or the syrian democratic forces that hashem mentioned allow them to check their homes and to see the damages only and you can see this picture here that he included so what life is like for those who are still there the very few or those who fled and are in camps outside the city is what this video commenter wants us to know about this is her cena push and this is what he told the stream. and the camps are not proper places and the people who live in it are full circumstances and everyone i spoke to all they want is to go back room but the sad reality is that their homes have been destroyed in the fighting mama can you take us through what the humanitarian situation looks like for those who fled or might still be there it's very mexico way ssion and even about those who've met them speak about that as the alarm some be able to go back to their homes actually they didn't have a lot of a lot of people who stray sions and then measure abandoned us back here and there for hoods and last a few days they are meant to go back again to see their homes but as the shoots some of them. and ther

there is hashem alba hashem tell us what's happening at that border area and just how significant this operation is. felicity the turkish army is calling for more reinforcement in the area and the free syrian army is also sending more fighters to the bill how are the border crossing in south turkey from there there were start this major but it's an operation to try to take on the head of the shah in the phase one of the operation with the free syrian army leading the fight of the turkish army providing logistics or also intelligence gathering and some may be using its artillery to break the defense lawyers of the to head in a sham phase two is when the turkish army with crossed into it live. to take part in the deescalation agreement that was signed with iran and russia last month in a stand up but that phase is really going to be a crucial one that's where the turkish army is going to be deeply involved in the syrian crisis trying to maintain security and safety and ensure that no armed groups is engaged in any fighting in the near future in the province of idlib which is the last rem

on saturday they're being backed by turkish forces from turkey's border let's get the latest from hashem miles was in gaziantep on the turkey syria border for us hashim what's the latest on this operation has it actually begun. well what we can say for the time being is that the buildup continues all the border in the right highly border crossing called jill because a that's where there's a buildup of reinforcements from the turkish army and also the free syrian army sending more reinforcements some of those factions operating under the umbrella of the free syrian army is inside syria we don't know now what is happening particularly in that buffer zone or no man's land but we do know that the turkish military is carrying out conducting some surveillance missions recall it's also trying to gather more information that would share it with the f.s.a. to pave the way for the major military operation which is likely to start any time soon and take all that ahead of it which is the most powerful rebel opposition groups operating in their lives what is the ultimate goal of this operation hashem

it's a breaking news story let's crush over cross over to hashem he's following the story for us live in a tank here near the turkey syria border the details seem pretty specific what more do we know about what happened in damascus hashem. so head of the suicide bombers were planning to stall the headquarters of the police command center in the capital damascus but then it was spotted by security forces they exchanged gunfire and what killed one of them went into hiding and then he was intercepted but then he did today to his cell and. once it was one person was killed plus the three. attackers and damascus is a capital that has been relatively calm and over the last few months except for a similar attack that happened in fact last week where four suicide bombers attacked a police center in the capital of damascus and then dissipated themselves getting ten people including police van and. this is an indication that although the government has managed over the last few months to expand its control around the capital damascus and seat of the last remaining stronghold of the. eastern par

he's an attack in turkey has had high profits for us than to hashem this is a hugely significant moment isn't it for syria. i so has no longer any access whatsoever to the part of the country particularly talking about iraq a problem they were hoping to use rock as a platform to further expand towards places like. here and. now they are pulling out for the words. we've been told that. which is the s.d.s. police unit is going to take control of the city of tomorrow but the armed forces are going to continue their journey towards. the oil which province where they hoping to gain more territory and victor ice in from syria and that is one of the key questions isn't it who will now control rocket and will people who used to live there who fled when they now return and what will they find. well the post i still iraq is definitely going to pose many challenges for not only the the but also for the international community we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people fled the fighting in. fact by the fighting. over the last few months of basically you won't be able to send them back home

well hashem joins us live now from an attack here first of all hashem what is the latest on the military movements by the s.d.f. in iraq and of course the negotiations on the terms of i sells withdrawal yes this is what is happening as we speak here in iraq there are dozens of. foreign ice of fighters are still occupy some buildings of the center of the city and there are negotiations which are underway between tribesmen in iraq fighters from the s.d.f. of those fighters asking them to leave iraq in exchange for a free passage of the city will be declared totally under the control of the. we're getting different reports from divisions within those members of the isis some saying it's time to leave and others saying no they want to continue the fight but for many commanders whether the fighters leave in the coming hours or not they are confident that the full control of this city is just a matter of a few hours they say that they could officially. rock tonight. now elsewhere in the north of syria we have seen turkish troops in the northwest in the province specifically how has the syrian

so hashem it looks as if the turkish military is ready for any possible eventuality here. passion we can see there's. a crowd of al-jazeera viewers there in the background maybe if you can hear us alaska the question one more time. it would appear as to the turkish military is ready for any possible options here. yes just to give you an idea of what's happening behind me see these are syria's who have just returned from. these refugees who live in turkey but they managed to go to see their relatives for some time and now it's been really a very tough journey for them i mean the latest developments on the ground now for turkey this is quite a significant move and you she's basically they are trying to. ensure that the kurdish factions which we have over the last few years makes fandor that influence has a missionary in the northeastern part of syria all the way to manage across the euphrates and now they are moving from a free into different turkey's very skeptical it's very concerned it's suspects the kurdish factions of trying to implement a state of their own along the b

planners in turkey are taking all those challenges seriously there are a very important development that hashem is going to keep an eye on events for us there from antakya thank you. now palestinians have been on the streets celebrating a reconciliation deal between fatah which runs the occupied west bank and hamas which controls gaza brokered by egypt the agreement between the rival political movements will end a decade long split under the deal a consensus government will take full of minister to have control of gaza by december thirty first the agreement will also see the wrath or border crossing currently governed by hamas handed over to that consensus governments around three thousand police officers from the fatah led palestinian authority will be deployed to the strip and the authority will also oversee garza's civil and security sector previous sticking points have included control over the arsenal of hamas is armed wing as well as the fate of thousands of hamas as public servants detailed information was given about this that both sides say the problems will be sorted out how to force

inside the city stadium which i saw had turned into a huge prison for anyone who opposes their role hashem how reports now from the turkey syria border. kurdish fighters triumphantly into right there celebrating the capture of the city which was a main stronghold in syria but. wasn't easy. the syrian democratic forces a coalition of kurds and arabs backed by the u.s. began the offensive in june i said fighters held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling. we control rocket bodies you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are laws to fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas bits on a collision course with the syrian army which is also launching an offensive from the southwest to capture the oil rich province the two have recently been competing to expand their military gains in iraq and dealers or the counter rocket is a major setback for either which is now trying to hold ground in a vast desert area on the border with iraq by losing fertile lands and

with the latest from antakya hashem thank you. catalonians leader has failed to declare if his region plans to secede from spain just hours before a bad line from the spanish government catalyst pushed them all to asked for more dialogue in a letter to the central government reports from barcelona. it was supposed to be a monday deadline for the catalan president's response to the drugs demands that he clarify his position on secession lacked any definitive answers in his letter to spain's prime minister might enter a holy catalyst breach of one said that the suspension of the political mandate given by the polls in october first demonstrates our firm will to find a solution and not confrontation not exactly the yes or no response required by the spanish government before it decides whether to push ahead with suspending catalonia as autonomous powers going to pretend that i know that on such an important issue we only asked for clarity to extend uncertainty will only favor those who wish to end peaceful coexistence and to continue

in antakya on the turkey syria border this convoy what's the latest intelligence we have on that hashem. peter the convoy's part of a deal that was struck between the tribes and inside the kurdish forces there would pave the way for the remaining fighters and their families to leave today. and in exchange for the s.d.f. will announce officially that is under their control however the u.s. led coalition is distancing itself from this controversial do you thing that it does not support such deals that would pave the way for the fighters to resurface in different parts of the country but this is something that has been done in the past even by government forces which is to allow the fighters free passes in exchange for them pulling out from strategic. if this is achieved tonight then. leave it to declare. fighters and i think one of the reasons why as the enforcers are keen on having this deal achieved is that because since june they've been trying to take over the city but battle hardened. fighters have been entrenched in areas where there is a huge concentration of civilian civilians so

will move into the city or start the implementation of the deescalation thank you very much for that hashem ashim life force in gaza and tap on the current turkey syria border how doing. is a military specialist and a professor at the top university of economics and acknowledging he says the operation is interests in a number of different ways. to from play free syrian army will be responsible but after that in a very ambiguous situation if you do not differentiate showing any enemy or friend turkish move to execute it is operation it live so it is a big difficulty for the turkish military. lotsof thirds and this also trolls. i mean difficulty of the operation for the time being but as a result turkey aims to prevent another of refugee flow from syria to the millions of well a dish in a less. linked organisation why fiji to come to the turkish border it is going to be a kind of preventive operation for the two for turkey in all perspectives . a gas tanker explosion in ghana has killed at least six people and injured thirty five others in the capital accra the blast led to a second fire kuch

decided to set aside their differences and find a permanent solution to the syrian conflict well hashem is live for us in gaziantep on turkey's border with syria and we hear the details in your report what is the latest on the labor offensive. the offensive is underway with the three c. an army taking the lead inside syria trying to. break some of the defense lines of hey at the head of what we would do also i understand from a speech that was given a while ago by the turkish president of. the kurdish factions of the wipers you could also be a target of this new cross border military campaign. that the turkish government is never going to allow the white p.g. and the s.d.f. to expand and create a safe corridor from themselves for themselves that extends from the eastern part of syria all the way to the mediterranean so this is perhaps one of the most delicate military operations for the turkish military taking on. establishing doors in the province ensuring that the escalation zone contains and. is maintained by the same time defeating the y.p. g. in the northern part of the country and

reaching people in need doctors warn hundreds of children are on the brink of starvation a warning that hashem held bias report contains graphic images. meet a baby has only a glimpse of life was in a war torn syria born a month ago in besiege east and she's suffered a severe case of monitor ition admitted to a local clinic doctors trying to save her but it was too late and on sunday. died. yes this is our fifty round of siege basic health and nutrition services we are facing many cases of. we are understaffed but our biggest problem is that we can't get medicine and nutrition to save the children seven month old hussein mokhtar is another facing mandatory. we understand he has developed many serious health conditions and needs immediate treatment but doctors and charities are struggling to get him the right food and medicines if aid is delayed many like her saying may not live very much longer. so that is the how to lead we have serious cases here life threatening you know many children are suffering from malnutrition. parents are rushing to the few hospitals still operating in east and. when

thank you very much for that hashem had barrel live for us in gaza take a syria border and other world news ghana's government says a gas tanker explosion followed by a second bass has killed a number of people in the capital accra firefighters have now brought the blaze under control but they're battling to extinguish planes from the second explosion it's not clear how many people have died explosions happened near a transport terminal and student hostiles at the university of ghana. tang is in a cry and she says this type of explosion has happened before. this is an extremely easy part of our this is a busy interchange and it's one of the main routes out of the city it's an area known as a comic so there are a lot of buildings people in the area lots of street. city many more casualties that we've been hearing about as emergency services. and really establish what happens i mean there is also of course a number of students. going to university and you know we've heard people talking about this explosion being four kilometers around i think this is going to be very interesting as even

welcome cross live national by who is in antakya in southern turkey and hashem were just hearing there from charles stratford about the international community being against this referendum that was held been in the kurdish part of iraq turkey of course one of those countries very vocal against the referendum and now they've made an announcement haven't they they've halted flights to iraq sacrificially john tell us a little bit more. whether turkish government always took up the pressure against the argy by closing the space to. also saying that he's going to hand over the hub which is the main border crossing to the iraqi government for border crossings between the two between the two countries mostly controlled by the kurdish factions and now this is the turkish government is moving towards. the central government in iraq now i have to say that this. outcome of the referendum is creating a redefining of the whole geo political dynamics in the region in the past relations between iraq and turkey were strained because of the presence of turkish fighter. in. now we've seen something dif

leaders on saturday between two and three hundred mostly foreign fighters are still inside the city hashem is following developments from and tuck here on the turkey syria border fighting is confined to seven areas in iraq which are being the dow shelled by fighters there was a time to convince the i think fighters to leave iraq exchanged for free passes that didn't work for different reasons percival the fighters decided to continue the fight tell the other then the international community particularly americans distance themselves from the do you think that they want to allow those fighters to be given a chance to live a very surface in different parts of the country this is quite a delicate moment but it seems that now i see it has very few choices and most of its fighters are moving regrouping and putting the worst places like a book about on the border with iraq austrians are voting in a snap election that could see the far right freedom party enter government as part of the coalition opinion polls suggest the leader of that government is likely to be the thirty one year old sebastian

syrian rebels have said that the battle could take hours or days and take you live now to our series hashem is following developments for us from an attack here on the turkish syria border what is the latest fashion on the fighting in iraq are. dozens of foreign fighters to occupy fewer buildings in the very center of the city of the problem fighters face of this particularly. further advance to words the. many narrow alleyways that lead to the area we're concerned about suicide bombers booby trapped buildings snipers or will be trapped. cars there they are trying to move very slowly and carefully this to try and convince the remaining of foreign fighters to leave the area but it seems that some of them have decided to continue the why. to the this explains the confusing reports that we've been getting over the last twenty four hours about whether iraq has been fully liberated or not but many top officials now inside the rock from the which is the alliance of different factions backed by the u.s. say their announcement is going to be made today question i just want to remind people that ice

for myself dean was one of the last remaining pockets in eastern syria still held by the group from hashem who is following developments from a tie on the turkey syria border the syrian army saying very has. this city or bell mayor dean in this is a major development is also a major setback for the. fighters in is this because the moment they started losing ground. they started moving pulling out troops were getting softer word deals or hundreds of fighters have lost. now that there we have lost the mayor the others porter to how to word the city of all the border with iraq so we're talking about i say losing significant ground in the eastern part of the country now as far as the whites in the northern part of the country the syrian the turkish military is positioned in areas. particularly in what is starting to implement those surveillance. but there's a presence of the free syrian army and also of. fighters. but the potential for a confrontation pitting the turkish military against the kurds is very high kurdish factions particularly as they wipe it invented some significant presence on

down in the northern part of the syrian conflict for a longer period of time thank you for all about hashem a whole barreling down there reporting on the latest developments in libya well our own lives in adelaide himself someone who got in touch with us and says people there believe a turkish presence could protect them from government and strikes but they're also worried it could lead to more violence have a listen. most syrians here will come this interference because they said that. turkish forces our church exists in mind to protect them from. hell that might come from russia and regime war planes. but of course at the same time they don't want any confrontation. because this might get me. just watching more paddles and more catastrophes for disobedience yeah let's go to istanbul now speak to one and all but i has a lecture at the stone bowl i didn't university thank you for your time why do you think turkey is doing this now and president as well but maybe this is just his style very forceful about the whole operation. well actually there are three main purposes why turkey is doing th

the city began in june and the group has now been confined to small areas of the city straight to hashem is following developments from on the turkey syria border how much of the city is still being fought over as far as we know. we're talking about seventy percent of the city which is still under the control of . now they've been pulling out to a treating the s.d.f. backed by the u.s. led coalition is breaking that if. they're losing considerable ground as we speak now we've been hearing from different sources. that they believe that this could be just a matter of hours before they can officially declare the whole city and that can be. some foreign fighter affiliated with still taking a position different buildings putting some very stiff resistance fighters advance there is some talk of people being evacuated on board buses who are they and where are they going. it is still a very debatable issue people are talking about some deals that were struck between the s.d.f. and that would pave the way for syrians and their families. to leave the area as syrian fighters would be handed over to

action many thanks indeed hashem about of their lives in. russian opposition leader alexina valmy has been released from prison in moscow he was locked up for twenty days for organizing protests against president vladimir putin photos taken shortly after his release relaxing in his office he says he wants to stand against putin in the next presidential election but a criminal conviction which he claims is politically motivated him from taking part . walters government is offering a one point two million dollar reward for information over the murder of investigative investigative journalist daphne. was killed in a car bombing on monday she said she found links between multis prime minister joseph muscat and offshore accounts revealed in the panama papers league of families has refused to endorse the reward saying he would only do so if the prime minister resigned security forces in cameroon stopped the solidarity march in support of english speaking regions on saturday police ended the demonstration of the port city of douala which was planne

park keeping an eye on events important developments there on the turkish syrian border more from hashem in the coming hours thanks josh. now south africa's supreme court of appeal is due to rule on friday whether president jacob zuma will face hundreds of corruption charges the charges of course an eight year legal battle between the president and the main opposition democratic alliance the charges relate to an arms deal dating back to the early one nine hundred ninety s. as tanya page reports. president jacob zuma could face up to seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges they relate to a multi-million dollar still from the one nine hundred ninety s. his former financial adviser should be a shaikh was jailed for corruption relating to the deal and his trial judge linked to zuma to it the scandal prompted then president tavon bikie to fire zuma who was his deputy but soon after zuma deposed mbeki as leader of the a.n.c. and before too long the party recalled and diesel elected tabo mbeki he lost his presidency prosecutors then announced that they were dropping the corruption cha

cease fire with the government in eastern goods are on the outskirts of the capital damascus barters hashem a whole bar now reports the deal is a fragile one. these are fighters from failed luck a raman a syrian rebel group that controls. a neighborhood on the outskirts of damascus the area is a rebel stronghold. they engage almost daily in skirmishes with government forces the army has been trying hard for years to take back these areas to help secure the capital and you. would have thought alina the government is tightening the siege to break our resolve but it will never happen we're not scared of the airstrikes the daily shelling and the army's reinforcements we are committed to fight to the death the rebels are digging tunnels that are run from the rest of . these tunnels are vital lifelines for the rebels who are short of a munition and may not be able to defend their territory for a long. you know about that mean it is hometown it means a lot to me my family my loved ones my memories are all linked with this i will fight here to the death eastern border has been under government says

zone in italy province is part of an agreement between turkey iran and russia or from al-jazeera as hashem alba who sent the jewelry goes through border crossing on the turkish syrian border. it seems that the turkish army is aiming to achieve two goals here first of all they would like to block the kurdish factions but. and they wipe e.g. from moving or expanding their territory from all the way towards number two they would like to ensure also that factions in live don't get in any fighting in the coming days and weeks with the syrian military and with the russians search or implement the deescalation zone this is quite a significant development kurdish forces in iraq are reportedly mobilizing after accusing baghdad of sending its troops to two areas near kurdish controlled oil fields close to the city of kirkuk the iraqi government has denied it's planning a military attack on the kurdish controlled region of the country tensions have been rising between the two governments since the kurdish secession referendum last month. u.s. president donald trump is expected to finally announce whe

their allies are also trying to push it from the few pockets it still holds in the city of dealers or hashem is following developments for us from the turkey syria border in antakya what's the latest information on what's going on inside the city as of this hour. he said about an hour when i go as the f. which is the coalition of different factions led by the white b.g. and backed by the united states of america has launched its final push to capture the city of. shelling positions in the center of the city there were negotiations that will be brokered by tribal leaders to try to convince. those negotiations particularly when isis fighters decided. to continue their why now we do understand from a force. that about two hundred seventy five syrian i said members of the kurdish factions and there were dozens of foreign fighters still committed to continue the fight to the. fighters they're saying that it's just a matter of hours before they can manage to control all those areas because as you know we're talking about tiny ways that lead to the city this is something that slows the advance of t

doctors warn hundreds of children are on the brink of starvation and they give you a warning that hashem about his report contains graphic images. a baby whose only glimpse of life was it was. a month ago. she. admitted to a local clinic doctors trying to save her but it was too late sunday. die. yes this is our fifty round of c. each basic health and nutrition services we are facing many cases of what we're understaffed but our biggest problem is that we can't get medicine and nutrition to save the children seven month old hussein mokhtar is another facing an attrition we understand he has developed many serious health conditions and needs immediate treatment but doctors and charities are struggling to get him the right food and medicines if aid is delayed many like her saying may not live very much longer. so does it have to lead to we have serious cases here life threatening you know many children are suffering from malnutrition. panicking parents are rushing to the few hospitals still operating in east and. when they get there they find hospital staff struggling to cope and it's not

is that the jewel of the goes to border crossing on the turkey syria border for us hashem what are they trying to achieve here. peter hundred turkish soldiers who are now in syria are hoping to establish those surveillance supposed to be able to monitor the women's between the different factions operating in the syrian government and the russia's but now we don't know what will happen to the. russia and the many countries consider a terrorist organization to have said that we won't hand over these weapons and we continue the fight to the now we know we do understand that the turkish military now is stationed in mind which is a village all the border with that's very close to a territory controlled by syrian kurdish factions particularly the wipe e.g. it could be a sign that the turkish military artemis goal here is to try to prevent the y. p.g. from expanding further to was northwest some provinces like and. but is this proposed deescalation is around to the south this surely means the deescalation zones not going to get off the ground on shared jewel when they wanted it. exactly for fo

allies are also trying to drive the group from the last pockets it holds in the city of the rose or hashem that's the backstory was there a particular sea change here for i saw fighters when they went from being on the back foot to facing imminent defeat. many things have changed on the ground there was hoping to years the lock up for example as a platform to expand western north to the world. and homes now they are losing those ground and they are putting out towards us the problem they are facing now is that this is an army on one hand all the other international let's go relation of the russians are tightening the noose around i saw their recruiting start to words. which are on the border with iraq of a problem with those areas are you talking about a vast desert landscape which is totally exposed which makes it impossible for i saw from our own words to send reinforcements or a large convoys like the years to do into a thousand fourteen thousand and fifteen i said was hoping to use syria as a platform to expand what he called its islamic caliphate that narrative is no longer. reverbera

iraq thank you hashem for that update from an taqiyya bear. where should we go live pictures coming in right now people out celebrating on the street i can see a few iraqi flags being held they will sit me down in the bottom if time corner of your picture is struck the told us before this happened quick this is a fifteen hour operation basically by the iraqi army starting off with taking the important military in oil installations and look what happens fifteen hours later they are in control that iraqi side you see the man holding there has also been hoisted above the government building in kirkuk the iraqis it would seem firmly in control we're going to talk to them now who's a kurdistan native but is also the director all of american kurdish information network and is in washington d.c. for us thank you for your time. as i just pointed out this is happened really really quickly today what does it mean for the kurdish regional government now and what can it do. kurdistan regional government is not going to go away it's going to stay put they

speak live now to hashem alba he's on the turkish side of the border in gaziantep so how to explain what's been happening on that border area and how significant an operation this is. felicity what is happening right now the right highly border crossing is basically a build up of turkish military forces and free syrian army quiet. or. willing to preparing to launch a major military offensive to take on to haiti the sherman live the first phase of this operation is going to be basically the free syrian army leading the fight against the heavy the shan with the turkish army providing just sisters intelligence gathering and maybe using a. tertiary to break the defense lines of to hear the show potentially paving the way for the turkish military to cross into. and secure the city as part of a deal that was signed last month with turkey and russia in a stand so this is quite significant this is going to be the second case of a turkish involvement in syria after the euphrates sealed operation started in two thousand and sixteen and but still we don't know what would be the how much time is it go