as for the prosecution at this time on al jazeera. the sectionals. documentary. from around the globe. was an example the bring me down league field it's journalism the. debates and discussion is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion isn't the only argument i find against that is all over the corrugated history. see the wood so much to see the spectrum on al-jazeera. turkey says it will launch a military operation against kurdish fighters in the syrian town of mom raising fears of a face off with us. no

i'm fully back to bow this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up chinese president xi jinping outlined his vision for the future as he addresses the closing session of the national people's congress. breaks it breaks through the e.u. and the u.k. reach a deal on a childish unphased but still no solutions for islands and vladimir putin adopts a softer tone after winning another presidential tab. thank you for joining as the syrian government has heavily criticized what it calls turkey's occupation of the town of afraid that is demanding turkish forces withdraw turkey says it now plans to expand its military operation to other kurdish held towns in syria victoria gates and be reports at least it isn't enough read so much needed aid is starting to flow in the to say they were cathal to leave the towns.

infrastructure intact and have told civilians they can return to those who've already made it home does a huge sense of relief knowing. i'm talking to the people of my village have left i hope they can hear me return to your village we're comfortable here there's nothing to worry about it's quiet now. the syrian government has criticized what it calls turkey's occupation of the town and blames the united states for allowing it to happen if turkey is part of the nato and then nato is involved into the bloodshed in the area in iraq as well as in syria so the nato is protecting turkey don't believe in this hollywood show you are seeing in and elsewhere turkey is doing what it is doing with the blessing of the americans. turkey started pushing into kurdish held territory marked in yellow in january the green is held

by techies troops in the syrian rebels they support almost two months later they've taken a free the next major target is members where kurdish forces are directly supported by u.s. troops then off initiated marriages you know after controlling the city center of afrin yesterday we completed the most important phase of operation olive branch now we will continue this process with members i know and ras al-ain and chemistry until we remove all of this corridor. with turkey's plan to push further east and directly into the path of u.s. forces the situation on the ground is likely to become even more difficult i would expect the americans to avoid a full scale crisis with turkey and they will. alternatives scenarios perhaps a different force to be. created over here it wants.

turkey's operation has been criticized by all sides in the syrian conflict a monday the u.s. state department said while it respected tekkie security concerns the operation against kurdish forces has distracted from the campaign against the remnants of i saw in the area it calls that a serious and growing concern victoria gave him the al-jazeera. further south in what's left of the rebel held enclave of eastern guta a local media narrative is are reporting that an airstrike has a school where people were sheltering in the town of i've been killing two women in fifteen children the syrian government backed by russia launched an offensive to retake the area near damascus a month ago since then more than a thousand people have been killed meanwhile the un's human rights chief says the siege of eastern ghouta has involved war crimes including using starvation as a weapon as a driver hussein was speaking at u.n. headquarters his briefing was officially labeled informal after russia blocked

a meeting of the security council my can explains. well it was a very rare occurrence within the security council when a procedural motion to dismiss a session was actually up held what happened the u.n. human rights chief was due to brief the security council on the human rights situation in syria it was expected that russia would object having argued that the forum for such a briefing should be the human rights council in geneva not the security council chamber as expected it was backed in its photon a procedural issue by its normal allies including china but what was not expected what's this. the result of the voting is this follows eight votes in favor four votes against three abstentions the provisional agenda has not been adopted it having filled to obtain the required number of votes and abstention by the three

african members of the council equitorial guinea ethiopia and cote d'ivoire this is only the fourth time in some four decades that a procedural vote has actually been carried in the security council what happens next well the meeting went ahead the briefing went ahead but in an informal aria form and that means that it did not carry the weight politically or diplomatically offer for more security council session the human rights chief went ahead and brief security council members and as expected deep criticisms of the syrian government the see joy of eastern time by the syrian government forces half a decade long has involved pervasive war crimes the use of chemical weaponry in forced starvation and certain weapon of war for the denial of essential life saving

culminating in the current relentless month long bombardment of of hundreds. thousands of terrified and trapped civilians at the end of the day though perhaps a tactical miscalculation by those who want to the briefing to take place in the security council chamber in a formal session because now with the abstention by the african members the security council is divided as never before. in other world news the chinese president has outlined his vision for the nation in a closing speech delivered to the people's congress members of the series of proposed new laws in recent days including the abolishment of presidential term limits the decision paves the way for being to remain in power indefinitely. fashion there have been profound changes in the international situation the development of our country is at the strategic opportunity stage and we are enjoying very good opportunities for development but also facing unprecedented

challenges and difficulties the congress of the communist party of china has depicted the decisive stages of the overall victory realizing for the people the rejuvenation and building a society a modern and prosperous future the path is long and time waits for no man but we must not be content with the status quo and forget about the difficulties we should hold dear to our original heart and work hard to build a future that belongs to the new era. or has the latest from beijing. during the closing ceremony of the eighteen days of the national people's congress here in beijing xi jinping the president addressed the nearly three thousand delegates now this is something new he normally the president normally doesn't address the delegates on the last eighty did that very broad stroke broad themes speech to the people here the delegates here saying it's important for them to realize they work for the people and also kind of looking into the future china's importance now but then it's growing importance in the global arena and they need

to realize that and they need to move toward being a more modern nation but during these eighteen days or all of a lot of new things to the constitution was reforms change one of the most important one where the most significant ones were term limits were lifted for the presidency and the vice presidency obviously that means choosing paying will probably be taking an oath more times than we saw these last eighteen days because there have been a lot of sweeping changes with in how the government is going to be run a lot of reform that we haven't seen for years but also going back to the oath taking that's also something new that hasn't happened before so right now she's in ping as he mentioned in closing ceremonies making sure that the delegates here in the government realizes that they need to really kind of continue with this track of modernization and what's being hailed as a major step forward in negotiations the u.k. has been granted a twenty one month transition period out of the p. and union is designed to reduce any sudden shocks when the u.k. lisa block next march and means it is it will effectively remain as

a non-voting e.u. member until the end of twenty twenty the u.k. will be able to negotiate trade deals with the rest of the world during the transition but there's still no agreement on the question of the irish border sagna gago has more from london. much goodwill between the u.k. bret's as secretary david davis and the chief breaks it negotiator michel barnier a lot being made about the fact the progress that has been made that means coming to the agreement on those two main issues there one which would include the rights for european union citizens to be able to have enjoyed the same rights as e.u. citizens already living in the u.k. if they are to enter the country during the transition period this was something that had been resisted initially by the prime minister to reason may she had thought about saying that they should perhaps have different residency rights considering that they would enter the country knowing that the u.k. would eventually be leaving the european union but certainly on the on that point

that this is a point that michel barnier was eager to play up in terms of the progress that is being made after all hard work that both sides have put in your newsreader has really this makes it possible today to reassure the four and a half million people british and european who are affected and concerned by break that those are the people who have been our priority from day one the priority of european parliament and the priority of the member state the other issue of course the u.k. is also able to pursue and negotiate third country deals but it will not be able to implement any of them until the end of the transition period which is the end of december twenty twenty the first day breaks that obviously being the first journey twenty twenty one but the other issue which is a sticking point here is still regarding the situation of northern ireland. is being put into place a backstop deal which would mean that if in the event that the u.k.

would crash out without a deal then northern ireland would be protected and it would still be included as in the single market and the customs union to prevent any fracture or any issue between the border with the republic of ireland lot of work having. been put in there of course not forgetting the good friday deal which has been made so much of everything is trying to be placed into a position where tension along that border will be preserved as little as possible during the brics negotiations independent experts have arrived in the u.k. to assess the nerve agents used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter the team from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is only expected to identify the substance british prime minister theresa may continues to point the finger at moscow but russian president vladimir putin has demanded the u.k. provide evidence or apologize meanwhile the russian president appears to have softened his tone towards the west a day after he secured another six years in office his victory received

a muted reception abroad with many international leaders slow to congratulate him but at a meeting with the candidates he beats putin said russia doesn't want an arms race and will seek to resolve its differences with other countries lawrence lee has more from moscow. the russian president spent monday basking in the warm glow of his record breaking success he had said he wanted to reach out to his opponents and build bridges abroad meeting with all the bees and candidates his language could hardly have been more conciliatory. we must vote and we will give necessary attention to further strengthening the country's national defense capability but i want to tell you now that no one is going to accelerate any kind of arms race issues if we plan to build relations with all the countries in the world in a way that is constructive we will aim for and of course encourage our partners towards constructive dialogue. fears that his vote share might go down have proved

groundless after all even if there was the minor inconvenience of people being filmed stuffing huge reams of ballot papers into boxes still the margin of victory was such that even independent monitors accepted the cheating didn't make much difference it was a one horse race most candidates publicly expressed their certainty that the incumbent president would prevail in the election with many of the candidates themselves stating that they did not expect to win the election lect generally in competition thus efforts to increase the turnout predominated over the comp aim of consistence after his victory on sunday putin thanked his supporters we won big team he said but the same cannot be said of his relationship with the european union whose foreign ministers met in brussels on monday in recent days russia had accused several countries including sweden and slovakia of holding supplies of the nerve agents used to poison the spice. the european backing of the u.k.

position on the poisoning also led germany to question its entire partnership with russia to give mr vireo. result of the russian election a surprise or surpass much as the circumstances of the election obviously. impossible to speak of a fair political contest as we know it a fact that this result was also achieved on what a spec of niceness crime mean territory some other aspect which we find unacceptable we continue in the knowledge that russia will remain a very difficult partner to say that when it comes to finding international solutions russia is indispensable for germany to question the strength of its relationship with russia is a far far bigger problem for the kremlin than the collapse of its relations with the u.k. at so that's hugely condom matri language from countries like sweden and slovakia in recent days and it starts to look like a much bigger structural problem for russia with its so-called european partners

only adding to the sense of isolation for vladimir putin the real worry for russia is that germany is on the point of signing a big new deal to import russian gas poland with long term hostility to russia is now urging the germans to scrap the deal. many russians idolize their president because they regard him as impervious to pressure the strong man who can take on everyone single handed he might say he wants to get along with other nations but as he starts his fourth term more and more countries are lining up against him lawrence lee al jazeera moscow. still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. president lays out his harsh measures to combat a nationwide drug epidemic and i say for the missing sri lankan women demand answers and justice for their loved ones. from the waves in the south. to the contours of the east.

however the weather is generally set fair across see a middle east over the next few days lawsie settled and sun a little bit of cloud over towards that is a sort of a round heading over towards afghanistan by some bits and pieces of rain there are a couple of around fourteen celsius the west of us five and settle twenty two degrees in beirut little bit of cloud just sliding out of the turkish mountains it's just a chain resettled and sunny that cloud will drift over armenia pushing over towards the caspian sea northern parts of iran maybe just catching a little bit of that out but as you can see it's general looking dry baghdad at thirty degrees celsius sort of values that we're looking at across the arabian peninsula highs here in doha of around thirty degrees and gentle wins not to back even pick up to around thirty one degrees as we go on through wednesday no shortage of sunshine on offer here still plenty of sunshine since much of southern africa

the eastern cape a little more clear out possibility some damp weather no sign of any damn weather making its way towards the western type having said that we've got some showers there into northern most that they can to tansen the linking up with a very heavy showers that we have just pushing up through zambia into the democratic republic of congo harare stay settled and sunny with a top temperature of twenty six. the women sponsored by qatar and reduce. the scene for us when they're on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but in number and not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people the little choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera the syrian government has heavily criticized what it calls turkey's occupation of the town of a friend and is demanding the withdrawal of turkish forces from turkey says balance or expand its military operation to other kurdish held towns in syria where u.s. forces us supporting the y.p. . the chinese president has struck a nationalistic tone in his closing speech of the people's congress she says the country must stay united and take available opportunities last week the congress agreed to abolish presidential term limits paving the way for she to remain in office indefinitely and the u.k. has been granted a twenty one month transition period out of the european union in what is being

hailed as a major step forward in bret's in negotiations it's designed to reduce any sudden shocks when it leaves the next year this will see the u.k. effectively remain as a non-voting e.u. member until the end of twenty twenty. now a lebanese american businessman is reported to have organized a summit of arab. leaders suggesting they create an elite regional group london based website middle east i says george nader set up the meeting on a yacht in the red sea alan fisher has a story. thanks claimed georgia need to organize the power some athlete in twenty fifteen five middle east leaders were on the guest list was mohammed bin some and then deputy crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin zayed the crown prince of abu dhabi egyptian president abdul fattah el-sisi the crown prince of bahrain prince soundman king abdullah of jordan middle east i says leader urged them to create a new power block in the middle east to combine turkey and iran and he would lobby

for them more shinton libya was to join the group later its alleged leader a convicted paedophile was told they like the idea that the meeting were concerned that as the us presidential election was moving into high gear democratic nominee hillary clinton would protect the iran nuclear deal and would be less keen to abandon old alliances with the meeting thought the republican candidate donald trump might be more likely to support their initiatives we have seen for the last nine months that there has been a new alliance that has emerged between the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and what bahrain as a junior party as a junior partner and what or not that alliance can sustain itself in the long run that is unclear but there are certainly efforts to boost that alliance at the expense of the gulf cooperation council. it was reported that king abdullah of jordan briefed congressional leaders in the us that turkey was the main regional threat to stability but he later allegedly fell foul of the group for not fully

supporting the blockade against qatar which is no ten months old and jordan voted against donald trump's controversial move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel this bloc that has so to speak emerges is not an a bloc that can implement and carry out actual policy. and what we have seen us that the u.s. prefers a bilateral relationships with each of the sixteen countries and therefore unity essential thank you very much leader is being investigated as a possible key link between donald trump and the emma ratties and to see if there was an attempt to buy influence by indirectly sending money to the trump presidential campaign later also arrange the meeting in trump tower in december twenty sixth in the brought together the trump son in law and key advisor joe krishna then chief strategist steve bannon and the crown prince of abu dhabi he was also at the second meeting in the seychelles which brought together significant

truck donor erik prince and this man killed dimitri of a russian banker with close links to president vladimir putin several embassies were approached for comment on the middle east eyes allegations no one provided any reaction. al-jazeera a special present the palestinian president has hit out at the u.s. ambassador to israel at a meeting of fattal officials in ramallah mahmoud abbas criticized the u.s. decision to recognize israel's name as israel's capital but also dismissed an american plan for a consolation talks. hot dog alert the but. this plan began being implemented when trump's administration declared to rusal as israel's capital decided to move its embassy to it could donations to a un relief agency and regarded settlements as illegal and that was said by more than one american official the first of them was their own bussard to tell of david friedman who said that the israelis are building on their land the son of

a dog says they build in their land and he is a settler and his family are settlers he is the u.s. ambassador in tel aviv what should we expect from him u.s. resin donald trump s call for the death penalty for criminals smuggling in large amounts of opioid drugs is the most controversial of a range of measures proposed to tackle the rising epidemic which affects more than two million americans castro reports from washington. every day one hundred sixteen people in the united states die from an opioid overdose it's the number one killer of americans under fifty president donald trump says he has a solution to all this death the death penalty unless you have really really powerful penalties led by the death penalty for the really bad pushes and abusers we are going to get nowhere as evidence of the death penalty's effectiveness on curbing drug trafficking trump appeared to allude to the

philippians where a government led drug war has claimed more than twelve thousand lives last year trump praised philippine president rather rigo to tear day for doing an unbelievable job in cracking down on the drug trade if you look at other countries i've gotten to know the leaders of many countries. and i won't mention names but you know the countries i'm talking about i go around how is your drug problem we don't have much of a drug problem when you when you don't have a drug problem well we don't have i say how come we have zero tolerance for drug dealers. there's a what does that mean that means we have the death penalty for drug dealers human rights activists have criticized the philippines extra judicial killings as illegal and cruel in the us activists say the death penalty targets minorities and will not be effective in stopping the drug trafficking it's the certainty of punishment not the severity that deters and so if people think they're going to get caught

that's the big issue not what's going to happen in the remote chance that they'll be executed in his monday remarks trump also tied the opioid crisis to immigration claiming cities that refused to deport immigrant criminals contribute to the drug problem and that building the border wall between the u.s. and mexico would lower the lissa drug supply eventually the democrats will agree with us and will build the wall to keep the damn drugs out. the government response to america's opioid crisis had been billed as a bipartisan effort to combat a public health problem but now the debate there is the full pressure of the president's part of said wait and his proposals will need congress's help to become law heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. the production company previously run

by disgraced film producer harvey weinstein has filed for bankruptcy the future of the weinstein company has been in doubt since his former boss was accused of sexual misconduct by seventy women he denies the accusations the firm also announced its releasing alleged victims and witnesses from nondisclosure agreements that prevented them from speaking out. myanmar's leader on time so she has canceled a speech sharing her trip to australia because she feels unwell sochi received a ceremonial welcoming camera on monday after attending the summit in sydney the question and answer session on tuesday was to be her only public appearance or in the visit a presence has sparked protests over myanmar's treatment of rohingya muslims. and office of missing persons has finally opened in sri lanka nine years after the end of its civil war it will look into thousands of unexplained disappearances but as bernard smith reports from jaffna it won't have the power to prosecute

maheshwari sobre money i'm story is similar service of the relatives of at least twenty thousand people civilian and military who disappeared during decades of conflict she says her son pretty hasn't been seen since the family escaped from a tamil tigers battlezone towards army positions at the end of the civil war and i wonder what i did have to tell us if they did anything to our children otherwise they have to release the people they have even if they tell us they shot them then that will end the mental anguish we have we can't give up. trying because twenty six year civil war ended in two thousand and nine after the deaths of more than one hundred thousand dial and us. attempts to find out what happened to those who disappeared have been stalled by governments that didn't want soldiers in their commanders investigating now an office of missing persons or o m p has been approved by leaders of the current government the senior lawyer who will

oversee the zero m.p. admits he has a daunting task we want to be independent. we. need to go to a place. that we would have to manage expectations like what these tamil mothers and wives in jaffna have been protesting every day for the last year to demand answers giving them justice will be difficult. by law can only inquire it can't prosecute the government did not want to bring this about justice chief minister a former supreme court judge says without international involvement the o m p won't be effective what is taking place in sri lanka is they are looking at. public lewdness of crimes as they are people and do look at this they don't look at it from the point of view a bit that a person has committed the wrong wrong or. injust enough an old government office has been left in ruins as a physical reminder of the war there are hundreds of thousands of sri lankans with

mental scars in eighteen months they'll be elections in sri lanka but could see a return to power of former president mahinda rajapaksa he oversaw the military defeat of the tamil tigers and is seen as being even less enthusiastic about the office for missing persons than the current administration so the armed people have to establish itself quickly if it's to withstand any future challenges to its already limited powers burnitz with al-jazeera jaffna in northern sri lanka. now again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the syrian government has heavily criticised by taking occupation of the town of a free and is demanding turkish forces withdraw for turkey says it now plans to expand its military operation to other kurdish held towns in syria where u.s. forces are supporting the kurds. in shoot emerges in an after controlling the city

center of after and yesterday we completed the most important phase of operation olive branch now we will continue this process with members and you know and ras al-ain in chemistry until we remove all of this corridor or. the chinese president has struck eight nationalistic tone in his closing speech sure the people's congress she jingping says the country must stay united in take available opportunities last week the congress agreed to abolish presidential term limits paving the way for she to remain in office indefinitely. the u.k. has been granted a twenty one month transition period out of the e.u. in what's being hailed as a major step forward in bret's that negotiations is to reduce any sudden shocks when it leaves the block in march next year this will see the u.k. festively remain as a non-voting e.u. member until the end of twenty twenty independent experts have arrived in the u.k. to assess the nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter the team from the organization for the

prohibition of chemical weapons is only expected to identify the substance british prime minister to resubmit continues to blame on school for the topic russian president vladimir putin has been outlining his priorities for his next six years in office he says he doesn't want an international arms race and will seek to resolve differences with other countries his reelection received in you did reception abroad with many foreign leaders slow to congratulate him yes resin donald trump has called for the death penalty for criminals smuggling in launch amounts of opioid drugs it's the most controversial of a range of measures he is proposing to topple the rising opioid quizes which affects more than two million americans and the production company previously run by disgraced film producer harvey weinstein has filed for bankruptcy the future of the weinstein company has been in dollars since its former boss was accused of sexual misconduct by seventy women he denies the accusations for a most announces releasing alleged victims and witnesses for non-disclosure

agreements that prevented them from speaking out. you have to do it with headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next here do stay with us. with every new. hi emily could be here in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube today india's for big love before we start take a look at this clip of a young woman named coast city telling the story of how she met her husband shankar for the first time.