and the screen helping change the face of india. at this time on al-jazeera. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is simplistic you have the brain good logical rational person is crazy monsters and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not hold well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera. diplomatic and military tensions on two fronts in syria turkey builds up troops on one stretch of for its border as the u.s.

plays down its role in supporting a new force for the roots. to watching al-jazeera lie from a headquarters and. also ahead a palestinian is killed in a raid by israeli forces they say he was involved in the death of a rabbi. a rare show of unity by the two koreas ahead of the would to relent pics but not everyone is happy in the south plus. why tech giant apple is bringing large sums of cash back to the united states. hello turkey says it's not satisfied with assurances from the u.s. over a kurdish led border force in northern syria that anchor us called terror army media reports i've spoken off a u.s. sponsored force of thirty thousand something the turkish foreign minister says

would cause irreversible damage to relations with the u.s. secretary of state said those reports aren't accurate and he held a meeting with his turkish counterpart on wednesday. the united states hears and takes seriously the concerns of our nato ally turkey we recognize the humanitarian contributions and military sacrifices turkey has made towards defeating isis towards their support of millions of syrian refugees and stabilizing areas of syria it has helped liberate we must have turkey's close cooperation in achieving a new future for syria that ensure security for syria's not well tensions are also rising along the border on a second front with turkey massing forces near the court kurdish controlled town of . but syria's foreign minister says any attack there would be an aggressive act and is threatening to shoot down turkish fighter jets stephanie decker has more from

antakya near the turkish syrian border. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border president russia has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area by fleeing for almost a week now there's been sporadic shelling after the mines in the north west of syria turkey borders the area in the north and west turkish troops are present inside syria on its southern edge and to the east are turkish backed syrian rebels so it is in effect surrounded. african is one of the autonomous enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p.y.t. party and its armed wing the y.p. the i.p.g. has been working with the u.s. in order to push ice a lot of syria not enough rain further east of the euphrates river in turkey seize the y.p. g. is an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the u.s. in europe considers a terrorist organization a free has been relatively peaceful throughout this war and it hosts tens of

thousands of internally displaced syrians the americans have never had a presence here unlike the other kurdish run area of syria but the russians do and i'm chris says it has every right to protect its borders and the timing is interesting it will let you know africa has been there for quite a long time and it's never through like you know was it a serious issue to threats or turkey but there are going to probably need is this kind of nationalistic. you know rhetoric and potentially use its military in order to be able to gain more. with the upcoming elections in in turkey so i think. you know set aside when it comes to actual interaction and into a friend tensions have been stoked further in recent days by the us announcement of a so-called border force which will be based east of the euphrates along the border with turkey and iraq and the y.p. g. will form its backbone not. the united states

a nato ally supports a terrorist organization that threatens turkey can this be acceptable its own acceptable and inexplicable. but u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says it's not a border force the u.s. role has been mr trade and turkey is owed an explanation he says the build up is aimed at countering the resurgence of beisel will be internally focused and is important for the stability of syria however that's not what others involved syrians would think ankara to have on moscow and damascus have a voice their opposition to. israeli forces have killed a palestinian man and injured others during a raid in the occupied west bank israeli police say they were searching for a man who killed a rabbi a week ago and one cause more from joining in the occupied west bank have been conflicting reports on thursday morning about the identity of the palestinian man that was killed in this village west of janine initially the israeli said that the

man killed was linked to the murder of a rabbi a settler rabbi in a nablus on january the ninth however the palestinian health ministry has issued a different name draw who's from this village now the raid began around eleven o'clock late on wednesday night israeli special forces came in now we don't know who fired first but we do know that two israeli special forces soldiers were injured and the palestinian man was shot that then around two o'clock in the morning the israeli army came in and locals telling us that they shelled the house i'm going to go away so you can see the damage that was created that was a family home it's now just a pile of rubble and it's not the only one there were another two houses in this local area that have been turned into rubble now won't palestinians here asking themselves is whether this was a case of mistaken identity or that it was simply bad intelligence on behalf of

these readies israelis have said who and why intelligence they were using to accept pawn in this particular right but there's a lot of very angry palestinian here and the family here morning. the un is calling for the yemeni port of her day that to remain open beyond friday to continue the delivery of lifesaving goods the saudi led coalition has allowed to for its operation after u.s. funded cranes were installed on tuesday and used to handle seventy percent of yemen's imports but damage from a twenty fifteen air strike and the blockade by the saudi led military alliance has severely restricted aid to access yeah it is the deputy regional director for the international committee of the red cross in yemen he said the aid is critical for the survival of millions of people on the brink of famine. the yemeni population is dependent on aid. its ninety percent of the needs of the yemeni people are sustained for imports and as such. the restrictions on imports prevent the.

flow of commercial goods and humanitarian aid from reaching the human population so that is where things should be moving on lessening those resources we need more we need less restrictions on imports fuel is key and central for the survival of the population in yemen fuel is essential for the running most hospitals in a health system that is faltering only forty five percent of house facilities are functioning today in yemen but fuel is also important for water water pumping stations depend on fuel. sewage treatment plants dependent fuel vehicles that collect the garbage depend on fuel i know all of this creates a vicious circle were the population being weakened after years of exhausting their resources and not having any more the capacity to suffer pain will only have more to be done makes like diphtheria coming back to them if these conditions are not treated immediately a fire on

a bus in kazakhstan has killed fifty two passengers only five managed to escape the bus was on the main road between it was a pakistani and russia route used by migrant workers police are investigating what caused the blaze. russia is this missing what it calls a groundless accusations by the u.s. president of the kremlin is helping north korea evade international sanctions in an interview donald trump also cast doubt on whether talks with north korea's leader would be useful and warned the north is getting closer to building a missile capable of attacking the u.s. mainland he said china could do much more but praise restrictions on oil and coal deliveries to the north there's been a mixed response to news north and south korean athletes will march under a unified flag at next month's winter olympics will also form a joint women's ice hockey team for the games in south korea's chang several petitions have been filed with some complaining it could affect the team's medal chances the announcements fall of the first high level meetings between north and

south korea in more than two years kathy novak has more from seoul. the winter olympics are just twenty two days away and the two koreas have come to a last minute agreement that they will walk together at the opening ceremony the south korean government says it's all part of an effort to promote this event as the peace olympics but not everyone here is happy a recent poll found only about four out of ten support the idea of marching under a unified korean peninsula flag and others are against the idea of a joint women's ice hockey team. i think we need to carry our own flag i'm also against a united team because the athletes have worked so hard as a team so this is not fair and it's going to leave that up we should be unified anyway so i think it's a good idea we are the only separated nation in the world and i think it's mainly because of political reasons. some critics have questioned the decision to allow

south korean athletes to train at a north korean ski resort which is known as the leader kim jong un's pet project they worry that south korea is helping promote tourism there and while there has been saw in north and south korean relations these talks have been limited to discuss india lympics and not the bigger issue of north korea's nuclear weapons program so the question remains what happens after the olympics when the u.s. and south korea are due to resume joint military drills which always anger the north. pope francis isn't it k.k. the last stop on his tour of chile the head of the catholic church is holding an open air mass on the beach right now as you can see before he heads to peru and you're looking at live pictures from a key cait cell for the masses just about to begin couple of minutes worshippers camped out on the sand overnight waiting for the pontiff's arrival and on the way to a kick a pope francis celebrated the first ever airborne papal wedding marrying two flight

attendants from chile's flagship airline during the flight. the british prime minister to resume is expected to pledge sixty two million dollars to strengthen border controls with france when she meets french president shortly there's been an influx influx of migrants trying to reach the u.k. via the french port of cali prompting france to demand more funding from london the leaders are also expected to discuss ongoing negotiations and earlier britain's lower house of parliament approved a key bridge to the bill which would end the supremacy of law in the u.k. the bill now goes to the upper house where it's expected to face some resistance it's become a focal point in months of debate about what type of divorce britain should seek from the e.u. so in a home has more from centers. well the world famous sandhurst military academy

there behind me the setting for this summit between the french and british leaders the leaders of course of two countries that are the sort of preeminent military powers in the european union albeit not the powers that they once were but to countries that face threats abroad and also face threats at home they've both been the targets of course of violent attack in recent times with substantial loss of innocent lives and of course they share a border as well on the french side including sometimes troubled port of cali with its build up of migrants and refugees largely trying to make their way to britain so the focus of this summit will be looking at those issues they'll be headline commitments to offer more money tens of millions of dollars more by britain to play its part in securing that border and in taking in more all of those migrants and refugees they'll be military commitments to help france's efforts in north africa to combat isolated al-qaeda and britain's efforts to secure the e.u. use eastern border against the russians threat but of course overshadowing all of

this as with all of british foreign policy in much of the e.u. as well is brinks it and the diplomats on both sides presenting this meeting as one between two countries with very old longstanding ties to try and form the basis of a new future friendship bearing in mind that they have so much in common but also as a result of bragg's of potentially so much to lose still ahead on al-jazeera mexicans in the u.s. and record amounts of money home as fears of deportation rise under president trump and. donald trump's presidency has had a huge impact and famine is in the united states and across the globe and look at that. hell it is remarkably warm considering it's the middle of winter in china nine

degrees in shanghai twenty one hong kong and sixteen children these are all several degrees above the average and if anything they're rising in the next day or so the onshore breeze means it's fairly humid home call but a cloud will form a shower too is possible with our southwest otherwise it's a dry picture there has been fog arrived with an increase in breeze in particular in shanghai will get rid of that lot so for northern india and persistent fork is still the thing around new delhi and want to other places fall or in the worst conditions it's the quiet time of year there is still cloud running through the hindu kush some clouds in sri lanka which might bring a shower too otherwise you don't expect a lot of change just yesterday just yet nor will there be any and if you go directly west to the raving states or it's more a case of these are windows in the wind well there has been a bit of a northerly breeze going down the gulf is now i turn to a southerly this is in the forecast course for friday temperature wise we're all in the twenty's now including mecca at about twenty eight as

a cloud precious little visible here's you can see a hint maybe the northerly breeze comes down through the gulf again and meccas crept up to thirty one powerful that spot the difference. the scene for us when they're online which is a very nice time in yemen that peace is possible but. not because the situation is . because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation at this time on now to zero.

the top stories on al-jazeera ties between washington and turkey are under strain after reports the u.s. is forming a kurdish border force in northern syria the turkish foreign minister said relations would be reverse of the damage if it goes ahead america's top diplomat says the reports are inaccurate that the u.s. is only training anti eisel fighter jets israeli forces have killed a palestinian man and injured others during a raid in the occupied west bank israeli police say they were searching for a man who killed a rabbi a week ago. a little. pope francis. the last stop on his tour of chile you're looking at live pictures of the open air site where the mass is about to begin among those in attendance the

outgoing chilean president michelle bachelet the head of the catholic church heads to peruse later on thursday and fly to a kick a he celebrated the first ever airborne papal wedding marrying two flight attendants. the me too movement been in the global spotlight in the past few months it's empowered women to speak out about sexual harassment and abuse that despite reports the election of donald trump as the us president has also played into that movement had a clear impact on women in politics. preserve protect and defend there was no comparison donald trump had his day so help me god and the very next one women had theirs. in washington d.c. the largest protest in the history of the country women across america and the

world marched to reject the president his sexist actions comments and past allegations of sexual assault he was even caught on tape bringing about it. and he was still a leftist. the question at the time was this a moment or a movement i never thought that i would do this until i went to the women's march in washington d.c. let this be the beginning empowered women like rebecca cola ran for elected office in virginia a record number ran eleven toppled long serving male politicians it's been happening across the country. and i just say to donald trump keep your hands off seattle. women are running like never before and winning in large part because women are also voting in huge numbers because of trump the

worst could possibly happen actually happened and we have someone unqualified to be leading this country long time feminist icon gloria steinem is in a unique position to judge this movement she told me she believes it is here to stay and it is beginning to shift and i think i think are beginning to see that there is no gender. people or people but. then beyond race and beyond gender we're just going to have less of a system that political scientist laura brown says will change because of this she predicts women will have parity in government in a decade or so what you see here is that enough women are finally getting involved at the local and state level. to ensure that there will be a strong bench of women candidates ready to run for those higher level offices in the coming years and decades one year is that it appears there is something donald

trump is making great again feminism although it is highly unlikely that was his intention to call him al-jazeera washington momi sloan as a former federal prosecutor she says there are many things happening in the trumpet administration that have galvanized women into action some of the very troubling things are for example the very few number of women who he's appointing. most of the people he's appointing are white men i think ninety one percent of his appointments so far have been white and eighty one percent have been male we've also seen the same trend in his appointments to judicial nominations almost all of those people are also white men in the u.s. attorney's offices around the country there are ninety three of them he's only made appointments for forty two but only one of those has been a woman so we have seen this incredibly low number of women put in positions of power and also minorities put in positions of power and i think that too is

a galvanizing force for people around the country this is his cabinet and his administration is just not what america looks like today and on saturday we'll have a one hour special at seventeen g.m.t. looking back at donald trump's first year in office and what to expect in his second year while mexicans living in the u.s. are sending home record amounts of money is concerned grows over the government's immigration crackdown last year they transferred twenty six billion dollars providing a vital lifeline to some of mexico's poorest communities of zeros money while visiting one community in the southern mexican city of the haka. who deanna cruz and her mother or handcrafting pottery the same way most of the women in the town of san marcos make a living it's not always enough to make ends meet but who yanna gets help from her brother who lives in the united states but i hope. this work that i do helps us and sometimes when my brother sends money that helps us to. ghana isn't the only person

here who receives money from relatives in the u.s. . this line outside a local wire service is a common sight and on most days the line can be much longer for many mexicans these remittance payments can be a way out of poverty is that says so they use this cash mainly for food to buy clothes to build their homes and they also use a very small amount for savings. last year remittances sent from the united states increased by four percent experts say it's a result of changing policies in the united states i. think there's a fear among immigrants of the u.s. government will take away what they have part of the reason for the increase in remittances is over the fear that their assets will be seized at the. money sent home by migrants has historically been an important part of the mexican economy accounting for more than two percent of the country's g.d.p.

in two thousand and seventeen remittances outpaced all of mexico's commercial exports combined excluding oil and according to mexico's central bank that cash totaled twenty six point one billion dollars between january and november of last year. for families like cruz and her mother it's pottery that puts food on the table but that extra cash for brother sons goes a long way in maintaining their quality of life. welcome mexico. workers building the world's largest airline are going to be kept busy for years to come thanks to a vital order from emirates the dubai based airline has ordered twenty eight with the option to buy sixteen more the sixteen billion dollars deal is vital for air bus the aerospace giant landed its first a three eighty order in three years after warning it may have to shut production lines emirates is already the super jumbos biggest customer with a fleet of one hundred one so far. now to the call on everyone in every country to

confront the challenge from what are called populist demagogues human rights watch says the racially divisive policies of the u.s. president donald trump are just one cause of concern the group's annual report praised organizers of popular movements and legal challenges to attacks on human rights including in the u.s. hungary and poland human rights watch warns of a retreat from the championing of human rights by the u.s. as well as the u.k. the group says british leaders are preoccupied with. a big parties are influencing some other european countries such as austria the report says that inattention has created a vacuum so mass atrocities went unchecked in countries like me and more so sudan syria and yemen saudi arabia has been held to account over the conduct of the war in yemen by a number of other countries especially canada belgium ireland and luxembourg

kenneth roth is the executive director of human rights watch he told al-jazeera that the lack of international leadership on human rights means abuses are being overlooked. they feel that they can convince people that the rights of minorities don't matter you know even though once you let governments pick and choose rights all of our rights are in secure because it may be the vulnerable minority today whose rights are attacked but tomorrow which can be the majority the other real danger is that you know in this void of leadership we've seen some governments just you know feel they have a green light to commit atrocities you know that's in a sense what happened with the berm is governments ethnic cleansing of six hundred fifty thousand row hinge a muslims that's in a sense with the saudi crown prince has been able to do in yemen where seventy million people face starvation in a million have suffered cholera and that's what we've seen you know in syria where we're poor and assad continue to attack civilians and and are besieging at this

very moment three hundred ninety thousand people in eastern guta just ten kilometers away from damascus where they're desperate for food and medical care so it's important to to close this leadership void and for governments to to you know to grab the baton when they can and to step in and stop it so people have been killed by falling debris in stormy weather in the netherlands high winds ripped roofs off homes blew trucks off roads and forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights the national emergency line has been receiving around a thousand calls every fifteen minutes. now the u.s. technology giant apple says it's going to create twenty thousand jobs for american workers that will go down well with donald trump and his america first campaign has been criticized for employing queue jumpers a fork as an asia to make i phones and other devices and for avoiding u.s. taxes by having huge reserves of cash in foreign bank accounts she have written

same reports. apple has long been criticized for its huge cash of some two hundred fifty billion. dollars that it made through its foreign subsidiaries but refused to repatriate to the u.s. in order to avoid paying u.s. taxes that's ninety four percent of its total cash under the new tax bill passed at the end of last year apple and other multinationals got what they loaned one to a reduction in the tax rate on those holdings from thirty eight percent to fifteen and a half percent however apple has to pay that fifteen and a half percent whether it repat treats the money or not on wednesday apple announced its taxable income to thirty eight billion dollars a saving of some forty two billion dollars according to analysts the company also announced it will open a new campus in the u.s. twenty thousand more employees and spend three hundred fifty billion dollars over the next five years this is really going from apple's p.r. without is out there talking about an innovation find jobs money back in the

pockets of their employees money being repatriated so this is a win win all around however it's not clear whether the expansion plans are new and apple hasn't announced any changes to its manufacturing model which is based around asian factories nor is it clear how much of its money at times to repatriate all analysts say much of any repatriated money may go to paying down the ninety seven billion dollars in debt that it incurred as it rewarded its shareholders in stock buybacks and dividends and giving its shareholders even more billions of dollars and that could spark controversy without the announcement of the new campus and more job creation in the u.s. but as for those jobs at the new campus many will be in technical support no location has yet been announced but according to reports they will be paid an average of thirty six thousand dollars a year other investments will be in expanded data centers around the u.s. warehouses for equipment break this is an announcement that should be capitalized

on by president trump who criticized the company during the presidential election campaign. on wednesday the dow jones at forty six thousand points for the first time. indicative of a president who is used to suggest a booming economy has also hit a record closing price so it seems like president's plan is working as he laid it out tax reform tax cuts he wanted seem to be taking effect in a very meaningful way in that jobs are going to be coming back overseas and most importantly money that's been overseas is coming back but the main beneficiaries off of the down. will be the minority of americans already raking in the cash from their stock market investments. the headlines on al-jazeera ties between washington and turkey are under strain

after reports the u.s. is forming a kurdish border force in northern syria the turkish foreign minister said relations would be irreversibly damaged if it goes ahead america's top diplomat says the reports are inaccurate that the u.s. is only training the fighters through the forces have killed a palestinian man and injured others during a raid in the occupied west bank israeli police say they were searching for a man who killed a rabbi a week ago but francis right now isn't it that's the last stop on his tour of chile you're looking at live pictures of the open air site that's where the mass is beginning right now and among those in attendance are the outgoing chilean president well the head of the catholic church heads to peru. later on thursday. a fire on a bus in kazakhstan has killed fifty two passengers only five people managed to escape the bus was on the main road between pakistan and russia

a route used by migrant workers. there's been a mixed response to news north and south korea march under a unified fly get next month's winter olympics though also form a joint women's ice hockey team for the games in south korea chang several petitions have been filed with some complaining could affect the team's medal chances the announcements follow the first high level meetings between north and south korea in more than two years british prime minister to resume is expected supplied sixty two million dollars to strengthen border controls with france when she meets french president. there's been an influx of migrants trying to reach the u.k. via the french port of late prompting fronts to demand more funding from london the leaders are also expected to discuss ongoing negotiations. workers building the world's largest airline are going to be kept busy for years to come thanks to a vital order from emirates. airline has ordered twenty eighth with the option to

buy sixteen more first a three eighty order in three years for the european aerospace giant it had warned it may have to shut production lines. those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera stream is coming up next stay with us. here in power america's controversy over president tenting use to polarize opinion . in a week of special reports al-jazeera examines his impact at home and around the globe . donald trump's first year. if you tweet even just talk politics with your friends is a phrase that you call it in spades.