a new poll ranks mexico city is the pool with worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened i think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse no money on the uses a new service it's called lal dr it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers. twin suicide bombings during the morning rush hour in baghdad that leaves dozens dead and many more injured.

because of the robber this is just their life or headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes panic also carter stock exchanges a balcony collapses inside the building. also turkey's president says a military assault on a kurdish enclave in syria is imminent and. accused of using vulgar language to describe african nations the u.s. president donald trump says he's not a racist. welcome to the program two suicide bomb blasts in baghdad have killed at least twenty six people will fade tallaght ease a feared among the ninety five wounded in the ryan square in the iraqi capital all roads to the square have been closed well joining me now is the rushdie's the director of the house of iraqi expertise foundation joins me on the phone from

baghdad good to have you with us on the program we've seen a rise in attacks in recent days in baghdad why now. well actually. it's not the first one it is the second one is also there that wasn't. actually killed let's say well people. remember. looks like. really focusing on to people actually other times and the early morning i'm. much more more and more attacks maybe maybe something you know now because we all know that because. maybe it's not it's not concern. what about political issues i don't know i don't know what's happening actually did

we have to wait to see who takes responsibility for that blast or you just mentioned the elections actually tension always rises when there are elections in iraq we are looking towards elections in may the prime minister read about he has said he will stand again how sensitive are elections at the moment in terms of the political stakes in iraq when security is always a huge issue. the elections actually now is. full of some sort of funding from all walks because we all know that. there is. a process appreciate the people even in the south and now there is some form of. security. and there was. a free. critical security situation which. only republican

political parties to go forward for funding but until now there is no one. there is no concern about corresponding reluctance is. still. supposed to be accepted by. accepted by the parliament which is called. the prevention council and also the parliamentary elections so we don't have an we all know now we don't have the budget for the elections till the trees the twelfth of may ok let's just concentrate on baghdad at the moment it is full of c.c.t.v. cameras and the interior ministry is always reassuring the public that they are in charge of the situation what does today's attack tell us about the mechanisms in the interior ministry to try and stop attacks like this.

actually it looks like there is. an intelligence intelligence network that's why. things i think both major. meetings with the. security leaders to talk about what's happening. looks like it's cool to the people who. need a victory they can cannot control. problem for high dollar budget five times because people think. it's actually smoke coming out. in the mattresses there are they are not actually they are still there the sleeping cells are working. for pressure on the intelligence thinks it will have to see what happens in the coming hours the moment addressed on the line bank that since joining. not turkish president reza one says he's planning to launch

a military operation of the major kurdish stronghold in northern syria and it comes after the us said it was backing the formation of a kurdish led border force in syria's rebel controlled areas but ones pledged to attack the town of affluent in the coming days it's controlled by the syria democratic forces a kurdish led group backed by the u.s. which turkey says is a front for the y. p.g. and classifies the y.p. g. as a terror group shortly after his announcement s.d.f. rebel shelled aziz a neighboring city held by turkish backed forces there already reports of turkish troops movements along the northern syrian border and at the edge of the s.t.'s held territory money on hold has more. turkish president today chip tayyip erdogan and using a party address to look staunch in the face of a u.s. backed could use force on his southern border he promised to respond with a show of force saying tikki will launch its own military operation and the northern syrian city of buffeting not so still

a lot of religion that just like we do not let the kurdistan workers party or 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 our southern border from terror. turkey has fought kurdish factions within its borders for more than thirty years and doesn't want to see they could gain power in neighboring syria the u.s. and the european union say the p.k. k. is a terror group but in northern syria the americans say they're supporting kurdish forces not the p.k. k. specifically 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 y. b.g. as a dire threat to us. president trump promised iran that he would stop being and training

could fight is but the pentagon never made that 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 of largely controlled by the could ish y p g they will reportedly deploy along the border of turkey iraq to the southeast and the euphrates river valley the dividing line with assad's military hope the american backed could a swipe e.g. posted this online in december purporting to show clashes with turkish forces it's enough rain in northern syria the same could own clave we're heard one now says he will launch a military operation in the coming days they'll get their army to kyler despite it all we believe we have common interests with america in the region and hope we can act in concert because the time has come to support turkey and the time to get strategic corporation is do african could be the taste for

a difficult three way relationship between powers in the syrian war ticky the united states and the kurdish fight is so hated by one side and supported by the other medium mahommed his era. has the latest from on talking or in turkey the border with syria. along with the euphrates shield operation turkey has conducted turkish politicians have been repeating this possible military intervention in our friend due to turkey's concern over its territorial integrity and national security especially after the you developed its support to the air forces which is mainly the white pages turkey is concerned that those weapons why p.g. received by washington could be used against turkey and inside turkey as well but it is a question mark whether turkey will be able to launch the suppression or not because

russia is also a very strong player in our friends so if turkey and russia has a deal over after an operation the operation could be realized this is what analysts say but we have to see what's at stake between turkey and russia over our friend if russia says goal to turkey for after an operation what is russia going to ask back from turkey these are two question marks that are waiting for answers and as long as analysts say the questions should be clear and this will specify how turkey will launch a military operation in africa whether it's going to be sued as turkish president says as this week or is it going to take a longer time russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says we'll continue to work towards a peace process in syria with all major players. oh for this one. we plan to facilitate the syrian process and unify all players so that the parties

with an interest in syria should be able to put them forward so i have reasons to believe that russian turkish and iranian initiatives that allowed the start of the istana process to create an area of the escalation the process is still there and useful and the istana process stimulates the work of the un so i hope that the syrian national dialogue an initiative to lead the un to step up their work as well as we would like to facilitate the negotiations in syria we mention this to the un and countries that are taking part in the syrian peace process with the palestinian teenager i had to meet me as expected to find out whether she gets bail after a video of her slapping and hitting israeli soldiers went viral she was arrested a month ago and faces a possible ten years in prison for assault stone throwing and incitement hours before the incident heads cousin mohammed was seriously injured when an israeli soldier fired a rubber coated steel bullets at his face rights groups including amnesty international have called for her b.d.s. really it's. the palestinian president says donald trump's efforts to mediate talks

with israel a shameful addressing the p.l.o. central council abbas said the u.s. president's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel was what he called a slap of the century abbas won't accept the u.s. as a mediator and wants an internationally led process amass an islamic jihad say there's a lack of palestinian agreement on how to deal with the u.s. leadership in montana has more from ramallah. is a very strong speech from president mubarak you said they drew sloan was the jewel in the crown state capital of any future state the state criticize the u.s. prison term for removing jerusalem from any future other 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. we say that politically driven person is our capital in our religion is how capital

idea graphically it's our capital. but it was removed from the map with a tweet from mr trump as say you. were but now we say no to trump we want except his plan we cited a 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 islamic jihad and hamas 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 a palestinian state now he did criticize the senate but. for the positions he also said that this was a time 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 we did last but this isn't the end all of the central

council meeting throwing ahead 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 will be key. least twenty people have been taken to hospital after being hit by falling rubble on the indonesian stock exchange it's also about any collapsed on the upper floors showering daybreak to people in the lobby below our correspondent in jakarta step bason has the latest. the collapse happened just as the trading floor was going into its lunch break but there were also visiting students from samantha who were doing a student trip to the building when this collapse suddenly happened it's sort of a balcony the massad and floor between the lobby and the second floor that suddenly collapsed and some witness accounts have been heard that said there was some kind of sound or a noise before this whole construction sort of came down and fell on the people in

the lobby floor people have of course been panicking that we're scrambling to get out of disused office tower there's a lot of international offices in this building people who are forced to go out of course as soon as possible people have been seen lying on the streets injured a lot of them also students or those visiting students coming to that building during that fatal moment of the collapse of course many people are asking questions why disk would happen in this establish very important office building in the central heart of chalk that a final financial district of shock after the building has been there for decades already police has also confirmed that it's not an attack or a bomb bomb attack because in the year two thousand and eighteen years ago fifteen people died during a car bomb attack in exactly that same building but this is an accident and of course many questions will be asked about how this could happen and of course the international offices also in this building like the world bank the bank of america

and a lot of airlines who are in that same tower are going to ask questions on how safe is their office building and as we speak are still people are being rushed to the hospital and being treated and that account of people who have been brought and have been injured will still go up through this day. the u.s. president donald trump has denied accusations that he's a racist he's been criticized for allegedly using vulgar language when describing haiti el salvador and the african continent during a recent white house meeting particle hain has more. 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 here's what the president had to say about that. thank you even. if 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 several cats 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 while still out here on al-jazeera liberia's outgoing president is expelled from her own vonte accused of backing an opposition candidate. to. some the catholic pope speaks out in defense of migrants he says down should not to be in all respects to your rivals those stories after the pike. from cool brisk noise and fuel. to the warm trunk cool to those of southeast asia. hello there we're seeing some more heavy downpours across the southeastern parts of asia but the huge problem cloud here that still of the mill a pretty peninsula and it's giving us a fair few heavy outbreaks of rain more still to come as we head through the next

couple of days and we're also seeing some heavy showers over parts of the philippines there was will gradually push their way northwards there as we head into wednesday and it looks like news on it's going to see some particularly heavy rain as we head down towards australia there's also a lot of wet weather to be found here we've seen a lot of rain already in perth a more is falling it's all thanks to this area of cloud and that was thanks to the tropical cyclone that hit the northern part of australia a few days ago it's injected all this moisture into the region and we're seeing heavy rain here at the moment and it looks like they'll be a fair few more showers as we head through tuesday as well for they some parts it's very different here the temperatures are on the rise thirty there in adelaide on tuesday up to thirty four thirty five as we head into wednesday and the temperatures will also be rising for us in melbourne it won't be quite that hope for us in sydney yet and that's good news because we've been fighting wildfires here here are the latest pictures of the fires that we've seen just to the north of newcastle so that system then is getting hotter and we're also seeing more rain

make its way towards new zealand look very stormy there for the south island as we head into wednesday the with sponsored by qatar race. in two thousand and eight al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the screen helping change the face of india. at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching all of us around the whole robin of mind of our top stories two suicide bomb blasts in baghdad of killed at least twenty six people wolf atallah t's are feared among the ninety five we did to ryan square in the iraqi capital. at least twenty people have been taken to hospital after being hit by falling rubble at the indonesian stock exchange it's also a balcony collapsed on the upper floors showering daybreak to people in the lobby for low. and turkish president reza diverted one has vowed to launch a military operation on a major kurdish stronghold in syria it comes after the u.s. confirmed it's helping set up by thirty thousand strong border force in the north of the country. twice african our liberia's unity party has expelled the outgoing president ellen johnson sirleaf accusing her of not supporting their candidate in the recent polls the party says she and four others sabotaged vice president joseph

buckeye's campaign had a hoax to reports like no you're a big fall for the mighty what should have been had political swansong 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 block the governor unity party accused her of meddling in the presidential elections by supporting the opposition's candidate george where who won by a landslide. her party's candidate joseph worker 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. library's economy has quadrupled under saddam's watch but the country remains impoverished many have no access to a knob or 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 the harvard education and world 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 forth with his rivals tate was out in two thousand and three and it's 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 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 librarians live in extreme poverty according to u.n. sally also had to deal with the worst outbreak of ebola virus which killed at least five thousand people in liberia nine. despite her critics sullivans praised 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 egg. why from charles taylor on january twenty second. al-jazeera there are thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes on the island of luzon in the philippines as the volcano much mail continues to erupt lover has been pouring from mails quatre since saturday disaster management officials say more than nine thousand people have been moved to emergency shelters. and the

delegations from north and south korea are meeting again to discuss the north's participation in the winter olympics they met at the pentagon troops village inside the demilitarized zone separating the two countries the rat second round of talks or a sign of foreign relations between india and seoul last week sit down with the first time the two sides held direct talks in nearly two years. hundreds of people have protested in the tunisian capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring but as have reports many of the issues that brought people to the streets are back again causing problems today. a day of national unity until it is yeah people from all walks of life conversion here on happy bookkeeper square to commemorate the two thousand and eleven pro-democracy movement that brought the end of president. 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 we not improve the lives of the poor and could make things worse you see i'm doing. the part is 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. 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 send 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. the revolution was about freedom and dignity but it's a revolution was 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 send their differences aside and remember those who lost their lives to hand out a plan to but the millions of people had hoped the revolution will bring about prosperity feel frustrated over their government and worry about their future but i'll do the around turnus now pope francis has departed for the south american top

to promote peace and unity but he is expected to be met with protests over abuse allegations against the catholic church the potter's first stop will be chile where these five churches have recently been vandalized and in the wake of the attacks the security plan for his visit is being reevaluated he'll also be visiting peru. well before departing for south america francis remarked of the world day for my quince refugees with a special mass in the vatican the un's refugee agency says more people are currently displaced than ever before petersham possible. in the five years of his papacy propes francis has stressed time and again christianity's mission to welcome the vulnerable and the marginalised and on sunday at this mass instant 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 internal. local communities are sometimes afraid that the newly arrived to 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 these fears a legitimate having doubts and fears is not a sin the sin is to allow those the is 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 the address by the pope is important for two main reasons the first is that we've seen all too few world

leaders willing to stand up for refugees in fact of sin quite the opposite over the course of the last two years we've seen a hardening of the refugee rhetoric which the pope references in his address pope francis leaves on monday for a week long visit to peru and chile he'll be taking his message of compassion. for the 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 brought to shore. al jazeera. you're watching algis their arms the whole robin the top stories turkish president the one who has vowed to launch a military operation on a major kurdish stronghold in syria comes after the u.s.

confirmed it's helping to set up a thirty thousand strong border force in the north of the country will be comprised mainly of kurdish fighters who turkey considers to be terrorists russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow will continue to work towards a peace process in syria with all the major players of. which we plan to facilitate the syrian process and unify all players so that the parties with an interest in syria should be able to put them forward i have reasons to believe that russian turkish and iranian initiatives that allowed the start of the process to create an area of the escalation the process is still there and useful and the process stimulates the work of the un i hope that the syrian national dialogue and lead the un to step up their work as well we would like to facilitate the negotiations in syria we mention this to the un and countries that are taking part in the syrian peace process more than seventy two people have been

taken to hospital after parts of an upper floor in indonesia stock exchange building collapsed rubble fell from a balcony old to people in the lobby below several ambulances are attending jakarta police say they're responding to the incident. two suicide bomb blasts in baghdad have killed at least twenty six people more fatalities are feared among the ninety five wounded in the square in the iraqi capital all roads to the square have now been closed. we've told journalists that he's not a racist the us president's been accused of using vulgar language to describe african countries as well as haiti and el salvador he's denied the accusations after attracting widespread condemnation. and leave. you. delegations from south and north korea are meeting to discuss the north's participation in the winter olympics they met in the penguin job truce for the edge

inside the demilitarized zone separating the two countries or a second round of talks or a sign of relations between pyongyang and seoul. for you in thirty minutes to stay with us here on al-jazeera. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera.