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the kurds and. this is clearly not. clear. exploitation. forces alarm over the. country's. political standoff. the united nations is calling for an end to the targeting of civilians and. at least eighty five people have been killed during government and russian bombing and . which has been under siege since two thousand and thirteen reports from beirut

and neighboring lebanon. rockets. could be the beginning of a large scale military operation. to bring about. have so far failed. yet again where the victims since the end of december a military campaign killed more than four hundred people at least one hundred were children. the numbers will only rise if. the syrian government and its allies are military. the edges of the rebel enclave just outside the capital damascus program of the media are promising victory in what they say will be a decisive battle it won't be the first time they will try to storm. past ground offensives where we by rebels and people are defiant.

we have man who. they won't be able to one inch. this is what we have been steadfast for seven years they tried many times and he was all kinds of weapons but they weren't able to do anything. the syrian government and its allies haven't taken ground but over the years they have continuously bombarded residential neighborhoods this area and government and its allies have been recapturing one opposition after another. has been their target for some time now but more often than not the government captures territory after securing local ceasefire deals that involve opposition fighters and their families evacuated and sent to other rebel controlled areas mainly to the province of of the in the northwest. so far 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 increasing. in. a child's cry from underneath the rubble. he is alive civil defense volunteers say it's not usually the case. tension is escalating in northern syria suffering region with possible military confrontation looming between turkey and forces loyal to. a turkish operation was launched over a month ago to oust the syrian kurdish which controls the area. i.p.g. commanders deny making a deal with the government but say syrian troops are expected within hours stephanie decker reports. syrian state television and now says that forces loyal to president bashar al assad will be deployed to after. turkey

launch an operation against peoples protection units or y p g who are in control of the province almost a month ago ankara calls the y.p. g a terrorist organization the united states considers the group its most effective ally in fighting isis. this new move by damascus in africa could mean its allied militia directly confronts turkish troops turkey's foreign minister was defiant you know. if the regime is interested to clean. up he whitey and there are no problems however if i come in to defend the y.p. the nothing and nobody can stop us this applies to efren as well as ma'am 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 we'll decide on that very heavy weapons.

dance artillery rocket launchers will they be exiting the city because the syrian regime is. a 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 are 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. 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. the presidents of turkey and russia have discussed here for an operation in a phone call turkey type or don't want war and over the actions of the syrian government which is russia's ally some avenge of aid has more from istanbul the

first batch of kurdish fighters has reached the city of freedom that's according to s.d.f. which is a u.s. backed force and these good 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 prove 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 convenience of militias not regular syrian government forces will do this if the against this operation that is being 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 with 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 why would these goodish fight is that turkey sees as terrorists the palestinian president will tell the u.n. security council later on tuesday that he wants to set out the new international alliance to mediate with the israelis i'm going to boces abandoning the longstanding policy of accepting the u.s. as broker because the president of all trumps recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital bernard spent supports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. donald trump's promise of the deal of the century turned into what the palestinian president called the slap of the century it's forced mahmoud abbas under steam back to the drawing. has been involved in palestinian policy making for decades he now believes the u.s. is losing its dominant role in the world in a world that is changing i mean the calculation is not only on our wishes it's also

an hour and allen says of what's going on in the world including what israel now practices israel is seeking very much better relations with the russians was the chinese was the indians with the japanese israel itself knows that the world is changing and it cannot ignore these other important forces abbas has been telling leaders from europe russia china and elsewhere that he wants them to have a role in mediation with the israelis while retaining u.s. involvement. for any new form to work though the israelis would have to be willing to take part with trump at his back there seems little incentive for now the prime minister binyamin netanyahu to change tack i doubt that can be and the renewal of the peace process especially that. the alternative sponsorship will be refused by israel we will witness

a period of no process no solution what's a period i mean probably the coming one to two years at least a massive fairly bleak outlook isn't it that's right but this is less harmful to the palestinians from continuing with a process in which this sponsor of the united states might come up with a proposal. that can be even more harmful than the continuity of the current difficult and political reality that we're living angle with donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital came with criticism of the palestinian leadership for depending on u.s. mediation for the last twenty five years it's felt the pressure to come up with an alternative we have no other option we don't want to go back to violence we are not abandoning our commitment to the peace process and when you do that then you really have to find a new international alliance

a new legal methods and ways and means of really saving our country from being totally overtaken by the israeli colonial project as the palestinians cast around for a new mediation the reality on the ground is that illegal settlements are expanding day by day eating up more and more occupied land time is not on the palestinian side but it's with al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. energy company has agreed to buy fifteen billion dollars worth of israeli and natural gas operators of israel's tomorrow leviathan offshore gas fields will supply a private egyptian firm around sixty four billion cubic meters of gas over a decade israel hopes the deal will help strengthen diplomatic ties white house says u.s. president on all trump is open to supporting improved background checks on gun purchases in the wake of last week's school shooting in florida and which seventeen people were killed or testers to their campaigns to the white house demanding

action on gun control chimes been speaking to members of congress about a bipartisan bill aimed at improving checks on those wanting to buy a weapon last year however he overturns an obama era law which were strict of people with mental health issues from owning guns. british charity oxfam has apologized to haiti's government after its staff are accused of sexual misconduct it's released an internal report into allegations that aide workers these prostitutes during a mission apart also reveal that three staff members threatened witnesses to investigators john hendren reports. the regional director of oxfam came to haiti with an apology to the country's government and to pledge we've communicated that to the minister. and we've given as best we can explanations to as to what happened in two thousand and eleven. and we are open to collaborate as much as we can in further investigations as necessary with the haitian

government the allegations involving oxfam staff in haiti emerged earlier this month they were accused of hiring prostitutes at oxfam properties while working in haiti after the two thousand and ten earthquake one of those said to be involved was the n.g.o.s former country director roland van how are myron. it was decent it was just the same as i mean in the lead in belgium on monday in oxfam report dating back to two thousand and eleven was released it detailed allegations of sexual misconduct and threats to the safety of those investigating them haiti has warned oxfam its future in the country is now in jeopardy uselessly i've met. believe the us oxfam admits the use of prostitutes by their staff in two thousand and eleven they've made it with all the evidence they even used their offices for such activities now we're working to see if they were cover ups because their report never made it to the haitian authorities this scandal has dealt the reputation of oxfam a devastating blow and threatens to complicate the work of other charities oxfam's

funding in the u.k. is now under review and on tuesday oxfam's chief executive will testify in front of a british parliamentary committee john hendren algis here you are putting your head on al-jazeera including he promised to fight. establishment in his words drain the swamp but will find out by critics of this president on a plane he's done the opposite. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. allan the water is draining away from baghdad for the wrestler valentine chilly as the clouds though still swirling disappears just across the rainy unboarded so we're left with sunshine for the time being and the forecast temp is notably high eighteen in beirut for example about fifteen in jerusalem and

what ramos gathering on the iranian border has also disappeared eastwards fold in the past on the sun should be out here to even the strong winds that have lifted the desert sand in the rock salt iraq in kuwait and beyond the breeze is slowly dropping as well to be honest much of the land was wet anyway however the picture on wednesday is a bit different the clouds formed again the breezes change directions a southerly twenty two in kuwait twenty one in baghdad and we've got rain gathering again the southeast in turkey but not i think for jordan office syria or indeed for most of egypt but it's dropped down see what the wind has done so far it did pick up the dust and of course it start to drop the temp is a little bit in bahrain dark you're right but the house twenty six is to a least where average should be or slightly higher and the wind swings around and you've got now just feels a breeze from the empty quarter running up through western saudi he even tempered a high in mecca but making the skies rather orange. the with the sponsored by qatar

and use. the scene for us when they're online what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but not what happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that little choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and watching al-jazeera these are the top stories right now the united nations is

calling for an end to the targeting of civilians in a rebel held enclave near syria's capital damascus at least eighty five people were killed during syrian government russian at eastern. turkey says it will fight forces loyal to syria's president if they enter a frame as part of an agreement with the kurdish y.p. gene turkey launched an offensive last month to push kurds out of the area. british charity oxfam has apologized to haiti's government after a staffer accused of sexual misconduct it's released an internal report into allegations that aide worker she's prostitutes during a mission. to the united nations children's agency unicef says the world is failing newborn babies a new report has found that infants born in the world's poorest countries face of the worst odds. reports. every year more than two and a half million babies die before turning one month old one million of them take their first and last breaths on the day they are born another two point six million

are still born newborns in pakistan have the least chance of survival with one in twenty two dying within their first month of life central african republic afghanistan somalia and list so throw around out the top five nations were infant struggle to stay alive the average mortality rate is twenty seven deaths in every one thousand births more than eighty percent of newborn deaths are the result of premature birth complications during labor and delivery infections poverty conflict and weak institutions are being blamed those with the best chance of survival are babies born in japan iceland and singapore compared with those countries newborns in the riskiest places are fifty times more likely to die. there has been some success in reducing child deaths the number of dying before their fifth birthday has halved over the past twenty five years but millions more could be saved if mothers and babies had access to affordable quality health care good nutrition and

clean water and central african republic one in twenty four babies die before they're even a month old many women cannot access health care due to a conflict that's displaced nearly half the population catherine sawyer reports. new life in the second worst country in the wild for a child to be born in the only pediatric hospital in central african republic nasa's and sure that babies little hearts keep beating of the roughly thirty children born each day in this hospital in the capital bangui an average of two die it's a free government hospital taking in hundreds of patients daily but medical supplies are hard to come by the hospital is understaffed and badly needs more specialist doctors. dr goddy chrysostom is one of just five pediatricians in the whole country he says they try the best they can to keep mothers and their children alive

. again see central african republic us sixteen regions in the or depend on these missionaries to care we are in a crisis we. know the centers because this attrition is not sustainable. example arisa cradles her son in a human incubation care system called kangaroo it helps premature babies when there is no incubator baby man doris tween brother died when they were born arlie. zambia has been assured that man dara will be fine but she worries about him and how for the children back home only a third of it where. my husband doesn't work i do casual work if my children fall that means all the money goes to hospital bills then what. the children here are lucky to get some help the farther you get away from bondi the more desperate the health care situation medical aid agencies are helping but even

they can't be everywhere doctors without borders and the international medical corps support this hospital in bria in the north east after months of fighting between rival armed groups the hospital is now not just taking in patients but has also offered more dated families that have fled from their homes there are places where the. groups continue to stand in the way of accessing people but we also have. funding issues we don't have all the resources that we need. for example for the area of maternal little health back in the bungie children hospitals kangaroo ward as they call it the new mothers continue to bond with their little ones and hope they'll get to see all the milestones catherine saw al-jazeera bria central african republic. l.a. seventeen people had been killed in mozambique when

a rubbish buried several houses rescue workers in the capital makoto had been looking for survivors since the landfill collapsed on monday morning charlotte ballasts reports. this is what hundreds of people who are have built their lives at home to rachel ray moved the mountain of waste until it collapsed on top of homes the rubbish buried resistance as they slept and there was a survivor but his wife and son died and also this lady from this house and these one two three and four houses the gold the area that collapsed early monday morning was three stories high risk unsure how many people of barry's. i could only hear screaming from my neighbors there was no way to help even if i was close by there was no way to help there was so much water running down the trash pile was collapsing it took down the houses family as the children died in. the landfill has been emma for closure but remains are growing by nine hundred tonnes

a day with laura's he's want people to leave because of pollution and talks it fears the collapse has pushed some residents to say goodbye to the wasteland. that is we are packing our stuff because we're afraid to stay here otherwise we could experience the same thing somebody by the excavator and also people went to help move the bottom somewhere trash we were moving our stuff to go where the government allocates us. those who live in a dump the only official dump them up who toes one million people is the size of twenty football fields the city's poor spend their days combing through the garbage looking for food and things to sell. in the last year rubbish dumps have killed dozens of people in the continent ten people died when a landfill collapsed on to houses in guinea's dar es salaam in august. a lens slide ethiopia's largest rubbish dump last year killed sixty five people and

injured dozens. hundreds of people rely on at only landfill to survive every time there was heavy rain before they collapsed. this was no different when stale floors he's introduced water rationing because of a severe drought then tropical storm didn't hit the country the ground was hard and flooding followed in the estimated twenty two thousand homes and public buildings were destroyed as heavy rains shifting the foundations of what people in hellenic call hard shell of dallas al-jazeera. government says releasing forty five political prisoners ahead of the next round of peace talks with the opposition west african nation has seen months of protest amending president for nothing bay step down are bringing changes to the constitution a new round of negotiations have been suspended and till friday reports.

of. government and opposition parties are finally agreed to hold talks broke up by gunnels president. mark. is there. to help assist. you in 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 one thousand nine hundred two constitution that placed a limit on the number of times a president could serve two to a popular vote was approved by ninety nine percent of voters in a referendum a coalition of fourteen parties and president phony a symbol of ruling union for the republic party represented by seventy delegates which really did little to show in reality the solution depends on the president and his family who have ruled as 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. the two sides will also discuss political transition on electoral reforms to goodies president phoniest seemed it was been in power since two thousand and five has faced calls to quit since last year the embattled president took over from his father who had been president since ninety six to seven. thousands took part in protests in olga's demanding political reforms which include limiting presidential tom's. actions system i'm allowed in the two parties outside the can two to vote since then there have been demonstrations almost a group like most rallies have seen violent clashes with security forces and up least nine people have been killed and many more have been obvious to the opposition have on the embedded the release of this prison this is a precondition to indigo syrians mohammed i don't i'll just say you know. yes

president ronald trying pasand or says prominent critic mitt romney for senate and its weight trump said the two thousand and twelve republican presidential nominee would make a great senator for the state of utah this comes despite romney beginning his senate bid with a video criticizing trump's immigration policies romney also called trouble phony and a fraud during the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign but thanked him for his senate endorsement the reports of yet another member of trump's campaign team is likely to flee guilty as part of the f.b.i.'s investigation and a russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election yes media is reporting that rick gates will plead guilty to fraud related charges within the next few days after denying them last october he's also expected to testify against trump's former campaign chairman paul mann afford who's facing charges from the investigation and the reports are true gates would become the third person from trump's campaign to plead guilty and one of us president on

a major campaign pledges was that he would fight the establishment and in his words trying the swap more than a year on a number of scandals are making people question whether trump and his team are making good on their promise to call him 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 swamp here 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. soon after his wife had given birth and another woman says a tabloid paid her for the story of her past affair with trump in order to bury it bravest womp in washington so i sent it three days ago the place went crazy. they went crazy for a promise so far uncapped but it's not clear for his core supporters that this real news really matters. al-jazeera washington. and richelle carey let's take a look at the headlines on al-jazeera the us calling for an end to the targeting of civilians in a rebel held on klav near syria's capital to mask at least eighty five people were

killed during syrian government and russian bombing of eastern ghouta local observers believe the attacks were a prelude to a major offensive on the area which has been under siege by government forces since two thousand and thirteen. turkey says it will fight forces loyal to syria's president if they enter a frame as part of an agreement with the kurdish why peachey turkey launched an offensive last month to push kurds out of the area. the white house says u.s. president donald trump is open to supporting improved background checks on gun purchases and the wake of last week's school shooting in florida activists staged a protest outside the white house demanding action to stop future mass shootings seventeen students and staff members were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle in the city of parkland but a charity oxfam has apologized to haiti's government after its staff are accused of sexual misconduct that's released an internal report into allegations that aide workers she's prostitutes during rebuilding efforts after the two thousand and ten

earthquake its former director for haiti admitted to the inquiry that he hired sex workers despite public denials. the united nations children's agency says the world is failing newborn babies report by unicef says infants born in the world's poorest countries face the worst dogs it ranks pakistan as the worst nation in the world for a newborn baby followed by a central african republic gyptian company has agreed to buy fifteen billion dollars worth of israeli natural gas operators of israel's team are in the via an offshore gas fields will supply a private egyptian firm around sixty four billion cubic meters of gas over a decade israel says it hopes to deal strengthen diplomatic ties rescuers in mozambique say they'll they fear they'll find more dead bodies under a rubbish dump that's collapsed with seventeen people confirmed dead already parts of a three story high pile of garbage in the capital maputo came down on houses during

a heavy storm those are the headlines news continues keep it here on al-jazeera the stream is next. all jews iraq. we're in for you. hi i'm femi oke a new in the stream today political crisis in ethiopia a state of emergency has been to add off to the sudden resignation of the prime minister we ask what's next i really could be a lot if you're joining us live on you tube send us your questions and your comments and i'll do my best to bring them into today show.