going to help. many poor indians are still not able to access to free health care they were promised he tore a game as us. this is what passes for a waiting room at one of the biggest teaching hospitals in new delhi when he has been sleeping here for six weeks while she waits for treatment for a heart condition labor a husband sends money to cover her costs. that there's something wrong with the valve in my heart i get palpitations is worse since i've been here now i have trouble walking i feel weaker because i don't have proper food here my chest hurts and so does my back. a government funded health care scheme launched last september was meant to improve things for half a billion indians like money it offers free health insurance to the country's poorest citizens but for months on many still don't have it critics say the scheme was rushed out for political gain and the money isn't there to support it indeed

spends just one percent of its g.d.p. on health care compared to a global average of six percent the solidities and staffing levels in the health sector are poor oxfam says every year sixty three million indians are pushed into poverty forced to pay for even the most basic care this is a very serious problem and this is something we have been raising for the past decade or so it pleased that india's public spending is very low or where it is even sub-saharan african countries and. levels of government spending on health are much kyra. the indian government admits there is much more to do and there are . there are now a hundred nineteen billion as in india with four hundred billion dollars between

them low taxes mean they keep most of that money to themselves while government spending on public health care remains amongst the worst in the world victoria. still ahead here on the program we are one of the greatest. story.

that are going to be for generations people in taiwan who aren't feeling so well have avoided going to a doctor and visited a traditional chinese medicine shop instead but thousands of shops have shut down

in the past twenty years. reports. lead chilling dispenses traditional chinese medicine from this herbal store in taiwan natural medicine shops like this one have been used for generations as an alternative to visiting a doctor but the industry that depends on curing illnesses is dying taiwan's government hasn't issued a new operating license for twenty years jo-ann below he's a just. this profession in taiwan is on the decline it's become a so-called sunset industry older people have slowly left and younger ones don't have a license it's all very uncertain the license shortage started in the one nine hundred ninety s. as the government trying to regulate traditional medicine shops government leaders feared combining western and eastern medicine could lead to unforeseen medical emergencies it was hoped train professionals would take jobs in traditional shops

but that didn't happen well pay a limited benefits failed to attract young doctors and now more and more shops are closing down. good shrink who knows her dispensary will only remain open while her ailing father in law is alive when he goes so will his operating license be dialed off. but then the chinese medicine shops are forced to close because the second generation cannot legally carry the operating license our livelihood will be in jeopardy but more importantly it will be the end of a taiwanese tradition and cultural icon that it will be a thing of the past it will be difficult for them to emerge again an estimated two hundred taiwanese natural medicine stores shut down every year the total has been cut in half to about eight thousand in the last twenty years taiwan's approach is a stark contrast to china and hong kong where there has been a push to promote an export traditional medicine mounting concern and anger has led

to protests in the capital taipei now the government says it's trying to find a solution with industry leaders but shop owners fear it may be too late and employees such as lead channeling worry that it's not only her livelihood at stake but also a tradition that's part of taiwan's culture cutty a locus of the young al-jazeera. urges going straight into the sport has far. thanks very much the asian cups number one ranked team around have booked their spot in the quarter finals they beat oman to nail in abu dhabi the iranians are looking to win the asian cup for a fourth time the last of their charms coming back in one thousand nine hundred seventy six. vietnam produced a surprise win to become the first team to reach the last eight after the game against jordan finished in a one one draw one a tie and a penalty shoot outs. he's thirty four for good news for the

board. and we're really happy about this result that we are trying hard hundred twenty minutes and that i have a lot in the in been able to shooting so we are so happy. china came back from a goal down to avoid an upset against thailand the hosts for the next edition of the tournaments scored twice inside five minutes to win two one china are looking to be asian champions for the very first time the english premier league champions manchester city have closed the gap behind leaders liverpool to just four points they crushed bottom side how to steal three male away then yellow regime sterling and liberty sana with the goals city have some tricky task in the title race coming up their next three e.p.l. games include trips to arsenal and chelsea. lifting the first fifty twenty minutes. was the best means we played today and that's a good result of the season we suffer a lot here and today we will make

a better result but. hopefully we can improve an example. here's how the table looks with fifteen games to go liverpool they're leading the pack tottenham also winning on sunday they beat fullam two one thanks to an injury time winner by harry winks. teatime defending champion roger federer has suffered a shock to feet at the australian open the swiss crashing out in the fourth round on a day that also saw a huge upset in the women's drops a hell malik has more. it was the day of major casualties that the australian open . if you would have expected twenty time grand slam winner roger federer to crash out. but the swiss went down to twenty year old greek fourteenth seed defying the city pass. the defeat and bedrest quest for a third straight title in melbourne. of massive regret you know. tonight.

i might not look the part but. more predictable is rafael nadal's advance only one of his seventeen grand slam titles have been won at this bent back in two thousand and nine. and the darling easy winner this time out beating thomas burdekin straight sit. next up when the dog is francis to your foe. you can expect in a quarter finals of a grand slam you can suspect you can not despair and he might. just go and say for my side i happen to be in that round. women's world number two angelica of a never look close to the sort of form that seen her win three grand slam titles. the german beaten in this fourth round match by american daniel collins i play upright in this tournament and never been past the first round of a grand slam event. i had to her mindset of what i was going to do and from the very first point i showed her that i was going to lead her into the match and i was

going to dictate the entire way through and i stuck to my game plan and clearly it worked out well for me and pretty much made sailing throughout the entire thing and i was feeling really great number five seats sloane stephens is also out despite winning the first set the american went down in three to understand. it was the first ever defeat for stevens against the russian. they actually bought events in new territory it's been more than forty years since an australian won the tournament in melbourne but party is now a step closer she's into the last eight after three that win over maria sharapova so helm ali al-jazeera. well maria share popa took offense when her past was dredged up in her post match press conference the u. thirty one year old russian who served a fifteen month ban for a doping offense was asked if not taking any and was affecting her performance she

was also in no mood to answer questions about her seven minute long toilet break during the match. that is making the kind of experiences. for the very best in the second. time by. the it's a really hard menacing question. so this is the truth because i think that's a silly question to ask really you know today we go away for ten years to deal with your health problems. i want to just know that it's burns you can do all that is a struggle physically to deal with the demands of a grandson for is there another question. manny pacquiao has won his first fight as a forty year old the filipino retain his w.p.a. welterweight title after beating american ager in brown are on points despite being more than ten years older than his opponent pacquiao three twice as many punches is

also won titles and eight weight divisions and this was the sixty first win of his career after the victory packie has said he was keen for a rematch with floyd mayweather beat him four years ago. you know i'm still up to. go back to the ring in a new one to fight tyler's me i'm a champion he didn't go back i mean. you back to the ring and will fight again if you want. and this was the scene in the philippine capital manila as that decision was announced in las vegas this was the seventieth. pro career which began back in one thousand nine five faqir was also elected senator and could run for president and twenty twenty two. and lindsey vonn may have competed in her last race the american who is considered one of the greatest skiers of all time failed to finish a world cup super g. race on sunday the thirty four year old didn't complete her final run in fourteen

at a place where she's won a record twelve times before vonn say she is battling pain in both her knees but had planned on retiring at the end of the season however a draw now says an immediate retirement is a possibility compared treat me kailash a friend won the race her first athlete to support. and that's all your sport for now more later. thanks very much for this but my colleague will be right here we go in minutes with more the day's news from in the clock it's good buy. shadowy financial operations are propping up north korea's economy pampering the elite and fueling the nation's missile and cushions. one on east investigates north korea's secret money on al-jazeera.

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a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. al-jazeera where every new. explosions over the syrian capital as israel says it's hit iranian targets near damascus syria says most of the missiles were intercepted by its air defenses.

but i won't discuss this syria troop withdrawal with donald trump says turkey is ready to take over security in the kurdish town of man beach. florida. i'm sick of this is i just did a live from doha also coming up somalia says it's planning a major attack against al shabaab after a u.s. air strikes killed fifty two of the group's fighters. pitch battles in greece's capital as tens of thousands of people protest and name change deal with macedonia . the israeli military says it is carrying out strikes on iranian targets in syria video posted to social media purports to show missiles intercepted near damascus on sunday israel said it intercepted a rocket fired at the golan heights from syria harry foresaid reports from in

southern israel. well in a highly unusual move the israeli military is confirming that strikes have been taking place against targets inside syria as the operation has been going on these removed she is saying that it's striking iranian could forces targets inside syrian territory and it is warning the syrian armed forces against striking against israeli military targets or against israeli territory the syrian state media is saying that its forces have forty what it calls hostile targets over syrian air space now the immediate background to all this is what took place during the course of sunday there were reports of an israeli strike or strikes in and around damascus again syrian state media saying that it had struck against those strikes as they came in and then shortly after that there was a report of at least one if not more projectiles being fired from syrian territory

towards israeli territory in the reports were that they were ground to ground projectiles surface to surface missiles potentially now that is relatively uncommon what is more common is for syrian anti-aircraft fire to potentially it and to towards israeli air space of yes space over the israeli occupied golan heights and there was speculation that there might well be an israeli response to a potential ground to ground attack the slightly longer look at this in terms of the background is what took place the previous weekend when there was an air strike against targets inside syria on the friday and by the sunday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was publicly owning up to that in fact saying that it was a vital military operation and that such efforts may well intensify during that weekend as well as outgoing military chief of staff got the eyes and caught all but lifting the entire veil of israeli ambiguity on its strikes inside syria over

several years now. he was saying that the said been a successful operation against iranian targets inside that country and there have been speculation at that time that this lifting of the ambiguity policy may well give the syrians the iranians cause to strike more directly at israel now that israel had owned up exactly and publicly to what it was doing it's too early to say whether this is an instance of that but that is the background against which what is going on right now in the early hours of the morning israeli time which appears to be a pretty significant exchange of fire over syrian airspace. cohen is a senior fellow with the atlantic council he says israeli strikes in syria will continue israel warned for a long time that you will react to the continuous supply of the advanced iranian weapons specifically smart bombs and missiles to hizbullah the iranian

fully own subsidiary in lebanon and despite the fact that israel is as they said hit thousands of targets that process is still continuing. the russians promised israel that they will make sure that the arrangements are moved away from the israeli cities for a line in the golan the russians could not deliver on their promises because if israelis are getting the iranian targets in the damascus airport this is much less than eighty kilometers from the go on and also it means that the russians are not one hundred percent controlling what's going on in lebanon up there is the new chief of staff to hama vivi is just new in the job he is probably changing policies and they're making very clear that they insist that iran stopped supplying

offensive rockets to his ball of the threaten israeli civilians this is all about homeland security homeland defense for israel iran after all is over a thousand kilometers away that theater does not threaten the iranian population it does threaten the israeli population. the turkish president richard tyburn away and has spoken by phone with donald trump to talk about u.s. troop withdrawal from syria the fate of kurdish fighters there are strained relations between the two nato allies told trump turkey is ready to take over security in the kurdish controlled syrian town of men which according to the turkish government o.-n. told trump the attack that killed four americans last week was a provocation to influence the u.s. troop withdraw announced last month taking a closer look at man bridge the town near the border with turkey is currently protected by u.s.

backed kurdish y p g fighters who turkey consider terrorists with ties to the kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. in recent weeks the u.s. and turkey have been at odds over u.s. backing of the y p g and what will happen in the region are for the american pullout last month why p.g. invited syrian president bashar al assad's forces into the area hoping to prevent a turkish assault osama bin jav a report. on the turkey syria border. this phone call is essentially a continuation of the strategy between these two countries to try and bridge the divide which has been created after the united states decided to pull out its troops and the us president's. words that were welcomed by turkey since then the us president turkish president number of conversations they have also decided that they will be carrying out joint operations against isis this is also a part of the agreement which was which was agreed upon by the two sides earlier

they want to carry out joint patrols they want to carry out. attacks against on the turkish side of the border because on the other syrian side deeper into. the united states is partnering with kurdish fight to fight the jihad which turkey considers a terrorist organization this area in northern syria is a bone of contention between the two countries because the turkish troops want to take charge of that area and the kurdish fighters who are backed by the united states do not want to give. the fighters to the government rather and these kurdish fighters have been inching towards the government in case. which is created when u.s. forces pull out something which is a result that neither turkey or the united states want this is a conversation between these two presidents where the turkish president shortly united states president that his country is ready to take over security control and

he described the recent attack one of the deadliest on u.s. forces there for americans u.s. military servicemen were killed as a provocation and an attempt to derail the u.s. pullout from the area. and this is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and he says no one is deliberately going directly to the u.s. president. well he wants america to leave northern syria and he knows that president trump is eager to do just that so he does not want to talk to the security team and the foreign policy team around president trump all of whom want to stay in syria for the long haul as they call it in order to roll back iran continue the fight against isis and secure. the protection of the kurdish troops that they've been allied with the northern syria president trump wants to bring the troops home and not get involved for the long term in syria so air to one is calling the president

and he's escalated previously the first time he got the phone call is when he escalated threatened to go into that region the president took the phone going said i want the troops go home and now the knows that there's a big difference between the president and his national security team he only wants to talk to the president and that's why we have this call now and the only thing that makes sense the united states the only alternative is to make a deal with the syrian regime and the russians to move in behind the americans fill the void that's what the kurds want if america is not going to be there in order to make sure that turkey doesn't move down and so america doesn't want either of those scenarios they don't want turkey invading and they don't want the syrian regime and russia to fill a vacuum so america is going to be stuck there for ever and that's the dilemma and the president says the hell with this let russia and syria and iran deal with

isis if finish isis off and they want to do it let them pay for it. somalia's government says it is planning a major attack on the bab in the next few days the u.s. military said it carried out an airstrike killing it fifty two fighters the day before it was launched hours after the group attacked a somali army base still controls large parts of rule southern and central somalia and it continues to carry out attacks in the capital mogadishu and in neighboring kenya since twenty seventeen the u.s. military stepped up and raids against the group in somalia carrying out forty seven strikes last year and chabad is fighting to overthrow the internationally backed government mohamed out o. reports now in a warning you may find some of the images disturbing the destruction caused by u.s. warplanes targeting al shabaab fighters near the port city of kiss my you in southern somalia bodies unbundled shells will be a constant lies through not

a moment remind us of the intensity of their strikes they killed what the command center for u.s. forces in africa describes as fifty two militants the somali army's says that total is higher. we managed to kill at least seventy five militants after they attacked us and many more were injured we are telling people about the victory today the airstrikes came hours after a fight to storm the somali army base three hundred seventy kilometers southwest of the capital mogadishu. somalia commanders say six soldiers were killed in that attack then two others died when a booby trapped vehicle blew up as the army but told for hours to pick up to the base u.s. military helicopters were sent to help the pentagon's increase the rate of strikes in somalia and recent tease partly because president donald trump has loosened restrictions on when the u.s. military can take action against what are described as terrorist targets the number

of u.s. forces in somalia increased in the power.