accusations were made that the west had imperialistic intentions with its population control project if. a department was founded at the united nations in nine hundred sixty nine the un f.p.a. the united nations population fund through this ostensibly neutral paff western governments channel millions into population control in developing countries the major donors besides the united states were sweden great britain germany and switzerland. south korea was among the earliest testing grounds for population control the country was devastated after the korean war at the same time there was a baby boom with the highest birth rates in the world the united states participated in the reconstruction from the very beginning population control being high on the agenda.

these four careen women grew up in a village two hundred kilometers from seoul and still remember the war and the time that followed. by that call that has him up here tegan. okee being a little. silly there. really are you want all my. days on molly to. go slow the regular mom. hello. to my poor lonely video mom. who. wanted me to also look cuddle and it doesn't look like we don't really want her there may have been down. through what the campaign american would all who feel divided government i'm good at the long walk long long looked to cookie hits of in

that you were the western family planners formed armies of so-called health workers in cooperation with the korean government thousands of them combed the country registering fertile couples urging them to use contraception contraceptives publicly distributing that would have previously been inconceivable in south korea as well as in other parts of the world. you know in their. own ways and the people that actually are in the gardens i am. i your general will china got them all who who all your own where there who had to. pay most of you couldn't own so on but more i did do you know our. western countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted

into mobile medical units documents show that their task was not health promotion the population council an american foundation expressed a clear cut mission to the korean ministry of health. these vehicles are given to help improve living standards in korea for vigorous attack on the problem of excessive population growth. i think it is a tree. trunk at the end of our new god model of the ego model. there are two will at the new planet tell you what all of us actually that this. will probably i'm going to cover is that secure our knowledge will. instead of letting citizens plan their own families family planners made having fewer children as citizens duty they were not interested in fighting poverty but only in

preventing the poor from having babies. mobile clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as nine hundred fifty six because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. western family planners flooded the country one of the pioneers was the american dr sheldon siegel he founded apartment for reproductive medicine in one of the largest state hospitals in new delhi and trained indian medical students. although early versions of i.e. d.'s had fallen into disrepute in the west siegel smuggled them to india in one thousand nine hundred sixty four he declared them as christmas decorations at

customs and had them inserted into the utah right of women without the knowledge of the government. in a letter he wrote. the present approach is to distribute the ones i have on hand to private gynecologists we are also inserting some in monkey. my feeling is that in the long run it may be faster to quietly accumulate evidence from these sources before trying to press for wider distribution and government family planning clinics i do not want to raise the question with health minister dr yaar if the answer is likely to be negative because we would then be in a precarious position if we pursued human studies at all. it didn't take long for the indian government to give the green light the united states agency for international development even send non-sterile intrauterine devices to india serious complications often a rose sometimes with fatal consequences. despite

this the family planners increased the pressure and the. indian government cooperated they said quotas for sterilizations an i.u.d. insertion paying doctors and health workers premiums poor and educated women were the main targets the bait money and exchange for their fertility. so you have this system where people at every level or big being given money money from the united states from the united nations from sweden from norway money to agree to sterilize ation or money to get other people to agree to sterilization even if in some cases that eventually bad rounding them and trucking them to camps where they were sometimes sterilized under the most appalling circumstances. sheldon siegel visited one of these camps in one thousand nine hundred sixty two he

described it to his superior i spent sunday at a women's sterilization camp and found it fascinating after the surgeon sows up the abdomen the ladies get off the operating table by themselves and walk out of the operating theatre i can honestly say that the operating conditions and adherence to sterility that dr and i observe in doing our hysterectomy is in monkeys for actual insertion are infinitely better yet who can argue with success. and the situation in india got out of control in one thousand nine hundred seventy five the government of india gandhi forced eight million women and men to undergo sterilization this dark chapter in indian history became known as emergency period .

the idea of population control what was so seductive to national leaders people like indira gandhi was the idea that they could achieve majority in one generation and they could do it with crash programs even if it required taking some risks even if were some people were going to get hurt this was something that was going to make india a modern nation and was going to improve everyone's welfare in the long run what they didn't understand is that in many rural societies these children were their parents' only source of security in all these right and not only that but in poorer societies even children in many cases are able to support themselves and help their parents even from a relatively young age. people or places like the population council or the ford foundation they realize that parents and poor societies in many cases prefer to have sons that what they began to think was if only they had some way of helping those parents determine whether the fetus was

a female or male then they might along with abortion they might have a quicker way of reducing fertility rates the head of the population council determines a clear direction in one nine hundred sixty seven men did research efforts leading to improve contraceptive technologies or practical methods of determining the sex of an unborn child so that parents could be assured of the sun. in the early one nine hundred seventy s. the time had finally come scientists develop chorionic villa's sampling or c.b.s. with this method a child sex could be identified before birth. abortion was forbidden in almost all developing countries sheldon siegel and his colleagues used their connections to the highest ranks in the u.s. government and with great success. any kissinger was u.s. president gerald ford secretary of state at the time in the one nine hundred

seventy four document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive d. population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. no country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. where women in the united states were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies american foundations and politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. in the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are omnipresent in india today once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low socio economic standing like nineteen year olds the jena.

today's with her brother's family he is her protector and saved her life three years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. flashback after vanished sold everything travelled two thousand kilometers to new delhi and reported her disappearance to the aid organization of nobel laureate . no there are no games and nobody can move. in here. right. shams or was not able to accomplish anything on his own even the police turned him

away several times when pressured by the aid organization the police finally took action in the village or said gina was being held. near. a woman claiming to be mother in law pulled out a marriage certificate the shortage of women is particularly extreme in the north and indian state of. parents desperately looked for wives for their songs. the village elder ultimately explained what happened to such an oh. god i may be home alone to tell you. they're going to take. you not if you go not them other than the common are you hit. the truth finally came

out when the residents turned the girl over to the police the entire village had collected money for a number of bachelor's she was married to one man and abused as a sex slave by seven others this is one of the consequences of the severe lack of women. it's not an exception. traffickers go through slums looking for girls when they disappear hardly anyone goes looking for them. the traffickers are often acquaintances are neighbors. girls and women like seguin or suffer the consequences of population policies

introduced an expedited by western family planners fifty years ago in india. pregnant woman part that she would selectively goods and have only boys so this was created by the so-called academic medical profession promoted by a ford foundation and a lot of other in jews we tried the whole project. i think it took thirty students for a year m.b.a. . so about five. hundred people who are board of. the gynecologist. was trained at the same hospital where sheldon siegel carried on his research. i was thrilled with the. research going. and how to find ordered for boy

or girl before birth. overproduce a girl of course. prenatal sex determination was the biggest breakthrough in population control this way girls were aborted on mass and birth rates were duce two fold fewer babies were being born and fewer girls that could later bear children. daughters are weeded out in china as well one in five boys presently born when later not be able to find a wife mother so worried they advertise it countless marriage markets for their surplus sons in shanghai there's such a market every sunday in people's park. was

it the us that says it aware we will always. wonder then when they. do when the. man who has. power that they are how much how we when. they are why is it we seen. you had some minutes. he should insist jacen says it's a teaching. these are mothers who have only one son because they were permitted to have only one child this was the chinese strategy for population control. that. day one of a new era in television news we badly need at this moment leadership and values

this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand or hinder refugees who live here. i got to come in you're almost all i'm hearing is good journalism president hosni mubarak has resided. there such a. cut off old allies the attempts of coverups the high water diplomacy. his loved ones some form of closure we saw the syrian army flag hoisted high in the city as well as posters of syrian president bashar assad to say record player. it's a good two missiles one of the hundred meters away from us we're on the frontline but it's. about the money doesn't happen now but politically. they wanted for two three billion dollars with

a weapon that was six billion pounds in commission. there's no hope of ending war because there's always a small holes to call for really really good mistakes. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera at least three hundred seventy three people have been confirmed dead and more than one hundred twenty are missing after a tsunami struck parts of indonesia without warning on saturday rescue teams of racing to find survivors on the islands of java and sumatra twelve thousand people

have been moved to higher ground as experts warn more tsunamis could hit in the coming days president joker with his promise to upgrade tsunami detection and warning systems at least twenty nine people have been killed in a car bomb and gun attack in the afghan capital kabul more than three hundred fifty people were trapped when gunmen stormed the government building in the city fighting there has now ended and security forces have killed of the four attackers . the poor performance of u.s. stocks worsened on monday despite the efforts of the treasury also three major indices closed down just under three percent in the shorter trading day on sunday treasury secretary steven the new chain called the leaders of six of the us his biggest banks and was assured they could survive the decline trump has blamed the federal reserve for the economic uncertainty israel will hold that early general election in april next year the announcement follows a deadlock over a controversial military conscription bill the vote had been shed jule for november

two thousand and nineteen if prime minister benjamin netanyahu was returned to office he could be on course to become israel longest serving leader. if you. think anybody in a great partnership. u.s. military officials are heading to turkey to meet their turkish counterparts and discuss coordination on syria later this week it follows the surprise u.s. withdrawal from the country where there is a back of the syrian kurdish why p.g. forces against eisel a spokesman for turkish president have the hun says turkey will not let up in the fight against isis pakistan's former prime minister has been sentenced to seven years in jail and find a twenty five million dollars after being found guilty of corruption the court said now was sharif was unable to prove a source of income that led him to his ownership of a steel mill in saudi arabia sharif denies the charges. those are the headlines

stay with us the politics of population control continues next then i'll have the al-jazeera news hour for you in half an hour but i see that. the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls after that yeah delay will be announced the winner of the already controversial presidential election join us for special coverage of the are these election. al-jazeera. affluent americans started a new movement most of them were men from well known scientists to the super rich like john d. rockefeller the third together they wanted to curb the large numbers of children worldwide. so you had the system where people at every level were big being given money from the united states from the united nations from sweden from norway to agree to our money to get other people to agree to sterilization prenatal sex

determination was the biggest breakthrough in population control this way girls were aborted on mass. daughters are weeded out in china as well one in five boys presently born one later not be able to find a wife. u.s. president richard nixon and his secretary of state henry kissinger arrived in beijing in one thousand nine hundred seventy two it was a historic meeting with mounts a tongue about the balance of power and the mutual commitment to world peace. there is no reason for us to be enemies. neither of us domination over the other. neither of us think. and will the world. but the fear of the

americans of chinese supremacy and thus the supremacy of communism was great and the fear that chinese population growth seemed unstoppable. after nixon's visit the floodgates opened for western family planners the chinese government had a sympathetic ear for them. mao's successor deng xiaoping introduced the one child policy millions were trained as les health workers the so-called barefoot doctors their mission distributing contraceptives all over the country and ensuring that couples only had one child. they have. no. family planning became a matter of state if anyone expected

a second child they faced draconian punishments. the government used graffiti on building facades warning people to obey you can beat it out you can kill it you just cannot give birth to it. although the media reported forced sterilization and abortions the west donated money to the chinese population program at first this only came from organizations like the ford foundation but in one nine hundred seventy nine even the united nations population fund a fifty million dollars to the chinese government. an employee of i p p f one of the donor organizations sounded the alarm. i think that in the not too distant future this will blow up into

a major press story as it contains all the ingredients for sensationalism communism forced family planning murder of viable fetuses parallels with india etc when it does blow up it is going to be very difficult to defend. but the warnings were not only nord the u.n. population fund also presented china with an award for outstanding contributions we guarding birth control who do they choose to give it to it wasn't to reproductive rights advocates you know it wasn't to people whose lives were risk because or trying to campaign to give people and especially women the right to own and control their own bodies it was just the opposite they decided to honor the leader of china's course of population control program a chinese general. you know who had presided over the most egregious period in the entire history of the program and they chose to honor indira gandhi who was responsible for what until then was the worst population program of all the

emergency period program in india. winded the u.n. population fund support countries financially that forced people to be sterilized and have abortions. you have to bring in money to improve the kind of contraception . for them why you are improving their health you also have to be in a country to be able to talk to authorities to say you have been invited us in case a better way of helping your women tell me the whole russia now for giving in there on the first population overboard after the start as a forced sterilization of for many people as well as to the chinese. now. need to be very clear. that goes i will exact given by the

united nations member states. it. struck. at that time the united states was the most important member state contributing forty percent of the budget was the u.n. population fund simply the puppet of its benefactors. forty years after these population policies supported by the west over thirty million chinese men remain involuntary bachelors because of the shortage of women. this is why millions of unemployed men from rural areas move to the cities as migrant workers they aim to earn money to improve their chances of finding a bride. leapin works in a selfie stick factory near hong kong at twenty seven he also does not have

a girlfriend yet. on your way. down there and for no it's. the let's have more than lands. i'm going. anywhere. near you know that. you know where. you. live in the. that song was young i mean yeah so you're what's. your point. the number of corn goon continues to increase especially in the countryside chinese women prefer well off men from the city. china's problematic a lack of women will not change in the coming decades current birth records show a continued gender imbalance amongst newborns.

parallel to the increased mark of women the trafficking of girls prostitution and child abductions have risen dramatically in china. the activist two year in visits to parents of pan shooting a little girl who disappeared but he has no good news there is still no trace of their three year old daughter. i'm gonna. push it off i mean to and from mendoza content i can be how you want your meal. to sit as it should only be a meal kind of some off the family a meal so yeah this is one is a tacit i'm sure and all knowledge to themselves see how hope has a balancing. the

girls are often abducted by someone from the village before the child reaches the person who contracted to have taken she will have passed through many hands with each transaction the price goes up ultimately the product girl costs roughly eight thousand dollars and for the buyers the deal always pays off. a day out of her to push you on a story on daughters and as you are if you know what i am about which you are i reach officer under a fan of the. toughest jobs or it was a did you know somebody because if you put on a very solid title yet here like in other years you got a lot harder so you know that you get a boy to a busy are young for a lot of them but that he might not have the way to tell you about in riyadh bio jali iow doctors are only going to be software.

to some mama. that hasn't who wouldn't. know you have been a hot young woman team man will have his home guys in you the. ideal need. to sort of photos and that you also neal you'll fussin a lot to needing a. to need the council are much harder. they don't source on high density. statistics say men just show the higher the surplus of men the higher the crime rate and the number of violent crimes against women.

the american political scientist valerie hudson least searches and teaches the impact of this surplus of men up the bush school of government in texas. you're creating a pool of already socially disadvantaged young men who are already predisposed to challenge the established order now you deepen their grievance there is no hope for them to finally become adult men within their society without taking more drastic action. statistically the majority of crimes worldwide is committed by young unattached men when men enter into relationships or have children the likelihood of them committing a crime decreases. valerie hudson views asia's massive surplus of men as a serious threat to global stability. when you get

instability and violence and insecurity and the two most populous nations on earth i don't see how that that can spill over into global international relations whether we're talking about the rise of china whether we're talking about the future of india's a democracy in all of these questions are affected by what's going on with the women of india and china. meanwhile the indian government reacted and outlawed sex determination in the early one nine hundred ninety s. and yet they have never been as many abortions of girls as today because with alter a sound technology sex determination has become cheap and safe. despite the ban it is only a question of money to find a doctor who is willing to break the law and revealed the gender of the unborn

child. the middle class in india is growing and as expected educated indians want fewer children little has changed about the preference for sons especially in the upper class. a michaud was twenty five years old when she married a computer scientist were. when her father in law was a high ranking government employee. in india the bride must pay the groom's family a dowry ameesha gave her in-laws an apartment. having a son is like winning the lottery for some people in india.

my love. to all load on monday the killer got all night the lady gave me. a load of god though will be book. may move would you believe that us and the media covered them with their determined doctor gets our doctor because i don't want to give up the magick questioning but the doctor just said jack up got i also don't want to go to iraq as a rule of wooldridge to get him out that you're going to like me like you would be a doctor and all that arcadia my thirty two someone just there to look you the way which i low level doctor will they give the word us really care nine be a be index and that was that i was able joske about me question what i made a boo was me out they would tell me who she was that was working with. art here about.

what to me my dream a million as i play nickel. emu we will make a dime we all know games are going to be a pretty as they were both the bad maybe bored the corner looking at the memo make a buck apparently the big time don't last time we will only guess a bigger game would be as a leader not for me grave me too. radical girl so much remark in me god. that and. a good the way danny there's a. city. for a woman to be cast out by her in-laws is nothing short of the societal death

penalty in india. so. as in china and india the lack of women of marriageable age in south korea has now become a problem. you have to walk through with a little. to none that i mean doc you go. and. have a little girl i'm ten months into it and. work with a bigger man behind you. is it like. a gag and you put our cooking not law we could but i knew what. and by now if you.

only knew what it will. be. a lucrative business has emerged around women as a commodity that which is missing in one's own market after decades of selective abortion is simply imported from poor and neighboring countries. but south korea faces another problem nowadays south korean women do not want to have children at all lation is drastically declining once again politics has intervened with drastic measures whereas young women sixty years ago were encouraged to have abortions now it is strongly frowned upon and criminally prosecuted to terminate a pregnancy. lehi young and wang chih song two students from seoul recalled what they learned at school on the subject of abortion. they were full.

of oku. some. bushman thought. pair up with their words i love all. of our pit are. how do you dark. areas of the cricket who are skinny are who. keeps the key to all. the young women examine the subject of abortion for their master's thesis. beaune was soon who directed the women's development institute in seoul for twenty five years is an advisor to the students. the students tracked down dubious agencies that are betrayed illegal abortions for

large sums of money once again women are the victims of population policy illegal abortions bear great health risks but the south korean government holds on to the ban of abortion today their mission is offspring at all costs. we're going out and don't take it out of our song and ought to get all. our song it tom. and i'm going to go. cook and obviously that me up and. stuff that was these. disserve korean government has gone so far as to publish a map of seoul on the internet showing where women of childbearing age live the

darker the pink color the grade of the selection for men seeking a wife. the chinese government has also noticed that a society without women will die out in the long run a two child policy has been introduced in hopes of regaining a gender balance and solving the problem of an ageing population. the government is again resorting to advertisements on building facades this time it is for daughters and therefore for potential future mothers. no girls no daughters in law. the government in india is also backpedaling it also wants to motivate people to give birth to daughters there is

one information campaign after another once again the indian government is offering incentives. whoever gives birth to a daughter receives thirty five us dollars and a thank you letter from the ministry of health and family welfare. the gynecologist puny baby is familiar with the pressure on pregnant women he too performs abortions but never when it is a matter of the sex of the fetus dr beatty does not think much of the new government programs. give me one reason how how i suppose as a guy as a woman she's pregnant who has never been to school has been the day she was born she was told that she's because she's a woman and then she gets pregnant in a new home with seven other people are telling her every day that will you know you'll lose everything that you have eleven if you produce a girl how do you go for it by feeling some street or writing

a poem or inventing the television spot no it doesn't work now the ultimate solution is of course that people start. respecting girls more than boys. they wanted to protect the world from a population explosion but they waged war on the poor not on poverty they supported education and economic security of women birth rates would have gone down on their own instead they forced contraception sterilization and abortion. history is repeating itself the u.n. population fund still use a sixty percent of their aid fund for family planning and once again private foundations demand population reduction at the time they base their arguments on

scarce resources today it is climate change. makes me nervous just as a the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's it was the rockefeller and ford foundation that issued marching orders to people all over the world it makes me nervous when i hear it's the gates foundation now because of its money that's preying upon a role in global public health similar you know when back of the nineteen fifties and sixties you had leaders from all over the world agreeing that population growth was a crisis right and agree that the united nations had to implement crash programs it makes me nervous now when people talk about the crisis of climate change and how it is we might even have to engage in crash programs. today africa is the main focus for population control the world bank and the u.n. population fund i'm currently pumping millions into family planning on the second largest continent and a large american corporation is supplying the ultra sound devices as in china south korea and india people in most african countries prefer sons.

there's plenty of joy settled weather for many of us in australia at the moment the

showers really are confined to the phone northern parts of queensland and across into the northern territory which is where you'd expect them to have a stunning view there will be a few more as we head through the next few days as well but should be fine and dry the temperatures in adelaide will be wrong as we head into wednesday up to around thirty six a quite a warm day for us but that we dropping in perth a bit more clouds rolling in here and a change in the wind direction we're going to get to around twenty three degrees now over towards new zealand and it's certainly been very wet here recently more rain still forming at the moment but that system will eventually pull away towards the east choose day looking very wet once more particularly across the north island but then it begins to clear out for wednesday so wednesday is the brighter day twenty two with the temperature in oakland not quite as warm forcing christchurch with the top temperature just sixteen if we had up towards the northern parts of asia though is certainly feeling quite cool for many of us here at the moment eight degrees that's just the maximum for us in tokyo it will get

a little bit milder as we head into wednesday i think this time we'll get to double figures she gets around the west. a maximum of minus twenty six. just. call the muslim which is saying he's now being held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he's a journalist as journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence was of truth we will continue i news coverage with

professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of all colleague mahmoud to say and all journalists detained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah and this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes searching for survivors

finding more bodies three hundred seventy three people now confirmed dead in indonesia. shifting alliances with the u.s. pulling out of syria kurdish forces are turning to russia but so is their enemy turkey u.s. stocks suffer a further four president trump lames the federal reserve while others are laying him and we're live in bethlehem's manger square where christmas day is just an hour away. with all your sports including the n.b.a. takes over on christmas day and that's le bron james versus the golden state warriors once again. rescuers in indonesia are stepping up their efforts to find survivors and recover the bodies of those killed in saturday's tsunami at least three hundred seventy three people died and thousands thousands more were injured when huge waves struck

without warning late on saturday experts say underwater eruptions could trigger more tsunamis in the coming days andrew thomas says empathic long province. listen carefully over the beliefs of the way a regular blue. but it's not hidden in the gloom forty seven kilometers out to sea and crack a total of all it's still erupting. for months but on sunday the eruptions triggered an underwater landslide that caused the tsunami that led to this hotel's to the sea front. some workers and guests saw the wave coming and ran and then a book about because not like the usual beav it was a huge peeve before one thought and it was just rolling and rolling after at this hotel two children died swept out of their ground floor rooms as they slept one of

their bodies was found in the swimming pool after the tsunami it retreated across the road and yet i showed her damaged house she support meters above normal see that all here yet the water powered into her home and into her shop next door. after no money the shop's gone too so i've got no income i don't know what i'm going to do. the main road through two hundred grand has been cleared of debris but what remains of the stephanie villa hotel has not twenty nine people are known to have died here seven more a missing the water did a pretty good demolition job here but what it left behind those men and now clearing completely fearing and in some ways hoping they find some of the bodies of the missing insides people are nervous along this coast watching the sea for signs that another wave could come not knowing which rumble means they should run andrew

thomas al-jazeera hundred one indonesia. well as the cleanup begins questions are being asked about how such a large tsunami could happen without any warning indonesian president joe cole we dawdle has visited the affected area to see the devastation for himself he's promised the country will be better equipped for future natural disasters pride reports there from my new district on the west coast of java. indonesian president djoko we don't go visiting the tsunami affected area prone to earthquakes his country deals on a regular basis with their disastrous consequences using detection equipment to warn of tsunamis ahead of time on this occasion the president appeared to admit something went wrong. i think in the new budget year of twenty nineteen early january a lot of the replacement of broken equipment or old ones which could no longer be

used. the landslide of the undersea volcano made it harder to detect than a regular earthquake and happening at night many people had no idea the wave was on its way to strike them. this couple only realized it when water started surging through the small food store they operate near the beach that had a theme there was no warning at all even a tsunami warning when it suddenly happened in husband believes the government should invest in better monitoring equipment but i hope the government can use new technology because you're afraid there's going to be a voice in the future. living in such close proximity to a rumbling giant people here want that solution to come sooner rather than later and the experts seem to agree it's highly likely that there will be more tsunami generated by submarine landslides in the question is when is that going to happen

we don't know are they going to be bigger ones we don't know what warning do you have well it's an active volcano and that's the essentially the warning. longer after the dead brief from the tsunami has been cleared away the fears of people living here will linger many of the people who used to live down here at sea level are now in temporary accommodation on higher ground whether they'll return here depends in part on whether they'll be able to confidently predict what that sea will do next right al-jazeera and your district in tunisia. at least twenty nine people have been killed in a car bomb and gala time in the afghan capital kabul hundreds of people were trapped when gunmen stormed the government building in the city four of the attackers have been killed and the area has been cleared no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack were most likely he was

a security analyst think kabul he was at the scene when the attack happened and described what he saw. i processed by the media just after the attack a few minutes after the attack took place. it is reported to be two car but car bomb. blasts taking place near the ministry of public works and blast took place just before. stuff getting out of your offices and going our way from or saw yes a lot of smoke coming out of the idea was that the office was the fire had broken out in the building where the ministry spaced. do have some local apartments who were trying to residential and it's a semi does eventually area. u.s. military officials are heading to turkey to meet their counterparts later this week

they'll be discussing the surprise u.s. announcement on withdrawal from syria where u.s. forces have been backing the kurdish y.p. g. forces in their battle against eisel the turkish president trichet pipetta don says turkey will not give up the fight against eisel city or their thought up voting. rules why are we in syria to restore freedom to our brothers kurds and turks not just to eradicate the cherished organizations and not to leave syria and how it's in the grips of beisel we will not leave the arabs syria and the injustice of the units of the p.k. k. we will not leave our brothers at the mercy of these terrorist organizations was in a holder is in turkey's border with syria and is more in the complexity of the battle for power inside of the war torn country. it's thirty percent of syria's territory that can tip the balance of power the north east was america's zone of influence in this divided country it will soon pull out its forces about having longtime allies to wipe e.g.

the syrian kurdish are the group. truck decision to force. not only to see if. there's. a closer version of the russian. the syrian government that's why p.g. dominated syrian democratic forces is reaching out to the syrian government and russia the main power broker in syria to prevent a possible turkish military offensive or takeover of territory the u.s. has said it is going to coordinate its pull out with turkey a signal that turkish troops or its local allies will move in there is a new relationship between the nato allies after years of disagreement over syria but the warming of ties is testing russian turkish cooperation u.s.

withdrawal from from syria and that puts at risk relations between russia and turkey because if that states and turkey managed to reach the deal on syrian kurds in some way or another that puts at risk. russia turkey. agreements on it or russia's plans on friday was also. it's not clear how turkey will further behave itself in austin the format. russia turkey and iran have been closely working together on syria with what is known as the past in a format over the years the us has repeatedly tried to pull away from that alliance if the u.s. hands over the air to turkey it will not be good for iran so now turkey will be on a collision course with iran. the u.s. decision to withdraw could result in shifting partnerships and

a cease fire deal in syria's opposition controlled northwestern province of idlib could be in jeopardy that deal was the result of russian turkish cooperation despite opposition from the syrian government turkey wanted to prevent military action that could destabilize its security and create a massive refugee crisis now russian diplomats tell us it will be hard to constrain syrian president bashar assad from launching an offensive if turkey takes territory in the north east. the bargaining has begun zeneca their. southern turkey. and there has been a development because in a further unexpected foreign policy comment president trump said saudi arabia will be stepping in to support syria following the u.s. military pull out this is what trump tweeted he said saudi arabia has now agreed to spend the necessary money needed to help rebuild syria instead of the united states see isn't it nice when immensely wealthy countries help rebuild their neighbors

rather than a great country the u.s. that is five thousand miles away thanks to saudi. well for more of that let's speak to rob reynolds in washington d.c. it mean as far as i know we've had no statement from the saudis either confirming or denying what the president has tweeted do we know any more now on why he tweeted and where this might have come from. no idea really where it came from as you mentioned barbara the saudis have not made any announcement along these lines of this is only president from tweeting he gave no details about how much money saudi arabia might be willing to give to rebuild syria. when that money would be given what it would be spent on specifically and you know we just heard a very comprehensive report from zena hodor about all of the divisions within syria

and the different spheres of power and influence and territories that are controlled by various factions and powers and so who would get the money is another question would it be the assad regime it's just unknown exactly from from this brief tweet now from has often complained as we've heard in the past about the amounts of money that the united states spends militarily overseas and complaining that other countries like the nato alliance and south korea don't pay enough or don't pay their fair share and this tweet again comes right on the heels of the resignation of defense secretary james madison who quit over trump's decision to abruptly pull the remaining american troops out of syria and of course trump made no mention either of saudi arabia's involvement ongoing and.