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and welcome to. headquarters and. also ahead. president. very differently by israelis and palestinians a new wake is about washington d.c. but hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been told not to report to work and tensions rise as tens of thousands of refugees set to be repatriated to myanmar . and its syrian rebel allies have stepped up their battle against kurdish fighters along the turkish syrian border turkey wants to drive kurdish y p g fighters out of the a fleeing on clay the northwest corner. plan. to create
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a safe so-called safe zone so she can make a statement to protect its border well let's get more on this now we're joined by stephanie decker she's live for us on the turkish syrian border so what is happening in a scene stephanie have the turkish and free syrian army entered a frame well they ventured the region of a foot in certain areas particularly to the north and just about northwest of where we are so that offensive is ongoing i can tell you in this position where along the western border that turkey has with there's been intensive tank shelling and artillery heavy artillery outgoing since we've been here now is where i live it's actually gone relatively quiet but that's a base just behind this mountain we were just pushed out from there there is still subban i don't think it's loud enough at the moment for the camera to pick up so it shows you that there is an active offensive here at the same time you probably see the herder behind me with his sheep life does continue here as normal the villages
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are a little tense they are concerned about if there might be any incoming because there have been some incidents of shells that have landed inside turkey but yes as you mentioned there are a lot of strong messages coming out of ankara that they're not going to stop this offensive until they've cleared the border from what they call terrorists and this is the third day of that operation around the region of offering let's take a look at that ground offensive which started yesterday and how that unfolded. the border echoes with the sounds of war turkey's offensive on africa is now well under way the ground operation started on sunday turkish soldiers supporting free syrian army fighters inside syria. turkish president brigitte type edging was defiant as he addressed and large crowd in the city of course. this is a national struggle and then this national struggle we will crush anyone who stands against us let this be known. it's been
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a week of rhetoric politicians promising that turkey was going to attack a free to rid of the y.p. g. kurdish fighters that i'm pro considers terrorists but they're also the u.s. is best ally on the ground in fighting eisel regardless of international complications turkey is fully committed to this offensive we're on turkey's border with africa and throughout the day we've heard the sound of jets in the sky also intense artillery and machine gun fire outgoing from a turkish base behind that mountain although why p.g. are extremely well trained they know the terrain in offering but turkey has superiority when it comes to the skies and that gives it a huge advantage. belligerence here heard the airstrikes late on saturday as turkey started its offensive and they are a little uneasy. or. we are right next to the action with planes flying over our heads and there's a lot of shelling of course we are confident but at the end of the day anything can happen shells have already fallen in turkey so we are worried this could happen
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here. turkey says it will continue its operation until it's pushed the wipe away from its borders no one knows how long that will take what the implications may be. and stephanie what are the implications right now for the hundreds of thousands of civilians who are in the offing. yes well the issue is at the moment certainly the second day yesterday because it became very difficult to contact the sources we have inside often it seems that the qualms were pretty much nil so we are relying on certain reports which are very difficult to verify at least ten civilians killed according to the y. p.g. we do know that civilians have left have fled some of them some of these border areas because of the intensive operation that is ongoing and certainly also in the city itself people have been sheltering in basements and sort of stockpiling
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because of this is the psychological impact these threats are having now to get out of a free in this region is also complicated because you have turkey to the north and west you have to work as backed rebels to the east inside syria there is fighting also to the south turkey has some troops there there is a pocket that they could use which goes into government held territory now the kurds have had to sort of. ambiguous relationship with damascus so that is a way that they could but again there are no safe corridors these things are very very complicated so it is a very difficult situation for the civilians certainly don't want stephanie thank you very much for that phenomena stephanie deca joining us with the very latest from the turkish syrian border thank you. to other news now and palestinian president mahmoud abbas is in brussels to offer the european union for support is expected to meet to european foreign ministers and the blocks policy chief federica mall greeny abbas wants to e.u. to officially recognize palestine as a state and response to the u.s.
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decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital. while u.s. vice president mike pence as n. as well as part of his middle east tollway prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called him a great friend of palestinians in the occupied west bank protested against has arrival at the highest level and u.s. visit since president trump decided to recognize to both of them as israel's capital and december and jordan on monday came out the law told paddles that the u.s. needs to rebuild trust after the policy change how force that reports from occupied east jerusalem. on the second leg of his regional visit the u.s. vice president was keen to offer assurances to a major middle east an ally and by extension to the palestinians who refused to meet him on the issue of jerusalem 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 those are subject to negotiation and and as i think clearly you are
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the president make clear the world united states of america remains committed if the parties agree to a two state solution through the arab world's public outrage with a recognition by u.s. president donald trump object to slim is israel's capital the jordanian king offered a conciliatory tone in your visits here i'm sure is to rebuild the trust and confidence in not only how we move forward with two state solution on the us drew forth like sixty seven lice and he's jewish so as a capital of an independent palestinian state but living side by side with a secure recognisance ready course for internationals he said that's far from the line being taken by the palestinian leadership its president mahmoud abbas declaring that the u.s. had given it the slap of the century reiterating his position that the u.s. could no longer be involved in the peace process the u.s. vice president isn't meeting the palestinians but he does have a message publicly apparently tailored towards them reiterating u.s.
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support for a two state solution if that's what both sides agreed to of course for the. that message is entirely overshadowed by what donald trump said over a month ago declaring that the u.s. view jerusalem as israel's capital. for many the messenger himself is part of the problem the shift in u.s. policy with which pence was closely associated was welcomed by his evangelical christian base many of whom believe the return of the jews to the holy land is a precursor to jesus' second coming. and that is extremist fundamentalist. absolutist idiology which goes against all that believes and commitments of the arab and palestinian christians and particular and they feel that they have been betrayed by somebody who is. to mend this injustice using the as a justification for israelis it's a different picture pence represents a u.s.
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administration that recognized what they see as an uncontroversial reality jerusalem status is their capital of your view. a great friend of the state of israel arrives here this evening a true friend united states vice president mike pence we welcome him here and i'm looking forward to our discussions we will discuss the trumpet ministrations efforts to hold iran's aggression the iranian nuclear program and ways to advance peace and security in the region. before leaving jordan for israel pence visited u.s. troops didn't undisclosed location on the syrian border telling the president had back that isis would be driven from the earth very soon his next speech would be to the israeli parliament the knesset on monday israeli palestinian representatives about to boycott the event a mass force that how does era occupied east jerusalem. now the u.s. government shutdown is set to continue into the workweek as republicans and democrats struggle to end the stalemate over funding a vote on
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a government spending bill has been delayed until monday after the two sides. failed to reach a compromise money for federal agencies was cut off on saturday affecting a range of departments including passport and visa services immigration is at the heart of the dispute democrats are refusing to approve the funding until there's protection for undocumented migrants who enter the u.s. as children they're known as dream is. following developments from washington d.c. . the shutdown of the u.s. government will stretch into a third day this is after the faint glimmer of hope to achieve an overnight compromise was dashed when senate democrats announced that yet there was still no deal now the next possible vote would come at noon monday but on an elusive compromise that has yet to be reached a group of bipartisan centrist senators have been working behind closed doors to reach that compromise so far what's been discussed is a temporary measure to reopen the government until february eighth and then to
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address immigration that may be a hard pill for democrats to swallow they see this as their opportunity to leverage the budget in order to help the eight hundred thousand young undocumented immigrants hold dreamers who were brought to this country illegally as children meanwhile u.s. president donald trump one time said he wished to help the legalize those young people has now in recent days turned back on that stance playing to his base and saying he wants a harder stance on immigration with these shifting stances and with the finger pointing coming from trump's account on twitter it remains to be seen when and if a compromise to reopen the federal government will occur when john is a know is a professor of political science at iona college and she believes that end of the shutdown is out of the president's hands now. there's not much the president can do
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except use his bully pulpit to try to convince either the american people to convince their senators or the senators themselves to get the government open and the president i think is feeling a bit of frustration because if you recall in two thousand and thirteen he roundly criticized president obama for not having the skills and the leadership to strike a deal to bring people together and strike a deal well it's easier said than done as he's finding out today the fact that we have a divided system with a huge division between the executive and the senate and in the house means that congress can absolutely hold the country hostage republicans did it over obamacare in two thousand and thirteen it had been done previously during the clinton administration and it's being done now and i think you know depending on where you sit you may think that dach is such an important issue that the democrats are right to do this other people thought obamacare was such an important issue and should be repealed that the republicans were right so it's really a question comes down to where you sit on the partisan spectrum as to whether you
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think this kind of tactic is worth it or not and democrats certainly feel that dhaka is such a key emotional issue and that there is so much support even amongst republicans for making sure that these quote unquote dreamers who are brought here as children are protected that they feel that they're in the right to do this and they're unwilling to go along with republicans opening the government and then saying we'll deal with dhaka later now thousands of women have gathered at a football stadium in las vegas on the second day of global demonstrations against inequality. ah. ha the rallies are also being held to moscow one year since the u.s. president's inauguration many and announcing donald trump's views on issues including immigration abortion and. rights. still ahead on the bulletin over a million people turned out for the final mass of quote francis and the roof ending a controversial top of latin america and all eyes are on hollywood a listers at
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this year's screen actors guild awards take on a special top. hello there we've had some very heavy snow over parts of europe recently it's been ukraine where we've seen some of the worst of it over the last day or say these pictures are from kiev show the heavy snow there it did disrupt traffic and also brought down some power lines as well leading to blackouts now the system responsible that's heading off towards the east now but we've got this other weather system that's galloping down towards the southeast corner and this whole region is going to be pretty messy as we head through the next day or so so expect heavy rain expect some snow on the northern edge and expect some strong winds as well meanwhile another weather system is working its way in from the atlantic that's giving us some heavy rain and some snow but it's fizzling out as we had
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three into tuesday barely anything really left to it there for tuesday instead it's just staying fairly unsettled in the northwest as well as being unsettled though it's also rather moderate about london at thirteen in paris twelve for the other side of the mediterranean well for most of us here it's fine this is just the outside chance of the old shower on the coast of libya perhaps into parts of egypt there but for most of us and it should be dry not that warm at the moment chuen is there around nineteen for some are about where we're sixteen is in the east of our mark you can see that swirling storm that's the same one that was affecting us in the southeastern parts of europe it's also making its way over into parts of turkey .
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official to visit the city since president recognized it as the capital of israel. by israel palestinians protested against his arrival. and hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the u.s. will have to stay at home as the government shutdown continues for money for federal agencies on saturday after the senate failed to pass a funding bill a new vote on the spending plan in the coming hour as. francis has led a final mass in lima bringing his six state of south america to an end and while he was welcomed by millions of catholics and. his troops being overshadowed by sex abuse cases and both countries. reports from. more than a million people. will mass. prayed with the pope nearly thirty years ago. the pope's visit
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was inspirational. it's been such a wonderful emotion for me you have no idea how much i've cried. peruvians followed eighty one year old friends from the amazon in the south to the beachfront mass in one chuckle in the north. many like seventy eight year old. made long journeys to see the pope. i believe in the holy father so i started from my back i made the effort travelling twenty four hours by bus i'm happy. france is proving to not forget the poor. a society that doesn't accept those who suffer compassion toward suffering is cruel and inhumane. the argentine born
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pontiff criticised corruption in latin america he urged indigenous people to protect the amazon and condemned human trafficking and crimes against women but said nothing about sex abuse by the clergy. part of the trip was overshadowed by the sex scandals and with the solution i have both was a revolutionary and defending him. in chile at least ten churches were burned more than eighty people were arrested for protesting the abuses by the clergy but the pope defended bishops. who victims say covered up abuses and yet everything you never hear of the day i'm sure and proof against bishop then i will talk there is not one piece of proof against him it's all slander is that clear. the pope is under a lot of pressure to never. muster reasons for not saying anything about those
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cases but the judiciary is following up and just as the pope. while the pontiff drew huge crowd. during his visit the victims of abuse see the pope missed a chance to bring them some peace and comfort. the innocent just are just. taller now a motorcycle bomb has exploded in a market in the south killing three people and injuring dozens more that happened in the southern province of yala no one's claimed responsibility it is the first attack of its kind in months in the region where the claim muslims have been fighting for autonomy. a plan to repatriate hundreds of thousands of one hundred refugees to myanmar which was jewish began on tuesday has been delayed. to send back around seven hundred fifty thousand refugees who fled ethnic violence and
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rakhine state. process is expected to take two years but many refugees say they're feeling pressure to go home and to worry about their safety well james gone is amnesty international's regional director for southeast asia and the pacific and he says no one should be forced to return. we are not clear about the fundamental conditions to which the refugees returning to because they have fled you know property risk to life destruction at the hands of the. current state and. sending them back to the same conditions so this is why the issue of voluntariness. important to ascertain although the dock you well you know framing the return agreement and the physical agreement do make references to the voluntary returns but we need effective oversight to determine if indeed these
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returns are all interest here i think the role of the un is important although the documentation you know that we have cited provides for the un h.r. to cite lists of return me but that is not good. enough you know u.n.h.c.r. needs to be central to oversight the process to ensure that it is indeed voluntary and it should have the mandate to you know. ensure that you know that it's able to prevent or stop those returns that are not voluntary and this its role should not only be on the bangladesh side it also needs to play a part to determine the conditions on the be on my side so therefore you know in this situation i think the returns that are you know. that are planned for the twenty third of january are just simply too premature and to stage. well saudi
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arabia plans to date one and a half billion dollars a new eighty given that is despite its continued bombardment that's pushed millions of yemenis to the brink of famine and cause the world's worst humanitarian crisis the u.n. launched its largest appeal for yemen on sunday it's asking for about three billion dollars in donations almost three years of starving that airstrikes and fighting with rebels has left about half of the population and desperate need of lifesaving assistance. it's not just. because of this self is those people. there is no villages where they have. access. or exist medical facilities and even to diseases especially children now health fairly is wealth distribution among people in your country you can find out the latest annual report from oxfam and the see it paints a gloomy picture ages who percent of the global wealth generated last year went to
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the richest one percent of the population while the three point seven billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth the report singles out countries where the gap is widening including the united states says the three richest people in the u.s. on the same wealth as the bottom heart of the population that's one hundred and sixty million people. to liberia now where president elect george waya will be sworn in on monday the former football star is succeeding nobel peace prize winner ellen johnson sirleaf who led the west african nation for twelve years but the reports from monrovia on the challenges ahead. liberia's president elect arrives at one last sort of. the mood here is celebrated but many believe it would be affordable. story
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takes over from outgoing president ellen johnson sirleaf whose term expired a week ago. but the challenges she leaves behind are huge on employment it's going to be a key issue to resolve. and the conditions are not pretty it is all able to find his feet. within the first six months he will lose attention of the international development community he'll lose attention of global capital and he will lose the interest of a largely impatient voting base. the youth form one of weir's biggest voting bloc in the last election and this group is largely unskilled and impatient for change he told us opening up the rural areas is a huge priority for. the recipe. but there are several and resolved issues that are equally picking for
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attention education electricity industrialization and national reconciliation ellen johnson sirleaf may have stabilized post-war liberia but like most developing countries it still struggles with the twin problems of corruption and under development one hundred seventy years after it was founded when jordan where takes the also office as the twenty fifth president of liberia on these grounds is supporters and one of so fun sixty percent of liberia's budget will be watching closely to see how he discharges his responsibilities. the first will be who he appoints interest cabinet. because it was that we have been branded as inexperienced he needs to put his best foot forward he needs a strong minister fayyad that can send a message to the local and international economic players that there is capable of doing business in georgia where it is taking office months after
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international doing as a started scaling down operations in liberia which means the country sees less forty. but some liberian say it's time they take their destiny in their own hands. for now this on the great point it's not clear how long that would last or how soon the impatience will set in comedy greece. now finally this palace and this is screen actors guild awards all about female empowerment and blushing the increasingly vocal movement against sexual harassment and honey but when presented all thirteen of wants on of the posthumous acting achievements of anil's has more from the shrine theatre in los angeles the screen actors guild awards are for actors by actors members of their labor union vote for best male and female actors in films and television as well as best can ask and
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best ensembles in various categories the award participants briefly took note of hollywood's ever broadening sexual misconduct scandal and the tumultuous state of u.s. politics and the conversation going the women's march yesterday allison janney won the award for best female supporting actor in tonja fire and i think that we're going to see you're really mobilized. mobilize population at the you know and become the midterms and hopefully more things will change and get back to the america that i. thought was great and the actor goes to. frances mcdormand the first female film actor award went to frances mcdormand for her portrayal of an enraged and unstoppable grieving mother in three billboards outside. and three billboards also won the award for outstanding performance for cast in
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a motion picture. goes to the best male actor chosen by his peers was gary oldman for his performance as winston churchill in the film darkest hour. this is at the television awards than a gory members shows the cast of this is us work best drama series. the screen actors guild awards sometimes offer clues as to who will win entertainments ultimate award the oscars and the nominations for the oscars will be announced on tuesday january twenty third rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. like animals will product and holiday headlines on. turkeys on me and rebel allies
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have stepped up their battle against kurdish fighters and northern syria they're trying to drive while pinching financials out of a fein where they want to create a so-called safe zone. to protect its border. palestinian president mahmoud abbas is in brussels to ask the european union for its support is expected to meet european foreign ministers and the blocs foreign policy chief federica maharani abbas wants the e.u. to officially recognize palestine as a state and responds to the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital. clearly there is a problem with. say this is a voted to. be european since well us all be out of words and so the united nations system starts. still continue to believe that the only realistic solution for jerusalem has to come from direct negotiations and has to be the capital of two states. we will continue to work to support them international
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framework. now us vice president mike pence is in israel as part of his middle east tour where prime minister benjamin netanyahu called him a great friend but palestinians in the occupied west bank protested against his rival it is the highest level u.s. visit since president decided to recognize truth from israel's capital in december hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the u.s. will have to stay at home as the government shutdown continues or money for federal agencies was cut off on saturday after the senate failed to pass a funding bill a new vote on the spending bill is due in the coming hours. has exploded at a market in southern thailand in three people and injuring dozens more it happened in the southern province of the dollar no one's claimed responsibility it is the first attack of its kind in months in the region. a plan to repatriate hundreds of thousands of one hundred refugees to myanmar which was due to begin on tuesday has
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been delayed bangladesh and myanmar had agreed to send back around seven hundred fifty thousand refugees who fled ethnic violence and rock on stage the repatriation process as expected to take a. to his as the headlines and side story is coming up next. the benefit of saddam's people so bad they see all. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. a new front in syria's war. on drugs attacks on u.s. backed goodish fighters in northern syria but what are the implications of uncle's olive branch operation and what does it leave relations with washington this is inside story.
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