people. saw a man they see being poured in there are guys. with . documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. turkey steps up its military campaign in northern syria signaling that it makes tenderness far east as iraq we have a reporter on the ground. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i think it's going to be a great message that people are going to like hearing anticipation grows at the

world economic forum in davos ahead of donald trump's keynote address. south korea's president orders an investigation after dozens are killed when a fire breaks out of the hospital. and india uses its republic day celebrations to build bridges to southeast asia. turkey's president has promised to clear out kurdish fighters along the length of its border with syria and may extend its offensive as far as iraq. to one says the operation afrin will continue to the east including the town of man bitch turkey regards the kurdish y p g fighters as terrorists and once the removed so it can create a buffer zone. will continue to olive branch operation which is on its seventh day today until we reach all of our targets. after this will cleanse man from the

terrorists as it has been promised to us nobody should be bothered by this because the real owner of memories is not those terrorists but the arab brothers they're after this we'll continue our fight until no terrorist is left or the us has called on turkey to exercise restraint and focus on defeating eisold instead it's concerned about us forces operating in manage. particularly in the fray operations turkish operations in a frame in all operations in a frame that have the effect of or inducing friction into the equation of making it hard to focus on why we are in syria which is the defeat of isis in the afraid he's a rally or negative thing out zero stephanie decker reports now from the syrian city of east africa. where a new city which is just south of the border with turkey this is an area that turkey does operate in they are porous backing the free syrian army fighters the syrian rebels this is part of the eastern front and we've been taken in by the time

here on this sort of a media tour this is the center. city before they took us a little bit closer to the front lines because of course there was an active battle going on with the why p.g.a. it is relatively quiet today i have to tell you we've just heard friday prayers were now in the center of the city and also we just heard from the president's president again who's talking every day or two days i've been saying that he is going to not playing is not going to be the beginning of this they're going to take this all the way to the border with iraq and not mean the u.s. is very very very complicated when it comes to the politics but i think it is interesting we haven't been here in a long time it. sort of secured the area for us but basically there's a lot of life is normal here and this is been normal for quite some time and a few hours u.s. president donald trump will deliver the keynote speech to the annual world economic forum in davos trump a long chat long time champion of protectionism is expected to use the speech to

promote his america first agenda but there are indications that he could be adjusting his position with a senior administration official saying that he'll call for free but fair trade and may consider rejoining some agreements john howell has more now from us. went on to space and he's absolutely. tingling here in davos ahead of donald trump's closing address this afternoon it is positively the big moment of the week and a pretty tough crowd this is going to be for donald trump they don't like what he says necessarily they don't like what he stands for having said that they do like very much the fact that the global economy is doing well for the time being and the i.m.f. puts that partly down to donald trump and his policies he's tax reforms as regulator reforms so they've got to reconcile themselves this crowd with the fact that they can't really afford to dislike him too much what he expected to say well the white house put out some comments

a little earlier on he's going to talk about the boom in the economy in the united states he's going to talk about that alongside his tax reforms and regulator reforms he's going to declare that america is open for business he will pledge a commitment to free trade but strictly on u.s. terms that are fair and reciprocal it is sort of is america first policy of you cannot be economic nationalism if you like packaged up as a success story in which the rest of the world is free to participate but only on u.s. turns the u.s. marketing company able and has released its annual trust barometer which measures trust in public institutions it shows that americans trust in their government has fallen more steeply than any of the twenty eight countries surveyed its c.e.o. matthew harrington spoke with jonah hill. i think it's a combination of factors i think it adds to the congress it's the level of discourse has declined it's such an ironic situation to find ourselves in with a growing economy employment rates that are kicking along and yet the decline of

trust in our institutional government does appear that there's a disconnect and that there's a heightened cynicism related to the absence of actual facts coming from or for good constructive discussion coming from our administration and from the congress i think that there's a expectation that he's going to try to maybe counter some of the messaging around populism that he's put forward in the past year i also think that people would like to be hearing from him that he is interested in global trade i know in the last twenty four hours he made some comments about the p.p. that the people scratching their heads a little bit so we're just going to have to see fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses in an intensive care unit firefighters in the southern city of marianne managed to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames an investigation is now underway as kathy novak reports from seoul. the fire started in the

emergency ward at about seven thirty in the morning it quickly spread to other parts of said john hospital and took firefighters more than an hour to bring under control and another two hours to extinguish the little biology only home to stop the fire from spreading from the first floor to the second floor during the initial phase and therefore also prevent a difference spreading to the rest of the building. despite the rescue effort patients and medical staff were killed most were suffocated by inhaling toxic fumes about one hundred patients were being treated in the hospital when the blaze broke out about ninety other people in an adjacent nursing unit were safely evacuated president in ordered an investigation into the cause of the fire. president moon expresses regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out at sage long hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after the fire in session on that fire in the

southern city of jackson claimed twenty nine lives just last month at the time prime minister yon promised there would never be a repeat now he says he's ashamed to have to say the same thing questions are once again being asked about fire safety in south korea so john hospital doesn't have water sprinklers because if it's a relatively small size the law doesn't require them kathy novak al jazeera. india celebrated sixty ninth republic day with a military parade attended by leaders from ten southeast asian nations it's the first time that many foreign leaders have attended the event that being hosted by prime minister narendra modi today marks the adoption of the indian constitution in one nine hundred fifty nearly sixty thousand security personnel were deployed in new delhi for the parade modi's decision to invite leaders from all ten southeast nations that make up the assy and group is being seen as

a bold move to try to isolate china as part of its act east strategy new delhi is hoping to strengthen political and economic ties with southeast asian nations india's trade with r.c.n. is dwarfed by that with china in the past two years china's business with southeast asia was more than six times that of india india's also moved to counter china's influence in the region by signing a maritime agreement with nations blocks but alarmed by china's building of artificial islands on disputed territory in the south china sea. is the director of the national maritime foundation he says that india doesn't need to directly compete with china to get the attention of asio and leaders china. amongst that then our countries which is very very significant some of these countries are indebted to china but what india can do is perhaps to bring

a certain amount of compliment daddy and off on an are done it option to these countries and that i think has been the primary focus all right mr modi china is making inroads into south asia in a very visible manner but it could only as far as the about it time domain is concerned and as part of the bed or initiative today we have china's for it in the end dark south asian region which traditionally used to be india's domain as it were india's backyard and i think india is conscious so i think. which has its unique not almost two point five trillion dollars offer as an option but india. more now on our top story this hour the civil war in syria a ninth round of u.n. led talks to resolve the conflict is underway in the austrian capital vienna

officials say the summit may be the last hope of ending the seven year long war delegations representing both the syrian government and the opposition are attending the negotiations the last talks held in the same but failed let's go live to vienna as it was hot of the humming it is so other any developments in the talks since yesterday. well there are some developments about. in the sense about how to find new ways to revive talks because the sense of talks haven't happened yet now there's also a change in schedule that they were supposed to start. by a session between the government delegation and the founder mr rudd that has changed a session between the opposition and the fandom is through and it's currently under way now there's a new working document that has been put forward by five countries the u.s. the u.k.

france jordan and saudi that don't get ten points. basically a document that will help you try to revive reason lucian two to five four and how to tackle these very difficult difficult negotiations and how to get out of the deadlock now some of these points include for example diminishing the powers of the president in syria. is ation of power rewriting of the constitution cooling for presidential elections which is something for example the regime delegation is against it says all it's needed is parliamentary elections anyway that document has been passed to the opposition it's pondering on it now and it will give its remarks or its concerns back to the un envoy later on in the day what about the un's position on talks in sochi.

well we still haven't heard an endorsement by the u.n. to social media by the opposition and actually asked earlier as they were coming into the building whether they will attend sochi or not well they said that they were still reserved that decision for later on in the day was they have the full picture now there are certain conditions that have been put forward by the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorist. point is a public commitment by the syrian government to resolution two to five four and that hasn't happened ever since that resolution was passed back in two thousand and fifteen well the terrorist says if you're going to if we're going to go to to sochi you need to first indorser that you also have conditions set by the opposition the opposition said that sochi meeting should be a one timer we shouldn't for example form any subcommittees because that would

jeopardize the work done. so certainly you have all these point the working document i mentioned before has also been passed to russia we need to hear the response of the regime russia and then after that we will know whether the un and the opposition will both or not ok whatever he thinks did. in vienna. and whether of next year then. people. on high sometimes sleeping rough in the u.k. the number of homeless reaches a record high. african nations look to develop a global gateway to bolster economic trade with the rest of the world.

we're still going to few wintry flurries pushing across japan but not quite as heavy as they have been recently see how the the winds are coming in from the sea of japan easing into that western side of honshu so can't really add a little possibility of one or two snow flurries just coming in over the high ground temperatures in tokyo starting tonight up six celsius on saturday and five degrees for sunday should be a dry crisp day for many at this stage but still with the possibility of a little bit of snow coming through still a fair amount of snow into central and eastern parts of china cold enough in shanghai with a top temperature of four degrees to four degrees celsius the hong kong should be fine and dry temperatures around nineteen or twenty over the next couple of days but that disturbed weather further north as you can see it does remain in place it slides its way all the way down into the north of vietnam will see some wet weather just started to push its way in here we will gradually see some wet weather pushing towards the philippines over the next day or two looks wet enough as we go on

through saturday because we go on into sunday that rain could intensify further for those central and southern parts of the country scattering a shower was there across the good parts of malaysia pushing right down towards the midnight peninsula and more heavy downpours for a good part of indonesia this weekend. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how libel reigns influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution communist away feel castro is a feudal east the not a communist that custer wanted his country che wanted international revolution became a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. and fidel castro face to face at this time on al-jazeera.

hello again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera turkey's president has promised clear out kurdish fighters along the length of the border with syria and make standards offensive as far as iraq but one says the operation in africa will continue to the east including the town of man bitch turkey regards the kurdish y p g fighters as terrorists u.s. president donald trump will deliver the keynote speech to the annual world economic forum in davos later switzerland donald trump is expected to promote his america first agenda for the destruction of fishel says that he will also call for free but fair trade and fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including

patients and nurses in an intensive care unit dozens of others trapped inside were rescued in the southern city of mariana. britain's prime minister is being pressured to cancel a proposed visit to london by the saudi crown prince because of the war in yemen mohammed bin solomon is due to visit london soon but campaign groups including the stop the war coalition say that no say no rather millions of yemenis are suffering the world's worst humanitarian crisis with famine is threatened and diseases a widespread stephen bell is the spokesman for the campaign to block the visit. we are calling upon the hugo government to withdraw the invitation. in our view it is not acceptable to lay out the red carpet for someone who is responsible what the un says is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today the fact that the most recent u.n. report indicated up to eleven million yemeni children are at risk from the wall

cholera famine and the blockade of the country destruction of infrastructure all of this means it's not suitable through but someone who is the prime responsibility for the continuation of the war opinion pose of indicated over sixty percent opposed continuing. the arming of the saudi regime this is i would say broadly reflected in parliament insofar as are all the major parties apart from the government. d.p. contingent are against the continuing to support the saudi. war efforts so we think the public opinion is broadly on our side but it is necessary to organize to bring political opinion into line the un says that at least thirty refugees and migrants drowned off the coast of yemen is

kept yemen's port of aden it says that a boat heading to djibouti capsized when people smugglers on board reportedly opened fire the other crowded vessel was carrying one hundred fifty two somalis and the theo peons who were fleeing the war and haven't many people had traveled to yemen to escape unrest in their own countries but the other of the terrorizing security situation sees them wanting to return home. u.s. president donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children but that's only if democrats agree to funding a mexico border war it would mean one point eight million so-called dreamers would be protected from deportation to the country of their birth the white house says the proposal could attract enough votes to pass through the senate would trump plans a twenty five billion dollars fund to build up wall which he pledged to do during his election campaign in return trump says that around two million immigrants who

entered the u.s. without documents when they were children will be eligible for citizenship but that process could take ten to twelve years and they'll have to meet specific criteria for education achievement and what's called moral character trump also plans to tighten rules on sponsoring family members and only allow in young children and spouses at the moment under eighteen year olds and siblings can be sponsored and trump wants to end the visa lottery system though its supporters say that random selection and sure as diversity but the president says that it's dangerous and must be shut down this framework will fulfill the four agreed upon pillars securing the border and closing legal loopholes indian extended family chain migration cancelling the visa lottery and providing a permanent solution on dhaka after decades of n.a.a. in action by congress it's time we work together to solve this issue once and for all and president trump has dismissed reports that he ordered the firing of special

counsel robert mueller in june as fake news so he's the man leading the investigation into the trump campaign's links with russia the new york times is reporting that the president backed down want to see a white house attorney threatened to resign if miller was sacked according to the report trump said that could not be impartial. judges in brazil of barred former president lula da silva from leaving the country the older follows the loss of his appeal against convictions for corruption and money laundering three years were added to his jail sentence despite that he's been named as his party's candidate to campaign for reelection in october to raise a bow reports from sao paulo. against a courtroom. on corruption charges brazil's workers' party. the former press. candidate. that will take place in october remains defiant and. becomes brazil's president again he will rule for this country

. on wednesday. with a room full of higher courts and then. expect it to block his candidacy. over one million dollars. in the form of a trip his lawyers say is politically motivated that is the victim of political persecution and that there is not enough to condemn him. for what we saw was that more than once president lula was convicted without ever having committed a crime the votes read during the day by the appellate court judges were not able to demonstrate any elements that would indicate that a crime had been committed. to. continue appealing to the higher courts and the parties that he would be the

candidate and the very end but he could be detained the way something that would increase the tension. and the political turmoil that already exists in this country germany's chancellor angela merkel is hopeful that talks to form a coalition with the social democrats will end the political impasse within weeks if the negotiations are successful a government could be in place by easter. waiting for a government for months after elections were held. trade across africa is about to get an overhaul with measures aimed at cutting the cost of doing business it's hoped that a digital free trade will make connecting online easier for export and import companies at a much larger deal covering the whole continent is in the pipeline for me to miller reports now from one of the biggest trade forts in east africa on the kenyan coast is a hike with the british would raise families run this manufacturing business in mombasa for decades he wants to expand sales of his wooden doors and other products beyond

kenya's borders. while moody can import the rumor to rules he needs red tape or lengthy cross border processes make exports difficult finding more affordable buying through the agency because the amount of paperwork required and the taxation changing every now and then was in a no is we're talking libya where there is a big change in the taxes and policy between no. i think one of the models for now the other thing the brain would go up this year the regional economic bloc komisar the common market for eastern southern africa plans to roll out a digital free trade area which would benefit traffic hubs like mombasa as its east africa's largest port and serves as the main gate to wait for trade for kenya and its neighbors to the east africa community has already adopted and integrated regional system if for example congo is cleared here in mombasa on the kenyan coast

can be tracked in neighboring uganda now the commis a free trade zone would ideally bring together more african countries beyond this region to enjoy seem less important export new technology would be used to connect the chain of people governments and agencies involved in the import and export of goods the move away from manual paperwork would be a first for africa allowing wall goods to. moved through the region faster the east and southern african zone has still to be finalized while a larger continental free trade area covering all of africa is also looking for political backing this year it covers a single market of one point two billion people and a combined g.d.p. of more than a three trillion dollars it's thought the agreement could increase trade by at least fifty percent but the reality is there are challenges across african borders

we look collected as a continent where by real by rolled the press structure is poor. so that poses a challenge because it will continue to impact on the cost and time it takes to to to do business within the continent other barriers that i see is the fear of loss of revenue for the government because when you free up in a region you the government will effectively been doing itself customs and duties and taxes that they receive from exports and from imports there's also concern that while the political will maybe there duplicate regional and continental efforts will take a long time to implement adding to worries that the continent's private sector may not have a strong enough voice to drive africa's dreams from either miller al-jazeera on bus support kenya but amber of homeless people in britain has reached record levels a new government report estimates that four and a half thousand people a sleeping rough but charities say the true scale of homelessness is much worse as

they've barker reports from london. david costers been sleeping on the streets of london for more than a year it's a bleak existence so noisy is really your issue is go there with the call you go there with people you know they. are high sometimes you know he lost his job as a carpenter and couldn't afford to pay for housing he's now worried about his mental health from additional. my head and maybe get you know she she she she adopted to get my head back to go back to work. one of the wealthiest countries in the world war more people are now living on the street many are struggling with addiction mental physical illness others are escaping violence and abuse but an increasing number here simply because they can't afford to live anywhere the situation is made worse by a critical shortage of affordable housing and cuts to social welfare benefits

according to the government's latest figures there are more than four and a half thousand people sleeping rough in england streets but the scourge of homelessness doesn't end here hidden away in bedsits and temporary emergency accommodation and thousands more homeless people of all ages the entire population of of great britain is around about two hundred fifty thousand people roughly is the most visible and and i have to say the most outrageous form of homelessness in terms of you know it being absolutely unacceptable the average age of death is just forty seven years old you're seventeen times more likely to be attacked on the street than anybody else the government says is committed to having rough sleeping in for years and eliminating it all together in a decade. but this is not an isolated story homelessness is on the rise in every european country except finland in the greek capital athens as many as one in

seventy residents are homeless and in paris the number of people sleeping rough has reached critical levels. in finland when a person becomes homeless they've given stable accommodation first rather than slowly progressing through levels of temporary housing. the british government's planning to trial a similar scheme in the u.k. but those forced to sleep rough need real change now. al-jazeera london. it is good to have you with us a free and fitting in here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera turkey's president has promised to clear out kurdish fighters along the length of the border with syria and make standards offensive as far as iraq. says that the operation in africa will continue to the east to include the town of man bitch turkey regards the kurdish y p g fighters as terrorists the u.s. has called on turkey to exercise restraint and to focus on defeating eisel instead

. will continue to olive branch operation which is on its seventh day today until we reach all of our targets after this will cleanse man from the terrorists as it has been promised to us nobody should be bothered by this because the real owner of managers is not those terrorists but the arab brothers they're after this we'll continue our fight until no terrorist is left stephanie decker has more for us on earth who wants comments from us as in syria just east of afrin. all the way to the border. to the. u.s. president donald trump will deliver the keynote speech to the annual world economic forum in davos switzerland later trump is expected to promote his america first agenda but administration official says that he will also call for free but fair

trade fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses in an intensive care unit dozens of others trapped inside were rescued in the southern city of marianne. india celebrated its sixty ninth republic day with a military parade attended by leaders from ten southeast asian nations it's the first time that many foreign leaders have attended the event as india moves to counter china's growing influence that being hosted by prime minister narendra modi the day marks the adoption of the indian constitution in one nine hundred fifty daily sixty thousand security personnel deployed in new delhi for the parade the un says that at least thirty refugees and migrants drowned off the coast of the southern yemeni city atan it says that oppose heading to djibouti capsized when people smugglers on board reportedly opened fire the overcrowded vessel is carrying one hundred fifty two somalis and ethiopians who were fleeing the war in yemen and those are the headlines will have more news for you and i was the era of the inside story next.

from afghanistan to south sudan to syria aid groups that were once almost universally viewed as neutral increasingly find themselves targeted why the change and what can be done to make things safer for aid agencies and the critical work they do this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm wrong there was

a time when aid groups working in difficult places were almost universally regard.