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so we begin this in syria and the two most important battles being fought in this latest chapter in the country's near seven year war rebels holed up in eastern near the capital damascus are refusing to bend after more heavy bombardment by russian and syrian forces the rebels possess a heavy arsenal including tanks machine guns and anti aircraft weaponry thousands of civilians are trapped in the middle at least two hundred fifty people have been killed since sunday eastern was designated a deescalation zone to make civilians safer hooter's not only just a few kilometers away from syria's capital it's also close to damascus international airport and military sites now all this is going on there's also the

threat of more violence in the northern region of africa in turkish forces have pushed back syrian government forces there after they're tempted to enter the district on tuesday we'll get the latest from eastern in just a few moments but first let's get the latest on that situation in a free and al-jazeera is a sum a big job it is in what's the latest. in the last few minutes we've heard from the spokesman of president brigitte they are the gun the turkish president that is saying that there will be serious consequences if the city and militias continue their advances towards the city of a free and this is the city on the in the north on the border with turkey which is controlled by of i.p.g. a kurdish militia which turkey called a terrorist group in the last few days these this militia has asked for help from the syrian government and in the last twenty four hours we saw at least one called boy trying to make its way to words offering which was halted by artillery fire by

the by the turkish government saying that it will not allow and even force winds to reach the this city of offering some of these scientists do believe have we have arrived enough seen but they're in very small numbers and because turkey has been very adamant in saying that it will not allow them this is perhaps an attempt to try and demonstrate that turkey does not call all the shots yes president and a gun has been speaking to the presidents of russia and iran but there are some there are some pockets that the regime in that this also controls and it also contains some of these fighters who are adamant to reach a free a side of the president of turkey says that his forces will capture the area within days but is that a realistic approach prospect could it happen. well it is going to be easier said than done because a freend is a mountainous area that kurdish fighters know these london's quite well and

military analysts and military experts who we've been speaking to say that they're the month long advance has been slow the number of casualties on the turkish side has been much higher in tibet isn't do another operation they counted up in city called euphrates shield so it is going to be a slow and steady pace of the turkish troops have been making gains we've heard from the free syrian army these are mostly arab fighters who are supported by the turkish military saying that they have almost encircled the city of control more than ninety percent shins and nearby villages around the city of offie so that perhaps gives president on the confidence to say that not just his troops but the forces that his troops are supporting in circling the city they're trying to lay a siege on the city and once they choke and cut off all of the supply lines of it with which weapons and reinforcements are reaching the city of offering but up to that to be the decisive part of the battle when they can actually go in and capture the city all right of some many thanks indeed to some a binge of it and get out of those strikes on the rebel held area of eastern ghouta

that have killed more than two hundred people zain a honda is live for us in beirut the u.n. says the situation in eastern guta is beyond imagination what is the government doing there why is it bombing residential areas. well we're day four of this bombing campaign yet more civilian deaths what we understand from local activists ten people killed so yet more deaths more than two hundred people hundreds injured this is a military tactic bombing civilian areas is a military tactics we've seen in the past what the government wants the government alliance is to bomb the area into submission to force the rebels to surrender to force the people to surrender for the people the population to turn on the rebels and say enough is enough we cannot handle this lay down your arms and accept the deal but the problem is the people do not want a deal that would involve them leaving their homes we've seen this in the past they've had to lay down their arms there was a mass evacuation and they moved to other rebel controlled areas in the north like

the province of idlib we saw that in aleppo so this is why people are so concerned but at the same time the suffering is unimaginable airstrikes are continuing almost you know continuous airstrikes targeting multiple towns so the situation is very dire you say they want people to surrender people a truck that what are they supposed to do to think. well they should pressure the rebels and tell the rebels accept to lay down their arms this is collective punishment it's indiscriminate bombardment this has happened they consider everyone who lives in rebel controlled territory terrorists so this is the government's narrative they've been bombing civilian infrastructure hospitals hospitals are now out of service so the situation is so bad that at the end they say we give up and this is exactly what the government wants they're sending reinforcements on the ground the ground offensive has still not begun in earnest that is going to be costly i was going to ask you about about the issue that this bombing. these

bombing raids that have killed so many people in such a short space of time is is this a prayer you to some sort of ground offensive their release. well the syrian government newspaper el one time says yes expect the bombing campaign to be the beginning of a major vast operation against which can start at anytime now is the government serious well it's going to be costly for them they've tried this on numerous occasions in the past but they have not taken ground the rebels have been able to repel that advance keep them away from taking territory so if the rebels are able to hold ground they would have a better negotiating position really but even if they're able to repel the ground advance how well how can they stop the bombings from the sky i mean people will keep on dying civilians will keep on dying so it's a very very difficult situation so the government sending thousands and thousands of troops really eastern huta has been a thorn in the government's side for some time now the rebels are able to threaten damascus the seat of the government's power for some time now so

a victory there will definitely be removing a threat if you like for the for the syrian government on its own and many thanks to the heart of the reporting from beirut the state of qatar chad to restore diplomatic ties chad's government ordered the closure of qatar's embassy in august that was two months after the start of the gulf crisis in which saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a blockade on gaza. it with a new saw from out of syria still to come on the program. our negotiators are sitting right behind ready to talk but we will not chase after any warning from the u.s. about the peace plan palestinian president has put to the united nations plus. i'm natasha butler in southeastern france is the french government revealed his new plans for an immigration law the mayor of this city kannada says the stage to be

doing more to protect refugees and later in sport chelsea and boss a lot of set up the champions league cliff hanger at the new cup. the u.s. president has agreed more needs to be done to protect children in the wake of last week's school shooting in florida donald trump called for a ban on so-called bump stocks devices that allow a semi automatic rifle to fire at the speed of a machine gun he's expected to speak to survivors of several mass shootings in the coming hours al-jazeera is heidi joe castro reports from washington. the bomb stocks a deadly threat was witnessed in october when a gunman used them to rain down bullets on a crowd in las vegas killing fifty eight people the call to bamba stocks was swift . but it took until now four months later for president donald trump to take action

. after the deadly shooting in las vegas i directed the attorney general to clarify whether certain bob stock devices like the one used in las vegas are illegal under current law that process began in december and just a few moments ago i signed a memorandum directing the attorney general. to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn illegal weapons into machine guns announcement came six days after yet another mass shooting dominated the headlines seventeen people mostly students were killed in a florida high school there's no indication the shooter also used a bomb stalk in the attack but trump's move to ban the devices now appears to be the president bending to growing pressure polling shows the majority of americans think trump in congress haven't done enough to stop mass shootings while gun safety

advocates say banning bomb stops is good they say there's still much more that needs to be done as a function and that is to say. every day. there's a. shot thank you. the young survivors of the florida shooting are expected to meet with trump on wednesday for what the white house calls a listening session expected to join them are survivors of past school shootings sandy hook elementary columbine high school and many others. heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington at least one hundred survivors of the florida school shooting of arrived in the state capital tallahassee to push for gun control the set to hold talks with state legislators and call for a ban on assault style rifle assault of florida's house of representatives earlier

rejected proposals to make them illegal seventeen students and staff were killed in the attack in pop and last week i knew that they were that they were going to hear as if you just stay say one in here park in florida we have to go to that me head and we have to you know show them how our boys you know usually tell them how everyone was like what our from zero to zero is and a guy like. last wednesday's school shooting in parklane florida was one of the worst in this country's history seventeen people died when former student nicholas cruz walked into a school with an a r fifteen assault rifle but a bill that would have banned assault rifles has already been overwhelmingly voted down in the state legislature giving us some idea of the challenges they will face but these teenagers have been praised for their eloquence and they're determined to keep the momentum going we've opened doors that i feel like haven't been opened but . finally our lawmakers are talking we're on a national stage right now international stage action and. you know it's the first

time that i've ever seen people survive a shooting and then directly after demand change which is i think something that should have happened in this country a long time ago but it's taking kids fifteen years. on tuesday fifteen year old peter wang was laid to rest he'd been holding the door open for his classmates when he died in a hail of bullets a military couldn't he's now been posthumously accepted into west point military academy on tuesday also president trump is now pushing legislation that would ban bump start modification that was used in the last vegas shooting but these students no matter how determined they are will face an uphill battle convincing politicians in this state and across the nation to change gun laws will be extremely difficult but they are determined to carry on with their campaign and plan another protest in march in washington d.c. they'll gather here by the hundreds on wednesday their voices will be heard but where the change comes will be another thing the u.s.

says that it's ready to talk peace with the palestinians but it won't chase after them the reaction at the u.n. comes out but the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas proposed an international peace summit with israel but he wants one that rules out donald trump's government as the chief broker not diplomatic editor james bays reports. president abbas's presence here was rare and carefully calculated normally his ambassador attends this monthly meeting he came himself to express his displeasure at the trumpet ministration he suggested its decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and to cut funding to the un agency that helps palestinians disqualified it from leading peace efforts instead he proposed a new approach very early on. i would call for the convening of an international peace conference by mid two thousand and eighteen based on international law and relevant un resolutions with broad international participation including the two

concerned parties and regional and international stakeholders present a bias left immediately after his speech nothing unusual there in terms of un protocol he was the only head of state in a room full of ambassadors and had another engagement to attend it didn't stop the israeli ambassador using it to score a point i expected news that a battle stay with us and have a dialogue unfortunately is once again running away. the u.s. ambassador came to the meeting accompanied by the two men president trump was tasked with leading negotiations jason greenblatt and his own son in law jared coercion or she said president abbas had a choice the united states stands ready to work with the palestinian leader since our negotiators are sitting right behind me ready to talk but we will not chase

after you the choice mr president is yours it was a security council session full of drama and theatrical but the reality is depressingly familiar this meeting in no way brings any closer a resolution to a conflict that's already lasted over seventy years james byrd zira of the united nations israeli media reporting that one of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is closest confidantes is set to testify against him over allegations of corruption last week israeli police announced that there is sufficient evidence to indict netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in two separate cases he's accused of receiving gifts an exchange of tax breaks and supporting getting u.s. visas a prominent rights activist has been jailed in bahrain for five years the bill rajab was a leading figure in the pro in the two thousand and eleven pro-democracy protests

he's been sentenced for tweets that criticized bahrain's intervention in yemen civil war and the prison authorities use of torture rajab was already serving a two year sentence for accusing the government of torturing political prisoners. the u.s. vice president mike pence was able to meet north korean officials at the winter olympics but pyongyang canceled quote at the last minute the state department says that penned seen here sitting in front of north korean leader kim jong il the sister was waiting to see her i know there are officials from pyongyang they were in south korea for the opening ceremony of the young chang games natascha game reports from seoul. this aborted meeting was two weeks in the making the cia learned that the north koreans wanted to meet with u.s. vice president mike pence while he was attending the opening ceremony of the pyung chang olympics it was slated to take place in seoul the following day at the

presidential blue house the south koreans would act as an intermediary but only the united states and north koreans would be present two hours before that scheduled meeting the north koreans backed out they were apparently angry because earlier that week pence had said that the toughest round of economic sanctions has yet to come and that the united states would continue exerting maximum pressure on north korea to denuclearize he also said that he wouldn't allow quote north korean propaganda to conceal its human rights abuses north korea was also said to be angry because pence met with north korean defectors now the intent by the united states in having this meeting was not to negotiate or deescalate in fact it was to send face to face a message to the north koreans that the united states plan to continue its policy of maximum pressure this comes as the north korean leader has invited the south

korean president in to come to pyongyang for a meeting moon says that any way that the relationship between the two koreas improves must involve dialogue between the united states and north korea the north koreans are saying they have no desire publicly at least to engage in dialogue with the united states. south african's a bracing for a tough budget under a new president with a strong business background still run opposing is promising to turn the economy around after it slid into recession two years ago but the government needs to raise around two point six billion dollars this year to implement budget spending that includes free university tuition for poorest students we want stability not economy i think is the first and foremost we haven't had that stability we haven't known which way our equity markets are going from one day to the next up one day down the next aisle currency weak one minute strong the next are bond markets week one

minute strong the next we haven't had any sort of stability and it's very difficult to plan as a businessman to as an individual he needs to make some bold statements a box the creation of jobs it's one thing to promise a million jobs but it's another to actually say how he's going to do that and we had zuma promise five million jobs if you remember a few years ago there was never materialized live to johannesburg a serious family to milla is this one of the main financial challenges that south africa is facing right now. well at this point the main priority is now dealing with an economy that went from bad to worse under former president jacob zuma unemployment rose by between three and four percent in that period and it's now sitting at about twenty six percent now government debt has increased in the past five years the debt to g.d.p. ratio that fifty percent and there's also a revenue shortfall of about five billion dollars out of africa has also had

difficulty with that investment rating downgrade much of it stemming from unpredicted policies or unpredictable policies and government decisions under the former president that at one point source of africa have three finance ministers in four days that was back in twenty sixteen so south africa as one of the largest economies in africa is now having to deal with boosting its investor and business business confidence at this point so from. one of the main things that we should look out for in the budget speech. well the africans will be watching this budget speech quite keenly we expect the government to perhaps outlined plans to plug that revenue governor spoke about and narrow the country's budget deficit the main challenge will be to increase revenue and reduce in expenditure to get that we're looking possibly at an increase in taxes with its value added tax income tax and analysts are saying is this could hit the poor and

the working class most another government where people will be watching for mostly also is what government will do around free education how exactly that will be funded on in a sustainable way and also what the expropriation of land without compensation what exactly that means where that land will come from and where it will be redistributed now the finance minister malusi gigaba will be delivering this budget speech and all eyes will be on the minister because he has been implicated or his there's been a lot of speculation about his involvement in this issue around state capture the role he played in his relationship with former president jacob zuma so there's a lot of speculation speculation rather that he could be removed sued so as the africans would be watching to see just how long he stays in office how these policies will be implemented and what these changes could mean for me to many

thanks to the other series from. an aid worker has been freed by kidnappers who killed two of his colleagues in the democratic republic of congo it happened in the eastern province of north kivu congolese aid workers working for a french charity that specializes in water purification and looking in more detail of the conflict in the d r c a militia violence a spike since president joseph kabila refused to step down when his term expired in twenty sixteen the fighting is largely along the eastern borders of the country with uganda rwanda and burundi ethnic violence between the bantu and twa groups has intensified since mid twenty's sixteen the recent conflict in the province is thought to be mainly between the twa luba and other ethnic groups not rest in the east that's forced almost two million people to flee their homes in the last year alone well the un's refugee agency is warning of a humanitarian crisis of extraordinary proportions in the east india see china

pelisse reports. the eastern border of the democratic republic of congo isn't to morrow reports of violence to reach one thousand kemeny says north to south. clashes between a ugandan rebel group and seize military in the north east has pushed civilians to make the dangerous crossing into and some are attempting to roll across lake albert one of africa's great lakes and attain our pedals and you know some died of hunger some drowned and the like there's no one to help you there's nothing to eight surviving in the bush like animals. now the south east is reaching a tipping point where humanitarian disaster extraordinary proportions is about to hit the southeastern part of the democratic republic of the congress the province of plunges further into violence triggering spiralling displacement and human rights abuses the southeast has been plagued by ethnic violence that new armed

groups of popping up in congo leads in the area traps fighters don't know who is on whose side so civilians are targeted murders abductions and rape a common good i know they be heated people they can't open their stomachs removed the guts and lift them to die that's how they killing people. in twenty seven tane in eastern mated one hundred twenty thousand people fled into neighboring countries this latest violence has displaced five times that in just two months. the u.n. thinks the number of refugees is probably much higher but they are in areas two or more years and dangerous to reach those that make it to tame pre-campaign tell stories of their escape was among women who are now. i had to take all my clothes off and jump into the river i was completely soaked but i didn't have a choice i was running for my life. the head of the norwegian refugee council says

aid agencies are overwhelmed and underfunded the situation is worse now because more armed groups are doing more attacks than ever before. just outside of town here in been the that where several massacres in recent days and therefore more people have fled into town violence began to increase in eastern diyala see when president joseph kabila refused to step down at the end of his mandate and twenty sixteen now it's reached a new level shallop ballasts al jazeera everything you ever want is the know about sudden stratospheric warming and what it means for you if you live in the northern hemisphere but meteorologist richard angwin next on the news then. a look at why justin trudeau is emphasizing canada's stand on one united india also.

is the possibilities for it going wrong absolutely they could be absolutely tragic . adopt warning about positive intelligence from the world's smartest people on emerging technologies. a tiger woods said to be part of this year's ryder cup but perhaps not in the way that he wants the details coming up in the schools. from the clear blue sky of the doha moony. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of love. i'm most impressed when a news anchor manages to say sudden stratospheric warming without the aid of a teleprompter but us we've got at the moment cold air across the arctic we've got sudden stratospheric warming taking place which means that high pressure is beginning to push that cold air further towards the south and next week i think

across much of europe we're going to see really cold air pushing towards the west is already there across parts of russia temperatures well down into minus double digits but elsewhere with a c. colder coming up with the threat of snow we also a threat of snow as a result of this area of low pressure which is down across southern areas at the moment we've seen some significant rainfall totals in albania for instance but i think over the next twenty four hours or back to the problem of snowing see the snow across the the air excelled by larry states the balkans was trying to say area of snow is going to continue going to continue to push further towards the south and over up through parts of italy up through the italian alps the dollar mights we're going to see further snow falling the more those temperatures across those eastern areas but minus ten or so you have to wait for next week for the really cold air reaches parts of france and the u.k. for this stage it looks as though it will do. the weather sponsored by cats are always. my what i think i get the about. the most out of. a lot

of lists all caught up. on the nineteenth of december twenty sixth mahmoud hussein was detained by the egyptian authorities he remains behind bars without a trial al-jazeera world investigates his case and media repression in egypt journalism is not a crime at this time on al-jazeera. struggling with the effects of climate change sierra leone's dry season is on forgiving but compounded by corruption it's wet season months lives that are claiming my strives i don't remember even the wall when if i think i did in one thousand wounder people died in two minutes people in power investigates the effects of deforestation and illegal building and asks what the future holds if there's an author already failed to act the mountain will fall at this time on al-jazeera.

it is good to have you with us adrian for the good here and i with the news out from out of syria our top stories the rebel held area of eastern groceries on the more heavy bombardment by russian and syrian forces at least two hundred fifty people have been killed since sunday you see those has been seized by the government since twenty thirty. the u.s. refugee agency is warning of a humanitarian crisis of extraordinary proportions in eastern democratic republic of the congo thousands of people in tanganyika province been forced from their homes because of for. writing the u.n.h.c.r. says that poor security is hindering attempts to help those in most need. survivors

of the florida school shooting of arrived in the state capital to meet politicians of a banning assault style rifles the us president has already called for a ban on the vices that allow a semi automatic rifle to fire much faster. canada's prime minister has reiterated that he supports a one united india during his first visit to the country just intruder his family on an eight day tour summit india have accused members of his cabinet of supporting sikh separatists four canadian cabinet members are sikh trudeau is missing the chief minister of punjab and visiting the sikh golden temple on wednesday well here's a look at the indian community in canada according to latest figures indians are one of the largest immigrant communities in canada seeks account for roughly one point four percent of canada's population of thirty six million seventeen members of parliament and four are in the cabinet. let's bring in casey saying the former

deputy secretary to the president of india is also a distinguished fellow at the institute of peace and conflict studies he joins us now live from new delhi good to have you with us once again is there a perception there in india so that the canadian government is supporting sick separatist sentiment. there's been a growing sentiment in that direction since. because the liberal party depends on the support considerable support of. this almost a third of the total indian diaspora in canada. and many of their members cabinet members have been seen present during functions and sick temples that is good two hours where the where those us posing the separate sentiment. is raise their banners raise slogans etc and even to the extent that the provincial assemblies in toronto resolution one thousand nine hundred eighty four carnage

against the sikhs in delhi after mrs gandhi says a nation was genocide not that of course is something that really got indian government hot. and there was the presence of ministers when this was done and subsequently the member member of legislative assembly had moved this resolution was on earth in the presence of prime minister trudeau in another good one so all this has been happening and it's reached a point where. quite a few of them controlled by these radicals have said they will not allow any member any indian diplomat serving in canada to come there because they come to the good waters to spy so this was already simmering before prime minister to go right and then naturally the media has latched on. to callisto an issue out of all proportion . i would think so because i don't think the college

funnies in canada are more than a handful of rather will solve. a lot but they are hardly going to create college done by raising slogans and i remember when i was in addition secretary and we used to negotiate as a congressman for india used to be negotiating with canada in two thousand and seven two thousand and six the other element we were concerned about the support for. that is people of the region who would have been spending money to educate you bitches now a defunct force. and the canadians will tell us we keep an eye on them but we have to make a distinction between freedom of speech and support to terrorism so if there are people raising slogans i think it's a different approach to freedom of speech in the us or in canada compared to how we view it in south asia and dare i think arise as the problem. seeks represent about the same percentage of the population in both india and canada and yet in canada a prominent political positions held by sikhs how is that viewed in india.

no i think that in punjab it's a matter of pride but what has happened is that kept in singles and all the chief minister punjab. and a congress leader he was denied entry into canada canada last year on the pretext apparently there's a canadian rule that rule has never been invoked in the past but he cannot come to canada to campaign on behalf of a political party in your own country so he harbored he nursed that hurt so when he came in last year when defense minister of canada came captain singer fused to meet him for which of course he was roundly criticised by others in punjab including opposition parties and for the obscene he is a former military officer who's risen to that high position we should be on bring him and of course. the defense minister behaved with great dignity and said well i've only come to punjab. of the golden temple that's all right if the but today

interesting leave in the chief minister meant eventually met prime minister to go and he had his defense minister with him so some of those things may have been buried in any case it's a great opportunity to engage the prime minister of canada and express your whatever feelings you have and listen to his point of view and simply being churlish is not the way to go about it and one final question to how important are relations between india and canada. oh india and used to be one sticking point between india and canada amid a lot about two thousand and eight used to be the nuclear issue because the first civilian nuclear reactor given to india which was called cyrus is the one for which india utilized for producing float plutonium for nine hundred seventy four tests so the canadians were really upset over that and there was therefore

a moratorium on any links in the nuclear field between india and canada that was removed by about twenty ten years after india had a civil nuclear and civil nuclear deal with us those other hesitation got put behind in particular when you have a nuclear suppliers group and got their viva. canada is not even selling your a name to us so doctors are that way but i think the other important thing india has to keep in mind is if the not american free trade area starts collapsing as president trump has been threatening to do then it's great opportunities open up and canada has also just joined the transpacific partnership minus the americans the eleven man group which. you know is across the pacific links asia with america so india has to look for opportunities broaden it so i don't moment the two way trade is only about eight billion dollars and as a canadian member of parliament putting two billion dollars is what canada exports to us every day so it's forty is what of trade between us and canada is the trade

between india and canada so it really needs to be expanded and given more and more substance always good to talk to so many thanks dave for being with us k.c. singh in new delhi venezuela's economic crisis has led to widespread shortages that sense that i sent thousands of people across the border into colombia to buy food and medicine many others are leaving for good in the search for a better life i was on a rampage the reports are from cook on the colombian venezuela border. in this central plaza hundreds of business welland stand in line for up to seven hours they wait for a wire transfer that will help them and where the economic crisis back home cattlemen travels to this colombian border town every month she needs the money her son sends from the children to buy medicine no i don't think so that he might think that we are happy to come here you receive a little money but instead it's very sad that we can't afford the basic things we

need it's painful to be here but it's a sacrifice we have to make it's an excruciating but essential weight in a swell and scam to receive remittances at home due to the exchange controls imposed by the government of president nicolas maduro they used the money to buy basic items for ever more often bus tickets to reach those who already left in search of a better life. oh if they would leave us i'm here to go to korea with my son my husband is already there he saved for fifteen months to pay for our chickens we wanted to stay in venezuela but it's becoming impossible with the upcoming presidential elections where the worried they'll shut the corridor so we decided it was time to go oh my goodness well an immigration experts say a fifth of the population has left the country in the last two years some stay in colombia but increasing numbers continue to other south american countries where it might be easier to find work the number of buses leaving this station for the

ecuadorian border the next stop on these migrants journey has passed from six or seven a week to more than seventy every single day but even that is not enough and some people after wait up to four days for a ticket i finally struggle to save enough for just one bus ticket but when it's time to separate the heartache is palpable. that i mean this sold all they could to get their eldest son a passport in a bus fare to argentina. what i make is not enough to feed us it's sad because we used to have a small food in jobs but not me more that's why my son is leaving and my heart is broken no one can resist forever that's why he must go a scene there repeats itself with painful regularity as each by stakes off and more families are torn apart by necessity leaving behind a sad trail of trauma in tears and listen to them. who.

may or not has agreed to take back more than six thousand muslim or hinge or stranded along its border with bangladesh they were among the first to flee be ona's military crackdown in a kind state last august the refugees are refusing to return home without guarantees of citizenship and security more than seven hundred thousand re-injure have fled to bangladesh. the french government is reviewing a new immigration bill that is expected to streamline the asylum process but make it harder for people who want to seek work some m.p.'s in the president's own party say that the proposals betray france's humanitarian tradition others though say that it's not tough enough but tasha butler reports. a nineteenth century fort overlooks the french city of grenoble it was built to defend the city that is close to the swiss and italian borders and tucked into the foothills of the alps

these days the town council is doing its best to welcome people who arrive here it provides emergency shelter for refugees many from africa kosovo albanian people are coming squads settlements in the city and this is a first possibility for them to get stable life. with more refugees arriving in france each year the government's decided to change the country's immigration policy the government's proposed immigration speed up asylum procedures it would also provide more refugee housing at the same time it would mean longer periods in detention for the reason for their asylum requests rejected and it would increase deportation the french president says it's all about france continuing to welcome what he calls genuine asylum seekers cracking down on so-called economic migrants critics of the proposed law say it's too tough message the city seen an

increasing number of refugees and the state has a duty to protect them in the ground and decide to have a very strong and armed. police iraq. but actually it doesn't work at all don't they citrus you know the immigration plans of also created re divisions in the president's own party some m.p.'s a french values are being forgotten they sought how dare they toss your deviancy detention centers are becoming prison switch on one of the of our republic. in last year's presidential election emmanuel mcconnell's main rival was the anti immigration candidate marine le pen for some analysts the planned law is an attempt by the centrist president to stop serjeant's of the far right the voters of by le pen haven't vanished haven't disappeared and when you see what happened in germany were chancellor merkel agreed to a million refugees and migrants and then ninety two far right m.p.'s

elected in the fall in the next elections i think this has been seen as a lesson for the neighboring countries of germany and particularly france where the far right is very powerful. so michael it's a political gamble he may please some on the political right and far right but he risks and many on the left who supported him until now in the meantime refugees like these will continue to try and reach france in the hope of a better life natasha al-jazeera. a group of women and tile and mystifying a nineteen year old battle they want to be able danger as buddhist monks and their actions again popularity scott hyla tell us tells us more from bangkok it's a common site with an uncommon twist buddhist monks collecting all names during the pre-dawn hours and world toilet but beneath these saffron robes are women

female monks are not recognized by thailand's buddhist leadership or by the government in one nine hundred twenty eight the thai buddhist supreme patriarch banned them even though the constitution guarantees religious freedom the government has always supported the ninety year old declaration. despite this the number of female monks is growing when it was the first time i wanted to be or days she had to go to sri lanka because it's the only a theravada buddhist country that allows it she runs a temple for female monks sixty kilometers from bangkok we have not done anything against the law so that that's why right now after seventeen years of my ordination now you have more than two hundred seventy women ordained. one top ranking male monk in bangkok yes these types of temples for women called pickney should be shut down. that they refer to the constitution that says they are allowed religion

is not knowing nor can be amended any time. this is wrong and cannot be pickaninny a member of the thai human rights commission says that the government's approach that people need to issue is done with one eye closed the monks have made several failed attempts to become officially recognized herself an ordained novice. legal gone thinks the issue of female monks needs to be properly revisited racist in this conflict. free for today and supreme. in one thousand nine hundred twenty eight despite the growing number of piquante there's a difference of opinion among todd's. people nature where will be his dad and sells carefully and respectfully he would just rest by them and the picu need to behave well and respect the mob. as i see it the temple should be shot

down because it's not right it looks inappropriate to when not only r.p. could be helping the community and setting an example for all monks in thailand. but as women they are better equipped to deal with the contemporary social issues that have not been addressed by either the government nor the buddhist leadership it's not harder al-jazeera bangkok. just ahead here on the news i will tell you about the brazilian is playing a starring role in the asian champions league school coming up. with her.

and her. i get a warning now in the threat posed by artificial intelligence twenty six well it's an emerging technologies said that cyber crime will grow and drones will be misused over the next decade and i would reports from cambridge in the u k. it is the stuff of science fiction or at least it used to be a computer able to master and a chinese boardgame without human help to win every time and a truck drives to sell computers and vehicles powered by artificial intelligence now leading a demick so warning not to put the brakes on ai but that the technology is increasingly being used for malicious purposes for political or financial gain to extort and to gain influence cyber attacks on infrastructure as we've seen in

ukraine attacks on computers in hospitals manipulation people for example we've seen some. attempts to manipulate political elections in the us and in europe recently now those have been varying degrees of effectiveness with the techniques we have today but artificial intelligence will allow new types of cyber attacks that might be more capable than we had before very safe. from health care to walk their machine based thinking is revolutionizing the way we live exposing us to the benefits and the risks the robot here has been designed to pick up these little bricks and put them back on the green mats now this is just a laboratory setting but in five or ten years time it could be developed to work on a construction site or support in the design or wouldn't when the technology hijacked the report thought there's a calling on governments and the industry itself to do more to protect us from all

the pitfalls experts warn of the serious consequences it's absolutely right that we issue warnings where they are because the capabilities of the possibilities for it going wrong are absolutely they could be absolutely tragic we need to be able to get to grips with this now ai is clearly here to stay and staying one step ahead of those who want to abuse it will be a constant challenge and he would al-jazeera cambridge. time for school then is for a jury and thank you so much american skiing superstar lindsey vonn has won the third olympic medal of her career the thirty three year old clinched bronze and the

marquee event the women's downhill so. advanced with the time one minute thirty nine point two two seconds giving italy's first ever gold in the women's downhill norway's were now took silver while vonn the four time overall world cup champion had to settle for bronze in what she says will likely be her final olympics i wish my body was a little bit younger. i still have the same enthusiasm that i had when i was a kid. but yeah we'll just see what happens the next four years but. i'm pretty sure. canada took gold in the men's ski cross competition brady lehman went skating skiing with switzerland's market push off burger after the other two competitors in the final collided early on on the way still top the medal table in germany and canada are

a second and third respectively still more golds up for grabs on day twelve of the games but the man is u.s. ice hockey team won't be getting one the czech republic beating them three two in a shootout to advance the semi finals and face the olympic athletes from russia next. you lose one game in regulation and i don't think you're disappointed wondering what's wrong with your hands i think you proud of what your players did you proud of how we put this team together and sometimes the results don't always indicate exactly you know what you think your team and i take this team to go to battle against any team anywhere any ice surface love our guys how hard they play how they competed represented our country and. that's probably. gulf now in usa ryder cup captain jim sheridan has confirmed tiger woods will be a part of this year's event as one of his vice captains he didn't rule out however the possibility of the fourteen time major winning being selected as

a player that's despite one's currently being ranked outside the top five hundred and only returning to the p.g.a. tour in january for the first time in seventeen months. i want to name two more vice captains that would be steve stricker and tiger woods and when you look at our team room and you look at a lot of the youth that we have in the team room now with the younger players a lot of them became coffee officials fell in love with the game of golf because they wanted to be they want to emulate tiger woods they wanted to play against him on the golf course and so to have him in the team room. really being you know that humble guy that's ready to serve in the hell then do whatever he can to play better means a lot of the material and that he could be valuable as a player i mean i'm sure the would want him playing on this team. but there's so much time to go i think the good news bad news for someone like tiger woods is he's played now what three or four events is it his event december and two official

events this year he had a great finish in san diego we're already talking ryder cup right we're already so that's the nature of being tiger woods. five time champions byron munich are as good as through to the quarter finals of the european champions league barring beating bush turkey five nil in the first leg of their last sixteen time tie it's their fourteenth straight win in all competitions and she has days other going chelsea and barcelona one one in london lots having hit the post twice in the first half million eventually chelsea believe in the second half lino massi scored the equaliser and crucial away goal for barr said return like in spain is coming out in three weeks time. and then it goes to the input for the game. and. i think we've. won the state

and as you know anywhere in the. against. these opponent of these type of player like me see. this one it's. if you make a mistake. you create. a little bit about how lucky it was important for us to have scored a goal here and also because this first leg school doesn't favor them but it doesn't mean that in the second game the teams won't respect their own style of playing. brazil's alexander patios scored a crucial goal for his chinese team in the asian champions league pots and came off the bench for a challenge and when she dances scored the equaliser and a one one draw with japan and the she will wrestle the result when jane says teams unbeaten start to the competition and their second and their qualifying for. brazilians were also central to shanghai ass i.p.g. four one win over the melbourne victory former chelsea midfielder oscar scored twice after hulk had given as i.p.g.

the lead from the pouncey spot the chinese side are now two points clear of south korea's goal saying hi you die at the top there. and that's all your sport for now i'll have more later but for now it's back to a tree and family thanks d.j. to be back with the day's top stories in just a few moments but that's it with you so i'll see you again but.

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