p.k. k. which it has outlawed meanwhile on the other side of the turkish border we're talking about man big the syrian government has sent forces there to support the kurdish finances more now from mohammed. near the turkish syrian border. the continued wrongdoing between washington and uncut of course is a huge boost for the fortunes of president bashar al assad whose forces are currently patrolling on the outskirts of mumbles this gives him a full room in a territory controlled by the cads which is estimated to be about a third of the city and territory that right now in talks that's the cards on the bashar assad regime and kurdish the need is in syria said to have appealed to egypt to mediate what they're calling men in full talks between them and the city an administration of course for now they seem to have abundant brimble the us with getting tomas a region which they would govern in north and syria and settled for what they're calling for protection against the technician offensive turkey in

p.k. k. which both turkey and the us say is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and mike on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway. eight members of one family have been killed in yemen in a shelling attack by hooty rebels the four women and four children were killed in a government held village called shalala close to the border with saudi arabia news of the attack comes as the saudi u.a.e. coalition says that it destroyed a hooty drone control center that was used in an attack on a military parade. a fire at one of yemen disobey the oil refineries is under investigation the government believes it was started deliberately it happened in the southern port city of aden an explosion at the refinery led to a fire in one of its oil tanks the refineries been targeted in the past in clashes between gov

p.k. k. which it has outlawed and then on the other side of the turkish border this is man bridge where you've got syrian forces sent by the government there to support kurdish fighters more on this from mohammed is that he's in gaziantep near that turkish syrian border. the continued wrongdoing between washington and uncut of course is a huge boost for the fortunes of president bashar al assad whose forces are currently patrolling on the outskirts of mum but this gives him a full tool in a territory controlled by the cads which is estimated to be about a third of the city and territory that right now in talks that's the cards on the bashar assad regime and the need is in syria said to have appealed to egypt to mediate what they're calling men in full talks between them and the city an administration of course for now they seem top of bundled brimble the us with getting tomas a region which they would govern in north and syria and settled for what they're calling for protection against the technici

p.k. k. which both turkey and the us say is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and mike on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway. well the partial government shutdown in the u.s. is now the longest in the country's history in its twenty second day with no end in sight president trump has backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his controversial border wall but to he still demanding congress approved more than five billion dollars for the project trump says it's needed to prevent undocumented migrants and drugs entering from mexico he's called on democrats many of whom have now left washington for the weekend to come back and vote the shutdown has left eight hundred thousand government workers without pay or kastor has more from washington d.c. reports indicate that s

p.k. k. which is recognized by the u.s. and the e.u. in turkey as a terrorist organization now bolton is saying no the u.s. troops are going to stay in syria in fact until isis is defeated and the u.s. is going to protect this this enemy militia of turkey it's should be clear to everybody turkey is not against the kurds of syria turkey is against this one particular militia and the u.s. and syria are way off track on that issue. is provided up to fifty thousand troops boots on the ground to to take the fight directly to isis they fought valiantly and quite successfully as a result many many american lives were saved and the alternative to the wipe e.g. from washington's perspective is someone else has to come in who is going to come in washington is not confident that the f.s.a. existence official numbers to replace the y.p. g. so it's a really difficult dilemma. ok let's go over to jordan's compered lamond stephanie decker is there and big diplomatic push going on by the united states not least. begun his tour of the middle east in amm

p.k. k. which both turkey and the us say is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and mike on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway eight members of one family have been killed in yemen in a shelling attack by who. the rebels the four women and four children were killed in a government held village called shalala close to the border with saudi arabia news of the attack comes as the saudi led coalition says it destroyed a hooty droom control center that was used in an attack on a military parade on thursday a fire at one of yemen's main oil refineries is under investigation the government believes that it was started deliberately it happened in the southern port city of aden an explosion at the refinery led to a fire in one of its oil tanks the refinery it's been targeted in the past in clashes bet

p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has armed and funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting eisel critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoned its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is lost territory to the turks and their syrian rebel allies and. and other areas. but turkey says the fight against terrorism should not be exclusive to. include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion. is syrian must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria godless of the ethnic origin must be pro

p.k. k. which tech he considers a terrorist group mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . well the phone call appears to be an attempt to poor oil on the deeply troubled waters of the u.s. turkey relationship a relationship that was further deteriorate to buy president trump's tweet sunday in which he threatened economic action against turkey should it take action against kurds when the u.s. troops withdraw from north eastern syria but the phone call in the course of the day went ahead reports both from the white house and the turkish presidency indicate very satisfactory talks there was a broad base of agreement on what is happening in north eastern syria and it would appear some agreement as to what happens next when those u.s. troops withdraw now in importantly there was no mention in the original white house statement about a safe zone being established in northeastern syria this despite the fact that in the turkish presidency statement there was reference to a safe zone to be established that would not infringe on syria's territorial integrity however in the course of

p.k. k. which both turkey and the usa is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and mike on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway. eight people from one family have been killed in yemen in an attack by hooty rebels four women and four children died when a government held village. close to the border with saudi arabia was shelled saudi u.a.e. coalition says it destroyed the drone control center used in an attack on a military parade on thursday there's been an explosion and fire at one of yemen's main oil refineries in the southern port city of eigen the government believes it was a deliberate act and has begun an investigation refinery has been targeted in the past in clashes between government forces and hooty fighters causing fuel shortages and power cuts no casualties have been forced now can

p.k. k. which both turkey and the us say is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway. we've got lots more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including how will it affect the rights of brits to go to europe and vice versa we look at one of the main issues of the brits it debate. canada grant asylum to a saudi teenager who says she's renounce islam and is afraid of her family. and her smashing efforts from the socceroos peter will have the gold flicks it's boosting the hopes of the reigning champions at the asian cup. of the u.s. president has backed off from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his controversial boulder walls during a meeting on border security donald trump told reporters he wants congress to do its job and to approve the mo

p.k. k. which both turkey and the us say is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and mike on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway. eight members of one family have been killed in yemen and the shelling attack by who thier rebels the four women and four children died in a government held village called shalala close to the border with saudi arabia news of the deaths comes as the saudi u.a.e. coalition says it destroyed a hoofy drone control center it was used in an attack on a military parade on thursday. the partial government shutdown in the us is now the longest in history at twenty two days with no end in sight president trump has backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his controversial border wall but he's still demanding congress to approve more than five billio

p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has arm didn't funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting i saw all critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were soon to be abandon its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization and more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is lost territory to the turks and their syrian rebel allies. and other areas. but turkey says the fight against terrorism should not be exclusive to combating i saw include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion. or syrian that must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria godless of the et

p.k. k. which is recognized by the u.s. and the e.u.and turkey as a terrorist organization now bolton is saying no the u.s. troops are going to stay in syria in fact until isis is defeated and the u.s. is going to protect this this enemy militia turkey it's should be clear to everybody turkey is not against the kurds of syria turkey is against this one particular militia and the u.s. and syria are way off track on that issue absolutely because of course you must remember this. the white p.j. has been instrumental in welcoming with the u.s. in its fight against the missile a very messy business. yes that's exactly right laura why p.g. has provided up to fifty thousand troops boots on the ground to to take the fight directly to isis they fought valiantly and quite successfully as a result many many american lives were saved and the alternative to the wipe e.g. from washington's perspective is someone else has to come in who is going to come in washington is not confident that the f.s.a. that your correspondent was just talking about exist

p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has armed and funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting eisel critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoning its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is rust territory to the turks and their syrian rebel allies. and other areas but turkey says the fight against so-called terrorism should not be exclusive to combating eisel include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion in mrs syria and then must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria are godl

p.k. k. which has fought the turkish state at the since one thousand nine hundred eighty four with more than forty thousand people who have died who have died and that is why the existence of this autonomy zone in eastern syria is so important to turkey and that is why relations with the u.s. have already deteriorated in recent yes. you know samberg mideast expert at the german institute for international and security affairs thank you for weighing in. all right and now i've got some breaking news they're just coming in london's heathrow airport says it is halted all departing flights this after a drone was sighted in the area and here is now a recent radar image of the airport which is the second busiest airport in the world he through officials say police have been called into this to gate while drone sightings at london's gatwick airport led to flights being grounded for several days last month you may recall all eating thousands of passengers stranded will bring you more on that developing stor

p.k. k. which turkey considers a terrorist group if. we can see the difficult situation that mr trump is in now there are serious pressure on him he took the decision of withdrawing however the security divisions are putting constant pressure to stop and we know that the latest tweet is a domestic policy message is. we have said several times that we are not going to be afraid of any threats and will not bow down to it nothing can be achieved by threatening turkey economically and mike hanna has more on this now from washington. well the phone call appears to be an attempt to pour oil on the deeply troubled waters of the u.s. turkey relationship a relationship that was further deteriorate to buy president trumps tweets sunday in which he threatened the economic options against turkey should it take action against kurds when the u.s. troops withdraw from north eastern syria but the phone call in the course of the day went ahead reports both from the white to us and the turkish presidency indicate very satisfactory talks there was a broad

p.k. k. which both turkey and the us say is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and mike on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway. the partial government shutdown in the u.s. is now the longest in history at twenty two days with no end in sight president trump has backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his controversial border wall but he's still demanding congress approved more than five billion dollars for the project he called on democrats many of whom have now left washington for the weekend to come back and vote. has more from washington d.c. . reports indicate that some of jonell trump's closest advisers including his son in law journal questioner have been cautioning him against declaring a national emergency to get funding for the border wall it is seen as po

p.k. k. which turkey recognizes the terrorist organizations and states that it's easy to be disrespectful for bolton to say that the been group was employed by these two organizations who are the spokesman called terrorist of calls we've seen a situation where there's been a secret ambled by regional powers to try and feel a possible void of the us troop withdrawal with out of countries rushing into measures to mend relationships with assad and reopening off embassies by the united arab emirates and behind for example pulled off to put in check and tatties influence in syria once the us troops withdraw but us push on that has been criticised by city and opposition groups who called mr assad a living will whether he is good at that by a falzon or even a million leaders across the world. so at a press conference with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu bolton also insisted that withdrawing american troops from syria won't be a threat to israel's security stephanie deca has that story for us

p.k. k. which they recognize as a terrorist organizations so they say they do not see any difference between the white community p k k fighters who form the bulk of the fighting force of the city and democratic forces who have been the backbone of the fight against. eisel in syria under false ally of the united states right now they are fighting what remains of isis fighters is somebody in malta district right on the border turkey syria has with iraq and they're saying they're making some progress but once turkey makes that offensive it will not be differentiating between the white p.g. fighters who are fighting i still. something honestly say might reverse some of the gains achieved in the recent past thank you. thanks moment to get in touch with us on this topic or indeed any of the topics you've seen coming up on the show contact the house from your own screen of already heard from rashid who's watching at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera who says puts a pretty simply when you talk about this t

p.k. k. which and has considered as well as actually washington as a terrorist organization that has attacked and killed. over the years but it's not just about whether american withdrawal would allow for the turks then to target kurdish. civilians depending on who you speak to in this discussion but more importantly is the fact that there are so many weapons. and the fact that the u.s. military has set up several bases in. turkey is concerned it is concerned it is worried that those weapons and if a withdrawal doesn't take place in the orderly fashion that that could also impact in terms of other resurgence groups or military groups forming even empowering the ones that it considers and classifies namely the wife. it would appear based on the official statement coming from bolton said that whilst it was a constructive meeting they have identified key points to further discuss that essentially is. to say well we failed to agree and hopefully we'll continue to discuss things until we reach some sort

p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has armed and funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting ice all critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoning its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is lost territory to the turks and their syrian rebel allies. and other areas but turkey sees the fight against so-called terrorism should not be exclusive to combating i saw butts include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion some of you miss the syrian one must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live

p.k. k. armed group which turkey the united states that you considers a terrorist organization as the us president said that his troops would be leaving the border between turkey and syria turkey's interest is that it wants a safe zone to be established on the border this is the message that lindsey graham brought with him saying that the united states is considering and this is aware of what the turkish position is and he believes that the central command after u.s. forces is working on a strategy to try and move away the wipe e.g. element from the syrian border as u.s. troops to draw but in addition to this withdrawal and the sturdy kilometer safe zone is the question of a city called my beach this is an area which is held by the way this is the head area held by the kurdish fighters who have reached out to the syrian government to try and fill that void when u.s. forces leave something that is not acceptable to both the united states and turkey and they're trying to build a road map to see what to do with this place as well as the safe corridor along the turkish border all right. thank you now

p.k. k y p g p u id islamic state which is not us and not. during the course of the war in syria kurdish forces spearheaded the fight against so-called islamic state with support from the united states kurdish forces most importantly the y p g also managed to gain control over a large area bordering turkey but under regards them as a terrorist organization because of the charges to turkey's out criticized and the workers' party the p.k. k. . it doesn't get simpler gets more complicated doesn't it here let's pull in north carolina he is with us he's our mideast expert chief editor of the magazine zenith which focuses on the middle east good to see you again happy new year by the way what do you make of what we saw happen today with the turkish president basically refusing to meet with the u.s. national security adviser yet not only would meet and themself like protocol wise that wouldn't even if that wasn't promise and wasn't required but not even the foreign minister would see so so bolton bolton was not. completely and he was entitle to meet

p.k. k. which is recognized as a terrorist organization the most offensive gets under way turkey would not be differentiating between remnants of ice and fighters and the syrian kurds who are fighting them something out of my three boss some of the gains made in the fight against. america's top diplomat is in oman on the final leg of his middle east war earlier on monday secretary of state my pompei o held talks with saudi leaders in riyadh they discussed the war in yemen and the murder of saudi journalists carried out by agents of the kingdom reports. u.s. secretary of state mike bump with. a crucial. stopover in his middle east toward. they have agreed on the need for a continued deescalation in yemen and the implementation of the recent agreements signed in sweden saudi arabia faces bounty and international pressure to and the nearly four year old war in yemen. another important issue hanging over the visit is the murder of saudi journalist. or expectations have been clear from early on. every s

which is an affiliate of the p.k. k. that is the code of some workers' party that's essentially bombed buses and killed police officers and civilians inside turkey that it doesn't take up a base they are the americans after trump said that they were going to withdraw and suddenly said well you know we do you to ensure that there isn't going to be some sort of attack on the kurdish minority there the charts of said he wouldn't be attacking civilians they would be attacking the armed groups in summation this meeting that wasn't dissipated didn't necessarily go as planned in so much as. prior to this meeting it was announced it would be a joint press conference that john press conference was cancelled in the eleventh hour and when i asked the senior adviser to president bush upset about iran why that was he said it was at the behest of john bolton claimed he had to get back to washington to deal with the southern border security issue the war with mexico and the standoff in d.c. not the most convincing of arguments at least

with the help from united states lindsey graham saying that he's seen evidence which clearly links the why p.g. to the p.k. k. an organization considered a terrorist organization not just by turkey but the united states the e.u. and other world countries as well so it is going to be two separate things the roadmap in what happens in miami beach so that it is not handed over to bashar al assad's government when there is a vacuum that is created when the u.s. forces withdraw all saw the formation of this thirty kilometer border security safe zone they did which is going to be manned by turkey and it hasn't been clear on how it is going to transpire what are going to be these arrangements because you have to remember that these kurdish fighters have not just been held but also been supplied with heavy weapons from the united states something that lindsey graham says that the u.s. is considering an army all right thank you for that at this and doesn't have. to have another summit next month as he tries to get the north korean leader to give up his nuclear program critics say little has really changed since their

which the turkish authorities see as as of the syria branch of the p.k. k.the out those kurdistan workers party but today is a big day that will that's will actually draw the parts for both turkish syrian and other players in this region indeed to be very interesting to see how it pans out thanks very much indeed unseen in concert in the dark to northern syria now north korean leader kim jong un is making his fourth visit to beijing within a year for talks with the president xi jinping china is pyongyang's main diplomatic and economic ally north korean media says kim is in china at the invitation of the president south korea has praised kim's visits expressing hope that it may help efforts for g.-d. chlorination and peace and speak now to difficult problems following the story from hong kong with a view what more do we know about this meeting. as always naked all these meetings are shrouded in a lot of secrecy but what's interesting about this this time is the fact that not only the north korean news state news agency but also the chinese news agencies seem

p.k. k. and. day the foreign minister of protective would have said that whether the us forces with the role all of the oppression against white fighters and fights is in mumbai which will still go on. is a very came to take over the role of the united states forces in syria are now playing which is a key to getting out in the remnants of a steel holed up in some false alarm pots all. city but there. just because i'm told from the united states minutes of which would mean if they are content. a role for the united states military even after their withdrawal from sit right one wonders how this will square with. the us will finish the job with. all of the probability of course you. have been changing told on a clear timeline for withdrawal. the us president had said they were going to who's going to be a withdrawal of us will take place within sixty to one hundred days and then they said no they won't yes he's two one the band at one point they said it would take place within four months and then again they say there's no bottom line up for u.s. troop withdrawal from syria what. really is the fighting two is a role for the u.s. military in halting. once it takes obam

p.k. k. . on thursday the foreign minister of turkey a move would have said that whether the us forces withdraw or a lot of the oppression against white pretty fighters and pick a fight is in mumbai which will still go on. they were one pair has arrived in bahrain the latest stop of his middle east tour also in the gulf pompei will be promoting a plan for a new military alliance against iran on thursday he delivered a major speech outlining donald trump's vision for the middle east high court judges in min ma have rejected an appeal by two reuters journalists who are serving seven prison sentences well known and sure so who were convicted of breaking the official secrets act by reporting an army massacre of villages the reporters say they were framed by police today's ruling is yet another injustice among many inflicted upon while lone and. they remain behind bars for one reason those in power sort of silence the truth reporting is not a crime until me and more rights this terrible wrong the press and me in mars not free and in march commitment to rule of law and democracy remains in doubt the u.s. president is threatening to declare a national emergency if democrats continue to refuse