all today and have a whole hour as the heart of our in the house it's in those e-mails alone all the harm done that i dassent our heart don't hire a nation only you should it's done it's into us now when the mayor you go i want you to find out if beijing has been trying to influence politics at the grassroots level we've come to see chanting true he's a pro independence village chief in an area that has traditionally been pro unification this afternoon he's busy showing some primary school children his offices chan says mainland chinese academics have asked for similar tourists come and go home and being. soon fade so all the endings are high where i'm going strong here and. now the knowledge i. cheering his first year in office chan was invited to visit china with a group of other village chiefs. it's a lot these are the go down here and. bang bang with one arm and all that for them

is one thing joe doesn't mind our city. taiwan's mainland affairs council says these sorts of exchanges have been happening for some time for many years. in this gentile media opus's or behavior that sends itto somehow and they mean that in the center for any. real wouldn't they be aware that incident home. back at the offices of the concentric patra to some alliance in taipei chief. has decided to offer our under cover of such a job. but first he wants to see some id and i'm going to. let our go down as a reviewer to the public. although i don't know how to give it wasn't much of a couple. more a little later we find out why won't probably run in the world because you're.

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a new. type of lead light to guide you on eagle. on hypermodern we don't run. the concentric patrick as i'm a lions china's taiwan affairs office and the taipei police don't respond to our requests for comment. beijing's attempts to simple tenuously intimidate and charm the taiwanese public have drawn mixed results and annual poll by the taiwanese public opinion foundation found more respondents viewing china favorably than unfavorably for the first time since the survey started but in a separate survey conducted by the mainland affairs council sixty four point seven percent of respondents agreed that the taiwanese government should take stronger steps to prevent infiltration by the chinese government during cross straits exchanges. for most taiwanese historical ties to

china are hard to ignore. culturally the two sides have much in common like this traditional lion dance these teenagers are learning in a village outside the capital taipei. their teacher is a village chief chin jong way he's a supporter of chiding when but has also been criticized for leading other villages chiefs on exchange visits to china. was engines are you tired i'm naked and in your jeans you are in your city even yours that i would have in your home for them been there were just too dumb to the email bomb on forgot she. makes it a point to show us this creature a lion unique to taiwan. he says he supports democracy but sidestepped the issue when we asked for his views on unification of the eating good orders from widgets

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the syrian province where no one is safe a step up of air strikes around just a day off to turkey warned of a potential. hello from doha everyone i'm come this is the world news from al-jazeera a consulate set alight protests is on the street now iraq's parliament holds an emergency session as it struggles to contain the anger in basra. also a death sentence confirmed for seventy five people leading preacher among them over a two thousand and thirteen sit in in the egyptian capital. i'm joined now in sweden a country anticipating its most important election in new battle over values and identity with the rise of the far right.

so the war planes are back in the air and dozens of bombs of rained down on the syrian rebel held province of idlib a day after warnings about what a final offensive could mean turkey's president repeated his warnings early on saturday that he wouldn't watch from the sidelines if the world were to turn a blind eye to the killing but within hours some of the heaviest air raids in a month were being reported we've got stephanie decker of course live in on taqiyya near to that turkish syria border stefania we're looking maybe at a portent of things to come here. well i think it's very possible a lot of big deal was made whether the offensive the started or not particularly pro-government media reporting that according to military sources on the ground it had but there's been no official statement but i think when it comes to syria the best bet is to read into what happens on the ground so what we saw today as you

mentioned was the largest escalation since bombing resumed on in the province on tuesday just over three weeks of sidon skies since then and of course less than twenty four hours since the three leaders of iran russia and turkey met in teheran what was significant to change the six killed today but the bombardment happened in the countryside of the southern provinces suddenly in the province so it's sparsely populated and there's far more concern but what will happen if the military offensive starts to move towards the cities in the more densely populated areas now just to give you an indication of what it is like for the syrian civilians as some of our colleagues from al jazeera arabic were on the ground close to one village in the south of bedlam province when they witnessed a syrian helicopter dropping barrel bombs quite terrifying video they captured let's take a look at what they saw. if

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but. so stephanie was saying their picture is filmed by our friends from al-jazeera arabic in southern parts of italy but believe it is as you were saying that everybody's areas under attack now not largely inhabited is that right so it's sort of almost like a i don't like using a phrase that is but almost a dry run for what might be coming. they are sparsely populated as you probably see it's open and it's tiny villages and a lot of the civilians that been living in those areas have moved further north so yes the the concern has always been there's a let's just put it into perspective that the rumors are always been that that would be the first part of the campaign what you're seeing happening now in southern india province to the concern is of course once it moves towards the more densely populated areas three over three and a half million people live in particular around the cities and the armed groups in

there many of those come all are among the civilians in those cities this is why you have the u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura calling for you know the rebels to leave the cities well that seems very unlikely this is why turkey is talking to the rebels to try and get them to distance themselves between the sort of more radicals and the moderates it is very very complicated indeed and of course we know by certainty that damascus is keen is determined to take back. and the russians and iranian support them in doing so and turkey is still doing everything it can to try the political route to try and stop that stephanie decker reporting from taqiyya thank you. in other news iraq's parliament is still in emergency session into saturday night as it tries to work out how to contain protests in the city of basra another curfew is now in place there have been weeks of protests over failing government services unemployment and corruption is all spiraled into a violent few days several major buildings set ablaze on friday that included the

iranian consulate earlier in the wake of state t.v. building was also burned and at least twelve people have died during all of these demonstrations that. we should draw a distinction between the political factors and the other issues namely security and services unfortunately events have developed rapidly since the parliament's first session of monday last as a result of the escalating political wrangling which if turned into armed confrontations will be gravely dangerous we are keen on steering away from plunging into such danger now the situation in a basil is on their control more from rob matheson our reporting from baghdad. the city of basra in iraq is now under curfew but iraqi politicians are still struggling to find some sort of solution to the violence that has hit the city over the last few days but today's meeting of the iraqi parliament is like every other meeting of this iraqi parliament that have been accusations there's been finger pointing and there's been a lot of blame the but there's been no tangible solution to the problems that the

city of basra is facing the reason for that is very simple since may this parliament has effectively been blocked it's been deadlocked and that's because there was no result of the election that happened in may that everybody could agree on therefore nobody up until this point has been prepared to agree on anything this is made of course the people are very angry because they are hoping to get money from the government to the prime minister that all the body has promised them will help them through the circumstances that they're facing but as the arguments go on in the iraqi parliament that money too is deadlocked now the big concern for the people in and around basra is how they are going to react to the security forces have been told to move in and contain the violence by prime minister body but he has warned them not to use live ammunition against the protesters but interestingly

there is normally a social structure of tribal elders in and around basra and throughout iraq in fact who would normally control this kind of behavior before it reaches this stage but the objections that the protesters have are equally geared towards those tribal elders they're ignoring those tribal elders so now the protesters essentially have almost a free hand to do what they want because there is a concern that if the security forces step in all the tribal elders step in things could spiral out of control right across the country. an age of the death penalty has been confirmed against seventy five people for their part in protests against the twenty thirteen military coup fifty others were given a life sentence and that includes the former muslim brotherhood spiritual leader muhammad but they most of them were protesters who survived a massacre at a public square in cairo the full story from charlotte bellus. it began here in cairo as robust square in august twenty third protesters had staged

a sisson demonstration against the military coup which deposed egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsy security forces moved in with a now as more than nine hundred protesters had been killed rob's have ordered from you know us just a con artist just to come out and now five years later president foster l.c.c. this government has decided to kill seventy five more. over its main mohammed asha one and you're seen how mature men are sentenced to death. they were part of a mass trial of seven hundred thirty nine people all arrested as they protested against cc's twenty thirteen take over most were detained during the robot massacre the group was charged with murder incitement to break the law illegal gathering and membership of an illegal group that group is the muslim brotherhood the now. former president morsy its spiritual leader mohammed badie a is one of forty seven people

who received a life seem to nearly four hundred others will spend at least ten years in prison. you consider trying to be a completely unfair one because of its nature its a master if you're prosecuting a large number of people let's say it's impossible to prove individual can the responsibility in that case one of the most well known of the detainees is photo journalist mahmoud known to show he was detained at the rubble protest as he photographed security forces moving in on the crowds he is expected to be released in the coming days after receiving a five year seem to its which is already served in pretrial detention. was that i can has nothing to do with anything he's a journalist and he has no affiliations with anyone he was holding a camera and taking pictures not a weapon or anything like that. he recruited a day that changed the lives of many egyptians five years ago

a recorded voice warned protest is to end the system. i everyone wants to avoid any bloodshed it seems the bloodshed was not avoided being and may not be now the egyptian courts have ordered the execution of seventy five people who is of the accused say they'll appeal. shallot ballasts al-jazeera. now the greek prime minister elect it's a process is due to speak soon in the salon a key unveiling his plans for the future of the country but look at this thousands of people already out protesting on the streets all greece's second city before you even said a word to clashes with riot police on a number of major roads over the past hour rounds of tear gas have been fired as in molotov cocktails as well one of the protests is over the state of the economy and all staring measures but what we're looking at here clashes over the deal reached over the name macedonia is

a separate issue after decades of debate greece agreed that the neighboring former yugoslav republic of macedonia can officially use the title of north macedonia which is upset the great nationalists. add on top of that going to say that of them a lot of clout going up add on top of that you've got the german chancellor angela merkel who's in macedonia itself showing support for the referendum on the name change that is a lot of tension at the moment is and what we're seeing this.