stephanie deca joins us live from near the turkey syria border and stephanie give us the latest on. military action in and around our free. will certainly those airstrikes have begun they began at five o'clock local time that's two hours ago we were actually at it ok should opposite syria watching the turks shelling throughout the day sporadically not that much we were told to move and two hours later they watched that campaign in that mountain also is being targeted turkey's also mobilized f.s.a. fighters free syrian army fighters these are the rebels inside syria that turkey supports inside syria to the east resupply also being told that some of those fighters are ventured out fleeing across the border from turkey we're trying to confirm that politically briefly. the russians have said they did have around three hundred military personnel in are fleeing they have now moved them out and i think it's clear that the russians have given tacit green light to this because they control the airspace they control the skies so seeing turkey flying air sorties means that the russians have ag

safe zone thirty kilometers deep to protect its border with let's go to our correspondent now stephanie deca is joining us live from the turkish syrian border what are you hearing stephanie on what's happening and effie. well there's been quite heavy shelling tank shelling and heavy artillery outgoing when we arrived here it's been quiet for the last hour or so it's also as you can see quite hazy weather and quite windy we haven't heard any planes in the sky in the last couple of hours since we've been here at ease that was different yesterday we heard them in the morning and we heard them in the off to noon the not sure of the microphone pick that up that was more shelling so it is not to come pain ongoing across the border and as you mentioned also operations happening inside that ground offensive was launched on sunday f.s.a. that's free syrian army fighters syrian rebels that turkey supports together with turkish troops entering syria from the north and western side and that's take a look at how the last twenty four hours unfolded. the border echoes with the sounds of war turkey's offens

round of talks and sochi the main syrian opposition group says it will boycott the negotiations stephanie deca reports from the town of kill us on the tour.

forces in that area as they battle i so let's go live now to antakya zero stephanie deca is there so stephanie draw this all together starting with that ceasefire in eastern guta is it holding how many people there are still under siege. for now it is but it's very early days age and as you know things that are negotiate at the political table many miles away thousands of miles away don't always translate to the ground so we're going to have to see how that unfolds but yes it is a real humanitarian concern when it comes to u.n. estimates around four hundred thousand people there it's been besieged for years it's been under heavier bombardment over the last couple of months dispense despite it being part of the deescalation zones and the fact that it is besieged is why it's such a huge humanitarian concern for the people there the u.n. says the lack of food and medicine is making it one of the worst cases of malnutrition for the people there are so it is again a desperate situation why is it important because it is the last rebel stronghold close to the capital damascus on the other ha

let's go live now to that border area in killis on the turkish syria border is al jazeera as stephanie deca president has been talking about the strategic importance of the hills that we can see behind you there stephanie. yes he mentioned that had spoken to a commander on the ground that hopefully he was going to take a mountain that it would be taken very soon you mentioned strategic yes it is because it is that close to the turkish border now we are in chemist's that you mentioned we've been seeing relentless rocket fire out going towards a mountain there's been artillery and there's been a heavy presence of jets in the sky throughout the period that we've been here all morning we've seen airstrikes as well behind us heavy smoke and also just briefly because of the location where and i'll get to zoom in you'll also see in the distance those tents those are camps for the internally displaced in side syria we went into syria just a couple of days ago and millions of people remain you know in camps in very difficult conditions in the winter adrian with nowhere to go and again this war simpl

arab brothers they're after this we'll continue our fight until no terrorist is left al-jazeera stephanie deca has been inside syria she sent us this from as just east of frayne. we're in the syrian city . this is an area that is part of sort of eastern fraud with their operation pretty you know you can feed life is pretty much normal here or was a lot of children in these areas were in the turkish press tour so to speak they're very keen to show us their operations here what is striking is the influence and the presence of turkey also when it comes to its military now the f.s.a. the free syrian army fighters they are the ones at the front line coming around this sort of we've been speaking to some of the as well they say they're committed to this fight this is the fight enough but even the fight that turkey says is targeting the wife which they grew a terrorist organization we've been hearing from our children you know they go into this wall with their minds is this remains a very active war. in vienna a ninth round of un led talks to find a solution to the war in syria appears to have reache

elsewhere in syria stephanie deca has more now from on talk you. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present to one has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area baffling for almost a week now there has been sporadic shelling. inside africa and thousands marched on thursday in protest to turkey's aggression how the wealthy and that's the goal of this large demonstration is to send a message to the world and especially to turkey concerning the turkish threats we will not be a fright. we came here to protest against the attacks on offering we will stand by offering an outreach to why p.g. . thirteen is one of three autonomy's kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p why do party and its armed when the y p g turkey sees the y.p. g. as an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the u.s. in europe consider a terrorist organization but the y.p. g. has been working with the u.s. to push ice a lot of syria not enough lean but further east of the euphr

drops this follows increased pressure on the government to end its crackdown on opposition voices stephanie decareports i. hope he has been under pressure domestically and on the international stage there have been anti-government protests since two thousand and fifteen they continue to pose a serious challenge to the ruling party the decision to release all political prisoners would be welcomed by many peons some warn it may not lead to major changes in policy. there but the go on the idea many implicit in the prime minister of egypt realizes that. it will continue to be a. political junkie and that it is still stuck to a political dialogue in order to avoid really being sidelined by the international community needs to be really. only eleven of the society. the protests of the past two years of call for political and economic changes. hiromi and i'm hard regions of lead vocal opposition to the government accusing the ruling party of marginalizing them. activists and journalists have been arrested in what is described as the most serious challenge to come and came to power in one nine hundred n

militia that's a group backed by the united states and nato ally stephanie deca and cameraman jamil bustle of this report from the city of us. as we enter syria it is the free syrian army flag flies high here we are on a media trip into as organized by the turkish authorities they take us close to where there's been fighting with the kurdish armed group turkey calls a terrorist organization turkish forces are trying to push it out of the region about the front line is just a few kilometers west of here both turkish troops and the free syrian army are taking part but on that issue. one of the f.s.a. fighters why he is involved in turkey's operation for some it seems it's personal. because they betrayed us and especially because they took over my city. i've been displaced along with many. living in the camps there are such bad conditions especially now in the winter. what are turkish escorts are telling us is that the front line with the kurdish fighters is just further along that mountain. which is over to this side where there's been fighting but what is clear here on the outskirts of city

its border and has been deploying troops and tanks there in preparation for a ground assault stephanie deca has more from un taqiyya insolvent turkey. the situation around the fifteen is heating up there is been an increase in shelling from turkey into africa and also hearing reports that around fifteen thousand free syrian army fighters these are the rebels inside syria supported by turkey are mobilizing towards the east of affluence and this is all in line with the political rhetoric that's been coming out of anger over the last week or so the last voice added to that the defense ministry on friday saying that the operation would happen that there should be no delay and that turkey had no choice but to rid of what they call terrorists along this border all of this very significant player is russia and this is why we've seen the chief of staff and also the target head of intelligence in moscow on thursday also talks continuing on friday to try and see whether russia gives the green light why is that will russia controls the airspace over a free and it also has troops on the ground in that

situation for the civilians certainly don't want stephanie thank you very much for that phenomena stephanie deca joining us with the very latest from the turkish syrian border thank you. to other news now and palestinian president mahmoud abbas is in brussels to offer the european union for support is expected to meet to european foreign ministers and the blocks policy chief federica mall greeny abbas wants to e.u. to officially recognize palestine as a state and response to the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital. while u.s. vice president mike pence as n. as well as part of his middle east tollway prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called him a great friend of palestinians in the occupied west bank protested against has arrival at the highest level and u.s. visit since president trump decided to recognize to both of them as israel's capital and december and jordan on monday came out the law told paddles that the u.s. needs to rebuild trust after the policy change how force that reports from occupied east jerusalem. on the second leg of his regional visit the u.s. vic

widespread food shortages and a major cholera outbreak fighting continues in many parts of the country stephanie deca has this. forced to live out in the open these yemeni families of escape the fighting need to border with saudi arabia now they have to bear the elements on the streets of the data they did he reach in now for everyone to see this war has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. i came from we ran for our lives now we sleep on the floor no mattresses or blankets and it is really cold we have no income our children are suffering if any of us fall sick we cannot afford treatment our condition is really terrible and needless to say we are living in fear. this war now almost into its third year is all about regional politics and control and the consequence of that has created what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis the situation in yemen today right now to the population of the country looks like the apocalypse we need to scale up our response the cholera outbreak is probably the worst the world has ever seen with a million suspected cases at the end of twenty seventee

boss opposed by stephanie deca has more from the border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on. turkish officials had said all week that the operation was imminent. much of the president. spoke just a few hours before the jets took off. this corridor will step by step starting from the list after the operation has to factor started in the field this will be followed but. the promises made about the kids have nobody can say anything with what is necessary. throughout the morning along turkey's western border with the turkish army had brought in bulldozers gravel and concrete blocks appearing to build up their defenses along the border with syria. tank shelled specific locations on the mountain and hours later this mountain would be targeted by airstrikes the army made us move from this position a few hours before the campaign officially began and this is just one of the locations that the turkish army is shelling out free in is pretty much surrounded turkey to its west and north and there's also been a build u

the wife using the mountain to fire shells across the border into the turkish town of kelis stephanie deca has more. on. the battle for intensified. the constant roar of jets and artillery targeting this important high point along the turkish border. explosions echoed over the border town of killis drawing a crowd. a strange fascination watching. but for some it's a little too close to home. even though we are hearing killis we've become used to the school has happened before when i was on the other side of the border still moved to another area for safety. turkey's offensive against the wipe the kurdish group it considers a terrorist organization is very visible here. is also stirred nationalist fervor. was shut up. and this is what that operation looks like inside syria turkey is backing free syrian army fighters and at the moment the main focus is pushing back from the border was the kurdish fighters say turkey's offensive has caused civilian casualties turkey says it only targets y p g positions. but as is often the case in war facts can be hard to come to a turkey's leaders stress tha

round of talks and sochi the main syrian opposition group says it will boycott the negotiations stephanie deca reports from the town of kill us on the turkish syrian border. there's just been incoming from syria into turkey we were actually preparing for a live when we heard a whiz over our heads and we were dropped. and then we saw the smoke london around five hundred metres from our position when the police have now come to inspect the crater this is a reminder of course that this is an act of conflict and there are consequences for these border towns these border cities cholas has had rockets and shells land here before also the honey on the other side of the border the people that residents that we've spoken to here will tell you that they are concerned they're used to it because i still was here just a couple of years ago along the border and there was this kind of tense situation as well but one gentleman was but yesterday said he was worried and he was already know it is most wife and children away you can see people are tense and they want us to move on. and her child has more from soc

the syrian observatory for human rights is accusing the government forces of blocking that well stephanie deca has the latest from the turkish syrian border. there is heavy shelling going on now along this western border with and this is in line with what the u.n. finds it's finding that a lot of people have fled from these border areas because of the shelling around five thousand people according to their sources on the ground also very very difficult to get out with the u.n. is saying that the local authorities enough have blocked all the roads this is in line with some people that we've been speaking to that the wife doesn't want people to leave because then they say turkey will absolutely flatten the city there are also reports some people have managed to get out but that government checkpoints because the only way out for them is a government controlled areas of aleppo have been sending them back things are very difficult to verify inside syria but certainly are getting a larger picture of the puzzle of how difficult it is for the civilians inside it is incredibly cold it has been raining

those trying to cross into a nor the neighborhood of aleppo a city that is under kurdish control stephanie deca has the latest now from antakya near the syrian border the village of how mad which is now been announced at the f.s.a. have taken a significant why because it lies very close to the turkish border in the area just close to where we are just a further east of a hundred and it does play into the narrative that we heard from the turkish prime minister just a few days ago that their plan is to establish what he called up to a thirty kilometer security zone pushing the y.p. g. away from its borders it has been a fluid fight however on the ground there are incidents when villages have been taken by the free syrian army and turkish forces and you know a day or so later retaken by the white b.g. but of course turkey has superiority when it comes to the sky they're flying jets they're bombing from the air and that of course carries with it a huge advantage at least twenty one people suffered breathing problems alternate ledge chemical attack on a rebel held enclave near damascus rebels in the

negotiations tit for tat going on about this for want stephanie thank you very much for that finale that stephanie deca joining us live from talking with the very latest on thank you. while tensions about what's going on in a free and have world of germany's hand over airport. codes holding flags representing no will be syria and iraq you could a staunch on to fascists and go on and reference to could president about twenty took some codes were involved in the fight to will hurt took his offensive has sparked protests among the kurdish diaspora. to the democratic republic of congo now where air. aid workers are warning of mass starvation because of conflict they say three million people in the car fire region don't have enough to eat and clothing four hundred thousand children are fighting between the army and rebels has meant farmers have been unable to plant crops for several years as katherine sawyer reports. of two year old couple go to his mother more baca and three siblings spent two months on the route from their village to. capital kananga with little to eat they had fled the fighting between g

they're all trying to carve out their spheres of influence at the moment goodness very complicated stephanie deca at stephanie decker on twitter if you want to connect with this stephanie with an if remember thank you for that and well the u.n. refugee agency says it's not getting the money it needs to help syrian refugees in lebanon through another harsh winter the u.n.h.c.r. requested two hundred twenty eight million dollars in twenty seventeen it got less than sixty percent of that magazine a club that reports life in the camps that's just getting worse. heavy winds snow lower temperatures lebanon is being hit by a storm making the lives of the nearly one million syrian refugees even more miserable. they face many challenges during the winter months among them the lack of proper shelter they live in tents that are made from plastic sheeting which does little to protect from the cold and the rain on monday martin and i mean literally we couldn't sleep all night the tent was flooded we stayed up and moved all our belongings outside the conditions of our tents are bad it's the shepley family's se

its border and has been deploying troops and tanks there in preparation for a ground assault stephanie deca has more from antakya. the situation around the fifteen is heating up there is been an increase in shelling from turkey into africa and also hearing reports that around fifteen thousand free syrian army fighters these are the rebels inside syria supported by turkey are mobilizing towards the east of africa and then this is all in line with the political rhetoric that's been coming out of anger over the last week or so the last voice added to that the defense ministry on friday saying that the operation would happen that there should be no delay and that turkey had no choice but to rid of what they call terrorists along this border all of this very significant player is russia and this is why we've seen the chief of staff and also the target head of intelligence in moscow on thursday also told continuing on friday to try and see whether russia gives the green light why is that will russia control the airspace over a free and also has troops on the ground in that area it's all about pol

far a kurdish commander says that's an exaggeration but he didn't give any alternative figures stephanie deca has more from the turkey syria border. we are very close to the syrian border here syria is just behind that mountain and we've been hearing all day really that we've been hearing the sound of artillery it ebbs and flows but it has been very heavy at times and that's because this remains a very after front line the entire western border. city in that turkey has with the province now there's also a turkish base just a little further that way the turkish military really doesn't want any media near its operations what we've seen we've seen helicopters hovering overhead there are tanks and of course the coldest and sound of outgoing artillery along the border that's been going on for the last couple of days and of course the united nations now giving numbers around five thousand people have fled these border villages further inside to flee the fighting and they say what they're really concerned about is it seems that they have nowhere safe to go well now another development syrians who su

confrontation with the kurdish y p g militia it's a group backed by the united states a nato ally stephanie deca and a common seal have this report from the city of us. as we enter syria it is the free syrian army flag that flies high here we're on a media trip into as organized by the turkish authorities they take us close to where there's been fighting with the kurdish armed group turkey calls a terrorist organization turkish forces are trying to push it out of the region about the front line is just a few kilometers west of here both turkish troops and the free syrian army are taking part you know i'm not sure that. one of the f.s.a. fighters why he is involved in turkey's operation for some it seems it's personal. because they betrayed us and especially because they took over my city. i've been displaced along with many of my neighbors for two years living in the camps there are such bad conditions especially now in the winter. what our target escorts are telling us is that the front line with the kurdish fighters is just further along that mountain is also which is over to this side where t

in sochi comes at a time when violence is escalating on several fronts in syria as a bring in stephanie deca who is monitoring the situation from near the turkey syria border stephanie on the one hand the russians are talking peace in sochi and on the other hand there and the syrian government allies are conducting intensive as rice a deadly province which is supposed to be part of the so-called deescalation zones . that's right and they've really been doing for the last two months and at the same time holding those two shootings given the green light for turkey to lose its operation inside africa because russia is control of its airspace and russia had troops on the ground in the day that that offensive was announced and we were here russia and then finally announced it was jordan's military personnel so there is a certain irony to this. we've listened to this for years now just very difficult not to be cynical listening to the politicians from all these different countries not particularly coming from syria about now there's only the possibility of a political solution to this conflict bef

using the mountain to fire shells across the border into the turkish town of killis from killis stephanie deca has more. on. the battle for bush saya mountain intensify don't. the constant roar of jets and artillery targeting this important high point along the turkish border. explosions echoed over the border town of killis drawing a crowd. a strange fascination watching the war unfold but for some it's a little too close to home. even though we are hearing killis we've become used to this war has happened before when i was on the other side of the border still moved to another area for safety. turkey's offensive against the y.p. the kurdish group it considers a terrorist organization is very visible here. is also stirred nationalist fervor. if she. was. lowered. and this is what that operation looks like inside syria turkey is backing free syrian army fighters and at the moment the main focus is pushing back from the border was the kurdish fighters say turkey's offensive has caused a billion casualties turkey says it only targets y p g positions. but as is often the case in war facts can be

it will succeed the white house has been more cautious and says turkey must exercise restraint stephanie deca reports from the turkey syria border. it's almost becoming routine shelling and heavy artillery fired by the turkish army into syria. the monday border new development with turkey opening a new front in the ground offensive free syrian army fighters will now move towards africa and from the us. in this day the f.s.a. forces entered syria through turkey from its west and northern borders and after the airstrikes and heavy shelling helped pave the way in the first twenty four hours turkey says it is targeting y p g fighters a kurdish group it says is a terrorist organization which also happens to be america's strongest ally in fighting isis and in syria as ever complicated web of regional and international allegiances enter russia key to allowing turkey to operate in a free in something many already knew but the turkey's president admitted to on monday for the first time. we will handle a free there's no stepping back from a free we discussed this with our russian friends we have an agr