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no i'm in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming. under the people protest in the tunisian capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring. a new threat emerges for thousands of people who lost their homes to flooding in the democratic republic of congo. and twelve million tens of baby milk in eighty three countries the true scale of salmonella scandal begins to a much. new wave of attacks by syrian government forces and their russian allies is forcing thousands of syrians to leave their homes around one hundred twenty thousand civilians have been displaced in rebel held province in recent weeks but instead of

finding safety many continue to face danger. no law no a lot of up well i don't really know what to do but i know the freedom. we're very clear that you know law. but look at what we're broke when al-jazeera crew was filming in a makeshift camp an adlib when an attack happened they tell us a missile hit very close to civilians it escaped earlier bombing attacks in the nearby hama countryside al jazeera correspondent milad father can be seen among men women and children desperately trying to find cover. well a spokesman for techies president says that an american operation to help syrian kurdish fighters set up a new border force is unacceptable under the u.s.

plan thirty thousand troops will man the borders of territory carved out of northern syria by the syrian democratic forces which are mainly composed of kurdish y p g fighters turkey has condemned this move as it fights kurdish separatists within its own borders turkish forces have repeatedly threatened to capture areas under kurdish control and are warning of an imminent attack on the syrian city of a frame. god willing in the coming days we will continue the operation to purge our southern border from terror to which the first step was taken with you freely shelled operation and no i was afraid. gentlemen that we expect america to support turkey and its legitimate outfits we expect our friends to display an attitude to perfect them and this issue of survival that is so sensitive and so critical for our country generally a free an operation i hope these powers will not give rise to error by appearing on the same side as the terror organization saddam cassio who has more from antakya on

the tacky syria or dead. the united states is planning to station the those security troops to turkey iraq and syria iraq borders these areas are mainly dominated by the syrian kurds the white p.g. and e. and a united states aims in provide security and stop the infiltration of the radical groups to this area by this move but from the turkish perspective the story still to the different because turkey believes that the wife is an offshoot of the p.k. k. the kurdistan workers' party which is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but also by the not to states and the so turkish officials say that this is a threat to turkish national security and territorial integrity and turkey has been fighting against the people here for thirty seven years why this through turkey

believes that the taking is going to be legit to my sense of turkey saying they have all rights reserved to have a counter-attack whether it's inside or outside turkey if there is a threat it's for its national security for all in all the developments in syria several people are in hospital after suspected chemical attack in the rebel held area of eastern guta the damascus suburb which was designated a deescalation zone has come under a heavy bombardment as government forces see to take it back from rebel fighters a workers at the scene say the victims are being treated for suffocation from what they suspect is chlorine gas. now hundreds of people that protested in the tunisian capital to mark seven war this is the revolution that sparked the arab spring but now reports many of the issues which brought people to the streets back then

a still causing problems today. a day of national unity until it is yeah people from all walks of life. on happy bookkeeper square to commemorate the two thousand and eleven pro-democracy movement that brought the end of president putin been id's government and spread across the arab world the event comes at a time of uncertainty there have been protests nationwide in response to austerity measures recently implemented by the government many here say those measures will not improve the lives of the poor and could make things worse. the party celebrating here today don't represent us for them the revolution is just a pretext to get power but it's still the old elite that governs. things got better after the revolution it's true we've got poverty and unemployment that got

something we'll fix one day but i want to say the post-revolutionary is better. these young performers have a message to sell and they want the government to listen to their concerns about unemployment poverty and lack of opportunities in their country. in a visit to a poor neighborhood in the capital president. he has promised to tackle deepening economic problems fellas. the revolution was about freedom and dignity but it's a revolution of is led by the youth and we need to listen to them but they say we have to. nothing for them there are six hundred twenty thousand unemployed people in tunisia this year will be devoted to solving their problems. and the. police at the center of the capital to prevent any scuffles that could turn violent at this critical moment today on this anniversary

a president but not his resignation to say they want to set the differences aside and remember those who lost their lives to have autocratic rule but the millions of people who had hoped the revolution will bring about prosperity feel frustrated over their government and worry about their future. turnus. pakistan president mahmoud abbas has been addressing the p.l.o. central council meeting in the occupied west bank but the decision to the u.s. decision recognized as israel's capital dominating the agenda the announcement by washington in december has sparked protests across the world palestinian groups hamas and islamic jihad have declined an invitation to attend the meeting and as observers they say there's a lack of agreement on how to respond to the u.s. decision emraan khan is following events for us in a rain from allah. it was a very strong speech from president but. the true slim was the jewel in the streets in the capital of any future palestinian state criticize the u.s.

president total time for removing jerusalem from any future palestinian state fire tweet he's also very critical and he's very critical of language let's just take a listen to what some of the language sounded like. in c.s. i've read the law. we say that politically is our capital in our religion it's our capital idea graphicly it's our company. but it was removed from the map with a tweet from mr trump so you know. for now we say no to trump we moved to accept his plan we cited a deal of the century is the slop of the century. but it was just a barrel to jerusalem it was also about the palestinian factions as well he was very critical of islam about the notes coming to the central council meeting he said that this was about politics anyway this was about the future of jerusalem the

future of the palestinian state no he did criticize the us and its budget for that positions he also said that this was a toy where the palestinians needed to get together because jerusalem is the religious cultural and political capital of palestine so very strong words coming from president mahmoud abbas but this isn't the end of this and there was a meeting throwing it had to monday now there will be these decisions that will be issued they will we shape any future negotiations and how those decisions will be implemented because. one of the world's biggest dairy company says it will pay damages to families affected by its contaminated baby milk french company lack tillis as was accused of trying to cover up the extent of the salmonella contamination at one of its plants now in a rare media interview c.e.o. emmanuel business has admitted the problem affects eighty three countries or about

twelve million tons of powdered baby milk being recalled and also it's have been filed by families who say that children suffered salmonella poisoning often drinking the milk at least thirty on one to a foreign end in france and one in spain and the reports. after weeks of silence over the contaminated baby milk powder scandal the boss a french company like tallis has responded to critics who say the manufacturer covered up the extent of the risk emanuel binya has told a french newspaper our priority has always been to handle the crisis and make sure that no more children become sick we have never minimise the risk of salmonella we consider that there was no breach of procedures on our side in december like tallis began recalling some of its baby milk products in france it had discovered the salmonella bacteria in this factory in the northwest but it's only now that the extent of the contamination has become clear like tallis has now withdrawn twelve

million tins of baby formula for more than eighty countries salmonella can be deadly for young children and dozens of families in france say that their children became sick after drinking luck tellus baby milk they have lawsuits against the company saying that it tried to hide the risks and failed to help it crept up on families were lied to shamelessly and that the fear was spread by the telephone helpline number which was provided at the time or can you believe an operator who tells you that your milk is not affected but then three weeks later you learn that it is. the french president a man or mark or says locked alice could face penalties and on friday the finance minister said the government would do everything possible to end the crisis like that he's off on a long lecture lease will take back all the baby milk products manufactured at cow regardless of their production date from wherever it is being sold out in

particular from supermarkets and chemists aim of this radical step is simple not to avoid problems insulting but is in the risk of human error like dallas his boss says his company has launched its own investigation and will pay damages to the. manila victims for parents the focus will be on making sure their children are not exposed to the life threatening bacteria natasha al-jazeera paris. a catholic pope speaks out in defense of migrants he says fear and doubt should not determine our sponsor rivals. and the traditional craft of carpet weaving is unraveling in gaza we look at how the blockade there is affecting this ancient business.

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come back with al-jazeera an update now the stories making headlines. and al-jazeera crew is filmed a syrian government missile attack on account of the displaced civilians in the north of the country it comes amid a government offensive to retake the rebel held province that's calls hundreds of thousands to flee the area. hundreds of people have protested in the tunisian capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring and it has risen over new austerity measures off to a year of rising prices. and a french dairy company accused of covering up contaminated baby milk says it will pay damages to families affected about twelve million tons of powdered milk are

being recalled across eighty three countries due to the risk of salmonella poisoning. and all the stories we're watching closely pope francis has held a special mass to mark the world day of migrants and refugees at a time when there are more displaced people than ever before according to the un's refugee agency more than sixty five million people have been forcibly display. based twenty two and a half million people of refugees more than a quarter of them from syria and then there are the ten million people who are stateless not considered to be citizens of any country that includes more than six hundred fifty thousand ranger for south of myanmar since august one of the most dangerous places is the mediterranean more than fourteen thousand people have died in these waters since twenty fourteen trying to reach europe peter sharp reports. oh yes in the five years of his papacy pro francis has stressed time and again christianity's mission to welcome the vulnerable and the marginalised and on sunday

at this mass and some peter's basilica to mark the world day of migrants pope francis invited refugees asylum seekers newly arrived immigrants and their families to join him in prayer to celebrate the special day highlighting the fear and suspicion that has so often blighted the lives of those looking for a new start when eternal carli of all the. local communities are sometimes afraid that the newly arrived will disturb the established order will take away from what has been long labored to build up in the newly arrived also have fears they are afraid of confrontation judgement discrimination and failure of these fears a legitimate having doubts and fears is not a sin the sin is to allow those theories to feed hostility and rejection. pope francis speaking out at a time when wealthy western countries are tightening their borders even though

there are more displaced people move than ever before dress by the pope is important for three main reasons the first is that we've seen all too few world leaders willing to stand up for refugees in fact have seen quite the opposite over the course of the last two years we've seen a hardening of. on three refugee rhetoric. references in his address pope francis leaves on monday for a week long visit to prune chile he'll be taking his message of compassion for the uprooted people of the world along with him and in malaga in spain on sunday the latest reminder that this crisis is not going away there's another one hundred nine migrants from morocco including nine pregnant women and sixteen children were born to sure peter sharp al jazeera it was president donald trump has found his own words coming back to haunt him or one of them anyway the word used by trump to

refer to african countries and haiti has been projected onto the outside of the trump international hotel in washington d.c. is remarks were condemned as racist by world leaders as well as democrats and republicans in the u.s. . more than twenty people have died after a bus veered off the road in cameroon at least thirty eight others were injured when it drove into a ravine and crashed onto a tree on saturday a bus was traveling from the shang to a dollar in the country's western region officials have not yet determined the cause of the crash. thousands of people who lost their homes in flooding the democratic republic of congo last week and now facing another threat health workers in the capital dealing with a cholera outbreak that's killed a thousand people catherine soy reports it's hard to imagine just a week ago holmes a stude here this is a neighborhood on the outskirts of kids. when floodwaters came crashing down from

a nearby river many people didn't even have a chance to rescue their loved ones and belongings. this month salicylates shows me what you mains of the two bedroom house he shared with his wife and three children he says he knows he should take his family to higher safer ground but they're still here despite the obvious danger. i am afraid because it's still raining but they don't have any money to move them we've got no help from anyone moving from here means lending the house. but the rains are expected to continue for the next three months and this means more trouble for a country that is facing a cholera outbreak the worst in two decades about a thousand people have died since last year more than fifty thousand from across the country have so far been affected. the government has declared cholera

a national emergency and set up treatment centers the government has set up this facility here in the most affected area in the city we're not allowed to go to the wards where the patients are because of the nature of the disease since november at least thirty people mostly children have died in kinshasa alone. cholera is highly infectious also easy to treat if detected but the poor health system and financial problems doctors are overwhelmed. our government international appeal for eight million dollars has not helped less than two million has been raised. on the a few countries in africa can deal. by themselves this is why the government launched an appeal for help in november and. disaster. so here health workers focus on prevention

talking to anyone they can about the importance of good hygiene and visiting centers like this one are. they're preparing themselves for more difficult times ahead in this rainy season catherine song al jazeera kinshasa. and zambia is also fighting to bring an outbreak of cholera under control after at least seventy two people have died government says it's made enough progress in some emergency measures but not in one suburb of the capital or soccer where there was rioting on friday and yama is where the outbreak began and a focal point for the government and she called her a campaign marianna hong and has more. a simple procedure to guard against a killer disease lillian fitty is one of the millions ambiance being vaccinated in an intensive campaign to contain a cholera outbreak she's from a township on the outskirts of the capital with the elf rate began in late.

september she says she didn't his attempt to join the queue when we hear those out because. we feel so bad so now. they're voting for. my family went to yes they did. their we did the vaccination. most of those lining up here live in or around usaca when nearly all of the cholera deaths have been concentrated in about three and a half months almost three thousand people have been inflicted cholera is a bacterial disease usually spread through contaminated food and water it thrives in unhygienic conditions. the government brought in tougher mergence images earlier this month to try to bring the outbreak under control and it deployed the army to lead the cleanup of public spaces like this marketplace in lusaka. local people joined in and didn't some cases even helped close down some marketplaces completely

to stop food and drink being sold in unsanitary conditions but within days some were defying a curfew. and on friday there was rioting in kenya amma with street vendors saying the measures were hurting the only source of income chunka chunka runs an electronics store in wonderstruck a market he says his business has been affected but he has little time for those resisting the government's if that's what up and in our nearby were just across the town and. it was really shocking to find the armed forces they are here to help us make sure that our environments are clean and then some people that road dig bunning traps which is a limited budget because instead of the places the wind up began corpses of color allowed to break you said did a disease. the government says sufficient progress has been made so far for it to reopen a school and shops that have passed senate taishan chicks and it's plain to second

round of immunization but that alone won't likely be enough the long term task of education's aliens on proper sanitation and hygiene will be critical to eradicating cholera medium one hundred al-jazeera iranian oil tanker that and burning in the east china sea since last week has sunk these pitches broadcast by chinese state t.v. show the ship show the ship barely visible above the water twenty nine crew members are missing the tank was carrying a million barrels of oil when it collided with a cargo ship on january sixth well according to chinese state controlled television the sun she sank at around noon local time on sunday before it went down there was a large explosion and also a large plume of smoke more than a thousand meters high these pictures were recorded by china's coast guard now the century was involved in a collision with

a hong kong registered freighter the crew of that freighter all survived all twenty one crew members sadly the crew of the century were less fortunate so far only three bodies have been recovered the senshi was carrying a cargo of one hundred thirty six thousand tons of ultra light crude oil known as condensate what concerns groups like greenpeace is how much of that crude could potentially leak over the coming days weeks or months we know that some of the oil has been burned off but not all of it now this vessel has gone down in waters that are part of japan's economic zone so presumably japanese authorities will now be investigating to see how much of their waters have now been contaminated because of course fishermen in that area depend on those waters for their livelihood. now weaver's a traditional handmade carpets in gaza say they're struggling to keep their ancient craft alive a blame their unraveling fortunes on israel and egypt's blockade of the gaza strip

malcolm weapon explains. weaving sheep's wool into traditional carpets he's one of palestine's all these professions takes skill patients and a steady hand. been doing it since he was ten now he says he's too old to be strained relatives to work on his looms hearing gaza has been a family business for longer than he knows even his family name so after means will . already. i am seventy two years old and i've done this work my whole life before me my father before him my grandfather it's been in our family for four hundred years or more maybe ever since the prophet muhammad we've done the same work. is possible archaeologists have found the remains of wooden looms in this region that are thousands of years old the techniques have passed

their beliefs down the generations like these not recording the order of colored stripes in a design. that mahmoud says things are not how they used to be mainly because of israel and egypt blockade of gaza electricity used to prepare the wool is off most of the time importing wool and exporting carpets have become difficult and expensive mahmoud's loser just next door shop is quiet no customers he says it's like this most of the time these days. garbage like this one takes nearly a week to make and sells for just over one hundred dollars economies down in gaza because of the blockade so not many people can afford that. these are cheaper factory made carpets mostly from turkey become common mahmoud says that's also hard his business showed us a carpet he made that was among many ordered by an israeli designer then handmade

hearing gaza he says that kind of trading corporation is impossible any more you have to wait days for a customer to come to his shop and asked to speak to we asked why pay more for a traditional handmade carpet and. heritage is very important for us and for the new generation if we can't see our heritage it be a big problem and should protect it. sales maybe slow but i mean the quality of the work continues to improve and we'll keep struggling to preserve this traditional craft malcolm webb al-jazeera in gaza there's much more see on our website his very need to go out there. but look at the top stories now.

now is there a clue is filmed a syrian government myside attack on account of the displaced civilians in the north of the country it comes amid a government offensive to retake the rebel held in a province that's caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee the area. meanwhile the u.s. has converted it's helping syrian kodesh try to set up a border force containing thirty thousand personnel the troops will man the borders of territory carved out of northern syria by the syrian democratic forces which are mainly composed of kurdish y p g fighters this is angered nato member turkey which is fighting kurdish separatists in its own country repeatedly threatened to capture areas on the kurdish control and is warning of an imminent attack on the syrian city of a free. hundreds of people have been protesting in the tunisian capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring anger has risen over new austerity measures after a year of rising prices the government is now pledge seventy million dollars to

help poor families but the protesters say this isn't enough. palestine's president mahmoud abbas has told the p.l.o. central council that the palestinian authority will never accept washington's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital but other palestinian factions including hamas and islamic jihad have declined an invitation to the event citing disagreements over the response to trump's policy in. we so you get political. capital in our religion. graphically it's our company. but it was removed from the map with a tweet from mr trump. but now we say no to trump we're going to accept his plan we say deal of the century is the slop of the century and a french dairy company accused of covering up contaminated baby milk says it will

pay damages to families affected about twelve million tons of the powdered milk a being recalled across eighty three countries to the risk of salmonella poisoning you're up to date with all of our top stories more news coming up in twenty five minutes time off to talk to al-jazeera which starts now. they call themselves the. salvation army otherwise known as arsenal a new in until recently little load militant group fighting mean more secure.