counting the cost of al-jazeera. turkey moves fifty tanks to the syrian border as its defense and foreign minister flights of russia to discuss the u.s. troop pullout. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program yemen's hoofy rebels start handing control of the vital port of her data to the navy and coast guard under u.n. supervision. egypt says it security forces have killed forty people they are calling terrorists following the attack on a tourist bus in giza. and russia fences off crimea causing off the peninsular

alec's from the rest of ukraine. welcome to the program our top story turkey has sent dozens more tanks to itself in border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces who ankara calls terrorists at least fifty tanks arrived at a command post in a province in turkey it comes a day off to kurdish forces the syrian army to enter beach to protect the city from a turkish attack the syrian army says it did so on friday but both the u.s. and turkey say there's no evidence to support this claim just over a week ago u.s. president donald trump announced that the u.s. will withdraw its troops from syria meanwhile russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other in northern syria off the withdrawal of u.s. forces. the deal was struck at

a meeting in moscow on saturday between the foreign and defense ministers from both sides of the students are you going under standing was reached on how military representatives of russia will continue to coordinate these steps on the ground under new conditions with a view of finally rooting out terrorists through syria. well the situation in syria has changed dramatically in just the last two weeks on december nineteenth u.s. president donald trump made the surprise announcement that he's withdrawing all u.s. forces from the country that followed a phone call with the president. who pledged that turkey will finish off the fight against isolate syria but he's also threatened an invasion to oust kurdish fighters there president assad's ally russia is now positioning itself as the most powerful force in the region this as some arab nations normalize their relationship with syria on thursday the u.a.e. and bahrain reopened their embassies in damascus earlier this month sudan's

president became the first arab leader to visit since the war began in two thousand and eleven and tunisia has also decided to resume direct flights to syria or mohammed joins us now from gaziantep in turkey on the border with syria and so mohammed tell us more about the implications of russia and turkey coordinating in beach. well of course russia is the strongest ally bashar loss of government of the moment and tukey also has a lot of concern about the huge territory under the control of kurds sitting right next to each border war for nuking to fill the void left by the u.s. troops pull out and that's why they say they're going to coordinate their military activities in north. and north and syria of course

they are going to build to russia will have to accommodate tuckey's. about the continued to hold on these ten to twenty i just spoke about that is under the control of the cards who read considers to be terrorist but russia welcomed the invitation of the same cut of the syrian government forces to the city of mumbai and to protect them against the planned city of turkish offensive on the city so there's a bit of doubling up there but again they have both said that they will coordinate their activities and of course the talk of the guarding the territorial integrity of syria about the meeting today in most call diplomats say speaks of a situation where the syrian government forces my top of because of all took place in the country's held areas and of course in the aftermath of president trumps

troop withdrawal announcement we know that kurdish fighters have turned to damascus what role my assyrian army now play in this northern part of the country. well the kurdish leadership in syria have. already. said that they want to. cut a deal with. feeling that they have been pushed to the wall and abundant by the u.s. over the years of the war they say it's the thousands of u.s. troops will remain in that part of the country that has acted as a baton and from an all out offensive by turkey to take balls that they had on their control from them now that they are gone they say they felt it was easier to negotiate with the government of. an offensive from turkey of course.

hundreds of syrian troops who have been deployed to see. formed a bath or that's now dividing. the forces. from the cuts and they say under their protection they seem to be wanting this kind of foothold because bashar al assad is going to stop but nothing to get tired to syria back under his control and he's already looking for funds to rebuild the country thank you very much from the. i'm going to. security officials in yemen say hoofy rebels have started handing over control of the vital port of data to the government's navy and coast guard the transfer was carried out under the supervision of the united nations it's part of

a peace deal reached in sweden earlier this month u.n. officials say who see forces started to redeploy overnight to fees and saudi backed forces have also agreed to begin opening up routes to allow much needed aid to come through the data catherine shut down as a research or file by own center for strategic studies she told al-jazeera the current ceasefire appears to be holding but the saudis must ensure they keep to the terms to ensure that it lasts many trials have been a have been made in terms of trying to buy a house and hold this one is holding and i think it's looking really good you know the have made a commitment to holding on to it even though i have to say that this i would see how radically continue to attack them but they have maintained a distance and tried to to hold true to their commitment to the united nations so it is a really good debridement and i think that as well as the people are concerned it's a relief that show how can mum to go i mean the people cannot take

a new role so as far as civilians are concerned i think it's a great news it's a great move forward and hopefully it will continue but i would say that it's not so much it's down to the really it has a lot to do with saudi arabia and whether the regime there will decide to kind of lets out in yemen i mean while the saudi led coalition is using child soldiers from sudan against two fighters in yemen according to the new york times are among tens of thousands of survivors of the conflict in darfur reportedly recruited by saudi offices but the promise of good salaries report also says more experienced john jaweed fighters from darfur are working for as mercenaries. well the two year old boy whose yemeni mother sued the u.s. government to let her into the country so she could be with him has died her son died in a california hospital of a brain disorder is mother spent months trying to get a waiver to visit her son citizens from yemen have prevented from entering the u.s. on the donald trump's travel ban after filing

a lawsuit the boy's mother was granted a waiver earlier this month. now egyptian security forces have killed forty people during raids in the sinai peninsula and quite a cairo area egypt's government says that the dead were terrorists and were preparing attacks on government and terrorism facilities as well as christian churches statement came hours after a bomb targeted a terrorist bus in cairo killing three foreigners and that egyptian guy matheson has mall. a burned out shell all that remains of a tour bus hit by a roadside bomb near kabul you know what we saw people carry the dead bodies some people brought the wounded inside a number to take them to hospital and residents of the area helped carry the injured all of them were told us. fourteen vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza pyramids here in the ng but. sometimes attacks such as

this one can occur it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe tourists in egypt have sometimes been targeted as the government has tried to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula tourism is key to egypt's struggling economy where you're doing secretly in the egyptian regime that they're moving out of their own territory and now attacking the very primary source of income for many egyptians about thirty percent of the economy goes to tourism. within hours of the bombing the egyptian government published photographs it said showed some of what it called thirty suspected militants killed by security forces in raids in cairo's giza district egypt's government says the men had been planning attacks on tourists and state institutions a further ten armed fighters are reported to have been killed in the north of the sinai peninsula i think a lot of people will be asking how is it that within hours of this attack this

large number of suspects is normally are. identified but engaged and successfully killed if the intelligence within egypt is that good why were there not able to detect and disrupt this attack the remaining victims of the blast are being treated in hospital meanwhile investigators are trying to work out how a tourist bus could be bombed egypt's heavily secured capital rob matheson al-jazeera. russia has rejected calls by the leaders of france and germany to release ukrainian sailors captured near crimea last month twenty four members of the ukrainian navy were detained last month after russian forces up and fire on them in the coach straight which links the black sea with the hours of sea equate insists the sailors must be treated as prisoners of war meaning they won't stand trial for the crime and says they will be tried for border violation offenses. well

russia says it's extending a ban on imported goods from ukraine to include some five hundred million dollars of mainly industrial products so in response to economic sanctions by kiev on a list of russian companies and business figures is comes as a new cease fire between russian backed separatists and government forces in eastern ukraine is due to begin on saturday and as russia finishes building a fence sealing off crimea from ukraine as her diane reports. this border fence is meant to divide more than land the barrier built by russia separates and exclaimed from ukraine barbed wire and hundreds of sensors are now part of heightened security in the shadows of an ongoing conflict done as you can see on the alarm system is a very reliable technical tool it's going to fix to really detect and stop attempts to violate the borders of the state the sixty kilometer fence is built to deter would russia describes a sabotage groups along with illegal trafficking of weapons and drugs but critics

say its main objective is not security it's more likely a propaganda move by russia to demonstrate strengthening security separating from ukraine and to make sure that as they say infiltrated groups won't be able to cross the border in future i underline once again it's mere propaganda. a cease fire between russian backed separatist forces and ukraine a set to begin on saturday it's one of several cease fire says russia annexed crimea from ukraine in two thousand and fourteen against international law the un estimates more than ten thousand people have been killed in the conflict. french president a mineral mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel have welcomed the ceasefire they pledged to keep up pressure for the implementation of a two thousand and fifteen peace deal in eastern ukraine the french and german leaders also want russia to allow free passage of ships following recent tensions and both are calling for the release of ukrainian sailors hills. over

a month after unable clashes with the russian coast guard vessel de before seen in the upcoming holidays around new year on the orthodox christmas should be an occasion for the parties to concentrate on the needs of the civilian population they have been suffering from the conflict and its consequences for far too long with the fence now complete many wonder if it will also be a barrier in ending russia's conflict with ukraine katia lopez civilian al-jazeera . so have fun on the program person's home secretary declares a crisis and cut short his holidays off to dozens of migrants a quarter crossing the channel will be life in the ports of dover and callaway and why one of through top chefs is on a mission to get people making nutritious meals but the food they usually throw away.

we've had a few showers just around live a play a little more clout in sioux were at least inside of argentina into europe why some out of thick cloud across northern parts of asia still a chance of showers has to go on through the next couple days where just weather will be across the heart of the amazon will see some showers making their way into that eastern side of a quick draw it's impossible to see some lively showers we'll see those showers just pushing their way back into northern areas of argentina as we go on through the latter part of the weekend meanwhile want to see showers coming into the cabin but by and large it's fine and dry some glorious tropical sunshine temps going to thirty one celsius there in kingston a stairway in striving those showers into the western side of the caribbean yucatan peninsula could see wanted to see as we go on through the next day or so semi as the case on sunday may well have some wintry shower as to southern parts of the u.s. well. everts was eastern seaboard but it's down towards new mexico albuquerque seeing

a good dusting of snow as we went through friday that snow now in the process of for tracy but it's still there nevertheless you see tubby's in dallas struggling to five celsius malda up tools in northeastern kona but setting colder the sunday. in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of astronomy. copernicus knows this day to these medieval astronomers from the golden age. that streams in many ways with me the computers of the day you can use it to find the time you could navigate science in a golden age with german. welcome

back just a quick look at the top stories this hour now turkey has sent at least fifty more tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on the kurdish y p g base as russia and turkey agreed to keep cooperating in syria as u.s. forces prepare to withdraw. all security officials in yemen is saying the rebels have started handing over control of the vital port of a day dutch the government's navy and coast guard the transfer is being carried out under the supervision of the united nations and egyptian security forces have killed forty people they call suspected terrorists during raids in the sinai

peninsula and cairo it follows a bomb attack on a tourist bus in cairo that killed three foreigners and egyptian guy. now britain's home secretary is cutting short his holidays to return to the u.k. to tackle a wave of attempts by migrants and asylum seekers to cross the english channel sajid javid says the exception of more boats over the christmas period carrying men from syria and iran amounts to a major incident immigration minister caroline noakes is also visited dover to speak with border force officials we have correspondents on both sides of the channel let's start with sana gago who joins us live from dover on the southeast coast of the u.k. why has this been declared a major incident sagna. well mary it's not really so much about the numbers which are relatively few compared to the likes that we've seen in the mediterranean but it's more about exactly how it's happened this sudden surge which has happened really very recently since the start of november you've

had more than two hundred twenty people who've arrived in this in this manner when you consider that last year alone you had a dozen and that really is an enormous jump for this and this is also getting officials here especially the home secretary worried that in fact this could be another route that is opening up with the aid of human trafficking gangs people smugglers that have set up in the french town of callaway they believe the british believe that while they will do the best they can to try and and use the border force of police old border force officers and also even some hinting that perhaps the navy should be used as well they say that really we need they need to work together with french officials to try and tackle the root cause of this which they say starts with the gangs who are recruiting who are touting this are the roots for people who are so desperate to get out of the situations that they find themselves in

a on those makeshift camps that they want to get out of them even if it means undertaking enormously a dangerous journey in to get him to the u.k. in one of the one of the most busiest sea channels in the world all right thanks very much sunny go there in bernard smith is in the channel in france as we were hearing migration to england from france is on the rise what do we know about the factors that have been driving this search. well i am first of all that the small cams that remain here in cali we've been to one of them earlier on today where there's about six hundred migrants from from africa from iran from afghanistan and they are desperate desperate places there's no facilities no sanitation no electricity there just a few tense up against this very cold windy winter weather so it's understandable that people there perhaps might be desperate to escape the conditions that they're

in which is why it seems more of them have been taking to dinghies paying smugglers to get them across the channel the forest is here and the local charities don't really know why they people of suddenly turn to dinkies one theory is that so much money has been spent millions and millions of euros spent on strengthening the seaport here in cali the fences the c.c.t.v. the patrols that is so much harder even though it was before to either jump on the back of a lorry or to try and get on a train that sort of math that people used to try and cross so therefore they turned to the to the sea passage and that's why there seems to have been this uptick is mainly iranians we understand at the moment and that has prompted this sort of creation of the setting of this new network of smugglers with people who are prepared to pay them to make this very perilous journey across the channel it's cold it's dark of course it's wet it's windy there are strong sea currents and is

one the busiest waterways in the world is an extremely dangerous journey to make. all right thanks very much bennett smith and can read a perspective from that thank you janet. and have been pleas for peace on the eve of the controversial election in the democratic republic of congo martin for you lou the candidate for the largest opposition coalition attended a church service in kinshasa where the local archbishop appealed for calm ahead of sunday's vote two people were killed during a workers' strike in the city of beni on friday after the electoral commission excluded three opposition strongholds from voting after decades of violence the catholic church is seen by many as the country's main political mediator. we must not under any circumstances allow the elections become another opportunity to destroy the democratic republic of congo at this till the blood of the congolese people which has flowed too much already for decades. and now dash is closed down

its mobile internet connections as the country prepares for sunday's election the regulator says the move is designed to prevent what it calls rumors and propaganda surrounding the vote the election campaign has been marred by violence but the ruling party says the vote will be fair charles traffic reports from dakka. mohamad. has been the manager of this restaurant in the pan with this she capital dhaka for three years which sells cheap brick first to rickshaw drivers and passes boy but after weeks of violence in the build up to the national elections on sunday the hard truth. of what might happen that the violence will affect my life we may be poor because of business. prime minister sheikh hasina is a wame league which is seeking a third consecutive five year term in power has denied accusations of intimidating

opposition candidates and journalists. the leader of the main opposition on the day should nationalist party leaders is serving a ten year jail term for two separate corruption cases which is to make around six hundred thousand members of various security forces including the military and police have been deployed for sunday's election opposition parties say at least ten thousand six hundred of their supporters have been detained in the run up to these elections and at least seventeen of their candidates now you know when i say shin human rights watch says that the atmosphere of fear and repression is not consistent with holding credible elections and some opposition candidates say that members of the security forces and supporters of the ruling party have surrounded their homes stopped them from leaving and prevented them from campaigning in their local areas. at least ten people have been killed during election campaign from

both sides this video shows what the opposition says was an attack by ruling party supporters on a group of opposition politicians including the man leading the b.n.p. alliance well the party's leader. is in prison. because of the was among those a time they were arrested every day on an average of twenty people till yesterday that he's twenty eight december in eighteen days two hundred plus people those are carrying my election the trio's either leaflet or pamphlet or stickers same. two hundred plus people these are all hard core leaders and workers the international community has praised prime minister sina for handling of one of the largest refugee crises in the world. more than seven hundred thousand riki just fled of violent crackdown in myanmar into bangladesh in two thousand and seventeen . the world bank has also praised bangladesh fruits strong economic growth of over

six percent in recent years. most of these campaign ban is a for the ruling party an indication of media control very few opposition posters a scene on the streets. that there are family incidents isolated incidents i have no doubt it has happened in the past it is happening now but we accept it without. our very thick i would suggest. you might of the. back of the restaurant hum it says here vote for an opposition candidate in the election whatever the outcome it is violence jewelry and after the vote that many people like you feel that most . dhaka. the satellite images show how much the volcano in. indonesia which caused a deadly tsunami a week ago has shrunk cracka tower originally stood more than three hundred meters

high but after the recent eruptions volcano is now about a third of that height it's lost three quarters of its volume off to spewing rock an act into the air indonesia's disaster agency is examining the possibility that the missing mass slid into the sea generating the deadly five metre high waves on december twenty second in out of peru where potato peelings and vegetable scraps being turned into tasty and nutritious meals it's all part of an initiative by a top chef is trying to transform the eating habits of a nation where a million suffer from malnutrition around a sanchez went along to meet him. there's. a master class from one of the to stop chefs. has cooked for some of the world's top restaurants but now he's on a mission to teach cooks from some of us poverty stricken slums to make cheaper and healthier dishes. these women are the most important cooks in the country they feed

thousands of people so we want to teach them how to make more nutritious dishes using every part of the products. in this class they learned to add fiber from giving to salads and used that to build skins to make a new machine broth the idea is that everything is useable fifty year old government should be does this she know cooks in a different way and it's paying off. we don't throw anything away or use playground hansen's look i'm going to make chips with these potato skins people tell us the really loud top food and more people are coming to each year on average fifty people here every day it's interesting to see the size of the crash and the small plastic bag full of plastics because the waste is huge for cooking. and food waste says this chef has the most nutrients but mitosis doctors and nutritionists

have evaluated the result of a change in the diet here including on the outskirts of lima and more than one hundred thirty cooks are already trained and the leon has six children and she says they don't get sick as much as they used to as many children suffer from chronic malnutrition but one year ago the nutritionist recommended they eat at our kitchens and now the hemoglobin in the children has improved for more than fourteen thousand poor peruvians eat in popular kitchens every day around the country and meter says the use of tons of food waste will not only make people healthier but it's one solution to tackle climate change and of the other one is we should stop generating why speaker. food waste is the second largest source of contamination on the planet it contributes to climate change and global warming. it's a sustainable astronomy project that's slowly changing the way people here eat in a country where half the population of thirty two million suffer from malnutrition

these cooksey spearheading the project makes them feel secure and proud but innocent just looting. was more in everything we're covering right here the address is right there al-jazeera dot com. just a quick recap of the top stories now turkey has sent dozens more tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces who calls terrorists at least fifty tanks arrived at a command post in sunday f. a province in turkey it comes a day off to kurdish forces asked the syrian army to enter man beach to protect a city from a turkish attack the syrian army says it did so on friday but both the u.s. in turkey is saying there's no evidence to support this claim. meanwhile russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other in northern syria after the

withdrawal of u.s. forces the students who were not the standing was reached on how military representatives of russia into we'll continue to coordinate the states on the ground on the new conditions with a view of formally rooting out terrorists through syria. in all the headlines security officials in yemen say who the rebels have started handing over control of a vital port of data to the government's navy and coast guard the transfer is being carried out under the supervision of the united nations as part of a peace deal reached in sweden earlier this month u.n. officials say who see forces started to redeploy overnight who fees in saudi backed forces of also agree to begin opening up routes to allow much needed aid to come through the data. meanwhile a two year old boy whose yemeni mother sued the u.s. government to let her into the country has died his son died in a california hospital of a brain disorder is mother spent months trying to get

a waiver to visit her son russia has rejected calls by the leaders of france and germany to release ukrainian sailors captured near crimea last month twenty four members of the ukrainian navy were detained last month after russian forces opened fire on them in the coach strait which links the black sea and the us of c. ukraine is calling on russia to treat the sailors as prisoners of war and britain's home secretary is cutting short his holidays to return to the u.k. to tackle a wave of attempts by migrants and asylum seekers to cross the english channel sajid javid says the interception of more boats over the christmas period carrying men from syria and iran amounts to a major incident you're up to date with our top stories coming up next talk to al-jazeera when he's off to that in about half an hour's time.

as the. president came to power in the democratic republic of congo in two thousand and one taking over from his father. who was assassinated by one of his child soldiers. was initially credited with bringing relative peace and reviving the mining of the country's lost mineral. and tens of millions of congolese people remain in extreme poverty and made widespread allegations of corruption. and final call.