blood journalist joining us from air below in the kurdish region in northern iraq now for some of the other stories making in the news president emmanuel mccall has led the memorial ceremonies in paris to honor the victims of france's worst ever terrorist attacks two years ago is almost extremists killed one hundred thirty people at a number of locations across the french capital francis since passed a far reaching antiterrorism law that's been criticized for curtailing civil liberties. south korea's military says a north korean soldier has been shot and wounded while defecting to the south across the demilitarized zone north korean troops reportedly fired on the soldier as he attempted to pass through border village to factor has been taken to a south korean hospital to u.s. president all trumps a visit to the philippines now and there have been clashes between police and demonstrators in central manila as the u.s. leader met his counterparts at a regional summit security officers using water cannon on the demonstrators in the filipino capital protesters are angry over the president'

dozens of people are killed as a strong earthquake hits the border region between northern iraq and iran. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: the agonising wait. asylum seekers on manus island share their fears, as they expect to be forcibly removed from the australian detention camp. winds of renaissance at mumbai's royal opera house. after decades of renovation, it stages its first italian opera. good morning. it is 9:00am in singapore, 1:00am in london, and 9:00am in the morning in manila, where president trump is in the philippines to attend the asean summit that is due to get under way shortly. he is set to meet the controversial leader rodrigo duterte, whose drug war has claimed thousands of lives. earlier, leaders gathered for a gala dinner in manila and signed a number of trade agreements with hong kong. joining us from manila is the bbc‘s howard johnson. president rodrigo duterte‘s drug war has been controversial. it has claimed thousands of lives, and leaders gathered for a gala dinner in manila. they signed a number of trade agreements with hong kong at the tim

in a classroom in northern iraq, they are singing to overcome their memories.d ten year olds were all captives of so—called islamic state, where music was forbidden. chldren singing. from their smiles, you might not guess the violence they have seen but they are all scarred by it. isis enslaved this brother and sister three years ago. in the time of isis, what did you...what was it like then? what did they tell you about the guns? the children at this rehabilitation centre are yazidis, a part of the non—muslim minority singled out for particular cruelty by isis. in 2014, their villages were seized and thousands of men murdered on the spot. the women were sold into slavery and children taken for re—education, to serve the so—called caliphate. what did they say about your family? when first they talk about their experience, it was not actually easy and good but now they can express it in a different way. at first they were just too scared to talk about it? yeah. now they can talk about it but... freely. in a better way. like they do not express it with so much —

mass graves of suspected i so victims are discovered in northern iraq. palestinian unity for the first time in ten years the yellow flags of fatah a waved in hamas controlled gaza in honor of yasser arafat. the saudis say t.v. has shown pictures of king soundman meeting lebanon's prime minister as lebanese leaders continue to demand he returns home saad hariri hasn't returned to beirut nor made any public comments since unexpectedly announcing his resignation in the saudi capital eight days ago there are suggestions he's being held against his will in a power battle involving saudi arabia and hezbollah or which is supported by iran saudi leaders say he's free to go but he fears for his safety then the holder has. from beirut. posters are springing up across the lebanese capital beirut expressing support to. the resigned prime minister whose fate really is unknown uncertain times in lebanon the country finding itself at a crossroads for the past year this country enjoyed relative stability in a very turbulent region but things have changed and lebanon fin

mass graves containing at least four hundred suspected arson victims have been found in northern iraq the sites were discovered near a military base close to the town of her many of the dead were dressed in prison uniforms those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the listening post is coming up next. germany is hosting this year's climate talks personally from the united states out of the powers agreement would know the global efforts to tackle climate change and that fanaticism live reports from the climate conference in bone and from the frontlines of groby warming climate s.o.s. one. tried to talk about to get the. polar ice cap. thank you. thank you. for for caring.

third urban decay is vital for northern iraq it provides water and electricity to around two million people but supplies are threatened after sunday's earthquake on the border between iraq and iran cracks have appeared and engineers are trying to repair the damage to reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding for now at least no leaks have been spotted. that. we don't have time for about the total damage we can see cracks inspections trying to identify the damage under the water rights report we're also gradually draining water to decrease the pressure. is one of the many iraqis who rely on the dam he's a policeman and lives right next to the giant structure on the diyala river the father of four is worried about his family's safety. when it sure doesn't work with my colleagues we left our place barefoot and in panic tumbling on to us from the hills when i arrived home where younger son was so scared there were lots of cracks on the walls he spent the night together. now his wife and children have been packed off to his in-laws just in case while engineers assess the damage. people liv

mass graves containing at least four hundred suspected i thought victims have been found in northern iraq the sites were discovered near a military base close to the town of who we are the governor of kirkuk says many of the dead were dressed in prison uniforms i saw was forced out of the region by iraqi forces in october and around town has more now from the iraqi capital baghdad . this find will be very significant not just for the families but for investigators as well a lot of families are wondering what happened to their loved ones by then defying the bodies within the mass grave they'll be able to get some sort of closure hopefully for investigators this would be a way to find out exactly how many people died under eisel rule now this mass grave was found in how we just which is one of the main towns it was in a. a military base which eisel allegedly used as an execution ground according to locals now this isn't the first mass grave that the iraqis have found they certainly won't be the last as they go into the areas that i saw used to control and trying dig and look for information

a strong earthquake measuring 7.3 has hit the border area in northern iraq and iran, killing dozens of people. the epicentre was close to the iraqi—kurdish city of halabja. and this video is trending on bbc.com: it shows dramatic pictures of a burning oil pipeline in bahrain that has caused a diplomatic spat. bahrain says iran is behind the explosion. iran has dismissed the allegation. more on this story at bbc.com. that is all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk: the husband of a british—iranian woman being held in prison in tehran says she has found lumps in her breasts and has been seen by a specialist. now on bbc news: all the latest business news live from singapore. more new passenger on board. riot hailing firm uber strikes and investment deal with japan's soft bank. aliba ba smashes investment deal with japan's soft bank. alibaba smashes its own record with another bonanza on singles day. welcome to asia business report. uber has confirmed to the bbc that it has entered an agreement with japan's soft bank over potential investment. speculation

mass graves a suspected i saw victims are discovered in northern iraq. palestinian unity for the first time in ten years the yellow flags of fatah a waved in hamas controlled gaza to honor the former palestinian leader yasser arafat. a saudi state television has broadcast new pictures of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri meeting king solomon at riyadh airport now this is just the third time that mr hariri has been seen since the other expectedly announced his resignation in the saudi capital eight days ago he's made no public remarks since then and there are suggestions that he's being held against his will saying a hoarder has more now from beirut. posters are springing up across the lebanese capital beirut expressing support to. the resign prime minister whose fate really is unknown uncertain times eleven on the country finding itself at a crossroads for the past year this country enjoyed relative stability in a very turbulent region but things have changed and lebanon finds itself in the middle of the saudi iranian rivalry playing out across the re

al-jazeera they're going to come in northern iraq. we were telling you earlier about the french president. inviting lebanon's prime minister saad hariri to france the french foreign minister has just announced that lebanon's prime minister has accepted that invitation and will at some point in the future visit paris we don't know when we'll bring you more on that as and when we get it but france's foreign minister saying that lebanon's prime minister has accepted president backroads invitation to visit paris now a ceremony in new york is honoring journalists around the world who faced intimidation harassment and imprisonment in the past year thirty four journalists were killed working in the field more than two hundred fifty would jailed on the reports. any labrat evening gala but for a cause to fight for press freedom the committee to protect journalists one of the top organizations that defends the rights of journalists to work without fear of reprisal honoring several reporters for their courage. one is our friend nasser a yemeni r

well the people here two of the kurds of northern iraq have seen one of the biggest setbacks that they've seen an extremely long time they will tell you that whatever it is that they want they've sort of been abandoned by their allies they're surrounded by neighbors who are hostile to them these days including turkey that used to be an ally of the k r g of the k.g.b. particularly turning its back after that referendum so now and i think important to bring now in that press conference from prime minister netanyahu on barzani that just took place in the last hour this is the first time adrian that he has addressed the people in a press conference laying out the way for his tone was interesting it was one of really stressing the need for dialogue with baghdad he said they had different interpretations of the constitution but that that didn't mean that there had to be any sort of military action of it it was again a case of dialogue we know that there is talks going on behind the scenes particularly when it comes to areas where we are now we're not actually into age and we are in the disputed

that masquerades containing at least four hundred suspected eisel victims have been found in northern iraq the sites were discovered near a military base close to isis form a stronghold of how we imran khan is a correspondent in the iraqi capital baghdad emraan what more do we know about this grisly discovery. that's absolutely right it's a fairly significant discovery for certainly the families of those victims who want some sort of closure is also going to be very significant for people investigating now what the iraqis are doing is cataloging exactly how many people died rule and they looking at these mass grave sites to try and see exactly how many people are in that particular site now this was in. high school stronghold according to locals this used to be a military base that i saw turned into an execution ground now this certainly isn't the first mass grave that iraqis have found it probably won't be the last it was a common tactic to scare people into submission and anybody who was in opposition was simply shot and killed and dumped into one of these mass graves i visited a few of

that life is a normal year old is one of the towns in northern iraq which is about. impacted. by diggers base but of course the most romantic side of this story is and it is in iraq also the iraq your thirty's give us a hand in the morning folding the head of the u.n. this is this week mourning period in the same nonsense that. goodness and other week last night than it did with a magnet. there and there have been one hundred homes there. since sunday night on the tonight as you say synonyms iran badly affected that suffered the most it seems and people here are very scared of the aftershocks how are they coping in a bomb what are you hearing about rescue efforts that. the story is more dramatic in iran fully the there are thousands. people who have been born this and hundreds aren't that unfortunately the worst damage town is. nearby could it's a kurdish town and even the hospital is damaged there that's why the army and army sets off field hospitals around the area and some of the longest people are carried to transferred to other cities like the capital. but people have to s

would you have done things differently for northern iraq?ord king: we were the lender of last resort right up to the point where they ran out of money and could not give us any collateral to lend against. so the thing that is odd about that is people seem to think we did not lend to northern rock. we lended a vast amount to northern rock. and the first conversation i had with the chairman of northern rock in august 2007 was if it comes to that point, we would be there as a lender of last resort. the problem was, northern rock, which was not doing anything other banks themselves were not themselves doing, had a business model that ended when the market in mortgage-backed securities closed, and they had a very high leverage at that point, even though they met all the international capital standards. so it was not as if northern rock was somehow taking big risks with the definition of capital that the international basel standards said they should hold. it was just that the structure of the bank, which was basically borrowing short and mortgage

returning our people in two thousand and fourteen for rita abbas was a child living in a year in northern iraq when i so attacked they murdered her father and her brothers and they took her and the rest of the women as prisoners. living under eisel captivity was terrible they separated mothers and children rapes young girls and killed the men i tried to escape twice to talk to each attempts they cause me and beats me this is the time i succeeded and fled to the main highway i went to the first house i saw and people there helped me but the minority group wants their cause back in the international eye and for more action to be taken we haven't seen much. from the international community. and i asked him to put those villages cities to be rid of them what i wish and go. with the caliphate of terror in syria and iraq on the verge of collapse the end of its brutal reign could pose new challenges for the region but the biggest concern for this minority group is that with no international attention or protection will anyone even notice if they just become a collateral footnote in a victory over i s

an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 has hit the border area between northern iraq and iran, south of

building burg a journalist who joins us from air below the capital city of kurdistan region in northern iraq what can you tell us about the dimension of the quake's damage where you are. i haven't heard about there are a few years as i've been base here for some time so this is the first time that people you know what the situation here and kurdistan region of iraq at least forty five were killed but in general so many around you around them it was much higher so they're sitting around two hundred want to maybe you know what do we know about the rescue operations is help getting through to the people who need it. well most of the rescue operations are organized locally they're also i heard you see and some turkish aid organizations came to the rescue but most of this almost final cools and most of the damage was iraq and iran border where the earthquake started so that of damage is the biggest and also the local governor. on is not on or at least they should be sort of down because there are some fears that oh. ok what about the political divisions where you are between the kurdish iraqi aut

reports from darabont economy of the quake's epicenter in northern iraq. they won after sunday's earthquake on the iraq iran border and the community which frees their dead from the rubble the loudest sounds of morning come from iran's come onshore provinces more than three hundred of that that lived here thousands more were injured. i was under the rubble of a destroyed war it collapsed on my head infrastructure has been devastated so medics improvise in a field iran's government has sent in twenty helicopters and created four field hospitals using trucks of medicine and buses to treat. those whose injuries were too severe or transferred to the capital to wrong there were no facility has no access to electricity no water in the seconds that the earthquake rolled through at nine eighteen on sunday night an estimated seventy thousand people became homeless iran is one of the most systemic and active countries in the world several major fault lines cross said. in iraq there are less common but this time the destruction across the border the corridor standard

that shocked the well david three years ago thousands of easy days trapped on mountain jar in northern iraq. to even. the media told the harrowing stories of the use e.d.s. persecution at the hands of jihadists they show i shot them and then they cut the heads over mood over the room make people trying to jump on board the crowd on board the helicopter burst into tears the united nations has called i sells attempt to wipe out the religious minority group genocide the genocide is i'm going and remains largely unaddressed despite the obligation of space party to the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of. an aside of nine for eight to prevent and to punish the crime three years old the public's attention has shifted elsewhere but the z.t. struggle continues the genocide is still ongoing our people have been suffering in camps for over two years i solicit all holding every three thousand years of the people in our area has been completely destroyed now the community cannot return home we want the international community to support us in rebuilding our area and returning ou

al-jazeera depp and northern iraq. woman so whatever gary is the rector of international operations of the iranian red crescent society she says her teams have reached most of the affected areas and the priority now is sheltering people the bitter cold the focus now on the actually emergency sheltering and food. but the and the solution of the food but the point is that because the wide area is reaching to the people it takes a little bit time so we are actually doing our best to accelerate this procedure and to send the items to all of the people receive the items from our a starbucks from the sixteen provincial branches around the areas in order just to not to waste the time so that i can say that all the needed items are now deployed. to the. province it is which is the main province of that severely damaged. and i can say that. our people. they do their most. to reach the people in the in different religious. four tanks have been seen on a road outside the zimbabwe and capital harare and witnesses also told the vot

northern iraq australia voted in favor of changing the law to allow same sex marriage more than two thirds of all potential voters responded to a non-binding postal survey initial results found more than sixty two percent support changing the law prime minister malcolm turnbull promised to make same sex marriage legal if a majority back the idea. people have spoken in their millions and they have voted overwhelmingly yes for marriage equality they voted yes then yes they voted yes for a commitment. they voted yes for love and now it is up to us here in the parliament of a strike to get on with it they get on with the job the astroland people of task is to do and get this done this year lots more so to come here and al-jazeera including deep in debt venezuela says a con pay its bills and blames the united states plus one doctor you're giving your patients twenty things which one works. and the truth is that i don't know. the unconventional cancer treatments that are making mexico a tourist attraction or in that stay with us. from dusky sunsets if it's pruning savannah. to sunrise atop an as

northern iraq. now lebanon's absent prime minister is tweeted that he will return home from saudi arabia in the coming days saad hariri also called for calm and said his family would remain there earlier hariri met the head of lebanon's maronite church in riyadh. arar is the first lebanese official to visit the kingdom since harry unexpectedly announced his resignation there more than a week ago when l. three people have been killed in the yemeni city of ties after airstrikes by the saudi led coalition it's thought that the strikes targeted a radio station and military defense positions three others were injured in the striking colluding to children and a soldier meanwhile yemeni officials say the saudi led coalition has bombed the airport in the capital sana'a which is controlled by the who the rebels the who say the runway and ground navigation tower were damaged but the u.n. says most of the airport is intact and can receive aid shipments once saudi arabia loses the blockade imposed on the countr

thousand are injured cynical still reports from that randi khan near the quake's epicenter in northern iraq. day one after sunday's earthquake on the iraq iran border and the community reprise there from the rubble the loudest sounds of morning come from iran's can launch a province more than three hundred of that that lived here thousands more were injured and i was under the rubble of a destroyed war it collapsed on my head infrastructure has been devastated so medics improvised in a field iran's government has sent in twenty helicopters and created four field hospitals using trucks of medicine and buses to treat divonne to those whose injuries were too. severe were transferred to the capital wrong there were no facility has no access to electricity no water in the seconds that the earthquake rolled through at nine eighteen on sunday night an estimated seventy thousand people became homeless iran is one of the most systemic active countries in the world several major fault lines cross. in iraq they're less common but this time the destruction across the border the corridor standard brenda

within the official boundaries of the semi autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq well the president of that region is about to step down after a controversial referendum on. his twelve years in office stephanie decker has been speaking to people. about his legacy. time affords an element of perspective and even though daily routines here haven't changed the political landscape has shifted for the kurds of northern iraq so how is it seen by the youth we meet mohammed an engineer he is currently unemployed and like many playing away their time here they are educated but find it hard to get a job. as time expired not now but a few years ago yes he is a symbol of our nation but in the end someone has to replace his position if you believe in democracy any any leader when he finishes his period he needs to let someone replace him i think it was a good move by the president. the backlash to the controversial referendum on secession is viewed by many as the reason for his decision to step aside love him or hate him he is a man many view as a historic figure head of the kurdish. zone he lea

northern iraq. the u.s. attorney general has denied he misled congress when he testified before politicians last month it was all part of a probe into allegations of russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential elections speaking before a congressional committee on tuesday jeff sessions said that he simply forgot about a meeting where a former trump advisor boasted about. raise your right hand. swear that this isn't the first time the attorney general has been accused of not being honest with congress but jeff sessions was adamant i don't think i'm. is right there here's me doing something wrong i had no participation in any wrongdoing at issue sessions previous testimony that there were no contacts between members of the trump campaign and the russians claiming to represent the kremlin since his last congressional appearance to trump campaign staffers have testified that they told sessions they were in contact with what they thought were russian officials and that's sessions memory i do now recall th

northern iraq. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in myanmar for talks with a leader and son suchi they made on tuesday at the apec summit in the philippines to listen is expected to focus on rakhine state where an army crackdown has forced more than six hundred thousand people to flee to bangladesh rangar refugees accuse me of security forces of massacres rape and torching villages scott harbor is in manaus capital. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson here in a producer on wednesday will have two meetings the head of the military with the commander in chief and then also the head of a civilian government on song suchi he met with her on the sidelines of asean summit in manila philippines on tuesday but didn't say anything neither leader said anything after that meeting yesterday tuesday today wednesday they will hold a press conference in the early afternoon local time now we don't know exactly what will here we do know that the situation with the russians or refugees and the violence in rakhine

and yes we're in which is the most effected town in northern iraq it is almost four hundred kilometers to the region. in iran when you walk in the streets you don't see anything much you see a few buildings have collapsed but most of the buildings are bad the damage here and the government made a call to people on the night of the earthquake that they shouldn't enter inside the buildings and the aid agencies humanitarian aid agencies have been providing aid and medicine to here also providing some tents and other equipment also there is another town which is there which is also. impacted by the day by the earthquake and just like about hoping over ago we had the kurdish officials visiting the home to check out the latest that just. people are here what are the conditions of the buildings and for now we see turkish red crescent here active on the field both in. and. providing humanitarian aid also turkey's. disaster and emergency administration management director rate is also here but the town is. quiet for now people are out on the streets as i said and many of the buildings are damag

kurdish region of northern iraq people crossing the border are passing through turkish iraqi and kurdish czechs. commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management is visiting bangladesh to assess their anger crisis the trip by christiane this comes a week after the e.u. and member states pledged two hundred twenty eight million dollars to help bring a refugee. crisis now. all this to find their. one on one each meets the elderly mother. at this time and. people need to the city because that.

and northern iraq was hit less ha rd. unharmed. and northern iraq was hit less hard.heir iranians neighbours. —— red crescent.“ offering help to their iranians neighbours. -- red crescent. if our help is needed, we will definitely supply help across the border if we are asked. aid has been pouring in. a combination of aircraft and iran's special ambulance coaches are transferring some of the injured for specialist treatment elsewhere in the country. but the painful process of grieving for entire communities is only just of grieving for entire communities is onlyjust beginning. of grieving for entire communities is only just beginning. james robbins, bbc news. mps have begun what will be more than a week of debate on key legislation that will pave the way for brexit. at the moment eu laws and regulations affect almost every part of our lives — whether it's agriculture or finance. the bill before the commons now will bring all of that under british law. but asjon pienaar reports — there are already plenty of signs that the bill will not have an easy passage. this report

recovering but the stories from iraq and syria stephanie daycares live in the home province in northern iraq but first let's talk to. these live in gaza on top on the turkey syria border tell us about the battle for that is all. jane today there was some fighting in two main neighborhoods in particular had media and. where there was a presence of. and they maintained where they build some strong defense lies but there's been some. by the russians by the syrian government and also extensive shelling over the last few hours now they've managed to break those defense lines and the syrian army now has into the neighborhoods declaring the city and it's going to. still an. operation underway there trying to ensure that the areas in downtown and also those newly captured deborah those are say there's no presence of any trapped car suicide bombers or snipers and hashim what's next now for the syrian army. to battlegrounds first of all which is the last stronghold of oil i still in syria particularly on the border with iraq also there's going to be a push to try to recapture the oil fields in the oth

al-jazeera their brand account in northern iraq u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has demanded what he called a credible and impartial investigation into the ranger refugee crisis it made the comments on a visit to myanmar where he met leader and sang suchi and the head of the military from the capital naypyidaw scott. these are scenes that the u.s. secretary of state calls just horrific the military crackdown in rakhine state has sent more than six hundred thousand richenda refugees fleeing into bangladesh in the past three months rex tillerson arrived in the capital neighborhood or at the end of a high profile trip to asia with president donald trump there were hints of crisis was the focus of this stop for only a few hours per day. for reports of widespread fraud committed by me and wars of the security forces. who were destroying period which is a very recent violence a. tillerson that military chief men and said that impartial and credible investigation is needed and anyone implicated needs to be prosecuted and broad economic s

the durban is vital for northern iraq it provides water and electricity to around two million people but supplies are threatened after sunday's earthquake on the border between iraq and iran cracks have appeared and engineers are trying to repair the damage to reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding for now at least no leaks have been spotted. that. we don't have time to pull data about the total damage we can see deep cracks inspection teams are trying to identify the damage under the water they're going to watch report we also gradually draining water to decrease the pressure. is one of the many iraqis who rely on the dam he's a policeman and lives right next to the giant structure on the diyala river. the father of four is worried about his family's safety. when it short i was at work with my colleagues we left our place barefoot and in panic tumbling on to us from the hills when i arrived home where younger son was so scared there were lots of cracks on the walls he spent the night out altogether. now his wife and children have been packed off to his in-laws just in case while e

al-jazeera they're going to come in northern iraq. greece has declared a day of mourning after these fifteen people were killed in flash flooding on the western outskirts of athens and more bad weather is on the way john psaropoulos reports now from the flooded area of magara. bulldozers are trying to push this river back into its bed tarantula rain swelled it so much that it burst its banks and sliced through a network of roads. this flood came before dawn catching people in bed some drowned in their apartments others were found in their front yards two bodies washed out to sea the body of one woman was found in the street even this dog couldn't outrun the water the mayor has opened up the town hall for people who have nowhere to sleep because their houses are ruined. it is a catastrophe a biblical proportions the entire town was flooded before daylight the water came with the force carrying materials with it and blocking drains cars were swept away and people were trapped in their houses some climbed on to their roofs nothing like t

crossing is located within the official boundaries of the semi autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq on tuesday iraqi military chiefs went to the turkish side of the border stuff deca reports. there's been a lot of back and forth rumors and reports about who is in control the future of this is the border crossing with turkey well at the moment the kurdistan regional government remains in charge and speaking to people here will tell us that they haven't heard of any change that needs to be done but baghdad has made it very clear it is going to reassert federal authority federal control over every single border crossing the p.r.g. controlled. now just a fifteen minute drive down the road from abraham highly illustration board or board is a border crossing with syria syria is just across the river and these two border crossings are the ones that baghdad is looking at to take first talks are underway and baghdad is keen to stress they are not negotiations this is talks between military and technical delegations to figure out how to do this because it is going to happen these troops and t

one of the last pockets the group controls in that country stephanie dake is live in the hook in northern iraq where hear from her in a moment but first let's talk to hashem he's in guys in top on the turkey syria border so tell us about the fighting the developments in debtor's or. you were basically there's been some intense fighting early in the morning into neighborhoods in there as well which were under the control of ice or particularly . and also there's been some a wave of strikes by brush and warplanes syrian warplanes and also a shelling by government forces and they managed a few hours ago to break the defense lines of i said in those neighborhoods now they are in total control of the areas they say they're just conducting a clearing operation to ensure that there are no suicide bombers or booby trap buildings or sniper snipers on those areas however we've been hearing from activists in the thousands of people trapped in the fighting are looking for a possibility to go in to save areas outside the concerned about any retribution by the syrian government to the sewer situation remain

russia mass graves containing at least four hundred suspected victims of i still have been found in northern iraq the bodies many in prison uniforms were discovered near a military base close to the town of how we the u.s. is joined calls for the saudi led coalition to lift its blockade of yemen but it also says it recognizes the coalition's concerns about stopping the movement of alm cynthy rebels a blockade is causing a humanitarian crisis with the u.n. saying the closure of yemen's borders is pushing millions of people close to the point of starvation. tens of thousands of people in gaza have marked the thirteenth anniversary of the death of the former palestinian president yasser arafat. right those are the headlines. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. just wasn't you know they were a team all in office under the most short i knew. it was the female when i'm with you if i'm i think. you know much less of a. bank than the same oh my. initial not the same. i was out there you know our management team on the three more you were down in the s

geological survey is reporting a powerful earthquake in northern iraq and iraq it says preliminary measurements suggest a strength of seven point two it places the epicenter on the mansion this border between the two countries we'll have more on the story as the other develops. united against climate change. big challenges for the twenty third u.n. climate come from.

in northern iraq kurdistan region and dozens have also been wounded the epicenter of the seven point three magnitude quake was around one hundred fifty kilometers northeast of the iraqi capital baghdad the syrian province of aleppo is again under heavy bombardment by government warplanes tolerating rebel fighters the bombings began this week it's forced thousands of civilians to feed the area and set up makeshift camps in the countryside. u.s. president has insisted he backs the u.s. intelligence community's view that russia meddled in last year's election was widely criticized on saturday when he said he believes putin has always denied the allegations writing on twitter drum also slammed what he called the fools who oppose better ties with moscow the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy is in catalonia for the first time since the central government imposed direct rule over the region he traveled to barcelona to campaign ahead of december's regional elections a spanish central government dissolve the catalan parliament after it declared independence last month where he praise

geological survey is reporting a powerful earthquake in northern iraq and iraq preliminary measurements suggest a strength of seven point three and the epicenter was around thirty kilometers from the iraqi says. and wayne reports say at least fourteen provinces are affected including border cities sharon and come on shot at least six people are reported killed in iran and one in iraq as a result of terror. and football sets around have qualified for the world cup finals in russia next summer after holding northern ireland to a score and a strong base all the swiss had the advantage after scoring an away goal in their one nil win in the first leg lost her as a result was mired in controversy that's with tens goal coming after a highly questionable handball penalty northern ireland have not qualified for the world cup since one thousand nine hundred eighty six. that's all for now but he'd be sure to tune in for more news at the top of the air and in the meantime you can always knock on charlap site that's on top of the new doc com for more of this. code to find tens of thousands of fans f