it's about lebanon it's about the power struggle between iran and saudi arabia it's all there and that's the challenge. for the nomadic jackass tribe survival is about reaching their destination goals if we don't hurry we'll never be able to give the top up in the storm we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. can trace dangerous the ice and then as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life a little bit longer we sometimes lose our cattle there will die of cold war because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on al-jazeera. questions about who down the russian fighter jet in syria is total troops after the deadliest day in the fighting in the country.

i'm sam is a damned this is a live from doha also coming up a mall deaves attorney general calls on state institutions to disregard any attempt by the supreme court to impeach the president. italian prime minister condemns a politically motivated shooting rampage that wounded six african immigrants plus. an all aboard senegal's only passenger train as we take a look at the grand plan connecting east and west africa. now turkey says it's suffered its deadliest day yet in northern syria since launching its offensive against wife e.g. kurdish fighters there more than two weeks ago on saturday seven turkish soldiers died in fighting turkey wants to push the wife e.g. who says the terrorists out of our frame want to create

a buffer zone along the border or elsewhere in syria a russian fighter jets being shot down by opposition forces over province russia's defense ministry says the pilot managed to reject what was then killed in a ground fight near the town of south africa afterwards moscow launched dozens of strikes ten civilians have been killed and russia says it killed thirty fighters there's been heavy fighting in it live for weeks now the u.n. saying about one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced seventy deca joins us live from montauk in southern turkey near the syrian border so stephanie how much of a game changer is it now that the the rebels have demonstrated they can down a russian jet. but they won't have to wait to see sami adds you know nothing is simple inside syria certainly a huge symbolic victory for the rebels but i do think president the russian

president vladimir putin is on a man who is going to let this pauls without consequence you did mention there was there were many missiles fired at it live from the sea by the russians after the fact we're just hearing from now activists twenty three civilians killed as you mentioned the russian saying that killed over thirty fighter is russia is now negotiating with turkey for turkey to be the middleman so to speak to get the body of the pilot back from the rebels but this will also cause a lot of diplomatic political talk behind the scenes because of course when it comes to syria when it comes to the it live operation there are international consequences russia turkey major players that has an effect on the operation enough we know as you mentioned there with that death toll that turkey suffered on saturday so that take a look at how it all links up. this is a russian fighter jet shot down by opposition forces. i

mean remember the pilot manages to eject but he didn't survive. for these syrian fighters it's a huge symbolic victory. russian the syrian government have intensified their bombardment of province over the last two months government forces a slowly capturing territory in the south what is the last remaining syrian province under full rebel control. they're inching closer to the city of saka which lies on a strategic road linking the northwest all the way to the capital damascus territory that is now almost fully under government control. and in syria's complex web of regional and international allegiances some say this offensive has been well planned and has further implications been there are some people who are in fact wondering if there is a tacit agreement between the russians and the turks whereas the russians would actually give the green light for the turks to act in against the kurds in

exchange for the russians and allies actually to capture parts of this of this. the government offered the meaning of that old between the mosques and that there but for. that offensive against the kurdish controlled district of africa is now into its third week turkey's backing fighters from the free syrian army against the kurdish people protection units. turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist organization even though it's the united states is most effective in fighting i still turkey has been intensely to areas there is a base just right behind us and this is in line with what politicians here are saying the first phase of this operation the push the y.p. . away from its borders. all along that border a steady stream of military movement vehicles i mean ition and buses packed with

syrian f.s.a. fighters this is a very visible operation but it's also a difficult one the y.p. g. know the terrain well and they have been preparing for this it's the latest frontline in a war that year after year simply changes its form and never seems to end suffering you mention the turkish casualties and the three in this that battle entering a much more difficult stage now this is just a taste of things to come. i think it may be a taste of things to come sami it is a difficult fight as we mentioned there the y.p. gee this is their home terrain if you will if we can call it that these are mountains they're what they've been preparing for this they have been expecting this you had people you speak to over the last few years so what you saw on saturday was five turkish soldiers killed when the y.p. g. attacked blew up a tank also one soldier killed in a cross border attacks here in turkey and one other now from our sources that we've

been speaking to from the y.p. g. friday night saying that the y.p. g. has announced that they've launched a guerrilla warfare now of course the conventional army as the turkish army or the f.s.a. not trained in that kind of unconventional warfare if you will sami and at the same time i think a lot of people also questioning whether an escalation has to do with this video that was posted online by a free syrian army fighters of a female kurdish fighter cos naked her body bruised taught it was a very difficult video which caused a lot of uproar online the f.s.a. kamandi is now telling its fighters a there's an investigation into that and b. not to upload any video so i think the third week now into this some border areas have been taken with the y.p. g. still has some areas it is going to be a difficult operation for sure seventy days of that aren't so much. now the attorney general of the maldives has told all state institutions and the military to disregard any supreme court ruling impeaching the president police have been

trying to disperse crowds have been rallying in support of thursday's court order to release political prisoners judges also reinstated twelve m.p.'s who were expelled for switching to the opposition if they return the ruling party will lose its majority the president says he's willing to hold an early election joining us on skype from mali in them all these is junaid muhammed he's a journalist and analyst at the maldives independent good to have you with us first of all it's the attorney general so far that saying the supreme court wants to impeach the president have we seen any signs of the supreme court itself moving in that direction. so far since the. since then we have seen in the government and the attorney general the prosecutor general and lawyers from the government is delayed the enforcement of the ruling and. we have seen some talk about the supreme court going to or.

ruling. remove the attorney general from power but however we have not so far anymore. talk about the supreme court going through its own impeachment motion and let alone you know this is not something that is how it was in the constitution for the supreme court to go ahead and remove the already seen some protests the president seems to be holding on to his position any plans for the opposition to take to the streets again. yes i have no opposition on friday said that they will continue. until the government enforces the supreme court ruling which freed all of the opposition leaders that for already convicted in. trials that have been described as controversial and. not fully enduring due

process by the united nations as well as international barton's is parliament going to reconvene tomorrow as expected. yes and here we were told by the parliament's secretary general that the speaker had informed that the. opening would be canceled due to security reasons however. i'm able to tell a journalist why. the specific nature of the security reason that led to the decision and position has told reporters that this is. something being done by the president himself as he knows that if the parliamentary convenes tomorrow he will be facing more domestic only. as they

plan to go ahead with the removal of the speaker as well. thanks so much for updating us on things as you see it from there tonight mohammed. italy's prime minister has condemned the racially motivated drive by shooting saying hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants were injured in the central italian town of much as a suspect is in police custody peter shop has more. this was a drive by shooting that italian police said was racially motivated. firing from this vehicle the lone gunman is said to have targeted foreigners on the streets in a shooting spree that lasted over two hours. it took place in the central italian city of mature after the mayor said six people were wounded all of them black one with life threatening injuries a twenty eight year old italian name does look at try any was arrested by military

police draped in an italian flag he reportedly wore during the shootings turney had no previous criminal record and his motive for the shootings is unclear he did stand as a far right candidate for the northern league in recent local elections but received no votes in the count the italian prime minister was quick to condemn the shootings i mean ticket i mean only known for so nobody else will know what you what's rimmel behavior can all have ideological motivation criminals are criminals will start to side up but to call it meant to serve it overtook your state will be particularly severe against whoever thinks of nourishing the spiral of violence let's stop this let's stop this right now. tensions in march are out ahead risen this week following the discovery of pamela musto pietro's body she had run away from a drug rehabilitation center on monday and police said she'd met a nigerian drug dealer the next day he was arrested by police more than six hundred

thousand mainly african migrants have reached italy by boat over the past four years and the center right block says the vast majority have no right to asylum and as promised mass expulsions if it takes power peter shop al-jazeera around ramón is a historian specializing in modern european history he says if lee's right wing parties are increasingly focused on immigration ahead of the elections in march. they're pushing a lot towards this and the immigrants' agenda rhetoric because it'll in any cases is getting as we all know huge influx of immigrants refugees from from africa from libya especially and so on so this is in any case creating tension as in the rest of the western globe i mean it's not just an italian story is a why there is a much wider story the point is that since the nine this some of this political force and the immigrant forces are within the context of and these are power in the

context of the moderate center right in italy and this will not disappear the rhetoric will not disappear because this case will will make the. tension even stronger did that they've been in power already with silvio berlusconi since the in the ninety s. . they're not the league has been one of them one of the major part in any case they implemented some tough one team ignorance lowell's so i mean in theory yes they can they can win election i mean if we look at sort of it's today electoral surveys the center right is leading but we don't know with a proportional electoral proportional system if they will get a majority or not so things are very unclear now and so far but these parties have been already influencing italian politics since a very long period now the problem is that for years and probably even today

a good part of the italian media as well as never consider them as far right. still ahead on al-jazeera an american disgraced donald trump lashes out at the russian investigation calling it a witch hunt plus what's in a name we explain the decades long dispute between greece and macedonia. hello there we've got a lot of snow around europe at the moment we've seen plenty of heavy snow in finland and also down towards the southwest in parts of spain but now is the southeast corner of spain where we're seeing the wintery weather these pictures from mercia where we all saw snow thirty five years ago and there's also been some wintery weather in alec county am better dorm as well places you normally go to avoid the winter not to see snow now this is the responsible for this one here it's

now working its way towards the east still giving us some very wintry weather as it does so there and it looks like it's going to be moscow where we see quite a bit of snow during the day on sunday trading down behind it though is going to be a lot of clouds and some outbreaks of rain as well towards the west of europe and here for many of us the temperatures will be dropping over the next few days the winds are feeding in from the east dragging in that cooler air so a top temperature in paris just of three degrees that will feel cold down in london only five down in the southwest we've still got yet more wet weather circulating and that's potentially going to bring us yet more snow to parts of spain now some of the unsettled weather over spain and portugal is also affecting us cross the other side of the mediterranean as well we've seen some snow in our geria and from morocco on sunday it's looking rather wait.

mean. the senate. is. you're watching out to zero time to recap our headlines seven turkish soldiers have been killed in fighting with kurdish wifey fighters in northern syria turkey says

it was its army's worst day for casualties since launching the operation two weeks ago to push the white e.g. out of the area. the attorney general of the maldives says the supreme court is planning to impeach the president judges ordered the release and retrial of opposition leaders last week for your position a majority. of. its elise prime minister is condemning a shooting by a far right supporter saying hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants were injured in the central italian town of much errata suspect is in police custody. suicide bomb in pakistan's northwest and swat valley has killed eleven soldiers and wounded thirteen others the attacker targeted an area used by troops for exercise the taliban says it was behind the blast the group controlled the region between two thousand and seven and two thousand and nine come on hyder has more from islamabad

. well the reports coming are. also just about ten kilometers from the center of swat valley which means over the attack area a suicide bomber who penetrated into a ground inside a military camp where the soldiers were playing while they bought it and then dead they're naked and we're gold. eleven soldiers including a captain with. thirteen. member dead back in two thousand and some of the pakistani military has been now that's what the dollar bond from. the get the. sense there and on the military. who were there meeting this what they thought the bar is now the overall commander of

the city good progress on there have also taken response ability for today the time the palestine liberation organization has moved to come ties with israel p.l.o. leaders met a normal in the occupied west bank on saturday they voted the palestinian government to draft a plan to cut off political economic and security contacts it's been growing tension since december when u.s. president donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital israeli forces have killed a palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied west bank they say they were searching for a man in janine who they say killed a rabbi in a drive by shooting in january it's very full says shot dead another palestinian man and injured several others during similar raids last month. a un human rights body is calling for the immediate release of an al jazeera journalist from jail in egypt saying his imprisonment violates international laws mahmoud hussein was jailed almost fourteen months ago accused of broadcasting false news to spread

chaos both he and al-jazeera deny the allegations saying as repeatedly complained of mistreatment while in prison u.s. president donald trump says a declassified memo written by republican congress members clears him in the probe into links between russia and his presidential campaign he says quote this memo totally vindicates trump in the in the trump rope the russian witch hunt goes on and on there was no collusion there was no obstruction the word now used because after one year of looking endlessly and finding nothing collusion is dead this is an american disgrace that memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee which is chaired by devin nunes as who is a member of trump's transition team that was released on friday says the f.b.i. and justice department abused their powers by using up some stand cheated evidence

to spy on the trump aide the f.b.i. had argued against its release saying it had grave concerns the document contains what it calls material emissions of fact democrats on the committee want to release their own memo in response they say the republican mo is aimed at the reigning special counsel robert mother's investigation into the trump campaign suspected links with russia and the gallacher is following developments for us from washington d.c. . well there are a couple of key questions here as to what will happen or what may happen next and chief among those is a concern that president trump will use this memo as a pretext to fire robert mueller the special counsel who's in charge of the russian investigation democrats say if he does that it will cause a constitutional crisis we know of course that he wanted to do that back in the summer but held off on that decision because some senior members of staff threatened to resign themselves the other question is now hanging over the future

of the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein he is involved in the russian investigation president trump has been talking about him in very negative terms and it's not sure what will happen to him but the attorney general has been backing him up and of course the f.b.i. have been backing up their own people saying play hard and tackle hard because they are being permanently attacked by the president it really is an unprecedented situation you have a sitting u.s. president attacking his own intelligence community talking about this russian investigation as a witch hunt and saying this memo really clears his name it does not this is far from over we're not sure what will happen next but the entire nation if not the entire world is watching very closely indeed actress summer firm and those added her name to the list of women accusing hollywood producer harvey weinstein of sexual assault firman told the new york times weinstein assaulted her in a hotel room in the ninety's after the pair worked together on the film pulp fiction firm and accused weinstein of pushing her down and attempting to expose

himself weinstein's lawyer says the producer admits to making an awkward pass at thurmont but was stunned and saddened by the allegations. hundreds of thousands of people are expected at a rally in the greek capital in the coming hours over the use of the name macedonia by its neighboring former yugoslav republic graceful and her lao macedonia to become a member of nato or the european union without an agreement on the matter and both governments have signaled they're willing to compromise and convincing their voters may be more difficult john psaropoulos has more from athens. this is what happened when yugoslavia broke apart a quarter century ago and its southernmost state claimed independence as the republic of macedonia a million people gathered in the cell and the capital of the greek region of macedonia outraged that a non greek nation should lay claim to ancient greek heritage that is still the dominant view here today. they're trying to inherit all of macedonia and alexander

the great this is a farce it's all happening because the americans want them and near so early attempts at compromise came to nothing the government in the former yugoslav macedonian capital scorpio refused to relinquish the term macedonia and greece rejected the use of even a composite name that included it such as northern or slow of macedonia one hundred countries recognized the new state including many nato and e.u. countries concerned for its stability and survival but greece has cited its own security concerns as a vital part of any agreement the government would be called upon to remove articles in its constitution but implied claims territory article forty nine talks about protecting macedonian minorities in neighboring countries article three leaves open the possibility of changing the country's borders in two thousand and eight the greeks vetoed former yugoslav macedonia as entry into nato undeterred the

government in scorpio erected statues to ancient king alexander the great and his parents but now there's a more moderate government in scope here willing to compromise over the name and greece's official put. has changed to accept a composite name that includes the word macedonia but as far as greeks are concerned these are legal niceties that skirt the real issue which is national identity but this name symbolize something if i come to her house and we say we're going to have the same surname that means we have the same father and same rights this is not we're not obliged to give with us professor funnels daucus agrees that a nation comprised principally of slaves has no historic claim but says charity is in the greek interest we don't like them being called go calling themselves macedonians bed. they call themselves when they need an identity can we convince our macedonians public opinion that giving them

a bit of identity from. home history will not races in this the talks that reopened last month are over the country's name and do not address identity or ethnicity but as both peoples see the two issues as interlinked reaching an agreement they will accept appears a difficult jump al-jazeera for us thousands of people have taken part in opposition protests against togo's present. they want to restrict presidents to two five year terms missing days against the proposal he's been in office since two thousand and five took over from his father who ruled togo for thirty eight years talks on constitutional reforms will take place later this month ambitious plans are being drawn up to connect east and west africa by rail the trans african railway line will run through ten countries now those behind the project hope it

will increase trade on the continent but the line could take decades to complete the final part of our series looking at global trade routes across hard core ports . from senegal. on board the five fifteen train from the car to chess most passengers are on their way home after a long day of work in the city. the fifteen minute journey home always seems a bit longer than the morning commute. after years writing this train was fun so has learned to enjoy this moment free from just directions. remember i'm walking talking a good time for myself here if i drive to work it would take me at least four hours and i'd be stuck in traffic trains are still the quickest safest and cheapest way to travel. they call it the little blue train the locomotive was bought from pakistan the wagons from india. the parts were brought to senegal and refurbished in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's the only passenger train left in senegal all the other lines including the

historic train to mali were abandoned because they were too costly to run much to the frustration of commuters and railway unions alike. privatizing the railway lines was a clear mistake a country cannot grow without developing its roadways system but now we are excited with the steps in to go and other sites are taking the african union has an ambitious plan to connect the port of the car in the west to the port of djibouti in eastern africa linking ten countries many of them landlocked it's called the trams african railway project just said there are seven thousand eight hundred kilometers of unfinished railway tracks alone will cost thirteen billion dollars to build. it's an enormous amount each country is tasked with finding its own financing for their part of the railway. chinese companies have signed deals to rebuild of former colonial rail lines that were abandoned by the french both in the car and in djibouti it's the start of an epic engineering project that will take

years to build and promises thousands of jobs across the continent. there are no roads or highways connecting the west of africa to the east nor is there a direct flight between the car and djibouti in fact no one has ever tried to connect both coasts of africa neither the french nor the british the former colonial powers. construction hasn't started yet but the prospect of reopening the century old tracks has got me excited and hopeful. abandon train station may get a new lease on life and for the many passengers like so who use this every day. it may not be the end of the line for the five fifteen train from the car because hark al-jazeera yes senegal. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories now seven turkish soldiers have been killed in fighting with kurdish y p g fighters in northern syria so he says it

was his army's worst day for casualties since launching the operation two weeks ago to push the white b.g. out of the area stephanie decker has more from the border. what you saw on saturday was five turkish soldiers killed when the y.p. g. attacked blew up a tank also one soldier killed in a cross border attack here in turkey and one other now from our sources that we've been speaking to from the y.p. g. friday night saying that the y.p. g. has announced that they've launched a guerrilla warfare are now of course a conventional army as the turkish army or the f.s.a. i'm not trained in that kind of unconventional warfare the attorney general of the maldives says the supreme court is planning to impeach the president the country has seen unrest since judges ordered the release angry trial of opposition leaders last week judges also reinstated twelve members of parliament who were expelled for siding with the opposition if they return the ruling party will lose its majority.

italy's prime minister is condemning a shooting by a far right supporter saying hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants who were injured in the central italian town of much errata suspect is in police custody. the palestine liberation organization has moved to cut ties with israel here low leaders met in ramallah in the occupied west bank on saturday they've ordered the palestinian government to draft a plan to cut off political economic and security contacts it's been growing tension since december when u.s. president dog trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital palestinians want occupied east jerusalem to be the capital of their future state the u.s. president says that the classified memo written by republican congress members clears him in the probe into links between russia and his presidential campaign the

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