for the pbs newshour, i'm p.j. tobia. >> woodruff: in iran, more than 300 sufi muslims haaf been arrester overnight clashes that killed five police officers. police said they were attacked as sufis rallied in tehran, demanding the releas detainees. sufi officials denied it.fi the emphasize mystical experiences over traditionalic muslim pra. they have been perseby iran's shiite regime. back in this country, the department of health and han services proposed letting insurers sell limited health plans that do not comply with obamacare's mandates. they would offer lower-cost coverage with fewer be for up to 12 months. and, comnies could deny people with pre-existing conditions or charge higher premiums. the proposal is open for public comment for 60 days. an outside legal review is out

focused on the kurdish enclave of afrin now that's close to its food afrin is controlled by the white p.j. that's a u.s. backed kurdish militia that turkey regards as a terrorist organization. or for more on this now i'm joined by our correspondent dorian jones who is in istanbul dorian what is turkey's goal with this mission its military mission known as operation on its branch. well the goal is to clear this syrian kurdish militia from turkey selvan border nischelle operation is in affray and where they plan to create a thirty kilometer deep security zone but beyond that they found they plan to expand it much beyond much of turkey some border several hundred kilometers where the syrian kurdish militia are based because they accuse this militia of supporting a kurdish insurgency inside turkey a decades long battle as claim tens of thousands of lives this is a clear and present danger to the country and that is why they need to remove it bought this force east on lead back by the u.s. u.s. have around two thousand soldiers deployed with the kurdish militia across the turkey southern borde

p.j. tobia has our rept. >> reporter: rebel-held suburbs outside damascus echoed today with the sounds of government air strikes anshelling, and would-be rescuers. civil defense workers, known as white helmets, raced to pull survivors to safety amid the wnsault. tos across eastern ghouta have come under intense bombardment by president bashar al-assad's forces for weeks. the attacks spiked sunday, and war monitors say 250 people have been killed sie then. hundreds more have been hurt. e government offensive d condemnati today from the opposition's chief negotiator to the u.n.'s stalled peace talks. ussels.e in >> what is happening in ghouta is a war crime. all internationared lines have been crossed by the regime, but yet there's no accountability. >> reporter: meanwhile, a new, northern front has opened in thr cos seven-year civil war, in the kurdish region of afrin. turkey has been attacking u.s.-backed kurdish fighters known as the y.p.g. the turks say they're linked to militant groups

moua this is focused on p.j. and opens with you to. collect the seed as if you want to get it off. where you're not part of the work every week and you know three time or full time you don't have money for food type stuff so. i don't. own a shoe. and yet it really. d.d. billy would know that what would have been the community of if you can then. follow the boys to see where they would sleep at nights. we see realized that we had been to this part before but in the daytime our local contact took us here because it's a known hot spot for drug dealers users sex workers and the homeless. we couldn't believe that this is how these two kids sleep at nights and that they still have to wait another six months for their interview with the asylum service. that's the frustration of the time of turds for people to. going to happen to them and i think hopefully they should be wandering around. with never to start. with. survival circuses in suits of desperation most there's not enough room for. good people awaiting this. drug. but i have. one. that they showed i had done so in the in the show u

it tells the story of controversial american katerina's john callahan exploring his life as a pusher p.j. and his long battle with alcoholism. to start. a nervous from. film stars jack black adam greeny mara you will say see comedy act of jonah hill affidavit before. it's a hot willing picture of one man's struggle to reinvent himself to tragedy. how did you have this role was easy to get. over. you know you just do like what you have to do just. try to learn as much about the character as as you can and then hope. phoenix and co must've done something right the film was critically acclaimed when it premiered at sundance last month now it's getting a warm reception here in berlin. sports the. champions league knockout stage on tuesday by a munich took on the pick an early a bandage that led to a five nil. romping over basic tosh and early red card saw the visitors sent off the pitch and by capitalize scored two goals on the night his first came before the break and it gave the hosts a needed edge that carried over into the second half when by and often erupted. scored two more and buy in

it tells the story of controversial american cartoonist john callahan exploring his life as a pusher p.j. and his long battle with alcoholism. tells. a story. from. film stars jack black. you will say see comedy after jonah hill as never before is a hall willing picture of one man's struggle to reinvent himself up to trying to say. how did you prepare for this role with it just to get a tax. code. you know you just do like what you have to be just. try to learn as much about the character as as you can remember. phoenix and co you must've done something right the film was critically acclaimed when it premiered at sundance last month now it's getting a warm reception here in berlin. now britain's queen elizabeth has always had a signature style but with a wedding to attend in the spring she might be looking for some new inspiration the ninety one year old monarch is made a surprise debut appearance at london fashion week the queen had front row seats for designer richard quinn's catwalk shows sitting right beside vogue editor in chief anna winter she later presented queen with the inaugur

they are still thinking of mr humility and we defeated i mean it was because the people why puji envoy p.j. they have defeated the two instruments and we are depending on ourselves and our people in our organization and they want anybody we don't want anybody to to fight instead of us if we are have an accord a nation or or even with the international alliance against the still valid and doing the drop the perfect doing that i mean you know. didn't sort of brothers and these attacks enough when it is kind of support poor village because dyson meaning being defeated in the reserve so is a kind of relief i mean to open another front with the kurdish people and many fighters there were fighting in their resume out there withdrawn too often to defend their families over there so it's kind of support of them to feel supporting them. depending on the international alliance yes we have a member of the armed forces really have some kind of agreement with them and when i'm done she's not going to finish it used to be there was many statements by the american. i mean responsible people they're sayin

think one of the reasons that journalists are doing so many unnamed sources is that they've moved from p.j.'s proper journalistic skepticism to outright cynicism great quote from david broder is one of the most respected washington reporters he said cynicism is epidemic right now it saps people's confidence in politics public officials and erodes both the standing and standards of journalism but wait for it he said this in the one nine hundred ninety s. six presidential election cycles ago and it's gotten more negative and more cynical ever since well and more partisan jeana news media play it straight less lately whatever one chooses to believe is validated by whichever news providers we choose are we now less curious about other points of view. we have become very tribal in our media consumption and i think that it's very unhealthy for a myriad of reasons that the political reasons are right there as well but i think it causes a lot of stress and anxiety to the average person to be so angry all the time at anyone who disagrees with you and to be so intolerant as many have become to those

forming in the northwest of syria pro-government militia appear to have agreed to support the kurdish why p.j. .

tells the story of controversial american cartoonists john callahan exploring his life his approach of p.j. and his numbers with alcoholism. start. filling stones jack black am dream aren't you will say see comedy after jonah hill as never before is a hot willing picture of one love struggle to reinvent himself to trying today. how did you tap this road was easy to get. over. you know you just do like what you have to do just. try to learn as much about the character as you can and hope the. phoenix and co you must've done something right the film was critically acclaimed when it premiered at sundance last month now it's getting a warm reception here in berlin. well joining us now in the studio is by colleague miller the current debacle she's part of our team covering the berlin film festival for us this year good morning america don't worry you won't get far on foot screened at the ballet nala yesterday we saw that the store you walk in phoenix was i don't know maybe jetlag for that so we heard no report that was warmly received so was the audience enthusiastic the audience was enthusiast

has been providing assistance to the kurdish why p.j. does that extend to weaponry would actually u.s. weaponry be being used now in any any conflict and how damaging is that for u.s. relations with what is a nato ally. well that's a very good question the u.s. has been supplying a lot of weaponry to the kurds east of the euphrates when the united states first entered syria it and turkey and the united states came up to an agreement that everything west be afraid to use was turkey ends everything east of the euphrates the united states. mendacious a sore point but that's still to be decided on but that's the way it's been and the united states has been giving a lot of weapons to the y.p. to now it's obviously telling a white peachy do not attack turkey with these weapons because the moment you do that you will justify everything that aired or that says is going to happen that you're connected with the paper and so the united states is sitting on the kurds and in essence is telling the white peachy you have to sacrifice your brothers and

cultural rights their position in syria but turkey has problems about their connections of id and why p.j. we came because these connections are bringing the problems of the weapons that are getting into the hands of the p.k. k. against turkey the training in syria that is that may get into the hands of p.k. k. against turkey and of course using the territories that are had by why puji as a base against turkey does are the concerns of turkey but in the beginning if he can remark in think and remember that turkey always supported the rights of kurdish people in syria and also turkey in the beginning said that this is a federal structure that provides a position for a kurdish people in syria is also after a couple if the wife is not cooperating with the p.k. k. is laying down his weapons against turkey itself so we got to think about this first and then then talk about what should be in syria or not if conditions are provided then i don't think turkey has any problems because look at turkey's relations with with katie fear in iraq there is not a problem of art that there is no problem about

tag currently hash tag gun reform now one of the most shared tweets comes from american journalist p.j. lots who writes that yesterday's shooting was quote the eighteenth school shooting so far this year according to gun control advocates the organization every town for gun safety that means there has been a school shooting in the united states every two point five days this year many social media users complain that florida's gun laws are too lenient one user wrote things you need id to buy in florida sudafed day which is a drug cigarettes alcohol renting a hotel room things you don't need id for buying a ar fifteen an assault rifle. and this local journalist who's also a father posted a photo of his son assange just got word that my son's school is on lockdown at the moment he is cheers all that this is something i never thought i would be reporting as a journalist or a father. his appointment has been welcomed with singing dancing and a standing ovation in parliament cyril ramaphosa was sworn in today as south africa's new president his sic his predecessor jacob zuma resigned barely

p.j. came from hancock university a foreign studies in seoul thinks it's pretty likely that the u.s. and north korea will start diplomatic level discussions. for the for her past a few days we've been getting indications from washington that united states is actually carefully watching what's happening in terms of in the korean dialogue at this point and the united states has expressed their willingness to come to the table somehow if north korea is willing to move towards the do nuclearization so you know states it's not staying firmly in place it's coming closer to the table the way many observers are seeing here so this is all going movement right here and north korea has repeatedly said it specially the head of delegation this time has repeatedly said for the last three days that they want to talk so therefore i think one way or another we'll get to see some kind of dialogue or you know united states is making this thing through between talk and dialogue and talk as initial form to get

say that the y b g is linked to that group even though they deny it but having said that the white p.j. a lot of acronym sami but the y.p. did this is their home turf it's mountainous so certainly they have the upper hand when it comes to that and i think you know looking we've been here throughout this campaign all along the border there's been intensive air strikes and shelling all along this border area and it's still only just a few pockets of the f.s.a. and the turkish forces have been able to control it so i think it does give an indication that this could be a lengthy battle all right stephanie back at that time so much the attorney general of the maltese says the supreme court is planning to impeach the president a country has seen unrest after judges ordered the release and retrial of political prisoners were called also reinstated twelve m.p.'s who were expelled for siding with the opposition now if they return the ruling party will lose its majority presidency i mean of the guy you know says he's willing to hold an early election enjoyed mohamed is a journalist an analyst at

they're all the same why p.j. are still and the assad regime is the same oppression all of them have killed and tortured our people but. this brigade is being supported by the turkish army who soldiers fight side by side with the f.s.a. in their ongoing offensive in northern syria. it's an attempt to defeat the kurdish militia group the y.p. jeeves which ankara considers to be a terrorist organization responsible for numerous rocket attacks on sort of killed several of its citizens both the turkish military and the free syrian army arkenstone for size the background of these fighters they're made up of kurds hartman and arabs as far as the starkest military is concerned this is a fight against a terrorist organization the y.p. jean far as these fighters are concerned this is a continuation in their long battle for freedom in syria who want to p.g. and its supporters accuse turkey of waging war against them simply because they are kurdish but this fighter from the f.s.a. a kurd himself dismisses that of the saw the

appears to indicate that you would agree with the wine in regard to the association between the white p.j. militia and the k.k.k. so would you say in fact what b.g. is a terrorist organization well what i would say is that definitely the p.k. k. and the y p g a one and the same organization it really doesn't make any sense to try to differentiate between them for example if you have a look at the personal of the y.p. gee it's all over to make a personal so you can work today of the p.k. k. card or turkey and then you're told to go to syria and then suddenly someone working for the y p g it's also effect that if you have a look at who is fighting in the wife e.g. in syria there are libel statistics that more than fifty percent or about fifty percent of those fighting there actually courts from turkey so i think this shows these two points so very clearly that the white. the p.k. k. are really one of the same organization and of course i would agree with you that the white b.g. has not targeted turkey or anything like this this far but of course since it is one organisation it's of course r

glass is overflowing and anybody who tells you different i think is being disingenuous let's go to p.j. how you doing? >> good. how are you? >> good. how about caterpillar or john deere -- >> oh, take the gun away from my head caterpillar, multiple your story, i will go for cat right here let's go to les in virginia. less >> may, jim, pay pal reported real good earnings last night but ebay indicated they're not going to use them anymore for processing and that's 13% of their business is this a good time to go ahead and sell or -- >> no, no, the trend line -- if you follow the trend line, it will be about 4% of their business dan schulman told me several times, we're ready if it ever happens, it's not going to start until 2020, finish 2023. what's surprising is the 40-point move the stock had before this. i think it's a solid buy ebay had a pretty good quarter, too. >> let go to glen in my home state of new jersey. i want to find out about insta med, any insight you can give me >> we're going done the food chain when we go into that one you know, this is so risky i just have been talkin

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why p.j. and pay why day we're comfortable with. one of the parties new co-chairs is a key figure in kurdish politics piven bull don has been well received by the party grassroots her. husband was murdered by unknown assailants a ninety nine to four during the most heated times of the conflict between the p.k. k. and the turkish state a conflict that has cost thirty thousand lives on both sides. of the front door to. the small. consequence of pro time the new courts share will not on the have to deal with the fact that against it are to the toughest challenge will be needed another response to. this not. in line with the ongoing military operation in. turkey has been targeting what it says are why fiji fighters in africa for three weeks the government stays the y.p. g.'s the syrian branch of the p.k. k. and to modern day enemy from a conflict that's been going for forty years. al-jazeera. had a south africa's ruling a national african national congress says party leaders are preparing to finalize a deal that will result in president

why is it in president assad's interests to do this why did he's being forced to do it another way p.j. again they're looking for a guarantor they don't see one of the united states and they were betrayed by russia and iran and often when turkey started moving conducting its military operation so now they're hedging their bets they're trying to leverage captured territory in iraq and they're resorting other places with damascus in order to get down to thomas ridge you talk to so this is a this is quite an unseen dynamic was interesting also as these are arabian backed militias these are iraqi shia militias this is a lot they're moving into her and they're not going to be able to do much absent russia's help and russia's going to always stay out of this war so this should be a they just say to turkey shoot for turkish military operations in iraq from when it comes to what to start trying to do with these these paramilitary forces otherwise known as are just sit back to malicious michael say with me for a moment because russia's foreign minister says the syrian conflict can only be resol

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they're all the same why p.j. are still and the assad regime is the same oppression all of them have killed and tortured our people but. this brigade is being supported by the turkish army who soldiers fight side by side with the f.s.a. in their ongoing offensive in northern syria. it's an attempt to defeat the kurdish militia group to wipe e.g. which ankara considers to be a terrorist organization responsible for numerous rocket attacks on its of killed several of its citizens both the turkish military under free syrian army arkenstone for size the background of these fighters they're made up of kurds fartman and arabs as far as the starkest military is concerned this is a fight against a terrorist organization the y.p. jean far as these fighters are concerned this is a continuation in their long battle for freedom in syria who want to p.g. and its supporters accuse turkey of waging war against them simply because they are kurdish but this fighter from the f.s.a. a kurd himself dismisses that. of the saw the sell

tells the story of controversial american cartoonist john callahan exploring his life as a poacher p.j. and his long battle with alcoholism. jar your tells. a story. or a strong. film stars jack black am dream aren't you will say see comedy after jonah hill as never before is a hot willing picture of woman struggle to reinvent himself to tragedy. how did you have this role was it to get. old. you know you just do like what you have to do just. trying to learn as much about the character as you can remember the. phoenix and co you must've done something right the film was critically acclaimed when it premiered at sundance last month now it's getting a warm reception here in berlin. when he would be of special significance to direct to gus van sant this film was originally the brainchild of his friends the comedic actor robin williams williams first approached france and years ago to dream the betraying the cartoonist but it's never live to see it happen now finally the film is hitting the big screen. the constant crew have until saturday to find out whether they'll be taking home a cove

it's incredibly disturbing and it's a female fight from the white p.j. this is the unit of the white it's being filmed it's f.s.a. fighters free syrian army fighters standing around her body it's hard to know everyone here has their own story of what happened the f.s.a. and those who support the f.s.a. will tell you well she blew herself up but what you can see is what have been her chest area some people say that her breasts have been cut off it's a very difficult topic to discuss you can find when you talk to people they did this no they didn't do this now the fact that it's so much traction you have the main media picking up without a statement from the f.s.a. sort of senior come on saying that they're going to look into it and there will be accountability the video shows one man sort of touching her chest area and the man the voice behind the camera saying don't do that we're filming i think the point of this is that seven years into this war you have a narrative and you have actions on the ground some of them that are captured on camera that have be

and there actually did have had internally in terms of removing one p.j. from africa india can't settle for anything less than a kind of decisive victory hundred other hand if this turns out into a confrontation between turkey ministers russia syria iran over this particular round then then that's very difficult to achieve so you know way so if state is there is locke's has locked in itself into its own rhetoric domestically which makes it very difficult to make concessions at this point and that makes the whole situation more explosive come on much and thank you very much indeed to feel thoughts nice of you thank you letter and the seventy one people have been killed by as strikes in eastern according to the monitoring group syrian observatory for human rights local observers believe the attacks are a prelude to a major offensive on the rebel held territory which has been under siege since twenty thirteen then heard of course from bay ridge. rockets missiles air strikes activists fear the renewed bombardment on the besieged opposition area of eastern huta