a number of families hundreds we understand around a thousand people that have fled some of those areas where those airstrikes are taking place at the moment all eyes remain on tomorrow that is when you have the trilateral meeting into between iran turkey and russia everyone expects something to be agreed upon there what this offensive what kind of shape it will take whether it will be limited to certain areas certain groups or wide scale turkey is doing everything to avoid a large scale offensive it is its worst case scenario is to have a fresh influx of flock fresh push of syrian refugees i.d.p.'s towards its borders fleeing the fighting the borders remain closed turkey already hosts over three million people we went to talk to some of the aid organizations to see how they are preparing for what they say they expect to be a potential bloodbath. over the years the province of it live has offered somewhat of a refuge for almost a million internally displaced syrians but that seems like it's all about to change

with the expected government offensive backed by russia to recapture the last province left under opposition control turkey's preparing for a worst case scenario already met with the head of turkey's red crescent just as he returned from visiting it lib if any huge influx. or other two o'clock turkish border now we are preparing the refugee camps in sight syria turkey already hosts more than three million syrian refugees and it doesn't want any more the turkish border with syria has been closed for years unfortunately there is no clear line for armed groups there are. settling down inside and the societies so it is really difficult to target the military points so. it's been a repetitive cycle for years despite endless political negotiations it's the military

option that always seems to come first millions of syrians are homeless in their own country dependent on aid unable to rebuild their lives this fact she belongs to the turkish aid group i know it sends one hundred fifty thousand bags of bread to live every day each piece representing someone who cannot feed themselves the individual desperate stories often getting lost in a mass of lives interrupted. those who fight it in the first taping with predator death now they're facing death once again they have no plan b. in the last few years we've tried to build both a permanent structures into this place or today we're back to square one setting a basic intents to prepare for a new wave humanitarian corridors are being proposed by aid agencies but they will remain inside syria and the question remains to where. most people don't want to go to the government controlled areas which surround it that leaves the turkish controlled northern part of the country but many are reluctant to go there to no

one wants to be displaced again even though aid agencies are preparing for what they fear will be a bloody battle everyone is saying it's still too early to predict how exactly it will unfold that they say will be decided at the negotiating table between iran russia and turkey but there is a consensus that the battle for it will be the final major battle of this war stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. with us now from london assistant professor of international relations at nottingham university nice to see you again your thoughts on france's statement today is that well how significant is it that france would actually step up and draw a line here and say we will intervene. well i think it is significant in france is echoing a statement made by the u.s. in the last couple of days it's going it's solidarity it's reinforcing the u.s. is credibility in terms of. support for any action that the u.s.

might lead it would be u.s. action that france might contribute to rather than france taking unilateral action from going by past. operations this kind so it is significant but it is also a repetition of some of the previous incidents where areas of the searches. such as a career in other areas in syria where the opposition was faltering in advance of alleged use of chemical weapons the west didn't forces warned syria not to deploy those weapons and when it was believed that they had attacks were carried out against the regime so do you think it's likely to well i

guess have any effect on the government of bashar al assad i mean i think we've all sort of taken it is given he will go into weirdly about some point and really over the last seven or eight years not much has really deterred him. well that point of view that many have but there is a counterpoint to that. president assad regime and also the russians put forward and that is that these are chemical weapons were not used by the regime but were used by rebels now it's difficult to know which side to believe but quite frankly you're right it hasn't if the assad regime has been using these weapons it hasn't deterred them but also it hasn't benefited by using those weapons and. it has actually suffered political and to some degree

military consequences for using them so this whole issue of weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons is a very murky issue it doesn't stand up to any rational analysis it is very much a case of what you believe politically however the interesting thing here is that the russians will mitigate any adverse any significant adverse consequences of any western attacks in the past they seems to be evidence of collusion between the russians and the americans to ensure that any reprisal or pardon of punitive attacks by the west have not been too detrimental to russian military objectives in syria just leaving aside the specific issue of chemical weapons just just briefly. the idea of an offensive in adelaide this is very broad brush but is that the end

of the war do you think is that the definitive battle which then says yes this acute conflict is over. if it is the end of the war it will be the first war that has ended in recent decades what we know from conflicts in the region is that they don't just transform and what i would predict certainly after the fence have been opened if the government regains control there the conflict will transform into a lower level insurgency terrorist type of conflict designed by the protagonist to unseat the regime. is no certainty of stability and peace without a political settlement. oh it's a shame that we've lost our link with our. professor from nottingham university we were talking to him there about the potential for an offensive in. well plenty more

ahead for you on this news hour we'll look at how pregnant women in bangladesh are getting medical care for the first time. as a palestinian school faces imminent demolition after a ten year battle to save it and in sport wiping out the gender gap surfing announces big changes in how it's prize money will be carved up. so let's look at the range another seven hundred thousand or so muslims from me a man who fled to bangladesh the international criminal court has ruled but it has jurisdiction over their deportations and this is important it would allow the i.c.c. prosecutors to investigate whether million man has committed a crime against humanity the ruling comes as aid agencies though warning of a growing health crisis as mohammed jim jim reports from cos is bizarre. during the

hottest hour of the day in the world's largest refugee settlement these row hinge a traditional midwives are searching for a woman who needs their help. raji a big limb and sod are two of the one hundred thirty community health care workers who have been recruited by the united nations population fund or un f.p.a. from among the or hinge of it residing here in bangladesh. when they find regime who already has two children and is about to give birth to a third they explain how they'll assist with her delivery and outline all medical options available he. tells me she had no idea care like this was possible to not that a doctor not love i didn't get to see any doctors in the end the doctors there are buddhist they wouldn't treat us because we are muslim in another part of the camp these newborns and their mothers are being looked after in

a facility run by un f.p.a. . a novel experience for a population of refugees harboring largely conservative attitudes toward reproductive health one of the biggest challenges has been trying to convince her hinge a women here to voluntarily go to clinics and that's because of the unrelenting persecution they faced in me and more it's left many of them distrustful and fearful of medical facilities like this one since august two thousand and seventeen saudia bedroom has come to the aid of numerous really enjoy women subjected to extreme physical psychological and sexual violence by members of me and mars military as plainly and painfully as she can she explains why the women she helps are so fearful. the national boy these women are always scared that the doctors will kill their babies. despite the obstacles aid workers say providing

services that aim to ensure not just safer pregnancies and childbirth but also options for family planning are already having an impact and we've seen a rare increase in the number of women. i like to have a long acting contraceptives also saying a big increase in the number of men who are being supportive of their wives during the act a lot of women have decided that they've had enough children. and they want to get on with their lives learning skills and don't have any children down another alleyway rosea and saudia locate a refugee pregnant with her first child. dispensing wisdom to the anxious mother to be they do what they can to provide a kind of comfort this woman has never known so. at the could to prolong refugee camp in cox's bizarre bangladesh in iraq protesters have set fire

to the headquarters of the provincial government in the southern city of basra public anger has been boiling for weeks now of a basic things like water and electricity and in the past forty eight hours at least nine people have been killed and more than two dozen others injured matheson has been. the burning of buzz was provincial council headquarters cell phone footage shows smoke and flames pouring from the windows of the fifth official building to be set alight in the last four days it's not known how this fire started but local sources say al to government protesters have been close by. hours earlier their influence of a key ports was blocked by iraqis demanding the attention of a government they say is failing them and there's not much there is no more trust in anyone neither in the leadership nor in any party. security forces have responded with tear gas iraq's prime minister says he didn't order security forces to fire real bullets martin gone because he wants to create

a rift among our security forces after all the sacrifices we made to get rid of terrorism he wants to take his from bad to worse to create rifts among our citizens in order to batter under threat. iraq's human rights commission reports more than one hundred wounded including security force members of. the protesters who were injured were peaceful they don't have rifles pistols or any guns they only have banners and signs this is clearly forces use excessive force. has been simmering for weeks in basra and other cities in southern iraq. considered the shia muslim heartland of the country the region is oil rich and the port is vital for iraqi imports and exports despite the oil revenue iraqis complain they're forced to live with the daily indignities of unclean water and no elektra's city government corruption and unemployment are also high in the list to protest his grievances.

why are the police humiliating i mean i'm from basra asking for my rights. as protests continue around the clock the ministry of transportation is appealing to demonstrators not to target the port and other public facilities which government ministers say are not connected to their frustrations it seems the protesters have succeeded in forcing the government to listen to their grievances now they want action while matheson al-jazeera. protest has been held in the yemeni city of tire is the head of friday's u.n. led peace talks to end the country's war the protesters are calling for the warring parties at the geneva meeting to address the plight of thais as residents they've been living under siege for here's friday's talks will be the first between yemen's government and the hooty rebels since twenty sixteen postponed by a day but the u.n. special envoy to yemen says he's confident it will go ahead as planned more from david chase in geneva. the latest we have from the united nations is that they are

working on this problem we'll have to wait and see what those negations will and then but the the hoochie rebel delegation still in sana'a the capital of the yemen and they say that the u.n. has not honored the preconditions they sat for that trip here to geneva those preconditions of course are that they could take some wounded with them on the aircraft for treatment in the mom also that the people who have also been treated for the n.g.'s in amman previously could be taken back by the same plane and taken back into sauna and also they wanted to make sure that the delegation that does come to geneva. also get a guarantee that they will be able to get back into sauna at the end of these consultations of course that was a problem in the last failed talks in kuwait the delegation couldn't get back into

the amman into the hoochie held areas. in the news ahead a black vs white issue in south africa will find out why these workers have gone on strike. tough times tough measures the plight of the peso in argentina is driving many to despair. and sports is all here at the end with cricket captain had said about the retirement of his country's highest ever school. hello there we've got lots of violent thunderstorms around the black sea at the moment the satellite picture is showing the cloud here that's gradually drifting its way eastwards and it has given us a lot of thunder and lightning a lot of hail and some very heavy downpours as well and most of it has actually been over the sea thankfully but it's working its way eastwards and for the northern parts of turkey and up through parts of georgia it's going to be very very wet at times on friday to the south of all of that they're fine and dry and just

pretty hot as you'd expect so forty one at least in baghdad the force in kuwait will be a part of around forty six no major changes as we head through the day on saturday saw to the northeast al-mahdi that not quite as hot as elsewhere with a temperature of twenty six degrees now here in doha it's been pretty hot and humid over the last week or so and it's staying that way over the next few days at least so the winds will still be coming in from the sea still picking up lots of moisture very very sticky for us a top temperature of around forty or forty one degrees there's a little bit more in the way of cloud around the southeast imposible a man that will just give us maybe the old spot a drizzle but i think mostly just making things a little bit grayer at times we'll also see more cloud down towards parts of our men and yeven down towards the southern parts of africa a lot of cloud here working its way eastwards i'm cool in cape town.

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you're on the news hour here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories the president of the united states is calling for the anonymous author who spoke to a newspaper about the inner workings of his administration to be revealed the article in the new york times claims senior members of donald trump's team are working to undermine his words policies on the newspaper says it was written by a senior white house official united nations security council's matter after british prosecutors charged two russians with the attempted murder of a former spy the kremlin denies sending intelligence agents to poison and his daughter six months ago. and the international criminal court has ruled it has

jurisdiction over the deportations of muslims from me and not to bangladesh this would allow the i.c.c. prosecutors to investigate whether me in my has committed a crime against humanity. developing story for you this hour new york's attorney general has issued subpoenas to the state's roman catholic church as part of a sexual abuse investigation this is coming from sources quoted to several us media reports patty callahan as our correspondent in washington d.c. keeping an eye on it what more do you know patty. well i can tell you what we're hearing is that subpoenas have been sent to the eight diocese in new york state and basically what is a peanut is it's a legally binding document it's telling the churches that they have to hand over all of the documentation they have alleged child sex abuse so these subpoenas have gone out this is all part of a broader probe new york has launched and they say they do this they're doing this because of what happened in pennsylvania there the attorney general launched

a huge investigation and he recently reported that over the last seventy years as many as one thousand children were abused by as many as three hundred priests again that's over the last seventy years so now in new york following suit new york not alone this will be the fifth state to launch a statewide investigation. general from new york harbor underwood released this statement quote victims of new york deserve to be heard as well and we are going to do everything in our power to bring them the justice they deserve well that might be easier said than done because there's something called the statute of limitations in the new york state and many other states where victims only have a certain amount of time where they can bring criminal charges or even civil lawsuits and the statute of limitations in new york are probably going to be passed just like they were pennsylvania for most of these cases the difference is in new york any abuse after two thousand and one there is no statute of limitations and it's going to take a very long time just keep in mind the pennsylvania grand jury met for almost two

years before coming out with their very damning report so i was actually going to ask you is there a concerted effort right now because you said five states of new york will be the fifth state this is clearly be a long term ongoing thing. well and there's been a growing calls to that this should be a federal investigation and we do know that the new york to her pennsylvania attorney general has had some conversations with the u.s. justice department because there are some that say that this has to just be a full across the country review this is potentially very damaging more damaging for the catholic church because if you think about it this is going to go on for years as every state picks up and takes a takes a look at the abuse this is just going to keep it in the headlines and it's going to be random because it will be different states at different times given their findings patty cohen in washington d.c. thank you for that update it is the beginning of the end for a palestinian school facing imminent demolition in the occupied west bank israel's

supreme court judges of rule the school in the village of qana is an illegal structure and its ten year court battle to remain open now the bulldozers are also threatening the entire bedouin village to make room for the expansion of more illegal israeli settlements but it smith has our report. one day soon on their way to school these palestinian children expect to find their path blocked by israeli police and bulldozers they'll be no warning it could happen any time after the next six days. israeli supreme court judges have ordered the demolition of the school along with the adjacent bedouin village the judges say that can be no more appeals . i've been very tense i couldn't work out a bit paranoid and very stressed i didn't take it well it's a huge responsibility i haven't slept it's too much how will the kids learn. the

school was built by an italian charity nine years ago that educates around one hundred eighty pupils from nearby bedouin communities misses a hiker says she could never really believe the demolition would actually happen well i won't be here doing this i said they'll never demolish the school i thought maybe of a transfer or one of the communities it never occurred to me that they would demolish the school because every child has a right to education and she thinks most children won't go to other schools because they're too far away from the mother i have to cover and close in school is far and my parents are scared to let me go because of the highway or probably end up tending the sheep but i want to come to school now and i want to study when i grow up i want to be a dentist but now i end up tending sheep the palestinian education ministry has told the staff not to prepare to move not to pack up not to move the furniture the school the ministry says must continue teaching until the very last minute. the

land the school is built on is wanted by israel to expand illegal settlements near occupied east jerusalem and hands up how many more schools are under threat of destruction in the occupied west bank around forty says the charity save the children which it says is a breach of internationally recognised provisions to protect schools in conflict areas bernard smith al-jazeera. thousands of wyatt's workers are on strike in south africa or in protest of what they say is their company's racist policies the petrochemical company sasol has a new share scheme it'll benefit eighteen thousand black workers but ignore the twelve thousand white colleagues a reporter from a timid us been speaking to striking workers in second. thousands of white workers here in sickened say they're being discriminated against they say that their years of service is being ignored and they want the company to treat them equally in line with this new scheme that specifically benefits black workers

people here say they are unhappy with how sasso is going about the scheme now we've also spoken to the cosatu trade federation here in south africa say this type of she scheme in dealing with black economic empowerment is a long time coming they've been pushing for this for years black economic empowerment was first implemented in two thousand and three and they say still not enough companies have implemented the relevant policies to ensure that there's a fair while distribution remember see one percent of south africa's rather one percent of south africans hold sixty percent of the country's economy and and most of those people are white this is an issue that continues to bring about a lot of debate in south africa people here say they calls need to be here heard this isn't necessarily about race but they say about equality. the ugandan pop star turned opposition m.p. bobby wian has told journalists no amount of brutality or oppression will stop us

he was speaking to reporters in washington d.c. remember why an accused ugandan sorry he accused ugandan security forces of torturing him one was detained three weeks ago along with thirty two other activists he is charged with treason and accused of throwing stones at a convoy of cars carrying president yoweri seventy not presenting myself as a victim because i'm nobody's victim i mean. present resilience rather than even we advocate for people power which indeed is our power and to our site that no amount of brutality no amount of repression is going to cost down. we stroll to ourselves that we shall insist on the fight for freedom. for treatment and as soon as my treatment is done and going back home more from our correspondent rosalind jordan following events in

washington. the ugandan politician and musician bobby wine is in the united states for medical treatment for what he says was torture at the hands of his government's military mr weiner who has made a career out of criticizing the government of president yoweri move seventy says that he was beaten multiple times so much so that he could even get medical treatment that he could trust actually heal he says that he is now trying to get the united states government to send a message to them the seventy government that it is at great risk of losing its military aid about a half billion dollars if it does not change its ways in terms of abusing political opponents this also says that once he is done with his treatment here in the united states he's going back home because he says that in a country where eighty percent of the people are under the age of thirty five it's his obligation to make certain that people have a better opportunity and

a better life that they don't have to go into exile for things such as medical care or for political freedom. also says that this is not about him but he is using his political and his public notoriety in order to bring attention to the human rights situation in uganda more than thirty people are missing after a powerful earthquake struck the northern japanese island of hokkaido the six point seven magnitude quake triggered landslides it caused widespread damage difficult week really for japan remember it was hit by the most powerful typhoon in twenty five years as well as more. the six point seven magnitude earthquake leveled houses and triggered landslides soldiers and police still digging three mobs and rubble is a growing for the missing. i was trapped under a wardrobe and couldn't run away it's a horrible mess inside the house. it was intense it felt like it shook cars until

lately the doors of the fridge in the kitchen and the chest of drawers were thrown open the quake struck in the early hours it knocked out power to all of those five and a half million residents power lies in an area the size of austria and main airport a craft was shaken by a very different kind of turbulence. in the whole day i've heard reports such as people having cardiac arrests landslides collapsed buildings and large scale blackouts saving people's lives is a priority while the government deals with the disaster relief we will deal with this crisis like it has been a grueling week for japan typhoon j.p. killed at least ten people when the most powerful storm in twenty five years there struck on choose day among the chaos caused council airport in closed as runways flooded and millions of people lost power japan's very well prepared for natural

disasters but at the same time there's not much preparation you can do when a mountain collapses on to homes so clearly they're going to need to bring out equipment that can bury the houses japan is shaken by around twenty percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude six and higher every year so as mala just a warning of aftershocks of more quakes to come. north korea's leader has told south korean diplomats he has faith in donald trump and wants to get rid of nuclear weapons before trump's first term ends kim jong un also agreed to a third summit with south korea's president expected to be held later this month. the u.s. and india have signed deals on military cooperation. and defense secretary james mattis met their indian counterparts in new delhi they agreed on holding joint military drills and setting up a defense hotline says the u.s.

would not penalize india for buying a weapons system from russia he also said talks to dissuade india from buying iranian oil would continue and still in india the supreme court has ruled that homosexuals should not be treated as a crime. i say rights campaign is celebrated as the landmark judgement was delivered it strikes down a colonial era law which made homo sexual acts punishable by up to ten years in prison. still ahead for you on.

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