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family tales of. wonderful migration and generations of. mind altering. is the stuff of. a stunning portrayal of life. one woman's determination to save the community. at this time to see. turkey's president says a military assault on a could reach kurdish enclave in syria is imminent. hello again i'm sure with al jazeera live from doha also coming up the palestinian
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president denounces donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as a slap in the face and calls for internationally led peace negotiations. seven years on from its revolution to live here and show their discontent on the streets as they demand economic and social reforms. and chile prepares to welcome pope francis but not everyone is happy. the turkish president rajab tired at all one has vowed to launch a military operation on a major kurdish stronghold in northern syria he's pledged to attack african in the coming days it's controlled by the y.p. gee that's a kurdish armed group that's considered by turkey. to be terrorists that shortly
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after his announcement the y.p. g. shelled as it is a city that is held by turkish backed forces there are already reports of turkish troop movements both along the northern syrian border and at the edge of y p g held territory while the move comes after reports that the u.s. coalition is planning to build a thirty thousand strong border security falls in northern syria and that would include the y b g the u.s. has previously supplied alms to kurdish fighters and turkey is condemning this move with president at a warning the u.s. not to interfere in its operations. in the coming days as we will continue the operation to purge our southern border from terror which the first step was taken with the euphrates shelled operation with the frame. is genuine in that we expect america to support turkey and its legitimate outlets we expect our friends to display not achieved
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a perfect system and this issue of survival let is so sensitive and so critical for our country during the african operation i hope these powers will not give rise to error by appearing on the same side as the terror organization. well bill schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university and he says it's a volatile situation with many factions pursuing competing interests. it's a real danger because the turks are threatening to invade northern syria and destroy the kurdish forces there the y p g the united states is building up a border security force with in alliance with the y.p. ji the problem is the kurds the united states knows and has discovered that the kurds are the most effective fighting force against the assad government and against the islamic state in syria and they've been very successful at that that's the american purpose but the turks regard the kurds and the y. p.g. as a dire threat they label them terrorists and so does the united states and they are
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determined to destroy the terror of the kurdish military force so there's a real conflict of interest here. by and large the islamics they forces do not hold any territory any longer in syria the kurds have been very effective in eliminating their territorial strongholds but they are still a very serious threat and a threat also to the government of assad the government of assad is crucial here because it's it regards the kurds as an enemy trying to overthrow it at the same time the kurds are fighting the islamic state it's a very complicated situation and russia and iran are allies of the assad government in syria so you've got about five competing interests going on all of the same time all prepared to fight and this provides for a very dangerous situation a syrian government pushing to leave provinces fals more than one hundred twenty thousand people out of that hands in recent weeks but as the displaced people seek
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places a sanctuary many of them continue to face danger and al jazeera crew kept at these pictures while filming in a makeshift camp in italy province. no law no a lot of what don't we know what to do you know that's got there i don't know if you don't feel afraid if you have very few you know law. but bill that will be. so as you saw a missile hit very close to civilians including families who fled from earlier bombing attacks al jazeera correspondent you've just seen him milad fadel he can be seen among the men and women and children trying to get to cover. aid agencies
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say they're pretty much overwhelmed by the scale of need in syria and they're warning that if the bombardment continues a million displaced people will amass near the turkish border so then cause the early results from iraq refugee camp in northern italy in northern syria. up till kerry mohammed lost his home when the syrian government bombed aniston hama in december he arrived in ram a refugee camp in the province fifteen days ago with his wife and five children the fifteen year old former stays he had very good business back home but he had to leave it all behind the family went to singe or first taking refuge in a cave but the safety they found there didn't last for long government forces were advancing on the area abdel and his wife sharon asked say they were afraid of being killed and i'm not happy and not used to living right this here you don't feel free we are sleeping with our children one we were hiding in
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a cave when the regime forces a dance towards our lads we were afraid they would kill us and left in the after the bombardment in the east hama a lot of people moved to sunder who faced few bombardments of tyson of the regime started their fight we had to leave again and stay out in the world sleeping under trees aid organizations came to us to this camp but you see this is not home. the camp was built only a couple of weeks ago and is already full five thousand people are here but still more are arriving every day most of them are poor families from instant how much as the weather gets colder the main fear here is illness hygiene is a major issue so much of the prevention falls on the women here as they are the ones responsible for feeding and cleaning in dire conditions. is the primary needs are tents on things like marshes blankets on carpets also i. some sort of specialty
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leaders by children and women you name it people and syrian leaders even finding a nail clipper is an issue. so a viable mother to cation is the priority here many of these children have been on the run from the bombings for some time some of them haven't been to school in years they're left to think again and escape from the sad reality of their homeland people have managed to escape the regime's air strikes and the fight against arsenal they were able to find a reference here in these cans in northern. for now they're safe but no one knows what will happen if your syrians come to the region saying i'm going to all of al-jazeera northern and let. saying shame on you palestinian president mahmoud abbas has labeled donald trump's efforts a slap in the slap of the century addressing the p.l.o. central council president abbas reiterated that he won't accept the trumpet
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ministration as a mediator in talks with israel and he called for an internationally led process president thomas decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital as part of worldwide condemnation and protests across the region that rival palestinian groups hamas and islamic jihad didn't turn up for the meeting saying there's a lack of agreement on how to deal with washington imran khan as our correspondent in ramallah. it was a very strong speech from president bush who debussy said that drew slim was the jewel in the crown of state and the capital of any future palestinian state criticize the us president of the time for removing jerusalem from any future palestinian state via tweet he was also very critical of these very critical language let's just take a listen to what some of that language sounded like. and we'll never see as i drive down the aisle we say that politically driven person is our capital in our religion
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it's how capital graphically it's our capital. but it was removed from the map with a tweet from mr trump say you. were now we say no to trump we won't accept his plan we cited deal of the century is the slop of the century. but it was just about jerusalem it was also about the palestinian factions as well he was very critical. of us for not coming to the central council meeting he said that this was about politics and this was about the future of jerusalem the future of the palestinian state that we get criticized. 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 out from the president but we did ask but this isn't the end of the central council meeting
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throwing ahead to monday now that will be to these decisions that will be issued they will we shape any future negotiations and how those decisions will be implemented will be. hundreds of people protested in the trinity and capital to mark seven years since the revolution that spots the arab spring bottas hashem a whole bar reports many of the issues that brought people to the streets back then a still causing problems today. a day of national unity in turn 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's been id's government and spread across the arab well 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 we not
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improve the lives of the poor and could. make things worse that you see him doing. the party celebrating here today don't represent us the youth for them the revolution was just a pretext to get power but it's still the old elite that governors voted for me things got better after the revolution it's true we've got poverty and unemployment but that's something we'll fix one day but i want to say the post-revolutionary is better. these young performers have a message to say 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 phillips arena well kyra the revolution was about freedom and
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dignity but it's a revolution of is led by the youth and we need to listen to them they say we have done 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 of president his resignation to his years say they want to serve their differences aside and remember those who lost their lives to and autocratic rule by the millions of people had hoped the revolution will bring about prosperity feel frustrated over their government and worry about their future. turnus still to come here at al-jazeera twelve million tins of baby milk in eighty three countries the true scale of a salmonella scandal begins to emerge and we're in democratic republic of congo where a cholera outbreak has followed widespread flooding. from
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the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across southern and eastern china and taiwan so looking warmer here than it has done in recent days temperatures back up to twenty four in taipei hong kong should be fine plenty sunshine we've seen some pretty cold weather in hanoi in recent days but temperatures not too bad twenty and little bit of brightness is possible as you move into tuesday not much change across the bulk of this region further towards the north we have got an area of rain developing across the bulk of indo-china weather conditions remain dry and gone seeing highs of thirty degrees into southeast asia here we've got some showers across southern parts of the philippines some heavy and persistent rain here at times also the circulation moving across in
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the south china sea another circulation developing across the malaysian peninsula so some very heavy rain continuing here we've seen some flooding in this region and that is like you continue to in the course of monday java in bali also likely see some showers heading into a choose day we've still got these areas of low pressure giving circulation towards southern parts of vietnam but this area across parts of the late pinches should be clear way across into south asia remains pretty smoky in parts of india in particular northern areas chennai to lisa's not too cold here temperatures of thirty. the weather sponsored by cattle race. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support to taylor's the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the us a. political trial and that these were political prisoners because we were able to see the secret i would hope we were able to tell it in a two part series al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court
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cases of the so-called war on terror the holy land falling at this time on al jazeera world. take a look at the top stories here. the turkish president better one is valid to launch a military operation on a kurdish stronghold in northern syria he's pledged to attack after in the coming days it's controlled by the y.p. g.'s a kurdish group that's considered by turkey to be terrorists saying shame on you the palestinian president has labeled donald trump's peace efforts the slap of the
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century at a meeting of the p.l.o. central council president reiterated he won't accept the trumpet ministration as a mediator in talks with israel. taking to the streets to mark seven years as the revolution that sparked the arab spring the rallies come amid a backdrop of further around the rest sparked by government imposed tax and price hikes. the president says he's lost hope for negotiations on the deferred action for childhood arrivals program better known as the since twenty twelve it's protected hundreds of files. as of young undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to legally work in the u.s. president trump ended the president in in september congress now has until march to renegotiate it but the president tweeted early on sunday that is probably dead because the democrats don't really want to just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from them in
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a tree house he cow hain has more now from washington d.c. so the president says the dream or act is dead it doesn't mean it actually is the president often proclaims things only to turn out but it's not true for example he told a bipartisan group of senators that if they came up with a compromise on this immigration reform that he would sign it well they did and he didn't so the question becomes exactly what is the next step well it's really up to democrats because they see this is their leverage they want to see some sort of immigration reform they want these people protect it well what republicans want is a budget government runs out of money on friday and these republicans who control the entire congress and the white house they need democrats to vote for it or they can't get it passed and the government then would shut down on friday and it was likely that the republicans would get most of the blame for that so there are a lot of democrats that are saying they're going to have the budget hostage they're simply not going to vote for it let the government shut down in less they get an
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immigration deal so it looks like it's going to be five very intense days in washington d.c. as the democrats the republicans standoff over funding the government and the future of these immigrants. now an american artist has left his mark on one of donald trump's towers lighting it up in protest against the president's alleged explosive expletive about immigration and said during a white house meeting on thursday is remarks were projected on the his hotel in washington d.c. world leaders and a number of u.s. politicians have condemned the president's comments as racist president trump has denied making the derogatory remarks but has kept up his criticism of a senate immigration plan that he says would force the u.s. to admit people from countries that quote are already doing bad in the usa to for why he's been told to fix its alert system after a false alarm sent residents into a panic it took thirty eight minutes to correct the alert about
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a force ballistic missile threat residents desperately sought shelter as they waited for what they thought was an imminent attack the us federal communications commission says hawaii did not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent a force emergency alert the alert was sent out when an employee simply hit the wrong button. and one of the world's biggest area companies says it will pay damages to families affected by its contaminated fady milk the french company tallis was accused of trying to cover up the extent of salmonella contamination at one of its plants it's admitted the problem affects eighty three countries where about twelve million tins of powered baby milk and now being recalled the trash about reports from paris. after weeks of silence over the contaminated baby milk powder scandal the balsa french company like tallis has responded to critics who
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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. we have never minimized the risk of salmonella we consider that there was no breach of procedures on our side in december like telus 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 found 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
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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 or man or mark or says like tallis 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 baby milk products manufactured at cow regardless of their production date from wherever it is being sold in particular from supermarkets and chemist the aim of this radical step is simple not to avoid problems insulting but does and the risk of human error like dallas is boss says his company has launched its own investigation and will pay damages to the salmonella victims for parents the focus will be on making sure their children are not exposed to the life threatening bacteria natasha butler al-jazeera paris.
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six chilean catholic churches have been vandalized in three days on the eve of pope francis arrival in the country the most recent attack was in the capital santiago and there was graffiti saying down with the pope he'll be in chile as part of a six day to a little also include peru two countries where there's been several sex scandals involving the catholic church in america editor lucien newman reports. it used to be standing room only inside this cathedral in southern chile. but these days not many are singing the praises of their bishops one batter us appointed three years ago by pope francis. outside the cathedral other members of the flock demand the resignation of the bishop who's accused of covering up sex abuses by chile's most notorious pedophile priest the pope may be smiling down at these people but they're not smiling back this used to be one of the most faithful
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catholic cities in all of chile but now these faithful say that they are sad and angry at their pope. accuses him of betraying his promises. the vatican still covers up abusers and to boot in chile it rewards them with promotions and positions abroad the severity we expected from the pope isn't there it's an acceptable that a bishop like barrows who covered up sex abuses he put in charge of our diocese while the protest continued we caught bishop leaving through the parking lot he has long denied any wrongdoing but they did the questions about the calls for his resignation to him. there are many other people charged more. than. one kind of. a survivor is one of those who accuse the bishop of facilitating the.
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uses against them by this man father finance. behind these walls abused scores of seminarians while preparing dozens of priests and five bishops including bishop battles when the priest kissed when he hugged the people's genitals he was watching there's really the past the monye of how he was president and. the pope doesn't acknowledge god pure talk no action his zero tolerance falls zero tolerance. but just last week ahead of his trip to chile and peru the pope ordered the vatican to take over an elite catholic group in peru after years of charges that its founder seen here sexually and physically abused scores of children and adults athol are until now what we've had a dramatic gestures maneuvers for impact and damage control aimed at improving the
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church's image that may not be enough to satisfy victims like one could loose and other critics who insist that while the pope is here they'll continue raising their voice to hold the vatican and its leader accountable you see in human al-jazeera southern chile a member of the cattery royal family says he's being held against his will in the united arab emirates shaikh of dollar bin ali al fanny released a video statement saying that if anything happened to him katter is not at fault he's been living in saudi arabia since the blockade by some of cutter's neighbors began last june the u.a.e. denies the allegations and says he is free to leave whenever he chooses cas as foreign ministry says it's monitoring the situation and will stand up for all its citizens this is the video message from shaikh of della bin ali al funny. so look i'm going to go hello i'm currently in abu dhabi i was hosted by sheikh mohammad
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bin i'm now confined to my residence i'm not allowed to leave i fear anything may happen to me and then the blame is put on qatar therefore this is to notify you that in all cases i suffer any harm because our cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by shaikh mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything that may happen to me finally i want to salute the qatari people the saudi people and everybody in the u.a.e. and all the people of the gulf people in the democratic republic of congo are facing three separate crises all at the same time as a military operation against an armed group accused of killing peacekeepers and widespread flooding has destroyed many homes all during a major cholera outbreak catherine story of course from the capital kinshasa it's hard to imagine just a week ago holmes stude here this is a neighborhood on the outskirts of kinshasa when floodwaters came crashing down
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from a nearby river many people didn't even have a chance to rescue their loved ones and belongings. months 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 he still leaning 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 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
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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 early but with a poor health system and financial problems doctors are overwhelmed a government international appeal for eight million dollars has not helped less than two million has been raised and first. on the leaf you countries in africa can deal with this situation like this by themselves this is why the government launched an appeal for help in november and declare a national disaster. so here health his focus on prevention talking to anyone they can about the importance of good hygiene and visiting centers like this
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one oddly enough. they're preparing themselves for more difficult times ahead in this rainy season catherine song al-jazeera kinshasa. aviation officials are investigating why a plane skidded off the runway at an airport in turkey the practices airlines flight had just landed in traps on near the black sea when it slid off the runway and plunged over the cliff edge something just a few meters above the water said one hundred sixty two passengers and six crew onboard ever all safely taken off the plane. time for to take a look at the top stories here it out just where the turkish president has vowed to launch a military operation on a major kurdish stronghold in the world and syria he pledged to attack our friend in the coming days is controlled by the y. p.g.a.
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because he considered by turkey to be terrorists the move comes after reports the u.s. coalition plans to build a thirty thousand strong border security force in northern syria that would include the wife the u.s. has previously supplied took a dish vices and turkey is condemning the move with president edwin warning the u.s. not to interfere in its operations. in the coming daz we will continue the operation to purge our southern border from terrorists so what's the first step was taken with you freely shelled operation no i was afraid. is genuine in that we expect america to support turkey and its legitimate outlets we expect our friends to display an attitude to perfect to them and this issue has survived a lot of so sensitive and so critical for our country during the african operation i hope these powers will not give rise to error by appearing on the same side as the terror organization. syrian government forces have launched an attack on
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a makeshift camp in italy province. a missile hit an area close to civilians including families who fled from earlier bombing attacks in hama a syrian government pushed into the provinces falls more than one hundred twenty thousand people from their homes in recent weeks. say shame on you the palestinian president labeled u.s. president donald trump's peace efforts the slap of the century at a meeting of the p.l.o. central council president reiterated he won't accept the trumpet ministration as a mediator in talks with israel the usa to been told to fix its alert system after a false alarm said residents into a panic it took thirty eight minutes to correct the alert about a false milicic missile threat the us federal communications commission says did
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not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent a force emergency. all right there's are the headlines and news continues in about half an hour after inside story. the party of nelson mandela turns one hundred and six south africa's ruling a.n.c. is marking this anniversary with a pledge to rebuild itself from deep divisions and accusations of corruption but can the new leadership soul the many challenges the a.n.c. faces this is inside story.

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