that's the kurdish forces on the ground leading this battle have said that the battle for bubbles is coming and then that's probably why we see this intensification of strikes and shelling now if the air strikes also ustream important simply because on the ground the kurdish forces have been advancing very slowly they're trying to minimize their loss which could be a cure because of the fire or indeed the land mines and booby traps left behind by the i still fight as they retreat further in side who's a number of fighters are still holed up there considered to be do die hard ones the ones who are willing to fight until the bitter end it's still unclear how many civilians are in there or how many relatives of these eyes of fighters inside this is something that has taken the kurds by surprise over the past few weeks thousands

and thousands of people have streamed out and up to sixty five thousand are now held in one camp alone in the hall where conditions are extremely difficult because no one was expecting such a large number. there are also reports that about one hundred fifty fighters have also surrendered on tuesday during the day now that is the pattern that has been ongoing also. intense shelling at night somehow lighter fighting during the day and allowing those who want to surrender as safe passage. israeli forces have placed the along some mosque on long island off the scuffles with worship of virus a police station inside the compound led to the funny thing harry forces has more now from occupied east jerusalem. over here in the streets in occupied east jerusalem outside the old city a few hundred meters away from the iraq's a mosque compound and it is here in the streets in alleyways where the last prayers

of the day had been taking place that's because access to the old city has been very severely restricted access to the oxer mosque compound known as the temple mount to jews has been entirely cut off after an incident earlier on tuesday afternoon israeli police say somebody threw a monocle amount of cocktail or a fire bomb at a police post on the site that post caught fire one policeman suffered minor smoke inhalation there was scuffles that erupted several arrests a spokesman for the islamic walked the trust which operates the site under the aegis of the jordanian government says that senior clerics who are among those beaten by israeli security forces during that and as a result the entire place has been closed down by the israeli or forty's and as a result people being out here in the streets there have been calls for solidarity to defend. all of this coming on the heels of what's taken place in the last three weeks when the islamic world has decided to reopen an area that was been closed by

the israeli authorities since two thousand and three an area around a place known as the mercy gate it is a place which israel thought you said was being used by a group linked to hamas at that time but now the work has decided to reopen it and a deadline for the closure of that imposed by israeli courts expired on monday still no resolution to that situation despite talks have been going on between israel and jordan the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has put out a statement about today's events saying that it is a dangerous escalation that has been mounted here by the israelis certainly is a much greater increase in tensions that have already been high in recent weeks the taliban and u.s. of ended their latest round of talks here in the. both sides say progress has been made they say a draft agreement has been reached on foreign troop withdrawal and assurances

fighters will not be allowed to operate inside afghanistan are deployed again it's a now james phase has the latest the talks here in doha started sixteen days ago they've come to an end but no breakdown and yet no breakthrough both sides are saying there has been some progress in fact rather remarkably both the u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad and the taliban spokesman put out tweets almost civil taney asli making the same point that there are four issues they've been discussing on two of those issues they've reached a draft agreement one of those is the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan potentially most of the u.s. troops leaving the country in what has for the u.s. been its longest war in history also on another key point what the u.s. calls assurances on counterterrorism we understand that's the taliban making

a commitment not to support al qaida what will happen to those two draft agreements is the leadership will go back to their respective commanders the taliban to afghanistan and pakistan the u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad back to washington d.c. to brief the secretary of state might pompei and quite possibly the president the u.s. secretary of state just happens to be coming to this region in the next week. california's governor is expected to impose a moratorium on the death penalty gavin newsome says the death penalty is a failure which is discriminated against ethnic minorities the poor and mentally year executive order to be signed on wednesday will impact more than seven hundred inmates on california's death row state hasn't executed anyone since two thousand and six the u.s. is preparing to close all its immigration offices abroad the u.s.

citizenship and immigration service operates in twenty countries once the state department take over duties which include assistance to u.s. citizen and asylum seekers the agency says it will save millions of dollars but critics see it as an attempt to discourage legal immigration. there fear i say they've uncovered the biggest college cheating scam in u.s. history on tuesday investigators arrested dozens of people including executives and famous actors and the gallacher reports investigators say it's a conspiracy on an unprecedented scale the justice department arrested almost fifty people nationwide in a scheme they say involved cheating on exams bribing coaches and exaggerating athletic ability to turn children of the rich and famous gained access to some of the most elite universities in the united states with some parents paying huge sums of money this is a keys where they flaunted their wealth sparing no expense to cheat the system susu

they could set their children out for success with the best education money could buy literally some spent anywhere from two hundred thousand to six and a half million dollars for guaranteed admission. their actions were without a doubt insidious selfish and shameful among those accused of racketeering a charge commonly used for mobsters or the actors lori laughlin and felicity huffman both of you in court on tuesday according to court documents parents paid admissions consultant william single millions of dollars he's alleged to have used the money to bribe coaches and administrators between roughly two thousand and eleven and two thousand and eighteen wealthy parents paid singer about twenty five million dollars in total to guarantee their children's admission to elite schools including yale georgetown stanford university of southern california the

university of texas none of the targeted universities have been accused of breaking the law and assault the students weren't aware of what their parents were doing in a statement the university of southern california said we will be implementing significant process and training enhanced meant to prevent anything like this from ever happening again investigators say the scheme amounts to deception and fraud on a massive scale with one official stating that for every student admitted through fraud an honest and genuinely talented student was rejected and he gallacher al-jazeera. thank you through some of the headlines here now to syria now britain's parliament has rejected prime minister's reason mase breaks the deal for a second time it plunges the u.k. deeper into crisis with just seventeen days before it's due to leave the european union peace will now get a vote whether the country should leave without

a deal. a former vatican treasurer has been sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choir boys by this very real court cardinal george pell is the most senior catholic worldwide to be held guilty for child sex offenses and before giving the sentence the judge said hells case was complex. in your case this complexity is exemplified by the fact that on the one hand i must punish and denounce you for this appalling offending you know on the other hand i am conscious of the heavy reality that i am about to sentence you a man of advanced years who has led an otherwise plainness life to a significant period of imprisonment which will account for a good portion of the balance of your math new zealand has become the latest country to ground the boeing seven three seven max eight aircraft follows

a similar decision by european nations china and india on sunday in the ethiopian airlines crash killed all one hundred fifty seven on board it was the second major accident involving the aircraft in five months u.s. aviation regulators insist the model is safe but as well as government is investigating opposition leader one grade over the massive power outage that's left millions without electricity president nicolas maduro has branded grey though a us puppet they accuse the us of mounting a cyber attack on the country's power grid well jiri has sworn in a new prime minister to try and end weeks of anti government protests to dean by the way you see there is a loyalist of president of the disease with the flipper who announced reforms on monday with the for the car also the late for his election saying he will not seek a fifth term those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after this story stay with us. talk to.

you personally one of the main beneficiaries is that the case listen if you want to get in new york that's not exactly my point we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter just zero. to dean and you're in the stream but south by southwest festival is known for music and technology but it also shows cases highly anticipated and widely acclaimed films our very own movie is in austin and spoke to one very recognizable name it's been a busy week for a film here at south by southwest with the full slate of documentaries premier being at the festival first up not down the house a look at how four women built a movement that led all the way to the u.s. congress we spoke to a few of those women including new york representative alexandria ocasio part has

the red carpet premiere. better known by her initials a o c the first time congresswoman spoke to the stream about the significance of her win in the november u.s. midterm elections this documentary is about progressive women running for office what do you think that the new wave of progressive young women who are injured like yourself bring to the table that wasn't there before well i think it's it's an entirely new perspective you know progressive young women of color. a population that's probably the exact opposite of who has historically been represented at the highest levels of government and so because of that it's it's not just a question of identity and the physical form which we occupy but it's also the perspective the beliefs and and the experiences that a lot of people have never experienced that inform our policies and how we argue

for those things it was he was among four first time p. male candidates profiled in the documentary writer and director rachel liers so we started following the story and twenty sixteen and at that time it was a story of of people who were trying to work together across the country. to build a more positive vision for where this country could go for what justice and equality can look like in america for what politics can be and should be in this country cory bush upstate lewis also ran for a seat in the u.s. house of representatives that's why i was running to show the diversity black women are stronger beautiful you need our voices it's more that this is what we do through we are more than just a vote voting bloc and so i think now what they're showing is be used as a true to who you are and people are going to be met either way they're going to be managing the moment are going to love you know the moment just

a clear on your mission so right now i've already announced i'm running again i didn't complete the missions on going back the next will also is just making sure that people are seeing this film to see what it really what really happens what really takes place in running for congress demystifying the campaign process is also a goal for representative ocasio cortez what i would hope people get out of washington is that you can do. that. if the four of us could run for office than anybody would rather probably have had we all share you know right now our democracy looks at us and right now our democracy and it's working class people to stand by and not just blow it but to rise. well check out more money because coverage in a moment but for now a look at the story of ricky jackson who spent thirty nine years in prison for a crime he didn't commit he recounts his experience and sent me home

a three hundred sixty degree immersive journey of his return to society take a look. for the most part bangs and prison stay stagnant. and then to this picture of my brothers and sisters as children and then to meet them as middle east and don't. brings home more than anything how much i missed. in two thousand and fourteen ricky was released and exonerated at the time of his release however he was the longest held u.s. prisoner for a wrongful conviction he joins us now on skype from cleveland ohio and in austin texas we have cassandra revenues go is the director of send me home also joining us welcome both of you to the stream ricky i have so many questions for you and our community here at the stream also how many questions for you so i'm going to start

with one from aria. what went through your mind when you were in prison did you ever think you were going to get out and what did you do to occupy yourself so as not to lose hope. as a lot it goes through you. your skin your frustrated your friday. and sometimes a lot of times you know i didn't think i want to get out i thought it was my faith this is my life has gone right here. but i found i did it and i started educate myself. i stayed away from a lot of the rigors of prison and prison my prison lifestyle because i didn't feel like i belonged there and so. my mom told me before she passed away you're not a prisoner don't let these people make you

a christian and so my goal began to i started reading educating myself i just developed a sport gracious appetite. and trying to grow up. and you know ricky hearing you say that and having watched the documentary also mention your money mother in there and i know that you talk about having to turn off certain emotions when you were in prison just to survive like you just mentioned what was it like turning those back on if you will i mean when you come out is it overwhelming is it is it not working you think in your mind that once this ordeal has passed you that you'll be normal but you would you're not you can't be. apt to have used those emotions so long it just became a habit and once i was released from prison. being summers around my family my friends the major things. the emotions just weren't there they couldn't

come and i wanted to be happy i wanted to feel relief and contentment but it was just so hard and b i'm done a lot better since i've been out of prison but it's still like that murder always wants to creep back and i can imagine and you know i want to play for our audience you know for those who haven't even seen the film there's this clip where you talk about getting a phone call from your mother and i just want to get your thoughts on what that experience was like a really affected me when i watch so let's take a look at this. the day he told me my mother died. it was like telling me to day ran out of mashed potatoes. removed i was from it emotionally because i couldn't express emotion you said you couldn't express emotion i can hear the motion in your voice there what's it like now when you think about your mother or your family i know you're you have

a big family now it's it's. just hearing that clip right there on the motion has just come up so suddenly and. they're just hard to control you know the hardest the press i'm not going i'm going to try and suppress but you know. you would think it will come gradually but my it's just like the title you know what i think about moments like that in my life and they're hard to control hard to control for anyone i can imagine only for you sandra is there first time making a three hundred sixty degree film i mean why was this the right story to to embark on that kind of mission.