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by sixty percent the clues disappear at least for you from around the world the military and the establishment in the capital bangkok know that it's very difficult for them to win support in parts of thailand like this. all jews iraq. where ever you are. the same at a major kabul hotel leaves at least five people dead and it's continuing after a government official said it was over.
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and welcome to al-jazeera life for my headquarters in doha with me and of the parana i'm also ahead turkish forces move into the northern syrian on play off and warned that the largest city of man bush is next but u.s. vice president arrives in jordan as part of his controversial middle east oil. and refugee said they're feeling pressure to return to me to soothe. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack and the intercontinental hotel in kabul gunfire and explosions can still be heard outside the hotel despite the interior minister earlier declaring the siege over. one hundred sixty people including forty one foreigners have been. rescues let's go to
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accost on jennifer glass now she is joining us live from kabul has the security operation ended or is the siege ongoing jennifer what are you hearing. elizabeth we think it is all over now just a few minutes ago we saw a long line of afghan security vehicles run down this road you can see behind me the intercontinental hotel until about forty minutes ago you could hear bombs explosions gunfire both large and small arms fire and you can see the edge of the building is charred where fires have been set alight but we believe right now the siege is over afghan security forces many of them have already left flying afghan flags waving at the crowd here there are hundreds of civilians who have come here to watch what has been going on the siege going on for about fifteen hours as you say the taliban has claimed responsibility they say there were five attackers responsible for this attack that started at nine o'clock on saturday night the taliban says they deliberately delayed the attack
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a week originally they were going to do it weekends before but they decided to delay it because of a a wedding party they say the target were foreigners were government security officials government officials and security officials and they say that's why they launched the attack last night but a very very long siege but if yours right now is of a studio over and jennifer they walls there was an alert that attack at a hotel what take place and if this hotel has been targeted before what was security like and how could this have happened. well this is this hotel was attacked in two thousand and eleven and since then security here has been very tight and you are right the united states embassy issued a warning earlier this week saying foreigners should not go to saying that they had intelligence that a complex attack such as this one might be eminent at a hotel they named another hotel across town near the airport this hotel was not.
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but they said that foreigners should say away from any place where international groups might gather obviously there was some intelligence security has been on high alert here in the afghan capital for many many months since may thirty first that terrible bombing that killed one hundred fifty people in the center of town there have been a number of new checkpoints a number of new barriers to large trucks coming into town and in the recent weeks there have been a number of attacks around the around the city and we know that security has been on fire and ambulance now you can hear that siren that's an ambulance going by. we have been talking to afghans here to hear about loved ones inside the hotel people they have not been able to get in touch with concerns of that there might be a hostage situation people that maybe didn't call inside the hotel were discouraged from calling inside the hotel but now i think the reckoning will begin the death toll right now stands at five but just over the last few hours the number of the gunfire and explosions were massive and now. the cleanup begins people go in and go
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room to room and really discover what the true toll of this attack was jennifer thank you very much for that from the. very latest from kabul thank you. moving on to other news now three people have been wounded in an attack on a turkish town near the syrian border regions governesses four rockets were fired from syria into the town of killis took a shot to be returned to the kurdish controlled territory across the border well the attack on the day after to offensive to korea syria could. northern syria the operation is concentrated on the region six people have already died from. strikes troops have been mobilized at the border and state media reports that turkish baths are even fighters have already crossed into a. president says the next to tom. that's
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a syrian town that was recaptured two thousand and sixteen by a could. backed by the u.s. but opposed by well let's get more of the. syrian border what are you hearing about what's happening. stephanie. or and which is. really behind me that mountain is turkey there's a base behind there and they've been shelling throughout the day we've been hearing it. heavy machine gun fire also the sound of tanks along the border and then over my left shoulder is syria that mountain that you see behind me and not yesterday was heavily bombarded. hundred fifty three. targets yes you mentioned that ground operation we've been making calls it seems that they're mobilizing elizabeth but it doesn't seem like it is in full swing as
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if they have reinforced by thousands of syrian army fighters those are the rebels that turkey supports inside syria. also they've been to these kind of areas and the north to be able to go in from all sides so certainly it is an ongoing operation seventy two jets used in the air campaign that started yesterday let's take a look at how the last twenty four hours have unfolded. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on. turkish officials had said that the operation was imminent. president. just a few hours before the jets to. his de facto started in the field this will be followed by. the promises.
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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 shelled 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 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 build up inside syria by free syrian army fighters to the east about three now those are the rebels that turkey supports. turkey and reinforce 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. g. the kurdish group turkey considers to be a terrorist organization it is also however the group the americans consider their
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best ally in fighting eisel the international dimensions are vast russia and now wants to pulled out the few hundred military personnel that had enough money in shortly after the campaign started and russia controls this air space 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 and stephanie how awesome billions being affected the y.p. g have said six people have died turkey is saying that they are terrorists are they able to us of billions able to leave offering. it's a very difficult situation and there's also a large number of internally displaced syrians who had to flee their homes from other areas inside syria because it has been relatively calm. over the last couple
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of years. or so the only real point that they have because as i mentioned there you've got turkey to the west and north then you have the turkey backed rebels have some turkish troops to the south and also that group led by the. government. of course refutes that it is also a propaganda war elizabeth really read between the lines of all the statements coming out. but i think it is absolutely clear to say that it is terrifying for the people inside the region and we know people have been fleeing the border villages because as we've been saying we've been hearing the relentless shelling in heavy machine gunfire going into those areas now you know with all this talk of a. ground offensive it's very very scary and we know from inside people are taking shelter in their basements of course they would have been stocking up
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because there was so much talk about this in the run up to this week stephanie thank you very much for that stephanie. from the turkish syrian border. u.s. vice president has arrived. as part of his regional. president. and the israeli palestinian peace process and says the u.s. still committed to a two state solution despite the controversial u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's. foreign minister and he says that u.s. decision on jerusalem is shadowing the trip. this is being a. business trip. and therefore jordan is would be more than willing to hear what he says and especially see expounds a little bit on what is called the deal of the century popularly i don't think this visit is welcome and people are worried that this might be the bearer of bad news
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so in a way to there is a mixed feeling about well the position has been very constant and his majesty has been. adamant about the position that there should be two states. in palestine one for israel and and in neighboring country for the palestinians on the west bank of jordan on the occupied territories in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven and zero zero zero m. as its capital journalism is jerusalem so in a way you know any solution that is short of there will be a will in jordan we'll take it with a grain of salt so in a way we should wait for what he has to say and look at it very intently and then the jordanian king and the government will decide on what course of action to take the anniversary of president and alteration has been marked by
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a government shutdown after the senate failed to agree on a spending bill at all try again early on monday to vote for a deal with immigration the main sticking point republicans and democrats are blaming each other for the deadlock mike hanna of a ports. house democratic minority leader nancy pelosi was among the thousands of people protesting near the white house her presence at the moment no longer needed on capitol hill when they 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
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to have to up his game a little bit be a little bit more honest with the president states if we received roberts from the front 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 him self while he's canceled a visit to his florida clubhouse 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 on this night 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
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al-jazeera washington. but still ahead on the bulletin put francis condemns while it's against women and latin america. and why these bicycle graveyards have got china's moving bike sharing industry in trouble. welcome back we'll stop by look at the weather across southeastern parts of asia nothing remarkable here at the moment for a few showers around much as you'd expect the forecast given. some heavy showers across parts of the southern philippines otherwise for bourne are not looking too bad a fair amount of sunshine here for java and we're going to see some heavy showers to consulate's west at times but through them in a pinch the just the usual scattered showers much as you'd expect for bangkok in
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thailand it should be fine for much of the day and fair amount of dry weather across cambodia now as you head down into wards straight here you can see all this shower activity across north an heiress are seeing some significant rainfall here southeastern are still looking pretty hot wagga wagga has seen some very impressive temperatures of us twenty four hours temperatures in excess of forty degrees people struggling hard to keep cool in those weather conditions temperatures still quite high for sydney that thirty three on monday some very heavy rain across the northern and the across the top and then through into the gulf of carpentaria forty degrees for alice look at twenty nine degrees in perth and as we head on through into tuesday temperatures just drop the way little bit in sydney so head across into new zealand we've got some heavy showers affecting the north on particular the south on and should see some brighter weather.
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and fierce we. doors are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists reproving the barriers are built to impose division it's not a sixteen instead of being an obstacle to speed became another obstacle to peace 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. good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories the taliban's claim is sponsibility for an overnight siege of the intercontinental hotel in kabul
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at least five civilians have been killed in the attack which began when gunmen stormed the hotel on saturday night turkey has launched a new campaign in syria targeting the kurdish controlled on clay of being so he's president says the next target will be manned another town on the kurdish control and u.s. was president mike pence arrived in jordan king abdullah as part of his regional tour earlier he met president of the egypt to discuss security and the israeli palestinian peace process. now officials are concerned about the infant mortality rate in the remote eastern region of park they say at least sixty nine and since died from malnutrition and diseases like measles over the past four months military power medics have been deployed step vasa is joining us live from was what's going on there while we seeing these deaths.
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going on here in and the military has been called in to how you can imagine this is a very very remote part of. the capital. here is a lot of villages very far from the capital it's a very small town here. for the military has to. we've not been able. to every far away villages which they like eight hours to get to and it is very difficult also to get access here as a journalist it's for me the first time in many years to be able to get access here and to with who are from this crisis here in papua and i'm actually currently in a church which has been built into an emergency hospital because more and more babies are being brought in from the district they simply can't cope the hospital is over pool and even this church is already full right now so basically
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authorities are now building ten nobody knows exactly how many babies are still out there who are in a very critical condition right now and is the problem just how remote the region is stephanie how what is the government doing about this we know that the military have been deployed. well but there is an emergency response from the government which is sad to be taking will take around for weeks but many here of course having help we need serious doubts that that will be long enough because of how much permanent solution is needed to actually help these very undernourished children what's basically happened happening is that these children are very seriously undernourished because of a lack of food but also a lack of proper food they as much right has been known to live with nature for a very long time and basically now due to the contact with the outside world they have basically lost their tradition and given the wrong who could have children as
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well having no food at all so very much structural long term solution is needed and people are worried if these health officials that have come in from the capital will leave and the military will leave then the children will still be dying or step thank you very much for that and now that step last and joining us live from possible thank you. now the united nations special rattle for myanmar has been visiting one hundred refugee camps in. bangladesh yeah he was banned from entering a visit to neighboring comes just days before one hundred refugee is all due to start returning to be on law the repatriation process is expected to last to his more than six hundred thousand one hundred have fled to. the last to crack down in all the state and well child structures and cox's bazaar and spoke with the un special rapporteur for myanmar. i don't think the situation has
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really improved. and first of all where were they grew back to we've lost their livelihood they've lost their crops they've lost their fields all the all the rice now as we've heard really being sold elsewhere to other countries. they've lost their homes so they're really rebuilding process is going to be huge and the people should not be subjected to living in another camp like situation we all know what happened after two thousand and twelve people are still there after two thousand and twelve and i've talked to people and child were told that they would stay for come on muslims for three days they ended up staying in the five years in the years in come in talk to you. so. i know that refugees are very concerned about. what can the international community really do in terms of pressuring. approaches to call.
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these alleged atrocities to be committed you know i think international community should do more to pressure that. we've all heard never again and if these people who we know. have committed some of you know somebody has to be held accountable and somebody needs to see that these people. held accountable with respect to the a different. community due to pressure so. this is not going to work in the near future it is crushing what i've seen so far with just a few days of rain or even after half a day of rain we will be witnessing landslides and we may see more casualties coming in huge number of casualties as a result of the concentration of the people in proximity is just
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it's just not. human. where they can live in dignity camps need to move out to be. dispersed a little bit and this is where the international community can help to try to disperse these counts and. to provide more land pope francis has condemned the killing of women what she says has turned latin america into the most violent place on earth for women the leader of the catholic church also spoke out against drug violence during mass in the northern peruvian city of trujillo he then returned to lima and spent time speaking with followers and blessing children of my own as far as reports from the pope's mission and 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 have been reacting to the pope's comments before he left
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a few days ago where he said that the victims allegations that. protected sex abuse paedophiles. were calumny and slander. like a snowball for the pope and now he's top adviser on sex abuse scandals. rebuked the pope's comments he said that he doesn't understand why the pope has used 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
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prosecutors say has committed. against young adults and children and he is living in rome he's being 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 expecting the. prosecutors and the justice to be able to extradite back to peru. the state of emergency has been declared in parts of jamaica and a government crackdown on crime police and soldiers have been given extra policy. in the northwest more than three hundred murders in the area and. seven so far this year tourists have been warned to stay in brazil. now thousands of women have marched in togo's capital to protest again against president fall you're saying day
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fourteen opposition parties began weekly demonstrations in september demanding the president step down now saying they came to power in two thousand and five after the death of his father protesters want the end of his family dynasty which is wrong for more than fifty years. at least seventeen people have been killed in a factory fire just outside the indian capital new delhi the blaze started in the basement of a plastic manufacturing facility it took rescuers nearly two hours to contain the fire and the search and rescue operation continued late into the night the government says it will investigate the cause of the blaze. a north korean delegation has arrived in south korea ahead of next month's went to olympics and chairing the inspection teams a visit was delayed by one day without explanation or pyongyang to sending twenty two athletes to the games the diplomatic breakthrough followed talks earlier this month the first official meeting in to hear his. rights to china now with
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a bicycle was once the only form of transport for most people but his personal wealth and quote was the symbol of prestige was soon replaced by cars and now it is making a comeback with a bike sharing operations that are china correspondent adrian brown reports the return has brought new problems. for some the humble bicycle has become a menace across beijing clusters of discarded rental bikes covers sidewalls. 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 no 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
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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 investors almost sixty million dollars. the city of here in gin has a long history of bicycle production despite the overcapacity these are destined for the rental sector for free market policies made this private factory possible now the owner hopes the communist government can come to the rescue. we believe the
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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. now the world renowned french chef paul bocuse has died aged ninety one and is the pope of gastronomy he came famous for modernizing french cuisine in the one nine hundred seventy s. when the revolution nouvelle cuisine is a restaurant in india on hal day three michelin star rating for more than forty years. now again. with the headlines on al-jazeera
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a sixteen hour siege in the afghan capital kabul appears to be over a gunman stormed and continental hotel on saturday night and had been battling afghan special forces until just a short time ago the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack which left at least five people dead. turkey has launched a new campaign in syria targeting the kurdish controlled enclave. turkey's president says the next target will be manned another town on the kurdish control. the anniversary of president has been modified government shutdown after the senate failed to agree on a spending bill that will try again early on monday to vote for a deal with immigration the main sticking point republicans and democrats are blaming each other for the deadlock. the president has arrived in jordan with king abdullah as part of his regional tour the president. to discuss security and the israeli palestinian peace process pens told reporters before leaving that the u.s.
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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 and reaffirm in israel before the end of this trip that will also reaffirm what president. there were absolutely committed to 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. francis has condemned the killing of women which he says has turned latin america into the last violent place on earth for women the leader of the catholic church also spoke out against drug while the. peruvian city. he then
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