author of when men walked on the moon he sends this mission will help china reach further into space well china is treating the moon as the first big outpost in deep space for its long term plans it's already sent several missions to the moon it plans to send even more in the future including a sample return mission at some point but china is also setting its sights for mas and the asteroids and probably beyond so i think it's a clear cut case that when a nation has big plans for outer space at some point you have to start exploring the moon and treat that as as part of your overall plan well in some ways it they are playing catch up but the chinese didn't even launch a satellite until nine hundred seventy s. so this space program does have a sort of a and historical lag with that those of america and russia but they're advancing very rapidly and even though it seems in some ways to be a bit of

a catch up phase the fact is they catching up to nobody by landing on the far side of the moon because nobody has done it before and it's a tremendous technical achievement just to set up the communications link between the far side of the moon and earth we think that the crust is of a different thing this and we think that there they could be differences in the rocks in the way that. thermal conductivity other factors take place and so not just looking at the surface which you can do from orbit but looking at what lies underground is one of the goals of this mission and the rover that's being carried has a radar system that's designed to penetrate the ground and build up a profile of the lower layers below the soil. well still ahead here on al-jazeera we hear from members of the youth movement accused of causing election violence in bangladesh also. if this thing gets. through with africa's biggest street party to find out how they come about comparable is helping prop up one cheer is a call be those stories on the other side of the bright.

color i was looking at some very wet weather pushing its way towards southern parts of thailand northern areas of the peninsula as well moving parts of malaysia here and that is of course because we do have a tropical system making its way through so that's a tropical sideline unusual of course at this time of the year that's going to bring some very wet weather into southern areas of thailand northern parts of the mill a peninsula seeing some really heavy rain as we go on through friday into saturday some of these areas seen in excess of two hundred millimeters of rain per day so a stormy conditions continuing here want to see showers into the philippines but a good deal trodden a has been recently in place to say that these are scattering of showers across much of malaysia down into indonesia joining up with the showers that we have

across northern parts of australia will china storms here and just offshore coast keeping a close eye on tropical side climb penny that list ladies make its impacts on northern queensland as we go on towards the weekend but at the moment it's not too bad here in terms of the rain want to see showers across the north all of australia should be about the heat with a melting forty two celsius there for friday getting up to the mid twenty's in path as we go on into sas day a cool one the meldon. look the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understand. to syrians document the route that has claimed so

many lives searching for sanctuary to people in power on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching all deserving sell robida relied on top stories u.s. president donald trump has described syria's war as sand and death while defending his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the country still hasn't provided a timetable for the military exit he announced last month. also a team of u.s. prosecutors is in the turkish capital of ankara to discuss the possible extradition business but. turkey says it is the mastermind behind the twenty sixteen failed

coup attempt to overthrow the government and president trump has asked congressional leaders to return to the white house on friday after both sides failed to reach a deal to end the partial government shutdown. to let the shutdown go on until he gets his mexico border war funding. and staying in the u.s. the congress starts its new to us national transfer public and party will have a slightly larger senate majority but democrats will be in charge of the house of representatives as rosslyn jordan reports that priorities will be a challenge to trouble on many levels. new year new session of congress the public's expectations of success are high the american public is so much more engaged than they normally are they are paying attention to politics they're not just letting things happen after the november elections the republicans retain control of the senate but it's the democrats who now run the house their ranks are

younger more liberal more ethnically diverse and filled with many more women. they want to check president donald trump's policies and to pass legislation of their own immigration reform investigating saudi arabia's ties to the u.s. and expanding health care coverage but first ending the federal government shutdown how dangerous is this and why we need a wall the president wants up to five billion dollars for a border wall between the u.s. and mexico and he says he won't reopen the government unless he gets that money democrats say they won't give the president money for anyone that means eight hundred thousand federal workers aren't being paid and a variety of federal services are not available until further notice the president seems to be stuck on a wall or barrier or whatever it is that he's calling it today but i think that they've given him plenty of options plenty of ways to open the government president

trouble owns the shutdown he is the person who said that he was going to shut down the government he needs to go away from an impractical wall and we're going to reopen the government break up. a kind of gridlock reading the members of the one hundred sixteenth congress their first chance to show the public that they can solve the most difficult of political problems rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington . the head of apple has partly blame the us president's trade with china for missing out on billions of dollars worth of business to cook warned of lower than expected earnings for the first quarter of this year also something we could demand from china and washington the beijing impose the sales of tariffs on each other's goods chill nichols is a reporter on the register of technology news and opinion website he says it's not just the trade war that's affecting apple think what apple would like to do is really kind of as much as possible site china site the trade works like their shoes

as the cause of this but as you know the over the last couple years apple has significantly increased the price of the i phone we've tim cook special explanation of this is you're seeing kind of a combination of the trade wars kind of causing problems in china kind of worries over the economy and that's making people less likely to go in and purchase apple products so it's so you're seeing both apple saying this is the train where the economic policies but it's also you know our products are more expensive and fewer people want to go to the store and pay that much for a phone for hours trading it was something like seven point five percent drop in apple's share price i mean this isn't a huge hit for apple as far as the shortfall i believe it's only about four or five billion out of an eighty four billion dollars revenue. for the quarter but this is something that investors are paying attention to and they did punish apple pretty

significantly after hours trading south-asian at least one person stands in the southern indian things of canada after protests over the entry of two women into the shape of a military schools across the state to close them public transport to be suspended the women were the first to enter the temple since the supreme court overturned a centuries old ban on women aged between ten to fifteen the protest to support the temples refusal to implement the court ruling saying hindu values are under attack . and critics say the bunker there she prime ministers a landslide victory in sunday's general election could allow her to become even more thorough tarion shaken seen as party won more than ninety five percent of the seats in parliament securing her third consecutive term in office but a student movement which backed her campaign has been accused of violence and voter intimidation charles stratford put those allegations to the movement's leader. twenty five year old saddam hussein is the leader of bangladeshis party student

movement called the charter league. it has tens of thousands of supporters the opposition say prime minister sheikh hasina used the chance really to intimidate threaten and commit acts of violence against them during the election campaign. including this attack on the motorcade of opposition leader kemal hussain. to be able to see the victims with the awami. nation there was no violence committed by the roaming the us we followed the election commission when we kept communication ties with the awami league candidates they needed to know what the younger generation wants the opposition alliance has rejected the election is demanding another under a neutral interim government hussain rejects the allegation made by international human rights organizations that the league and the sheikh hasina has committed major human rights violations including forced disappearances and the murder of opposition activists. the scene has become known to the international community as

a mother of humanity we were able to help their hanger refugees or exult this proves she is humanitarian with them there was a lot of extra judicial caning into in the military government paused do you deny that there was no intimidation by awami league supporters like your youth movement . i mean obama not only me but one hundred million voters they were new generation millions that through the won the league we won our independence and it's through the party that they dream of a modern bangladesh will be realised. the opposition say more than ten thousand of its supporters were restes it during an election campaign it calls a farce hussein and his young supporters say the opposition has no grounds to complaint strafford al-jazeera dhaka. israel's public security ministers from is to make conditions worse for palestinian prisoners. jails will remove cooking rights begin rationing water and reduce prisoners autonomy the right to be housed with

members of the factions says the new policies aimed to deter future acts of violence. the trial of wall of the world's best known drug lords is resuming in new york the holiday break prosecutors have been outlining allegations against the mexican known as el chapo since november but that have also been some unexpected moments on skype or lots of the reports. coming in. his life is the world's richest and most feared drug trafficker was dramatized in a hit television series and spondee genre of folk songs back in his native mexico but inside a brooklyn courtroom the real life push joaquin el chapo guzman is playing out and it's no less insatiable among some of the extraordinary exhibits seen by the jury so far pictures of specially built submarines that prosecutors say carried millions of dollars of cocaine from colombia to guzman in mexico and elaborate tunnels they

say he then famously used to get into the u.s. and then there were cans of pickled whole opinio peppers which it's claimed chappell used to smuggle upwards of forty tons of cocaine into the u.s. worth five hundred million dollars a year this was guzman's favorite weapon a diamond encrusted thirty eight caliber with his initials on it. security is tight for the trial with no cameras or video allowed inside the courtroom but that didn't appear to stop guzman's beauty queen wife emma coronel who was at one point caught with this cell phone in the courtroom the prosecution claimed she was secretly trying to text her husband through his lawyers. want to. guzman's defense lawyers made the sensational claim that two former mexican

presidents personally took millions in bribes from the sin aloa cartel they're pinning their hopes on an acquittal on arguing the real culprit is this man is male . a former ally of guzman and current head of this in a little cartel. you know i don't. know. but this rare audio recording allegedly of el chapo guzman negotiating a multimillion dollar cane shipment was played in court analysts say it will be hard for the defense to refute the recordings that we heard in court the recordings with all chappell's voice it just really stings and i think that that makes it very difficult that they'll be able to pull it off if convicted guzman faces life behind bars but with several more people expected to testify the trial likely will not end at least for a few more weeks gabriels andro al-jazeera brooklyn hundreds of and

contacted tribes in brazil lower in danger of losing their lands as part of a major policy of all by the newly inaugurated president john bolton or as executive order puts the agricultural ministry in charge of deciding which parts of the amazon rain forest should be set aside for the next if groups the decrease strips the indigenous affairs agency of power and that all phases conflict between us on tribesmen and commercial farms nearby. the electoral commission in the democratic republic of congo says results for the presidential vote might be delayed because it hasn't received most of the ballots regional monitors say sunday's election was relatively well managed despite several challenges technical and organizational problems meant many people couldn't vote while more than one million others in three opposition strongholds were excluded because of the bowler and security concerns meanwhile the congolese ruling party says the internet will remain shut down to prevent disorder. from going to. the common front for the congo

regrets the internet shut down since monday but notes that some people tried to use the internet to put the congolese people against each other because. we asked the population to remain calm and wait peacefully for the provisional results that the electoral commission will publish in the coming days will stay on the continent the calabar carnival in southern nigeria used to be a blog event featuring mountain races cultural displays and even beauty pageants economic turmoil has forced or closes to make adjustments over the years but as there's reports from calabar it remains the single largest attraction in nigeria. nigeria speaking a street party continues to defy a weak economy. the number of events and activities may have been scaled down but the enthusiasm is also high yes. that come from different parts of the country and

the world. we are telling a story well using this as a pull factor to bring people to nigeria to bring people to across arrested the. story for the unborn generations. and for the past eighteen years residents and tourists to come have been treated to this spectacle music dance and a variety of food. the cost of a state carnival is gone from a simple christmas street party to one of the largest festivals not only in nigeria but anyway in africa visitor numbers a big base from three hundred thousand and i just estimate. all of them contributing to the local economy. because we heard about four thousand bedrooms in the big. new two thousand rooms we're going to talk about three thousand jobs added the employment in the tourism sector to date about twenty seven thousand direct employment but is small businesses like mary francis that i

helped most this is a single biggest event she and many other stick it bent to jobs to make good profit will mean. anything but i don't know but i think that idea of giving all the little kids. the kind of a kind of values to be our month long festival that runs into the new. economic realities including the loss of income from all households the government here to cut its spending but despite this the festival remains one big party enjoyed by participants visitors and residents alike. karma nigeria. you're watching all just there i'm still robin a reminder of our top stories u.s. president donald trump has described syria's war as sound death while defending his

decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the country still hasn't provided a timetable for the military exit he announced last month. fast or slow whether it was a time when you want but if somebody said for months but i didn't i didn't say that either i'm getting out we're getting out of syria look we don't want syria obama gave up syria years ago when he didn't violate the red line i did when i shot fifty nine missiles at but that was a long time later so syria was lost long ago it was lost long ago and besides that i don't want we're talking about sand and death that's what we're talking about what but we want to protect the kurds nevertheless we want to protect the courage but i don't want to be in syria forever it's sad and it's death a team of u.s. prosecutors is in the turkish capital of ankara to discuss the possible extradition

of businessman for time to go and turkey says glenn is the mastermind behind the twenty sixteen failed coup attempt to overthrow the government and u.s. president donald trump and sounds congressional leaders to return to the white house on friday after both sides failed to reach a deal to end the partial government shutdown trump said he's prepared to let the shutdown go on until he gets his mexico border wall funding. at least one person is dead in the southern indian state of carola after protests over the entry of two women into the chevy mullet temple schools across the state are closed and the public transport has been suspended the women were the first to enter the temple since the supreme court overturned a ban on women aged between ten to fifteen and the head of apple has partly blamed the u.s. president's trade war with china for missing out on billions of dollars worth of business tim cook warned of lower than expected earnings for the first quarter of the year also citing we could demand from china here's

a look at the far side of the moon as seen from china spacecraft it's a historic mission making china the first to land a probe there and could offer insights into the origins and evolution of people in power is next on the news hour is he would have to stay with us. these stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the. al-jazeera. it's become one of the defining things of all times a tidal wave of humanity in search of sanctuary from more repression or poverty in recent years millions have taken to the rope in the hope that safety and

a better life while sway some manage it some don't but almost every journey is a tale of hardship insurance and great risk in this to call people in power special report where telling one such story to syrian refugees trying against all the oats to make it to germany. after weeks of exhausting nonstop travelling by sea and land. and georgia's have

covered over a thousand kilometers since climbing aboard a people traffickers boat in taki. on the road through the balkans and southern europe hungry footsore without official papers and running out of funds they've been forced to sleep in the open to evade police and border patrols. but now they've made it to a hostile and supportive northern sabia the next step on the refugee trial finding a smuggler to take them back into the e.u. . then there's the one you. or the. your boss. or some of the other. did out of was studying economics and aleppo university when the syrian uprising began arrested and detained by the assad regime he was forced to flee the country he met another syrian student in turkey and they've been watching out for each

other ever since they've also been filming veges. after two days in the hostel a smuggler sends a car to take them to a safe house. the federal government. the caring man. who had to. go. in and see him. in the interim. obviously dart seen here with the red hat is this smuggler. sat back to look like today. internet. n. c

m r. o. o. o o. o. o o o five or. so have been way too kind i mean he's still in the bit with us tonight but. if you can imagine. the way i would know he had a out of in the way of those higher. than was eating their sorry for this is still a technicality. finally it's time to leave the deal is that the smuggler will drive them to a discreet spot in the holocaust forest where he's hungry. he'll leave them to make

their own way past the guards and then pick them up on the other side. forty minutes later and don't fit again they make a dash across the border to the clearing where they've been told to wait and i've been in a mob out of arrest me been in those day. the thought of until. now had taught them that. i'd be able to go. but is the hours passed with still no word from the smuggler it looks like they're going nowhere and with guards everywhere they have to keep deathly quiet. that. you see things.

i don't know then out of the blue a local television crew shows. you to waken that up you are still going to. be here in the area did you sleep your. why did you leave your. people. in the east. because. i know me. and it's been good but then. any. crowd are. having abandoned most of the kids as

they run. eventually reunited supported back on the subway and side of the ball down a bar trump it helps raise morale but what they really need is a refund. thank you moment i mean anyone at the most saudi. government never going to shoot i don't really know my feet because it could be argued that if you look in the last time my sister was going to come down number five on one. jacket. the number was. i'm sure twenty one and. they might cause a lot of. the bugs are the same at the water's. edge or the cage as it gives them before.

night falls and supported so hungry and now penny less ended are still desperately trying to reach the smuggler so you can see that. some of my eyes see the morning in a mall or another they could. have. been like ondoy. i would see the. what a shift the was. final. but though back in funds they still face their old problem without documents they can't get a place to stay so they try the local church. after

another cold night on the streets ended on contraflow to hang around for another smuggler. heading back towards the hungarian border and a little place called can. syria and syria. first stop a bar in town recommended by all the syrians. to come on my everybody we're going to see more and i know. you're. i'm sure but i just don't know what you wish. only morning. ended hours group set out on foot towards the buddha.

would be making it up. and the lot of you know about it. right. nation what do you see. while not belonging to any chance at all in medina. i'm sure your school. may move on but then out of the dog. a sabean police patrol. to cope with. a foreigner. on. a yacht danny that

another and then have it on me the guy who want to have dismissed him in the group for gunny he won't. know and i don't in the middle and suitable until now and the. few money so. that they can't talk their way out of it and the police take them to a police station near the border with the one. of the law. that we have one. that's. not all of them. are rough we does. something got along about it but a lot of people are they then up to now known in the faculty smith europe or not. this. we should first person

narrative far apart. and then it's going to come on me become architects in a lot of the. rush where. i would often come you don't. you can jolly well me and even a little that was a. plan. i want to watch several g.b.'s may need to know why i'm not a fan and i was a plain a dish owner doing on the phone up on one. of salons in the hood. and the one has a mother who has died in the months and. was a lesbian put down and known as a man but did you have know this tell them that's a whole lot of peony. for them but then that you have none does not have them be

found meta. with i'm not playing with them no would better that they have not i would than the bought another and i want to read to you again the. is that not a bad thinking with him. after four weeks on the road ended on a back and hungry and the european union for the second time. their main concern now is to not get swept up by the police on this side of the border if caught in fingerprinted in hungary e.u. rules on refugees mean they'd have to claim asylum here and not in germany. or.

for you. if you. were. to feel. a little. more. like them. and i'm a. muslim but. to get out of whack you know with a bullet through the whole movie. so. about the team i didn't.

like once i am. the lead of them another had most of them a con there in the show feeding off with no other part of the i. was going to. whether he had. this. was a fair lean. genie any in. fact could be the only. looking for that play alive that i could get it up both. back contract they get to the outskirts of sec at and find other refugees lurking in the bushes. milat goes hunting first smuggler still wary of the hungary and

police they want to move on. some hours later he suddenly reappears with a taxi. to get him. to. put the medina. award motherhood now and with. that. so i'm not. even the admin but there is that the. guardian. i'm going to. push on.

after three days of roaming the city streets they found a smuggler. at a price he'll take them to their long dreamed of destination germany. they're in high spirits believing the end of this epic journey is just hours away. who want to help but he. met you on that. message mcadam us up to first be anybody would see the set of the tears all the way out a lot of them would be any miss muscle. and my saudi any baton and how i've been she feel or be what for and. for the. let's start to have the. or does not the plan say yeah so i'll feel so ya know. or god not like.

the business of trying to. do in. some way made the border between hungary and austria. but a dumb way. stuck in the undergrowth a few hundred meters from the motorway the refugees keep trying to raise help from the smuggler back in budapest but he is hard to pin down. only if we see all this is supposed to measure. out of the helmet law let you all morning. and in the city if you. kick in and she got.

low i mean obviously they should but. they have little food or water with them and some families with children decide to hand themselves over to the authorities tragically just a few hundred kilometers short of their goal. of this including midnight and did are going on and past the time as best they can. time drags on and night falls once again. as a sign. that. says. a lot. right. there whether eventually the promise transport arrives and they're back on the road.

at last they start to eat up the miles. getting through austria with bewildering speed. that some see. your deeds. oh yeah i get to sit. in my. bunk. books. it's almost the end of this epic journey. and for me loudon did are time to go their separate ways for now. is.

to get us. into the. sea make you feel that you. want. to use on life is more settled. now lives in cologne has been learning german and has made himself a home syria is never far from his mind. although fully and i. can show. you what that has an ice of swords and i. assume. you are a smart one. because. they could die but not everything is new he's hung on to the

clothes he wore on the long road to get hair deliberate skin futile or. belittle you might and. surely. sit fever among can but just fell asleep on. me lad keeps in touch with did out who lives and do it and only an hour away by train. i. get the lotsa luck. look there on the queue. i see. if. every time they meet the memories come flooding back.

on their arrival in germany in late june two thousand and fifteen dear arthur was reunited with his wife and now they have the child they want streambed of bringing up and safety. just as with me lad the uprising in the homeland they left behind is never far from there are stored. indeed these days he works full time for the cause on a website devoted to a free syria jani mark and other than a charlatan on a land sort of her family can look down my story. as they call it a one hour smartphone. thoughtfully checking your own mom's folding marquardt swing and i feel one innocent. man has ever been in that sorta enough to know what and i mean if you want to. but whenever did out and may not get together they'll take

a moment or two to recall the ups and downs of their time on the road. i mean and. a lot this is not bother with. the addition of a. gun like other refugees who found sanctuary in germany. and did are say they'll always be grateful to the country that has made them welcome. but had things been different back in syria neither would have chosen to come here. and in the. oil but not the what are lama lo. the power. out of them want. one day they say they'll retrace their steps and return to the land of their birth one day when peace and they've been left syria is restored. but finale like

millions of others driven from their homes by war and conflict they will make the best of what they have others they know have not been so fortunate. in these year new immigration laws and projects funded by european governments have seen a rapid decline in the migrant transport trade people in power travels to aga dess to explore the realities faced by the drivers left out of pockets and the migrants who are choosing to return home who would like to go back to the country where they're from you know it is going to be. a lot when i don't want to go that yeah.

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of first of all we've got some breaking news coming from saudi arabia we understand from the saudi authorities that eleven suspects have face the first court appearance over the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi which of course you remember happened on the second of october in the turkish city of istanbul at the saudi arabian consulate we can go live now to turkey to ankara the capital and our correspondent there sin and what more we learned. martin first i have to say that the saudi prosecutor says he asked for four for this for slaying those five suspects however the court hasn't ruled this decision yet so this is the first thing so everything can change especially when it comes to the prosecutor's office we hear we hear from the saudi side of they have contacted the turkish prosecutor and asked for some information and has yet to receive. react

to receive some. ever from ankara perspective i must say that it is very busy today there are lots of visits to the president and to the foreign ministry and the justice ministry is very busy with the u.s. delegation who came to discuss some issues by the troll issues so since this line is very near we haven't we haven't heard from an editor of his office szell's yet but until now i must say that they are reactions have been always very very actually suspect full because turkey has always accused saudi arabia for not being culprits of on this issue and also to turkish foreign minister stated before that the saudi prosecutor's office has never shared any information about those eleven people who have been arrested and. this life sentence that's their sentence decision is seems to be not wellcome it will not be welcomed by ankara most

probably because it will mean that is saudi arabia will shut those people will actually make those people stop talking saw turkey or any other country will not be able to hear what is what is the main reason behind this murder what are the realities and facts about the smolder so turkey has always been against this because turkey wants to listen to the interviews all those suspects so we will wait and see what turkey's justice ministry and foreign minister will say about that right of course because turkey has always maintained visitation that it wants those suspected of being involved in the murder to be extradited and to face justice in turkey. yes exactly this is what turkey has asked from saudi arabia because even though everything happened inside the saudi saudi diplomatic mission in turkey. the rest of the operation was conducted of course inside turkey

and turkey turkey is that if you can't judge those people if you can't question those people don't send them over here so that we can question ourselves but as i sat. we know that the saudi arabia has not called of ration also the latest information that we had a couple of days ago for instance about mr otto baker who has been the forensic expert and who is named to be the person who. disposed. body and we knew we heard from saudi arabia that he was also detained but afterwards we learned of his living in a villa by the pool in saudi arabia inject actually far from riyadh and we heard that one of the members of the hits men. was actually has actually lost his life during a suspicious car accident so it is perceived from the turkish side that saudi arabia is trying to silence those people rather than punishing them or questioning them so are you suggesting that in no way will the turkish authorities be satisfied or

swayed by this indication that the judicial process is a lease got underway in saudi arabia. well martin that sentence has been lifted from the turkish courts a couple of years ago for instance turkey is that the turkish law doesn't give that sentence so especially on this issue they the officers we have contacted also the officials who have spoken on camera has always said that that sentence is not a solution we need to hear those people's interviews those testimony is then i heard from the turkish official saying that they don't even know when the neighbor of the people of whom saudi prosecutor's office have arrested on till now so just giving the death sentence will be and actually is seen as i said silencing those people and it will not do any remedy on the investigation ongoing ball independent

investigations ongoing both in riyadh and in turkey all right thank you susan because here lou correspondent in the anchor there now we can speak to a senior political analyst marwan bashar he's joining us on the line now and amoa what do you make then of this declaration made by the saudi authorities that at last the judicial process seems to be under way involving eleven suspects involved in the. absolutely needed to. be further. pressure. from. a room. or. course. very. i'm afraid the quality of the line is is so bad that we can't continue with that ma and we'll get back to a bit later on we'll get to more on bashar is considered opinion on these latest

developments in the jamal khashoggi affair a little bit later on but in the meantime we're going to look at another of our main stories and that is the u.s. president who has offered a rather stark taken serious summing it up in two words signed and death those were his exact words now donald trump suggested it's not in america's interest to be fighting in that country nor in afghanistan during the off the cuff of the times rambling comments as his cabinet met for the first time this year the president trying to remain vague about when u.s. troops would be withdrawn from syria but he tried to offer a little bit of reassurance to america's kurdish allies in the north who feel that they're being abandoned when u.s. troops leave the country. i know this is fast or slow but i think one of the people you want you know what somebody said four months but i didn't i didn't say that either i'm getting out we're getting out of syria look we don't want syria

obama gave up syria years ago when he didn't violate the red line i did when i shot fifty nine missiles in but that was a long time later so syria was lost long ago it was lost long ago and besides that i don't want we're talking about sand and death that's what we're talking about what we want to protect the kurds never the less we want to protect the kurds but i don't want to be in syria forever it's sand and it's death but he also seemed to ignore the war in afghanistan which began with the u.s. invasion in two thousand and one and dismissed it pretty much as a problem for neighbors like russia india and pakistan to deal with. but why is it russia there why isn't india there what isn't pakistan there why are we there were six thousand miles away. but i don't mind we want to help our people we want

to help other nations so as president travels making those remarks in washington actually on the ground in northern syria fighting continued between armed groups in the north of the country in fact the fighting has increased at least fifty people have been killed in parts of aleppo and in province is al-qaeda linked fighters and turkey backed rebel forces are blaming each other for starting the violence the worst that has been in this part of syria for months now by let's go live now to our correspondent mohammed atta he's in gaziantep in turkey but that's very close to the border with syria and president champ's words seem to have unleashed a whole myriad of scenarios on the ground in syria but let's just start with this fighting that is increased between these two rival groups in. what specifically behind it do we know.

or from what we're hearing from sources here the whole issue also relates to the u.s. the u.s. troop withdrawal will fall on what we're hearing is that turkey right now on a war forty one on one side that's the most western the eastern part of syria preparing are not hard on the city of monk beach has also been trying to get rebels thought are allied tweeds to prepare for and also against what they're calling the remnants of terrorist groups such as an al qaida which those al qaeda through it. are also say to be part of and they say it not al-qaeda affiliated rebels are said well cut it out and. tuck on the turkish. rebels have taken a key town that all is. that city which is also some villages surrounding it so

that is happy with the view all. block a militia is wanting to create the weeds between the. turkish rebels who are enough for you know also those in aleppo so that they can control and defend their areas in the last remaining the opposition stronghold and further east in the country and mohammed chickie around the area where we have it seems we've got the turkish troops massing on one side of this city and we have syrian government troops massing on the other side i mean how what's the potential there for for there to be some kind of confrontation once u.s. forces do venture pull out. while the issue is we don't even know what clear timetable right now for the u.s. troop with the.