. >> thank you very much, i'm from kurdistan tv. what is your opinion of kurdish forces in the fight against isis? do you think the peshmerga should be armed? and if kurdistan will be a state, how important is it for stability in the region? thank you very much. mr. ya'alon: thank you for your question. if i have to think about any kind of settling the situation , weyria as well as in irack have two kurdish sectors in iraq and syria. do it is a we can federation. there's no way to unify syria, we talk about a strategy to unify syria with someone else leading syria, no chance. ishful thinking. and to talk about a federation, he controls 40% of his former territory, there's it. we have syria and kurdistan already. we know the turks are not happy with it. there's a kurdish a autonomy -- autonomy in syria and in iraq. syria, the about sunnis tarts with the and other followers. radical elements. so first of all, let's find a way to have a kind of federation or whatever and also agree to have this kind of federation. then fighting. the pr

the kurdistan freedom falcons or t a.k. have claimed responsibility for a car bombing in the turkish capital on sunday. that explosion at a busy transport hub killed 37 people. the p a.k. made the announcement on their website saying their attack was in retaliation to a security crackdown by the kurdish government in kurdish areas. a splinter group of the kurdistan workers party also in turkey, bee understand the consulate in istanbul has been closed over security concerns. in south africa opposition party is calling for a judicial inquiry into the president's relationship with a wealthy family. the finance minister admitted that he offered a promotion to become finance minister by a member of the goupta family. they're said to have pressure with the president. our correspondent joins us, a political editor with the radio station power f m. tell us how the allegations are being received. it is important to note that the guptas are describing these as totally false. >> i can tell you overnight working for a local radio stati

he is the former advisor to kurdistan regional government. first of all what do you make sir of this announcement today, what i suppose it amounts to a declaration of independence. >> oh, not at all. the syrian kurds have declared a federal region which is meant to be part of syria. they're hoping that in the peace talks that are now underway which will involve a new constitution for syria that the country will have a federal model. and that their region will be part of it. or failing that, that at least they would be a special case where they would be allowed to run their own affairs. but the syrian kurds are very clear that they are not interested in the breakup of syria so they're really in a different place than the iraqi kurds who do have a kurdistan region and who are moving towards independence in the near future. >> what is america's position on the move by the kurds in syria? >> well, the state department today said that they were opposed to it. but the reality is that the syrian kurds are america's closest ally in syria, in fact ame

in iraq, most of the christians and yazidis are displaced in iraqi kurdistan. all of those years pushed them north into the city of nineveh. most of the christians remain in iraq or nineveh during -- most of them are now in a iraqi kurdistan with no resettlement rights. they are not refugees because they are within their own country, yet they cannot resettle in kurdistan. they do not have rights to drive a car, open a bank account, start a business. there has to be some kind of plan for them, for many of them. many of them are too traumatized to go back to their home. in the event that their land is not liberated from isis, that is still a question, they will all have to be resettled in the west. there is nowhere in the region for them to go. the second thing would be land and property restitution. these minorities lost their homes, businesses, and farms. isis in many cases has passed them on to other people i selling them or giving them away. other people could have possession of them. the state department must press the governments involved to give priority r

dibakar is an essentially area, district of sur where many of the kurdistan workers party, the pkk, the government says, were taking refuge. >> the prominent iraqi shia cleric muqtada al-sadr has ended his sit in, calling for changes which they say will end corruption. announce diversity to ministerial post. the parliament has recessed until saturday to consider that list. >> translator: after all these demonstrations, because b abadi announced a new government cabinet today, except the interior and the defense ministry. >> for political analyst ahmed, risti explains the new cabinet list. >> it is about 16 names for 16 ministries, which is -- well, it is slirchgd t shrinked to 16, is supposed to be 22. the names are not famous names but still on the underhand of mr. abadi. he is going to work on these names with the parliament. until now we don't know what the parliament going to say. what are the positions of the blocks of the political blocks about inside the parliament and outside the parliament. still it's a problem that it has been sofd in solved in a way te demonstration will be w

and i think if they directly coordinate with the government of kurdistan it would be better. >> the nextattle in iraq will be the fight to liberate mosul. you see mosul retaken in the near future any. >> i think it's going to be sometime. mosul has started and we deal it at a pace to be successful. >> if baghdad decides to attack mosul, to liberate it from daesh, you could have another 500,000 refugees. >> it doesn't matter how many here. we'll be at their service because kurd stan has a huge heart and whatever the kurdish people have experienced they understand the situation of the idps and that's why we're always supporting them. >> thank you. >>> coming up, inside the worst terror attack on american soil since 9/11. and it's right here in southern california. on american soil since 9/11. and olay regenerist renews from within... plumping surface cells for a dramatic transformation without the need for fillers. your concert tee might show your age...your skin never will. olay regenerist. olay. ageless. and try regenerist micro-sculpting eyeswirl. it instantly hydrates to plump and lift

suspect and then you have the kurdistan workers party, the p.k.k. and the affiliated group. what is clear, this country is gripped by a wave of bombings this year. every single month. there have been bombings >>> thank you. monday marks the kurdish new year, but festivities will be muted in the south east region. clashes between the two sides have left many people homeless. >> reporter: it is the first kurdish new year since the collapse of the ceasefire and this is what it looks like here. every single person is checked on entry to the district for explosive belts. up and down the main commercial street almost every side alley is blocked by armed police. the turkish police followed us while we filmed. there is no trace left of the p.k.k. flags that used to fly over the area. the military operation against the kurdistan workers party has been going on for nearly four months. the decision by the p.k.k. to fight turkey here left kurdish civilians with desperate choices. >> translation: it hasn't ended yet. i've never seen anything like it. i had to leave home in these clothes

turkey's prime minister says that the kurdistan workers party, or pkk is almost certainly responsibleunday's bombing. 37 people died when a car bomb exploded in the capitol of ankara. mohammed jamjoom reports. >> reporter: in ankara, a palpable sense of worry, a visceral sense of fear. as investigators continued to comb the scene, residents were still reeling from the second-such blast to rip through the heart of this city in less than a month. and the third attack to hit turkey's capitol since october. >> translator: they are very serious findings that point to tsipras's terrorist organization. and of course this will be unveiled after the investigation is complete. >> reporter: in all, over 200 people have been killed in a string of suicide bombings in turkey since last summer, attacks that turkey blamed either on isil or kurdish milita militants. >> turkey is under immense threat from various state and non-state actors. the crisis in syria has put turkey at odds with russia, iran, obviously syria, as a state, and some other countries in the region, as well as non-state actors and t

it was the second mask casually blast to hit ankara blame the kurdistan worker's party for the attack in turkey has launched a wave of airstrikesin ainmozambique. the planvamarch 2014 with 239 p the flight mh370 left kuala lumpur for beijing. >>> indonesian authorities found a way to stop illegal fishing. they sank a vessel known as viking none -- one of six vessels known to be poaching fish illegally in antarctica. >>> allison up next with a look at this week's forecast. t 's kind of slow. my friends say i should get fios because it's the fastest. switch to better. switch to fios good? fios can do that. cable just can't. decided it's time to get away from the dinner table and get moving. >> what better way to do it in a christian community than to exercise to christian music and keep our spiritual bodies together and her phys wa derailment in kansas. first responders rushed 11 people to the hospital. the train was traveling to chicago from los angeles when it derailed west of dodge city. >> i pray for him. i say god right now you use me to bless this man. >> repo

there is no trace left of pkk flags that used to fly and the kurdistan worker party has been going onmonths and decision of pchl pkk to fight here left desperate choices. >> translator: never seen anything like it and have to leave home in these cloths and wore them for four months and don't have a wife and my son and wife went to stay with other relatives and i live with my friends and won't come back here. >> translator: i never left here. it was very difficult the sound of bombs and guns and i have my family with mow, six children and we have been waiting for it to end. we had food and water and managed to survive. >> reporter: before the ceasefire ended they had been getting back on its feet with the help of state money, now the regional government is having to pay to put families up in hotels, fighting in these narrow streets caused huge collateral tam. turkish military will not let us go down the streets where fighting is worst because they are still looking forrings plow explosive devices but it seems for themselves and according to turkish authorities pkk fighters killed and 4

now the kurdistan freedom falcons or tak claimed responsibility for a car bombing in the turkish capitolsunday and in ankara killed 37 people. the tak made announcement on their website saying the attack was in retaliation to a security crack down by the turkish government in areas and the tak is a break away group from the kurdistan party which long fought against the turkish government and also in turkey the if german consulate in istanbul has been closed over security concerns. regional and international powers are waiting to see when the three kurdish controlled areas in northern syria will declare an autonomous region and a top official said on wednesday that announcement was imminent to form a federation and it alarmed turkey and criticism from both the syrian government and opposition and u.s. added its voice for the idea of a kurdish autonomous region and state department said it would be a threat to syria's unification. >> i would say we are very clear we won't recognize any self autonomous or self rule semi autonomous zones in syria and your broader question is as i said really

and that's when i wanted to escape. >> kurdistan 24 is saying the man in the interview is khweis, u.s. intelligence officials say if it is, he could be a, quote, gold mine of information especially about isis recruiting for example how recruits are brought into the country, who they report to and where they train. >>> 5:03. happening today, the search for a solution to the heroin problem in loudoun county. the county is holding a county wide meeting after a 17-year-old died of a potential overdose. the epidemic is nationwide. and virginia is seeing a major increase in deaths. >> commonwealth of virginia, more people that die there hair rin overdoses last year than died of traffic extentaccidents. it's significant. >> tonight's meeting in leesburg begins at 6:00 p.m. fwl train. a man was taken off a blue line train at the foggy bottom station and pronounced dead right next door at the gw hospital. metro says there was no sign of foul play. service was impacted for a short time. >>> a live look now as we check on the roads. this is a look at the beltway at river road. we now know that s

is a breakaway group of the kurdistan workers party. in south africa the ruling party says no-one is above the law, including the president. calls for opposition parties for a judicial inquiry into the president's relationship with a wealthy family >>> in the u.s. republican presidential hopeful donald trump is rising in popularity and could be on his way to securing the party's nomination. international figures have voiced grave concerns particularly over speechs in which he focuses on maximum man immigration, building a war, international trade deficits and making accusations at china. he regularly suggests forcing companies to bring manufacturing back to u.s. soil as a way to create jobs. >> with me it's not going to happen any more. we're not going to be the dummys any more. [ cheers ] >> you're losing your jobs, your income, your factories, they're going to china, they're going to mexico. japan is killing us with the cars. now it's vietnam, it's india. it's everybody. we don't make good deals any more >>> the rhetoric from trump ha

and last month, against military personal, claimed by kurdistan freedom. and now, yet another attack in ankara, targetting civilians. no one claimed responsibility, the government believes it's done by the turkish mill stands. they are not coming out, whereas in the past they have been quick to point the finger. is there evidence that it's p.k.k. >> last month we go back to february 17th. government has come up. president and prime minister directly on the same night come up and said this was carried out by syrian kurdish fighter, belonging to y.p.g. or py forces. >> for turkey, the policy is to contain the kurdish gains in syria, they have been trying hard to get americans and other forces it designate it as a terror organization. they refuse to do so, because it's been the main and only force battling islamic state on the ground. they were quick - on this occasion they were careful to identify what it is, or who it is behind it. they think it's two turkish nationals, a man and woman, likely to be turkish. it is not known, it is unlikely that they will ca

what's the difference between federalism of some place called kurdistan, let's call it kurdistan or balkanization. would that not be preferable to syria turning into the new libya, like iraq five or 10 years ago. >> geneva has been a step forward where the co chairs russia and united states and implicit support from the regional frenemies and enemies saws rain, turkey, iran, everyone now is supporting geneva. it is supposed to lead to a secular unified democratic syria. the split is many steps back from the discourse we've been hearing moving into geneva and out of geneva, a roadmap for a united secular syria, where even the assad regime as we've heard already today and yesterday from joffrey and from the spokesperson for the assad regime, their against that kind of a thing coming out of kurdistan. remember, it was the assad regime that gave in to some of these kurdish militias back in 2012, allowing them to control their areas and it's the regime saying we want to have a -- syria. the opposition is mother vehemently opposed to kurdish areas. how would it come about? now that there are a few mach

military personnel, were killed in a suicide car bomb attack claimed by a group calling itself the kurdistanedom falcons. as a result, the country has been on a heightened state of alert. >> translator: tight security measures were taken, instructions were given. but unfortunately, terrorist attacks cannot be prevented. 100 percent in any country. >> reporter: turkey is now facing multiple security threats as it is engaged in the war on two front. it is fighting isil in syria and iraq, and the p.k.k. in its southeast. now with the findings still to come, the country worries and waits as concerns about the overall security situation in turkey grows. also important to know, this attack comes just two days after the u.s. em bars i in ankara issued a warning asking its citizens to avoid certain areas of the city. mohamedal jamjoon, al jazeera, an car rah. >> turkey has seen a rise in attacks over the last year, just last month 29 people were killed in a car bombing aimed at a military convoy in an car uh-huh blamed on kurdish fighters n january a suspects suicide bomber killed at least 10 people

we have syria kurdistan already. we know the turks are not happy with it.t is a kurdish autonomy in syria. but there is a kurdish autonomy in iraq. we might think about -- they might cooperate as they do now. the problem is when it comes to the sunnis, whether daesh, muslim brotherhood elements and moderate sunnis. so first of all let's find a way to have a kind of federation or whatever to agree to this kind of federation. and then fighting the other or whatever. the problem is that there are so many contradictory interests regarding the situation in syria, as an example. there are those who support the bashar al-assad regime, like iran, hezbollah, russia today with its intervention in syria. and even western parties believing that, first of all, iran should be a central part of a settlement of the solution, as i mentioned earlier. [inaudible] why not support other moderate in syria like sunni moderates to fight for their cause? most of them were ignored. western party decide to sit on the fence. they were defeated by daesh, kobani to the point where it st

but he kind of pointed a fink at the kurdistan workers party, the p.k.k. everybody should realize and see the reality of the p.k.k. and its affiliated groups. he said this attack would not deter, would not end turkey's determination in fighting terrorism. but as i said, there is no official claim of responsibility yet as to who might have been behind this attack. >> because, omar, there have been isil attacks inside turkey, and the targets in this latest one in this kurdish area could well have been kurds themselves. >> reporter: absolutely. turkey, the turkish government says it is battle on the ground a number of front, it's battling isil the on one hand, it's battling the kurdistan workers party and it's a fail yacht. and on the third party an extremist left i was group linked to the community party, make one of those three are behind any attack it could well be the kurdistan workers party the p.k.k. or its a if fill 80ed group. if you remember there was a similar attack a couple of months ago in the capital ankara. it was carried out by an affiliated w

the kurdistan freedom hawks have been fighting turkey for 30 years. they carried out the attack for retaliation. we have this report. the bomb blast continues to be felt politically. thursday, they failed to punish the mastermind of the attack, but go after members of parliament of whom he accuses of supporting terrorism. >> the issue is open reply supporting terrorism. the issue is not somebody talking into parliament. it's starting the problem. the problem is if you support in the ground, to collaborating terrorists and using the immunity, this is not democracy. >> the kurdish group and the hawks claims requestionsy. it is an offshoot of the p.k.k. the party that has been at war. both groups are considered terrorist organizations. although the government had been a peace negotiation, those talks broke down after p.k.k. fighters killed to policeman. hins then, the army attacked p.k.k. locations. meanwhile. in iraq kurdish fighters stepped up attacks across turkey, including istanbul, and the capital ankara. on february 17th. they targeted a bus. that

the kurdish station, kurdistan 24, says it interviewed mohamad jamal khweis and that he's already talking about how he was recruited. >> i was with a girl who her sister was previously with -- married to a fighter for dash. she knew a connection to get -- khweis went to edison high school. if that is him in the video. he said he didn't agree with isis' ideology, that's why he escaped. it's not clear if he will return to the united states or be prosecuted abroad. >>> >>>. >> aaron gilchrest at the live desk, we're learning about a large drug investigation happening at an air force base. as a missile site, a nuclear missile site. the associated press reporting that the air force is planning to announce details about the investigation involving at least six -- at least a dozen airmen at the warren air force base in wyoming. we're told part of this investigation might include the use of illegal drugs to include cocaine. those airmen have been removed from their responsibilities. details expected to come out later today. that's the latest from the live desk. >>> devastating is what baltimore r

we worked in kurdistan we worked withwork here to. it will not only be a military fight but after having taken mosul we invest a lotx÷ of construction and so that potential piece will be sustainable in the area. isil destroyed not only a lot of territory and killed people in a brutal way, but they also destroyed the ability to live peacefully together between shi'a and kurds and we have to reestablish that. >> rose: you have germany playing what role. >> germany for almost two years now is supporting the kurds with arms and with training. and these were able to give enough strength and courage and equipment and training that they not only stop isil, we're able to protect 1.5 million refugees. that's a lot in the refugee camps in kurdistan too, but also they were able to defeat isil and to fight back isil and to regain territory which is enormously importantdestroyed tf invincibility of isil. >> rose: that image is gone. we lost territory and the taliban has diminished meaning visibility is gone. >> yes. this is to prove that you can f

. >> everything we've seen so far is an enormous burden on the government of kurdistan. >> yeah. huge burden on the shoulders of the government, yeah. >> so american aid government goes to baghdad, but it doesn't get here? >> yes. and i think if they directly coordinate with the government of kurdistan, it will be better. >> the next crucial battle in iraq will be the fight to liberate mosul. you see mosul being retain in the near future? >> i think it will be some time. mosul has already started. it will be a pace that allows the iraqi forces to be successful. >> if baghdad decides to attack mosul, to liberate it, you could have another half million refugees. >> it doesn't matter how many come. huge burden. kurdish people have experience, they understand the situation. that's why we always supporting them. >> thank you. >> coming up, inside the worst terrorist attack on american soil since 9-11 and it's right here in southern california soup and sandwich and clean and real and inside jokes and school night. good, clean food pairs well with anything. try the clean pairings menu.

the military operation against the kurdistan workers party has been going on for nearly four months. the decision by the pkk to fight turkey here left kurdish civilians with desperate choic choices. >> i've never seen anything like it. i had to leave home in these clothes. i've worn them for four months. i don't have a wife. my son and his wife have gone to live with other relatives. i'll never come back here. >> i if never left here. i have my family with me, six children. we've been waiting for it to end. we had some food and water and we have managed to survive. >> before the cease-fire ended the area had been getting on its feet with the help of state money. now the regional government is having to pay to put families up in hotels, fighting in these narrow streets caused huge collateral damage. >> we can't go down any of the side streets because they're still looking for explosive devices. but the statistics here really speak for themselves. according to the turkish authorities more than 300 pkk fighters killed and 4,600 families displaced from their homes. an operation just like

washington, d.c., did not directly say who is behind the attack, but he indirectly referred to the kurdistanorkers party, the p.k.k., he said that terrorism will not deter or end turkey's effort to confront terrorism. now, a dominately kurdish area, and over the last few months the security forces have been carries out attacks on a number of areas including the district of sul where many of the kurdistan workers party the pkk is government says are taking refuge. emergency workers are trying to rescue dozens of people still trapped after a bridge collapsed. at least 21 people are killed and almost 100 injuries when a 100-meter section was under construction. came down. rescue teams believe more many people are trapped beneath the rubble, they have been using sniffer dogs and special cameras to try to find the survivors. al jazeera joins us now on the phone line. she has been at the scene for the us, what have you been seeing? well, what we are seeing is rescue work going very very slowly. a lot of heavy machinery there trying to use huge slaps of concrete, moving it away from vehicles that h

could you stand -- kurdistan is surrounded by autocratic regimes, not to mention heavyweights russia and china. he pledged help to a country that is in a "rough neighborhood." reporter: this could be any major western city. the young business is expanding. they have three other outlets. it is one of the most economically open countries in the world. young entrepreneurs are optimistic. >> on very happy to have this successful business and i'm thinking about maybe some kind of -- another business incontext on. -- in kazakhstan. reporter: outside though, many people can not afford to buy the goods on sale. human rights groups criticized the country. and go record, and then there is the problem of economic decline. the steep fall in oioil prices and the value of the russian ruble have hit the country hard. germany's foreign minister praised their democratic achievements and promised german help. >> the goal is to improve living conditions for the people. so they see democracy is worth it and that leads to a better quality of life. >> in concrete terms, germany will provide a for educatit

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they have conducted more air raids against pkk target did, the kurdistan worker's party, developed more air raids against those targets in northern iraq. 11 turkish war planes bombing 18 targets in northern iraq. >> that's not to say, though, that the pkk has been as the main culprit of these attacks. they are certainly al suspect, we are hearing from government officials. at this hour, we have not yet heard from the turkish government as to who they blame for these attacks that happened last night. >> mohammed, thank you very much for the update live for us in ankara. for more, let's speak to yaser yaki who will joins us live from ankara. thank you for being on al jazeera. no official claim of responsibility yet. the turkish government saying it will soon announce who it thinks is responsible for the latest attack in ankara. who do you think is behind this? >> well, many terrorist organizations may have done it or a combination of them. that's to say recently, i think yesterday or the day before yesterday, the terrorist operation operating in turkey said they were going to combine thei

military personnel were killed in a suicide car bomb attack claimed by a group calling themselves the kurdistan freedom falcons. since then, the country has been on tight alert. >> instructions were given but unfortunately terrorist aarticulates cannot be prevented 100% in any country. >> reporter: turkey is now facing multiple security threats as it is engaged in a war on two fronts. it is fighting i.s.i.l. in syria and iraq and the pkk in its southeast. now with the findings still to come, the country worries and waits as concerns about the overall security situation in turkey grows. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera, ankara. >> when al jazeera america returns, the iditarod race is marred by a drunk driver. >>> and a supermarket in sweden that doesn't have any employees. >> a ban on private gun sales are probably not stopping private owners from selling on the site. announced that no longer could sell their weapons on facebook or instagram. buyers send private messages to make a deal. the author of the report matt drange explains why it's hard to crack down. >> facebook doesn't know what userusers

turkey is fron r confronting the challenges from syria and now in a bloody confrontation with the kurdistan workers party or the p.k.k. they're facing a number of multiple security challenges it seems to be overwhelming its capacity to deal with them >>> thank you very much for joining us. now to an attack at a beach resort in ivory coast. forces raid a popular designation. 14 civilians and two soldiers have been killed. the government also says security forces have killed six armed men that attacked three hotels. the journalist is on the phone from the area. what is the situation at the moment? i believe you're where the attack happened. >> yes. i'm at the hotel that was attacked during the day. the situation is under control now. most of the army, the police was walking away from the site. so it is quite normalized by now. even the president was here. i'm hearing in the lounge there are a few tourists nearby heard the shootings going on for hours. it was eight hours of long gunfire going on >>> from what you're saying it sounds like security services are now in control of the situation. >

or the kurdistan workers party, the p.k.k. there are three main suspects, i.s.i.l., p.k.k.affiliates or the communist/extremist groups in this country >>> the government has said that turkey is safe, but the frequency of these attacks is causing many to question that. >> reporter: absolutely. i was at the side of the explosion-- site of the explosion. you can seed and see the-- read and see the fear of the people. i saw it. one woman told us that it is a large city, millions, including turks as well as people coming from agraud. she says that anybody could be a suspect and carry out an attack. it clearly tells you how people are very worried. now, since july last year attacks started happening in this country. they've been happening every month. some told me they were nervous prior to the rival of istanbul. now that the attack happened, they are even more her vows. i told them are you cancelling your books and leaving your country. no. they said life carries on. they need to carry on. i don't know if you can see behind me, this is the square. it is rather early, it is still

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now that is not to say that the government has claimed that the pkk, the kurdistan workers party is behind these attacks. but there are growing indicati indications that the pkk is the main suspect, and it seems at though at this hour the government is going to keep conducting these raids, keep arresting those affiliated with the pkk. >> mohammed there live with the latest from ankara. still to come. an al-qaeda linked group say that it has carried out an attack on the ivory coast. we'll tell you why tens of thousands of chinese miners are taking to the streets. we have all that and more. >> welcome back. a quick reminder of our top stories here on al jazeera. the envoy to geneva has described the meeting as a moment of truth. hundreds of refugees desperate to cross the boards from greece into macedonia are evading authorities by wading through a river. >>> turkey's president has vowed to crackdown on what it calls terrorism after supplied's bombing in ankara, which has left 37 people dead. >>> and it's been an emergency cabinet and security in the ivory coast after the holiday resort town

government forces are backed by local tribes and kurdistan fighter jets. >> we have started to make gains. >> new recruits are joining the fight. they are government loyalists, all say they are determined to defeat the houthis, but the fight may not be over anytime soon, as neither side seems able to achieve a decisive victory. al jazeera. >>> south africa's rule party is meeting today and says the future of president zuma is not officially on the agenda but the gathering has been overshadowed by more allegations of scandal involving africa's leader and his opponents are calling on him to go. we have this report from pretoria. >> there have been mixed messages over the course of the weekend from the national executive committee of the african national congress, around to what extent it will be discussing these allegations against president jacob tshuma. he's within accused or rather his relationship with a prominent influential family here in africa that originally hail from india have been under question in terms of what influence this family has in terms of the relationship with preside

last year 29 were killed in a group calling themselves the kurdistan freedom fall can. turkey's h.d.p. party condemned the attack and expressed condolences for the victims. it comes two days. the area of the blast has been sealed off. a major investigation is under way. including detailed forensic examination >>> the explosion in ankara is the latest of several to hit turkey. last month 29 were killed in a car bombing a short distance from sunday's attack. in jan 10 were killed in a suspected isil attack from istanbul, and in october more than 100 people were killed in a double suicide bombing at a kurdish peace rally in ankara. a specialist in turkish affairs at chat am house said it was systematic of an an unavailable turkey. >> both the attacks took baht in a summit involving the e.u., european leaders and the turkish leadership over the syrian migration crisis. i suspect the group carrying out the attack was seeking maximum publicity not just to turkey, but to the outside world to declare turkey is an insecure and unstable place. >>> al-qaeda claimed responsibility

military personnel were killed in a suicide car bomb attack claimed by a group calling itself the kurdistan freedom falcons. as a result the country has been in a heightened state of alert. >> tight security measures were taken, instructions were given. unfortunately, terrorist attacks cannot be prevented 100% in any country. >> turkey is now facing multiple security threats as it is engaged in a war on two fronts. it is fighting isil, syria and iraq and the pkk in its southeast. now with the findings still to come, the country worries and waits as concerns about the over all security situation in turkey grows. also important to note this attack comes just two days after the u.s. embassy in ankara issued a warning asking its citizens to avoid certain areas of the city. al jazeera, ankara. >> the director of the turkey project at the center for strategic and international studies. he says that turkey is facing multiple threats. >> turkey is facing twin threats posed by the islamic state, isis or isil, and depending on which you prefer to use, and the pkk, or it's affiliated syrian kurdish co

it is almost certain the separatist kurdistan workers carried out the bombing that left 37 people dead. reporter: sorrow and fear mounting with civilians at a busy transport hub. the city's residents look ahead with unease. there is no guarantee of safety. these will do whatever they want. if they can set off a bomb in the middle of the city, how can you not be worried? but security is what the president cross party pledged to win elections last year. people have grown angry and distrustful at the failure to provide it. >> he can arrest me but he cannot give me back my nephew. i will insult him to his face if he comes here. he wanted the presidency and many people lost their children here. reporter: investigators are busy determining who was behind the attack. evidence points to the pkk. turkey conducted new airstrikes against the kurdish militant group and the government has vowed to crack down on terror. >> i say to all terror groups and their backers, you cannot weaken our will. our armed forces carried out a comprehensive operation in iraq. words of assurance that come to late for

meanwhile, in turkey, a breakaway faction of the kurdistan workers party has claimed responsibility for sunday's car bombing in ankara, which killed 37 people. the faction, the kurdistan freedom hawks, said the attack was in retaliation for turkish military crackdowns in the majority kurdish communities in the southeast. in nigeria, two suicide bomb attacks killed 22 people wednesday at a mosque in the northeastern borno state. the nigerian military says the attack was carried out by two female suicide bombers. it struck the mosque during morning prayers. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but borno state has been the center of attacks by boko haram in recent months. in qatar, a prominent poet has been pardoned and released from prison after serving more than three years for writing and reciting a poem inspired by the arab spring. rashid al-ajami was jailed in november 2011 after a video surfaced of him reading a poem entitled "tunisian jasmine," which celebrated tunisia's popular uprising. he was charged with insulting qatar's ruling emir and "inciting to overthrow the r

. >>> in turkey violence has broken out between police and fighters from the kurdistan workers partye pkk in the southern region. the kurdish majority city has been under lockdown for the last three months as turkey aims to flush out the fighters. >> reporter: this is the old quarter. on any given date this place should be buzzing with people, shoppers and tourists coming through this main road here. but it's not because of the ongoing clashes going on. check points have been set up in and around this area, anyone coming through is searched there is a constant sound of gunfire taking place, and one of the effects of these ongoing clashes is that shops and businesses have been forced to close, which has had devastating impact on the local economy. there are at least six neighborhoods still under constant curfew because of the clashes. the government says they are trying to flush out the pkk. there are those locals that blame the government for what is happening. authorities have been forced to put up dozens of families, in fact, hundreds of people in hotels and other places who have b

turkey cannot accept a fragmented syria because of kurdistan. acceptdi's will never that damascus is still in the hands of this regime. and iran will not easily accept that the main winner in this relative march -- match is russia. they have invested a lot in the syrian regime. they would like to find their investment down the road. i don't think they are very happy to see that putin is alone calling the shots on this. what could they do? it's very limited. turkey is really on the verge of completely severing physical contact. will have to find another way to have a link with the syrian revolution. the saudi's a mystery for me. they are entangled in yemen. they are speaking loudly on syria with few very real gestures. they don't want to clash with the russians. this is something they have announced. doing something in that respect is taking a risk of clashing with the russians. so they have a very limited margin of maneuver. will seeith time, they a gradual erosion of this long truce. -- i sayde i would say it very bitterly had with a lot of sad

military personnel were killed in a suicide car bomb attack claimed by a group calling themselves the kurdistan freedom falcons. the country has been on a height of alert. >> translation: security measures were taken, instructions were given by terrorist attacks cannot be prevented 100% in any country. >> reporter: turkey is now facing multiple security threats as it is engaged in the war on two fronts. it is fighting i.s.i.l. in syria and iraq and the p.k.k. in its south-east. now with the findings still to come, the country worries and waits as concerns about the overall security situation in turkey grows. also important to note this comes two days after the u.s. embassy in ankara warning their citizens to void the city >>> al-qaeda has claimed responsibility for an attack on a beach resort in ivory coast. at least 16 people were killed as well as assailants. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: a witness to the attacks on a popular beach resort in the ivory coast explains what he saw. >> translation: i heard shots coming from over there. then i saw the criminal. i was really surprised to

do you think the peshmerga should be -- and second question, if kurdistan will be a state, how importantor stability in the region? thank you very much. >> thank you for your question. if i have to think about any kind of psychological situation in syria as well as in iraq, we have the two kurdish sectors in iraq and syria. the only way that we can live is any kind of federation. there's no way to unify syria. also i'm talking about strategy to unify syria through bashar al assad or someone else, leaving syria no chance. wishful thinking. and to talk about a kind of federation, bashar al assad controls today 30% of his former territory. that's it. we know the turks are not happy with it but in the end, there is a kurdish authority in syria. there is a kurdish authority in iraq. they might cooperate with the regime as they do now. the problem is when it comes to the sunnis, we have daesh, al qaeda followers, muslim brotherhood elements. so first of all, let's find a way to have a kind of federation or whatever, let's also agree to have this kind of federation and then fighting the other o

the military operation against the kurdistan workers party has been going on for nearly four months. the decision by the p.k.k. to fight turkey here left kurdish civilians with desperate choices. >> translation: it hasn't ended yet. i've never seen anything like it. i had to leave home in these clothes and i've worn them for the last four months. my son and his wife went to stay with other relatives. i live were my friendsment i won't come back here. >> translation: i never left here. it was very difficult, the sound of bomb and guns. i have six children with me. we had food and water and we managed to survive >> reporter: before the ceasefire ended, it had been getting back on its feet with the help of state money. now the regional government is paying to put families up in hotels. fighting in these narrow streets caused huge collateral damage. the military won't let us go down any of the side streets where the fight is at their worst because they're still looking for explosive devices, but the statistics really speak for themselves. according to the authorities, more than 300 p.k.k

the kurdistan freedom falcons militant group posted a statement claiming responsibility. the group was also behind the car bombing last month that killed 29 people. following sunday's attack, the turkish government conducted air raids on kurdish militant caps in iraq. >>> a winner has finally been declared in missouri's tight contest as part of the race for u.s. democratic presidential nominee. hillary clinton is the confirmed winner by a razor-thin margin. that means she won all five primaries for the day dubbed mini-super tuesday. u.s. media reported on thursday that clinton's rival, vermont senator bernie sanders, conceded defeat. the two had been in a tight race in the state. clinton won 49.6% of the votes to sanders' 49.3%. sanders says he will not seek a recount. clinton's victory had already been confirmed in north carolina, florida, ohio and illinois. four states that held primaries on tuesday. sanders has gained support among young voters. and despite trailing clinton, he does not appear ready to suspend his campaign. on the republican side, tuesday's race in mis

because turkey is saying that it is a victim of a terrorism campaign, of isil as well as the pkk, the kurdistanrs party. >> that is our correspondent in turkey. we have established contact now with richard corbett. brussels has been in lockdown, mr. corbett what has .hahhed to you guys now? are you still being told not to get out of the building? are or you free to leave? >> they have just announced that people are free to go. they said that people shouldn't leave at the same time. so parents and people with young children are encouraged to leave first. >> you have been there since the first thing this morning. what was the first that you knew about what happened? >> as it happened i had just walked past the metro station just a few moments before. though i didn't hear or see anything. it just brings home how random it is, who is going to be killed or injured. and of course one's heart goes out to those who have been killed or injured. but across the whole town it has of course caused apprehension, public transport was shut down. many streets were blocked off. helicopters have been going back a

-backed coalition against isil, the other from the outlawed kurdistan workers party and p.k.k. a group and a terrorist organization of turkey and its allies. no single recent attack highlighted how complicated the situation in turkey had become. 29 people were killed, most members of turkey's military, when a convoy of buses was targeted. a small group claimed responsibility. turkey's government blamed the bombing on a syrian force that worked with the u.s. in the battle against isil. turkey's officials accused the group of being a syrian affiliate of the p.k.k. with a fragile truce, a conflict that began in 1984 and led to the loss of tens of thousands of lives are reignited. a conflict designated as terrorism. and will go what understood to be done to protect the citizens of turkey. with the isolation, there's growing concern about the state of security. while the shock persisted, the clean-up continued and shops began to open. if some were trying to restore a sense of normality. others prosecutor left wondering if they must adjusted to a new normal >>> hundreds of refugees t

turkey is saying it is a victim of a terror campaign of isil and the p.k.k., the kurdistan workers party >>> let's take you live to the center of brussels, where you can see an impromptu memorial had sprung up in memory of 34 people who died in the twin attacks in the belgium capital today. a reminder you'll find more on the website. usual address aljazeera.com.