this is deja vu news line from the land of tensions simmer in northern syria syria and turkish backed forces close in on a king kurdish held town damascus says the kurdish moves militia have requested the regime support to break down the situation also coming up the. security is tight in bangladesh ahead of sunday's general election violence and intimidation mob the campaign now correspondent reports on voters' hopes and fears as the country decides its future. and we had to china for

a look at the muscle power behind the construction of a spectacular city made entirely out of ice. i'm rebecca races welcome to the program top government officials from russia and turkey have met to discuss their response to the u.s. military pullout in syria the talks also camas turkey's threaten to launch an operation against u.s. backed kurdish forces in the city of money beach the areas east of man bitch a controlled by the kurdish forces seen here in red which turkey ses as a terrorist organization and has vowed to eliminate most cohen ankara's say they'll coordinate ground operations in syria despite the fact that they have backing opposed factions in the country's ongoing civil war. a warm

reception for turkish officials in moscow but after the hugs and handshakes. the pressing business of shifting alliances in syria washington surprise military withdrawal has reshuffled the deck following their talks moscow an anchor represented a united front. with the students and you today we have reached an understanding on how the russian and turkish military representatives on the ground will continue to coordinate their actions under these new circumstances with an aim and to a bad akkad the terrorist threat in syria with. this community based interest groups. but one likely point of contention the northern syrian city of man bridge controlled by kurdish forces encore of use them as a terrorist threat turkish television broadcasting these images of a convoy moving into position for

a possible offensive on manage. the kurds meanwhile requesting and receiving help from syrian government forces backed by russia. a potentially explosive situation says one local expert out of court that the fight over money could lead to an uncontrollable military escalation it's not just about turkey and the kurds there is a much larger conflict in the background between international powers which use syria for their own means namely turkey and russia both. as tensions mount the people of man bench have little choice but to wait and see how the interests of these international powers play out let's have a closer look at the situation in syria with data on his actual four he joins me from beirut and jill the syrian government has sent troops to man bitch just as turkish backed syrian opposition forces are also moving into position why is the

city so important. well it's important because the city and kurds have wanted a contiguous territory from kabbani all the way to offer in which borders turkey because they wanted independence or at least autonomy just on the lines of what the iraqi kurds have and mum beaches in the middle of this territory now they've lost up and now they've lost mamby despair this is a problem for the turks because the turks do not want a kurdish military force to be strong on their border because they see them istead this within turkey there are such lists girlish forces there are there is a group called peaky which. are the same so they don't want to seem to be entity a bigger part of to be strong on their border this is that as a security threat. right and today russian and turkish ministers stress the things that they both want and said that they work together but they've got very different agendas in syria there will always have very different agendas but they were also

found ways to corporate you've seen that and do mine who don't also it live so it seems that even this time around they are figuring out who are we as to how to give to the what it what it wants and russia trying to figure out how to keep syria. united nation as a naacp's separate parts so when the turkish foreign minister says that we've been fighting terrorists he doesn't mean isis really he means the white niji how they've not shared the d.d. is a particularly dealing with the kurdish forces on the ground yet but it seems that they're working on some sort of an understanding. where u.s. troops haven't even left yet looks like syria's already in the process of being carved up by outside powers what's this going to do for the region. you know there's always been the fear that after the war when the war finally ends will syria. be all carved up will it be divided we see that in the north of syria which borders turkey you've got turkish boots on the ground although the areas are still

being controlled by turkey backed city and rebels such as in. need and bar so there's a bit of what will happen in these areas where there is another theory that possibly would be divided all the different countries by proxy will call shots in these areas are although with american now leaving it appears that the east areas like iraq and other syrian government and the kurdish forces there will crack some sort of an understanding it may not be autonomy for the kurds but something which allows that area to be a part of the united syria but give the kurds a little bit more power these details a yet to come and for in beirut thank you. tensions are running high in bangladesh as the country prepares for general elections on sunday prime minister shaikh has seen a is seeking her third consecutive term in office and a fourth overall the opposition says thousands of their supporters have been arrested by thorazine and accuse the ruling awami league of blocking

a fair vote at least ten people have been killed and thousands injured in pre-election violence correspondent. in bangladesh's capital and sent us this report. heavy security on the streets of dhaka ahead of sunday's palace officials say they've deployed to six hundred peasant police soldiers and other forces throughout bangladesh but five years we spoke to in the capital were hopeful the poll would pass off without any major hitches. and you know very excited my friends and i are first time voters. expect a fair and free election to should i expect that everyone is able to vote freely and will cast their vote peacefully but it i mean. the run up to the palace has been marred by deadly violence between supporters of the governing awami league and the opposition now on the eve of the election the telecoms regulator has ordered

the shut down of high speed mobile internet it says it wants to prevent the spread of rumors and propaganda which could lead to more violence. i'm sure at one of the six thousand polling centers in dakar and there are at least forty thousand polling centers all over the country now let me take you through some numbers that are crucial to this election this particular center isn't easy am sent out the electronic voting machine will be use here this is the fourth time that in bangladesh national elections the even am is being used. the machines have proved controversial in the run up to the ballots so they're being trialled in just six constituencies across the country the electoral commission said they would help prevent vote rigging but the opposition was skeptical saying they could open the gate to digital corruption. other constituencies will use paper ballots

and both the opposition and the awami league have called on their supporters to remain at polling stations to prevent fraud until all the votes are counted. now to some of the other stories making news around the world opposition candidates in sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic republic of congo have reportedly rejected a pace pledge for after the vote they said the country's election commission had refused to make the changes they wanted to the text tensions are high head of the election that has been delayed for more than two years. egypt says its security forces have killed forty suspected terrorists a day after a roadside bombing killed four people aboard a vietnamese tourist bus the interior tyria ministry released photographs of the dead suspects and said they were killed in three separate raids in gangs and north

and that they had had planned a series of attacks. italy's parliament has approved a revised twenty nine tame budget that reduces deficit spending not what the country's populace government initially wanted in october the european commission rejected the country's proposed budget for exceeding the euro zone deficit limits opposition lawmakers complained the new budget was dictated by brussels and rammed through without a base. and italian football club into will play their next two home matches in an empty stadium after not only player calla do cut cool cool about he was subjected to racial abuse in milan earlier this week it was the latest in a series of incidents in italian football where the authorities are struggling to eradicate the problem in the absence of an effective official solution some fans are taking it upon themselves to show racism the red card. cully do coulibaly has

known italian football at its worst today napoli friends showed their players a brighter side with their support ahead of their three two victory over blown you're on saturday a group of supporters distributed ten thousand flyers declaring solidarity with their defender it comes after coulibaly was racially appears by internets are not only friends in milan on wednesday. after the game napoli coach carlo and she lost a few officials for failing to take action. but he was racially abused for the whole match. we asked the authorities to intervene that only announcements were made. they didn't temporarily suspend the match as we had requested them and that's i think would have been the right thing to do. while officials and or thora to struggle and failed to deal with the problem grassroots activities by friends offer a more inspiring example. where

a group of friends when we come to the stadium we are passionate and this is unthinkable for us and it always happens wherever we travel with napoli these incidents shame italy shame everybody if you don't know what i mean. it was different to the italian football grounds are a long way from finally being free of racism but supporter initiatives like this one showed that progress can be made. what china is gearing up for one of winter's the biggest spectacles the harbin ice festival features more than two thousand ice cultures across a freezing cold theme park but all that ice has to come from somewhere we have this behind the scenes look at the heavy lifting that goes into building a winter wonderland. men pulling their special sawing machine onto the frozen song while river behind them you can just make out the skyline of the northern chinese

megacity harbin at minus thirteen degrees celsius the diesel engine takes a while to get warm and then the men get to work here. over to cut away the ice here and we built this machine ourselves we could. cut by cut they saw the frozen river into a chessboard pattern. the river is the lifeline of harbin city and in the winter the source of the construction material for a city of ice. this is what it will look like when it's finished the famous ice festival will open soon hundreds of thousands of visitors will come to have fun in the cold as they marvel the elaborate ice structures. but first comes the hard work the ice has to be lifted out of the river a block of ice can weigh up to one thousand kilos in the few weeks before the

festival begins they pull thousands of ice blocks out of the river. water to rock and ice and not make you tired so i had to get up at three o'clock in the morning i go home at five pm one by one we have to remove thousands of. the workers are farmers most of the year but here they can earn thirty to forty euros per day but it is so cold on this ice that they have to always remain in motion if you see and still you freeze. a stream of trucks bring the ice here to the nearby festival grounds it is a giant construction site ten thousand workers are working around the clock here they have to finish on time these men are working on the main attraction. when they finish it will be an ice tower that stands forty meters tall. you know conduit you look at only if you don't know when we're finished it will be

beautiful that's why we're working so hard with you over the. soon hordes of tourists will come to see the magical frozen city in the north of china an ice city that's bound to melt some hearts. you're watching data news my friend bernie and will coming at the top of the. earth. home. of species. go home or see if you can. get those are big changes and most start with small steps but globally two years tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the.