even if we fail we're not going to fail and hong kong is like it's a boat it's sinking fast now behind me in the wrong wrong wrong way independents been banned from march into the government headquarters so instead they're going to veer off from the rest of the protesters to the hong kong police headquarters that's just about one hundred meters away from this position where they are keeping their political good but didn't claim to have a plan worked out they were banned from running from office and from even exactly how did i let a call on the lot in goldstone head on the low blow job seekers see that only hong kong independence can secure a true democracy and freedom of speech for hong kong in this way hong kong people can be our own masters. and so on down begins another year in defiance protesters here say they want to have the right to freedom of expression they want more accountability and they want real democracy but most importantly they want more of a say in how their city is run. still to come here at al-jazeera reaching out with

a warning north korea's leader delivers his new year's message. sixty years after fidel castro's revolution we look at his lasting legacy in latin america. if you die from space middle or when do you sometimes pick up the fog if you see moving clouds like this you think was what was going on this bit writing coming out this even snow in the middle of china but the most significant i think is coming back on for cross with this north easterly breeze the winter breeze which might bring showers into hong kong up to for jan and ground are a bit further inland as well shifting what fall has been sitting there the terminations this breeze is unfortunately vietnam so once again it's wet on the coast of vietnam for the next day or so especially ferguson. same sort of problem

in india you can't see it by satellite this is passing close to a fusion a farm that was but some freight going down through new delhi down towards west bengal this persistent for worse by the hand by ninety's cold and of course is quite dirty air and there's no change in the forecast him she was a best twenty two by day doesn't represent what feels like she's not like good for the finals of course no showers even sri lanka while passing light showers maybe beyond that it is the dry time the year and that's true so maybe in peninsula now as a possibility of a shout out this massive grey cat is pushed from further north but that's disappearing as well temps are rising slowly in places like bahrain and qatar. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you joined us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for

is a dialogue the government has. protest and instructed police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice in for. reasons different types of bricks join the global conversation on al-jazeera. over the top stories. donald trump says the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria will now happen slowly this is a crummy announcement last month that all two thousand american troops would be brought home immediately after what they called

a victory over eisel. the saudi coalition and the rebels are being accused of stealing and of selling on food aid that's meant for millions of starving yemenis and food agency has threatened to suspend shipments unless the thieving stops. in hong kong pro-democracy activists say they faced an unprecedented demand from the government organizers of of new year of the new year's protests rally but told to prevent protesters from displaying pro independence symbols at government headquarters civil human rights front complied with describe the demand as a threat to freedom of expression. about kryten by two turkish and this is attempting to shed new light on the planning of the murder. it includes details about the preparations by the saudi

operatives in the hours before the killing the book also contains previously unseen pictures of the same agents outside the saudi council's residence with bags reportedly used to carry. the entire team didn't go to the consulates but five of them went directly to the consul's house to prepare and receive the backs the pictures confirm this fact. turkey wants to investigate this properly it happened on diplomatic grounds and that means a forcible entry to investigate would create a crisis for turkey and even if evidence were to be found it would be considered a legal case does not want. this killed injured and jailed have been all nude during rainy new year's celebrations in new york organizers wanted to highlight how treacherous twenty eighteen had been for members of the media as they hope for a better year ahead gabriel elizondo reports. it's

one of the focal points of celebrations around the world this year joining the york's mayor bill de blasio big night for the traditional over in the crystal ball in times square several prominent journalists had an event that was not just about welcoming two thousand and nineteen but also recognizing how dangerous two thousand and eighteen was for the profession journalists are facing jail in me on my wall for the people already shot by all of the journal about those recognized was the committee to protect journalists an organization that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists around the world. they say two hundred fifty one journalists were imprisoned during two thousand and eighteen but another fifty three journalists were killed in targeted attacks including washington post

columnist jamal khashoggi who was murdered and dismembered by saudi government agents soon after he entered saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul he was especially in the thoughts of those at times square you know it's been a pretty tough year i think that's one of the reasons that we're the honoree journalists around the world and in this country as well have struggled and so i want to see a new year a year in which journalists are able to work more freely without threats and do their political work independently so prominent have attacks on the media ban in two thousand and eighteen the time magazine named khashoggi as one of its persons of the year we didn't do anything wrong the others all journalists including two reuters reporters jailed in me and maher for reporting on atrocities against the rohingya. and staff at a local us newspaper in maryland who survived a mass shooting that claimed the lives of five of their colleagues you are the

enemy of the people. trumps frequent attacks on the media have also come under the spotlight in october the committee to protect journalists called on president trump to dial back the rhetoric this after a trump supporter from florida sent more than a dozen bombs to critics of the president two of which went to the c.n.n. offices here in new york there's been a lot of hostility towards the press here nationally for new year's eve to celebrate the things of this little time. here for a newspaper and i think this is a time like the importance of freedom the president. celebrate new year's and say that's had twenty nine with. three breath. as the ball drop the times square celebration but also remember all the journalists killed or imprisoned who wouldn't get the chance to see it because of their truth telling

reporting which made the target. your. provisional results of the democratic republic of congo's contentious election a jew in a few days and in an apparent bid to stop speculation about the outcome internet access has been cut several candidates had claimed to be in the lead but they're not quiet sunday's vote was hampered by violence complaints of rigging and delays more now from our correspondent in kinshasa catherine soy. we're not seeing any government. shutdown but. the reason why happening is because of all this. being. people we have. to write. people know we're expecting preliminary results to be announced and it's been quite quiet particularly in the capital kinshasa where i am people waiting for

those results but several presidential candidates at least the main ones are saying that they're confident that he the election is fair that they're going to win. the ruling and. i held a press conference on monday and that. is in the lead i did speak with presidential candidate and he said that in a fair election there is no way the ruling party. and we. really want to use what are you going to instruct. you and he say that this will be a provocation to the people in this is a big concern to many that i've been talking to they say that. it can potentially there could be violence and they're worried about that. the sudanese president.

nationwide protests that began almost three weeks ago it will look at how police responded to the demonstrations which have killed at least nineteen people all monday the security forces again. to disperse crowds gathered in the capital khartoum to. withdraw from the president's coalition which is now. seventeen but president bashir is. with such a view that it was a hard thing to get me that we shall enter into a new era where unity is reinforced and harmony is maintained in the whole country all with the aim to face the challenges and threats hovering above our head and here i renew the call to the honorable sudanese people in and outside of sudan to come together and stand united to parade on the good and not the evil we will join hands to denounce violence steer away from wars to engage in dialogue is the only means to resolve differences. kibera celebrating sixty years since fidel castro's

communist revolution and inspired and guided left wing governments throughout the region and beyond daniel shyam looks at the influence of cuba had and perhaps still has in latin america. the bearded ones as they were called road into heaven or on the first of january nine hundred fifty nine on a wave of optimism after overthrowing the repressive but sr regime it was a new dawn and many didn't expect them to survive long especially as the united states actively try to undermine fidel castro's government most notably back in the failed one nine hundred sixty one bay of pigs invasion and imposing an economic blockade survives to this day still a colonial was a friend of castro's. on the meaning of. the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution was a historic continuation of the liberation wars the wars of independence cubans have always been fighting against spanish colonial ism and then against us interference

. by fidel and his brother role and now. has constantly adapted to changing circumstances embracing help from the soviet union then turning to tourism in special measures when the soviet union collapsed and now allowing the growth of private enterprise albeit cautiously reluctantly we've made progress after. a long way from you know accepting the fact that when. we actually have to do a lot of different things to nurture the private sector that's also a positive not only for the economy. but also for the lives of majority over cuban people. about thirteen percent of the workforce is gone private often desert in low paid state sector jobs to work in the more lucrative tourist industry and industry selling visions of the. socialist dream. this man died in bolivia in one nine

hundred sixty seven trying to spread cuba's brand of socialism throughout latin america although he felt his influence is still felt if not at government level there are trade trade union and social movements throughout the region and of course in cuber itself the country the arkansas adopted as his home cubans will vote on the referendum in february on the kind of socialism they'd like to see in a revised constitution perhaps more market reforms and increase foreign investment . something that what i'd like to know what i question is what kind of socialism are we talking about i consider myself a socialist but doesn't mean it can be imposed as a constitutional level on the whole world the people who run the country today may have a different interpretation of socialism tomorrow and saying something is not socialist could be enough to restrict someone's constitutional rights its allies in the region the disappearing brazil for instance sending cuban medics hobe them to

sweden or drawing up the cooper city socialist flame sixty years on still burns bright that they'll continue to defy the odds and survive and thrive. i'll just era . at least five people have been killed and dozens of others are missing after heavy rain caused a landslide in indonesia the mud paid thirty houses in the village of cyrano rez me that's in west java. and at least sixty eight people are now known to have been killed by a storm that swept through the philippines on saturday about one hundred ninety thousand are affected by landslides and flooding several provinces have now been declared a state of calamity and that allows for emergency government funds to be freed out . north korean leader kim jong un has rung in twenty nineteen with an offer of more talks with donald trump but he warned his country may seek what he called a new path if the u.s. doesn't keep its promises from

a ride reports there from the south korean capital seoul. even before the north korean leader spoke it was clear this was going to be a new year's speech in a different tone a softer look for a softer message kim jong un spoke of into korean relations entering a completely new phase the escalating tensions building trust. and in last year's speech kim emphasized north korea's nuclear arsenal this year there was a different pledge. our parties our governments and my resolve for complete denuclearization remain unchanged we have proclaims that we will no longer make nuclear weapons and will not use them or spread them and we have also taken various practical measures already kim jong un stressed is a game of carrying forward the momentum from twenty eighteen into twenty nineteen it seems to confirm his intended historic visit to south korea is still

a long track it's a prospect that divides people here including thousands of north korean defectors. rehearsing for an end of year concert pianist kim plays a piece of music that is popular in both the north and south. when he defected sixteen years ago he couldn't have imagined a north korean leader might one day visit the south. or i got excited me think if he comes the day that i return home i may come soon. but now i think one of the reasons for his visit is to sustain his regime so i don't think we're going to see any unification the mood of optimism was also tempered when it came to relations with the u.s. kim says he wants to meet with president donald trump again but had this warning. if the united states continues to break its promises and misjudges our patients by unilaterally demanding certain things and pushes ahead with sanctions and pressure

against our republic then we have to seek another way to protect our country's sovereignty and interest under stablish peace and stability on the korean peninsula . twenty nineteen clearly holds the prospect of further improvements in relations but with the ever present risk of the process stalling or even going in reverse the book right out is era so. a nasa spacecraft is believed to have reached the solar system's outermost region flying close to a rock six and a half billion kilometers from earth the new horizon has hopefully taken a glance at all timur futilely an icy fragment leftover from when our solar system was formed scientists are waiting to get a signal back with information new horizon first made history in twenty fifty when it gave us our first close up look of please.

travis it take a look at the top stories here it out there president trump says the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria will now happen slowly after coming under pressure from allies and republican party leaders it's a backtrack from his surprise decision to abruptly abruptly pull out all two thousand troops after declaring victory over the last month while there for. in washington senior administration officials continue to put pressure on trying to reconsider and that apparently appears to have worked we know that trump visited with u.s. troops in iraq after christmas he also sat down with his influential friend republican senator lindsey graham over the weekend and coming out of that meeting and his trip overseas the president seems to be seems to be deciding now not to rush that withdrawal and instead extend it to a four month period which is the minimum that his commanders on the ground had

asked for. the un food agency has accused the saudi u.a.e. coalition and the who the rebels of stealing and selling food aid all meant for millions of starving yemenis the world food program is threatening to suspend shipments unless the thieving stops a book written by two turkish journalists is revealed new details about how saudi operatives planned the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the book contains previous the unseen pictures of the same agents outside the saudi council's residence with bags reportedly used to carry because sureties remains taliban vises have killed at least twenty one afghan security personnel during several attacks on military posts in solve a pull province twenty six others were injured police in the u.k. say they're treating a stabbing attack in the northern city of manchester as a terrorist incident three people were injured outside the busy victoria train

station on new year's eve detectives are questioning a suspect japanese police have launched a terrorism investigation after a man drove a minivan into crowds in tokyo right those are the latest headlines it's a stream next. i swear every. week. you. do.

you. really. start to the stream today hi i'm femi oke a family could be here in the stream today we are joined by musician songwriter my router you said she's an artist with oh we'll be finding out about how music had her inspiration of course live on al-jazeera and of course on you tube so be sure to send us your comments your questions i'll do my breasts are bringing them into the show my renae youssef describes herself as a musical hero she's also known by her station and move fresh yousif has bared her own soul while displaying the talents of a highly versatile singer songwriter and rapper and several independently released album she sings about experiences including single motherhood black politics and her own identity as a native american and african american woman use of slate as work showcased in. a

twenty seven team collaboration with d.j. dummy drawing inspiration from issues like the standing rock protests and donald trump's treatment of women tracks unvented to babies take on modern day realities with classic soul and r. and d. style. well we want to welcome my meaning to the stream i really know well. if you get anything wrong well we know that. you have a unique backstory i guarantee no one else has a back story like yours to prove it i'm going to show our audience some pictures that he let's start with this one here have a look on my laptop this is stunning i'm going to share pictures of your grandmother and your mother this is where your musical inspiration their musical education started would you explain because a lot of people will look at these pictures get say what. tell us all what.

i learned was being at home with my mother and my grandmother in the kitchen a lot of times people were x. my mother was with a vocal coach to train of this thing and they think that she's going to you know sit up at a piano and teach them notes and she'll make them come you know corn and pick greens and because we're traditional people singing is. like breathing is like praying it is a part of what you do as. a person as a part of the community you know. so she'll have you come feel the song breathe the song do chores you know it's a part of life a living part of expression when i was a small girl i would always see my mother my grandmother people would call them and they would travel all around. people take their bodies to sing into their bodies in you know later on you may look at it that doctors use the vibration of sound to move matter inside of bodies and they were doing this with their voices you know not educated in the western but they knew the power of sound and vibration so

that's kind of how i started both my parents i mean my parents and my grandparents had already converted to islam but my grandmother was a choir director from chicago so you know we were muslim she was still teach me. spiritual from slavery and she would teach me traditional native songs. that we had to really learn after the freedom of religion act was passed from native americans that was until the seventy's we couldn't practice our culture into the seventy's so you know a lot of the culture that was lost because of indian boarding schools and natives being forced to forget who we were we had to go back and read learn those things so by the time i was born you know my grandmother was just starting to really learn the language because we couldn't even talk about it you could even talk about being indian people thought she was a mexican you know and. i mean you know mexicans are indigenous to that's why you see so many similarities to the southern tribes coming in. imaginary border you

know they're indigenous as well and so people didn't know that she was choctaw so later on she went back to learn the traditional ways and she was able to teach that's i mean you talk about community muslim community afro american community african-american community and also of course the native american community in addition to all of that you're from not too far away from here baltimore and there's also that community there coming out on twitter in a for one person here grandma. personally she is a hometown favorite powerful vocals edgy and good lyrics and message one of my favorite bands not only supports her artistry but contributed to her name that would be the roots from philadelphia the colors of her hair and the sounds were an overall great experience and i would love to see more so a couple of people mentioned your name i know you've been singing professionally since like seventeen but then they move fresh came a little bit later talk to us about that history black but you know my good friend

black are from the roots they were the first group that i like toward internationally with i have my own band. as a first support internationally with and i feel like it's a really suffer like i just came i playfully on stage where it's like a lot of people have a hard time saying my main you know and my mom. whatever and it just i feel like he just said it one night like introducing. you know it was like a joke and then we just kept it kind of kept happening and. i think it was. my web designer who was like why don't we get the euro move fresh because it might be hard for people to spell your name and it just kind of stuck every time i would say it people would remember it and then. i'm at the airport of people who. hear me the first song you're going to perform for us it's called impact tell us what do we need to know about that before we hear it everyone acts about this song. so this song is actually in the local it's a language the important thing about the lakota they. they held on so

their culture i feel like a lot longer than some of the eastern tribes who were kind of forced to assimilate because. of the in the building the close contact with europeans they were forced to assimilate earlier and lost a lot more of our culture. the fierce warriors you know and this story and it's talks about the american indian wars and about the women who waved their shells when for there has been the come to come back from war hoping that they were victorious and my mom sing the song to me when i when i was a baby you know and it is a song that has become a lullaby for us not to forget the commitment to our people in the struggle that we fought so still be here the rights of being exists and she's a sing it to me as a baby and. you want to sing it for us now i am. going to perform that song and she gets ready for a valiant way to take a look at this tweet on my laptop this is from all some austin that's his handle

also says her music is spiritual inspirational and uplifting the ancestral song she starts out with is so profound and poetry is superb she is a spiritual being maximising the human experience thank you my munaf for your voice and for your talent and i will take it away. she.

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a limb fool with them i am the product of a gypsy and a keep in this somewhere between egypt and things things are going to be a revolution every since the we thing building in the limit of the man who was to be. a. mississippi red clay. i say to feel great sadness sweet grass. survive a trail of tears and slavery to see is what you call on. the money believe people had to say coming read liberation. say learn to sing not in school wouldn't ways you would not just see singing it wasn't about songs it was about sound and illegal to pay and how much my grandmother told me for making bodies of sopping grown men to want to sound a siren escaped the lips and make them whole again we black in the. brown blood. is that every morning the sacrifices nothing you could have it seems. you come back

into the black feeling luxury. brand new and learn that we had just given something . and nothing else is ever true. spiritual beings have a human experience and nothing. but love. not.

spectacular audience think so as well divinity rocks among the many people using twitter to share their thoughts on your voice and on your lyrics divinity writes she utilizes her prowess as an mc in the truest sense of the word to bare her soul and paint a picture of her struggles and triumphs intelligently which is encouraging refreshing and inspiring so that's just one of the many praises people are singing but also a question this person big bro says i love the fact that she tells her story of resilience and i want to know what are her views on the importance of storytelling in the black community that's what you seem to use your lyrics for oh yeah i mean that's always been kind of a staple you know in the black community is as the. that's how we passed down who we are i mean even a lot of the escape songs my grandmother would teach me those are the songs that were the roadmaps to escape from slavery that people thought were just songs but they're not you know there are maps to freedom and they are the things that anchor

us to our community and remind us of how good god is and at some point we're going to get over it connects us in relationship to god and that to me is. why we've been so resilient is because of that that relationship. you were home schooled which you so much you value. this independent spirit but when you went to school you realized that what you were learning how to live your songwriting was your escape yeah so what i realize about going to public school is that school wasn't what wasn't about learning was about education it wasn't about. having a discourse that debate coming to a higher sense of understanding it really was about retaining specific information that will be on a test long enough to get a good score and everyone gets funded again we do it again next year i mean i would actually get like sat out a class for asking too many questions and because i was homeschooled i was taught

to be analytical thinkers and not just take information for face value you know what i'm given information that's ok let's cross reference it with these other resources but you know as a fourteen year old no one wants to listen so you say that. and i feel very blessed that my mother educated me in a nontraditional sense like everything was education you know we could do be work and that's like council school credit in her book you know we can cook we can make songs and i wanted to be a thinker more than i wanted to be a singer and at the time i felt like well if i can't be both and i'd rather be a thinker so i left the music for that time and just became a writer and star realized how to combine them you know tony here in twitter says and i want to use is if it is a naturally talented down to earth positive person with great character and she's not afraid to be honest with her music so it's that last line that tony raves that i want to pivot to not being afraid to be honest you tried out for

a little known show in the u.s. american idol. eventually you were told you're not american enough they said i was too ethnic i was too ethnic and if they have an ethnic idol they'll be sure to give me a call. when you say even. that even me i mean if you are the values. you know. i mean you know. i wasn't even offended so you're right you got it because we don't do this in spite of. the revolution will come to pass. even if it's not of the american you know god bless the mean everyone's a part of your journey. god has things happen for specific reasons to push you in different directions so i'm grateful for i listen to your music and i hear the real well to hear america in your lyrics what's happening right now in terms of what's happening right now socially politically what's your next film going to be what is

really i need to write about this right now what he's blocking it i can't even say anything is bugging me as much as what is inspiring me and lifted me up is god's love. it really is a connection. and each person could become more and with their own spear in their own if your mission every day is the elevation of your soul we would have a lot of praise and is this happening each person made their own spirit their business their day to day to do this is the elevation of one so so a lot of the music i'm working on right now is really about using sound as healing tool to uplift the spirit and soul into take us out of. a dark place at the end of iniquity where we feel disconnected from god's light god's love because the closer we are in relationship so that the better off we're going to be we have to make different decisions everything about the way we live our lives are going to be different when we're relationship with god. i want to share this with someone watching live on you tube. she teaches with her words like

a lullaby but keeping us whoa instead of putting us to sleep it's a little play on words there in the sense of being conscious and socially with it another person here is on twitter and they had so many questions for you i'm going to share one this is the j. man who says they managed to restrict themselves to the questions about this one are there any artists on the african continent you would like to work with in the future and i'll preface that by saying you've already worked with one of our former stream guys. and we recorded a song together we will perform together in the african. you know i love. i enjoy him a lot. one of my life child of favorite school i would just fall on the floor my mother played her all of my life i would love and. i would just fall out so workarounds actually do. we know who we might hear of this is a little. i want to play this this is

a morning song and it brings you back to your roots and how you learn to sing and i just want to play this for people because you got so many amusing different sounds have a listen to this everybody. the. i don't want to fade that out but i'm going to that's so cool which is i know that with your next music project you want to get back to more spiritual music and this is spiritual music and it is sort of rule rule sent here for us or i mean i'm so so grateful for my mother i think when i was younger i did not understand or maybe

didn't appreciate it as much. and i looked at it as being separate like my native identity was kind of separate from my african-american identity but now it's is the same is just a part of what i am going to give and that was your mother that singing with you and who else was that. yeah she's a singer from baltimore you will directions from cleveland was those words since you have been in this industry for so long and that video of course as proof of this is we'll hear on twitter who says that she feels the industry has changed an attitude towards women from when she first got involved to now. i think the industry has pressure on its a changes attitude i don't think the culture has changed though i think people are in hiding more now because they are worried about being exposed. i don't feel that. their people truly get why there's an issue with degrading women which is really problematic you know because whenever you cover the symptoms it's going to come back at some point and

that's the part that think is. you know. it's disheartening a little bit but i mean i try to do my best especially in conversation as these conversations happen all in studios and on shows and we talk about these things a lot to really try to help to educate and for men to understand when you play a part in the reason why it's so detrimental to the next coming generations of young girls and women who who just want to do our craft and who are you know want to come to work like you come to work. live our purpose out you know without these other hindrances so i mean i think it's good that things are being brought to the forefront because there are lanes that are being open to women that were not open before especially for women with children especially in the music industry there's always been very taboo or very negative connotation to women where children because their bodies belong to the industry it's not your own you know. i'm going

to pause you there because you actually have a song that talks about women and saying their names are going to in the show with a mix of two of my winter songs one called miracle and the other is say my name it's a song that references the twenty fifteen death of an african-american woman sandra blam here's a comment from a fan michelle allen on what the song means to her. own the song say my name move furnish them in a cave in this baby's. me away when i first heard the song it specifically highlights the death of sandra bling in the hands of police and then again by the justice system. is hearing that. this young black woman was being acknowledged in the sense that we haven't heard before you know demanding their existence be validated fought for and that in itself is a very emotional and empowering as well. we're

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a j. you know when the news goes live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and that al-jazeera dot com us president donald trump now says that the u.s. is in no hurry to withdraw from syria after coming under pressure from international allies and senior figures and has republican party last month trump abruptly i doubt that all two thousand american troops would be brought home following what he called them victory or the. well meanwhile the war between syrian president bashar assad and rebel forces appears to be entering its final phase edler province is the last remaining opposition enclave and people there are bracing for a government offensive as acid tries to bring all of syria under his control mohamad the reports from ghazi on tip near the turkish syrian border. these are you

how tommy mosul syria said the problems it libya's home to three million people who since two thousand and fifteen have been effectively disrupt it is serious last remaining opposition enclave controlled by a kill to assad but the rebels. syrian president bashar al assad strengthened in recent months by support from powerful allies and that we opening all the embassies in damascus by some arab countries is vowing to launch an invasion. it live with its cinder block thompson villages could soon be subject to rockets bombs and even class the pumps. the rebels are putting more debris face while. today we are all gathered here and ready to fight until the last drop of our blood we are the songs of this territory and we know it very well and so do the people displaced from all over syria are now living in this small geographic area which is

just ninety square kilometer nothing will make us lose our resolve to fight on. in the middle of it lips of rolling olive groves the displaced live in some of the most desperate conditions possible with no proper housing they are the must see of the elements. i mean. we lack everything there is no food no money we have nothing that winter and floods are making life even more difficult when it gets a little windy our tents just fly away. humanitarian workers warn a full assault on it live could spark a refugee crisis of historic proportions driving millions of people into turkey and europe yet this theater of war is never locking in action in another corner of north and syria fighters loyal to the turkish allied free syrian army are on the march. they're headed for the kurdish held city of members in support of the

planned offensive by turkish forces in recent days techie has been massing troops at its border and even sent tanks rolling into territory in syria that he told sway over turkey considers the kurdish y p g fighters who control members terrorists. turkey's main problems with groups who considers terrorists finding a foothold in territory to administer inside syria i'm talking of the so-called terror corridor the p y g m p y d kurdish organizations but there is also the issue of syrian refugees turkey believes there is a great need to end the conflict in syria so the refugees can return the moment of a complete withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria house opened the gates kumble by a regional power such as turkey and iran aggressively pursue their interest in the city feeling abandoned by the united states congress why premier fighters of compton deal with the city and bring uninvited forces to protect them against the

planned talk is often without foretold now when cut is held territory in all from syria admit remains the missing plank in assad's plan to reclaim the whole of syria it's just a matter of time. before him. mohammad i know well does it or doesn't . well marwan carolina is joining us on set now he is the head of policy analysis at the arab center for research always good to get your expertise on sorry i missed a couple on you've written that the u.s. withdrawal is likely to be the most fingal most important development in the syrian conflict since the russians got involved in twenty fifteen why is that so little because i believe the presence or absence of the united states military in syria changes the geopolitical context in a fundamental way right now for example the united states is controlling one third of syria and this one is the most important part of syrian territory is why because

it includes most of syria's go or oil water power stations and fertile land and when the united states withdraw actually allows almost all other players to try and compete for the control of that part of syria i mean by that russia to and and iran if the united states stays nobody is going to actually have that the power or the world the political will in order to start the sort of conflict to control that part of syria but i shows they tried that before and they're americans they thought them barely tough lesson actually when the when the a bomb the whole russian kind of. trying to cross the fifty's out of i saw this is what this is why i meant that the presence or absence of u.s. military in the eastern part of syria is going to change the conflict in a fundamental way and of course the powers that are there now turkey russia iran they all have different interests different desires for this region. the u.s.

is now saying that they're going to slow down the withdrawal of what's supposed to be withdrawing between sixty to one hundred days now it's four months that's not actually a big difference between sixty to one hundred days and then you know slowing down to four months what difference is that going to make but that would allow almost everybody to try to understand the consequences of the u.s. war the role and prepare for it you know many actually of the u.s. allies in the region are very much against the u.s. were there on that includes is saudi arabia emirates and particularly they were actually taken off guard by the u.s. announcement on december twentieth by bosun trump of course. even the turks actually wanted very much the united states to withdraw from that asian because they want to strike against. the concert of the kurdish fighters on the concert sternest even turks actually they don't want the americans to be in the how

do you to withdraw why because that if the americans withdraw quickly from the region that would put them actually in direct contact with the russians with the iranians and with the syrian regime and that is something that the turks are very much prepared for so i think that the the withdrawal of the delay of the withdrawal would allow at least a key to get prepared for replacing the united states in certain parts of that part of syria and of course it would allow other other of the other players in order to see what they can do about that is about it or. is interested in seeing what they can do about the u.s. withdrawal and how do you expect the countries to prepare and how is this going to play out you know are turkey going to attack the kurds in the north is iran going to go ahead with its plans to create the sort of you know shia crescent farm to damascus to hezbollah in lebanon as russia to try and secure those oil and gas

fields. all the other resources that the u.s. have been you know in control of in the north i mean there is so much to play here as well as the war itself and how much this would be to or strengthen. absolutely right this is why i meant it's sealy the most important perhaps development and the syrian conflict for for many years now i think the turks will be trying to have some sort of the sort of agreement with the americans on one hand with the russians on the other hand in order to see what they can do about this because as i said one major major objective of to actually is to destroy the white b.g. because of that them as a major threat to the turkish the turkish national security that americans are very reluctant to give the green light and we know now that that is the sort of debate within the united states and within that because the one would win very much actually to keep the equipments which had been given by the united states to the

kurdish forces to to keep them yeah the turks they are very much against that so we'll see how that's going to happen. is going to be what sort of agreement in fact is going to take place between the americans and the turks you have russia on the other hand because if the u.s. withdraw russia says that it's the right of the syrian regime to take control of this territory is because this is syrian territories and the syrian regime and he means legally at least from a legal point of view a very brazen of the of syria international and international organizations so here are the turks will be trying also to have an argument with russia because if they don't have agreement with the russians to enter this that it is just like the agreement which allowed the turks to start the olive branch operation in a free in on the north western part of syria the turks are seeking the sort of agreement with the russians in order to do that so now people are talking about the

buffer on a sword in fact between between turkey the called the sure. fighters. iran russia the united states is trying to arrange all that in a we that on one hand it doesn't look very much like it's abandon its allies in this case the kurds and on the other hand they can actually make it to be without allowing the iranians to deal control of this but this is very complicated actually equation for almost everybody and we'll see how things are going to evolve over the next few days and weeks thank you very much for breaking that down for us we appreciate your time thank you it's a lot. now we have a special syria page on our website and there you can find this really helpful info graphic it breaks down who controls what in the complicated picture that is the syrian conflict. now we want to hear from you on these stories you can send us your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use.