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and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters and dog peron i'm also ahead. the gunmen stormed the offices of a global aid agency in afghanistan after a bombing at the entrance. presidential hopefuls draws from the election campaign the day after he was arrested. i'm surprised in hong kong coming up the city. skyline may be under pressure to do lots and. five days of fighting and five thousand people are escaping the war a northern syria turkey is offensive against kurdish showing few signs of letting up turkish forces are targeting could they call terrorists encores agents.

out of a fleeing and create a thirty kilometer buffer zone to protect the border with syria which president has just said that two hundred and sixty eight fashions have been quote neutralized by his. and free syrian army forces to the north east and west and syrian government forces to the south many civilians are trying to escape through the syrian government held areas they hoping to get to an enclave and slide controlled by. human rights. activists say government forces are blocking their escape let's get more on this now with our cause stephanie deck as she is joining us live from the syrian border so what are you hearing stephanie about the five thousand people who have left the people who are trying to leave what options they have. well they don't have many options

from sources we've been speaking of the last couple of days and it adds up to what the u.n. issued in their report which is always important because things are very difficult to verify inside syria so the message really does add up and it is this that the the people in charge of offering this is the p y d in the why p.g. fighters the u.n. saying that they have blocked all the roads out of a free in the only way people really have to go is into government held area of aleppo there are also reports as you mentioned some of those who did manage to get out. were pushed back so this is sort of the sonora you have you have a free which is pretty much surrounded i would say from the west and north you have turkey then you have you know free syrian army fighters to the east and also turkish troops and other fighting groups to the south of it so it's a very difficult situation now what the u.n. says is five thousand people displaced from these border areas and we can hear the shelling ongoing as i'm talking to you now it is it's been going on for the last

couple of days so it is an intensive campaign not just from the ground but also from the air and that's why you're seeing these people trying to flee to safety on the other hand elizabeth it's freezing as you can see it's wet it's raining we were blessed with water proofs and warm jackets but a lot of people don't have that in syria and also there's nothing to get warm there's no sunshine rains for calls for the next couple of days so you can imagine the kind of dire situation other than the psychological aspect of this war because it is very loud and people are trying to flee but called get out an absolutely terrible situation by all accounts stephanie do we know how long this is going to last. that's the million dollar question i think you know listening to president ed one who has been speaking every day pretty much since this began against a day he just spoke focusing on so you know however long this takes and it's not

going to be an easy fight the white p.g. are well trained they come from this area they know the terrain especially around these mountains is mountainous terrain as you go further in as well. but he's now talking about once they finish free in they're going to go on to mumbai further on meaning trying to get the wiped away from the entirety of turkey's border but when you get into the further eastern areas of white b.g. control elizabeth you're coming into an american influence the s.d.f. war back there so it is a very complicated international complex web of allegiances that is very very tricky indeed but how long this operation is going to go on for we don't know it is fluid on the ground villages are taken by the f.s.a. than the y.p. takes them back but of course turkey has the power from the sky and that gives them a massive advantage stephanie thank you very much for that finale that stephanie had to have with the very latest from the turkish syrian border thank you. the bodies of two well syrian refugees who froze to death while crossing into lebanon have been trained. on friday on

a papal smuggling route along the mountainous border a hollow has more from the bekaa valley. we are at one of the camps where people used to live and all of these people here are survivors they were on that mountain trail it is an eight hour journey from lebanon to syria now the question is why did these people to go back to syria we asked actually to for example one of the women here she told a crowd one child was very guilty and she didn't have the money to medically to provide her mirror image a lot of concerts in the backyard were carried. out of her child and then she had to make her way back here because her family here the two young children lost their mother and i saw her sister in law and her father is a doctor used to death in front of her now smugglers like you mentioned they make you sad like these people they charge them a hundred dollars now why do you have to take this job it's because the lebanese

authorities have the order to look for it in that way for for three years now since two thousand and fifteen they do not allow refugees to enter the country anymore lebanon says we can't we can't provide assistance for these people we are facing a loss of you know obstacles and we need money to help these people so the the people here are asking on the lebanese authorities result to the border to not let us make you stay jewish joining going back and coming back to lebanon we're ready to pay one hundred dollars fee but then don't you tell them to if you're any go to go back to syria are going to go back to sleep here and the answer to tell you is that where we going to go our houses are destroyed these people are going to return we have to remember it really is a city that has been destroyed. now in syria at least twenty on paper have suffered breathing problems off to a suspected chemical attack on a on klav near the capital damascus the syrian observatory for human rights is accuse and government horses often using cloying gas and then on monday they attack prompt and warnings from the international community diplomats from twenty nine

countries met in past to push for sanctions and criminal charges against anyone responsible for some of the chemical attacks. let's move on to other news now and gunmen have killed two people including an afghan policeman as they stormed the save the children aid agency. that began with a suicide bombing at the compound entrance jennifer glass reports. the attack began with a bomb exploding near the entrance of aid organization save the children in jalalabad security forces were quickly on the scene and gunfire exchanged afghan special forces have been called in to help so far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack the taliban has denied involvement. is the capital of nangarhar province on the border with pakistan the area has become a stronghold for islamic state of iraq and the levant backed by u.s. airstrikes afghan forces have successfully targeted eisel and taliban fighters but attacks on civilians continue posting heavy casualties. the attack in jalalabad

comes just days after taliban fighters killed twenty two people at the intercontinental hotel in the capital kabul the afghan intelligence service has blamed the pakistan based taliban affiliated network for that attack relations between the two countries are already tense and the u.s. has cut off nine hundred million dollars in aid to pakistan because of its alleged support of armed groups afghan security forces are on high alert attacks like the one in jalalabad show that armed fighters are capable of causing chaos across afghanistan jennifer glass al jazeera. egypt's president. has officially filed his papers to run and presidential elections in march early and now the challenger to sisi canceled has election campaign after being arrested sami a man was detained by soldiers on tuesday days after announcing he was a candidate for the presidential election egypt's elections committee says the former army chief of staff was removed from the ballot because it's illegal for military commanders to run for political office. or several of the presidential

hopefuls have dropped out of the gyptian election over the past few weeks the home of the nephew of former leader. ended his campaign last week he says it's to protect his campaign workers from intimidation or arrest former prime minister ahmed shafik told his withdrawal from the various two weeks ago that was after he was deported from the united arab emirates where he was living in exile lawyers say he was arrested as soon as he landed in cairo human rights lawyer had early is still securing enough signatures to challenge sisi but he is facing a charge of offending public decency and if that verdict is up held in march he will be disqualified from the election and then there is army colonel with a console where he was sentenced by a military court last month to six years in prison after announcing his plans to run for president. well we heard earlier from the league's analyst sami hamdi and he told us what he thinks on the arms withdrawal means for the upcoming election. i

think what this demonstrates is that the army is losing its ability to keep its ranks in order i mean remember it's also part of the army and served as prime minister and he was he disobeyed the army and announced his intention to run for presidency and likewise of course don't forget that semi and then was also very brazen in his approach to the president's presidential candidacy he appointed he shamed going into the former top auditor who was ousted by sisi after claiming that more than seventy five billion dollars was being lost in corruption and then in his speech and mounting his presidential candidacy accuse the army of mismanagement of egypt it was very brazen this is why i don't necessarily think that it's a surprise remember this is a country where presidents don't leave by elections they either die in power like demand of the nuts or they're either killed like anwar sadat or they're ousted by a mass movement like hosni mubarak the problem is for egypt for cease right now is he struggling to find a puppet's candide it he's struggling to find somebody that when he wins ninety

five ninety six percent of the vote everybody can say oh that's ok that's a legitimate amateur if it is not a puppet candide it is not a puppet counted it they can call the command weight in the social sphere of these other liberal candidates what they command puppets so you need somebody like one of these media personalities or one of these businessmen who are proceed who will put themselves up for a candidacy and then lose by a sweeping margin sisi is struggling to find that candid it and that's why there's a need to imprison all of these people. at least thirty one people have been killed after two car bombs went off in the libyan city of benghazi the first exploded as worshipers left a mosque after evening prayers on tuesday in half an hour later the second bomb detonated injuring and killing emergency crews. five people accused of torturing sudanese refugees have been arrested in libya the army freed the men who are being held captive and tortured by human trafficking gangs then alan hospital and are expected to be deported to sit on. the european union's ambassador to china is

urging the immediate release of a hong kong based author and publisher the chinese foreign ministry denies having any information on why his daughter says police six took from the train on the weekend while travelling with swedish diplomats. has swedish national t.v. the first disappeared from hong kong more than two years ago along with four other publishers who sell books on politics which abandon china join foreign close family chinese and swedish sides have very open communication channels if there are any problems from one or both sides they can be raised both sides can conduct timely and effective dialogue this is no problem at all but as for the swedish foreign ministry statement i have already said as to the specific issue i do not have any information at hand at this moment and you have to ask the relevant department in china. still ahead on the bulletin deciding of every sort of switch bought chaotic economy zimbabwe's nearly six in investment friendly image at the world economic

forum. and south korea shows off that security measures ahead of next month's chad winter olympics. highlight the heavy snow continues across many parts of japan over the next couple of days you can see how the clouds making its way through the sea of japan suspect the heavy snow across the western side of holland but even down into the southeastern kohan sure another five centimeters of snow has come down here recently just talking up the snow fields that we already have in place as we go on . through thursday the northern half of the country will continue to see further snow flurries temperatures struggling to get to around three celsius there in tokyo similar values as we go on through friday similar conditions southern part should

be a little try a little brighter crisp sunshine in the soka if in those temperatures to around five degrees celsius now we are seeing the snow also affecting central and northern parts of china over the next few days down into the southeast not too bad for hong kong temperatures getting up to around twenty twenty one degrees as we go through the next couple of days the snow will sink a little further south would say that was the southwestern corner where the temperatures are little high we can expect to see that's a falling as rain plenty of rain showers meanwhile across southeast asia some lovely downpours pushing their way into the philippines some really heavy rain into indonesia with same flooding in thailand recently the showers never too far away bangkok with a high of thirty two. personal stories of lebanese villagers on the border with israel. their daily struggles when they go. out and peaceful protests.

to reason in the place of the interior defiance and resistance at this time it's means no for knight and freedom life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on al jazeera. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories the u.n. says about five thousand people have fled the afraid region and north and syria since turkey the guy that's cross border offensive against kurdish fighters five days ago activists say at least twenty two civilians have been killed. the

government in afghanistan have killed two people including a policeman as they stormed the save the children aid agency and. the attack began with a suicide bombing at the compound entrance of president of the fact that al sisi has officially lost his bid for reelection early a prominent challenger sami cancelled his campaign after being arrested the elections committee says the former army chief of staff was removed from the ballot because it's illegal for military commanders to run for political office now brazil's president michel tennant is a vest as to return to his country saying brazil is back and business open still had been suffering from its worst recession on record economy shrank by nearly eight percent over the past two years. among the seventy heads. state. farm enters its second day. brazil has come out of the crisis in a stronger position and is back on track for development and at this point in time

as the world's largest economies are receiving growth we are in a position to provide input and contribution brazil is back in business and for that same reason we wish to invite you all to take part in this new chapter in our history do invest in brazil and you shall not regret it. president michel. indian prime minister and today. take the stage what are we expecting from them. yeah that's right the two big political heavyweights of the european union angela merkel and emmanuel macron to speak separately later on today probably the young french president macron the rising star of the two after his stunning political victory in the election last year with these newly formed brand newly formed centrist party he's seen as the reformist face not just of france but of the european union as well and and both of these

leaders really together are seen now increasingly as putting forward a sort of counterpoint to the donald trump agenda of america first everything here really now being seen in the framework of the donald trump visit later this week emanuel in particular likely to put forward the idea of a european union standing strong and united overcoming its challenges and dealing very much with the core principles of democracy and free trade as it does so and really there is a slowly forming here a sort of anti trump political front among the big leaders the big speakers this week narendra modi as you mentioned talking about protectionism and warning that protectionist nations threaten. globalization as a whole that was a dig at donald trump undoubtedly and justin trudeau the canadian prime minister as well announcing an eleven nation asia pacific trade pact excluding the united states and what else are we expecting at. china.

while on this day particularly among the other speakers and talk topics being discussed we'll hear from other leaders of the european union the italian and greek leaders talking about the refugee and migration crisis ongoing very much thousands of people of course dying in the european in the mediterranean waters rather trying to reach their shores there's a focus here at davos generally on big tech and wednesday we'll hear from the c.e.o.'s of microsoft and google with big tech very much under scrutiny not just because of the consequences of artificial intelligence as it advances but also unpaid taxes and fake news and other sticky subjects like that and then of course is a very important attendance here of the new zimbabwean president. lots of people looking out for him here as he touts the potential of an economy that he says is in turnaround mode he's looking for investors and he's very much on

a drive to drum up and whose ears i'm. very much for that is joining us live. as john just mentioned. is. looking to use the farm as a platform to show the international community how he'll be different from his predecessor. reports on how much the country's most pressing issues. are used to work in a big he says it closed. almost twenty years ago. to survive the capital makes and sells furniture in a neighborhood compound he wants the international community to in zimbabwe's economic isolation neither robert mugabe is no longer president tries we want investors so our business can grow and they can only improve when they come and see what we have and what we can do there will encourage others to invest. the new

president gore says he isn't davos to hear from world leaders and potential investors on what their once a bubble to do to convince them the country is ready for change reassure the number of issues which include the international isolation i've been the targeted sanctions also some of the property rights issues would naturally come from the world and i'm quite sure that the president is that zimbabwe is not right for business. opposition leaders however are warning the international community to be wary of gaga whose nickname is the crocodile he replaced a long time leader robert mugabe after a military intervention you must remember what you remember. for fifty years what is sure as your cue card was are you is should. go so far as showing that is a program and the market is the point and that's the challenge here is the state owned railway company has struggled financially for decades resuscitate ing it and

creating jobs needs direct foreign investment but investors will want to know when that will be very different from as peter says or investors who want guarantees it won't be more of the same than bar with some of those conditions include compensating white farmers whose land was seized during land reform and the holding of internationally acceptable election equipment and infrastructure is old and falling apart when god is under pressure to deliver. zimbabweans say they're expecting him to come back from davos with realistic timeframes of when zimbabwe's economy can start moving again how to algis their. original government in yemen says one point five billion dollars worth of aid from saudi arabia has not arrived at the border as promised the military coalition launched a new humanitarian program in yemen on monday in response to criticism over the humanitarian crisis with

a coalition of support. who control much of the country including the capital. we only heard announcements on t.v. that the humanitarian aid reached and was distributed that's not true nothing reached. yemen still faces oppression stemming from king solomon circle what is published about yemen is not true it was published that it has come but it did not arrive. now antitrust regulators have filed us chip making giant qualcomm one point two three billion dollars for exclusive deals with apple that says their contracts harmed competition and evasion and the chipset market and inquiry was opened in two thousand and fifteen over concerns that qualcomm paid significant amounts to a major smartphone manufacturer on the condition that its chips were used exclusively. the delegation from the south korean government is on

a rare three day visit to north korea they're inspecting training venues athletes of the joint korean team will use before the winter games and south korea next month meanwhile a massive security operation is being arranged and kathy novak reports from the olympic venue. a gunman holds two hostages in this police demonstration in young china a swat team bursts in takes down the attacker and frees the victims it's a drill just one of the scenarios police are preparing for with hundreds of thousands of visitors about to arrive before north korea agreed to send a delegation one of the biggest worries was it might disrupt the games now police say they are more concerned about so-called lone wolf terrorist threats involving attackers from other countries bomb detection robots that can identify and destroy suspicious items are among the tools available to protect against that threat.

to prevent a terrorist attack in collaboration with intelligence agencies around the world over the past year we have banned the perrys from entering the country. more than thirty thousand people considered to be a security threat have been blacklisted though police say they are not aware of any specific plots one of the major tasks for police will be providing security for the . a north korean delegation some south koreans may want to express their displeasure that the two koreas will be marching together under a unified flag for the opening ceremony and that there is a joint women's hockey team olympic organizers hope just as many people will welcome the show of unity trip lot on an opening ceremonies based on a theme of peace i believe north korea's participation presents a good opportunity to emphasize that message. the day before the games begin another spectacle is planned north of the border north korea's jus to celebrate

army building day on february eighth troops and equipment are reported to have already been mobilized suggesting the north is planning a military parade they're known to be impressively choreographed affairs. but south korean police officers have moves of their own and they're not afraid to show them off either. al-jazeera china south korea. the new search for the malaysia airlines flight which is valid for the two hundred thirty nine people on board nearly four years ago has begun a vessel armed with a high tech underwater drugs is arrived at the search area and the indian ocean that's using a drugs equipped with sonars and cameras that will scour the waters for wreckage and can operate in depths of up to six thousand meters the new search zone is an area of about twenty five thousand square kilometers and the southern indian ocean

north of the former search site. now hong kong is well known for its skyscrapers a blaze and bright lights bought the mail advertising signs to miten today. making it difficult to sleep in apartment tower blocks and because of the complains the album of under pressure to flick the off switch sarah carports from hong kong. when the sun sets in hong kong the city skyline comes alive billboards and neon lights aluminite the crowded streets the glow from the densely packed skyscrapers is one of the city's main attractions oh my god the lights were so on. and with it so nice but this appreciation is not shared by everyone in hong kong last year the government reported a record number of complaints the curtains may be drawn but residents argue the

glare outside is hard to a skype we receive some complaints about the light pollution they get in the sauna or they have. to stop us from the light outside the building to. their home scientists at the university of hong kong spent eighteen months studying levels of light pollution collecting more than five million measurements i found hong kong one of the world's worst offenders the lights pollution condition in hong kong was extremely severe in particular in the urban regions you know that the lights night sky brightness which is what we measure is on average a few hundred times over the level off bats without light pollution in cities such as seoul london shanghai i'm sorry billboard lighting and signage is regulated and there are penalties for more but in hong kong there are no laws a voluntary charging card just businesses to switch off between eleven pm and seven

am the critics say it's not enough to make a difference. the government says four thousand eight hundred properties have signed up to the charges so far i did satisfied that it's working. but not everyone is convinced and some residents are upon themselves to act so each campaign to have a commercial building switch off after midnight she won but she expects the lights to eventually turn back all i know that the building. but just. for now it seems hong kong's broad lots to shine. al-jazeera hong kong.

again on those of the headlines on al-jazeera five days of fighting and five thousand that are escaping the northern syria turkey's offensive against kurdish fighters is showing signs of letting up turkish forces are targeting. what they call terrorists as amos to force a flame and create a thirty kilometer to protect the border with syria and many civilians are trying to leave through syrian government held areas to the south but rights activists say government blocking their escape. gunman have stormed the office save the children aid agency and. the attack began with a suicide bombing in front of the compound in jalalabad two people have been killed including one policeman at least twelve are wounded the taliban has denied involvement. president of the fact that he has officially launched his bid for

reelection early approach. and challenger cancelled his campaign after being arrested the elections committee says the former army chief of staff was removed from the ballot because it's illegal for military commanders to run for political office. five people accused of torturing sudanese refugees have been arrested in libya the army freed the men who are being held captive and tortured by human trafficking gangs than allen hospital and the expected to be deported to sudan. the european union's ambassador to china is urging the immediate release of a hong kong based author and publisher the chinese foreign ministry denies having any information on. his daughter says police seized him from a train at the weekend while traveling with swedish nationals brazil's president michel vestas to return to his country saying brazil is back in business or brazil has been suffering from its worst recession on record the economy shrank by nearly

eight percent over the past two years. seventy heads of state gathered at this resort of davos as the world economic forum and to its second day those are the headlines and side story is coming up next. more u.s. backing for israel palestinian president mike pence and u.s. embassy will be moved to jerusalem next year and washington will back a two state solution but only if both sides agree amid so much distrust and despair at u.s. policy is the so-called peace process still relevant this is inside story.