espec kurdish why p.g. turkey considers that the syrian branch of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it recognizes as a terrorist group. indore ranks of the spray gate are syrian kurds who say the white cannot be of the kurds legitimate representative in the war in syria. most of the kids fled to germany iraqi kurdistan because of the y.p. g.'s oppression they force you even girls for military service on the front lines they charge an affordable taxi. many people support the military offensive surrounded by the p.k. cambridge reinforces and the populations living in fear of more places and liberated in the why putin is gone we can have a better business life this is a mountain it is one of two military bases which will coordinate the expected upcoming offensive on the eastern side of the euphrates river and the city of. turkey stays kurdish civilians will not be targeted but some people in members are

not convinced not funny. since we learned the u.s. will withdraw many of our friends volunteered to join managed military council to defend our city will protect ourselves. of course we have fears now we live in peace with really perform our religion but when other groups can there will be corruption. day and night the turkish army continues to strengthen its forces inside syria sending a message that the offensive could start soon. al-jazeera northern syria all right plenty more ahead on this news out of feeling for justice in the democratic republic of congo the loser the presidential election tells the constitutional court judges the vote was fixed. i. love breaks it heats up in britain and so do the calls for

a general election. and later a sport i'll land o. work their magic against the boston celtics action for me and here. coming out later. so let's go ahead but first the u.s. president is denying the latest allegations of his links with russia this time donald trump's been accused of keeping to himself details of a meeting with russian president vladimir putin a report in the washington post says trump didn't release any notes made by his interpreter after he met putin in hamburg in twenty seventeen trump reportedly instructed the translator not to tell anyone in his administration what had been discussed why not release the conversation that you had with president putin in helsinki along with some other stops that might involve them. or on the whole lot

of them well geneva i would i don't care i mean i had a conversation like every president does you sit with the president of various countries i do it with all countries we had a great conversation we were talking about israel and securing israel and for lots of other things and it was a great conversation i'm not keeping anything under wraps i couldn't care less i was ok so has more on this from washington. we know of at least five private meetings between u.s. president donald trump and putin during trump's presidency and the reporting in this washington post article focuses on the twenty seventeen g. twenty meeting in hamburg germany we know that during this meeting president was also then the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and trump's personal interpreter now tillerson following this meeting told reporters that a wide variety of topics were discussed and that among them trump had pressed who

wouldn't whether russia had meddled in the u.s. elections which putin denied than target or told other senior administration officials that trump responded with the words i believe you but since then the lips of that interpreter have been sealed and we may know the reason why now ford into this reporting in the washington post with which cites former and current u.s. officials they say that trump instructed the interpreter not to reveal details of this meeting not even to four other not even to other administration officials and the reporting says that trump took possession of the notes of the interpreter and the result is that not only is there no detailed record of what was discussed between these two leaders in the public arena there may not even exist records in classified records either all of this would which would handicap u.s. foreign policy experts which may have weighed in and influence the president's

policy decisions into the future regarding russia and perhaps the biggest threat of all to the u.s. is giving putin extra leverage to manipulate the president. the committee in the u.s. congress says it will look into a port the f.b.i. opened an inquiry to find out if trump was secretly working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests a story in the new york times says the investigation began in may twenty seventeen after trump fired then f.b.i. director james comey and counterintelligence investigators were looking at whether trump was a potential threat to national security they're also trying to find out if he was deliberately working for russia or was unintentionally influenced by moscow tramples rejected the allegations calling it the most insulting article ever written about him. a legal battle is underway in the democratic republic of congo over who the next president should be opposition leader martin for you know has

been at the constitutional court to challenge the results of last month's election and he's calling for a recount after his rival felix cicada was declared the winner i don't want to answer has more from the capital kinshasa. martin phyliss he has evidence to prove he won last month's election by a landslide sixty one percent of the votes and the presidential run is challenging the result in the constitutional court bring it down to the court we called the electoral commission to recount the ballot papers because that's what. we totally disagree with the results. as announced. they are fabricated nothing to do with the truth provisional results released by the election commission on thursday declared felix just a kitty the winner with nearly thirty nine percent of the votes his supporters if

she accept the result. more than guys stop with the we won it we don't she didn't she did we didn't make an arrangement. this is just the result of the polling station and we make sure what because we don't want to go into a fight unlike previous elections voting day at the end of last month was relatively peaceful but growing suspicions over the count could derail congress' first democratic transfer of power since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty constitutional court judges like you to meet on monday and tuesday to go through what martin félicie is evidence which proves he won last month's election if the judges say he has no case in felix's the katie will be sworn in as president the influential catholic church is rejecting the official results so too is france and former colonial power belgium the african union and the southern african development community regional body are appealing to the people of congo to respect

the eventual decision of the constitutional court judges and avoid a violent reaction. how do joins us live now from kinshasa so hara what has the catholic church been saying about these election results. to be honest i haven't really thought much of the election results were at least own people should remain calm and avoid violence remember the maxim is now in the court a lot of people here are reluctant to speak out publicly in case they are held in contempt that. is has a huge influence in this country it's sometimes called in to mediate when there's a crisis for example if people have a problem in their marriage or they have an issue with a neighbor is that it's go to the pretty use of the local bishop to meet it and resolve the issues so that when people are waiting to see at the moment how is it it's going to be involved in this whole process that the op people who were at the kids up with who i spoke to said they are confused they really don't understand why

the church feels the need to him to be here in politics and is saying the bishops and the priest must stay out of it leave it to the court leave it to the politicians. so how is the next week likely to play out. what the constitutional court judges will meet on monday and tuesday and they'll go look at the evidence that much in play ulysses prove that he won the election and if they decide he has no case they could throw the max out and put it to the kitty is a pity because the president elect and horn in on january eighteenth to apply you know was into the opposition leader he was intelligent and he said he's not going to quote i'm disappointed to protest if they are unhappy with the quote outcome and he said what the point that he's going to respect the decision of them. out and thanks very much alive for. now a saudi teenager who fled from her family because she feared for her life as arrived in her new home country to house mohammed flew from thailand to canada

after an offer of asylum the eighteen you again global attention when she launched the social media campaign from her room in bangkok mike hanna has more from toronto . the langham arduous journey from saudi arabia over the eighteen year old step through the arrival doors accompanied by the canadian foreign minister the size of the media contingent a reflection of the massive public interest generated eight zero zero. zero zero zero zero and we're in really new media and really want need you to leave this season right at the new phone but she's found it very armed and they are in tyranny and so she would prefer not to question today so you can see this area and greet them in real life and she is now going to go see you then you will

then run. back through the doors to begin the first phase of the new life the wish to go to college and study architecture. the canadian decision to grant sanctuary is likely to worsen already fractured relations with saudi arabia back in nor has saudi arabia severed diplomatic ties following tonight in criticism of the kingdon's human rights policy then in october the murder of jamal khashoggi saw an upsurge in demands for canada to counsel a multibillion on's deal with saudi arabia this deal is now being reviewed the foreign minister though insists that the protection of human rights is more important than diplomatic relations or any trade deal with any c.r. . to. replace. this time if. he were involved in those conversations as. an tentative plan to bring

a. suit my friend you see pretty blessed here and on fifty two percent playing. here it was this message from the hotel room in thailand that drop all couldn't century the power of social media confirmed and an example perhaps of those seeking their freedom. mike hanna al-jazeera toronto of course are going for a general election in new u.k. days before parliament votes on prime minister teresa mayes bragg's a deal the decision for britain to leave the european union came after a referendum two and a half years ago but there's been more protests against the move along with demands for a second vote paul brennan reports well. with just days to go until teresa mayes breck's a deal is voted on the volume and the tension is cranking up. this demonstration

in london attracted a wide array of left wing protesters with a wide range of political grievances this was anti austerity not a brics it rally at all but it's certainly bret's it which has brought matters to a head. after eight years of ashura starting they want to push us over the age to try our rights montijo rights ritual signage our economy southwards all public services so the solution is very straightforward on shoestring we want to treat maize. was labor is not seeking to overturn bret's it's simply to try to deliver a different rex's i what is clear effort sized by all the different events taking place across the u.k. this weekend that there is still no single coherent principle everybody can unite behind. in the northern city of sheffield campaigners for another referendum have

been pressing their case you have the right to be heard and they must listen to the voice of the people as people now look at the exit understand what it means and realise that this great country in truth has made a terrible mistake and at the same time government minister chris grayling warned that the biggest mistake would be not to go through with grex it we risk a break with the british tradition of. moderate mainstream politics that goes back to the restoration in six hundred sixty he told the daily mail newspaper it will open the door to extremist populist political forces in this country of the kind we see in other countries in europe. opposition figures quickly denounced ratings comments as gutter politics but the route illustrates the bitter divisiveness of the current political climate and the uncertainty of how this will be resolved. brennan al-jazeera central london. in a few moments we'll have the weather with rob mccallum way and also still ahead on

the. at least a dozen killed in an oil tanker disaster in nigeria plus. it was a disaster waiting to happen the government was well aware of the risks of liquefaction here. but did nothing to inform the people i'm stuck fast reporting from without since the. earthquake in september. and controversy brewing ahead of japan's second game at the asian cup details later inspired. by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. as you well know european collecting snow by the meter because eventually that cold air that's brought the snow gets across the mediterranean is enhanced and we see

winter arrive on the shores of north africa and particularly in tunisia courses he's not into this very near the coast as it is the first step of the season but it's not just a little spring he's being quite substantial we're talking about ten maybe twenty centimeters or thereabouts so first of the season it probably won't be the last and it's being joy draws and being a noise for the most part but to be honest that's just a bit of a dalliance if you watch the movement of the cloud generally speaking or i was going to take it further east because it's been in places like turkey in the levant outside europe where it's been most obviously rather windy that's still the case there though the winds are still blowing across tunisia the green represents precipitation this time of rain is to the east so focusing on turkey and particularly in the levant this is the picture at the moment now we've already seen we when to sweep across syria this high ground not far outside damascus again for the most part you can enjoy it is beautiful sight and some certainly have but over

the next two or three days there will be more snow falling the concentration there timing it to tuesday will probably be techie. the weather sponsored by qatar and mayes. the latest news as it breaks in a poll just out sixty five percent of people said that they think it would do a great or a good jolt with detailed coverage is the second time to see a doctor has walked out on strike the government is funded by issuing suspension.

from the around the world the increased warning level colleagues as a blow to the fountains of people displaced by the tsunami of wanting to return home. well again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. secretary of state is in qatar on the latest leg of his middle east visit to urge unity qatar is under blockade by saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain qatar the leaders deny accusations of supporting what they call terrorist groups the u.s. president has denied accusations he concealed details of his meetings with russia's

leader vladimir putin the washington post reports donald trump took back the notes made by his interpreter following a meeting in hamburg and twenty seventeen. the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election says the vote has been fraudulent martin for you want to recount and he's challenging the official results in court. or the political limbo in lebanon is provoking growing anger about the worsening economy lebanese have a caretaker government for eight months now because politicians can't agree on a power sharing in the sectarian society protestors are accusing political leaders of intimidation to silence dissent harder reports from beirut. omar is struggling to pay the bills for his mother's cancer treatment the twenty seven year old is not receiving help from the state that is why he joined this

protest against the caretaker government which is not making important decisions access to free and proper health care is just one of the many problems lebanese face. with a low salary are they cannot afford to hospitalized my mother every month they didn't admit her in the hospital also she needs four different medicines and the ministry of health only provides three i have to choose whether to eat or pay for her treatment but protesters have rallied. government ministries demanding what they call their basic rights because. nobody cares about it and. then we'll move it to the ministry of. because in the front of hospital it is hard to attract crowds in a country controlled by sectarian political parties many lebanese rely on them for jobs and financial support and it seems intimidation tactics are being used to keep

people silent we were distributing brochures about. to us and try to. stop us from from at. first the world bank says seventy percent of the population of six million people earn less than ten thousand dollars a year many find it hard to make ends meet because of the high cost of living public anger is growing as economic conditions worsen fiscal reforms are needed but not has been without a functioning government says elections politicians are fighting overseas but many here believe even if those politicians agree on the government's formation little will change the same political elite remain in charge nonsectarian civil society groups are trying to make a difference to the system has been here for decades that's true that's correct they are very powerful they know how to play within the system they know how to turn things into their advantage by playing on sectarianism we will never accept

defeat we will always make the same pressure we always work on next and next and next elections we will get somewhere from now the balance of power is not in their favor they can only hope their appeals for change are heard. beirut or serbs of protested against their president for six successive saturday president alexandre is accused of stifling media freedoms and attacking journalists and opposition leaders thirty opposition parties and organizations took part in a rally in the capital. the greek defense minister has quit ahead of a deal to end a long dispute with macedonia over its name on friday macedonia's parliament approved an agreement to change it to the republic of north macedonia but it still needs backing from the greek parliament greece's opposed macedonia's entry into nato and the e.u. has promised to lift a veto if macedonia changed its name greece has

a province called macedonia and wants to protect greek culture of being homeless in hungary has become a criminal offense now police are rounding up and fining people living on the streets others have gone into hiding making them even more vulnerable to the harsh winter weather john are reports from the capital. the sleek clean boulevards of budapest this is how increasingly all solitary and government wants them to look no refugees or illegal immigrants and no no homeless people either we are just trying to enable our authorities to step up against something which we believe is against human nature and human dignity and we would like public spaces to get their meaning back and operate as they were intended it's not a decision the government took lightly a previous attempt was ruled a violation of human dignity by the constitutional court so the government changed the constitution itself all of which is heartbreaking to people like youngish torak

janish lives in a caravan after he lost his home his job even his family when a house fire and no insurance left him with crippling debt. i'm afraid of it i can't say better i'm afraid it could happen any time i wake up every morning scared that someone may not call my door and say we can take your stuff away go elsewhere the government did sists it's looking after the people being swept off the streets but we take care of them we provide shelter provisions and all the support that is required not a social workers and they believe that they showed their system is not an assault on this problem heather and the government still thinks about opening some new show there is about the numbers show that there are more than thirty thousand people homeless in hungary at the moment there are eleven thousand places.

cycling through the city volunteers carrying food and blankets search for those who have not made it to a shelter for the night in a railway station underpass where dozens once slept they find just three people. too many people in this in the shelters so there is a one hundred person and here we is there more than one hundred thirty yards or so it's a too crowded and over crowding in the shelters so the volunteers means many homeless people have gone into hiding making them even more vulnerable to the elements. shelters like these this one is a private facility barely come close to meeting the needs of the homeless on the streets and while it's obviously a good idea to get people off the streets in below zero conditions like this and volunteers are doing what they can that's not the point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness in hungary one social worker described it as projecting power over the powerless jona whole al-jazeera budapest

a coal mine collapse in china has killed twenty one minus eighty seven underground when the roof caved in dozens were airlifted to safety in shanghai province engineers are investigating the cause disasters are common in china's mining industry. it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie entire villages swallowed by the earth as land becomes liquid liquefaction as it's called is exactly what happened to indonesian communities last september a major earthquake shook the soil so hard it collapsed villagers warned were not warned rather of the danger step passing reports from. under this pile of mud i do remains of saw me as house it was buried on september twenty eighth after a happy earthquake suddenly turned soil into liquid houses cars and people were

sucked inside hundreds of people disappeared and the bodies of her three young nephews and nieces have yet to be found and for lesser. though if i think about my nephews and nieces i come here i have no more hope that we will find them but it helps me to cope with my sadness just to be here sami aboard the land in the one nine hundred eighty s. by then many houses had been built she remembers that it was muddy but she says she didn't think anything of it in two thousand and twelve a team of geologists found that seventy percent of paolo and its surrounding are at the high risk of liquefaction. meaning that if an earthquake happens water saturated soil can turn into liquid but. we had informed them about the risk but that was all we could do because there are a lot of problems with that area in a difficult economic situation also the information had not been spread. who's the movie star who was the paolo mayor at the time says he never received the

information he says he only received a report about the high risks of earthquakes and tsunamis which you failed to pass on to his successor that is valuable minister but i do feel guilty even though i passed it on to my deputy but i feel bad that i didn't warn anyone that this could happen i forgot about it because as a politician i'm a busy man. sources tell us. people in high risk areas were not warned about the dangers of liquid faction because the local authorities were concerned riots would break out while the government was well aware of the risks of liquefaction here in this area you know how this was still being built followers growing and becoming more popular newcomers were moving into areas no danger zones while it's too late for many the government has now decided that those who have survived will have to be relocated. some survivors have moved to temporary shelters built by the government outside of the city others are reluctant to leave their own neighborhoods those that are you terry if they send us out of town it will be

difficult to find work we can only be farmers they're here we can earn money by selling things at the market whatever it is if people start building again i will do it too. despite government instructions not to build in the affected areas some construction has already started horse stables have now been built on the land where hundreds of bodies are buried some say that if the authorities are not firm new neighborhoods will be constructed and a tragedy that happened only recently will soon be forgotten step fasten al-jazeera . barlow. twelve people to death. for fuel from an overturned oil tank the spill and explosion happened in the town of. this scene is unfortunately too familiar in nigeria fuel tankers like this one

crash or pipelines leak and the poor in africa's most populous country rushed to the scene those who survived are scarred for life some have lost limbs. many of. these burn victims risked their lives in the southern state of cross river trying to collect the leaking black gold and this has been. events in our society every year an average of one hundred twenty fuel tanker accidents are reported in the country which is africa's largest oil producer this is partly blamed on roads that are overcrowded and poorly maintained witnesses at the scene of this latest incident say an electrical generator brought in to remove the spilled oil set off sparks igniting a fire an explosion but also a lot of money looking for. people called collecting spilled fuel

fishing and it doesn't just happen when tankers overturn thousands have been killed fishing for fuel when pipelines leak or are vandalized in october more than fifty people were burned to death while scooping fuel from a pipeline that thieves busted before it caught fire and exploded in two thousand and twelve more than one hundred people were killed in the oil hub of port harcourt when an oil tanker tipped over and scavengers were trapped and burned alive when the vehicle exploded according to government data more than one thousand two hundred people were killed trying to steal fuel from vandalized pipelines during the eight years preceding two thousand and eight the country's worst accident happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight that's when nearly one thousand one hundred people were killed when a leaking pipeline they were fishing from exploded please visit anytime that you

see to face the self is the vision thing is to run away while nigeria is often touted as one of the world's most promising economies a recent report says nearly half of its hundred eighty eight million population live in extreme poverty and when black gold is spilled some of those struggling to put food on the table can't help but try to scoop up as much as they can no matter the cost paul chowder gian al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera all the sports the winner of the last two super bowls are in playoff action on sunday we'll look at whether they've got what it takes to be champions once again. culturally i believe the muslims had a far greater effect on europe than europe the middle east. the crusaders fault

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