police during a confrontation and the rural southwest earlier this month. reports. a week or so passed by the remains unclear what prompts colombian police opened fire on these farmers protesting against the removal of coca crops in the southwest of the country. outdoor it is in students held a commemoration for the victims in the center of the town of. the state governor

says he warned the central government of the growing tensions in the region. we cautioned that the forced eradication would have brought this tragedy we deeply mourn the death of these six farmers but also a policeman who died in a previous protest these are children of the same groups of people confronting each other people the war our country wants to overcome persists in our territory to marco is a sprawling municipality in colombia specific coast with the highest concentration of coca crops in the country drug traffickers in one time far of rapidly fill the void left by the good of the group which signed a peace deal a year ago as part of the deal the government started. substitution programs many farmers have but implementation so far has been extremely slow and at the same time. raising pressure by the united states to wipe away as many coca

plants as possible to force eradication which triggered the conflict. members of the african community council of who signed up for substitution are now in hiding in a safe house and. they say they are under threat by drug traffickers for resisting pressure to participate in the protests. one person spoke to us but asked not to be named. leave me alone the government chose a firm commitment to avoid violence against the farmers and brings the real solution to all these issues this is the way she will keep going out of control we believe it's already exploded and it's showing that at least here the peace deal is failing but the government suspended four officers for firing into the crowd and reassigned one hundred others an official report on what happened in two marcos expected next week whatever the findings the incident underlines at least one fact

the drug trade here remains one of the most significant challenges to peace. still ahead on al jazeera a crackdown on opposition protests why the kenyan government says it is necessary plus. amanda gallacher no wonder where more than thirty thousand puerto ricans arrived to escape hurricane maria we're looking at how recovery efforts are going and reaction to president trump's like his tweets. by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello and welcome back now a look at weather across eastern parts of china and the philippines you can see this circulation this is developing a tropical cyclone which is going to some really heavy rain across the philippines

and then eventually it's going to push its way towards vietnam laos where you've had deadly flooding in recent days from a tropical storm system and this one could cause similar sort of problems elsewhere at the moment weather conditions are going to be fine little bit of rain for shanghai for the south and hong kong expected to be largely dry and there you can see the system moving further towards the west during the course of saturday still dry and in hanoi about states in terms of thirty scattered showers across and meum are some heavy ones are likely here heading down into southeastern parts of asia well for more southern parts of the philippines we've got better weather conditions here so look at the forecast still around some showers still across malaysian borneo looking a bit drier for both highs of thirty three that. and then moving up through the. singapore and kuala lumpur southern parts of thailand looking to see some heavy showers at times into the monsoon. withdraw still

a chance of showers in one thirty three. there with sponsored by. china's property. becomes. river want to. have an. eyewitness documentary at this time. with.

you watching al-jazeera le take out the top stories this hour a convoy of turkish troops has entered northern syria and a new military operation ports in turkey say the troops want to force a deescalation zone and rebel held in the province. palestinians in gaza and the occupied west bank have been out on the streets celebrating a reconciliation deal between the tie. the agreement ends the rival factions decade long with them places gaza and the west bank under one government for the first time since two thousand and seven. the u.s. and israel are pulling out of unesco the united nations cultural agency they accuse the government of organization rather of having an anti israel bias and eating financial reform. manned mars later on sponsored she has called for national unity and in the dress to the nation on the right hand to refugee crisis she is under increasing international pressure over her failure content condemn the army for alleged abuses against the right more than half

a million escaped to bangladesh since the crackdown began in late august so she says he's holding talks with bengal dash about returning summer handed to me and maher. we are now negotiating with the government of bangladesh on the matter of accepting those who are now in bangladesh since our independence we have twice successfully negotiated with bangladesh on the issue based on the success which additions we are now negotiating for the time problem will have asked more from me and mark. well for the bulk of the speech and censored she announced that they want to start rehabilitating bringing humanitarian aid assistance and rebuilding state where the conflict that military operations against the road is taking place but also perhaps the strangest part of the speech is that she called on donations from the public to help with that and endeavor basically calling on people to donate to rebuild the homes that have just been destroyed by

this military operation now as we know this these operations are ongoing just yesterday on wednesday the un's human rights chief called on the military to stop its operations in iraq and state a damning report about the campaign in iraq and say calling it a well organized coordinated and systematic campaign to expel the row hinge or and prevent them from ever coming back to me in march and includes testimony about indiscriminate killings mass rapes and the burning of homes very homes now that i'm so sweet she wants people to donate in order to see them rebuilt on this international criticism and sense that she didn't say all that much except that she said that we need to understand that there's international criticisms but that nobody knows me in my better than we do and that nobody wants development of mean

maher more than we do so really address wednesday's report by the un's human rights chief. final preparations are under way in thailand for ceremonies marking one year since the passing of king bhumibol age hundreds of thousands of mourners are expected to camp near bangkok's grand palace where the late king is lying in state that comes ahead of his crew nation ceremony later this month to month which will mark the end of the official mourning period came will evolve rule for seven decades that of the libyan detention center for migrants has accuse european powers of not providing enough support to stop migrants from crossing the mediterranean thousands of people are in detention in libya while authorities cordoning their return to their home countries the head of the. detention center of the hamid sayed says many of them have chronic diseases there's been a sharp drop in the past month of migrants crossing to italy but sayed says you're

still offers little help to manage the numbers one of liberia's leading political parties is calling for the announcement of election results to be delayed over irregularities the liberty party says it's considering legal action if the national elections commission doesn't act on its demand former professional football player george we has taken an early lead with twenty five percent of the poll results already counted he was once named the african player of the century. kenya's government as banning opposition protests in the lead up to the repeat presidential election the government says demonstrators looted and attacked police stations but the opposition accuse them of clamping town on protest the opposition leader raila odinga announced this week that he would be withdrawing from the race throwing the east african nation into political turmoil catherine soy has more from nairobi. the reason given by the interior minister is because of balance increasingly we've seen

people being robbed a shop being vandalized particularly here in nairobi and in some ways well. opposition. there who've been hired have been hired to infiltrate their peaceful demonstrations they've also accused police of using excessive force a couple of years a couple of man a couple of weeks ago we so a video of police beating up a university student inside the lecture hall yesterday in protests in q soon with several people were injured some have been hospitalized with bullet wounds they blame the police so are the opposition like i said saying that the police are also using excessive force the kenyan national human rights commission as well to come out with a report saying that immediately after the president was declared we nine august there was some protests and daddums of people were killed including children and

most of them have blamed the police as well so the cabinet minister saying that this band really is just to prevent an escalation of violence as president donald trump's taken his most concrete step yet to undo obamacare his predecessor signature health care law he signed an executive order that let small businesses ban together to buy cheaper health plans with fewer benefits for their employees trump says the obligations under barack obama's plan are too expensive for government and businesses. a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. state of florida thousands of people have arrived from puerto rico where islanders are struggling to get basic necessities three weeks after hurricane maria but as the exodus continues president trump has threatened to withdraw long term aid from puerto rico at a gala girl reports from orlando. the storm hit two thousand kilometers from here but it's out orlando international airport where one of three disaster relief centers is providing care and aid for newly arrived puerto ricans the arlington

homeland they left is still largely without electricity fresh water supplies a dwindling and heading to the u.s. mainland is the only option for many i feel so sad and i feel so lonely because i don't have my mom my mom and how my day and my feet hurt it's a day by day so for us over here it's our hearts are with them because we. can we wish we could do more but we can't because you know we can i get power to them or anything the economic crisis in puerto rico is already prompted hundreds of thousands of residents to leave to find jobs the aftermath of hurricane maria is likely to force many more to follow in the last few days alone thirty thousand puerto ricans of arrived here in orlando statewide that number could exceed one hundred thousand but florida is home to a million puerto ricans and this is a community more than willing to lend a helping hand the president latest tweets affectively threatening to abandon long term aid haven't gone down well we have

a lot of different items from diapers emily is orange county's first puerto rican commissioner she's helping organize aid and says the president's comments are offensive i think it's right we've seen him make threats now for them and it seems to be the way he tries to get things done his way and he's doing a lot of criticism from puerto rico and that's his way of saying stop criticizing someone's mayor speaks for many when she made a statement asking all americans to stand together to support the people of puerto rico. politics aside here in orlando volunteers from across the state are helping any way they can as you see you know we don't have any electricity or water here but. when big bill good tires someone someone jail like this is the happening but. is that big gasoline on the other end i mean the bebo is think about this situation there are people how anybody puerto rico will need help for months to come and even

if the president isn't committed people here and again like rogers era orlando florida chinese artist ai weiwei is installing more than one hundred wire fences at various sites across new york city it's part of this exhibition good fences make good neighbors which highlights the plight of refugees christian salome has more on the controversial artists latest creation. two people cut through the fence that now blocks the triumphal arch in new york's washington square park a giant work of public art inspired by the global refugee crisis it's called good fences make good neighbors but these fences found in parks and on sidewalks all around new york city have openings one of things i love about the park system in the city is that you never know what you're going to cross so there's always that sense of adventure and exploration and when there's something like this it's very thought provoking and enjoyable i think it's beautiful i think it has

a lot of good work that like people can interact with it starts a conversation its creators a chinese artist ai wei wei lived in the city for twelve years but at first hesitated to take on the commission to save so much as not to use it for me to do the just. sculpture in the city. and to. pay back my respects to my love these days i way way is an international superstar known as much for his political activism as his art but while sculptures like these may be warmly received here in new york they haven't always the light of the authorities back home. i has at times been detained and harassed in his homeland of china this time he's taking aim at the west his gilded cage painted to match trump tower just a few blocks away. time this note the color ins and.

divided on the. collar religion nationality. which is i think it's a company to get. going back warts. the message is universal but has a special resonance in a city of immigrants new york city's very open it excepts people from all kinds of backgrounds and i think that was a very profound experience for him so i think he. values that and he wants to make sure that we think about it and don't take it for granted i's boundaries are fluid meant to provide comfort not divide and circling the community with the message that all are welcome here christian salumi al jazeera new york. take a look at the headlines on al-jazeera

a convoy of turkish troops has entered northern syria and a new military operation reports from turkey say the troops will enforce a deescalation zone and rebel held and live province this is what we know so far dozens of calls crossed into syria we know from different sources that the turkish richard i was stationed in an area called and all of the. course of the province of the however we know that by the destination is going to be of this is boss of a deal that was signed between russia iran and turkey to implement the deescalation so in. palestinians in gaza in the occupied west bank have been out on the streets celebrating a reconciliation deal between fatah and hamas the agreement and the rival factions decade long ripped them places gaza and west bank under one government for the first time since two thousand and seven and the u.s. and israel are pulling out of unesco united nations cultural agency they've accused

the organization of having an anti israel bias and also of needing financial reform . twenty car bombings in north korea have killed at least thirty five people the attacks reportedly happened at a checkpoint set up by the syrian democratic forces south of a city syria's state news agency says the bombings targeted civilians fleeing areas under eisel control indoors or pakistan's army has rescued a family held captive for five years by the economy network that's an organization allied with the afghan taliban the army says canadian josh will boil his american wife and their three children were freed in a tribal district along the pakistan afghanistan border comes after a tip off from u.s. intelligence agencies manned mars later on it's on sochi is call for national unity and address to the nation on the bridge a refugee crisis center increasing international pressure over her failure to condemn the army for alleged abuses against the right hand more than half

a million rihanna have escaped to bangladesh since the crackdown began and late august so she says she's holding talks at bangladesh about returning summer handed to me and maher those are the headlines the news continues in al-jazeera after inside story keep it or. trying to end a longstanding split palestinian rival groups hamas reach a deal with previous reconciliation attempts between the move failed come this one succeeded what could it mean for the future of the peace talks with israel this is inside story.