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from my headquarters in doha iran i'm also ahead. of the. responsibility. defending. the u.s. vice president is in jordan on the second middle east and. efforts for a bicycle comeback in china face a bumpy ride. to have launched a ground operation into the kurdish controlled. in syria this comes after a day of strikes against syrian kurdish why fiji fighters six people have already died. at the border and state media reports that turkish fighters have already crossed into three. in turkey's president says the next

target will be man version that's the syrian town that was recaptured from eisel in two thousand and sixteen by a kurdish led force also backed by the u.s. backed opposed by turkey well let's get more on all of this now we're joined by correspondent stephanie decker she is live for us near the turkish syrian borders and reports that the ground operation has been launched stephanie what are you hearing. yes the prime minister made that announcement that turkish troops he said had entered in of course there's an african city and then these the entire sort of region. in which is even the the mountain you see over my left shoulder there so what we understand is that a group of turkish special forces together with free syrian army fighters those are the syrian rebels that turkey supports and turned the region of africa from the northern border so the northern border with turkey and that there's fighting going on with why p.g. fighters around

a village there are so the air campaign is active we've been hearing jets in the sky throughout the day we've been hearing shelling coming from a position just over there from a turkish beige also heavy military. machine gun fire so it is a very active campaign this sort of ground offensive that everyone's been talking about elizabeth we do know a lot of fighters of the f.s.a. have been mobilized both inside syria and along the border we had that entry point in the north and also here there's another jet in the sky that we can hear now but the massive sort of force hasn't really moved in and we also heard from the prime minister in terms of strategy he was saying that this was going to be an operation in four phases and they were going to try and secure a sort of a thirty kilometer safe zone inside but certainly the y.p. g. fighters they know the terrain well they are from there they're very well trained they will be a formidable fighting force however of course when you have superiority in the sky as turkey has with their jets that is a real advantage and even before the ground operation was launched. and with the

strikes stephanie we were hearing of some six civilians killed what is the situation for civilians and offering. to lean. well they can technically it's difficult we've been trying to get hold of people enough for you know the last couple of hours and we have been able to establish any contact but there is so to speak the corridor or into area controlled by the syrian government because really is surrounded by turkey from the west from the north and then you have those fighters syrian rebels the f.s.a. supported by turkey in the east you also have syrian turkish troops to the south of the free and together with another rebel group. in the province so it's very difficult there are no safe corridors at the moment from what we understand we've been hearing that civilians have been fleeing their villages sort of in the border areas because of the shelling because of the active campaign that's been ongoing

and people in africa in the itself the city have been seeking shelter in basements and so forth but certainly it's incredibly different we're talking hundreds of thousands of people there also internally displaced because this region has been relatively safe throughout this war so aid agencies are warning of you know sort of dire consequences but real specific details about what is going on at the moment has been very difficult to come by today some reports that the internet's been cut out by turkey we call confirm that either but certainly we call and get a real clear picture at the moment what it's like right now for civilians inside want stephanie thank you very much for that for now that stephanie deck of the very latest joining us from the turkish syrian border thank you. to other news now the taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack at the intercontinental hotel in the afghan capital kabul. well the sixteen hour is now leaving at least six civilians dead as well as five attackers on them

stormed the building on saturday night is the part of on saturday we're talking government workers security forces and fargas afghan officials say one hundred sixty people including forty one foreigners have been rescued jennifer glasses john . enough live from kabul now very long siege now come to an end there was much confusion for a few hours about whether it had ended and the thought of claiming responsibility jennifer. that's right as with the taliban say they sent five fighters into this very crowded hotel they say the targets for government officials afghan security officials and foreigners and they say that they had originally planned this attack for last weekend but they delayed it because there was a wedding party in the hotel we have just heard from president ashraf ghani just issued a statement praising afghan security forces saying that they worked very hard to avoid any collateral damage perhaps a reason why this siege went on for so long very difficult that there were so many

civilians inside the hotel right here behind me most of its two hundred rooms were full of many many people one hundred sixty people as you said have been have been rescued right now the death toll stands at six and right now afghan officials are inside that hotel searching room to room for any kind of clues as to how this happened and for any other injuries casualties or perhaps death deaths inside that hotel we do know that dozens of people were holed up inside their hotel rooms for a very very long terrible night we do know that some people jumped off their balconies or tried to climb down their balconies to get out of the hotel as the attack was going on the president connie also mentioned last week here in kabul members of the u.n. security council were visiting and they said they wanted to hold accountable those countries that support terrorism and today in light of this attack afghanistan's representative at the u.n. has also made that call again president gone is calling for an investigation as to

how this happened how these attackers got into this very heavily fortified hotel and how it could be possibly prevented in the future just a couple of days after the united states issued a warning to foreigners to stay away from home. because such an attack could happen jennifer that is the situation in kabul thank you very much for that update in the meantime we're hearing a number attack in afghanistan. province. that's right in herat problems herat province eight civilians were killed early this morning when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb. one of the biggest dangers here for afghans roadside bombs are killing more than are killing and injuring more than one hundred people a month now around afghanistan as the taliban and the taliban are fighting heavily and for our province as well a senior official was killed there overnight last night we understand the fighting

is very severe in far a province as well so not just problems here in kabul but a difficult security situation around the country for jennifer thank you very much for that for the latest on both those situations in kabul and head out for now that is jennifer glass in kabul. u.s. vice president is in jordan boy who's been holding talks with king abdullah he's been defending president donald trump's move to declare jerusalem as the capital of israel jordan is the second stop in fences middle east tour held talks in colorado with egypt's president seeks the on saturday he says the u.s. is still committed to a two state solution to the conflict between israel and palestine. earlier on today it is sure see. if you will the real world is your new leader that is. if we. use that jew the wall as it is so it will. be

a belief that greece wants. and is the leader you are you the world is here the rains do or is. it. well let's get more on this now with our correspondent andrew symonds he is live for us in ramallah in the occupied west bank will those comments by pan sandra do anything to comfort the jordanians all the palestinians. they certainly do nothing to comfort any side here in the occupied west bank or indeed jordan they were very much diplo speak diplomatic language stating what the u.s. policy already should be which is a two state solution and indeed the respect of all boundaries but it doesn't push anything further down the road far from it the situation with the king of jordan king abdullah is that he's furious absolutely furious because of this declaration

on december the sixth by trump that jerusalem was a recognized capital of israel and the shift of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv we all know about this it's almost written in history now as being something that inflamed the situation here in the occupied west bank and indeed gaza and indeed right away across the world palestinians were disgusted fiercely out of favor with it but the bottom line in jordan is it is really the fault forgotten aspect in some ways in u.s. diplomacy because straight after december the sixth there were moves to get some movement and mike pence was going to be dispatched to jerusalem to actually have talks and also to ramallah in fact to bethlehem where he specifically requested to go but then of course mahmoud abbas the palestinian president felt

that that was not necessary there should be no talks no no way would he have talks after what was declared but jordanians number something like seventy percent of them are palestinian look at history jordan used to govern east jerusalem has the role now of the of the. body that is custody in the for the annex a mosque but this is occupied land this is a land that was taken in the one hundred sixty seven six day war jordanians certainly the whole psyche is revulse by any move to make jerusalem the capital of israel so basically you have a mood that's pretty ugly right now summed up by this former foreign minister. well this is being it's the to do official business fare and therefore jordan is would be more than keen 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 building of bad news . so you have a view that that's pretty strong that was diplomatic language as well as far as the palestinians are concerned when they see the arrival of parents they will do absolutely nothing they don't want him here he doesn't plan to come here he should have gone to bethlehem to meet christian leaders in the first attempted visit but christian leaders many of them don't want to see him either this is a going to be a particularly prickly affair the only thing that will go well is his meeting with israeli politicians all right andrea thank you very much for that for now that anderson is joining us live from ramallah thank you still ahead on the button. that go shading with this white house is like negotiating with jell-o. deep political divisions in the u.s. where stalemate between republicans and democrats has forced

a government shutdown and a child health crisis why military paramedics are being deployed to indonesia's remote popular region. welcome back now a look at the weather conditions across asia and in northeastern areas and behind this frontal system we've got some cold air now there's going to be a frontal wave developing which will push up across parts of japan it's twenty four hours so things are going to turn much much colder with the high risk of snow so doesn't it too bad through monday but this development towards the south is going to result in a significant frontal system pushing up with that snowfall there crossed northern areas and behind it really cold air digging in you see across eastern parts of russia and down through the korean peninsula way way way below freezing but at minus five as a mix in beijing to the cold air pushing down towards shanghai so it's had across

more southern portions of china and taiwan where it's still a caching quite warm twenty four degrees in hong kong very pleasant twenty two in taipei all looking fine across indochina it should be bright in hanoi in vietnam and temperatures there into the low twenty's not a great deal of change as we head on into choose they still looking largely dry and bright for say the some parts of asia nothing particularly unusual here with most places seeing some showers but borneo faring quite well preaching should be largely dry i think for java bali's risk of some fairly heavy showers and a few showers and heading northward through them in a potential for india where the conditions largely looking fine twenty two the high in delhi. the controversial leader of islamic jihad for his cock he is one of the most one internists in history of israel you can't turn his and his alleged extra judicial

killings by israeli intelligence and mossad the sense of being caught in the muscles of the outcome is only death if someone tried to. immediately superintelligent was shut down the borders to kill him in damascus at this time on al jazeera world. top stories turkey has begun a ground operation against a kurdish controlled enclave of. the. air strikes that killed at least six people president says the next target. kurdish control.

in the afghan capital kabul has ended. on saturday night and had been battling afghan security forces until a short time ago the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack which has left at least six people dead. and u.s. vice president mike pence has been holding talks with. part of his middle east tour early on he met president. in egypt he's defending the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. the anniversary of u.s. president trumps inauguration has been marked by a government shutdown after the senate failed to agree on a spending bill that will try again on monday to vote for a deal with immigration the main sticking point to republicans and democrats are blaming each other for the deadlock mike hanna reports house democratic minority

leader nancy pelosi was the monger thousands of people protesting near the white house their presence at the moment no longer needed on capitol hill when negotiations 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 and 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. now thinks line people have been engineering and take on the demonstrations organized by the catholic church leaders

in the democratic republic of congo they say president computer is violating the constitution by staying in office beyond his term at least two people died during a similar protests in the capital on new year's eve. now thousands of women have marched in togo's capital to protest against president fania singh day fourteen opposition party began whittling demonstrations in september demanding the president step down 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 ruled for more than fifty he is. the united nations special rapporteur for myanmar has been visiting refugee camps in bangladesh ganguly was banned from entering myanmar her visit to neighboring bangor this comes just days the four hundred refugees are due to start returning to myanmar the repatriation process is expected to last two years more than six hundred thousand one hundred have fled to bangladesh and mons army launched a crackdown in northern iraq on state last august correspondent charles stratford

is in caucasus bazaar and spoke with the and he. i don't think the situation has really improved in myanmar and first of all where will they go back to they'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 in charge were told that they would stay for come on muslims for three days they ended up staying in the years in the years in come in talk to you. so i know that refugees

are very concerned about that what can the international community really do in terms of pressuring. some sort of process to call she was found guilty of these alleged atrocities to be committed inside myanmar i think the international community should do more to pressure that if we 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 are held accountable with respect to the a different here well can the international community do to better help bangladesh this is not going away in the near future is in this crisis what i've seen so far with just a few days of rain or even a half a day of rain we will be witnessing the last lines and we may see more casualties

coming in huge numbers of casualties as a result of this and the constant. nation of the people in proximity is just 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 view to disperse these sand and maybe ask the government to provide more land to the nation our officials are concerned about the infant mortality rate in the remote eastern region of pop what they say at least sixty nine and since died from malnutrition and diseases like measles just over the past four months military paramedics have been deployed to steph lawson has moved from pop for. a very sad and very theory of how crisis here in park where the military has even been called

in to rescue babies from starvation they're very closely undernourished and that's why they're very a vulnerable polices like measles chicken pox they're basically dying of chicken pox measles right now but also malaria but it's a very very remote part of indonesia basically take twenty four hours to travel from the capital to where i am right now i think you know a big plane small slave both to even get to this position so a lot of people here are very much battling the remote no the military doesn't even have the capacity or the manpower to go to these remote villages so a lot of people say the amount of children dying is a lot higher than what we know right now some church officials say is even twice or three times higher than the numbers that we are receiving right now and what the government is doing is now in emergency response for around four weeks and then they will evaluate again so a lot of medical staff from the capital and also from out of parts have been flown

in and also food is arriving here but officials here in are willing. and a much more long term solution is needed because the aftermath people i think agree lost their traditions they very much a trike that has been living in nature for a very long time now troy have contact with the outside world and basically giving the wrong nutrition to their babies some people have been telling me that they are actually giving energy drinks instead of milk so they are very small infants so of course a lot of problems that need a long term and much more structural solution and many here are worried that the emergency response will finish the military and the how the pieces will all go home and then the problem will still exist right to china now where the bicycle was once the only form of transport for most people but as personal wealth and creates the symbol of prestige well soon replaced by cars now it is making a comeback with the bike sharing operations booming that are china correspondent

adrian brown reports the return has brought some new problems. for some the humble bicycle has become a menace across beijing clusters of discarded rental bikes cover 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 . you should see both sides yes it's really convenient and ecological but it's a disaster with this huge amount you see. it's definitely a waste because the occupy public spaces during peak times bikes pile up at bus stops according to the government of 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 tianjin has a long history of bicycle production despite the overcapacity these it 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. 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. now the world's leading showcase for independent films is underway in the united states. to use in the film festival as a platform to tackle difficult subjects ranging from political leadership to the environment and the human condition. at a time of rising nationalism and rising oceans. almost unchecked capitalism and individual isolation the films at sundance reflect the arrow we live in a small number of those the. new president is a film about the election of donald trump as u.s. president told entirely through excerpts from russian television reports and clips from russian social media. timeshares

a mexican movie about luxury resort workers and wealthy guests both caught up in a corporate conspiracy at the horrific comedy stephanie speaks about like. just like cat savage capitalism it's you know a critique of what we think you know we need to be happy filmmaker sebastian hoffman reflects on how mexican media views trump. who called immigrants from his country rapists and criminals i think through humor i mean i think you know we think of donald trump as this you know crazy but the biggest clown in the world and everything that's happening everything it's like a big circus the trump administration's rejection of climate change science is in the background of a notation are about the people of the pacific island nation of cure of facing destruction from rising waters climate change for me has always been about people whose lives are being affected by what is happening former cura boss president a noted tone the stem. the policy of america faced. but what about the rest of

sometimes wondered in my mind that if i was to extend that policy is that america first and the rest be damned but the question isn't the challenge that i continue to pose for the international community i you're going to allow this to happen to us. this goes to multiple crises looming disasters and personal tragedies how can an individual respond one answer is sadness the theme of pity the film from greece about a man who is happy only when he is. independent films are casting a critical eye on the world as we know it and asking where we're going. now again i'm in as a product of the headlines on al-jazeera turkey has been

a ground operation against a kurdish controlled enclave and serious region this follows a day of autonomy and air strikes that killed at least six people so he's president says the next target would be man bush and now the town under kurdish control. and on the news the taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack at the intercontinental hotel in the afghan capital kabul. the sixteen alice is now all over leaving at least six civilians dead as well as five attackers gunmen stormed the building on saturday night the taliban said they were targeting government workers security forces and foreigners afghan officials say one hundred sixty people including forty one foreigners have been rescued. u.s. president wife pens as in jordan where he's been holding talks with king abdullah has been the defending president donald trump's move to declare jerusalem the capital of israel. jordan is the second stop on pence's middle east tour he held

talks in cairo with egypt's president at the c.c. on saturday he says the u.s. is still committed to a two state solution to the conflict between israel and palestine. that assures the right. that. if. we were. to use. the war is this. if. you. knew. this early in the war. at least nine people have been injured during anti-government demonstrations organized by catholic church leaders in the democratic republic of congo they say president kabila is violating the constitution by staying in office beyond his term at least two people died during the summit

a protest in the capital on new year's eve. those are the headlines on al-jazeera produce stay with us and sad story coming up next thank you for watching. the u.s. government shuts down over the failed budget deal of the day president trump celebrates his first year in office workers are told to stay home democrats and republicans trade insults what's really to blame and what does it mean for trump's administration this is inside story.