executions torture censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london and in cairo on al-jazeera. has a self as a 2nd massacre a day after the west attack indecent here. and this is al jazeera live from cairo also coming up tens of thousands of people flee northern syria as government jets continues a bomb rebel held the province. typhoon panna further and sweeps through the philippines causing havoc with strong winds and heavy rains. it is

a city of refugees stretching as far as the eye can see what is the future hold for these are they any closer to going hope i'm stephanie doctor in southeastern bangladesh will be looking at those questions coming up. now security forces and became a fast they say around a dozen soldiers have been killed in an ambush the attack took place and soon province part of the volatile helen region and it comes just a day off to the country's suffered one of its deadliest attacks and 2 days of national mourning have been declared after a raid in that same region killed 35 civilians a warning some viewers may find the following images and that interest is report to stopping. officials and say these are the bodies of some of the men who attacked the positions of civilians in the roles. the military says it killed at least 80 of

the attackers. it's one of the worst attacks by armed groups since 2014. this attack on a restaurant and work a degree 2017 killed dozens of people. the government of booking a fossil has declared 2 days of national mourning for victims of tuesday's attack well since. we have to think about solidarity and national cohesion people women for the most part were getting water and got murdered in cold blood by the terrorists while they were retreating we must show compassion with the populations that is why all flags will fly at half mast for 2 days and all christmas celebrations are cancelled. although there are thousands of international forces in west africa sail region the violence has increased in the past form and there are fears of more attacks the same gun countries little major role in the glow of terror he clearly in hosted military bases bases facilities for example i have

because it's not going to be hosting an act of terror training camp so the. new global war on terror out and as a result i see even the backlash for the contribution. in november the army launched a new offensive against local and foreign armed groups operating in the country many believe the recent attack in more than brigade a fossil was a response to this new offensive bricking a fossil has seen many attacks in the past 5 years they've killed more than 700 people with have a 1000000 forced from their homes the crisis in northern mali has worsened bricklin as security problems with fighters are cleared it with al-qaeda and i still regularly cross the border to launch attacks. kill a fossil is due to hold its presidential elections in 20 quid and president michael boring ones to restore peace before the vote but it's not clear if his army is up to the task of a decrease al-jazeera a project. where david arthur as

a counterterrorism expert had global rest kantor national and he says experienced foreign fighters and became a fast have both had local. most of the african states in the sahara region for example had a lot of foreign fighters who traveled to iraq and syria the states within that region did not take note of all these foreign fighters now they've come back through libya and they are exploiting the poor fighting within the region you know they're taking advantage of the lack of coordination between countries you know irrespective of the fact that they have the g 5 so i think you know that's one of the issues there and the local population is not buying into the government's idea of its kind of narrative so that it's also affecting the fight in the tactically what the jihad these groups are been doing is to is to make sure that they keep the most military on the offensive most of the attacks have been against hard military targets you know the french lost about 14 of the french servicemen in mali just

recently so i think the crux within the military is significant factor but mind you you can't win the war just by using the military tactics alone within the region. now tens of thousands of syrians are fleeing the province as russian backed government forces close in on the last rebel held stronghold the renewed ground an air offensive has seen more than 40 villages recaptured by the syrian government many syrians are on the move north towards the takesh border for now syrian government forces are focused on capturing the town of marjah a new man that sits on the strategic and 5 highway monitor has more from attack on takis border with syria. there's no letup in the mass exodus of civilians from serious loss to the rebel held strong. tens of thousands of rushing to its the turkish border scrambling to escape the aerial onslaught from russian and syrian forces on. the airstrikes shelling and but obama talks on it lip appears designed

to do just that push people out on them now cornered with nowhere else to go. you know. my god take revenge on all those who caused this what if we done to deserve this what have we done i plead to god for mercy god to punish them for displacing us with cous and all of those so humiliating us for god's sake with being buried alive. long queues of cars and trucks loaded with people's belongings i had to move to the turkish border corsi. off a shell comes for the displaced fool forcing the new displaced to set up camp in the open here they bomb shops and tweaks to stay warm in the biting winter weather techies aid workers say they're doing all they can to help at a bakery run by the charity. it's tough walk around the clock to bake bread for the

ever increasing number of displaced citizens the shutdown of the conditions are we are providing them with up me was bread accommodation and heating materials but the families have so many means. syrian government forces advancing towards the strategic city of misrata and as they push deeper into the northwest and the problems but out to no money is on the m $5.00 highway assad's forces are determined to cut in order to reopen that route linking the couplet of damascus with the city of aleppo syria's largest just like the rest of it live provinces but out to no man had been a refuge for city in families who fled other areas damascus had to captured during the 8 and a half year civil war it's now almost deserted and the normal saying we have come in i fled from assad regime 2 years ago after the destruction of our homes since then i have been forced to flee with my family 3 more times and here we are again

the new fighting comes despite an agreement in august by the leaders of turkey russia and iran to commit to this collision efforts in the area the techies president of egypt tabor do on how to put that to say don't cut or come or tunnel a new group to give fuel on its own a spokesman for the president now say is their boss russia for us ceasefire to avoid the must suck off civilians in toms and villages with tekken by syrian government forces but losses deploy involved in the operation in keen to help its cover the last bit of territory under the control of rebels it's not clear if the turkish police will be heard mohamed on the wall just zita on taka anatta hashimi is the director of a sentimental studies at the university of denver and he says russia is calling the shots in the syrian conflict. turkey rightly argues that they have roughly 4000000

syrian refugees that they've hosted already they can't take it anymore and the turkish government's position seems to be this needs to be a global collective problem in other words europe and the west needs to step up and provide some humanitarian relief but in the meantime while these back and forth accusations are taking place you know we're witnessing literally a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the early months of winter and it's a it's and it's another moral outrage that that we're being subjected to russia really is in the driver's seat because russia for the last roughly 3 to 4 years is heavily invested militarily in this part of syria while turkey is not so russia basically is calling the shots while all that turkey can do is call for more cease fires more diplomacy while russia sets the terms of what's happening in syria by virtue of its military offensive they effectively are you know in charge of this is

unfolding crisis. now turkey is president has made an unannounced trip to china zia to discuss ways of bringing stability to neighboring libya and korea has offered military support to the internationally recognized government in its fight against war at khalifa haftar but other white head has more from tripoli . turkey's president over dylan lended in tunis to discuss trouble is brewing in next door in libya and encourage it to nea's his new president to help secure a ceasefire. the internationally recognized government in tripoli has yet to request that turkish troops intervene in the conflict. we are not guests without an invitation and if it comes we shall look into it we are in constant communication with them however we should raise an issue the forces president libya more than $5000.00 troops from sudan what are they doing there we

should ask why are these forces present in libya a request was made to turkey and that's why turkey answered the call based on the agreement related to our economic zone we have signed agreements to rely on and our moves are based on legality and lawful forms however the other foreign troops have no legality to be present on libyan soil in addition have to are is not a legitimate representative of the libyan people forces loyal to the world lord khalifa hefted are bringing the fighting closer to the capital if turkey sends its troops and with russia backing to have to his forces the next few weeks could prove crucial for libya they are now the 2 key dynamics that will determine whether in mediation takes place it was have to believe that international apathy towards what is doing in libya backing from france paralyze the e.u. the u.a.e. giving him the weapons giving him not just he believes that the walk is telling him we're willing to accept a military victory provided you can clean up tripoli quickly and this is what it is

attacking tripoli but if you find this battle which is already taking. it's becoming protracted and now turkey is sending troops and now there's all this possibility reunion it may want you know the international community comes in and says look after you had 8 months to really tranquil say look i turned a blind eye to it i called you an ally in terrorism you couldn't take tripoli we're very sorry about this but it's now time now to go to mediation it's about how long the d.n.a. can ask beyond turkey and russia the conflict has a groom number of international backers playing a rule both in fighting and if it's towards mediation turkey's recent military cooperation with libya is you and that the government has been criticized by some greed you know learned to the national polls but president. turkey deals with libya's legitimate government while the other countries back in her 3rd are dealing with illegitimate institutions would have. to put in

16 people are now confirmed dead after a typhoon tore through the central philippines typhoon pan phone made landfall in the eastern province of salah on tuesday with gusts of up to 150 kilometers per hour more than $4000.00 people were evacuated and thousands of holidaymakers remain stranded after flights were grounded and ferry service has halted about to be low as in manila and says travelers are likely to remain stuck for several days. we're outside the main port the off manila where traditionally over the holiday season thousands of passengers wait to board their respective passenger ferries going back to their provinces in different islands in the philippines now christmas is a very important occasion for this predominantly catholic country and as you can see families are waiting here they've got their packages here. but they've had to spend their christmas eve here because this is here with this type of phone or

local you know enough personal or maybe a landfall in the central region of the philippines on christmas eve and that has grounded all types of travel in the country and so here they are this is where they spent their christmas eve they've only had food that's been given to them by the philippine coast guard and you have children here who have basically nowhere to sleep and they have nowhere to bathe and they're saying this is has been a very difficult christmas for them i know that me at midnight i'm very sad and i've been crying for days i told my child that i can't do anything they did not let us board the ferry because there's a typhoon and we understand that was the last i would go my wife wants us to be together but to be here and there's nothing that we can do now the situation here isn't unique across the country in different ports thousands more are stranded and

it is likely that they will remain stranded until the typhoon leaves the philippines the passengers here tell us that they have not been assured that they can leave immediately assoon as the typhoon leaves the philippines they've also been told that it is likely that it will be one more week before they can actually get on their fareast go back to their provinces so it is likely that they. we will be spending new year's here as well. often to head on out of there what's taking fears of a renewed conflict between israel and hezbollah. festivities in flames and in the port city of al price terrible call the horrific wildfire that reduced their homes to ashes on christmas.

welcome back we're here crossover california over the next few days the flood threat is on the rise we do have a system that is coming out of the pacific and with it we're going to be seeing plenty of moisture in the low levels and it's going to be snow into the higher elevations and for los angeles you could be seen quite a bit of rain over the next few days and the temperatures down to about 12 degrees there but by the time we don't go to go from the thursday and into friday we are going to see some better temperatures but still very heavy rain also some very heavy snow across much of the southwest out here towards eastoe it's going to be new york with some clouds in the forecast jumping up to about ninety's there washington 10 in atlanta a chilly day for you at about 16 degrees well here across the caribbean finally the rain the very heavy rain we have seen over the last few days is finally moving out we are seeing plenty of sun across much of the area particularly out here towards the west not a lot of clouds for half an hour with the temperature finally coming back up to about $26.00 degrees and also down here across much of rio de janeiro expect to see

more rain that has been going on for the last few days the frontal boundary causing the rain is really stationary across much of that area down towards one of the rain is out of the picture for you we do expect to see a term to there of 26 degrees and by the time we get towards friday some clouds in the forecast with a temperature of $28.00. children born into a city of trash discovered the beauty of music. of blues to places 7. with a chance to pay for the. turn then reality into a dream. land philharmonic and witness documentary.

hello again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour. has suffered a 2nd deadly attack in its more than soon province just a day after 35 civilians were killed there security forces say around a dozen soldiers were killed while on patrol. thousands of syrians continue to free the last rebel held stronghold of it as a government offensive that intensifies they have taken control of dozens of towns in the last week. and 16 people have now been confirmed dead after a typhoon tore through the central philippines. and made landfall in the eastern province of samarra on tuesday with gusts of up to 150 kilometers per hour.

joining us by phone in manila is richard gordon who is the chairman of the philippine red cross richard what's the situation like there on the ground at the moment what's the level of damage that we're seeing to her as an infrastructure. morally just been a miserable christmas about 25000 people obviously the christians great to be are even sure it's turned into a kind of sense the roots of the roots are not going to divide us a lot of houses have been decimated the coast of in particular you have the growth of moving about maybe 2000 plus over and bloodying in the even the finite particularly environmentally very low income and also in the border so you have a lot of the was affected by the power. saudi air so they'll done that will power have been around and what the democrats and there are about maybe of $0.28 and there's the threat is there a look at the vanguard all but done to extend 4 the pressure because this comes out

and then they're going to divest there's about a couple of weeks in which would you saying that a lot of people are still cut off are there enough resources to reach in to help the people who need it right now. with pretty high pressure because so. weeks in mindanao the been growing on the people of the river in the provinces and then going out even harder for those have. been assisted by accident you have also decided going to true and now this one. of the christmas holidays has a lot of the pressure of finance a lot of accidents and certainly a resort. being depleted but nonetheless it's been able to hold on because we have a couple of appeals in the americas of the of city international red cross and then been ongoing which it's tie things season now there isn't it how prepared with

people for this typhoon. well. we are not going to be more. they're certainly out there are young. you know this area you guys were concerned is supposed to be our exclusive. series are but then once they're real rare that. gets. in the member of the big time who wants to remain in their ninety's now it's all go back to them the whole year that is very much going on here with us so it's important that people are always prepared and we're very very . certainly we have our red brick their hearts than mine many of the iraqis are going to be very sounds so. we are going swell richard gordon there from the philippine red cross thank you for joining us and all the best with the rescue and recovery efforts now residents in southern lebanon fit

another war between israel and hezbollah could happen in the last conflict in 2006 more than a 1000 lebanese civilians died and as tony back here reports from the core of the discovery of oil and gas reserves and water is disputed by lebanon and israel has raised the stakes. this should be productive farming land but south lebanon has been a war zone for 40 years and areas lie idle for the last 20 years it's been a battleground between israel and hezbollah and it is separated only by a thin blue line of un peacekeepers. group has amassed a huge stockpile of rockets and missiles that can reach as far as telling but as well as its military capability israel is concerned about hezbollah's growing power in the current lebanese political crisis. i don't think has the last financial. tranter a conflict with the israelis so i think they're not really in

a position to enter a conflict at this stage but on the israeli side maybe israel will see an opportunity and launching a war at this moment that's a constant fear in september there were heavy artillery and rocket exchanges between the 2 sides after an israeli drone attack it lasted only a day but underlined how fragile the peace is along the so-called blue line. the blue line stretches 120 kilometers about 20 kilometers of it is concrete war but most of it is open and easily cross a ball now in 2006 this was a battleground in the war between hezbollah and israel but the u.n. then was powerless to stop it wrong since then israel and lebanon have disagreed exactly where the land and maritime border runs in some stretches this includes the zone called block 9 in a color rich oil and gas reserves have been discovered which are worth tens of millions of dollars and desperately important to lebanon's depleted economy on

israel. claimed that it has some part of it and we claim that it is fall under the authority of the of lebanon according to the law of these is a part of the economy so in this case if israel objected and me and conducted an operation military operation against. the. the companies which are bringing. in this block i think that there will be a war. whatever the reason for a war the outcome is the same for the people of south lebanon they pay the human price the village of kfar killer is right on the blueline it is under hezbollah control and has suffered many civilian casualties in the exchanges with israel especially in the last war 13 years ago. akhmed faqih is 84 years old and he remembers even as a boy hiding in olive groves to avoid israeli shells the prospect of war is

a fact of life he says not out of your either you'll live with the situation or you will leave because some people are scared but the fears are not only from this border it's a general loree when you see the world on fire around you like syria and iraq. conventional wisdom suggests that the won't be an immediate war but wisdom is something that has been in short supply in this volatile and unpredictable region for now most can only watch wait and hope tony berkeley al-jazeera southern lebanon . a wildfire has destroyed an estimated $150.00 homes in chile and injured a dozen firefighters now that fire started in a forest near valparaiso west of the capital santiago and then quickly spread into residential areas a red alert is in place in that port city charlotte dallas reports. a neighborhood wiped out by a wildfire that tore down from the hills a valid part of esau on christmas eve. i live over there and my house was burnt my

cousins and uncles were relatives in the street this is my mother's house that house was built by my father i was born here. the port town is renowned for its colorful wooden houses that's left is charcoal hundreds of residents spent christmas day sifting through the debris for items that escaped the place. we were preparing dinner with the family with everything that had already happened in valparaiso with protest we were very sad because we could not work and now we have finally lost what we need to live and stay here. i managed to get the pets and the t.v. out but i couldn't take more because the police took me away there was nothing more that could be done. the fire began on tuesday fanned by strong winds and a hot dry start to summer firefighters began a ground an aerial if it limit the destruction to move swiftly into the dance

neighborhood. at least 60 homes have already been damaged and this number is likely to increase because many are in bad shape so it's difficult to count in these minutes. that number soon. residents of what they do. good before they were evacuated some using buckets of water to douse the fire. i feel powerless because all the holes are bringing another 1st coming here and there's no mom's house down this government official surveyed where the blaze began speaking lacing it had been started deliberately. took his opinion but there is evidence being investigated by the prosecution and police investigators are carrying out all due diligence to find possible responsibility and if prevented him and the highest penalty. for though it's residents who are paying the penalty harmless sleeping in school buildings clearing out what's lift to start again ballasts al-jazeera. well with

29000 coming to a close al-jazeera is looking ahead to the stories short to make headlines in 2020 and the 1st of our series we examine the plight of hundreds of thousands of retina refugees living in camps in bangladesh despite recent efforts to bring charges of genocide against me a law for 27000 military crackdown there's still no guarantee the rangar can return home stephanie decker reports from cox's bazaar in southeastern bangladesh the forest is slowly growing back. even starting to outgrow the huts it now shares these hills with this tree used to be the only reminder of the thick canopy cut down to make way for the hundreds of thousands of ringer who fled what you see here was a forest preserve 3 years ago it's taken a multinational effort by different agencies together with the bangladeshi government to host almost 900000 people on this challenging terrain but what happens now this is the 3rd year of the rowing go crisis the 1st year was all about

saving lives and the 2nd year was about stabilizing the situation in the camp that you see and i would say about the 3rd year really has to be about preserving people's hold and their dignity for the year for the future and when we look at the hills of myanmar just over there that's where people want to go that's what they tell us they want to repatriate the multiple attempts to start a voluntary repatriation program this failed no one here trusts the me and my government will ensure their safety it hasn't allowed any observers to visit the red areas and bangladesh has made it clear it can't host them forever. for the refugees there is a lot of time to think. it is the father of 3 of the children. he was i was attacking living here now for almost 2 and a half years somehow we are managing and for that we're really grateful to all those who are helping us but we are deeply concerned about our children's future and their education although we are getting by but if we end up staying here longer

than it is very likely our freedom of movement will be more restricted. there are already restrictions here during the contour of the camps nor access the main roads after dark and recently the military has started to build a fence around the camps perimeter the local bangladeshi population is also becoming frustrated with the refugees the situation is not sustainable in the long term but there seems to be little international pressure on me and more to change it it's almost 2 and a half years on and still no one has been held to account for what happened to the rangar these camps are the thoughts of some of the world's capital cities but were everyone has a story of tragedy and trauma it seems the world the simply accepted that this is just the way it is this vast landscape of refugees hidden away in far south eastern bangladesh is simply a new reality it's a reality no one here wants to accept with their lives on hold everyone wants to go home mean mars mountains can be seen from all across these camps but as things

stand for now it may as well be a world away stephanie decker 0 in the running a refugee camps of southeastern bangladesh. well 2020 also marks 5 years of conflict in yemen the war there has killed thousands and displaced more than 3000000 people and part 2 of our series are next year's biggest stories out there examines the prospects for peace that's coming up on friday december 22nd. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines but in a fast so has suffered a 2nd deadly attack and it's an old and soon province just a day after 35 civilians were killed there security forces say around a dozen soldiers were killed while on patrol violence has surged since the government wants an offensive in november as a manager explains from

a bridge or. believe the recent to turkey movement rick you know for us it was a response to this new offensive brooke you know fossil has seen many attacks in the past 5 years that killed more than 700 people with love a 1000000 for. the crosses it has worsened as security problems with prices are clear to them. regularly course at the border. thousands of syrians continue to flee the last rebel held stronghold of the of it led a major offensive there is intensifying government forces have taken control of dozens of towns 16 people have been confirmed dead after a powerful storm tore through the central philippines typhoon pan phone made landfall on tuesday it's weakened and has crossed into the south china sea well those are the headlines next up the bottom line. tool to use their own we were told to get to the bit to ration has this been addressed by tookie we listen what he's

the proposal. for a couple and you know we meet with glue to newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. hi i'm steve clemons and i have some questions as we say goodbye to 2019 what were the big stories that affected us this past year and what are the big issues that may hit us in 2020 let's get to the bottom line. what are your 2900 out to be people took to the streets across asia latin america and the arab world hoping for change the images from beirut in hong kong and caracas have been moving just really riveting the united states and china probably the world's 2 anchor economies today settled in for what looks like a phantom a relationship for the long term and identity politics took hold around the world with more and more people looking inward and turning against others in their own societies in washington the mother investigation into donald trump came and went i .