marines are training iraqi forces. >>> myanmar state media says 47 solesoldiers have about killed inghting with ethnic chinese rebels. they are trying to take over the capital in myanmar. >>> the al jazerra journalists bahar mohamed and mohamed fahmy are now home with their families. the men spent more than 400 days in detention. that trial on charges of colluding with the banned muslim brotherhood is due to resume in 10 days. >>> now, we are off to pakistan now. there has been an attack on a mosque. let's go to our correspondent kamal hider who is there. we are looking at pictures coming in from pan stack i tv. a lot of smoke forces on the ground and emergency vehicles, what do you know about what happened? >> reporter: the attack is still ongoing. there are reports of firing explosives important well. according to an eyewitness. who of the attackers are said to have been in security forces uniforms, while others others hand grenades and were outside. it appears the crisis is now inside the shia mosque. it's situated in a posh location location. and it is also literally with the bor

now to myanmar where the state media says 47 soldiers killed in 4 days of fighting with ethnic chineses and began on february the 9th and took place in the shan state bordering china and the troops died trying to stop rebels taking over the capitol of kokang region and chinese foreign ministry called for calm and says refugees from myanmar are fleeing the fighting and going into china and let's find out more talking to our correspondent brown and in the chinese capitol beijing and this is a little known ethnic group in myanmar and what are they fighting for? >> reporter: well they want their own homeland and it has to be said this is a very very remote part of southeast asia and it's very close to the border with china, it's an area that has a notorious reputation for people smuggling and drug smuggling and now fighting. the latest reports we are getting from the area are thank you tens of thousands of ethnic chinese are crossing the border from myanmar and according to one report there is accused some ten kilometers long again, this cannot be verified. almost nothing about what is hap

. >> myanmar's state media says 47 soldiers died in recently fighting with heavily armed rebels. fighting began in shan state. rebels were trying to take over the shan state. the foreign ministry had a press conference saying people had been fleeing to china to escape the attention. >> mohamed fadel fahmy walked out of custody in egypt on bail of spending 412 days in detention. his colleague is expected to be released on bail in the coming hours. an egyptian court granted them bail on thursday. the retrial on charges of colluding with the banned muslim brotherhood resumes in february. >> reporter: this could be the beginning of the end of an ordeal lasting for more than 400 days. mohamed fadel fahmy, and baher mohamed have been granted bail at the start of their retrial. it's come as a huge relief for their families. >> translation: i'm going immediately to tell the kids that their father is coming home today and that life will be beautiful. i wait to welcome him back. life has changed >>> mohamed fadel fahmy was asked to pay a security bond of $33,000. >> we'll abide by everythin

myanmars state media says that 47 soldiers have been killed in four days of fighting against ethnic chinese the troop tried to stop the rebels taking over the capitol near the chinese border. the governments also carried out air strikes. it's not clear how many rebels were killed. china's foreign ministry has called for calm. >> reporter: this is not the first time there has been fighting between the myanmar national democratic alliance army and the mieyanmar forces. we're told that some 10,000 refugees have crossed over the border into china during friday. that is going to continue i think over the weekend. pictures online show thousands of refugees sheltering in blue tents. others are being accommodated in an exhibition center and a sports stadium. china's minister of foreign affairs says it will continue to provide humanitarian aid, but has appealed to the government of myanmar to try to find a peaceful agreement. the two sides were due to sign a ceasefire a number of days ago. that clearly is not going to happen and the worry now is the fighting will drag on as it has done in the past.

. >>> myanmar's state media says that 47 soldiers have been killed in four days of fighting with ethnicels. it says the troops died trying to stop rebels from taking over an area near the chinese border. the government also carried out air strikes. china's foreign ministry has called for calm. >> reporter: this is not the first time there has been fighting between the myanmar national sdmic alliance army and also the myanmar armed fors. it happened six years ago when some 30,000 refugees crossed over the border into china. they were mostly ethnic haan chinese, and that is mostly the case now. we're told that some 10,000 have crossed over the border into china. that is going to continue i think over the weekend. pictures online show thousands of refugees in tents, others are being accommodated in an exhibition center and also a sports stadium. china's ministry of foreign affairs says they will continue to provide humanitarian aid, but urges the myanmar government to find a peaceful solution. >>> there's been a rise in tension in indian administered kashmir after an 18-year-old man was sh

. >>> state media in myanmar says that 47 soldiers have been killed in four days of fighting with ethnicse rebels. the trooped tried to stop the rebels taking over the capitol of the zone near the chinese border. the government also carried out air strikes. it's not clear how many rebels have been killed. the foreign ministry has called for calm. more now from adrian brown. >> reporter: this is not the first time there has been fighting between the myanmar army and also the myanmar armed forces. it happened six years ago. on that occasion some 30,000 refugees crossed over the border into china. they were mostly ethnic haan chinese and that is the case now. we're told that some 10,000 refugees have crossed over the border into china on friday. pictures online show thousands of refugees sheltering in blue tents, others are being accommodated in an exhibition center and also a sports stadium. china says they will continue to provide humanitarian aid to those who need it but has appealed to the government of myanmar to try to find a peaceful solution. they were due to sign a ceasefire a numb

myanmar. >> let's go to syria where state media say that car bombers have killed more people. activists also say ten children were among 48 people killed in a village north of aleppo earlier in the week. thethis is aleppo itself, and in northeastern damascus activists say t.v. people were killed of a government warplanes conducted several attacks. 20 others were injured. then you've got the thousands of syrian refugees spending their fourth winter in freezing continues. over the last few weeks heavy snow storms have hit the qalanoun mountains where 500 families are trapped. >> reporter: it's freezing cold in the qalanoun mountains and these children are trying desperately to keep warm. but without wood and fuel they can't. >> it's cold and we don't have enough oil for heating. >> at least 500 families are living in flimsy tents and freezing conditions. the qalamoun mountains sits on the border with lebanon. but there are no aids working here. that's because it has been declared a war zone and has banned visitors here. >> the tents we're living in can't with stand the heavy sno

heavy fighting between government forces and rebels in northern myanmar have left 47 soldiers dead and 73 wounded according to state media. there's no indication yet of the number of rebel casualties. the clashes started on monday near the country's border with china. >>> a new cease-fire agreement set to take effect on sunday in eastern ukraine, apparently isn't doing much to stop the fighting there. the plan is aimed at ending the 10-month conflict which has claimed more than 5,000 lives so far. the white house says it welcomes the deal but is concerned about the escalation of fighting which it calls inconsistent with the spirit of the accord. senior international correspondent matthew chance has details. >> reporter: from the outset the tension in minsk was palpable. vladamir putin was greeted by the french and german leaders, but only after several awkward leaders did he briefly shake hands with his ukrainian counterpart. president poroshenko insisted he stood his ground. >> translator: i can say everything was difficult and in fact various unacceptable conditions were put to us conditions of retreat and surrender. w