. >> for half a year, she has been a licensed referee, the first female one in eastern turkey.day, she is resting a regional league game and her hometown. first, she delivers a friendly warning to the players to keep in mind the poor conditions on the pitch to prevent injuries. then she places the ball on the centerline. the men in the stands looked skeptical, but her 11-year-old sister is proud. she blows the opening whistle. here, near the eastern border, males still are not used to a woman calling the shots. >> a woman among all those men -- that's not right. i would not allow my wife or sister to do that. >> iran lies just beyond these mountains. until recently, the city was the center of violent clashes between kurds and the turkish state. now they have agreed to a cease-fire, but it is mainly men who are out enjoying the peace. there are few women on the streets. she is one of them. she visited and who works at a travel agency. she is a bit of a celebrity in her home city and a role model. >> why shouldn't women referee men's matches? of course they can. and it adds color

our car has been a licensed referee the first female one in eastern turkey. today she's resting a region of the game interim town of archiving first she delivers a friendly warning to the players to keep in mind the port conditions in the pitch to prevent injury then she places the ball on the center line. the men in the stands looks skeptical the cons eleven year old sisters at sprout. a car blows the opening whistle she's addressed the second division game in western turkey. here near the eastern border mail still aren't used to a woman calling the shots elena michaels as many blogs are right. i would allow my wife says to do the action including that of a car that edmonton. iran lies just beyond these mountains. until recently the city of aqaba he was the center of violent clashes between kurds and the turkish state. now they've agreed to a ceasefire but it's mainly men were out enjoying the new found peace there are few women on the streets. it's a mock car is one of them. she visits a friend who works at a travel agency. carr is that of a celebrity in he

and then eastern turkey's first female referee is off the blaze some more trails it was a nice sixteen years ago that catholics and protestants officially end at the bloody conflict that the great scandals and highland for decades. now also really like this being said don't some of the constable and the tales britain for example employed a special police unit in the current state cooperative on the cob but disguised as bindings street sweep as all those people. this policeman with roman catholic neighborhoods and killed by an arraignment us. that's according to witness accounts and investigation reports. an increasing number of families not deny that the cases of them at the granite is on the open i i i. when evening comes to belfast some people's memories returned to the days when bands of political extremists roamed the streets and it was best to stay home. but even locked doors could not guarantee safety the market on sunday evening. and well fed during nineteen eighty nine. i almost twenty nine years ago and we were having sunday dinner. and when gunmen burst through the front door

key to living in the least the district in eastern turkey or put in a moral certainty commemorate the creek to kill here it increases to sixty seven year old team teaching if it is the first president of the local neighborhood association were born after world war two. it's his job to organize this or that. on a nine to two large tents nineteen forty five the bombing by the us military destroyed the neighborhood. history has the advantage hundred thousand to give residents died in two and half hours hill resident told the annual memorial service to pass down the stories they read. but fewer people take part each year. like remember use the services are fading away. it's sad but i think the country changing. he became president during this period of transition. he had to scroll back handed down to each new president. by the names of almost all of the eight hundred people have been input killed during a raid are bitten on the school i was amazed at how many people were killed and how this record to buy. when i think of all the lies that ended in march and i'm doing an enormous responsib

one demonstrator in istanbul and one police officer in eastern turkey.s -- demonstrations are reminiscent of the scenes we saw last year, clashes that took place during the summer. ,olice once again used force firing tear gas and water cannons. are expectedotests to die down. >> mounting pressure on the prime minister? >> that is right. the protesters are angry because showing no remorse and they are demanding resignation. last night, the prime minister was live on tv 24. when asked about the death of the teenage boy, he showed no remorse whatsoever and decided to answer a question about the economy and the financial markets. he is already in hot water as it is. year, aber last corruption probe involving him lead to three government ministers resigning. 13th of march will be a key test of his popularity when turkey has local elections. >> thank you. >> took a lot, america. the u.k. car company recently announced its iconic 7 will be sold by a new distributor. what can u.s. customers expect? guy johnson got a formula one driver to show him. >> it is not f

eastern. >> tensions are high in turkey as local elections are underway.ven though the prime minister isn't on the ballot, the voting is seen as a test of his policies. his government is facing corruption allegations and rallies against him have been ongoing since late last year. meanwhile, eight people were killed across the country between r i have a ls of the two main political parties. al jazeera jamala space jayel has more >> reporter: it is one of the most hotly contested cities between the ruling party and the main obviopposition or people's republican party. >> fight is likely to be very close indeed in an election that is being seen as a referendum on the governing party and the leadership of urduwan. the president will be casting his ballot. the turkish media have been here from the early hours to catch a glimpse of him. queues have been lining up on to cast their votes in an election that will be decisive for turkey nationwide. its very tight here a lot of people wait to go see whether the ruling party will be able to retain control of the capit

mediterranean countries that includes the southern part of the bullpen can fly and much of the turkey across the eastern part of the black sea region as well be looking at a very nasty conditions to continue into your status at me looking up some snow to fall open and lying areas across the west very unsettled conditions for the western part of the book the great lakes region and much of the iberian peninsula what type of lighting as well. just when the western essentially areas will finally be she knew he could be decreased on your weekend to nineteen degrees in plain sight for a lean mean it imparts his extended forecast a nice weekend. the room. i did. it is. the artist has been recreating some of japan's oldest test mules with a little help from modern technology they're using paint brushes and pcs to bring back images destroyed by fire sixty five years ago. the murals dated back to the late seventh century. there are painted on the walls of the buddhist temple forty two g in the city of matter but a fire in nineteen forty nine reduced many of the panels to ashes. professor must i keep me as some ca

tornados but this is likely to head towards the east of taking the eastern part of the paul campaign is not as close to busting turkey pie here friday and has put any pictures it's going to be quiet one into the next several days and going up can you think the decreasing in locations into your sunday but then the party's nineteen degrees. the hour and who choose life for this hour and she nailed me in touch. i nhk world tv. a collection of programs that speaks of mine and here we go with diapers reader one. i'm the teacher actually when i see a world class violinist who is holding an international music festival to mark the third anniversary of the great east japan earthquake. a book or expanded features an oyster farmer me out prefecture the oyster farming industry of north east japan it was badly damaged in the march eleven disaster. after careful study and hard work she is soo hot that day i might have been attempting turn violent. finally an hg documentary on sunday to present the latest on the fight against all times the number of people suffering from alzheimer's rises rapidly new medicines are reaching the fin

crimea what happened in and the eastern part of the ukraine, too. turkeyably looking at all of this closely and a particularly it is treated. if there is a problem there, we have the east fact. oil prices, certainly. >> yeah, that is something that often gets overlooked. turkey feels as protective toward the minority as a russia does to the russian speaking minorities to the ukraine. there were noises a few weeks ago about some kind of response. minorities and being mistreated. given the volume of crude in particular, it would be relatively easily for them to be disrupted if they really felt like it. you have to think things will get pretty serious because it would not be a past free action on their part. >> it would not be. at the moment, with the russian nationalism being displayed, where does it leave investors? why would anybody invest in russia right now? earlier, its i said is the risk premium of being put up. it is a big market. wealthyrelatively country amongst the rest of the emerging countries that have been emerging now. a lot of companies have

eastern, on al jazeera america. >>> hello again. here are the headlines. turkeyas shot down a syrian plane for violating its air space. these pictures show smoke rising from the downed jet that was bombing rebels trying to seize control of a border post. >>> five people are dead and at least 20 others injured after an attack on a church in kenya. masked gunmen opened fire on worshippers during a service. >>> moscow says the russian flag is flying over most of the ukrainian military installations on the crimea peninsula. about 3,000 people demonstrated against the russian governmented in kiev's independence square. >>> more on the shooting of the syrian plane in turkish air space. it's not the first time this has happened. in september last year, turkey shot down a syrian helicopter. at the time syria said it was on a reconnaissance mission and had mistakenly crossed into turkish territory. prior to that syria apologized to turkey for the jet off the syrian coast in june 2012. the first turkish civilian casualties from the conflict were in august of that year when

prior awareness that there are places in turkey where girls her age are forced to marry her real life and screen lines are worlds apart. santa hats on the eastern most difficult things so far was the center is managed. it was no easy task. and i felt really uncomfortable pretty much everyone find that when girls marry so early hopefully the series will help to stop to it i can fit more we hd kiss. the seventy or so series currently being screened on turkish television. o'brien is the fifth most watched it in the latest episode the child brides in laws are summoned by the police but they claim the child is much older than she really is in the real world. many don't force their daughter's birth certificates in order to be able to marry them off more quickly. such realities and women's organizations are working to highlight. when an exhibition about minors forced into marriage is staged in gun is a magnet for teachers and pupils. the girls know what it's all about. thus the girl of my atc with the boy she sometimes taken out of school in maryville. my family's not like that they might need to finish school. these are a lot. discussing music scene

and russia and europe and china engaged in the sector, in the eastern mediterranean alongside israel and cyprus which relates to then turkey and the e.u. and all of that, it might create for lebanon an investment in its stability and its long-term viability because of the importance of energy. similar to what, how the gulf sort of gets its stability and security. the gulf countries are, you know, strange tribes, but they survived because they have important resources. other parking lots of the world -- parts of the world sometimes have that as well. that's very important for lebanon's geostrategic environment. if the east and west agree that this must be a peace offul zone because there are important resources here, now actually moving forward on what's the economic value of this, the first thing is to figure out how to get it to market. the market is effectively europe. the original approach was or the plan was certainly to take it over land to turkey which would mean through syria as long as the war there is raging, you cannot do that. but that is the most cost effective i way. and i would indicate that part of the war f

statistics office in turkey has shot dead six colleagues the nine committed suicide before he can be arrested thirty three year old opened fire at a grand synthesis of the institute and the eastern province of cars on wednesday morning. the dead include the regional manager the gunman then to cost him his shot himself just before police arrived. the governor of the province is the man was involved in a dispute with the manager after being suspended over his behavior at work. turkey allow citizens to possess can safely held licences in illegal firearms and major problem and help generate crying. anti government protesters often bring guns to rallies and gun control has become a key political issue. tokyo police say they want to question and got him as ambassador to japan over a lease contract in the forehead in the eagle casino. the civic si nail may have raked in two million dollars over the past eighteen months police have arrested ten employees at the casino issue pre award on suspicion of allowing customers to pray about the route. they seize cash worth about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars police say the roomies for the casino was first granted in september two thous

eastern europe -- western year. one of the reasons they will ine more difficult times 2014, they are seeing difficulties in russia. they will be making pushes into turkey and brazil. this is a story of companies trying to does or spite -- diversify out of the eurozone. -- clearrs are a crew reflection. the strategy worked. e.on has bad numbers. nl looks positive throughout. we will be digging into it more a little bit where they see the growth in emerging markets if they get that specific. the earnings have just crossed and we will be getting into more later in the show. >> hans nichols there. >> we discussed washing machines in thet length earlier program. it is seven minutes past seven in london. we will take a short break on "countdown." plenty more to come. the search for the missing malaysian lane widens. ♪ finish energy company -- is drawing interest from bidders including a canadian pension investor. it may be value nomo $7 billion. the processes due to start in the second quarter. is exploring its microbiology unit. the unit could fetch between 300 million and $600 million. chief executive joe kaiser took over in august. he is reviewing the por

the one whether turkey at ten degrees sunny weather will come back but it's going to be a single visit on thursday. now across the america as coal there is still in place for the eastern part of the us and in between these high pressure system that sustains that there's a band of the snow from the midwest in us into the new england states probably up to ten centimeters likely in the southern area because there's meeting with former era creaking theory is kind of precipitation when talking about freezing rain and sleet family cnn here. i got yours yet. and this is them. i will likely stick to the north east the next twenty four hours after twenty five centimeters of snow is likely for the central plains stayed here precipitation for the north west through the moisture from hull line will continue to fly in for the next several days bringing heavy rain before the close the areas such as portland seattle and vancouver and had the mountains snow fall and temperatures are going to be quiet wants to walk to the flooding because the critics only snow melting temperatures in seattle at thirteen degrees. meanwhile there is chilly in the north once again said his era figures in

syria crisis when we deployed missile defense systems to turkey, and today when our surveillance aircraft are monitoring our borders in eastern europe. now, imagine that nato did not exist. every time a crisis broke out, a political and military framework would have to be built from scratch. political consensus would have to be forged. partners found, military plans developed, and capabilities designed, delivered, and deploy. this would be costly. in terms of effectiveness, in terms of money, and in terms of time. indeed, once the necessary elements for a response were in place, it could be too late to stem the crisis. so, our standing structures save time. they save effort. and they save taxpayers' money. they bring other advantages, too. they allow us to harmonize military requirements across the alliance. they support the equipping, training, and exercising of our troops. and they have helped us to build the most capable and connected military forces in history. and this is my third point. nato's unique military strength, it is a force multiplier. and it allows every ally, even its most powerful one, to pack a bigger punch

turkey. there has been leading gainers on going rapidly and substantially and also chris happy and eastern european countries as well the student mahler was a small brass taxi for a long time has been a really exciting market for gaming i don't know if i would say that it's emerging anymore and it's probably emerge on the coffee thinking and psychopathic each player mark and me extremely well so there's so many markets that are now you know when not in a world where the granddaddy of gaining chip and then stood up so many incredible wonderful games over the years is the one this be scribbling on the cards it's changing dramatically. l for the us were seen on emerging markets are starting to play as well. i don't think so that it is so then i move on down to the next is a test at twenty four. i know. three hundred and sixty degrees of impeccable sound that's the promise of mercy takes a new alternate years movement is that s a difference what you think what's so special about the ultimate here's what it does not apply to the speakers on the market quickly. what makes this one special is that it's li

turkey said it's time for the u.s. to send troops to the polish ukrainian border to conduct military exercises. >> ground troops showing our willingness to defend our nervous n.a.t.o. allies in easternope. >> your reaction? there are smaller allies in europe that border on russia. places. >> there are. let's take a couple of points. we search the baltic state. >> some of them, such as the baltic states have russian minorities themselves could see russian bodies handing out passport and they'll say they may need to act to protect russian citizens. that is something that worries them. some steps to show resolve and support for the allies would be a good idea. there's another purpose to this. and i think it gets back to what bill was discussing earlier about donetsk and eastern ukraine. vladimir putin made up his mind. he'll annex crimea. the next step is to see how far else he can go. can he do anything, issuing strait another referendum. for him. it's their question of does he get away with it. is there pushback from the ukrainians. does he negotiate down from there. pocketting crimea but negotiating the rest. he feels from there he has to negotiate and back down. it's important he h

eastern mediterranean. when you look at the map, the black sea where this port is located, you've got to transit, go through turkeythe united states has a very large presence specifically out of naples with the u.s. navy sixth fleet. we have very large air force both in germany and italy so this is within our sphere of influence. however, within the black sea itself, russia would say that is their territorial waters. it's not. however, the united states would not for a second transit and put any type of military presence into the black sea. that would be analagous to putting very valuable kit into a bathtub. there's no way out. the u.s. has to have a standoff, has to have a presence. it's a reconnaissance mission right now to make sure we have a really good sense of what's going on. >> do you think the u.s. could put ships there to make sure the lanes are kept open so there is access into and out of that region? >> deborah, that happens as a matter of routine right now. yes. >> okay. so elise, in terms of what is happening in washington, what are you seeing? are president obama's words enough? >> well, it depends