ations it comes as fifty tanks have been sent to the syrian border preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces from near the turkish syrian border however that are reports. of turkish tanks roll into syria. and korea has been bolstering its military positions along with southam border as it prepares for what it calls a full fledged offensive on the kurdish held city of mumbai is syria syrian rebels backed by tuckey are also on the move inside areas of syria under techies sway and along the eight hundred twenty two kilometer border between the two countries kurdish forces a miles from friday that had been forced to cut a deal with the regime of president bashar assad after they were abundant by donald trump or now nst the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria a little over a week ago. here syrian troops deployed in support of cottage forces seen on the

edge of mom bitch their deployment creates a government buffer achi a call small from syria which fully separates the tukey and its proxies from the kurds but they are yet to enter the city of money bitch as they claimed on friday. we haven't seen any movement of the syrian army in miami beach all we see are the military council of money huge numbers the conflicting reports from them but perhaps sure the cales thoughts likely to ensue and of the sixty to one hundred day timetable for the withdrawal of u.s. troops with the remaining fighting forces in syria has come to replace them in moscow on high level toughest immigration led by foreign minister children children's health talks with russian foreign and defense ministers they discuss the situation in syria as u.s. forces flip it the withdrawal. of us incentives an understanding was reached on how military representatives of russia and turkey will continue to coordinate the

states on the ground under new conditions with a view of finally rooting out terrorists threats in syria. we discussed the latest developments in syria with regards to the u.s. decision to withdraw from the country we exchanged views on how we can coordinate our efforts from now on we stressed our resolve to fight against terrorist organizations we have a common will to clear all terror organizations from syrian lands to also result to respect serious to the total integrity something diplomats say might spell of the go to role for government forces in the tissue held areas of the north east. with the syrian opposition groups which can be on the un back political process in topples bashar al assad is now trying to shape is what i asked they does and is already looking for funds to rebuild the country the us troops pull out how about threatens to open up any for us. taki something.

in bangladesh voting is underway in the general election security is tight ass for a campaign marked by weeks of violence and arrests of opposition supporters prime minister sheikh hasina is expected to return for a fourth term but she's been criticized for the crackdown on the off position. charles stratford is live for us from dakar so the polls have just so who want to turn out look like at this point charles. it's difficult to say sammi certainly there are fears amongst the opposition that the kind of violence you were describing that we've seen in the run up to these polls may keep voters away i'm not one of the polling stations here in an area called mirror pour one of forty thousand polling stations across the country and already we're beginning to

hear reports of problems occurring certainly the a.f.p. news agency is reporting according to police sources that they've spoken to that two people have been killed in what they describe as election day clashes in the city of chittagong that's the second largest city in this country and interesting we've been speaking to members of the opposition here who are registered as a polling station agent now their job is to come here on polling day observe the problem observe the voting process in present here is throughout the day and then during the counting process be there to witness the counting of the votes and all political parties have these agents at these polling stations now according to the man that we've spoken to he says he's one of thirteen opposition holding agents that have been denied access to the polling station grind when he says that all

there are registered papers their national i.d.'s work confiscated taken by what they describe as pro government agents or security here at this polling station and they were told to leave and not come back he also says that search ten of them as you described were beaten during that incident we're also hearing reports that are very difficult search of verify coming from other journalists in the country in sources that we have reports of vote. oxys already having been stopped and questions being asked about c.c.t.v. cameras that are supposed to be working in and around these polling stations questions as to whether some of these cameras are actually working as i say it's very difficult to verify this just with respect to the government the government is still still denying a lot of these allegations that are being put to it with respect to the violence that has been witnessing are they saying that these figures that the opposition of

put out are hugely exaggerated never very keen to point out also that at least six of the ruling party supporters have been killed in the build up to the elections but say there are fears that this kind of violence that we've seen may well keep a lot of the voters away. charley the elections this year particularly contentious is there a feeling in the country's future is hanging in the balance here this year. very much so it's important to point out that the current government the ruling party has been very much praised by. the international community in certain respects and people like the world bank organizations like the world bank for the kind of economic gains that we've seen in recent years they averaging more than six percent economic growth in recent years. the structure projects that are going forward they are building for example a nuclear power plant as well the government very much touting this as being an

indication of. their ability to take this country forward economically and. there's also a big price from the international community in how the government has dealt with the refugee crisis the largest refugee crisis in the world last year seven hundred thousand refugees fleeing a crackdown in myanmar and now residing in refugee camps in bangladesh the government praised for that but there are huge questions about political freedoms and media freedom here. so now it's just saying this vote it is basically a choice of greater political choice greater economic development on the part of economic progress or potentially greater political freedom and we want to see what happens at the end of today or by the end of today as i say as we're hearing reports of certain incidences of violence in various locations across the country

all right there from dhaka thanks for that the first polls have opened in the democratic republic of congo for a long delayed friends eventually lection their votes is a choosing a success it's a president joseph kabila who's stepping down after seventeen years in power. the elections were delayed by two years and the runoff has been plagued by violence saturday opposition candidates refused to sign a pact thing that defusing tension between political parties raising fears of violence earlier the country's top archbishop appealed for calm following weeks of that political unrest two people were killed during protests on friday after the electoral commission delayed voting in three opposition strongholds until march. eleventh the electoral commission need to tell the truth we are not people you can just trick and flew how can it be the can charter votes and then in beni and over there they are not voting. commission needs to take the time to explain to us what

happens if a large part of the population can't vote are they going to know the election over there be country near a teacher in the months in between there is total confusion with their calendar and they can take this well beyond. still ahead on al-jazeera first the war now the flood the severe weather brings more misery for thousands of internally displaced syrians and the two year old boy at the center of a u.s. travel band around is laid to rest. we've got some rain sleet and snow is spilling out of making its way into syria some very active weather still in place across the southeastern corner of europe and eventually easing a little a switch so there we go seven celsius the top temperature for fifteen degrees there

for beirut's seven a temperature actually for baghdad and also for kuwait city a little woman haven not a whole lot went to the far east they will continue just around the western side of the himalayas for a time terrorist guys do come back in time is now massy at around zero celsius wet weather notice and cloud and running coming its way into that western side of iran is still some when she weather in the cards for all the southeast of turkey pushing down into northern syria basin places of right to a possibility around northern sections of the gulf northeastern parts of saudi arabia had some rain here on saturday and doha possibility of one of two spots of friday through sunday maybe more so as we go on into monday the west or whether there will be across the other side of the gulf into that western side of iran some lively showers across a good part of southern africa quite a chain of storms from south africa right up towards angola big showers to across a good part of mozambique i'd also tanzania.

there you look the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understand. to syrians document the route that is claimed so many lives searching for sanctuary part one people in power on al jazeera.

you're watching our time to recap our headlines now the rebels in yemen have handed over control of a vital port of her data to the government's navy and coast guard the transfer was carried out under the supervision of the united nations peace deals reached in sweden earlier this month voting is under way in parliamentary elections in bangladesh minister sheikh hasina is expected to return for a fourth term security is tied after a campaign marked by weeks of violence arrests of opposition supporters the first polls have opened in the democratic republic of congo for a long delayed presidential election the vote was delayed by two years has been plagued by violence. the u.s. president says major progress has been made towards ending his government's trade war with china donald trump and she jinping confirmed they've spoken about the

resolving their differences over the phone washington and beijing began imposing a series of tit for tariff tit for tat rather tariffs earlier this month. after trump complained china had failed to address the trade imbalance between the two nations has more from washington d.c. very optimistic and positive indications from both the chinese media first that was donald trump's tweet which said just had a long and very good call with president xi of china a deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering all subject areas and points of dispute big progress being made exclamation mark and chinese media confirming about phone call took place chinese media said president xi said he hopes to push forward a sign a u.s. relationship that is coordinated cooperative and stable and he said that he hopes that the teams presumably the trade negotiating teams could meet each beat each other halfway and reach an agreement that is mutually beneficial as soon as

possible and we have had indications in the last few days that a u.s. trade delegation will be traveling to beijing in january after what were described as intensive discussions over the phone over the christmas period and try to husband relenting somewhat since the truce was declared between china and the u.s. over trade talks at the beginning of december lowering tower of publishing draft laws which suggest greater intellectual property property rights and protection for foreign companies so perhaps there is movement under way the u.s. president has blamed the democratic party for the deaths of two watts of marlin children in u.s. custody this month eight year old sleepy governors on zone seven year old jacqueline kalmuck in both died after being detained by border authorities donald trump criticized was he labeled the pathetic immigration policies of the democrats he said the flow of asylum seekers north from central america would stop if his from poe's or the wall was approved. it's three years since more than one million

refugees and migrants entered germany most fled the war in syria the time the government so they could be successfully integrated into german society strong opposition from conservatives and far right groups from berlin dominic cain looks at how successful some of those efforts have been it's a busy morning for rami rehiring he's a software developer at the clerk in a steel workshop as such he's an important part of an international team to see him at work you'd never think three years ago he was a refugee one whose progress chancellor angela merkel has seen for herself his is a success story but he says because he used his own initiative there is a lot of propeller ocracy here and if i waited to get the german class i would be doing nothing i would be waiting because the first i lived with three hundred people the first six months and. and if i waited. or something i think

people should not things in their own hands but what of the many others who were drawn by the open borders and merkel's determined humanitarianism the vast majority of those who came in twenty fifteen received refugee status and with it housing welfare and help to learn german but many who arrived since have not been so fortunate and has struggled to get more than temporary jobs. people like who know about him who status remains unresolved a few months ago he told me of his experience since twenty fifteen. i got the political situation in iraq was not safe for me i wanted to be able to lead a normal life and freedom but so far here i haven't found the government agency that regulates this entire sector is this one the federal employment ministry and it says that in october eighteen thousand asylum applications were processed all of

which around two out of five cases saw a positive outcome last month one hundred seventy seven thousand refugees were registered as an employed a slight increase on the same time period from last year all together three hundred seventy three thousand refugees are classified as being underemployed so why has germany struggled to integrate so many people in the refugee population that arrives in germany many don't have that vocational training because it's quite a young population so there is a massive challenge as to training people on the job and then there is an issue of legal certainty. i'm going to america who once said integrating so many people would be one of the biggest challenges modern germany has ever faced around me really how he is one of many who have prospered but there are many more who have not dominic kane al-jazeera berlin a two year old yemeni boy whose mother fought for

a visa to visit him at his deathbed in the us has been laid to rest of the died on friday mourners farewell his service in california a boy suffered from a rare brain disease mother took legal action after being denied entry to the united states under the trump administration's travel ban on citizens from several muslim majority countries she was eventually granted permission to enter the u.s. just days before her son's death. we are here today because my government tell our family. i am a u.s. citizen mustang is a u.s. citizen. the muslim then took my wife from coming to the u.s. for a year but first me to choose between my son help and keeping our family together the army and i mean no i was funded now and. we hope the people in the struggle and. the people who are affected by the move them down from

yemen. libya iran. and syria. that was hopeless of life policy will be changed and families will be reunited with heavy rain in northern syria is causing major flooding forcing thousands of internally displaced families from their makeshift homes. he reports. thousands of families displaced by years of war in syria are being displaced again two days of torrential rainfall in the country's northern region caused major.