gover a wealth of award winning programming from around the world being need more and find professionals to talk. to study find powerful documentaries debates and discussions as prime minister you do need to be critical of almost any and all sexism shattering perceptions of this story are shaped by the interests of the countries involved only on al-jazeera. president has a military assault on a kurdish enclave in soviet as eminent. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me in the wrong

i'm also ahead. accused of using vulgar language to describe african nations u.s. president donald trump says he's not a racist. liberia's outgoing president as expelled from her own party accused of backing an opposition candidate plus. outside in this church in southern chile a protest against pope francis. coming up i'll tell you why many people in this country. as the pope makes its way to. the u.s. has confirmed it's helping syria and could set up a border force containing thirty thousand personnel the troops will patrol the borders of territory carved out of northern syria by the syrian democratic forces

which are mainly composed of why p.g. find his and that's angered nato member turkey what it considers the group of terrorists and has evolved to retaliate balance reports. turkish president rigid type on using a posse idris to look staunch in the face of a u.s. specs kurdish force on his southern border he promised to respond with his own show of force and invasion of the syrian city of f. or in not so so the letter was huge and just like we do not let the kurdistan workers party or p.k. open their eyes within our borders we are determined to vanquish them on the other side of fall toward god willing in the coming days we will continue the operation to purge out southern border from terror. turkey has forced kurdish factions within its borders for more than thirty years and doesn't want to see the kurds gain power in neighboring syria but the americans have regarded kurdish forces as an effective

tool against eisel the kurds are the most effective fighting force 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 why b.g. as a dire threat they label them terrorists u.s. president trump promised that he would stop arming and training could feiss but the pentagon never made it official now turkey is furious about reports of a new u.s. backed border force of thirty thousand personnel with the syrian democratic forces a group largely controlled by the kurdish y.p. they were reportedly deploy along the border of turkey iraq to the south east and the phrase river valley the dividing line with assad's military the american backed kurdish y p g posted this online in december according to show clashes with took his forces it's an effort in northern syria the same kurdish enclave one now

since he will invade in the coming days will get there are many kyler despite it all we believe we have common interests with america in the room. and i hope we can act in concert because the time has come to support turkey and the time to give strategic corporation is do we expect them to support you know legitimate efforts during the operation i hope these powers will not give rise to enter by appearing on the same side as the terror organization africa could be the taste for a difficult three way relationship between powers in the syrian war turkey the united states and the kurdish fighters so hated by one side and supported by the other ballasts al-jazeera now a syrian government push into a province has forced about one hundred twenty thousand people from their homes and recent weeks but after displaced safe places of sanctuary many continue to face

danger and al jazeera crew captured these pictures while filming in a makeshift camp and in the province. no law no a lot of what to do we don't know what to do you know. i don't know if you don't feel afraid. that if you know law. well that will be. a missile hit close to civilians including families who had fled from earlier bombing attacks in the nearby hama countryside correspondent can be seen among men women and children trying to find cover. well aid agencies say they're overwhelmed by the scale of need in syria and they're warning that if the bombardment continue this a million displaced people will amassed near the turkish border so i'm corsi all of

reports from the refugee camp in northern italy a province. up to. last us 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 st george first taking refuge in a cave but the safety they found there didn't last for long and government forces were advancing on the area abdel and his wife say they were afraid of being killed and i'm not happy i'm not used to living right this here you don't feel free we are sleeping with our children one now we were hiding in a cave when the regime forces advance towards our lives we were afraid they would kill us and left us in the after the bombardment in the east hama a lot of people moved to sunder who faced few bombardments of deisel 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 a pool 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. the primary needs are tent some things like marshes blankets and carpets also items that are specially needed by children and women you name it the people in syria need it 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 i scape from the sad reality of their homeland people have managed to escape the regime's air strikes and the fight against aa is still they were able to find rafa is here in this care 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 a little al-jazeera northern is let. the in on to other news now and palestinian president mahmoud abbas has labeled donald trump's peace efforts the slap of the century saying shame on you addressing the p.l.o. central council our boss reiterated that he will not accept the trumpet ministration as a mediator in talks with israel and called for an international led process trump's decision to recognize diverse as israel's capital has sparked worldwide

condemnation and protests across the region the palestinian groups hamas and islamic jihad did not attend the meeting saying there's a lack of agreement on how to deal with washington. as following events and ramallah. it was a very strong speech from president bush about he said that jerusalem was the jewel in the crown of states and the capital of any future palestinian state criticize the u.s. president pro tempore removing jerusalem from any future palestinian state via tweet he was also very critical and he's very critical of language let's just take a listen to what some of that language sounded like. and will never see as i drive down the aisle we say that politically driven person is our capital in our religion is how capital graphically it's our capital. but it was removed from the map with a tweet from mr trump is so huge that the law would now we say no to trump we

wouldn't accept his plan we cited deal of the century is the slop of the century. but it wasn't just about jerusalem it was also about the palestinian factions as well he was very critical of islamic jihad and hamas for not coming to the central council meeting he said that this was about politics anymore this was about the future of jerusalem the future of the palestinian state now he did criticize us and it's not just 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 president mahmoud abbas but this isn't the end all the central council meeting throwing ahead to monday now there will be to these decisions that will be issued they will we shape any future negotiations and how those decisions will be implemented will begin. now u.s.

president donald trump has denied accusations he's a racist he's been criticized for allegedly using vulgar language when describing haiti el salvador and several african nations during the recent white house meeting patti culhane has long. the big conversation happening in washington and really across the country in the globe right now is president donald trump in fact a racist this is all coming about after a meeting where a bipartisan group of senators once the white house and said they had to compromise on immigration reform the president reportedly bristled at it because he said it would allow in countries in africa el salvador in haiti and he described those as undesirable countries although he used a far more explosive expletive to describe those places now the question is is he in fact a racist because in that conversation he said he would rather take in people from countries like norway which are majority white well years of the president had to say about. thank.

you this isn't just a question being bandied about whether or not president donald trump is racist this has an actual impact the republicans need to pass a budget their charge of the house and the senate and funding for the government runs out this coming friday if they can't pass something well then they'll face a partial government shutdown democrats have unique leverage because they need their votes in order to keep the government going so there are democrats who are saying they're simply not going to vote for it in less they get some sort of immigration deal they see this as their point of leverage and they plan to use it so right now they're basically going to face off for the next five days and either democrats are going to cave and vote for a budget or republicans are going to have to come up with some sort of immigration compromise meanwhile trump has accused the democrats of holding up in the go on the deck a program bush protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation and allows them to negative work and to do with trump end of the program in september and

congress has until march to renegotiate it. really really want to be done. with this. you know he. really. didn't want. to. do. now bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general who dealt with a question issues and government and he says there is a lot of uncertainty ahead surrounding the data program the president if there is some movement on the go she could extend that march date it's not in statute law so it isn't necessarily true that it's do or die in march i also think that it's

possible if the congress that's elected in november flips to the democrats they could provide some retroactive relief to the doctor members there's no way you could take eight hundred thousand and deport all of them you know in three or four months many of them may be difficult to detect and simply the ability that they have to seek refugee status even if they're no longer here legally as dhaka would tie up the immigration courts for a long time so it's not necessarily a nuclear option or not have to be forthcoming by by march. still ahead on the bulletin sol makes all public transportation faint during confusing hours as evolution reaches sea level and a new collection of the writings and speeches of china's president heads the bookshelves.

welcome back as we take a look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia you see we've got some snow showing up in the southern side of the caspian sea that should clear away as we head into tuesday but tehran will see a significant drop in temperatures a mix of just seven degrees cool further towards the east temperatures around freezing ten degrees in brighton couple elsewhere by taos looking at eighteen degrees the eastern side the mediterranean the wind coming in off the sea from atlanta temperatures seventeen there in beirut let's move down into arabian peninsula weather conditions largely fine we've got to thirty two and sunshine in mecca twenty five in doha but we are going to see the wind picking up during the course of choose there perhaps with some lifted dust but certainly that will be fairly strong blowing down through the gulf region affecting toe and abu dhabi let's head across into southern portions of africa where we've got some showers for the eastern cape some showers across parts of angola northern zambia and into

zimbabwe and also mozambique but we've also is circulation which is a tropical cyclone which will eventually push towards madagascar in the meantime it's like we give you some very heavy rain into parts of malicious and re-union but geria the stage on tuesday should be drawing fine in cape town pleasant day highs of twenty six. china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely men. one on one east meets those desperately seeking love any way they can at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. wherever you are.

good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories turkish president after one has vowed to operation on a major kurd a stronghold in northern syria his pledge to attack a grave in the coming days that's controlled by the y.p. a kurdish turkey considers terrorists palestinian president mahmoud abbas has labeled donald trump's peace efforts to slap of the century saying shame on you at a meeting of the p.l.o. central council abbas reiterated he will not accept the trumpet ministration as a mediator in talks with israel and donald trump says he's not racist he's been

accused of using vulgar language to describe african countries haiti and el salvador he has denied the accusations are attracting global condemnation. to liberia now where the unity party has expelled the outgoing president ellen johnson sirleaf accusing her of not supporting their candidate in the recent polls what she lost the party says she and four other sabotaged vice president joseph campaign has had a hawk star explains why you know you have a big fall for the mighty what should have been her political swan song after twelve years as president of the west african country is ending on a sour note she's won the most celebrated african leaders in recent memory and the first female elected president twice. she couldn't run for a third term because of liberia's constitution to block the government a unity party accused her of meddling in the presidential elections by supporting the opposition's count of the. who won by a landslide. party's candidate joseph had been her vice president throughout her

two terms in office there were reports the two fell out during the campaign as he tried to distance himself from her. neighbors economy has quadrupled watch for the country remains impoverished many have no access to a large drinking water or electricity. nicknamed sleepy joe for his tendency to fall asleep at public events book a has presented himself as the every man born into an illiterate family compared to her roots as a moneyed elitist a harvard educated and well bank trained civil servant first emerged politically in one thousand nine hundred seven as she ran against the ruling warlord charles taylor for my area. she got ten percent to his seventy five was more than two hundred thousand people were killed seventy percent of women were understood to have been raped thousands were

maimed as former president charles taylor fort with his rivals taylor was out in two thousand and three and is now seven a fifty year prison sentence after being convicted of war crimes at the hague as head of the peace time government she was sworn in for her first time in two thousand and six and again in two thousand and eleven she was awarded the nobel peace prize in two thousand and eleven as she campaigned for reelection i consider a it the recognition. of the many years of struggle sally secured more than four billion dollars in debt relief from the u.s. u.n. and philanthropist but still over a million liberians live in extreme poverty according to the u.n. sally also had to deal with the worst outbreak of ebola virus which killed at least five thousand people in liberia and nine. this is. despite her critics cite even as praise by many for her peaceful transition of political power she is due to hand over power to jordan where and his

running mate jewel how a tailor ex-wife will charles taylor on january twenty second. al-jazeera. a member of the cut three world family says he's being held against his world in the united arab emirates shake of the lebanon valley released a video statement saying that if anything happened to him cover is not at fault he's been living in saudi arabia since the blockade by some of those neighbors began it last june the u.a.e. denies the allegations and says he is free to leave whenever he chooses his foreign ministry says it's monitoring the situation aviation officials are investigating why a plane skidded off the runway at an airport in turkey the pegasus airlines flight had just landed and traps on near the black sea when it slid off the runway and plunged of the cliff stopping just a few meters above the water's edge one hundred sixty two passengers and six crew were on board all were safely taken off the plane. to chile now with six catholic

churches have been vandalized and three days on the eve of port arrival in the country the most recent attacks in the capital santiago and graffiti saying the pope will be in chile as part of a six day tour that will also include peru two countries where there have been several sex scandals involving the catholic church a latin america editor lucien newman has more from. 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 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

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. a survivor is one of those who accuse the bishop. facilitating abuses against them

by this man father finance. behind these walls abused scores of seminarians while preparing dozens of priests and five bishops including those he saw when the priest when he judged the people's genitals he was watching there's really the past the mony of how he was president and. the pope doesn't acknowledge god pure talk no action his zero tolerance is a false 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

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. but some news just coming into us from iraq where police say at least one person has died and five others have been injured in a double explosion that happened in central baghdad the blasts happened at the square it's not yet known what caused the explosions or violence and to the square have been closed we will bring you more on this as we get it. now commuters in the south korean capital enjoy free public transport during peak hours on monday the fee waived as part of emergency measures to tackle and pollution crisis the concentration of fine particles in the air and sold to

dangerous levels on sunday kathy novak has been talking to commuters and sold people may welcome a free ride but in terms of public reaction to this move by the sole city government there's quite a bit of cynicism about whether it will really work first of all souls public transportation is already quite affordable it costs an average of about a dollar per ride and also people are blaming their pollution problems mostly on china. the main cause of the fine dust issue comes from china so i don't think that's effective the issue should be fixed in china first. if public transportation is free when we have high levels of fine dust for people who drive and it will help lessen the pollution. coming from china but if we can do something about it like having fewer cars it will help china is taking steps to curb pollution and actually the air quality here in south korea this winter has been

a little bit better than it had been in previous years last year a joint study between a korean research institute and the u.s. space agency nasa found that between may and june actually only about a third of the air pollution in south korea came from in china that may have been a little bit different if readings had been taken around this time of year still this move by sol city government is an example of a farty is in south korea trying to take control of pollution that is created domestically most of that comes from vehicle so they really want to take more cars off the road. you're going to has issued an evacuation order to thousands of people living near a volcano which has erupted the prime minister has also warned people to be ready for a possible tsunami office spewing ash for several days. on friday but volcanologists unsure whether the new reports of seismic activity cause for concern. chinese students studying the so-called xi jinping thoughtful philosophy will

benefit from the publication from the country's president he's released another collection of his writings and speeches but as rob mcbride reports raises questions of press freedom in the country. to meet demand the presses have been rolling nonstop since the communist party congress in october which adopted cheatin ping's thoughts as a guiding philosophy. not surprisingly bookstores give the work special prominence when we arrived at this bookstore the promotional section was empty but suddenly and suspiciously it filled with customers at least song a communist party member told her she was buying five copies for a study group back at her office i mean i haven't read the book yet but i started right after i go back we have all read the nineteenth party congress reports the ever times alongside the new she work is the report of the party congress that

enshrined the concept of she thought into the constitution copies of the constitution are handily available to. put the books the party congress together on the shelves because they are in great demand from the citizens they happen urgent need to treat them equally urgent it seemed was the need of citizens to leave as soon as we left so did they when our producer returned ten minutes later a special section was deserted again. the future study of xi jinping thought by students and party members looks certain to make cheese books volumes one and two bestsellers for years to come contrast that with the fate of other political books about china's leaders that won't be included on any college reading list on book stands in the southern city of hong kong far more sensational titles claimed to give a behind the scenes look at the intrigue in the chinese leadership band on the mainland

they sell well to chinese visitors but we found this door closed supposedly for renovation. another was closed permanently two years ago when the publishers associated with it were detained in mainland china lam winkie claims he was abducted and subjected to mental torture before finally being released. after the incident for our book store everyone in the publishing chain is terrified there are less political books and some publishers have stopped so sort of titles altogether even in hong kong with its freedom of speech when it comes to she's reputation china seems determined there will be only one official version of bride al jazeera beijing.

hello again. the headline. turkish president. operation on a major kurdish stronghold in northern serbia he's pledged to attack in the coming days that's controlled by the kurdish. terrorists well the move comes after reports the u.s. coalition plans to build a thirty thousand strong personnel border security force in northern syria and that would include. the u.s. has previously supplied arms to kurdish fighters turkey is condemning the move of one of the us not to interfere. god willing in the coming days we will continue the operation to purge our southern border from terror which the first step was taken with you freely shelled operation and no i was afraid. we expect america to support turkey and its legitimate efforts we expect our friends to display or not achieve the pathetic ones in 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. syrian government forces launched an attack on a makeshift camp and the province. a missile hit close to civilians including families who had fled from earlier bombing attacks in the countryside the syrian government pushing to adlib problems has forced about one hundred twenty thousand people from their homes and recently and other news palestinian president mahmoud abbas has labeled u.s. president donald trump's peace efforts the slap of the century at a meeting of the p.l.o. central council abbas reiterated that he will not accept the tromp of ministration as a mediation talks with israel. and donald trump has declared he's not a racist he's been accused of using vulgar language to describe african countries

haiti and el salvador deny the accusations often attracted widespread condemnation but those are the headlines on al-jazeera what i want to east of coming up next. education with a difference for interpretation of his law is absolutely different from mine as a muslim woman a taliban school for girls in afghanistan reveals a way of life rarely seen change. your goal to not only tell them about their bills and regulations that let's not let you teach them about them but gets an exclusive documentary gains access to the goals of the talent. at this time on al-jazeera.