just clambered the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially limited capacity for those who weren't able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the route. travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can become like a machete. predicting a quick victory turkish present recip tayyip erdogan while his ground troops launch an offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria.

comes along with what she offers their life more headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes or scaping the gunfire at a luxury hotel in kabul at least fifteen civilians a dad and many others are wounded the taliban has claimed responsibility. five protesters killed in the democratic republic of congo catholic leaders say president kabila is violating the constitution by staying in power. on symbol of pride now and i saw efforts for a bicycle comeback in china face a bumpy ride. welcome to the program turkey has begun its ground assault on a kurdish enclave in northern syria the campaign is aimed at fleeing it's held by kurdish why forces are backed by the u.s. but considered terrorists by the turks tanks moving across the border aiming to carve out what. he calls a thirty kilometer a safety zone and this follows

a day of strikes and artillery fire that y.b. g. activists say has killed at least six people speaking to supporters in the turkish president recipe for the one says he's anticipating a quick resolution to the campaign so he took a small from the turkey syria border we're hearing heavy artillery outgoing from turkey into syria which is just in the mountain behind us is been happening really throughout the day also we've been hearing jets in the sky in this columns as the ground offensive is now well underway we understand there is fighting the f.s.a. free syrian army fighters that turkey supports is engaging with y p g fighters particularly in the north west of syria so it is an active campaign and it is of course a concern for the civilians hundreds of thousands of civilians in a free and in the region we do know that some of the civilians have been living in these border villages have moved for their own words and also those living in the

city. taking shelter in basements because of both of the psychological impact it's been a week since politicians here at ankara have been saying that they would be carrying out this offensive and that they had every right to get rid of what they call terrorists along its border we don't know what the outcome is going to be of course having firepower air power that turkey has is a huge advantage the y.p. are well trained they know the terrain well but this will not be an easy fight now is going to fish will say the civilian death toll in the kabul hotel attack is now at least fifteen with another twenty wounded. the taliban has claimed responsibility in a statement it said five of its finances were targeting government workers security forces and foreigners the gunman stormed the intercontinental hotel on saturday night leading to a siege that lasted more than sixteen hours afghan government says four attackers have been killed jennifer glass from kabul. lez you can see it's very dark behind

me normally this would be a very brightly lit hotel but afghan security forces turned off the power to the hotel during that sixteen hour siege as they fought floor to floor with taliban militants inside the hotel it has been a very very difficult day for the guests inside the hotel for the stuff inside the hotel and their relatives waiting to see what has happened to them and president ashraf ghani is calling for an investigation of how these attackers got into the hotel the taliban has claimed responsibility for this siege saying that the targets were foreigners or government officials and security forces they say they tried to minimize civilian casualties by holding the attack on this weekend as opposed to last week when they said there was a large wedding planned at the hotel the afghan president praised his security forces saying they did their best to minimize casualties it was

a very very difficult fight so we saw all through the day explosions and gunfire and grenades going off as special forces fought with the taleban and well guests hit it in their rooms and in areas of the hotel some very desperate guests tried to get out using curtains using sheets and climbing down from the higher floors to the lower floors to escape a terrible siege situation the question now of course will be how did these attackers get into the hotel and how did they do so with so many weapons and explosives and were able to hold off the security forces for so long. and there have been multiple deaths from roadside bombs that struck in vehicles enough going to solve western herat province now the vehicle was carrying thirteen civilians there are reports that between eight to twelve of the passengers were killed in the explosion provincial police are blaming the taliban for the taleban of also claim responsibility for. pro-government forces in the northern province that left at

least eighteen. but we have breaking news coming out of turkey the man of the town of flame harley which was hit by a missile from syria says one syrian national was killed and thirty two others injured we're trying bring you more on that in the al-jazeera news quit as well later on. a course in iraq sentenced a forward woman to death for joining eisel the german female of moroccan descent has yet to be named she was captured in the twenty seven mosul offensive and charged with taking part in attacks against iraqi military and security forces she's the first foreigner to be sentenced to death. jordan's king abdullah has told the u.s. vice president of east jerusalem must be the capital of a future palestinian state the two were speaking in a bar which is the second stop in pence's middle east tall fence continues to defend president donald trump's move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of

israel which has sparked anger across the region the vice president insists the u.s. is still committed to a two state solution president trump made a historic decision to recognize it jerusalem as the capital of israel but is he also made clear in that decision that we are committed to continue to respect jordan's role as the custodian of holy sites that we take no position on boundaries and final status subject to negotiation and and as i make clear to you the president made clear the world you know the states of america remains committed if the parties agree to two state solution. for us what you assume is cute to muslims and christians as it is to jews it is key to peace of the region thank you to neighboring muslims to effect the fight so bottle wishes of radicalisation today we have a major challenge to overcome especially with some advice and frustrations and i

think it's very important and your visit here i'm sure is to rebuild the trust and confidence in not only how we move forward with two state solution on cross that june fourth like in sixty seven lights and he's jewish for as a capital of an independent palestinian state but living side by side with a secure recognizes rather quotas for internationals and the f.t.c. issue under simmons has more from ramallah. ahead of the talks mike pence was very diplomatic saying that there wouldn't be any border changes and that there would have to be a two state solution really repeating what was official u.s. policy but behind the scenes certainly a lot of hate because the king of jordan. is not a happy man he was sidelined initially in the original plan for the vice president to come to this region he wasn't even on the agenda so to speak now he is first call here but the situation is even worse than when the decision was made to

make jerusalem the capital of israel as far as the americans were concerned he's particularly angry with a whole range of issues such as cutbacks by a u.n. agency dealing with refugees which has been made by the u.s. and its funding also he's angry because of the situation with the handling of this whole crisis in the way that the americans are still pushing very hard hitting to asia now where the united nations special rapporteur for me and maher has been visiting rangar refugee camps in bangladesh yankie lee was banned from entering me and now her visit to neighboring bangladesh comes just days before running the refugees are due to start returning to me in march the river repatriation process is expected to last at least two years more than six hundred thousand ringa have fled to bangladesh since myanmar's army launched a crackdown in northern rakhine states in august charles trafford is in the

bulkeley refugee camp in bangladesh and spoke with the un special rapporteur. 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 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. what can the international community really do in terms of pressuring. some sort of process to cool she was found guilty of these alleged atrocities to be committed to me and i think the international community should do more to pressure that if 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 can the international community do to better help bangladesh mean 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. the people in. it it's just not. human. dignity canst need to move out to be. dispersed a little bit and this is where the international community can help to. try to get to disperse. and maybe ask the government to provide my life. still ahead here on our desire. to go shading with this white house is like negotiating with jello. the political divisions in the u.s. where a stalemate between republicans and democrats a government shutdown. and a child health crisis why military paramedics are being deployed to indonesia's

remote. hello again weather conditions across much of southern china and taiwan are looking fairly good at the moment temperatures not too bad hong kong very close in the twenty four degrees fine across a good part of indochina and always seen some fairly decent temperatures not continued as head on through into choose a bit more cloud developing but otherwise remains fine sunshine across much of me i'm over thirty three as a high in yangon now across into south asia here weather conditions generally looking fine i'm still lot of visibility problems still across northern parts of pakistan india and through towards bangladesh but otherwise pleasant enough in terms of the temperatures mumbai looking at highs of twenty nine degrees but as we head into choose they're going to find this area of low pressure developing across northern parts of india so it could be quite wet and quite windy in delhi and the

temperatures of just sixteen degrees it's going to be decided the chilly not particularly nice i think of twenty four hours for the arabian pension. we've got quite a british wind which has brought dust through qatar of last twenty four hours but is clearing away and the winds are easing right down to tommy a through to choose day the wind to be very light indeed twenty three degrees quite pleasant here and it should be fine across much of the rest of the pincher we're looking at twenty six in riyadh and never saw the potential of temperatures just dipping below thirty a high of twenty nine in mecca. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put out every day but the message is a simplistic you have been trained that good logical rational person crazy months and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides

a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives of this time on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm so whole robin a reminder of our top stories turkey has begun a ground operation against kurdish control don't play even syria's a free region now this follows a day of artillery and air strikes that's killed at least six people turkey's president says the next target will be men beach another town under kurdish control . also afghan officials say the civilian death toll in the kabul hotel attack is now at least fifteen with another twenty wounded the

taliban have claimed responsibility for the stall the intercontinental hotel on saturday night leading to a siege that lasted more than sixteen hours. and jordan's king abdullah has told the u.s. vice president that east jerusalem must be the capital of a future palestinian state but to hold talks in a bar which is the second stop at my prince's middle east tall fence is defending the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. at least five people have died at the government demonstrations organized by catholic church leaders of the democratic republic of congo around sixteen have been arrested the protesters say present just as could be resigning the constitution. just two people died during a similar protest of the capital on new year's eve catherine song has more from the capital kinshasa. this streets in the capital kinshasa has now been cleared but it

has been heavy all day huge presence of police and president the presidential guard against stone throwing protesters we saw priests and washable is from this main catholic church in the city dispatched by police using tear gas as they marched along with their rosaries by walls and tweaks in their peaceful protest in the east police loped tear gas inside a charge several people injured there as well a lot of people are very frustrated with the political situation in the country and they are looking more to the charge for guidance and leadership if you remember the charge brokered this political deal between the opposition and ruling parties back in play to sixteen the deal was to see an election a presidential election in last december that did not happen the deal has expired that's why the catholic church leadership he's so angry and saying that they are going to continue calling on their faithful to come out in peaceful protest too

demanding for electoral justice demanding for politicians to respect the constitution and also for president joseph kabila to peacefully step down because he's minded has expired and he is not a liberal to run for a third term. germany's social democrats are due to vote on whether to start formal talks with chancellor angela merkel to form a coalition government s.p.d. leader martin schultz has backtracked from his earlier opposition to an alliance a decision that forced him to explain himself to the party dominic cain has more from bob these are trying times for the social democrats once they were the dominant force in german politics and the legacy of their first post-war chancellor villi behind remains palpable but so did their present electoral problems their current leader martin schultz now finds himself proposing another

grand coalition with angle americal one he himself opposed in the autumn it's a position many in his party are struggling with. but surveillance that of thirty we are concentrating on finding a majority in favor of the result of the exploratory talks is the basis for a coalition deal of the party congress on sunday that's my task to get a majority or those are trying to get a majority for their positions but that is the competition within the democratic party. and there are several prominent elements in the competition already espied a groups in two of the sixteen states have voted against another grand coalition and the parties youth movement is vociferously opposed to the moment cutting back on its energy 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 up but 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 s.p.d. of 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 the anniversary of president trump's inauguration has been marked by a 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 as mike hanna 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 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 days 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 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 him self well 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 al-jazeera washington. into these deficiencies are concerned about the infant mortality rate in the remote eastern region of papar but they say at least sixty nine infants tantrum malnutrition and diseases like measles over the past four months military paramedics have been deployed vasant has more from papa. a very sad and very serious health crisis here and how why the military has even been called in to rescue babies from starvation they're very closely under narration and that's why they're very vulnerable when he has like needles chicken pox they're basically dying of chicken pox and needles right now but also malaria is

a very very remote part of him. basically takes twenty four hours to travel from the capital to where i am right now it's a big plane small plane both you can get to this position so a lot of people here are very much battling the remote no sir the military doesn't even have the capacity or the manpower to go to all these remote villages so a lot of people say the amount of children dying is a lot higher than what we know right now from church officials say it isn't 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 a lot of medical staff from the capital and also from out of parts have been flown in and also food is a right in here but officials here are saying that a much more long term solution is needed because the people basically lost their traditions there's very much to try that has been living in nature for

a very long time now through their contact with the outside world that basically giving the wrong nutrition to their babies some people have been telling me that they're actually getting energy drinks instead of milk so the 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 fish hooks will all go home and then the problem will still exist well thing in the region the island volcano in papa new guinea has erupted again triggering tsunami warnings for the by coastal communities now these are the latest pictures from a cut of all island where plumes of steam and ash are being shot kilometers into the volcano first erupted here this month. that's the america's now at the sundance film festival is in full swing and traditionally it focuses on the most relevant political and social questions of the day so it's not surprising that donald trump's presidency and his administration's position on climate change are just

some of the topics being tackled by independent filmmaker rob reynolds reports now from park city in utah. 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. 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 i guess i'd call it the horrific comedy stephanie speaks about like globalization and just like cat savage capitalism it's you know

a critique on 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 kiribati facing destruction from rising waters climate change for me has always been about people whose lives are being affected by what is happening former president unnoted tong. policy of america. but what about the rest i've sometimes wondered in my mind if i was to extend that policy is that america first and the rest began now the question is and the challenge that i continue to to pose for the international community i

you're going to allow this to happen to us. this devastating amid multiple crises looming disasters and personal tragedies how can an individual respond when answer is sadness the theme of pity a film from greece about a man who is happy only when he is unhappy independent films are casting a critical eye on the world as we know it and asking where we're going. where the bicycle was once the only form of transport for most chinese people however as personal wealth increased the symbol of prestige was soon overtaken by cars now it's making a comeback with bike sharing operations booming but as a train 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 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 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 v inevitable zuckerberg several

operators have gone bust with one zero ing investors almost sixty million dollars the city of here engine has a long history of bicycle production despite the overcapacity these are destined for the rental sector fine is 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. you're

watching al-jazeera these are our top stories turkey has begun a ground operation against a kurdish controlled old slave in syria's african region but this follows a day of artillery an air strike that killed at least six people turkey's president says the next target will be men being another town under kurdish control and we have breaking news coming out of turkey that the now the town of a hanley which was hit by a missile from syria says that one syrian national was killed and thirty two others injured. a course in iraq and sentence a foreign woman to death for joining eisel the german female of moroccan dissenters yet to be named she was captured in the twenty seven mostly fence event charged with taking part in attacks against iraqi military and security forces she's the first foreigner to be sentenced to death i've got officials say the civilian death toll in the carmel hotel attack is now at least eighteen with another twenty wounded the taliban have claimed responsibility gunman stormed the intercontinental

hotel on saturday night leading to a siege that lasted more than sixteen hours at least five people have died and the government demonstrations organized by the catholic church in the democratic republic of congo around sixty nine people have been arrested the protesters say president joseph kabila is violating the constitution by staying in office beyond his term at least two people died during a similar protest in the capital on new year's eve. jordan's king abdullah has told the u.s. vice president that east jerusalem must be the capital of a future palestinian state the two were speaking in a manner which is the second stop in mike pence his middle east tall fence continues to defend the president donald trump's move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel which has sparked anger across the region germany's social democrats are due to vote on whether to start formal talks with chancellor angela merkel to form a coalition government a speedy leader martin short's has backtracked from this early opposition to an

alliance a decision that forced him to explain himself to the party those were the headlines the newsgroup with the read applicator is here in thirty minutes to stay with the listening post is next. counting the cost why the jury's still out on thompson all makes despite wall street still lives we delve into china's better than expected growth story and count the cost of negative brand publicist. counting the cost of this time on al-jazeera. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg announcing what he's calling the church tear a new school chancellor because he left public content by post and thank you for your interest or coach for three days ok it's going to old school they're going back to say i am under a lot of criticism for the last two years over what facebook is too high.