came another hopes to quarter two peas in a four part series al jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al-jazeera. i mean this was different whether someone was going for someone's favorites that doesn't mean it's true i think it's how you approach an individual and that's what it is a certain way of doing it to contest. the story and fly out. and we made it clear that it was a pledge it was not a guarantee. more a trouble for palestinians the us to spend a forty five million dollars payment of un food funds.

and of their own or col this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. washington tells turkey not to attack a kurdish held enclave in syria. the un warns of more than a quarter of a million children in war torn south sudan face starvation. and pope francis arrives in peru with the country in the middle of a serious political crisis. the united states says it will withhold a forty five million dollars payments to the un's relief agency for palestine refugees and has not set a new date for paying its money which was out for food aid was promised last month

. at the time don't we provided that note that information to honor we made it clear that it was a pledge it was not a guarantee and that it would need to be confirmed later at this time we will not be providing that but that it does not mean i want to make it clear that does not mean that it will not be provided in the future this follows another announcement earlier this week where the trump administration cut imhoff the one hundred twenty five billion dollars allocated to the un relief and works agency for palestine refugees better known as. it's a massive reduction from last year when the us gave more than three hundred fifty million dollars in aid to palestinians under obama most of that went to the un's palestine agency helps pay for the education of more than a half a million palestinian children and over seven hundred schools it funds more than nine million doctors visits and almost one hundred fifty primary health clinics in total and has helped an estimated five million people living in camps in the

occupied west bank gaza strip jordan lebanon and syria anderson is joins us live now from ramallah of us in the occupied west bank so andrew this latest announcement of forty five million dollars is specifically for food aid so what effect is that going to have. it's going to have a colossal effect laura you set out the context there not just here in the occupied west bank also guards are also jordan also syria. policy on this issue is to really hit the most underprivileged in this whole conflict as a means of trying to bring the palestinian politicians to the negotiating table to what is a non-existing peace process on top of that he's already making news as we all know to shift the u.s. embassy to jerusalem making it the capital as far as he's concerned of all of

israel so this is all highly politically charged but let's look at the humanitarian picture because it actually cuts into every aspect of refugee life in this part of the world from education down to garbage collection food aid a critical aspect for so many people living in impoverished conditions particularly in gaza but also here right across the west bank of occupied west bank we see situations where people are absolutely desperate and this is just fueling the situation more than anything else we haven't had any official response yet from they are off the record saying that this is just a massive blow to their existence they're already having to lay off teachers in their education services dozens of them here in the occupied west bank and also in

gaza further than that in jordan we're seeing teachers and a lot more teachers being laid off they're having to anticipate what's happening because the sixty five million cut you referred to which was made on tuesday. that's. another tactic taken by donald trump and this one is very recent because. only last month december we had this emergency aid appeal for food for the occupied west bank and gaza in particular and now we have this announcement that it's not a cut they're just withholding that pledge it could be turned around all these political tactics well whatever they are whatever they might be the situation is directly affecting the most underprivileged in this part of the world and data ok many thanks for that from ramallah. the u.s. state department is urging tacking not to proceed with a planned offensive against

a kurdish held and clave in syria to his forces amassing on its southern border in preparation for action against the kurdish why p.g. and a frame take he says the white b.g. as a terrorist group but it's been a key ally for the us elsewhere in syria. has more from. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present one has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area of african for almost a week now there has been sporadic shelling. inside africa and thousands marched on thursday in protest to turkey's aggression in the of the north the goal of this large demonstration is to send a message to the world and especially to turkey concerning the turkish threats we will not be a fright. we came here to protest against the attacks on offering we will stand by offering an outreach that. is one of three autonomy's kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p y d party and it's armed with the y p g turkey

sees 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 consider a terrorist organization but the white p.g. has been working with the u.s. to push ice a lot of syria not enough lean but further east of the euphrates river the americans have never had a presence in africa but the russians do and often has been relatively peaceful throughout this war and it hosts tens of thousands of internally displaced syrians it will let you know after you have been there for quite a long time through like you know. a serious church or turkey but they are going to. probably need is this kind of nationalistic. you know. use its military in order to be able to get more street. with the upcoming elections in true. you know so the

starting. tensions have been stoked further in recent days by the u.s. 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. will form its backbone. united states. a terrorist organization that threatens this be acceptable it is unacceptable and inexplicably but u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says it's not a border force the us role has been mis portrayed and turkey is owed an explanation he says the build up is aimed at countering the resurgence of eisel will be internally focused and is important for the stability of syria however that's not what others involved in syria's war think ankara moscow and damascus have all boys through opposition to the force once again it highlights the complicated nature of syria's war isis been pushed out of most of the territory that it once held and so

the battlefield is becoming perhaps even more complicated with each side trying to carve out its fear of influence and it seems the syrians are the ones that hold the least sway of all. well rex tillerson and the broader u.s. administration of paths have been sending mixed messages about the force that planning and syria where the pentagon saying one thing and the state department saying something very different and correspondent bazza culhane has more. the long term goals of u.s. policy in syria have been a bit muddled but the secretary of state rex tillerson is trying to make one point crystal clear u.s. forces are not leaving united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring that isis cannot reemerge our military mission in syria will remain conditions based its main focus training a local force but that has enraged turkey who see those they are teaching why p.g. fighters as

a grave threat to their security turkey says that is why its forces are massing at the border prompting this warning from the u.s. we would call on certainly on the turks to not take any actions of that sort here's what caused the concern this statement from the u.s. military writing quote the coalition is working jointly with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train the new syrian border security force the statement repeatedly refers to training a border security force thirty thousand strong raising concerns in turkey that they could have no thomas region now secretary tillerson says it isn't a border force that in his words has been mis portrayed mis described former u.s. ambassador to syria robert ford says that's ridiculous that the us trained force would have course control the border they're just ignoring the turkish concern they know what their concerns are they just don't care basically they're making a bet that turkey will not walk too far away from its longstanding alliance with

the united states they are making that bet. the u.s. but in the turkey's leaders will be angry and not act whether that turns out to be true will depend in large part on what the leader of russia says not tillerson or trump. washington well meanwhile syria's deputy foreign minister says his military forces will attack any turkish jet flying over the cutter's held region he made the comment shortly before turkish heads of intelligence and military has arrived in moscow to discuss the use of syrian as space. ulterior the two pm we warned that the syrian air defenses restored all its capacity and power and is ready to destroy turkish targets in the skies of the syrian arab republic this means that in any case aggression by particular force it won't be made easy. the new executive director of the un's children's agency unicef has won hundreds of

thousands of children in south sudan may die if a measure of the action is taken to boost food security ongoing fighting between forces loyal to the president and rival. deputy continue to devastate the country millions have been displaced unicef says two point four million children have been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began in two thousand and thirteen more than two thousand children have been killed nineteen thousand have been recruited into armed groups with at least one in three schools damaged or closed well and seventy percent of children not getting an education. unicef director henrietta four who is visiting the country told al-jazeera the civil war is also causing widespread malnutrition. the islands has meant that many of the farmers have run away from their fields their trade to do the farming and as a result there is just not food in the markets we've just ended the harvest season we're now into the dry period and the lean period and it means that there is just

less food less water to be found we are very worried that a quarter of a million children are going to be facing death it's year before the next harvest in july so it is a serious male nutrition problem yesterday we were up in some of the camps where the mothers and children are coming to see if there's malnutrition and the acute beer now you tradition is it's growing stronger so it's a continuing crisis and it's one the world needs to think about and to do something about it's it's serious here in south sudan russian opposition leader has suffered a new setback because he tries to reverse a ban preventing him from running in this year's presidential election russia's constitutional court is refusing to review a complaint lodged fine of ali who was barred from the race because of a full conviction he says the charges were politically motivated present that

a person is widely expected to win a fourth term in. cilla has had on al-jazeera as donald trump one year in office made up of the impact of his foreign policy on the middle east. and live music and the latest in high tech we take you on a tour of souls new international airport tunnel. beneath pink skies by the time hot. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. however still got some rather blustery winds piling into northwestern parts of europe at the moment you can still see this i reply which has made its way across the british isles down across the low countries and to germany that's the one that brought those really stormy conditions quite a few trees down power outages and some travel disruption as

a result of that looking at a lot of blustery day as we go on through friday but nowhere near as as windy as it has been over the past twenty four hours or so temperatures will struggle to get about seven or eight celsius there for london and paris still space place the snow but they also some snow to its eastern areas now down to the southeast across that basis out of the med it will brighten up nicely the weather still be a little bit here recently now in the process of pulling away what it says showers there into positive rumania easing up into the ukraine further north modify the top temperature in moscow still snow over the alps in the covering there once again it's tomorrow where the making its way down across a good parts of france but it should be kwacha across england wales and scotland as we go on into the weekend but aquatics northern parts of africa quite a keen northerly wind i would too as the northeast there's a seventy celsius in benghazi and colorado and a similar foudy with the cloud it ripped. the with sponsored boycotts on use.

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a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. says it will withhold of forty five million dollars payment to the un's relief agency the palestinian refugees the money which was out for food aid was promised last month this is on top of a sixty five million dollars cost to announced this week. from the un's children's agency has warned hundreds of thousands of children south sudan may die unless emergency action is taken to boost food security. not to go ahead with a planned offensive against a kurdish held enclave in syria his forces are preparing to move against the kurdish y p g in the border districts of three. un says syrian refugees in lebanon a more reliance now than ever on international aid and with more harsh winter weather forecast extra funds are needed a survey shows three quarters of the one million syrian refugees in lebanon are living on less than four dollars

a day. many of them in makeshift camps sixty percent are in extreme poverty an increase of five percent on the same time last year nine out of ten refugees are regularly going hungry un agencies in lebanon say last year they received a third of the money they needed to meet the needs of refugees they are appealing for two point seven billion dollars in funding for this year that's a lot harder joins us now live from a refugee camp in the back valleys data some pretty shocking statistics there it seems that the situation is just worsening here on the year. yes the situation is worsening some of these people have been here since the conflict began seven years ago and like you mentioned a harsh winter it's raining there's heavy winds and just look how people live this is just one of the many informal settlements where hundreds of thousands of refugees live this is their shelter plastic sheeting and it really does nothing in the cold temperatures are very low it is very cold we're going to show you some of

the really the miserable conditions that these people live in happy with the cold the mud the rain the heavy rainfall some of these tents like i mentioned there is no a proper shelters no concrete shelters simply because the lebanese government bans concrete shelters they don't want anything to be too permanent they do not want these refugees to feel comfortable and to encourage them to stay they would like them to go back to syria and were just entering one of the homes well we're going to call it a home but you can see the water has reached inside their their living rooms their living quarters and the people here have told us that they have to remove all their belongings because they got wet and in the floods in the flooding so life really is very difficult and a lot of them live in poverty a lot of them are in debt and the united nations is warning that because of the poverty children for example are very very vulnerable

a lot of them especially the young girls they're being forced into child marriages and some of them also work they're forced to work to help their family survive so the situation is quite miserable it is miserable as you can see it is snowing now so i mean just like miserable we heard just on the u.n. is appealing for two point seven billion dollars in funding to try to help the situation but last year when you received a third of the amount it needed how difficult is it to get that necessary money. yes of course the shortfall in funding the united nations is complaining about that it is difficult there is donor fatigue and it is not just that the needs are so great especially in winter because these refugees they need warm clothes they need thermal blankets so they need fuel for heating so the needs are much greater and there is donor fatigue and we have to remember there are it's not only the one

million refugees in lebanon there five point eight million refugees living in neighboring countries and it's not just that it's the i.d.p.'s the internally displaced people inside syria you're talking about six million people who need assistance in syria and as of late in the past few weeks which is going to move a little bit because of the snow in the past few weeks two hundred thousand people were forced to flee their homes so the numbers keep growing the war in syria is far from over ok saying it will leave the weather we can hair we can see is coming in thick and fast highlights in the grim situation you have just been talking about that in the back. reporting for us yes ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has met a group of african diplomats just days after president. remarks on immigration from the continent the. space has more from the u.n. in new york. this was the highest level meeting between an official of the trump

administration and african nations ambassador nikki haley is not just the u.n. ambassador for the trumpet ministration she's a member of the cabinet she was in damage limitation mode but she did not apologize i understand that she told the african ambassador she didn't know exactly what was said in that meeting last week in washington d.c. she simply said she regretted the political drama regarding what had been said she stressed the long ties between the continent and the united states and the investment and contribution that the u.s. and made towards africa for example citing the sixty six billion dollars the u.s. has given since the year two thousand to fight hiv aids the african ambassadors thanked her for talking to them remember only a few days ago they were asking for attraction and a formal apology they said though that these comments are not only been heard by

african ambassadors but also by the african people in african leaders and stressed to her that african leaders will be meeting at an african union summit in the next two weeks and said it would be useful if president trump was to send a message to that summit and basta haley said she'll be going from here in new york to washington d.c. in the coming hours and she said she would relay that message directly to the president. saturday marks one fifth of its present donald trump took the oath of office becoming the forty fifth president of the united states but as smith takes a look at how his presence has affected the middle east. it was the first time that saudi arabia had been chosen by u.s. president for his debut overseas trip donald trump and the saudi leadership wanted . reset relations a strange under the obama administration particularly over iran the u.s.

and the saudis are traditional allies but it's clearly a new relationship at least between the leaderships that he has closely at grace but haven't been so bad in saudi arabia and he has literally tweeted that the king of trade prince of saudi arabia enjoy his twelve to thirteen so he has essentially given them a diplomatic blank check and that is why many believe saudi arabia along with the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt miscalculated when they imposed an sea and land blockade on cata seven months ago katsa denies accusations of backing terrorist organizations trump initially supported the blockade before the white house shifted its position has to very much on the side of saudi arabia and i think . he has simply gone ahead with whatever his son in law. transmitted to him and terms of messages between hamas and himself and at the beginning he demonstrated that he knew very little as to the strategic importance of qatar to

the united states trampas more than one shown a lack of knowledge not just about u.s. interests while meeting lebanon's prime minister saad hariri he seemed confused about the role of hezbollah lebanon is on the front lines in the fight against isis al-qaeda and hizbollah. it's part of the government it's also backed by iran iran has been the common denominator between the trump administration the saudis and the israelis but so far there doesn't seem to be a clear strategy on how to confront iran. there in iraq and in syria after. has been. very very good. of a parent an american military presence. but it is likely that iran is going to maintain. their u.s.

troops were deployed in the mainly kurdish region in northeast syria to assist in the fight against isis the u.s. led coalition says the american personnel will stay and help create a border security force of thirty thousand mainly kurdish troops the u.s. policy is to contain iran and it's using its only leverage in syria the kurds to try to do that. the trump doesn't have a new policy for syria he inherited his policy of direct military intervention but he doesn't want the russians iranian regime to declare victory the u.s. is not in a position to confront what it wants to postpone addict a ration of victory what he didn't perspiring however was his campaign pledge today we finally acknowledge the obvious that jerusalem is israel's capital with this highly controversial move trump overturn decades of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east but one year in what this administration thinks

its policies in the region will ultimately achieve remains unclear. pope francis has arrived in peru in the midst of a domestic political crisis in a scandal abuse sexual abuse scandal involving the catholic church tens of thousands of his followers lined the streets of lemurs he passed through the capitol is the second and final leg of his south american tour final sanchez has more from lima. pope will be spending the night in lima early on friday he will be heading to monday the u.s. an area in the amazon that is a very important visit for the pope since this is an area that has been devastated by illegal miners and the pope been a champion of a healthy environment around the world will he will be visiting this place is a place that was very important for him and he will be meeting some of the indigenous communities members of the indigenous communities there he will be

presiding a religious ceremony on sunday where a million and a half people are expected to attend before he heads back to rome. some people have been protesting here in the visit of the pope the vatican is protecting one man who is the leader or he was the leader of a very important religious organization he's accused of committing sexual abuse against the young men and so before. the pope arrived in peru he asked the vatican to intervene this is a religious organization called the so at least whom however people are angry at the pope that this hasn't been done before and so people are protesting but the government has said that no protests will be allowed and that anyone protesting

will risk being detained. sports fans heading to south korea for next month's winter olympics can look forward to using the new terminal which has just opened at seoul's international airport that can handle eighteen million passengers a year and base everything from robot way says to interactive arts went to take a look. this is the brand new terminal at inchon international airport the main gate way for people arriving here in south korea travelers are testing out technology that's been introduced to make their experience more efficient and a bit more fun as in any airport there are plenty of places to grab a coffee but for something a little different why not order a latte from the robot arista for those who may want a workout after hours of sitting on a plane there are a selection of active games at the digital gym and to take the flying experience to the next level strap in for some virtual reality based jumping.

or calmer option passengers can sit in the indoor garden and take in a musical performance or experience some examples of traditional korean culture. before boarding their flights travelers can come and check out some of the artworks on display this interactive piece has taken traditional works and digitally enhanced them to be projected on the curved screen it's. just one of a number of installations scattered around the terminal this new addition to the airport will help cater to all of the visitors who will be coming to south korea for the winter olympics the olympic organizing committee estimates almost four hundred thousand foreigners will travel here for the winter games. this is al jazeera these are all top stories the u.s. says it will withhold

a forty five million dollars payment to the un's relief agency for palestinian refugees the money which was for food aid was promised last month this is on top of the sixty five million dollars cut to announced this week at the time when we provided that note that information to under a we made it clear that it was a pledge it was not a guarantee and that it would need to be confirmed later at this time we will not be providing that but that it does not mean i want to make it clear that does not mean that it will not be provided in the future the state department is urging turkey not to go ahead with a planned offensive against a kurdish held and clave and syria to his forces are preparing to move against the kurdish y p g in the border district of three. the u.s. children's agency unicef has warned hundreds of thousands of children in south sudan may die unless emergency action is taken to boost food security ongoing fighting between forces loyal to the president

a viable fighters loyal to his deputy continues to devastate the country. well has meant that many farmers have run away from their fields their trade to do the farming and as a result there is just not food in the markets we just ended the harvest season we're now in the dry period and the lead means that there is just less food less water to be found we are very worried that a quarter of a million children are going to be facing its year before the next harvest in july russian opposition. has suffered a new setback as he tries to reverse a ban preventing him from running in this year's presidential election russia's constitutional court is refusing to review a complaint spine of ali he was barred from the race because of a fourth conviction. tens of thousands of people have lined the streets of peru's caps in lima to welcome the pope on the final leg of his south american tour whose

leader has appealed to the pontiff to help resolve a political crisis following the pardon given to former president fujimori. headlines on the back with more news on al-jazeera that's after the stream stay with us. facing the realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter. government calls you a gringo terrorist hear their story on to al-jazeera at this time. and you are in the stream today the stream at some dots we are kicking off a special series of shows. in park city utah with a look at the documentary kind of.