paint the scene for us when they're on line what is a parent sending him and that piece is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are 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 has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. oh god the turkish bank the free syrian army says it's now taken full control of the frame from kurdish forces.

logs the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here and also coming up a state of emergency is lifted but the tension between sri lanka sinhalese and muslim communities is far from over also the polls are open in russia in an election considered a foregone conclusion for the president but it could help decide the country's leader after glad to be a putin. and a potential new problem or for donald trump after reports that the fired f.b.i. deputy director has turned over notes to the special prosecutor. good to have you with us welcome to our desire on a turkish present reza the one who has declared the center of the syrian town of freend to be entirely under the control of his forces to untold crowds in that kind of color that many of the kurdish fighters had already fled the town backed free

syrian army fighters entered a free just before dawn on sunday it comes almost two months to turkey launched its cross border operation to push back kurdish forces from its border andrew symonds is our correspondent live in gaza and type on the turkey syria border is declaring what amounts to a victory is it too premature. well it would seem that certainly the center of the city is under the control of the free syrian army backed up by the turkish military indeed the turkish military playing a very big role in all of this a nato force guiding what was a fighting force of rebels with all the equipment they needed for this sort of attack and it did take place with fair accuracy it would seem now you're seeing in the center of our freedom this is turkish military video by the way at the turkish

flag draped over a balcony and scenes of not a huge celebration because there's still a way to go but the turkish military also saying but that may be why peaky units have all withdrawn south they've retreated south back into syrian regime controlled territory no one could rule out some form of counterattack of calls but the city it seems is in turkish hands this is what i had to say call up the south of the most of the terrorists have already fled with their tails between their legs our special forces and members of the free syrian army and cleaning the remains of the traps i left behind in the center of offering our flags of trust and stability away even inside of rags of terrorists of course under this is happening credibly quickly and perhaps unexpectedly as well.

well yes indeed it was very fast although the preparation have been going on for a number of days remember that weeks of going on with the planning of this operation and what we heard overnight was that the turkish in fact announced through various sources that their special forces were on the ground whether that was a tactic to smoke out the white p.g. forces is an open question but it's very likely then one thirty in the morning the free syrian army lunged from the west and the east to actually converge on flush out the white b.g. under considerable fighting the free syrian army is claiming to have killed seventy white b.g. fighters although there are no casualty figures from their side the fighting was going on right in the center of the city in the market area in particular along with some of the streets it was fairly intense but it is in the city center itself

over now for now anyway. under when you told me a considerable fighting the question is posed really about the civilians what is happening to them what has happened to them and what could still happen to them if they're stuck in the conflict. that's very very good question and one we all want to ask certainly human rights organizations have been asking that question repeatedly and also the united nations want to know precisely what arrangements have been made some details have been given the turks have done their best they say to get civilians out and to the south that's where they're going mainly to the syrian regime controlled areas but there have been reports of the kurds actually using human shields forcing civilians to stay in place while they fight that battle now the still unclear as to whether or not these this is a form of propaganda or not there is no clarity on it the u.n.

wants to know exactly what the situation is u.n. also wants to know exactly what the turks have done in the way of air power whether they've attacked civilian areas whether civilians have been killed in the turkish attacks what numbers there are various numbers being quoted but they seem to be high and so the u.n. is concerned about what's has gone on and what is going to happen next of course now we are seeing was wearing from all sources is being termed a cleaning up operation that is quite extensive one influential figure suggests that it could be around seventy two hours before the whole of our free city is cleared to quote unquote however it remains to be seen is this battle really over right now it would seem so but nevertheless the unexpected could always happen and if it does happen of course we'll come back to you throughout the day anderson in god's intent on the turkey syria border thank you let's head over to south asia now

where sri lanka's president has lifted a nationwide state of emergency that was imposed twelve days ago following unrest between sinhalese and muslim communities muslim owned businesses were set on fire jury in the riots in an attempt to prevent further incitement to go. and also introduce social media barons which were lifted just a few days ago bernard smith has more from in the north of the country. i went into communal violence first broke out two weeks ago the police and the government were criticised for not doing enough to stop the violence that was directed mainly muslim owned shops businesses and homes so in response to that they quickly imposed a state of emergency in as part of but they blocked all restricted access to what's up viber to facebook because the government says messages inciting racial violence were being spread by members of the sinhalese majority nationalist community to

the muslim minority now one of the lessons the government has learned is that it says in future it's going to much more closely monitor what goes out on the social media because now for two weeks people not been able to get access to watch baseball. or imo because of those restrictions considerably inconveniencing people here but he says he needs to monitor what the message is that the spread on those social media platforms and indeed facebook was called in by the government last week to say what it could do and facebook has said it will work with the government try and stop these messages and messages of generational violence and racial incitement being spread by its powerful. lot of fear putin has cast his ballot for russia's presidential election as the largest country in the world russia spans across eleven time zones which means voting will last for twenty two hours for the one hundred nine million eligible voters president putin is seeking a fourth term which will give him six more years in office well if putin wins the

election he'll be able to serve as president until twenty twenty four the end of the current two term limit that would make him the longest serving russian leader since joseph stalin his career started as a k.g.b. officer where he rose. to become a lieutenant colonel before moving into politics in nine hundred ninety one i took over as the acting president on new year's eve one thousand nine hundred nine and one over half of the votes in the in the election the year after his first eight years all russia's economy stabilize and expand substantially between two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve putin served as prime minister as he was barred from holding the presidency due to the two term limit but he was widely seen as the force behind russia's invasion and exception of georgia mass protests over alleged voter fraud followed his reelection and as the president in twenty twelve and putin was outraged by western support for the protesters now the past six years

of seeing putin's most audacious foreign policy maneuvers including the annexation of the crimean peninsula in twenty fourteen and intervention in syria the following year during and since the us presidential election in twenty sixteen putin has repeatedly been criticized for manipulating the vote. now we have two correspondents same russia following the election process or a challenge in the southern city of sebastopol in crimea but first let's cross over to jonah hala he's live for us outside the kremlin in moscow and shown a large turnout will legitimize the vote and that's what the authorities want is that going to happen. well we've got several hours of the voting day left to find out the answer to that already. voting stations we've seen here in moscow seem to be doing a relatively brisk trade figures coming in from the east of the country where

polling has been going on for several hours showing pretty high turnouts but at the same time there are a lot of reports of. alleged voting violations coming in on social media the central election committee commission here is also also said they've had some six thousand phone calls alleging violations of one sort or another now these are unlikely i think to be attempts to wriggle manipulate the vote in mr putin's favor because the majority of voters probably don't really see a viable candidate in the field that's been posted on the ballot what is more likely to be the case of these are proven of course is is an attempt to increase the size of the vote to get turnout up ballot box stuffing to simply putting more votes into boxes because turnout is really the only key question that hangs over this election nobody is asking who is going to win what the kremlin cares about is a high turnout that will boost the legitimacy of this big victory for. a

fortnight amir putin the talk of a seventy seventy plan a seventy percent turnout they'd like to see him winning seventy percent of that vote so i think over the next few hours let's watch closely what happens with turnout in a true vote it may be difficult to reach levels or anything like that because of course in this country now. many people will wonder why they should bother going to the polls at all given that the result is pretty much known in advance of course in the lead up to this vote on sunday there's been an underlying diplomatic spat with the united kingdom how much to international politics play in the way that voters want to go to the polls or would go to the polls in terms of the way that their campaign is run from the russian perspective. blind a lot of it in the intro to this in terms of just what

a cornerstone foreign policy has been two. hundred eighteen years in power it is been absolutely foundational in everything that he's done and the russian people have been very pleased with what he's achieved in eighteen years pulling this country up from the chaos of the post soviet ninety's and that continues to be a theme certainly a theme of his campaign and it continues to be something that people appreciate so this idea of the spies saga and of of russia issuing its sort of fearless countermeasures on saturday in the face of you know unjustified provocations from the west and so on and so on plays very well in terms of that overall narrative of of to me a putin standing up to the west it certainly won't of hurt let's put it that way or leave it there and catch up with you later in the day let's cross over to our other colleagues who joins us now from a pond of course that the first question would be how voters feeling there considering crimea is an incredibly important domestic and international issue.

yeah exactly crimea is important for this election and sebastopol is a special case within crime here this is a port city a naval city it's the hard to move russia's black sea fleet and has been for centuries there's been a whole procession of. naval cadets sailors and military police moving into this polling station behind me because their ballots today we've been to other polling stations as well and there's a general atmosphere of celebration here uprising that is is what it was described as by one vote so we spoke to which is this a celebration people have been coming with their families one man told us that he come all the way from israel high for an israel to vote for his favored candidate we could probably guess who that candidate is for crimea. this vote is important it's the kind of culmination of a four year cycle four years ago crime in voted in that referendum which most

countries around the world viewed as a kind of thin democratic veneer on war what was essentially an illegal annexation then they went through two years ago parliamentary elections and now from means of voting for the first time in a russian presidential election of course and with as many want to celebrating the chance to voting crimea there are just as many detractors even if they are a small minority. yeah i mean it is the minority here certainly the the ethnic majority of crime in this russians there is a. muslim tart's a minority which have always felt vulnerable in a russian system and they opposed the annexation they voted or boycotted against the referendum and in this presidential election they're staying away from the vote

as well they. feel harassed and victimized now there have been we've been told by start our activists efforts to get them out to polling stations basically trying to force the tartar community to vote in these elections make them a part of it and thus increase its legitimacy we spoke to the authorities here they denied all of that of course of course was all over this with you as well throughout the day rory thanks so much well still ahead here on al-jazeera four years after one of the worst ever breaks in sierra leone the disease still lingers in the west african country. and what engineers in florida are now saying about a pedestrian bridge collapse that killed at least six people.

welcome back we'll start our forecast in southeastern place we had through chews day so i suspect they'll thunderstorm in jakarta but up through the mill a potential weather conditions to me quite good and we have got one or two showers around the gulf of thailand but bangkok probably dry now as you move down into a strata you've had some pretty impressive rainfall totals coming in from darwin for instance because here we've had a tropical cyclone marcus develop and marcus has given some pretty nasty weather conditions the winds not particularly bad i mean looks pretty nasty here but the storm system is going to develop as it moves away towards the west and become the equivalent of a category four hurricane but in the meantime conditions not too bad as a ses it's moved through towards the west now for the rest of australia we've got a high pressure sitting across more southern and western areas the front just pushing through the state of victoria so that clears through we're going to see winds from the southwest so melbourne twenty two but those temperatures dropping away as we head through into tuesday upper stage warm and perth with highs of

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welcome back you're watching i'll just xerox the whole rob a reminder of our top news stories turkish president. has declared the center of the syrian town of to be entirely under the control of his forces turkish backed free syrian army fighters ended up just before dawn on sunday it comes almost two months after turkey launched its cross border operation to push back kurdish forces from its border. because president has lifted a state of emergency nationwide curfew was imposed twelve days ago following unrest between sinhalese and communities the violence began when a group were accused of killing a member of the majority. buddhist community. also vladimir putin has cast his ballot for russia's presidential election seven other candidates are also vying for a share of the vote but it's widely expected that putin will win a fourth term in office and that means he'll leave the country for the next six years. said to north america now where u.s.

president donald trump has lashed out at the investigation into the links between russia and. his twenty sixteen election campaign and for the first time on twitter he used the name of the man leading the probe it's all part of a political storm surrounding the firing of the f.b.i. his former deputy director now president trunk tweeted the mulla probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime it was based on fraudulent activities and a fake dossier paid for by crooked hillary and the d.n.c. and improperly used in feis a court for surveillance of my campaign which aren't our reporter kristen salumi reports former deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccabe insists he was fired in an attempt to undermine his credibility months before his dismissal he told congress he can corroborate the

former f.b.i. director jim commies account of his firing which is under investigation by special counsel robert muller simply puts or you cannot stop the men and women of the f.b.i. from doing the right thing protecting the american people and calling the constitution . now multiple news agencies citing anonymous sources say mccabe as acting director of the f.b.i. kept notes of his interactions with the president which have been handed over to mohler. president trump's own statements have linked conan's firing to his refusal to shut down miller's russia best to geisha and i don't believe he's going to fire robert mueller but i can tell you this there's a lot of pressure on the congress on the attorney general to put an end to this fishing expedition not one shred of evidence has connected the president of the united states when he was a candidate and now that he is president any connection to russia there has been no russian coalition that has been uncovered thus far attorney general jeff sessions

says mccabe was fired at the recommendation of disciplinary officers for misleading investigators about the bureau's handling of the hillary clinton investigation for months trump has painted mccabe as a stooge for democrats because his wife received campaign money from a clinton ally the fake news is beside themselves that mccabe was caught called out and fired trump tweeted how many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife's campaign by crooked age friend terry m. who was also under investigation how many lies how many leaks komi knew it all and much more. komi responded with a tweet of his own mr president the american people will hear my story very soon and they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not erotically it was call me coming out a week before beyond action and reopening the investigation into secretary

clinton's e-mails that released long the election to trump because well who are battling secretary clinton have been a little bit ahead and then he pliers because the fact that he didn't want him to would investigate the collusion when in fact that they f.b.i. had to do that you have been or all of the evidence that they have about what russia was trying to do with the young election mccabe was fired less than two days before his retirement and pension were due to kick in christensen the al-jazeera the china has had back after the us president all time signed a bill encouraging expanded contact with taiwan by the taiwan travel to laos unrestricted travel for u.s. officials to meet with members of taiwan's government beijing says the decision is contrary to the one china policy which has been a cornerstone of the u.s. and china relationship since the one nine hundred seventy s. it's the u.s. not to put the bill into effect. girl you went all although it's not

a legally binding bill it severely violated the one china principle and the three joint communiqué the bill interfered in china's internal affairs and damage the development of military ties between china and the u.s. let's head to west africa now where people are trying to recover from the a bowl or break really four years ago the epidemic killed thousands of people in sierra leone survivors now complain that they're not getting the help that they need evident to us reports now from the city of waterloo where some are still dying from health complications linked to the disease. they fought and survived one of the most fatal viruses treat west africa indicate a group of survivors of the twenty fourteen airball outbreak are working on an awareness strategy to help others instead of your so they say the disease is still killing people three years after the country was declared a ball of free. the. complications leads to that there you

know there are fifteen of the survivors in the country and that one is too bad there is also a need to get on there for even the problem in the country it's have that if we don't have proper care so you will be i mean we risk because members mill survivors are still there that i have a fragment of the virus and yes i'm in it all appeared instead of the young ones after the first outbreak in guinea in march two thousand and fourteen it killed thousands dozens were already dying before help arrived this cemetery in waterloo is dedicated to victims of the disease thousands of them are buried here some sort of loon is believed many could have been saved if the funds received by government had been used properly. this symmetry is a constant reminder of one of senator darkest moment. activists and survivors still

struggling to recover. court demanding accountability on how fourteen million dollars of money meant to fight the disease vanished the history of that many strikes one striking. rich one that the victim survivors get just what it will are we are just recognizing that our government is prepared that our government can you show us the money just whatever funds so that side to respond to the virus that is what we do it is a government official told us that they have not received communication on the matter from the regional court. the government says more than four thousand people died here activists say the numbers are higher. for now their biggest challenge is dealing with the health complications and the stigma of having contracted the virus . trees. water the city of yaar. let's head back to

the u.s. now because there are all fears that funding cuts to health agencies are putting the world at greater risk of disease outbreaks now the trumpet ministration has proposed slashing the budget for the centers for disease control by twelve percent which means the c.d.c. has operations in almost forty countries will be closed. as well. unlike many laboratories virginia's staple of oratory the hope is that nothing novel is discovered for example in its collection of frozen samples of mosquitoes or its countless test tubes of potential flu virus is this the one. currently sweeping the nation right now is conducted here and in state labs around the u.s. is submitted to the national census for disease control c d c your deliberations can be made about the health of the nation and disease prevention the laboratory performs laboratory testing to support the identification and factious

diseases that are of public health significance but we also can identify chemicals and other toxins that could potentially cause harm in the environment to our food supply and to the animal communities but this is already cutting back its testing and hiring due to a proposed twelve percent funding cut for the c.d.c. and that means reduced surveillance reduced reaction times to an outbreak if you cut the funding for those people who are doing this work it won't get done if we have more than one outbreak at a time if we had a food borne disease outbreak at the same time we were trying to manage the zico response we would have been in big trouble because what you find is that people who would respond are the same people who would be called upon to respond to a food borne disease this is a lab where they test for

a boat but following west. africa's above the outbreak congress awarded six hundred million dollars to the c.d.c. to ensure such infectious diseases were kept out of the u.s. labs in africa asia and latin america were upgraded one thousand four hundred epidemiologists were trained outbreak response times have been reduced from weeks to hours but due to budget fears the c.d.c. says it's already planning to scrap its operation in thirty nine countries leaving just ten a fear of an international pandemic may yet make congress renew global funding when the money runs out but a pattern has been established while the u.s. news cycle is consumed by president trump's tweets and speculation about russia regulations and funding that affect not just the well being and security of americans but the rest of the world are quietly being swept away shihab rattansi al-jazeera richmond virginia well new video has emerged of the moment a newly built pedestrian bridge collapsed in the u.s. state of florida killing at least six people now this is dash cam video taken on

the road at florida international university in miami and lead engineer left a voice mail for a state transportation official warning of some cracking two days before this structure collapsed but the university says engineers met hours before the accident and concluded a crack in the structure was not a safety concern well workers have begun removing parts of what's left of the bridge from the road several vehicles were crushed on the bodies of those who died had to be pulled from the rubble. your geology is there i'm still wrong that these are our top stories turkish president reza dyer birds one has declared the northern syrian town of a freend to be n. tiley under the control of his forces it comes almost three months after turkey launched the cross border operation to push back kurdish forces from its border.

sri lanka's president has lifted a nationwide state of emergency it was imposed twelve days ago following unrest between sinhalese and muslim communities the violence began when a group of muslim men were accused of killing a man belonging to the majority of sinhala buddhist community the tamil putin has cast his ballot for russia's presidential election seven other candidates are also vying for a share of the vote but it's widely expected that putin will win a fourth term in office also the u.k. prime minister to resign may says she's considering the next steps after moscow announced it would expel twenty three british diplomats it's in response to the same number of russian diplomats being ordered to leave the u.k. britain has accused the kremlin of being behind the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. southeast asian nations gathered at the assy end summit in sydney saying that north korea's nuclear and missile development is a threat to the region and in a statement the group called i'm going to comply with international obligations

australia is hosting the two day summit for the first time despite not being part of the ten day bloc. we will join committed to respond strongly and resolutely in the face of great concerns we share about north korea's reckless illegal nuclear missile programs at least four people have died in a fire at a hotel in the philippine capital manila rescuers are trying to reach more than a dozen people trapped inside the building several guests were evacuated. a new video has emerged of a moment a newly built pedestrian bridge collapsed in the u.s. state of florida killing at least six people a lead engineer left a vocal voice mail for state transportation official warning of some cracking two days before the structure collapsed but the university says engineers minutes before it collapsed and concluded a crack in the structure was not a safety concern those were the headlines to stay with us here on al-jazeera.

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