more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can dora. but what were the last thing effects of this agreement there is a regional set to six because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people and after that with the. psych speak out lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. pro assad forces come to the aid of syrian kurds in a free and whisking armed conflict with turkey. all of them to limit all of this is sound as iraq live from london also coming up

activists take their message to the white house as pressure mounts on lawmakers over the floor of that school shooting oxfam issues its first direct apology to the haiti government over sexual misconduct allegations love in the time of war has serious conflict is left samson's of people thought it. was welcome to the program we begin in syria where developments near the border with turkey have the potential to further complicate the battle ground turkey says its troops will fight forces loyal to the syrian president if they enter the northern on crave of a frame to defend kurdish fighters syria's state news agency says the syrian forces would enter africa within hours to join what it called the resistance to turkish aggression a report now from stephanie decker. syrian state television and now says that forces loyal to president bashar al assad will be deployed to

a free. turkey launch an operation against the people's protection units or y p g who are in control of the province almost a month ago and calls the y.p. g a terrorist organization united states considers the group its most effective ally in fighting eisel. this new move by damascus enough could mean its allied militia directly confronts turkish troops turkey's foreign minister. or was defiant yes in the name of the regime as in training the cleans he k k m p y d and there are no problems however if they come in to defend the y.p. g.e. than nothing and nobody can stop us this applies to efren as well as members and to the east of the euphrates river the developments when set behind the scenes negotiations the details of which are unclear if the kurds are going to accept the major conditions of the syrian regime will decide on that very heavy weapons. dance

artillery rocket launchers will they be exiting the city because the syrian regime is austrian city or democratic forces to exit the city and to move to the east of the euphrates the kurdish why p.g. holds the areas in yellow which include the region of the green areas land controlled by the syrian opposition supported by turkey and they're advancing on africa and under the turkish operation olive branch president assad's government controls the area to the south and the i.p.g. is territory to the east of the euphrates is where the u.s. has military bases and personnel on the ground syria's seven year war seems to have entered a new phase with the foreign powers who have long backed different sides trying to solidify their spheres of influence stephanie decker al jazeera russian media says the leaders of iran russia and sarky are planning to meet in turkey itself in april president has discussed the affray gratian in two separate phone calls with his

away and a russian counterparts. lattimer person over the actions of the syrian government which is russia's ally some a binge of aid has more now from istanbul. the first batch of kurdish fighters has reached the city of freedom that's according to s.t.'s which is a u.s. backed force and these kurdish fighters have travelled from the city of aleppo this is a city which is under the control of the syrian government forces so syrian fighters have been saying that this group proves their point that kurdish fighters off the right b.g. the people's protection units have been allied with the syrian government all along there is expectations that more continuance of pro-government militias not regular syrian government forces will enter the city of against this operation that has been launched by the turkish forces called all of branch on the diplomatic front we've been hearing from presidential sources that the turkish president has been speaking to his russian counterpart and he's told them that there will be

consequences if the syrian government continues on its path this is the part that the foreign minister had also alluded to saying that the turkish government has no problem if the syrian government contains and controls its own territory and borders but it will have a problem and it will confront anyone who allies itself with the with these kurdish fighters that turkey sees as terrorists. it's still in syria at least eighty five people have been killed by airstrikes in eastern that's according to the syrian observatory for human rights local observers believe the attacks are a prelude to a major offensive on the rebel held territory has been on the scene since twenty thirteen and a hoarder reports from and a warning some viewers may find some of the images in her story distressing. rockets missiles air strikes activists fear the renewed bombardment of the besieged opposition area of eastern could be the beginning of

a large scale military operation. it seems russian broke at the go to bring about. have so far failed and dig a week of relative calm yet again civilians were the victims since the end of december a stepped up military campaign killed more than four hundred people at least one hundred of them were children the fear now is that the numbers will only rise if a wide scale attack begins. the syrian government and its allies are sending military reinforcements to the edges of the rebel enclave just outside the capital damascus program of the media are promising victory and what they say will be a decisive battle it will be the first time they will try to storm. past ground offensives where we by rebels and people are defiant. that we have. they won't be able to capture one.

this is what we have been steadfast for seven years they tried many times and used all kinds of weapons but they weren't able to take anything. the syrian government and its allies haven't taken ground but over the years they have continuously bombarded residential neighborhoods the syrian government and its allies have been recapturing one opposition pocket after another. with their target for some time now but more often than not the government recapture its territory after securing local ceasefire deals that involved opposition fighters and their families evacuated and sent to other rebel controlled areas mainly to the problems of the in the northwest. this is a deal more. so for the people and rebels of eastern who are refusing to surrender but the reality on the ground is becoming harsher about four hundred thousand people are trapped there the violence is only we still have a some of them to move. in. a child's cry from underneath

the rubble. he is alive civil defense volunteers say it's not usually the case it has to go to our local law noah said of. this. a mass funeral spin held in iraq a city of basra for a group of shia fighters who were killed by i saw i saw fighters killed at least twenty seven men during sunday's ambush in the outskirts of her wages in northern iraq they were disguised in a rocky army uniforms and pretended to man a fake checkpoint the governor here barcoo cook warned i still still causes the security threat in the area. the white house says u.s. president donald trump supports improved background checks on gun purchases in the wake of last wednesday's school shooting in florida it comes as teenage activists

staged a protest outside the white house to banning tighter controls on gun ownership helen fisher was there. it started as a social media conversation on friday afternoon and became a mass protest in front of the white house dozens of students from around the washington area backed by the families gathered to mark this piece of school shootings in america and demanded our joint action to stop it i don't see this as a republican or democrat issue it's more life or death really shootings happen every day and weapons don't belong on the streets they don't belong in schools they belong in war have to be hard having me read out the names of the victims of school shootings in america since one thousand nine thousand nine. hundred when thoughts who says sing their own emotions but are we not shootings in america in the past there have been protests in the past but this type of people think something is different but this time change can be achieved but then came the most dire students

live in the growing sending a message that the politicians in action was no longer an option it's about the fact that kids are dying american kids are dying and if they're sitting in classrooms in the crowed a school psychologist who trained at the school in parklane florida for them a shooting took place struggling to contain her emotions and her anger like holiness are providing crisis intervention at this time in over fifteen twenty years that they've been practicing they've never seen such heartache typically we train to provide enter vention support for death of a teacher or a student and the stories that they're hearing it's like a war zone here the flag above the white house still flies at half staff in memory of the florida victims the young people here know that many of them are too young to vote but they insist their voices will be haired and they will not be ignored

alan fischer al jazeera washington oxfam's apologized to haiti's government over allegations of sexual misconduct by some. that stuff during a neighbor mission its former director for haiti has admitted to using prostitutes during wee building efforts after the twenty ten earthquake charities also released an internal were poor true healing three of its workers threatened witnesses during an investigation into sexual misconduct or published a report after being criticised for a lack of transparency over allegations one of the ships reports might say the haitian embassy in london. the report has been presented to the haitian embassy here in london and to the haitian government with apologies from all for what it says are its mistakes it's a revealing insight into a pretty dysfunctional operation of oxfam's in haiti in the immediate aftermath of the terrible twenty ten quake bullying intimidation downloading of pornography it says it can't rule out the possibility of sex with under age girls it says that

oxfam needs to deal with problem staff in a better way to ensure that they don't go on to work elsewhere in the aid sector a case in point the country director in oxfam the man at the center of allegations he went on to work for another aid organization in bangladesh of course this is a crisis that goes beyond oxfam itself remember that britain one of the very few countries which actually meets the un recommendations of spending point seven percent of gross national income on a many people particularly on the right in british politics arguing that that is too much money and when aid organizations are seem to behave in such a morally reprehensible way well the case for spending that much money of course is that much weaker and on tuesday the heads of oxfam save the children and the government's own department for international development summoned to the british

parliament for urgent questioning barnaby phillips reporting there now still to come. the residents of ghana. and gave me step in to solve a political standoff i'm told though i sense decision to possibly ban male circumcision is labelled an attack on religious freedom. kelvin is still about calvin is that cycling that made landfall over a two mile beach and coles this sort of trouble for the highway goes north side through western australia that is supposed to be a road and yes once again it's the second time in about a month ellipse more like an ocean obviously supposed to be closed tell him that anyway that's the condition and i went on a small rain light to fall because the circulation is still there still visible

it's one effect in a massacre that goes down towards the the blight all of which is potentially bringing rain right through the gibson desert and beyond some of it very helpful rain much of it too much at once the same time got big shout blooming on the eastern side queens and down to new south wales and they have been quite poky i think they'll stay quite poky tempers of risen in melbourne and adelaide but the night is adelaide's a close building and there is rain tucked in one part the same system by which time much of western australia will be drawing up an eighty mile beach and plenty will at least be feeling the rain disappearing on the subject of rain and tropical cyclones that sort of mains of geeta heading towards an easy in the clouds there the rain will start and they will be lots of it. military truck quantified value data being the new car

pull up on your data your identity is a commodity we have to understand where i'm going to come from obsolete it is time to reclaim our cyber so we have to treat them with something that cannot be sold we are creators we are our. people spock our data at this time there's either. a mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera turkey's foreign minister says turkish troops will fight forces loyal to syrian president bashar al assad the end to the

northern all of us free to defend the kurdish fighters massoud rules been held in the iraqi city of basra for a group of shia fighters killed and i saw a convoy and activists have staged a lie down cortez outside the white house over gun control laws in the way last week schools in florida. rescuers in mozambique say they fear they'll find more dead bodies buried under a garbage dump collapse that's killed seven hundred people so far parts of the three story high pile in the capital macoutes zero came down on top of highways this during a heavy storm and they are in the hours of the morning and the families of nine have fled the area fieri further collapses. female suicide bombers blown herself up at a university in northeast nigeria the woman targeted the university of my do gori in the heart of the city there are reports she was the only casualty of the attack and security is tight as authorities search for a second bomber that they believe is still on the run. so downes foreign minister

has told our jazzier all political prisoners who were detained last month will be released more than eighty have already been freed including prominent opposition leaders sudan had faced international pressure to release the detainee rest of us on to government protests about the rising cost of food. the story. the move to release dozens of political prisoners from jails in the sudanese capital of khartoum came as a surprise. most were arrested last month after protests about soaring prices and tough economic conditions turned violent so now madonna. we will work hard to get rid of the reasons that have led to demonstrations and detention we will be in contact with all parties concerned we will keep and maintain the human rights and we will put an end to political polarization in the country for the sake of our nation the. families of those released from prison were delighted but

concerned for the ones still detained and we are happy we need all the prisoners to be released we need our country to live in peace we need nothing but peace and security is the result of the commitment of the government to political freedoms and that is primarily was very short. as it used up in the past we are all very happy and all the sudanese people are happy can assure you that everybody will be released this is that this is you know of the president and the rest will follow. the freed prisoners included leaders of the opposition who are calling for on political factions to unite in order to find a solution to saddam's problems and they are demanding the release of prisoners of opinion. we need a full and comprehensive dialogue such a dialogue is the only way to take our country away from this crisis the tension in

prisons will never sort out our issues it is now the time to resort to the best methods to find peaceful solutions to the problems in our country. the presidential decree to release the prisoners came after the appointment of a new security chief and it followed calls from representatives of several foreign embassies the arrests were made during a wave of protests in several cities against the rise in bread prices and other economic difficulties facing the sudanese people many now hope the government and opposition parties can get together for talks aimed at resolving the country's persistent crisis. our desire to also began betting togo's government and the opposition tried to end the six month political standoff a ten day missing is being bokeh by the presidents of ghana and give me the dough reports. after months of a turn standoff that took at least government and opposition parties are finally agreed to hold talks broke up by gunnels president. i do my

task is this simple to help assist in the dialogue between the various political and. of this the talks are expected to last ten days and discuss a range of issues including the reintroduction of the nineteen ninety two constitution that placed a limit on the number of times a president could serve two to a popular vote was approved by maine to nine percent of voters in a referendum. a coalition of fourteen patties and president phone yes imbecile ruling union for the republic party represented by seven delegates each really did listen to show in reality the solution depends on the president and his family who have ruled us for fifty long years they should listen to the people's demands and they weren't be a solution if we don't speak openly and freely to each other that this is the way.

the two sides will also discuss political transition on electoral reforms to goodies president phoniest seemed it was been in policies two thousand and five has faced calls to quit since lost in them battle president took over from his father who had been president since ninety six to seven thousands took part in protests in august demanding political reforms which include limiting presidential tom's been stating up to round elections system and allowing that to release outside the country to vote since then there have been demonstrations almost every week most rallies have seen violent clashes with security forces and athletes nine people have been killed many more have been arrested and the opposition had only embedded the release of this prison as a precondition to an indigo situations a defiant phone a symbol however positive fused to entertain such demands and he's aides have also repeatedly told reporters there will be ignored discussion of an imminent departure

by the president or of any commitment by him or the talks to step down mohammed i don't i'll just syria. thousands of people in zimbabwe have paid tribute to morgan chang at a rally in the capital harare the former opposition leader died from cancer on wednesday opposition members say they'll try and keep the party united despite divisions over leadership or metastasize mourner from harare. when morgan tsvangirai body arrived at the place opposition parties called freedom square his supporters called him a hero for defending human rights and always calling for free and fair elections this is their last chance to say goodbye mania won't be able to attend the burial and choose to embrace her. home two hundred kilometers from the capital they say they'll continue his work and prepare for the election in a few months. not sure that this.

president. hasn't heard the entire leadership of the main opposition party showed up for monday's rally but there is speculation the movement for democratic change could split if some key officials decide to walk away from opposition is what the party did. is they now say to mr. president by the national is illegitimate. at the rally there were calls for the party to stick together. into so did. the it to bustamante months so if the new did. months. and this election is coming and she. is. for now opposition supporters say they are united and will deal with whatever problems lie ahead after morgan tsvangirai has been banned. at least two hundred fifty african migrants have been deported

from libya is part of a joint program between the united nations and libyan authorities that puts illegal migrants in the country on one way flights back home the migrants cross the border into libya and then attempt to travel through the mediterranean security for a better life. and while the libyan coast guard has intercepted more than three hundred migrants trying to leave the country on board to rubber bullets they were found off the coast of zorra on monday one of us president bill toms major campaign promises was that he would fight the establishment and in his words drain the swamp more than a year on a number of scandals are making people question whether trump and his team are making good on that about sical haid reports. it was a huge selling point for then candidate donald trump they. say he alone could change the system if we win on november eighth we are going to drain

the swamp in washington d.c. he said this time was going to be different gone were the days of the powerful enriching themselves at the expense of the people they were supposed to serve but ethics watchdogs say the swamp is getting swampy or by the day on tuesday his son john jr will head to india he'll give a policy speech and in the same trip offer buyers of trump apartments a chance to sit down and have dinner with him so help me god congratulations mr president. there are also new questions about his inauguration a personal friend of his wife's was reportedly paid twenty six million dollars to help plan events for it her company was set up six weeks before the swearing in and members of his cabinet are facing their own scandals the veterans affairs secretary had the government pay for him in his wife's trip to europe an internal report found his chief of staff lied about the expense and has since left the agency and

the administrator of the environmental protection agency is also under fire all government workers have to fly coach but he spent tens of thousands of dollars flying in first class the e.p.a. says it was a security precaution because in the past regular citizens have told him they don't like what he's doing to the environment ethics observers call all of it unprecedented when the tone said the top is that ethics don't matter you're going to have a number of different ethical violations and you're going to have public officials not particularly care if the rules are being violated trump is facing his own controversies his lawyer recently admitted to pain an adult film star one hundred thirty thousand dollars right before the election to keep quiet about an affair she had with. up soon after his wife had given birth another woman says a terrible it paid her for the story of her past affair with trump in order to bury it bravest ramp in washington so i said it three days ago the place went crazy.

they went crazy for a promise so far on count but it's not clear for his core supporters that this real news really matters political here l.g. zero washington let's just face is in iceland the trying to make male circumcision illegal saying it falls under the umbrella of child abuse if the bill passes isom will be the first european country to pam the practice of circumcision is carried out by lead to social medical cultural reasons jews and muslims in illinois to countries say the move is an attack on religious freedom that targets a traditional practice in their communities well jonathan our kush is the president of the board of deputies of british jews in london that's a group that represents the u.k.'s jewish community he says no parallels can be drawn between male and female circumcision. male circumcision is a very minor procedure that causes no harm at the time or last seen home

female circumcision on the other hand is a very intrusive procedure that is a mutilation of the woman's sexual organs it causes search children you're in re problems and paid for almost all women who have it done for the rest of their life it's criminalized in this country and rightly so the war in serious ripped thousands of families apart and disrupted millions of lives it's had a profound impact on every aspect of society including family life millions of men have either left the country been forced to fight or lost their lives creating issues for a growing number of single women caught a lopez had early and has the story. ollie's wedding shop has plenty of dresses but not enough brides syria's war has led to less romance and fewer potential grooms. his. men are leaving the country there's immigration and the military aspect which

is taking away a lot of them as a result the women ratio has increased single women are still looking to get married but the war is changing the dating scene a growing number of women are in their thirty's before they get married if they do at all there's probably a picture from. clapping it's become perfectly normal to see women over thirty who are not yet married and at the same time the age of marriage has considerably decreased in some remote rural areas especially where there are refugee camps and displaced people. since two thousand and eleven more than four hundred fifty thousand syrians have been killed in the conflict injuries have reached one million more than six million are displaced omar stayed in syria but says finding a steady job and income is almost impossible which makes people think twice about marriage and starting a family they want to be a world of vehicles that are under those conditions it's a crime to have a child if you have a child you have to give them medicine education and security right now you don't

know when you might have to take off and take the child with you some of my friends have had to give birth and hotels are yearning for love has led to many couples meeting online for with. a couple while the so couples communicate and getting gauged over skype or on the internet now i see the brides coming into my shop alone to buy a wedding dress or organize a party before they travel to where the groom lives romance and weddings may be taking a backseat in syria but all the says he's not too worried the search for love even in war this timeless katia lopez who the young al-jazeera. the top stories on al-jazeera turkey says it will fight forces loyal to syrian president bashar assad if they enter the syrian all crave of afraid to defend kurdish fighters in syria state news agency has reported that pro-government forces

would enter the area within hours she joined what it called the resistance turkish aggression it falls in agreement with the kurdish y p g phrases in the free has been battling to repel a turkish offensive there for a month yes any change it would in the question is why the regime forces are entering the area if the regime forces enter this area to get rid of terrorism yes that's good but if the regime forces enter this area to support or keep the other militias there the no we are against that. a mass funeral been held in the iraqi city of basra for a group of shia fighters who were killed by eisel eisel fighters killed at least twenty seven men during sunday's ambush in the outskirts of how we in northern iraq they were disguised in iraq army uniforms of be tended to man a fake checkpoint the governor of nearby kirk cooke warned isis still poses a security threat kariya activists have staged a protest outside the white house over gun control laws in the wake of last week's

school shooting in florida seventeen students and staff members were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle in the city of parkland meanwhile the white house says u.s. president donald trump supports improved background checks on gun purchases or firms apologized to haiti's government over allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its staff during an aid mission its former director for haiti has admitted to using prostitutes during rebuilding efforts after the twenty ten earthquake charities also released an internal report revealing three of its workers threatened witnesses during an investigation into sexual misconduct. of the seventeen people have been killed after a garbage dump collapsed in mozambique rescue workers in the capital pootle believe more bodies could be buried fifty metre tall pile of garbage collapsed in the early hours of the morning in heavy rain so you're up to date officially those saw the

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