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hundreds of thousands rallied to mark the islamic revolution thirty nine years ago . a woman welcome at the winter games north korea's delegation talks politics with south korea's prime minister. competitors working together we look at how entrepreneurs in nigeria are getting the upper hand on a challenging business and. israel says it has responded to the downing of one of its warplanes by syrian government forces with its most significant attack on syria in decades israeli airstrikes reportedly hit the county airport on the outskirts of the way to that's in southern syria and a weapons depot near the capital damascus where prime minister benjamin netanyahu told a cabinet meeting that israel will continue to strike back against any aggression he described the airstrikes as a heavy blow to iran and syria well earlier russia's president vladimir putin

caution to avoid any steps that could further escalate tensions imran khan has more now from west jerusalem. the key developments that are taking place in west jerusalem all two meetings the cabinet meeting which is a regularly scheduled weekly meeting that's likely to concentrate on the political strategy that israel will come up with now publicly they're blaming iran for all of this they say the iranian role in syria is dangerous to israeli interests and they've been really ratcheting up the tension since the summer saying that iran is the problem they've also sent a letter to the united nations security council telling them that it needs to publicly condemn the iranian role within syria then there's a security cabinet meeting that's likely to take a look at what military options they may be now we've been speaking to the israeli army we've tried to ask them whether they can confirm what targets were hit inside syria and how long the operation will go on for they declined to comment on both of

those but we are hearing from senior former military officials that this is the biggest operation to take place against syrian air defense units since the one nine hundred eighty two lebanese water very clearly a big operation now russia is coming into the fold here the israelis have long said that the russian role is key within syria and the syrians need to take a look at what russia is doing in the country when it comes to iran that the russian support iran and so this is something of a concern the message that the israelis will send to russia is that we don't want iran to have any kind of role within syria we certainly don't want it to be in near the border now the russian president vladimir putin has responded saying that prime minister benjamin netanyahu needs to be careful about escalating things so clearly a lot of political tensions are military tensions going on it's all eyes on what israel does next and what messages to russia whether russia actually listens and

tries to rein in its ally iran well the latest developments have put pressure on russia to reinstate its support of the assad administration were a challenge has more from moscow. well these recent incidents show a couple of things firstly they show the absolute knife edge that syria is balancing on at the moment and secondly they show that when it comes to syria it's moscow that holds many of the cards now israel has been attacking targets inside syria for several years now and generally russia looks the other way it controls much of the airspace in syria bartz russia's position is that as long as as israeli jets are not threatening this devival of the acid regime too much and as long as they are not threatening russian personnel that's something that moscow has stressed very clearly in the last day or so then it is going to look the other

way and not do anything to stop israel's jets now israel would like russia to take essentially a stronger hand in the south of the country and basically prevent iranian backed militias from getting too close to the israeli border but at the moment russia seems reluctant to do that because iranian backed militias are very useful to the asad regime and also to russia's objectives in syria so israel is going to have to be quite careful now it's obviously not going to stop flying sorties into syria but although russia is not directly going to shoot those out of the sky themselves it doesn't seem like they're willing to prevent acids and aircraft offenses from having a go at downing is ready jets themselves and let's not forget that it's russia that has supplied and trained and assisted most of our. defenses.

now the turkish army has suffered its largest number of fatalities since the freeman campaign against kurdish fighters in northern syria began last month eleven turkish soldiers were killed on saturday including two in an army helicopter crash but turkey's president says the kurdish led syrian democratic forces will pay a heavy price let's talk to live from near the turkey syria border jamal just bring us up to date first with any progress that turkish forces are making on the ground . well down there have been able to take an hour for the towns and villages on the road to words are free and in the north east of syria according to the turkish military the army together with their i'd free syrian army rebels who have been fighting alongside them have been able to truly captured no less than twenty free different towns and villages as well as over a dozen hilltop so obviously this is a mountainous region so having that vantage point from above is something that is

very strategic so they have been able to make those but until now they haven't really been able to penetrate the y.p. g.'s defenses in and around our friend haven't really got that close to the city partially because according to the turkish military there are so many civilians there and they don't want to inflict any civilian loss of life in this military operation the y.p. g. refute that's actually accuse the charts of killing civilians meanwhile video has emerged over and over the past few days of buses of kurdish civilians being brought into our field and what appears to be an operation to create some sort of human shield against the turkish military to wipe e.g. say well this is a really human shield and so much as it is a natural response of the local kurdish population to try and defend themselves so slow progress yes death tolls are rising on both sides of this more so on the y. p.g. front of an east under fifty kurdish fighters being killed in the past three weeks

but advancements have been made in terms of territorial gain by the turkish military on the f.s.a. and jamal as we've been reporting eleven more turkish soldiers killed yesterday i mean this is making their free not to ration extremely costly to turkey isn't it. indeed costa i mean thirty military personnel have been killed in the past three beats are talking about an average of ten a week and whilst that is an you know catastrophic so to speak it is something that is significant but it's important to note here daryn that the amount of public support behind the turkish military is really almost unmeasurable in that it transcends all the different political parties and domestic differences that people may have in terms of their political convictions turkish society is an extremely nationalistic patriotic one and it really does hold the miter out a high degree of respect and more so when it comes to pitting the military against

a group like the y.p. g the y.p. jihadist kurdish militia group which i quote considers to be a terrorist organization is considered by the vast majority of talks to be just an extension of the p.k. k. that's the turkish base kurdistan workers' party which has been bombing turkish towns and cities and killing turkish civilians as well as police officers and military for decades so this support that they give their military against such a group like i see is a lot greater than to be damaged by the death of thirty soldiers obviously it is something concerning but the fact that the people are behind this it probably actually spurs the money even more to essentially support the military to try and routes out any presence of the y.p. g. on the border with their country jamal thank you. now iran is marking thirty nine years since its islamic revolution hundreds of thousands of people have been taking part in mass rallies and president hassan rouhani has been speaking in freedom

square the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution saw the overthrow of the shah of iran and the creation of the islamic republic has more from. the founder of the islamist republic of iran ayatollah ruhollah khomeini is still watching over his people and you never have to look very far to catch a glimpse of the man at the center of the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine still in exile in paris khomeini famously ordered every aronian onto the streets to help overthrow the shah mohammad reza pahlavi one of the women who answered the call was sub. born in japan. she changed her name when she married an iranian businessman she met in tokyo they moved to iran after their first son was born it was the one nine hundred sixty s. and iran was a very different place. it was before the revolution society was different then in iran it wasn't like today no one cared about is not. baba he said

the shah's government tried to ban women from wearing head scarves and attempt to replace iranian culture with western values. all part of a plan by foreign governments she says to control iran and iran's natural resources so khamenei his message of independence she says resonated with many people. he said there shouldn't be any poverty in iran he meant we should take care of poor people there should be justice everyone should be equal well many of the iranians welcomed this bubble you survived the nuclear bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki in world war two and lived through the iran iraq war that started almost immediately after the revolution when iraqi forces led by saddam hussein invaded iran. volunteered to fight and was killed he was nineteen years old decades later she still struggles to talk about it but says even knowing the pain of losing him she would sacrifice him again to preserve the islamic revolution for many iranians the

teachings of the country's first supreme leader are as relevant today as they were in one nine hundred seventy nine but for some islamic revolution has not fulfilled all of its promises. while they do not necessarily want to tear down their country's government most iranians we spoke to said they just want their leaders to do a little more to solve their problems as. people or important figures in history many of them died for the revolution but our demand is that current government should care about the nation all different classes of people from the rich to those who don't have a good economic situation. behind she's recanted the base thing that could happen in a society is the equality between a man and a woman the more we work for this the base of society will have when making policy iran's government often looks to the past for much of its inspiration iranian people it seems want them to look more to the future zain. lots also to

come here and al-jazeera including workers at one of britain's largest charities are accused of inappropriate behavior while helping the vulnerable plus. i am retiring after. the war with islam moving forward irish political partition fame begins a nuclear war and stay with us. hello there we've got yet more snow on its way towards japan we've already seen plenty of wintery weather and there's more still to come so there's the last system working its way away from us begin see plenty of cloud here that's been making its way across the sea of japan it's been picking up a lot of moisture and then it's giving us plenty of snow that mostly in the western

half and that's going to be with us over the next few days generally for the southeast there is a better chance of staying dry that's there in tokyo meanwhile towards the west is generally a lot quieter here weather wise but it's also rather cool at the moment those temperatures are rising though they're recovering so we'll get to around eight degrees in beijing as we head into tuesday for so we should be up to six before the towards the south when the temperatures are also rising for some of us here is wow shanghai seven degrees will be on maximum on monday but why choose day will be up to ten up into double figures and choose the night into wednesday should be quite mild as well we shouldn't get as low as freezing for the south you can see plenty of cloud here over the philippines and that's just all ahead of a storm that's making its way towards us that system is edging its way closer and closer as we head through monday already on monday plenty of cloud with this plenty of wet weather system hits later as we head into chews day elsewhere actually fairly subdued across southeast asia.

a young somali refugee thrilled to gain u.s. residency in twenty sixteen. i was told i was lucky too good to say i was a really really high p.c.b. god answered my prayer but with anti immigrant sentiment under the trump presidency al-jazeera world ask sally was when his american dream is still alive and so molly in america at this time on al-jazeera. our time for a quick check of the top stories here this hour israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu says it's strikes in syria where a heavy blow to iranian and syrian government forces he told his cabinet that israel would continue to strike back against any aggression raids father claims that an iranian drone entered its airspace on saturday the downing of an israeli fighter jet by syrian government forces. iran's president has called for unity at mass rallies celebrating the thirty ninth anniversary of its revolution these guys like republic was born from the one nine hundred seventy nine overthrow of the shop and the monarchy. and north korea's live big delegation has met the south korean foreign minister leader not young in seoul the group includes the sister of north korea's leader kim jong il and on saturday she extended a rare invitation to south korean president moon julian to visit here. that egypt's nami says four of its soldiers have died in an operation in the sinai it says it's killed sixteen fighters and destroyed several weapons caches during the offensive against armed groups in the peninsula president abdel fattah el-sisi told the army

to use brute force to restore security following an attack on a mosque in the demba which killed more than three hundred people. british government ministers are threatening to cut funding to charities that don't tackle sexual misconduct by staff oxfam's face with a second scandal involving staff and prostitutes and chad the child has already sacked four employees and three others resigned after being accused of paying for sex in haiti well the charges apologize and denies trying to cover up the scandal. what i'm apologizing for is that nine oxfam staff behaved in a way that was totally unacceptable and contrary to our values and that then led much more responsible staff to make decisions which are now seen as being by some margin or inappropriate our job is to promote the positive values his staff don't even go there but also to be absolutely intolerant of anybody who does what we've

committed in the last few months is to increase the work that we do on that behavior on that culture and to do all that we possibly can to drive any exploitation or tolerance of it that's what we're committed to alongside making this amazing difference to literally tens of millions of people around the world every year thousands of people have rallied against racism in the italian city of much errata a week after six african immigrants were injured in a drive by shooting protesters warned against a phobia and fascism ahead of next month's national election. reports. shouting koehler is not a crime thousands rallied in italy against racism and fascism rallies took place in rome milan polo mo and here the town of mass radha where a gunman targeted black men and women during a two hour shooting spree last week. we cannot accept that

a person goes onto the streets to kill these are children people in the streets watching this man went to the streets to kill as many black people as possible. i don't know what to call it other than a racist and fascist act. when the police arrested a twenty eight year old white italian man they say was the suspected gunman. a video posted on local media shows the suspect wearing in italian flag around his neck at the time of the arrest. i think it's extremely important to be here today because the situation in italy seems very complicated so i don't think that politicians take enough notice of the phenomenon of the resurgence of fascism and. many are warning that anti immigration rhetoric has become part of the national dialogue they fear this sentiment will influence the upcoming national elections on march fourth others warned that racism is nothing new. for me i have been faced

with the problems of racism here since my primary school days there were children who called me a negro it is far from bring a phenomenon that dates from yesterday or the day before with the shooting that took place there has always been racism here. the shooting in must follow the arrest of a nigerian man in connection with the murder of an eighteen year old italian woman . while many say politicians need to do something about the resurgence of the far right others believe it's inaccurate to lump all far right parties and politicians with the same label i believe d. far right and in general decent idea of fascist revival the need to shouldn't be exaggerated the far right is definitely quite strong now days in any city but i believe especially abroad the reason tendency is to generalize and put a lot of parties into the same box which is not necessary the case. far right

candidates call the influx of refugees out of control immigration. but italy's prime minister has told us people hatred and violence will not be able to divide them. on al-jazeera. south africa's ruling party the african national congress is due to hold a special meeting on monday as pressure mounts on president jacob zuma to resign before his second term ends next year many are calling for a swift transition of power after he was replaced by cyril ramaphosa as leader of the a.n.c. . the new leader of the irish republican political party shin fein says she is committed to pushing for a united ireland and marry new mcdonald's challenging the catholic church by campaigning to legalize abortion she's taking over from the veteran leader gerry adams is retiring after thirty four years but in barbara reports from dublin. taking over from a man she calls a political giant mary lou mcdonald paid tribute to gerry adams who became shin

fein president when she was a teenager and he was instrumental in northern ireland's peace process that led to the good friday agreement two decades ago he has defined politics on the sidelines for a generation or more and when other said it was impossible gerry and mark mcinnes along with john hume and others bravely walked the path to peace macdonald and out of his have been involved in talks on reconvening northern islands devolved government which broke down a year ago shin fein which shared power with the unionist do you wants movement on issues such as irish language rights. i mean really facing us. the war is not over there is no matter your anger or anything we don't have to agree on the past the reason you are seeing other historical

narratives. we know we. ask is never ever again. other things we can really. like mcdonald the party's new deputy leader michelle o'neill represents a younger generation of activists hoping to get shin fein into government on both sides of the border this conference represents not just the handover of power but a move towards a more modern polity by sinn fein it comes at a time when there are real challenges for it's both in northern ireland and here in the irish republic how do we become the party that is seen by those people who are in full time employment and average wages those people are part time employment and poor wages and also you know plight i do we present ourselves as the champion of their needs and their interests the party's also being hit by resignations over alleged bullying and mcdonald says she's listening to complaints here in the south she's also backing a change in the law to allow abortion ahead of an irish referendum later this year but she and feigns long held aim of

a referendum on uniting the island of ireland remained some way off the al-jazeera . votes are being counted in sri lanka where record number of women are vying for seats in three hundred forty local governments a new law requires women to fill a quarter of those positions the president and prime minister rule nationally in a coalition but they've campaign separately for their own parties now doctors in qatar are hoping to improve everyone's health by mapping out the genetic makeup of the entire population the subject medical research centers using state of the art technology to work on new ways to prevent and treat illness sullivan reports. her mom has a heart condition but she's now able to walk around easily thanks to a clinical trial a new valve allows her heart to pump blood properly. get them i know that i am i was not able to sleep at night i was frail and couldn't even climb the stairs now after the operation i can sleep comfortably i can now carry things and walk

normally the heart valve trial is that sidra a first of its kind medical and research center for women and children and other what sets apart is not just clinical trials but also the use of smart technology this is the three d. print out of a human heart where doctors have been able to plant valves in not just one but seven patients and this particular trial is being carried out in five countries doctors here want to expand research into new techniques of therapy besides the new valve doctors the other jersey wants to test absorbable implants called stents hopefully to reduce the number of operations for children with heart disease it's made from polymers and synthetic materials that you can put initially in the blood vessel it does the job by opening the blood listen but within about a year and a half it dissolves it disappears and the area where the distant was it remodels the citrus specialize hospital is also innovating prevention of diabetes

which affects seventeen percent of properties there's been no real studies looking at it in the older child of diabetes qatar won't realize that it and once we know the exact cause of diabetes we are so tailor made personalized therapy for each child for example is that in some trouble in my room to stop the injections of insulin they have and i forgive them or medications genetic disorders and birth defects are relatively high because about half of all marriages across the gulf nations are between cousins but a small population is giving researchers a unique chance to map the genetics of the whole population if emissions are realized it will create a genetic reference not only. useful for but there's a population but for all similar ethnic populations worldwide right now all the resources that exist around the world come from you know highly studied populations mostly europeans caucasians some africans and some east asians there's very little representation from our part of the middle eastern populations and so what we've started to do here over the last decade is to basically work towards building

a representation because people here often travel abroad for diagnostics and therapy doctors report a patient dream from the middle east they're hoping to reverse that trend with their scientific research some of the job it under there. now scientists in the united states are deliberately infecting muskie to stop the spread of viruses such as zinc and dengue millions of specially bred male mosquitoes have been released in miami they've been infected with bacteria females that mate with them when only made eggs that contacts florida recorded nearly one thousand five hundred infections in twenty sixteen. high production costs in nigeria making it tough to do business one solution though is for small businesses to pool their resources. at address has been to see how that works in game day that's in northeastern nigeria. i believe machineries one of twenty technicians helping to keep the wheels of the machinery turning of this industrial zone on the outskirts of the city he moved to

a small workshop here three years ago running his only independent business was just too expensive. business the stuff my former business case i had to pay for and it's a city where the rent or security a little but here i am saving a little bit. his business repairs used machine and fabricates new ones. as businesses cluster they pooled their money to pay for the tricity security and other services at rates lower than stand alone factories. there are more than four hundred small oil mill plants in this industrial cluster at the peak of their operations they produce one hundred thousand liters of cooking oil a day they're coming together as east operational costs for their owners as a nigerian business environment gets tougher other businesses i embrace in this idea but is helping to keep many small businesses afloat. so result many have

recalled workers they laid off. reabsorb three thousand workers because most of us are making a profit although not as much as you would like in fact we can expand and get more raw materials every unemployed youth in town can get a job here. many folks are still struggle to pay bills as cost of production remain higher than they hoped for its nigeria's suffers from inflation and the recession. but they said this product of conditions will keep their operations open even if it means their products will cost more to produce. al-jazeera be a sports news now because fan kramer the netherlands has become the most successful men speed skater in elliptic history he took gold in the five thousand meters for the third straight time to win the olympic medal of his career the thirty one year old is targeting two more goals the pealing chang winter games and strong winds

a force the perspiring mint of one of the game's highest profile events the men's downhill will now take place on thursday gusts in excess of seventy kilometers an hour prompted the decision qualifying for the women's snowboarding slopestyle has also been called off. it's not unusual to for it to be changed it is a challenge. but we are clearly prepared for it is there is no sign that. this is taking us on the way as we prepare beforehand for the eventuality which nearly always happens in the world cup of in order. to go us finally colorful costumes and musicians are filling the streets of the bolivian city of moore as the annual carnival begins the four day festival leads up to the start of the christian season of lent the two hundred year old celebration attracts twenty four hundred thousand people every year.

to the top stories here on al-jazeera the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu says airstrikes in syria were a heavy blow to iran and syria the raids followed claims that iranian drone entered its airspace on saturday and the downing of an israeli f. sixteen fighter jet by syrian air defense. yesterday we delivered some serious blows to the iranian and syrian forces we made it absolutely clear to everyone that our rules of engagement have not changed at all we will continue to attack any attempts to hurt us it has been our policy and i will continue to be our policy but turkish army has suffered its largest number of fatalities since the campaign against kurdish fighters in northern syria began last month eleven soldiers were killed on saturday including two in an army helicopter crash turkey's president says the kurdish led syrian democratic forces will pay a heavy price iran's president has called for unity at mass rallies celebrating the

thirty ninth anniversary of its revolution the islamic republic was born from the nine hundred seventy nine overthrow of the monarchy hasan rouhani has comments for last month's anti-government protests which saw thousands of people arrested. staying in iran the family of a university professor are disputing police reports he committed suicide in jail sixty three year old environmental activists say he had a mommy was arrested last month his family says his death is impossible to fathom two of the protestors are reported to have killed themselves in prison recently. north korea's ellen picked delegation has met the south korean prime minister not young insult the group includes a sister of north korea's leader kim jong il in on saturday she extended a rare invitation to south korean president mugabe and to visit pyongyang. south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. is due to hold a special meeting on monday as pressure intensifies on president jacob zuma to resign many are calling for

a swift transition of power after he was replaced by syria as leader of the n.c. but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside stories section thanks for watching live from. flashpoint between israel syria and iran suspected iranian drone is shot down then an israeli warplane crash it's a major conflict in syria so what's next in an already volatile region this is inside story.