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i said you were a member of the we had the special meeting about the nail and he said no. that's not how thick and you immediately this is a cover you know piece on the man city yes al-jazeera investigation footholds board of silence this time. i'm. not. kurdish fighters in syria say they've struck a deal with the government forces to repel the turkish offensive enough for you. know i'm not matheson this is all just here on live from doha also coming up. you
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can take back with you a message to the tyrants and. do not trust israel's resolve israel's prime minister accuses iran of being the biggest threat to middle east security. funerals are held for two palestinians shot and killed by israeli forces in the gaza border and. i'm under god creates a pseudo costa rica where one man's lifelong gardening project is ted him into a cultural icon. kurdish officials say they've reached a deal to allow syrian government troops to enter the city of offing a development which raises new complexities for russia and turkey in the war a kurdish spokesman told al-jazeera they're calling on the city an army to protect outfitting from turkey should tack on the forces could arrive within two days that could mean seven forces that are directly confronting turkish troops in the city
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where they've been engaged in an operation against kurdish fighters since last month cities kurdish why p.g. has been a key u.s. ally fighting eisel there but turkey is vehemently opposed to the group which has been fighting for more kurdish autonomy some avenge of it has following following the story from istanbul. when it comes to fruition this deal would not be a surprise because kurdish fighters the people whose production units are white b.g. have been in negotiations with the bashar al assad government for a number of days now sources have been telling us that there are sticking points including the man with reconstruction of kurdish fighters into the city and government forces there giving up of heavy weapons by these kurdish fighters and giving up all of their military bases and manipulations going to one of those some of those points that they were agreeing to as were being asked by the syrian government the details of disagreement have not been made public or clear is yet but goodish try to say that they've asked the syrian government to come in and help
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them to secure these areas against the turkish advances if an event syrian forces enter that border area between syria and turkey called free and where the fighting is continuing where turkey has launched the operation on a ranch to try and clear it from the these kurdish fighters if it is to be seen that how will turkey respond because turkey has been stating that the whole purpose of this operation is to clear its border areas of fight as richard calls terrorists and when and if syrian forces take over control of these areas and allow turkey and promise to a key that they will secure these areas against any of what it calls terrorist activities what will be turkey's response then will it continue to carry out its offensive or will it agreed to the terms that will be offered by the syrian government. when the agreement highlights the increasingly complex situation in syria armed groups including kurdish fighters i saw and turkish backed fighters
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a tangled in a web of confrontations as well as alliances with the united states russia and iran the kurdish y p g holds the area here in yellow which includes areas around free in the green area shows land controlled by the fighters that turkey supports there advancing on nothing under the turkish operation called olive branch president bashar al assad's government controls the area to the south he has a complex relationship with the white b.g. and differs with it on syria's future said he wants to take back control of the whole country well the kurds want an autonomy region in northern syria. says an assistant professor of political science at northeastern university he says it's going to be hard to predict how turkey will react to the alliance. over the past few days turkey has been reopening up its military operations and now so and in that sense it's hard to imagine church you know standing by especially because earlier one has really been emphasizing the importance of the critical of the four
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and a kick up the y.p. team which are described in turkey as really just an offshoot of cookie cake ok that said oh if you know that this syrian their army were to go in there and basically rescue control from the y.p. g. then the main sort of turkish just became should the counterterrorism justification of being there would sort of subside but there are a lot of wildcards in terms of what's going to happen for example what is russia going to if you're russia stood aside and essentially allow the turkish our presence there in africa however were there to be some sort of direct confrontation between the turkish military in the syrian military one would expect russia out to side with the stop so how exactly russia will relate to chirk remains very much a cup what he did in louisville what an important aspect of this. israel prime
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minister has again taken aim at iran accusing it of being the biggest threat to the middle east at a security conference in munich benjamin netanyahu is how that part of what he says is an iranian drone shot down by his forces near syria iran has responded by accusing israel of being the main aggressor in the region or not from david chaytor . these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu went straight into attack mode against iran as he took to the podium in munich issuing a direct threat to tehran israel will not only iran's regime to put a noose of terror around our necks. we will act without hesitation to defend ourselves. and we will act if necessary not just against iran's proxies that are attacking us but against iran itself he followed up with a dramatic flourish that caught all the delegates by surprise brandishing
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a piece of wreckage from an iranian drone shot down an israel air space last week. and he had this message for iran's foreign minister mohammad javert. i bought it here so you can see it for yourself mr zarif do you recognize this. you should be george. you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of her own do not israel's resolve the man who netanyahu called an eloquent liar iran's foreign minister refused to rise to the israeli bake he preferred instead to outline a new plan to dampen down rising tensions in the region i prevent more conflict in the middle east. iran believes that our security in the persian gulf requires a french regional security architecture. we believe in and how proposed creating
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what we call a strong region rather than a strong man in the region. at a question and answer session those are if expressed his frustration at israeli attempts to undermine the deal iran struck with world powers to stop its nuclear arms program and we achieved it in spite of him being implemented in spite of him and the world being maintained that the agreement in spite of his delusional attempts. the foreign minister of saudi arabia was equally uncompromising about its main power rival in the region we cannot afford to put up with the when the revolution penetrance of course the reason iran a sanction for terrorism is because it supports terrorism thank you baer said the pressure on iran would continue until there was fundamental change the push against
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them will continue until iran change in its behavior david chaytor al jazeera munich funerals have been held for two palestinian teenagers shot and killed by israeli forces in gaza their deaths have added to tension in the gaza israeli border following an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers on saturday israel blames hamas for the attack and carried out a ground an air strikes in eighteen hamas targets in southern gaza how the faucet reports. a funeral for two teenagers killed by israeli fire near the gaza border on saturday night. salim. who both seventeen. israel says it fired warning shots towards a group acting suspiciously near the border fence witnesses talk to tank fire being used no palestinian armed group has claimed the boys as members they were laid to rest side by side sometimes father says his son was one of dozens who tried to escape the strip in recent years to look for undocumented work inside israel. or
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youngsters in daraa live in tough conditions not just my son everyone suffers here and they get tired all the hardships. well the dust being marked here in rougher today as a result of just one israeli operation what israel itself is calling a large scale attack on hamas targets here in gaza it's the largest such attack that we've seen since the twenty fourteen war and israel did strike it says eighteen separate hamas linked targets from the air on saturday night. israeli military says it targeted a tunnel being dug towards israel weapons making sites and military compounds one rocket was fired from gaza into israel striking a civilian house but injuring no one this latest round of violence the most serious in years began on saturday with the wounding of four israeli soldiers two seriously in an explosion near the border fence. israel says it advice was planted during
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this protest a day before reportedly hidden behind a flag which the israeli troops went to investigate israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has vowed to eliminate the attack is adding israel views hamas as responsible for everything that happens in gaza hamas says it's israel it bears responsibility for the escalation and. that other fighting groups will not allow the israelis to impose new rules on the ground and we will keep practicing our rights to defend our people from israeli aggression two things have seen the situation grow more fragile in recent months the reaction to donald trump's declaration calling jerusalem israel's capital and the continued deterioration the humanitarian situation which israel's army chief has reportedly warned could lead to further conflict for now the worst of the violence appears over but the conditions that created it remain in place all aware that more could follow are a force that al-jazeera gaza. iran's president hassan rouhani has ordered an
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investigation into a plane crash that killed sixty five people when airlines just disappeared from radar fifteen minutes after leaving the capital tehran the flight was traveling to susan the southwest of the fog has ended rescue efforts so far one hundred about to see reports. distraught family members still near her bed st in toronto where fifty nine passengers and six crew members departed on their fateful flight. on the other side of the journey the halls of yes to the airport where the plane was said to arrive was full of people mourning so hard. i kept calling all morning but they wouldn't answer so i called my brother and he assured me they'll get here the plane is not behind schedule yet he said don't worry he called later it's had the plane had crashed there a seaman airlines flight departed from her bed airport into iran but disappeared from radar fifteen minutes after leaving the plane was heading towards the city vs
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who's in southwestern iran it crashed into mt deena near the town of semi room in the mountain range rescue teams have struggled to reach the crash site due to inclement weather and rugged terrain investigators have yet to determine the cause of the crash but some aviation experts believe heavy fog could have hindered the pilot's navigation when a truck crashes a man sins usually as a result of some kind of error rather then any. and all that will be ruled out i think. he's more probable in this case some kind of navigational era decades of international sanctions and diplomatic isolation have left iran's airlines with aging fleets of passenger planes which they've struggled to maintain and modernize. you have fritz of aircraft in iraq and as a man airlines flies it's the only airline in the world that still flies
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commercially the boeing seven two seven try jet this is an aircraft which hasn't even been made for over thirty four years and so you've got effectively a block on components of. a new aircraft which is simply left iranian aviation pretty much as it was well let's say round about nine hundred eighty iran suffered a number of aviation disasters most recently in two thousand and fourteen when a seven airlines flight crashed just after takeoff killing thirty nine people. since to her on curb its nuclear program it's ordered more than two hundred planes from airbus and boeing with forty four billion dollars in the hopes of modernizing its commercial aviation committed by d.c. al-jazeera. what's more still ahead on al-jazeera we're going to have the latest on the political fallout following the indictment of a group of russians accused of meddling in the twenty sixteen us presidential election. canada has a reputation as
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a haven for refugees but north koreans seeking asylum have received a cold welcome. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east. howlers the cloud is building again in china with a feed of warm moist air from the south china sea for a couple of days now the temps in hong kong has pretty high of twenty five but of course you go to eventually turn that moisture into tired and then rain and where the wind opposes just about here so you've got the winter and wind coming down and that really is not a wintry rincon river side of the to create clouds and then rain and it is cold enough snow really gives foster of rain in shanghai who seems unlike it's still a warm probably sunny twenty four in hong kong this should be perfectly dry and
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sunny time of the if mr southeast asia trickly into china but we have got low remains so it's hard to see often all tropical sarka and it may well produced a time share as they wreak through cambodia possibly even as far west as bangkok runs chart of the concentration of showers should really be in the southern philippines sort of way see bits of born here and jolly and that's indeed where you see it but sumatra is got to the fence to get showers well least on the west coast seems unlikely to get into singapore kuala lumpur but as i said bangkok could could just see a shower but she all of india and sri lanka are in nepal fine and mostly sunny but there is more rain and snow coming in to afghanistan. the weather sponsored by cats and meese. i was always telling him how famous he was going to make it that's how he presented hello my name and body without manchester city's northwest representatives kind of. teacher pretty cool. actually you'll remember that we had
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this special meeting about the nail and he said no. that's not the topic and you mean this is a cover up in a piece on the mainland city al-jazeera investigation. build of silence this time. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories kurdish officials say they've reached a deal to allow syrian troops to enter our fingers city to help protect it the move could mean syrian forces confronting turkish troops who've been carrying out an operation against kurdish fighters since last month israel's prime minister has taken aim at iran and a key international security conference accusing it's have been the biggest threat
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to the middle east benjamin netanyahu is head of a component from what he said was in a rainy and drone that had been shot down by his forces near syria iran's president hassan rouhani has ordered an investigation into a plane crash in which sixty five people have died last month airlines flight crashed into a mountainous region near its destination in southwestern iran heavy fog has hindered rescue efforts so far. now in the u.s. the political fallout continues from the indictment of a group of russians accused of meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the issues dominated sunday morning political talk shows president donald trump's fired off several tweets rejecting accusations his campaign colluded with moscow was in jordan has this report from washington. the u.s. president donald trump hasn't been seen in public since friday the day thirteen russian citizens and three companies were indicted for allegedly interfering in the
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two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign and for allegedly trying to throw the election trumps way on sunday the president took to twitter to blame everyone from hillary clinton to the media for the suggestion that his campaign colluded with the russian government to win the election something he has always denied i never said russia did not meddle in the election i said it may be russia or china or another country or group or it may be a four hundred pound genius sitting in bed and playing with his computer the russian hoax was that the trump campaign colluded with russia it never did the independent senator bernie sanders allegedly was also being supported by the russian operation but he said on sunday the bigger problem is how trump is reacting what the real issue right now is how do we have a president of the united states not saying what everybody knows to be true russia
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or into feed into sixteen they're going to interfere in two thousand and eighteen and we have got to do everything we can to make sure that they do not on the by an american democracy meanwhile a senior democratic senator said the indictment should alarm americans it's not yet clear whether the russians succeeded in actually changing votes what's clear is that they spent millions and millions of dollars and had hundreds of people working in a troll farm in st petersburg to intentionally undermine one candidate hillary clinton and support an. the other donald trump on saturday night trump also criticized his national security adviser mcmaster for not backing his view of the situation mcmaster had told delegates at the munich security conference that the indictment was proof of russian interference in u.s. political affairs gen that master forgot to say that the results of the twenty six thousand election were not impacted or changed by the russians and that the only collusion was between russia and crooked h. the d.n.c.
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and the dems remember the dirty dossier you rainy speeches emails and the podesta company that tweet now has the d.c. chattering class wondering whether mcmasters job is in jeopardy given the president's predilection for driving out those who don't parrot his view of the world rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington sudan's president omar bashir has ordered the release of more than eighty political prisoners who were detained last month their families celebrated outside one of the prisons where they've been held the group includes prominent opposition leaders they were arrested after anti-government protests over the rising cost of food turned violent sudan's economy struggled in recent years in january the government to devalue the currency and cut subsidies which has led to the rise in prices that are in celebrations in kosovo's capital to mock ten years of independence from serbia security forces march through pristina as part of
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a weekend of festivities kosovo achieved autonomy in twenty eight after years of conflict as sovereignty is recognized by more than one hundred countries including the u.s. and most of the e.u. but it's yet to be recognized by serbia russia and china because of those also confronting increasing lawlessness in a cerebral dominated region of political leader was killed last month in the town of mithra feature as it is under some and spoke to journalists and politicians who say they face constant intimidation. it's a daily ritual lighting candles and paying respect to a politician murdered a month ago in this lawless city all over event of each leader of a minority cause of a party spoke albanian and have been trying to foster better relations with the government in pristina he was shot dead and no one seems to know who did it organized crime is rampant here and there are suspicions there could have been a political motivation in the darkness he pulled out in the movie you can see in
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people how unsafe they fail and they are if you talk about it but work says me the most is that many of all of his friends and my friends have left micha pizza and more considering at. this journalist whose office still bears the evidence of intimidation nearly three years ago also believes things are getting worse that they are. i've been a victim of theft and burglary i've been attacked but those are things that happen to people he every day in savannah beaches made up people species have definitely increased it's because he was so well respected. on the south side of me tributes the majority culture of our albanian population has been celebrating ten years of independence it's in contrast to the north where the serbian flag flies kosovo's government ministers accuse their serbian counterparts in belgrade of meddling in the affairs of this city making its dysfunctional. this bridge taking us from the
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southern side has been renovated it feels new but ten years after independence was announced there's still division here this is a gesture of defiance before we even get into the north building work comes to an end here because of disputes with the kosovar serb local authorities that have cause months of delays because of his prime minister knowledge is there are big difficulties but he says the crime problem is being tackled we are in process of integrating north of role of law very suspect the special effects of the community and integrate the community in this is my approach but that approach is met with cynicism there's no mention here of independence or integration andrew simmons out zero in its of its course of the despite his reputation as
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a haven for refugees canada has been deporting north korean asylum seekers in two thousand have been sent away since two thousand and thirteen because the government says they lied on their application forms a lack reports from toronto. putting a brave face on pending deportation these north koreans came here through south korea which canada considers a safe country but on their refugee applications they said they'd fled to china. eleven years ago take him came here with his wife daughter and son now they have two more children canadian citizens deportation would be catastrophic. oh. that notice means death to me. i came all the way here for a better life and my family is well adjusted to life in canada and we think we're going to be separated it breaks my heart there is a town on the other day in the. home of my whole life i live there so i don't have
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any friends in south korea and all my friends are here. joe family could be broken up to canada carries out its deportation order two children are canadian born the eldest came with his parents in two thousand and ten the joes admit they lied on their application but say they did it to escape a horrible situation that. i feel so desperate. it's our fault all the time but that they haven't done anything wrong they have to go through this separation because of us. the north korean refugees say south korea is definitely not safe for them north korea's spies can track them down they say yet canada has been deporting people like them since two thousand and thirteen those who remain have only begun to fight back if we are fallen by the moment they our family. they will be
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executed or de rears sent to the labor camp. the korean community in toronto is rallied behind the refugees their lawyer has met canadian officials in what she says is their last chance to stay here an appeal on compassionate grounds to the minister of immigration there's been no response yet internationally recognized as a humanitarian and compassionate country accepting refugees from syria and all over the world and why my question should and the hundred fifty be many people. back an answer to that question is anxiously awaited by refugees who fled one of the most repressive violent regimes in the world then you lack. now many people consider gardening more of a chore than an art form but in costa rica one man's dedication has and in global recognition for more than fifty years eventually step blanco has sculpted trees in
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his home city gardens and are considered amongst the finest examples of the topiary in the world and he gallacher went to the chair to see them. at the foot of the church of st raphael in costa rica central mountain range stands a testament to one man's vision over the decades the gardens of said i have been sculpted into birds and beasts by evangelist blanco a man known locally as don lister all senor scissorhands. he began work here in one nine hundred sixty four and never stopped. but one of the parks like my family is like my children my wife and my mistress and i love it and i care for it i come here at five in the morning to star wiring and i do this little love and it cation . as the gardens matures so has its reputation there are now more than one hundred figures here each beginning life as saplings planted by a gardener determined to create something unique many great works of art of being
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created by individuals but few require the maintenance or dedication that all of this does eventually through spent the best part of his entire adult life on this one project but it hasn't gone unnoticed these gardens are now a symbol for the city they're tracked thousands of tourists every year and in two thousand and four they named the entire place after him. the city of socio was grown along with its gardens every day the park is full of visitors from around the world it's like a country house in england with the taipei next thing and i was thinking when i went round it's really good for the children because it's got elephants and soldiers and bulls and carts and stuff and they can kind of identify and stuff you have that sense of do i know a bill last in the end all be less of many time ago it's still the same is very nice i love it. in recognition of his work eventually still was given a national culture award and continues to inspire those around him as well he going
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about a lot of that and yes he's an icon for the people he's inspired the youth to follow his passion to decorate and shape trees he has a lot of patience and passion for doing this. he retired a few years ago but he's continued to give us new shapes in our park. at the age of seventy nine evangelist isn't quite ready to hang up his shoes he's looking for someone with the same dedication to take over and ensure his legacy lasts and he gallacher al-jazeera pseudo costa rica you can find a lot more on the website they all dress for al-jazeera dot com. i robot are some of the headlines on al-jazeera kurdish officials say they've reached a deal to allow syrian troops to enter a free to help protect the city the move means syrian forces will confront turkish troops who've been carrying out an operation against kurdish fighters and last
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month syrian soldiers could enter the region in the next two days to some of the injuries following the story from istanbul. turkey has been stating that the whole purpose of this operation is to clear its border areas of fighters which it calls terrorists and when and if syrian forces take over control of these areas and allow turkey and promise to a key that they will secure these areas against any of what it calls terrorist activities what will be turkey's response then will it continue to carry out its offensive or will it agree to the terms that will be offered by the syrian government israel's prime minister has taken a man who ran at a key international security conference accusing it of being the biggest threat to the middle east but i mean netanyahu held up a component from what he says is in a rainy and drawing that had been shot down by his forces near syria. iran's president haasan rouhani has ordered an investigation into
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a plane crash in which sixty five people died yeah so many airlines flight crashed in a mountainous region and its destination just sewage in southwestern iran heavy fog has hindered rescue efforts so far donald trump has gone on the attack over the indictment of a group of russians accused of meddling in the u.s. twenty sixteen presidential election he again derided accusations his campaign colluded with the russian government on twitter and even criticized his national security adviser sudan's president omar al bashir has ordered the release of more than eighty political prisoners who were detained last month their families celebrated outside one of the prisons where they've been held the group includes prominent opposition leaders they would arrested after anti-government protests over the rising cost of food turned violent sedans economy has struggled in recent years in january the government devalue the currency and cut subsidies which led to
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the rise in prices those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story by. thirteen russians have been accused of interfering in the u.s. presidential election to sway the vote in favor of donald trump these indictments do not mention collusion and moscow says the charges are irrelevant but the broader investigation is far from over so what happens next this is inside story.
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