who. do you feel more confident to feel more energetic to feel more alive. for centuries egypt to sort to come on power over the nile if they're not we aren't harming any of the knowledge base in the country they don't need the knowledge that if they get their water from rainfall boss upstream this dominance is being challenged by countries who want to agree to share i know some people in nature. on the question that yes this circumstances have changed and changed quite a struggle over the mild at this time on al-jazeera. gunmen attack a major hotel in the afghan capital kabul reports of at least fifteen people killed or wounded.

hello there i'm julie went on this is al jazeera live from london also coming up turkey says it's launched an air and ground offensive on kurdish situations in syria's three region. u.s. politicians skip back to work trying to break the deadlock that shop time government on the first anniversary of donald trump's presidency. when i walk in the day by rallying again in a drive to get more female candidates running for office. and the sanctuary in northern kenya that's helping the community as well as phone ripple elephants. hello there a very warm welcome to the program a major hotel in the afghan capital kabul is under attack by gunmen that's according to the interior ministry local media are reporting at least fifteen

people killed or wounded a government spokesman says special forces are on the scene of the intercom plan continental hotel buckling the attack as now the hotel which is on top of a hill overlooking kabul is usually heavily guarded because of its popularity with foreigners a prominent in the polls let's go live now to jennifer glass in kabul hi there jennifer what's the latest that we know. well julie we know that security forces are going florida floor in that hotel trying to flush out those attackers the interior ministry says there were initially four attackers one was killed three others still inside the hotel we know that there were guests inside the hotel at the time of the attack and a wedding was going on as well it's a very popular hotel on the top of a hill one of two major hotels here in kabul now the interior ministry says that the those in the wedding party have been evacuated and as have some guests and

staff we do know though that some parts of the hotel have been set on fire we understand the kitchen has been set on fire as well as perhaps some floors of the hotel i spoke to somebody inside the hotel just about just over an hour ago soon after the attack had happened and he said that there were fighters inside the hotel we do know that afghan security forces are on the scene the real question though is how these attackers got into the hotel in the first place we also know in the last half hour or so and over explosions have been heard in the area it is a heavily fortified hotel on top of a hilltop on the outskirts of kabul it has been very heavily fortified and it is it is under tight security so the interior ministry says what they will do is launch an investigation as to how these attackers got into this hotel and jennifer

can you give us the broader context in kabul right now what's the broader security situation life. well security is very tight and as a matter of fact the u.s. embassy had issued earlier this week a warning that an attack on a hotel or a major installation could take place but security has been tight over the last weeks and months on may thirty first of last year the largest attack since the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one took place in kabul killing one hundred fifty people in the center of town center town just really about about a half a kilometer that way just outside the heavily fortified green zone in kabul but in the last five or six weeks there have been a number of attacks here in the afghan capital so security has been tight for a number of months but these attacks are very very difficult for will attacks on government installations on public gatherings on mosques on and really

a lot of things to try and destabilize the government of afghanistan and try and shake the faith of the afghan people in the afghan government and so the situation here in kabul tends to be very tense not just amongst foreigners or or prominent afghans which is where which is where. places they would go like the intercontinental hotel is where they would frequent but also amongst everyday people as well you know concern that they might be close to an attack or just be in the wrong place at the wrong time so the security situation a very precarious at this time very tight the afghan government's trying to reassure the people that it isn't in charge of security here but this is attack will really not do very much to reassure the afghans that they can they can keep control of security in the capital jennifer glasser live from kabul jennifer thank you. turkey says it's now launched a ground an era fence of on the kurdish held on click of

a free one that's in northern syria a turkish jets have carried out airstrikes on the border district targeting the kurdish y p g this after days of shelling on curfews the establishment of a kurdish corridor along its border and it's been deploying troops and tanks there in preparation for a ground assault so as warned against any operation and said it will shoot down turkish plagues. well turkish backed syrian rebels are also reported to have mobilized near a frame and turkey's president says the next target will be the syrian town of member which a u.s. backed kurdish led force captured from eisel back in twenty six the then the then we will wipe out this corridor will step by step starting from the west africa operation has defectors started in the field this will be followed by ben b. since the promises made about have not been kept so far nobody could say anything when we do what is necessary. well stephanie decker has more now from the turkey

syria border. turkey launched its air campaign shortly before sunset and this follows a week of increasingly strong political rhetoric coming from the president from the prime minister from the foreign minister from the minister of defense saying that ankara was going to lose its attack on affray and that it had every right to do so to clear his forty from what it calls terrorists where there's now been heavy bombardment from the sky there's also been the mobilization of thousands of members of the free syrian army this is the group that turkey supports in side syria and the attack certainly seems well underway the y.p. gee this is the group in control of our footing that turkey considers a terrorist organization says there has already been civilian casualties it is going to be an incredibly difficult situation for the civilians and politically speaking this would have been able to happen without the green light from russia because russia controls the sky over after the we've also had an announcement from the foreign ministry saying that the troops it had the military personnel on the

ground enough and have now been pulled out there's a meeting underway the turkish foreign ministry has called a meeting with the americans with the iranians and with the russians here in turkey it goes to show just the international dynamic and the dimensions of the syrian war has it how complicated it is you now have a nato ally bombing a group that is seen as the u.s. is best ally to fight i saw on the ground in syria it has implications it is incredibly complicated but certainly after a week of saying that this is what turkey was going to do that campaign is now well underway. meanwhile syrian state television says government forces have taken control of a rebel held air base in northwest syria who are base if the province was captured by rebels back in twenty fifteen the offensive is part of the government's ongoing efforts to regained control of the area.

well he branded himself the art of the deal but president donald trump was on a bill to strike a deal with the democrats to prevent a government shutdown on the first anniversary of his inauguration republicans and democrats are now trying to negotiate a deal before monday the government officially shutdown at midnight in washington d.c. after the senate failed to pass a stopgap funding bill on friday trump blamed the democrats the deadlock brandnames obstructionist who's this well let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly how could his in washington d.c. hi there kimberly so one side blaming the other right now but what's it going to take to sort this i would what's at stake. well it's going to take passing a law in the u.s. congress in order to fund the government so what's at stake really is a fully functioning government and right now it doesn't appear that either side is

able to achieve that in terms of coming toward some sort of a deal to fund the government was just in the last hour or so that both the senate republican as well as democratic leader spoke the democratic leader saying that essentially the reason this is happening is because donald trump can't stick to the terms of the deal the republican mitch mcconnell saying this was a totally avoidable mess kimberly how could there live from washington d.c. kimberly thank you. and women's marches are taking place across the u.s. on the anniversary as we were saying of president donald trump's first year in office this one is taking place in washington d.c. power to the polls is being hailed as the beginning of a new era in female political activism organizers hope saturday's rallies will encourage more women to vote and to run for office in the ban business term elections sunday marks one year since the historic first women's march which saw

nearly five million people take to the streets in protest against donald trump policies protesters have also been rallying in los angeles demonstrators say trump's policies including rolling back family planning services and equal pay protections have spared them into action. jordan joins me live from the march in washington d.c. hi there ross so what's the target of tonight. well the turnout is a much less than it was here in washington last year it's only about five or six thousand people about and they're all now coming here to pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house where it's believed the u.s. president donald trump is spending this anniversary of his coming to power and they are chanting everything from hey hey ho ho donald trump house to go to this is what democracy looks like to stand up get out and vote people are very much energized

a year into this presidency because they say their worst fears have been realized and that they are now saying the time is now more people to actually do something about it even though there are people who are holding up signs referring to the possibility of an impeachment of the president there are others who insist that the only way to try to change u.s. policy both domestic and foreign is for people themselves to get involved in the political process and certainly that's been one of the big themes of this rally here in washington today so rose what you said that there's been kind of one main message and is part of that you know to keep on protesting to keep on marching you know when we say that everybody should do something what kinds of things they want people today. well there are a lot of things julian that might be sort of par for the course for rob marches that are made up mainly of opera gress of groups and communities they are talking

about everything from equal rights in the workplace equal pay for equal work they're talking about southall unfettered access to all parts of the health care system they're calling for education reform protecting the environment fighting racism but and especially in light of the need to movement where people. i've been coming out and accusing people in power of using their power to sexually abuse them this really has taken on a tone of people coming out and saying that they are feminists that they believe that women have an equal right to be at the table and to have the same right to make decisions about the direction of the country so it's a real panoply of what people are out here for but the main thing is that if we were not for donald trump he probably would not be out here in the street activating as they say to try to make the country better than it has been in the past year and stored in their generation that washington d.c.

ross thank you. well the issue of immigration has dominated president chum's first year in power there was of course his controversial travel ban on travelers from the majority of nations the decision to undo emergency provisions for migrants from some carabine countries and of course he maintains he will still build that wall between the u.s. and mexico john homan joins me live now from tijuana in mexico hi there john what's the significance of where you are right now. where you just said about the will there do you mean as you can see behind me we've got six prototypes so are more than six prototypes full that will they're about nine meters tall so they really tower over the existing border fence which covers about a third of the border and reported recent tests on them say that they're going to be a lot more difficult to get over but so far this is all there is president trump hasn't been able to push through the funding to get started on actually building that will

and likewise his plan for more border agents to man the divide between mexico and the united states and in the early months of his presidency there was a lot of talk about the trump effect that people that might have wanted to migrate from central american countries or mexico to the united states staying put because they were worried about the tough president trump rhetoric and his plans now that they see that things aren't happening there is a sense that numbers are growing again that captures a growing on the u.s. side of the border as people begin to travel most of them because of economic difficulties back home but also more than anything especially in el salvador and honduras two of the most dangerous countries in the world worries about their safety we've heard so many stories from people talking about the risk of being murdered the risk of being extorted or kidnapped by gangs that really have a bit of annoying grip over certain areas in those countries so to steer president

trump hasn't had things all his own way he has been more successful in tough migration policies within the united states you mentioned the travel ban on several countries muslim majority there's also been the ending of programs for people emergency visas for people from el salvador from people from haiti and they could argue that have been continually renewed by other administrations and president trump has managed to end that so there has been that sort of success within the country right. now though the phony issue is the dreamers these are young people that were bought to the united states as children illegally and until now have been allowed to stay and to work into the united states not president trump says he has sympathy with them but he also wants any deal on their future protection to include more border security and more tough measures on that and that's really at the heart of what's happening now with the government shutdown so immigration has been a key issue for president trump in his campaign in the first year of his presidency

and now it's spilling into the second year on home and their lives and had john bunky still have on the program pope francis wraps up his latin american chiller but is facing criticism for the comments he made in chile. we look at the growing divide between the rich and poor which spot iran's deadly protests. vicious storm has blown out tonight the remains over this circulation here still dropping stuff in this urania latvia and estonia and there was something better routes but the wind isn't as strong i there is a following breeze and all that tie represent all the rain all snow forty out of it

once again we've got close to them for the alps across into tirol further south carpathian mountains following on behind the next system briefly bring snow into the eastern side of the british isles on sunday then it probably turns to rain got more weather coming in here that's true coming down through france as well but ahead of it all is still cold enough to be wintry the stars died out in the baltic states but not further south and romania is folding come monday we've got rain to the south of that just coming through greece and the western side of turkey the next system developing now the onshore breeze is make it pretty well i think probably still with a fairly good word if you look at out of the water in algiers or from tunis that breeze will died some degree and then you have the development further east for crete cyprus and turkey the one that came through here a couple days ago first to produce the first proper winter well in the levant this could repeat that process middle that week.

the controversial leader of his love. for his car he is one of most wanted turns to history. turns on his alleged extrajudicial killing by israeli intelligence in a sudden sense and being caught in damascus the outcome is only that if someone tried to talk to scott immediately seemingly intelligent don't want to kill him in damascus at this time on al-jazeera world.

a reminder of our current top stories here on al-jazeera afghan special forces a fighting gunmen have attacked a major hotel in the center of kabul the interior ministry says three or four a time because our insight into continental. turkey started its offensive on kurdish positions in syria's region it says man bridge will be next. u.s. government is shut down after the senate fails to pass a funding bill donald trump blames the democrats. pope francis has led a huge mass on a beach in northern peru as a south american tour comes to and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in turkey or for the service well that one hundred people were killed by flooding last year in the area and the pope is expected to visit some of the worst affected areas . meanwhile the pope's been criticized by his top adviser on clerical sex abuse for comments he made on thursday whilst in chile the points of a case victims of

a paedophile priest of having slandered another bishop one bottles well the victims claim the barest news the obese but did nothing to stop it a charge the bishop denies this is what francis said. you get me thinking every one of the book live to tell you that they bring me proof against bishop paris then i will speak there is not one bit of proof against him only all of it is slander it's not clear. well cardinal sean o'malley the archbishop of boston said that those words were a source of great pain for survivors of sexual abuse he added the pontiff fully recognized the egregious failures of the church and its clergy who abused children . now recent anti-government demonstrations in iran have exposed the cooling divide between rich and poor while one to two percent of the population enjoys. millions of their way in a struggling to make ends meet he has been speaking to some of tehran's most vulnerable people.

buzzard men herself laura says the hardest part of his job is getting people interested in classical music. it makes it difficult to find work we have fewer funds so naturally we have fewer opportunities to perform and. still so for a says he loves his work and does not need the money i come to so i want to run the us the streets are not about his to perform with a place where you can change the way people feel for a second a minute or an art and you get back a lot of positive energy from the street. but not everyone of the streets is there by choice so you the makes about five dollars a day selling flowers fifteen when business is good with eight mouths to feed he says it's better than nothing bitches she i have a diploma but i don't have a job my cousin has a master's degree and he doesn't have a job either the situation in the country is bad officials to do something they

give lots of promises and we vote for them and then they take office and forget us so you'd wants the same as millions of iranians a house he can afford a steady job and cheaper prices for everyday goods but he's not hopeful that things will get better anytime soon. big cities like to run are experiencing a real estate boom luxury buildings and luxury brands are popping up on almost every major street but the very urban development that is bringing the rich and poor closer together is the same thing that is pushing them apart more after you. for the last fifty years the status of people's financial situation has been getting better what is harmful is a gap that's being created between poor and rich people and that self-awareness that is being created in the middle class of this is saudi is more dangerous than poverty itself we don't have people who are deeply paul like other countries but the gap between the poor and rich people makes the feeling of being held back more extreme it's the kind of discontent that helped fuel anti-government protests last

month. and could be the impetus for more unrest in the future. muhammad this from the north of the country he came to run to make enough money to send home to his wife sister and mother he doesn't like what he does and makes at most only ten dollars a day doing. yeah when i was going to don't do that what should i say i haven't seen my family in a month i haven't paid my rent or the gaza built or the power bill of the lotto bill i'm not able to earn enough money businesses but so people don't pay us. how much sings us a song that many iranians know all too well about a man who was tired desperate and prayed for help. to her. germany social democrat party is meeting on sunday to decide whether it wants to

enter formal negotiations with anger marcus christian democrats the form a so-called grand coalition well as szell says backtracked from his earlier off position to such an alliance many in the party is no around a still firmly against the move dominic cain reports live from berlin. these are trying times for the social democrats once they were the dominant force in german politics and the legacy of their first postwar chancellor villi behind remains palpable but so do their present electoral problems their current leader martin schultz now finds himself proposing another grand coalition with anger merkel one he himself opposed in the autumn it's a position many in his party are struggling with. their own style of unity we are concentrating on finding a majority in favor of the result of exploratory talks as the basis for a coalition deal at the party congress on sunday that's my task to get

a majority or those are trying to get a majority for their position is that is the competition within the democratic party. and there are several prominent elements in that competition already has played a groups in two of the sixteen states have voted against another grand coalition and the parties youth movement is vociferously opposed the moment cardamom it's and we're not just leading the fight against another grand coalition we're convinced that what we're doing is showing the s.p.d. the best way to become stronger in the future to be the strongest left leaning party in our society but some people in our party seem to think that we have an eternal guarantee to be the largest group in parliament we don't. this internal party dispute right now conceals the fact that this party's election performances have been falling and some might say failing for more than fifteen years. a glance at the latest opinion polls shows how bleak the situation is at just eighteen

percent the s.p.d. is less popular now than in september's general election nearer to the parties in third and fourth place than to angle americans christian democrats for the as pretty as the sunday vote is definitely a very crucial decision that might as well decide the fate in the medium term for the prettier the party as a whole in principle delegates will be voting purely about whether to enter formal negotiations with the christian democrats in practice it seems like a battle for the party's political soul dominic came out zero berlin now to northern kenya where a conservation project has found a savvy way to help protect young and vulnerable elephants they retain the sanctuary and some candy is entirely own by the local community so all tribe members benefit from the tourism money and jobs that it provides the middle miller has more now from some. this two month old cough is like any

other baby she demands constant attention but a few weeks ago it was a neuro almost drowned in a flooded river in northern kenya she's now at this elephant sanctuary where russian linen yankee is helping to settle her after the rescue all of the cars here have either been abandoned or lost their mothers to draw out poaching but unlike any other sanctuary this one is entirely community owned. in an a k is from the some blue tribe their nomadic herders who rely on goats sheep and camels to help provide a livelihood before due. to community to do dislike. but for now to come to. our kids who are some benefits are benefits linea k. goes on to say that work at the century means a better life for many here and so his community appreciates the animals more.

money from tourists who visit the sanctuary also helps to provide local villages with much needed water health care roads and financial assistance for students the sanctuary is run by a board of trustees made up of elders who employ local people to work there in a new cases these days people from surrounding villages are increasingly helping with conservation efforts community members are often the ones tipping off the sentry when there's an animal in need. off to a coffee is rescued it's a four to the century and kept separate from the other coughs for five days once the keepers know the new elephant is healthy it's introduced to the nursery and its temporary family the sanctuary falls under the number conservancy which is home to about fifty thousand people the same brew of always lived with wildlife and

although the population has grown and the number of livestock or the amount of livestock in this valley has grown they still are happy to co-exist with what life because they're not natural hunters on the no porches and so they feel like it's their. it is their role to take care of the environment here. it's estimated that between five and ten eleven cops are rescued in newton canyon each while the return of the century is just over a year old keepers here say their conservation work will leave a lasting impression from al-jazeera some blue county. you can find out much more about the stories where our following head to al jazeera dot com. our mind of the main headlines a major hotel in the afghan capital kabul is under attack by government

a government spokesman says special forces are on the scene at the intercontinental hotel battling be attackers the hotel which is on top of a hill overlooking kabul is usually heavily guarded because of his popularity with foreign as a prominent afghans. turkey says it's now launched its offensive on the kurdish held on caves of a freend in northern syria turkish jets have carried out air strikes on the border district targeting the kurdish y.p. she comes after days of shelling of fears the establishment of a car dish corridor along its border and has been deploying troops and tanks there in preparation for a ground assault meanwhile syrian state t.v. says government forces have taken control of a rebel held air base in northwestern syria who are base it the province was captured by rebels back in twenty fifteen offensive as part of the government's ongoing efforts to reclaim control of the area. u.s.

government has shut down after the senate refused to pass a funding bill thousands of government employees cannot go to work although essential services will continue president don't blame the democrats for the credit for the deadlock rather than them obstructionist losers. women's march is a taking place across the u.s. on the anniversary of trump's first year in office power to the polls is being hailed as the beginning of a new era in female political activism organizers hope the rallies will people women swing aids november's midterm elections and see more female candidates next is what francis is lead mass on a beach in northern peru as his american to a comes to and hundreds of thousands of the people gathered in trivial for the service who are than one hundred people were killed by flooding last year in the area and the pope is expected to visit some of those areas worst affected. place in thailand have arrested in the tourist wild played traffic or been shy botch he

was arrested for smuggling rhino horns worth over one million dollars near the north eastern border province of knock on porno him it's alleged that boche and his family contributed to much of asia's illegal trade for more than a decade the thing post is next. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg announcing what he's calling a major change to reducing the standard of the last public i pad by a strong brand that is organized terrorist a focus for america baseball is going to focus on they're going back up under a lot of criticism for the last two years over what facebook is just i. feel or

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