of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse know mahdi army uses a new service it's called law it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers. to some extra features like a panic button and twenty seven drivers. a diplomatic sound off between bangladesh and me i'm on over the future of thousands of living in no man's land. with al-jazeera live from doha are also coming up. russia is accused of breaching

cold war era treaties after vladimir putin promotes a new generation of weapons. worry among us trade partners as president charles looks to impose hefty terrorists on imported steel and dollar menu. at least eight turkish soldiers are killed in northern syria where they're battling kurdish fighters. bangladesh has told me amal to pull its troops back from their shared border where thousands of refuge near mom has been telling refugees to leave the area for weeks but since the numbers have multiplied and that's threatening fragile agreements between the two countries met in a hong. these were some of the first range of muslims to fling me and six months

ago finding refuge on the thin strip of land between me and mine and bangladesh that hugs the tundra canal now the troops that pushed them out of me and a back into making it very clear they want the revenge is gone for good. as. they came out around ten am brought in seven trucks with two ladders in each vehicle a total of fourteen and they tried to cross the barbed wire fences to forcefully destroy our camp. the area is widely referred to as a no man's land for weeks mean must soldiers have up the patrols of the border fence. and used loud hailer as toward the estimated six thousand to leave but since this day really hinges and bangladesh border guards say the number of heavily armed soldiers has grown to as many as two hundred it prompted

bangladesh to summon me in must ambassador and demand the troops be pulled back but hundreds of the refugees have already given in to the soldiers orders and crossed into bangladesh. at six months since almost seven hundred thousand revenge of muslims fled a military crackdown in may in mass rakhine state the united nations called it a textbook example of the ethnic cleansing refugees spoke of systematic murder sexual violence and arson but the government of suchi insists it was simply defending itself after a text from. myanmar reportedly claims some of those three hundred fighters are hiding within the border camp. and the last week three nobel peace prize winners urged fellow laureate suchi to speak out or risk prosecution for genocide alongside me and must military and others responsible for violence against the red. the

diplomatic route of a troop movement at the border now three since a controversial deal to seemed to hinge of refugees back to me and and many will now be questioning without will ever really be safe to make me and my home again may down the hall and to zero the u.s. has accused russia of breaking trees is they say about to the cold war of the law to putin unveiled what he described as invincible nuclear weapons the russian leader presented the author with video any masons one of which depicted the tuc only united states certainly did not enjoy watching we don't regard that as the behavior of a responsible international player president putin has confirmed what the united states government has known for a long time that russia has denied prior to this that russia has developed been developing destabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations president trump understands

the threats facing america and our allies in this in this century and is determined to protect our homeland and preserve peace through strength u.s. defense capabilities are and what remains second to none of the top administration chose the very same day as putin speech to announce how it's moving ahead with plans to sell ukraine anti-tank missiles to help defend its territory from russia during a hall ripples from moscow about how patients address is being received. ben hour in and the speech that had seemed relentlessly domestic suddenly took an explosive turn. no one expected like to me at putin's annual address to parliament to involve advanced missile systems and strategic weapons and many talk of job creation and better roads in the years ahead it was a response he said to years of unchecked advances by the united states in missile defense. russia has always been

a big nuclear state no want to dispute constructively with us in the past and no one wanted to listen well listen to us now one missile in development putin explained could travel the globe with unlimited range and entirely undetected by radar defense systems but there's three weeks before the presidential election it was all greeted with ecstatic applause by russia's political elite president putin made a strong message to. russian audience which can be spelled out as the fall of any of this occasion in the world this prevents reus surrounded by a dressers but you have to be rest assured that till the country is run by a person whose name is of light given to putin. you will have nothing to worry about as well as showcasing these extraordinary new defense capabilities let me a putin speech was full of inspiring promises of investment lifting people out of

poverty improving their lives in what was expected to be his last major speech before the election this was putin presented to the russian people as a pillar of political stability economic stability and perhaps above all security its full impact may have been intended for a domestic audience but there was more than a hint of menace in putin's warning that any outside threat would be met with annihilation russia's current defense spending its only. about one tenth of that of the united states obviously combined needs a different spend in its is even much larger than that of the u.s. the trumpet mistress announced plans to increase defense spending. and russia with its economic conditions is unlikely to be able to spend much more than it currently does. i don't think there will be a real arms race after eighteen years in power this was not

a mere putin reminding russians that their country is a world power once again the strength of its conventional military on full display in syria he said its nuclear capabilities now soon to be more than a match for us might join a home al jazeera moscow it's been a particularly violent twenty four hours for all sides in turkey is cross border offensive against kurdish y p g fighters in syria's african region turkey is military says eight of its soldiers were killed another thirteen were injured in an operation against the white b.g. on thursday and later that night turkish jets targeted why p.g. and pro syrian government forces in northern africa and reportedly killing seventeen fighters those processor and government forces have been in there france's late last month to help the wife e.g. repel the turkish offensive and for the first time since the affairs offensive began in january and aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies the fifty thousand

displaced people has been allowed into the area also a binge of aid is our correspondent in gaziantep that's in southern turkey very close to the syrian border and turkey seems to be being dragged even deeper into a conflict in northern syria. among team you've been hearing from the turkish president in the last few days where he's been rallying his country saying that this is a conflict where they'll be in for a number of years so turkey is in for the long haul we've been hearing from him in the last few weeks about how his forces will be able to take our freedom in a matter of days which has not happened so far and the incident last night goes to show how difficult the terrain is now details have emerged on how a trap a trap was made by the by p.g. kurdish fighters who operate in a free in the city turkish soldiers got near

a village where fighters used tunnels and attacked them killing at least eight wounded thirteen and also attacking a turkish attack helicopter which made it back safely into turkish territory since then the turkish government has launched air strikes into various parts near our freend not just killing by p.g. fighters what it called stare is but also the reinforcements that have been arriving in the last few days from the syrian government these are predominantly shia militias who've come to the help of the i.p.t. fight is why would you fight as have been saying that these are not enough and this is not the kind of help they were expecting from the syrian government so it has been a particular violent twenty four hours there despite some rest bite for the nearly fifty thousand people who've been displaced any of them are for the area in a free and that's certainly not the case is it for the four hundred thousand or so in eastern further south where they have yet to receive any aid at all. but not just aid to today's arrest bite for the five other pause didn't really

happen we've been hearing from activists on the ground that various areas in the sun would have come under artillery and air strikes they allege that it is syrian and russian jets who are carrying out strikes russia denies that it is taking part in the indian campaign a number of people have been wounded we haven't heard about casualties but in the last twenty four. hours to sources the syrian civil defense also known as the right helmets and observe a free group syrian observatory for human rights are said that more than six hundred people have now been killed in this conflict of you're also hearing about fierce clashes on the outskirts of eastern part of dora is one of the fronts where tiger forces one of the regiments of the syrian government have been trying to make inroads there attacking rebel defense positions and reports suggest the diff taken over a school in the nearby area from where they're launching relentless mortar attacks on the other positions trying to take as many areas as much area as possible trying

to make an end to besieged east ghouta thank you very much indeed for some a binge of a life i'm getting into or meanwhile emanuel mackerel and donald trump they've promised to work together to implement a u.n. backed cease fire for her in a telephone call the u.s. and french leaders also agreed that russia needed to put quote maximum pressure on the syrian government to abide by it the u.n. security council agreed to a thirty day truce last saturday but more than a thousand critically ill people a still unable to leave the rebel held district on the outskirts of damascus just that the harrumph isis in nigeria have killed at least three aide workers and eight members of the security forces during an attack on a military facility the u.n. says the attack happened on thursday night in the remote town of ron that's in northeastern borno state a female nurse is also reported missing feared abducted the town is home to

a camp for more than fifty thousand internally displaced people. we've got a lot more to come here at al-jazeera including the e.u. training mission that's helping central african republic rebuild it saw me. and i'm lawrence lee in sicily where concerns over the way in which europe is dealing with the refugee reception crisis helping set the terms of this weekend's italian elections. hello the the blues is almost over carla but not quite the snows just about stopped falling the wind is still strong you get an idea from the curl up here but it's on the way out slowly the temp is slowly rising snow will really stop for

a grow time day breaks on saturday and south of that it's remarkably warm really middle teens here since well the korean peninsula is a warm drop through shanghai look at attempt to shanghai and keep your eye on the twenty two where this mostly goes up meets the cold still potential for snow in northeastern china but not in beijing beijing is a pretty warm seventeen and then as the rain just moves north adams shanghai the temperature here hits twenty six that's about four off the record for march we should be run about thirteen or fourteen mark so with well above where we should be shanghai is temperature this winter has been all over the place hasn't settled down yet south is that it's a largely dry picture temperatures quite high in fuzhou the twenty fourth right for hong kong humid twenty four largely dry picture until you move inland a little bit and then you pick up the rain development once more south of this through the south china sea right there way down almost the north of australia there are showers around but it's not the widespread and heavy downpours have been used to see if anything the sticks a little bit drier the last few days. too

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troops from the. refuge. for the development of its nuclear weapons arsenal including a. crane hundreds of missiles to help defend its territory from russia. killed another. in an operation of. brain region. and syrian government forces in northern africa. there's been an explosion at the army headquarters

a bikini fastened in what the french ambassador there is calling a terrorist attack with this is report seeing masked gunmen with backpacks attacked guards at the entrance of the building in the capital we're going to use in a tweet the french ambassador said warned people to avoid the downtown area. asian stocks of full enough to president trump announced plans to impose steep tariffs on seal and holds its sprint to investors and members of trump's own republican policy who farah global trade will bob the president trumps just tweeted that trade was a good and easy to would christen salumi report from new york. president donald trump announced deep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports after this white house meeting much to the delight of visiting industry representatives who say they've been hurt by a flood of cheap imports they've been very unfairly treated by bad policy by bad

trade deals by other countries they've been horribly treated by other countries. they have not been properly represented more importantly because of that our workers in our country have not been properly represented the president promised to impose a twenty five percent tariff on steel and ten percent on aluminum to bring steel back he was making good on a campaign promise to revive u.s. manufacturing and address a trade imbalance with china a position that saw him win big in so-called rust belt states like pennsylvania where he promised to bring back jobs but it's unclear if the tariffs will apply to other trade partners like canada from whom the u.s. imports the most steel some of trump's cabinet are said to have fought against the tariffs the announcement catching a staff off guard but we're not going to get into any more details until those final those details are finalized and it angered canada's foreign minister who said

any increase would be unacceptable any restrictions would harm workers the industry and manufacturers on both sides of the border she said the steel and aluminum industry is highly integrated and supports critical north american manufacturing supply chains and while steel and aluminum makers saw their stocks soar on the announcement the market overall sunk on fears of a trade war and harm to companies who would be hit by higher prices the president promised a formal announcement of his plans and presumably more details next week christian salumi al-jazeera. well president plan has prompted warnings of trade in parts and thousands of jobs worldwide. we have to find the opportunity to tell the united states that stealing our i mean you mean ports from japan which is an allied nation absolutely no threat to its national security. directly with the

president's senior members of the trumpet ministration to indicate. that they should be an exemption for australian steel. the imposition of a tariff like this. tripe and ultimately we believe will lead to a loss of jobs. the u.s. has already taken at least one hundred countermeasures against imported steel and aluminum products providing excessive protection to the domestic markets of all countries follow the us example this would result in a serious impact on the international trade order at least one person has died and nine others have been injured in a suicide blast in kabul afghan police say a couple of close to embassies so far there's been no claim of responsibility. for the explosives is rammed into a military base thirty kilometers northwest of somalia's capital mogadishu have and

in the district local police say the number of casualties there is not. and elsewhere on the continent european forces are training soldiers in central african republic it's all part of international efforts to try to stabilize the country after years of conflict but with many regions under rebel control there's skepticism as to what can actually be achieved as part of our special series catherine sawyer reports from a training camp in the capital funky. it's an intense six month program by the european union training mission in central african republic this men and women will eventually be deployed across the country much of it controlled by armed groups after the training they'll be given new weapons from russia following an exemption to an arms embargo by the u.n. security council when you have a civil war or a crisis in

a country. the rules become. less and less even to fight a war so when they are in a situation of stress and when the military in situations of stress of combat. you have to be real trained and well trained to remember the rules in the same camp more training but for ex competence they've recently laid down their weapons as part of a disarmament and bring to gratian. they're about a hundred and sixty four in this phase here lining a stage they get basic training and also important tours about human rights. but implementing the program has been slow it's strapped for cash and some groups are opposed to it not mean. it is gone because we want to consider people. ibrahim allow what is one of the leaders of the popular front for the renaissance

of the central african republic a group that controls most of the north he said the government has failed to on a previous agreements. right now ten thousand un peacekeepers are holding the fort without them the security situation would probably be much worse but the forces of a stretched thin accusations of human rights abuses and peacekeepers are working in perilous conditions fourteen were killed in fighting last year. the road conditions are very bad it's a forest for troops to stick with roads. into. the truck the government wants to take control of the country and having better trained and equipped soldiers will help. but with more than eighty percent of the rebels regaining control is clearly a difficult hurdle catherine saw the. central african republic. the

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife reportedly being questioned over a corruption case involving a telecoms giant israeli media say police are investigating whether mr netanyahu promoted measures favoring the company in exchange for favorable coverage on its news website police have recommended indicting mr netanyahu on corruption charges in two other cases he denies any wrongdoing. italians go to the polls on sunday to vote in a general election many analysts are predicting that the former prime minister silvio berlusconi's party is likely to be part of a new ruling coalition considers that could mean cash in central italy very old very pretty and people are very angry. stuck in the fields outside the town the government has housed one hundred asylum

seekers they're about as popular as a moldy listen you. just thought it wanted on the floor i mean. in the summer so many women have complained that the euro dating in the street should we wait until something bad happens fair enough we have to protect the immigrants but who will protect italians the town has forty five thousand people living in it so it isn't as though it's being overrun but cashin which had a left wing local government for seventy years since world war two recently voted in the right swing northern league it wants to deport four hundred thousand undocumented migrants from italy on duty just on our immediate arctic care this is something to get out and of course we don't want to deport all of them isn't the right immigrants who work here who are integrated but the right criminals coming here to take houses from italians and we pay tax for them to do nothing.

immigration of course is always fertile ground for the right wing in european politics as indeed is a general this in charmed with the state of the european union and longstanding concerns about the economy and it's all particularly good news for one man who dominates italian politics for so long and is increasingly being seen as europe's answer to donald trump. at the age of eighty one silvio berlusconi is back his plastic skin and rictus grin all over this election despite his criminal record he still has his own political party and media empire there is every chance he could get to choose the next prime minister it's like he never went away more thoughts that we are united force pushing back against all the bad things the left wing has done to our country we're going back into power because the left has put three million people into poverty and three million unemployed the third party in

this potential coalition is called brothers of italy one of several groups with fascist roots that have a chance of seats in parliament even given italy's history it appears immigration has made the electorate ready to consider what the european union dreads the most the far right in government. was we are committed to stopping migration flows and paying more attention to a tally in families other governments already do it is the italian state won't spend more on asylum seekers than italian pensioners. if you ask the far right how they would actually deport nearly half a million people they talk about putting them in boats and dumping them in libya is being discussed at all tells you much about the state of the european union with berlusconi right back in the mix lawrence lee al jazeera it's. that's hollywood is out for his biggest night the office filmmakers they're drawing

attention to the relative lack of women working in the industry for many changes coming fall too slowly rob reynolds reports from los angeles. in this classroom at the art center college of design the numbers of male and female aspiring film directors are about equal and the women feel they have a fair shot at making it professionally the main thing i think as a woman so make is that you have to focus on is really not being intimidated not being intimidated by the amount of male colleagues you have and the amount of the spirit isn't gender that you would encounter on set outside the classroom the gender disparity in the film industry is stark amy adrian crunched the numbers in her new documentary half the picture over about the past ten years women direct four percent of top feature film so obviously men direct ninety six percent of most movies you see a movie theaters and the numbers for t.v.

or a little bit better think its average is about women direct fifteen percent around of television shows some men direct eighty five percent every single way you looked at the numbers they were terrible for women that's despite the fact that women make up about fifty percent of film school graduates this year director gretta girl when has been nominated for an academy award for lady bird but not you know because i probably couldn't get it definitely. and the cinematographer rachel morrison is the first woman nominated for her work behind the camera in mudbone but those accolades are few and far between director victoria hochberg was part of a group that sued major hollywood studios thirty years ago nothing has changed radically things have changed. very very very slowly and in spurts only when the studios or the production companies or even the unions are

threatened in some way and they have to worry about lawsuits in some european countries laws mandating equal representation in industries including entertainment adrian says a similar approach may be needed in hollywood i think that it's very likely that the industry will need some kind of outside pressure to actually change despite that long history of gender disparity in the film industry many young aspiring female film directors are not discouraged i know it's going to be tough. and i know that us at woman i need to give two hundred percent determination to succeed in an industry that has stacked the deck against women rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. tougher to take a look at the top stories here it out to sara found

a vicious told me i'm on to pull its troops back from their shared border where thousands of ranger have sought refuge mia miles been telling refugees to leave the area for weeks but since says they trip numbers have grown. there's been an explosion of the army headquarters of the kenya fassel in what the french ambassador there is calling a terrorist attack with this is reporting mosque gunmen with backpacks attacked guards at the entrance of the building in the capital while the duke is in a tweet the french ambassador warned people to avoid the downtown area. russia's president vladimir putin has unveiled plans for the development of its nuclear weapons arsenal including a video depicting an attack on the u.s. the trumpet ministrations says it plans to sell ukraine hundreds of antitank missiles to help defend its territory from russia asian stocks of fall and after u.s. president donald trump announced plans to impose steep terrorists on steel and alum

in the imports the plans of course concern among investors and even members of the u.s. president's own republican party with fears of a global trade war me quantity on the ground here the u.s. has already taken at least one hundred countermeasures against imported steel and element in products providing excessive protection for domestic markets of all countries follow the u.s. example this would result in a serious impact on the international trade order fuck around in nigeria has killed at least three aide workers and eight members of the security forces in an attack on a military facility the u.n. says the attack happened on thursday night in the remote town of run in northeastern borno state turkey's realty says eight of its soldiers have been killed and another thirteen have been injured in an operation against the kurdish y p g in syria's african region later that night turkish jets targeted y p g and pro

syrian government forces in northern africa and reportedly killing seventeen feiss . inside story is next. a leaked un report blames regional powers for much of the violence in libya the u.a.e. and egypt are singled out for supplying weapons to rival armed groups in violation of un sanctions so what can be done to stop this this is inside story.