because behind the song from a millions of taxpayers we can see reaction to the liberalization you find just as we saw in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it's going to be up to you to ready is in many parts of the wound where people are saying if my government went to craft my interest then i would look for a strong national museum she's a fascist i don't care if you promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i will fight for him i think that's where we are heading and i don't think our leaders have the vision to understand that's the threat that we face. afghan special forces battle gunmen inside a five star hotel in kabul at least fifteen people are reported to have been killed or injured.

i know there are more cars sounds are live from doha also coming up turkey says it started an offensive against kurdish positions inside syria. to go shading with this white house is like negotiating with jell-o. . the blame game in washington as the senate fails to pass a spending bill forcing a government shutdown. and tens of thousands of romanians a confronted by wires police during anti corruption demonstrations. gunmen have stormed a five star hotel in afghanistan's capital and taken hostages afghan interior ministry says special forces a battling attackers of the intercontinental hotel it comes just days off the u.s.

embassy warned of possible strikes against high profile targets jennifer glass has this update from kabul. afghan special forces have been clearing the hotel floor by floor trying to find the gunman and get and evacuate staff and guests from the intercontinental hotel the siege started about nine o'clock on saturday night when at least four gunmen attacked the hotel it's unclear how they got into the hotel that is something that's going to come under investigation the hotel was very busy on a saturday night a wedding party was ongoing we also know that a number of guests were in the hotel delegates for a conference to be held on sunday so a very busy time it's unclear exactly how many people were in the hotel we know that several people were trapped at the time of the attack special forces entered the hotel to go after the attackers they turned off the electricity at the intercontinental hotel is a heavily guarded hotel one of the two five star hotels here in the afghan capital

and it's considered a rather safe place for foreigners and prominent afghans to gather to hold weddings to hold conferences to hold gatherings and so this is really shows how uncertain the security situation is here in the afghan capital it's the latest in a series of attacks in the last few weeks here on a cultural center on other gathering places as the afghan government comes under increasing pressure to try and show that it can keep security in the capital that has been a main complaint of afghan citizens that the afghan government cannot keep its people safe and as we find out exactly how bad the casualty count is in this attack on the intercontinental hotel again i think the government and its security measures will come under scrutiny. a new front in syria's war has opened up he has launched an operation against u.s. backed syrian kurdish y p g fighters in the affray region frames the offensive as

part of a wider battle against kurdish separatists in southwest turkey day is present as the next target will be man be. the syrian town that was recaptured from eisel in two thousand and sixteen by a kurdish led force also backed by the u.s. but opposed by turkey so if a decade has more from the turkey syria border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on a free turkish officials had said all week that the operation was imminent. much of the president. spoke just a few hours before the jets to call them. go to go to we would wipe out this corridor or step by step starting from the west africa operation has defectors started in the field this will be followed but. since the promises made. and kept so far nobody can say anything when we do what is necessary. throughout the morning along turkey's western border with the turkish army had brought in bulldozers

gravel and concrete blocks appearing to build up their defenses along the border with syria. tank shell specific locations on the mountain and hours later this mountain would be targeted by airstrikes the army made us move from this position a few hours before the campaign officially began and this is just one of the locations that the turkish army is shelling out free in is pretty much surrounded turkey to its west and north and there's also been a buildup inside syria by free syrian army fighters to the east about three now those are the rebels that turkey supports. turkey had reinforced the f.s.a. with thousands more men over the last few days these buses drove the fighters across the border into syria they will be part of a ground offensive against the y.p. ji the kurdish group turkey considers to be a terrorist organization it is also however the group the americans consider their best ally in fighting eisel the international dimensions are vast russia an ounce

to pulled out the few hundred military personnel that had enough money in shortly after the campaign started and russia controls this airspace meaning turkey could not be flying their planes without russia's consent turkey says it is only targeting what it calls terrorists but there are already reports coming out of africa in that civilians have been affected it seems syria seven year war is entering yet another phase stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. as a policy analyst of the arab center washington d.c. he says turkey wants to show it's a big player in syria as big as russia and the u.s. . it's not going to be a big erm if occasion i don't think turkey can can really go in and the change the dynamic without any sort of desert approval or discussion with the with russia i think turkey is a big a psychological war no trying to basically show everyone that they are ready to

serious in this in this. approach and hopefully they are a big maybe a compromise would happen in the last minute now there's this question between the russians or the americans but but i mean it's just to see how u.s. policy is much weaker if you remember just last year trump addition deployed u.s. troops and then a bit as the answer to turkish threat no. one is reading the word to members after so at the end what he wants is to control the area west of the affronts he doesn't want to see good scroope beyond that point so he want to go back to this relay that he felt that the u.s. are not supporting him russia maybe is not. support the forces he was trying to create but these options are limited so he's hoping that at some point in the coming week as as a free as under siege that he would have this compromise and he would take a free and in return for it live for the syrian regime a lot of things he invested

a lot of the syrian war and now he's not getting anything out of it so he needs this buffer zone he needs the the syrian refugees in turkey to come back to it he need to have this new he says a part of the syrian party that's being divided everybody got the spot somehow except turkey and israel which are still resisting the new russian u.s. agreement. yet of us have president trumps integration has been marked by a government shutdown off the senate fail to agree on a spending bill that will try again early on monday. they to vote for a deal with immigration being the main sticking point while pickens and democrats blame me for the deadlock i canna reports. house democratic minority leader nancy pelosi was the monger thousands of people protesting near the white house her presence at the moment no longer needed on capitol hill when to go see

a chanst between senate democrats and republicans on the new wording of a stopgap funding bill fell apart democrats were quick to blame the president and right wing forces within his administration negotiating with this white house is like negotiating with jell-o. . it's next to impossible as soon as you take one step forward. the hard right forces the president three steps back but republicans in turn accuse the democrats and schumer in particular of negotiating in bad ways like that so mr she was going to have to up his game a little bit be a little bit more honest with the president states if we received rubber cement from the president himself posted multiple tweets one reading democrats holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration this is the one year anniversary of my presidency and democrats wanted to give me a nice present president trump himself well he's canceled

a visit to his florida club house where he was going to celebrate the anniversary of his inauguration along with those willing to pay up to one hundred thousand dollars a plate more significantly perhaps it appears he's also canceling his trip to the world economic forum in davos where global leaders gather each year. a year ago in this might the newly inaugurated president was dancing at his inaugural party at the insistence on doing things his way have left americans contemplating an indefinite freeze of many government services mike hanna al-jazeera washington. political historian james e. boy says it will be difficult for trump all his party to avoid being blamed for the shutdown. well the challenge of course is this is the first time there's ever been a government shutdown when one party has controlled all three levels of government the presidency the white house the presidency that the house of representatives and

the senate usually there's been one party controlling one and one party the other so really it's going to be difficult for the republican party to try to cast off responsibility for this they're trying very hard calling it the schumer shutdown but of course that's becomes problematic yes you need to get sixty votes to basically clear a budget in the senate but quite frankly the republicans haven't even to get all of their own party to vote for this so when you have don't trump as a private citizen as a candidate saying that in the event of a shutdown the president is always responsible difficult to try and get him away from his own words which time and again kids coming back to down him here as vice president mike pence has arrived in jordan as part of a regional tour where he was in egypt where he met president abdul fattah el-sisi to discuss security and the israeli palestinian peace process the u.s. caused by starting to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital hence is expected to visit israel as well that the u.s.

is still committed to a two state solution. but i assured him that even as president made that decision a decision that i will reaffirm in jordan reaffirming israel before the end of this trip that will also reaffirm what president trump also said that we're absolutely committed to the two preserving the status quo with regard to holy sites in jerusalem that we are there we we we we have come to know a final resolution about boundaries or other issues that are to be negotiated between the parties and if the parties agree i reminded president el-sisi the president that if the parties agree we will support a two state solution. still ahead on out to sara. women a rally across the u.s. to mark a game to trump's presidency determined to turn that i got into political action.

and why these bicycle graveyards have got china's blaming bike sharing industry into trouble. more snow is just developing once again this slowly brightening tops as it came through nevada into colorado will develop further i think and that's the picture we have the sunday ahead of it there is clad in him to something might want to develop but look at the time she is there back up to twenty one in dallas eleven in d.c. minus one alter was still but this is been a warm trend what's been happening with pacific seaboard stormy weather has resolved itself into a streak of snow from british columbia right down to northern california rain a look that is pushing study south and dying this this snow has come across the northern plains the midwest and you got a good lawn a developing right to the south that could be quite stormy but it's rainy season

not snow and this warm trend of course will start to melt some what's already on the ground even the great lakes much fun the ice becomes a little less solid to the sas and we've got the well the familiar picture of cloud around the coast of panama and costa rica all the racket for the north so if you get a shower in jamaica kubert be unusual the same is true in the bahamas but this i think could be quite concentrated in honduras down the coast of nicaragua and costa rica down towards panama sunday looks the wet day all day for panama such as monday. counting the cost why the jury's still out on all makes despite wall street's delight we delve into china's better than expected growth story and count the cost of negative brand problems. counting the cost of business time on al-jazeera.

i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as it always does with his job people. and again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of all top stories this hour gunmen have stormed a luxury hotel enough afghanistan's capsule kabul taking the hostages interior ministry says two of the attack us have been killed in special forces trying to take control of the intercontinental hotel. he has begun and ground offensive in the african region in northern syria so the enclave for syrian. fights

is backed by the u.s. has condemned what it calls brutal aggression. and the u.s. senate will try again on monday to vote for a deal to fund the government failed to agree on the spending bill on friday leading to a shutdown. well hundreds of thousands of women a much ng across the u.s. against president trump organizers hope that encourage more women to vote and run for office in november elections and has more. drumming up momentum for political action a gear into the presidency of donald trump thousands marched in washington and across the nation on saturday not just against the president and his policies but also in support of their favorite causes reproductive rights gender equality and racial and economic justice black rights human rights women's rights. just every

human should have like equal rights and i do think that it has kind of injected more civic activism among people and that's a good thing i think that it's easy for people to come complacent about their their rights and about to marcus in general and i think you know this this is a wake up call women apparently have heard the call one report says that nearly four hundred women have announced they want to seat in the house of representatives while forty nine are running for the senate and even though there are only fifty states nearly eighty women are now running to be governor i have friends who are running for office for local office and i've seen people create organizations it is it is really a change and it's very heartening to see the newly elected mayor of charlotte north carolina urged marchers in that city to seize the moment we're all here because we care deeply about the well being of women and we want to promote

a safe and productive environment for women that means equal pay for equal work some marchers say trump's presidency has underscored the need to take politics seriously finally people understand that you have to vote not only for the presidency but you have to vote for your congressman you have to vote in local section. and you have to vote for these people who are in office for so long what we often forget is that the local governments what's going on affecting their day to day i think engagement either if it's local and running the world with more and more voters is going to help the demonstrators say this is what democracy looks like but in the united states it's not just enough to take to the streets and exercise one's first amendment rights it's also about getting involved in the political process and the organizers hope that's the legacy of this year's women's march rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. tens of thousands of romanians have protested against changes to the judicial system. and were confronted by

riot police before marching towards parliament demonstrators say the amended laws will make it harder to prosecute officials for corruption that just place it was passed last month and now needs the approval of president kos your highness. thousands of women have marched in tokyo as capital to protest against president nothing by fourteen opposition parties began with demonstrations in september demanding the president stepped up and asking bay became came to power in two thousand and five off the death of his father protesters want the end of his family didn't stay which has ruled for more than fifty is pope francis has condemned the killing of women which he says has to last in america as the most violent place on females the leader of the catholic church also spoke out against drug violence during mass in the northern peruvian city of true hero. marianna sanchez reports

the pope's visit to peru is being overshadowed by his handling of a clergy sex abuse scandal in chile. well peruvians are much focused on the pope's trip here to leon's have been reacting to the pope's last comments before he left a few days ago where he said that the victims allegations that. protected sex abuse paedophiles in it were calumny and slander. like a snowball for the pope and now his top adviser on sex abuse scandals. sean o'malley from boston has to rebuke the pope's comments he said that he didn't doesn't understand why the pope has those words slander and. those words in fact cause a great pain to the survivors of sex abuse cases by clergymen this has of course has caused a national uproar in chile and peruvians. also are waiting for the pope to react

to one case here of a very powerful religious leader here. who prosecutors say has committed. against young adults and children he is living in rome has been protected by the vatican the pope has only order to intervene in this powerful religious organization. critics here say that they are waiting for the pope to not talk about war and people here critics of the pope are we are expecting the vatican. prosecutors and the justice to be able to extradite he got the fact. a north korean delegation has arrived in south korea ahead of next month's winter olympics impune charring inspection team was due to arrive on saturday's czech venues but canceled without explanation kenya is sending

twenty two athletes to the games to break through followed the first official talks in two years between north and south korea earlier this month the united nations special rapporteur for miramar has visited ranger refugee camps in bangladesh refugees told the healy how their skate from persecution and violence from him us armed forces in iraq and states more than six hundred thousand have fled to bangladesh since the army launched a crackdown in august well a plan to repatriate the rangar muslims to men maher is due to begin on tuesday but the un and the refugees are worried about their safety if they return child strapped reports from a long refugee camp the conversation in the refugee camps is dominated by one topic . planned by the media and more than with this you governments offering the revenger voluntary repatriation back to me. say it alan flipped me on more with his family four months ago god would have already at me got done

a lot better we have been tortured killed in our houses burned we want mean march citizenship and id cards saying we are all injective i don't want to go to another camp and i mean mark if bangladesh and the rest of the world can protect our rights then we will go back but not yet one hundred feet says he's afraid for many of his family who he's lost contact with in myanmar before a lot of this it is you know i think we want citizenship i'm thankful to bangladesh for their help and i want to go home but if we go back now they'll torture and kill us again. when he speaks to the camp chiefs and some of the students here that you begin to understand how nervous they are starting to get with respect to this so-called voluntary riprap creation deal doesn't matter who you speak to in these camps everybody seems incredibly grateful to the bangladesh government and international aid agencies with respect to the help that they have received here but they are starting to feel as if they are being pressured into returning to me

and all too soon it costs the bangladeshi government billions of dollars a year to shelter more than a million revenger if you g.'s living in camps close to the border the new plan is based on a similar one in the one nine hundred ninety s. to repatriate reinjure who had fled the previous crackdown by the myanmar military many returned then but last year's violence forced them to flee into bangladesh once again aid organizations say the myanmar army has killed thousands of ranger men women and children in recent months they say soldiers gang raped women trying to flee. and hundreds of range of villages have been destroyed. the government denies these claims but has refused any independent investigation in december it banned the un's special report on human rights in myanmar from entering the country when we talk to refugees here in the camps of bangladesh there are three things

that they tell us that they need to see happen before they would consider going back home the first thing is the issue of citizenship of legal status needs to be resolved in me and. the second is a need to be sure that they can go back to a safe and secure environment and the third is they need to be able to go back to a home to a village they're already thousands of internally displaced ranger living in camps inside myanmar the retired creation plan involves the return he's being housed in more camps until the destroyed homes a rebuilt but there's little or no mention of citizenship security or justice for hundreds of thousands of or hinge alike these men who say their lives have been destroyed. at al-jazeera to prolong refugee camp on the day. the toughest race in world motor sports has ended in the argentinian court the veteran spanish science won the. greatest rival the seven time champion

stefan. he lost the lead off to hitting a tree and it's one of the reports from cordova. it's only the taking part that counts for others only victory will do and then there are those off to two grueling weeks to some of the toughest to reign on the planet just glad it's with time now to reflect on what might have been for me was a mistake of the role of the circle caught up to first bob i push a lot but in the first couple days in the state. where we started we just saw so much fight but for me. more than three hundred cars trucks motorbikes quad bikes and buggies plus a huge support network from around the world covering nine thousand kilometers is also a logistical and environmental challenge and since the race debut in one nine hundred

seventy eight seventy competitors and spectators have been killed in accidents you'll deny the say they work to improve safety and to protect the routes no one died this year what's a relief it must be to being off the nine thousand three countries and some of the rough mr raymond of a weather condition known some woman a machine or you are dead to take that even if you have made it here. this is the tenth year the dakar has been run in south america a supposedly temporary measure after the two thousand and eight race was cancelled following the killing of four french tourists on the planned route in mauritania. is the motor capital of argentina and these fans will give it up easily meanwhile the challenge is great for the races as it was in africa to get a little bit lost. it's it's change really really quick but at the moment looks not

so bad for me walk no one the motorbike race well the veteran spanish driver carlos signed repeated his two thousand and ten victory in the car category as they pack up dakar two thousand and eighteen planning is already underway the next year's race in south america than there are busier court of the argentina now until four years ago only former transport for most chinese people was the bicycle as their wealth grew cause soon take over the bicycle has made a comeback with bike sharing operations booming asian brown reports the sorry this industry is in serious trouble. for some the humble bicycle has become a menace across beijing clusters of discarded rental bikes covers sidewalks bike sharing began two years ago the selling point was that it was cheap and you could leave them wherever you wanted but that's the problem say many who live here

or do you should see both sides yes it's really convenient and ecological but it's a disaster with this huge amount to a museum it's definitely a waste because they occupy public spaces during peak times bikes pile up at bus stops according to the government china has more than twenty three million shared bicycles recent photographs on social media show numerous dumping grounds for abandoned bikes the operators insist there are clear rules about where to park them and it's not their fault it's not happening. you can hire a bike like this for just seven cents for half an hour there are also other obvious benefits it's good exercise and better for the environment than driving but there's also one obvious problem excessive oversupply now the inevitable zuckerberg several operators have gone bust with one owing investors almost sixty million dollars. the

city of tire engine has a long history of bicycle production despite the overcapacity these are destined for the rental sector china's free market policies made this private factory possible now the owner hopes the communist government can come to the rescue from all the things we believe the government should do more to help the amount of shared bikes should be on the basis of a city scale just forty years ago you knew you'd made it when you had a bike along with a watch radio and sewing machine it was a family's most valuable possession a symbol of pride now for some it stands as a symbol of national waste a dream brown al-jazeera beijing. you're watching others are these are our top stories gunmen have stormed

a luxury hotel in afghanistan's capital kabul taking hostages interior ministry says two of the attackers have been killed a special forces trying to take control of the entered an intercontinental hotel jennifer glass has more from kabul. the siege started about nine o'clock on saturday night when at least four gunmen attacked the hotel it's unclear how they got into the hotel that is something that's going to come under investigation and the hotel was very busy on a saturday night a wedding party was ongoing we also know that a number of guests were in the hotel delegates for a conference to be held on sunday so a very busy time it's unclear exactly how many people were in the hotel but we know that several people were trapped taki has begun and the ground offensive in the african region in northern syria as an enclave the syrian kurdish why p.g. fighters who are backed by the u.s. by b.g. says as strikes have killed at least nine people. the u.s.

senate will try again on monday to vote for a deal to fund the government all titians failed to agree on the spending bill on friday leading to a shutdown republicans and democrats blame each other for the deadlock women are rallying across the u.s. to mark one year since president took office organizers hope they'll encourage more women to vote and run for office in november's midterm elections. u.s. vice president mike pence has arrived in jordan as part of a regional tour he was in egypt where he met president sisi to discuss security and the israeli palestinian peace process hence he is expected to visit israel said that the u.s. is still committed to a two state solution. tens of thousands of romanians have protested against changes to the judicial system demonstrators say the amended laws will make it harder to prosecute officials for the ruptured. pipe from says has condemned the killing of women which he says has latin america into the world's most violent place of

females the leader of the catholic church also spoke out against drug violence during mass in the northern city of trujillo. those are your headlines are back with more news here on al-jazeera after counting the cost. al-jazeera. swear every. hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week wall street's happy but is the us recovery all down to tampa nomics what does it mean for the rest of

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