terrorists at least fifty one civilians including seventeen children have been killed near afraid stephanie decker joins us now from kill us on the turkey syria border there is a lot of ground to cover so let's start with the latest on what's happening in a friend stephanie. we can hear our airstrikes in the distance we have seen jets overhead where we are yesterday. just behind us that was a very active front important because of course on the border and it's a high point so what you're seeing turkey doing the f.s.a. the free syrian army fighters that inside syria is trying to secure the entire border area so this is sort of the northern border area of the province and then it goes further west and i can tell you this location yesterday driving back you could see airstrikes along the border so it was hit very hard of course the consequence of. is what's happening to the civilians inside that province speaking just sources on the ground there will tell you that many people are fleeing trying to seek shelter inside the city we've also had reports of people sheltering in caves it's very very difficu

on al-jazeera let's go live now to antakya zero stephanie decker was also listening to press conference steph what do you make of what you've heard and how will it affect what's happening on the ground in syria. but i think having covered syria throughout this war in this name to these talks year in year out it's difficult not to become cynical age and when all you hear is that there's only a political solution to this crisis and the only thing you see is military campaigns we were in syria yesterday just south of the turkish border in as people we speak to still saying how difficult life is there is no electricity water is scarce it's freezing now it's winter the area is dotted with tents i can't even call them official camps there are some closer to the turkish border but even just driving through out of the city and its outskirts there are tents it is totally muddy it is freezing and people will tell you how frustrated they are that there is no help there's a little age people want to go home but the politicians call and seem to agree on anything and i think you know cutting through

but opposed by turkey stephanie decker has more from the turkey syria border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on africa in turkish officials had said all week that the operation was imminent. much of the president. spoke just a few hours before the jets to call them academy. we would wipe out this corridor will step by step starting from the west africa operation has to factor started in the field this will be followed by ben being much since the promises made it up maybe you should look and kept so far nobody could say anything when we do 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 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 this is just one of the locations that the turkish army is shelling out free in is pret

stephanie decker al-jazeera kilis on the turkish syrian border. meanwhile the forty eight hours these fought and syria's rebel stronghold of east and go to has expired and there are reports that it's being violated several times the russian rocket truce went into effect on friday but there's been little calm reports of government shelling and everett's at least eight people including a child are believed to have been killed. russian opposition leader alexina vali has been released from custody without charge often he was arrested during an anti-government rally in moscow more than two hundred fifty of those wells were detained for taking part in protests across the country corner for a boycott of the presidential election in march roy chalons reports for years love it when you were young does it's become a familiar routine for novelli demonstration days while supporters in moscow and st petersburg slept in russia's eastern time zones they were already protesting hands being arrested this footage is from the siberian city of came out of a. and in t

impact the release of political prisoners will have on the growing opposition movement stephanie decker. tens of thousands of government supporters of rallies across iran the show of support comes after seven days the demonstrations against iran's leadership they gather to condemn the unrest in which at least twenty two people were killed iran's revolutionary guard is now declared the protests over rob masson reports. on a rainy and state t.v. pictures of government supporters filling city streets condemning protests and deaths during days of unrest i it's basically people who are believing that what so what's happening is against that he jeem and they want to support the regime by saying this is a revolutionary jeem and we are in favor of it. the t.v. pictures are why these days pro-government rallies are a contrast to coverage of demonstrations against iran's leadership which began last thursday. and. the government has shut down some social media platforms. but pictures have been posted showing damaged cars burning buildings and chanting crowds. protests about unemployment and iran's

stephanie decker al-jazeera as ounds syria. so it looks like a potential cease fire deal has been agreed in the besieged damascus suburb of east and go to and it could begin in the next few hours a spokesman for the second largest opposition faction in ghouta says they've received an offer from russia but the details remain unclear russia has broken previous agreements russian jets in the syrian army have intensified their bombardment of the rebel on klav over the past two months four hundred thousand people live in the area and are suffering from acute food and medicine shortages. he was president donald trump's taken his america first message to the world's elite addressing the world economic forum in davos he declared the u.s. open for business and one that washington would no longer turn a blind eye to what he described as unfair trade practices our diplomatic as a james bass has more from deficits. as the band played a president trump stood somewhat quickly beside the man who founded the world economic forum klaus schwab h

g a well prepared and know the terrain this could be a long and difficult fight stephanie decker on the turkey syria border british prime minister theresa may has figured out a three day visit to china. chang welcome to her and beijing and his visit is aimed at securing a free trade agreement with china as the u.k. prepares to leave the european union has brought along a fifty strong delegation of business leaders from sectors including financial services health care and for structure how trade between china and the u.k. has been on the rise as part of a philips reports there so significant potential for growth they've been making woollen cloth since seventeen eighty three and the expertise built up over centuries by this very british company in its yorkshire factory is now highly valued by the chinese today much of the focus is on markets in the far east and it exports more textiles and fabrics to china than to any other country. but they know where else might china and the wealthy interesting sites seem to be endless and stagnant relationships and nesting and that too john byrne shank

this follows increased pressure on the government to end its crackdown on opposition voices stephanie decker reports. theo p. 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 will be welcomed by many peons some warn it may not lead to major changes in policy. 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 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 if the government came to power in one nine hundred ninety one hundreds of

uncertain future with no idea when they can go back home what will be left of it once they do stephanie decker al-jazeera. the un is investigating an attack in the democratic republic of congo last month that killed seventeen tanzania and peacekeepers the u.n. suspects the allied democratic forces that the ugandan armed group are behind the attack it's going to be active in congo's north kivu province where the assault took place. the latest report on what we think will be some of the by the stories of the here when a refugee camp in bangladesh it is now home to hundreds of thousands of the hanjour who fled violence in august the un's accused of ethnic cleansing which it denies stratford reports now on what the refugees face in the year ahead. with their three children across the border from myanmar into bangladesh at the end of december they joined the more than six hundred fifty thousand refugees who fled the military crackdown on the region in rakhine state in western myanmar she says her husband was killed as they tried to flee. but they're not that bad and we couldn't go anywhere because

will succeed the white house has been more cautious and says turkey must exercise restraint stephanie decker reports on the turkey syria border. it's almost becoming routine shelling and heavy artillery fired by the turkish army into syria. the monday brought a 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. initially the f.s.a. forces entered syria through turkey from its west and routed 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 and to russia key to allowing turkey to operate in a free mean 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

are in syria which is the defeat of isis in the afraid he's a rally or negative thing out zero stephanie decker reports now from the syrian city of east africa. where a new city which is just south of the border with turkey this is an area that turkey does operate in they are porous backing the free syrian army fighters the syrian rebels this is part of the eastern front and we've been taken in by the time here on this sort of a media tour this is the center. city before they took us a little bit closer to the front lines because of course there was an active battle going on with the why p.g.a. it is relatively quiet today i have to tell you we've just heard friday prayers were now in the center of the city and also we just heard from the president's president again who's talking every day or two days i've been saying that he is going to not playing is not going to be the beginning of this they're going to take this all the way to the border with iraq and not mean the u.s. is very very very complicated when it comes to the politics but i think it is interesting we haven't been here in a long ti

worth having a devastating impact with widespread food shortages and a major cholera outbreak stephanie decker reports. forced to live out in the open these yemeni families of escape the fighting near the border with saudi arabia now they have to bear the elements on the streets of data their daily routine 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 any of us fall sick we cannot afford treatment our condition is really terrible needless to say we are living in fear. this war now almost into its third year is all about regional politics and control 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 a 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 of the under twenty seventy in this terrible ne

elsewhere in syria stephanie decker has more from. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present 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 feeling of the us is 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. in the human body we came here to protest against the attacks on africa and we will stand by a free and outreach that. is one of three autonomy as kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p y d party and its armed wing the y p g turkey sees the y.p. g. is an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the us. when europe consider a terrorist organization but the white b.g. has been working with the u.s. to push ice a lot of syria not enough rain but further east of the eu

forces in the area as they battle eisel let's draw all this together now with stephanie decker who is live for us from and taki a staff starting with the ceasefire at least and good to remind us how many people are trapped there is this cease fire holding. well the u.n. estimates around four hundred thousand people a.j. and why is this important because also the seeds you mentioned almost five years in the u.n. will say that they are most concerned about the lack of food the lack of medicine and the dire conditions in this rebel held area the only one left close to the capital which shows you why it is such importance for damascus and they're saying it's one of the worst cases of malnutrition in the entirety of the syrian war now as you mentioned is it a holding well it's just come into effect it was of course political politically negotiated in vienna and as anything in this war age in the proof really comes to how to see developments on the ground not all groups apparently are part of this negotiated cease fire others are and so i think we'll have to wait and see also as you mention

fourteen civilians were killed dozens others injured in airstrikes rocket attacks and shelling stephanie decker joins us live from delhi osman on the turkey syria border with the latest on what's happening on the ground so yes stephanie all these talks are happening in sochi that it's about what is happening to people on the ground in syria so give us the latest when it comes to air strikes and such. well this is where we are is where turkey is conducting its operation against the why p.g. what it deems a terrorist organization syria is just behind us we can hear the war in the background artillery out going in this is been going on for almost two weeks now and they've taken a strategic mountain just a little further back from here in the fight now seems to be heading out along these areas we saw yesterday buses with soldiers are sort of reinforcing this sort of area where we are in interesting me just now as we rejoice in. two small groups of f.s.a. fighters on the side of the road we try to talk to them but they're turkish commanders didn't want us to do that but it does give you an indicatio

does show you that it's the international actors that really do call the shots in this conflict stephanie decker live on the turkey syria border stephanie thank you. that was behind an attack on a military academy in afghanistan's capital kabul two soldiers died and ten others were wounded in the gun battle near the. national defense university for attackers were killed one has been arrested for the same site was the target of a suicide bombing in october in which fifteen officers were killed and this comes two days after a suicide bombing also in kabul killed at least one hundred three people afghans are blaming the government for failing to improve security bill for hammie as a lecturer in international trade university the recent wave of attacks by the taliban show it's trying to prove its strength. we have been accustomed to. that in the winter we see less attacks by the taliban and their allies basically the main county group based in pakistan and on several occasions they use this branch of. ice as in afghanistan we have seen less attacks in the winter but more attacks in this string and s

were a challenge is in sochi at the talks will get to have in a moment person what's going to stephanie decker who joins us from go bob on the turkey syria border stephanie let's talk about where there are still fighting and things happening tell me what's happening where you are. where it's. well we've just had an incoming mortar line and probably about five hundred meters. closer to us this is kilis it's been relatively quiet on this front but it literally just flew over our heads which is why we're just scrambling trying to figure out what's going on this front has been relatively quiet today yesterday that was very different side of mountain behind us airstrikes outgoing rocket fire from here so you can see that this seems to be a response certainly came from this angle syria's sort of all along the border from where we are and then today what they're trying to do what the turks are trying to do is to push the y.p. g. away from its border so this is the northern front without freezing and then you also have the western border from what we understand today there is some kind of regrouping g

deescalation zone but turkey is threatening a military operation against the kurdish forces over there stephanie decker joining us now live from antakya in turkey near syria's northwestern border to talk about both stephanie what is happening in the free and also that new border force that the united states is announced. i think this shows you some of the complexities of this war when you have allies supporting opposing sides of this war and sooner or later those tensions were going to start to unravel particularly once a sort of common enemy of ice still had been pushed out so just briefly when it comes to that border forces you mentioned this is supposed to be around thirty thousand troops backbone of those forces would be the wife e g that's of course the group that turkey has an issue with sees it as a terrorist organization linked to the p.k. k. what turkey wants is for them to hand back those weapons that the americans gave to them to fight i suppose as they say the fight against isis is now over what the americans are saying that this force will be necessary to prevent what happened in the octom

syrian town of if you give us back kurdish that force captured from i saw in twenty sixteen stephanie decker has more now from the turkey syria border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on. turkish officials had said that the. president. spoke just a few hours before the jets to call them a cult then they're going to go to. this corridor or step by step of the way this. has defectors started in the field this will be followed by bad since the promises . kept so far nobody can say with. 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 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 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 up inside syria by free syria

away from its borders further complicating syria's almost seven year long war stephanie decker zero on the turkey syria border mohamed atta takes a look at the key players in the battle for free and what could happen next. turkey has always been an easy with kurdish control of areas on the other side of its border with syria it's now engaged in a must of assault on the kurdish forces known as people's protection units or why p.d. in a free and district turkey considers the us backed y p d an extension of the kurdish rebel group p k k that it was for four decades and korea has been angered by the y.p.s. expansion in more than syria after the us backed into the group and the fight against all but of the washington state it will train an army to patrol the border region with the wipe india as a key component tuckey responded with its own military. offensive air strikes and ground up tuck's potentially puts turkey in conflict with its nato ally and turkey say this may expand its operation in mosul in syria to the city of mumbai each after our freedom has been cleared the task of taking of

but opposed by turkey stephanie decker has more from the turkish syrian border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on a fleeing turkish officials had said all week that the operation was imminent. much of the president. spoke just a few hours before the jets to call them. we would wipe out this corridor or step by step starting from the west africa operation has defectors started in the field this will be followed by ben being since the promises made up and kept so far nobody could say anything when we do 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 shell specific locations on the mountain for 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 this is just one of the locations that the turkish army is shelling a freeness pretty much surrounded turkey to its west and

that's a syrian kurdish group that turkey considers a terrorist organization stephanie decker has more. solidarity with the people of africa this protest is in the kurdish run area in northeast syria where people say they feel betrayed come on and then i go before we condemn the turkish state we condemn russia because had it not been for russia giving the green light turkey would not have been able to attack a free russia and turkey your fate and the end will be at the hands of the heroes of the wipe e.g. just like the end of ice. in africa and funerals are held for fighters from the people's protection units or y p g. turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist organization but fighters from the kurdish group across syria make up the backbone of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces crucial and the most effective in the battle against ancyl and this is said to be video jim that is an area close to the border with turkey that has been heavily targeted sources have told al jazeera that most people in these areas have fled due to the heavy bombardment. and the u.n. estimates around fiftee

uncertain future with no idea when they can go back home what will be left of it once they do stephanie decker al-jazeera. you know watching out is there a still to come respect the rule of law we'll bring you the latest from the french president's meeting with his turkish counterpart in paris and we travel to one british town to look ahead to how bracks it is likely to shape up in twenty eighteen. we've had some rather lively stolz across the eastern side of the mediterranean sea our circulation hit the pair of life for us has been bringing some very heavy writing and some very windy conditions as well that will clear through little dry up as we go on through the next couple days i am pleased to say by region around sixteen degrees celsius just about getting up into double figures there and to run a little more cloud just around the southern end of the caspian for most of us it shouldn't be too bad over the next that see much to see want to see winfrey flowers into northern iraq as we go through sunday behind that is the sunshine returns in the sunshine stretches across the raven peninsula ch

uncertain future with no idea when they can go back home what will be left of it once they do stephanie decker. national felt count for us half hour a day of pro-government demonstrations taking place in eragon we'll have that story also telling you why the marijuana industry in the u.s. is back in the spotlight. with had some very disruptive snow across parts of central china over the past twenty four hours or so still some snow in the picture as we go on through the next twenty four hours but they're going to focus over the next twenty four asked across the southern parts where we'll see some really heavy rain setting in and that is likely to lead to some flooding there we go with our snow on the northern flank but is going to be southern parts which will see the worst of the weather see go on through the next couple of days on through the weekend then meanwhile a good deal quieter across south asia right away and cross the northern plains once again so temperatures new delhi around nineteen celsius with that fog and smoke want to see was a possibility over towards me and mum but otherwise i

having a devastating impact in yemen with widespread food shortages and a major cholera break stephanie decker has more. forced to live out in the open these yemeni families of escape the fighting new to the border with saudi arabia now they have to bury the elements on the streets of who data their daily routine know for everyone to see this war has displaced hundreds of thousands of people well a lot of them and i don't 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 outrigger nor suffering any of us fall sick we cannot afford treatment a condition is really terrible needless to say we are living in fear. this war now almost into its third year is all about regional politics and control the consequence of that has created what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis in aid agencies are not able to access the majority of those in need. we have they're scared or our life has turned upside down and we can't afford a decent meal we're now begging to eat and feed our children were living in the streets on ch

fifty one civilians have been killed in the fighting stephanie decker is at the turkey syria border with more. we are getting reports about the situation for civilians inside particularly around these border areas that have been civilian casualties turkey says it's not targeting civilians but of course as we know when it comes to war the truth is somewhere in between when it comes to there's no clear lines there will always be civilian lives ripped apart so very difficult for people there the city of often itself we understand from our sources has not been targeted yet and there are a lot of people trying to seek shelter there they many government is urging calm in the southern port city of aden nafta what they called an attempted coup by separatists backed by the united arab emirates interior ministry says government forces are now in control of the city on sunday at least twelve people were killed and one hundred others wounded a southern secessionist of the army. in a south african city of cape town is facing its worst water crisis in a century and protesters say the government is to

jeanne stephanie decker has more from attacking. 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 thousands marched on thursday in protest to turkey's aggression how the party and i think 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. you know we came here to protest against the attacks on offering we will stand by a free and 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 us in europe consider a terrorist organization but the white p.g. has been working with the us to push ice a lot of syria not enough lean but further east of the eup

why we're in syria which is the defeat of isis in the afraid as a rally or a negative thing stephanie decker has more from the syrian city of east a fraying. well we're in the city which is just south of the border with turkey this is an area that turkey does operate in they are porous backing the free syrian army fighters and syrian rebels this is part of the eastern front and we've been taken in by the turks here on a sort of a media tour this is the center. city before they took us a little bit closer to the front lines because of course there was an active battle going on with the white p.g.a. it is relatively quiet today i have to tell you we've just heard friday prayers were now in the center of the city and also we just heard from the president's president again who's talking every day or two days i'd been saying that he is going to not a plane is not going to be the beginning of this they're going to take this all the way to the border with iraq and not mean the u.s. history or even going so it's very very complicated when it comes to the politics but i think it is interesting we hav

in the fight against eisel in syria let's tie it all together now with stephanie decker who's following this one from antakya hi stephanie first of all this assault as we call it as i said this seventy shells is there an indication is it owned going is it going to increase what's turkey saying about it. well we do know that there has been shelling that resumed a couple of hours ago in the villages around as you mentioned earlier from midnight last night into the morning the heaviest shelling occurred in the period of the last week or so since turkish president reza tired and said that he was going to do to attack a fleeing and you know there's been a host of other senior turkish officials that joined we also heard from the foreign minister and today the minister of defense saying that it was going to happen that there could be no delay and that turkey had no choice but to clear what it calls terrorist groups from its borders or having said all that come all so the political rhetoric is very high you have you know you see on turkish state media constantly tax moving towards the border ea

war is having a devastating impact with widespread food shortages and major cholera outbreak stephanie decker reports. forced to live out in the open these. many families of escape the fighting near the border with saudi arabia now they have to bear the elements on the streets of data their daily routine 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 any of us fall sick we cannot afford treatment our condition is really terrible needless to say we are living in fear. this war now almost into its third year is all about regional politics and control 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 a 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 seventeen this terrible new

will succeed the white house has been more cautious and says turkey must exercise restraint stephanie decker 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. initially the f.s.a. forces entered syria through turkey from its west and more than 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 and we discussed this with our russian friends we have an

but opposed by turkey stephanie decker has more from the turkish syrian border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on africa in 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. we would wipe out this corridor will step by step starting from the list after an operation has defectors started in the field this will be followed but. since the promises made it out there and kept so far nobody can say anything when we do 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 war 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 this is just one of the locations that the turkish army is shelling out freeness pretty much around a turkey to its wes

away from its borders no one knows how long that will take what the implications may be stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. now to our other top story this hour the taliban is saying it was behind an overnight attack on a hotel in the afghan capital which killed at least eighteen people gunmen stormed the intercontinental hotel in kabul on saturday night targeting foreigners and government officials jennifer glass reports from kabul. explosions and gunfire lasted for hours as afghan special forces moved through the hotel guests trapped in their room new sheets and curtains to try to escape the attackers intent on bloodshed and murder. no more down for the weekend there were people and children inside the hotel rooms the attackers were knocking on the door eight room to reach their targets they killed many people and officials told them they were taught that in foreigners especially. as the fighting intensified and grenades and gunshots echoed around the hotel some mula high call could only wait for it to end his brother cari hussein was trapped inside and had stopped

using the mountain to fire shells across the border into the turkish town of funky piece here stephanie decker. from. the battle for amount an intensified on. the called subaru of jets and artillery targeting this important high point along the turkish border. explosions echoed over the border town of killis during a crowd. is 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 saw it was on the other side of the border but i've still moved my wife and kids to another area to safety but i'm staying. turkey's offensive against the y.p. the kurdish group it considers a terrorist organization is very visible here. it is also stirred nationalist fervor. 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 as the kurdish fighters say turkey's offensive has calls to. turkey says it only targets y p g positions. but as is often the case in war facts can be hard to cover. turk

on isis so we don't want them to gauge and violence but we want them to keep focused on isis stephanie decker has more from talking. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present one has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area of african 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. you know we came here to protest against the attacks on offering we will stand by a free and treats the why p.g. . thirteen is one of three autonomy as kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p why do party and its armed wing 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 us 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 b

stephanie decker al-jazeera as ounce syria. looks like a potential cease fire deal has been agreed in the besieged damascus suburb of east and go to and it could begin in the next few hours a spokesman for the second largest opposition faction in goods says they've received an offer from russia with the details still remain unclear russia has spoken previous agreements russian jets and the syrian army have intensified their bodman at the rebel on tape over the past two months four hundred thousand people live in the area and are suffering from acute food medicine shortages yes president donald trump a second his america first message to the world's elite addressing the world economic forum in davos he declared the u.s. open for business one that washington would no longer turn a blind eye to what he described as unfair trade practices he also used a speech to attack the media our diplomatic editor james bass has more from davos. as the band played president trump stood somewhat quickly beside the man who founded the world econo

g a while parent and know the terrain this could be a long and difficult fight stephanie decker zeroon the turkey syria border in kenya gov the kenyan government says three television stations that plan to broadcast the opposition leader raila odinga smocks swearing in on to say will stay off the air indefinitely the kenyan government's declared the opposition movement a criminal group riley says the thirty seven teen presidential election was stolen from him because of voting irregularities. somalia has suffered countless upon the facts over the years but the twin explosions in mogadishu three months ago with the largest ever more than five hundred people were killed and they included many parents have now left behind at least fifteen hundred orphans from either miller reports. medina mohammad plays with her three month old grandson hudson his grandmother is looking after him because his mother was one of the hundreds killed in the twin bomb attacks in mogadishu last october person was just eleven days old when the bombs went off as well as has since mother two of medina's other dau

has intensified shelling on three and in recent days officials say an offensive is imminent stephanie decker joins us live from the turkey syria border how does the war look now. well there's quite a bit of activity that we've seen happen here over the last hour or two bulldozers being brought in gravel also a lot of cement blocks i'll just step out of the way in that jimmy will show you how close we are to syria less than a kilometer away you'll probably see a slight watchtower this is along that turkey has built with syria and then that syria just further up ahead now villagers here tell us there was sporadic shelling overnight from a base just behind us but far less than has been here over the last couple of days and you did mention reinforcements also in terms of the free syrian army that turkey supporting and this is some of the. some of the cars coming back without the concrete blocks that we've seen come in so they seem to be doing some form of defensive measure at that border but yes there's also been skirmishes within syria shelling of turkish army saying they shelled from as as and

stephanie decker al-jazeera as ounds syria. the syrian opposition is boycotting talks on the water that russia is hosting next week the delegation says the conference is an attempt to undermine your own efforts to broker a peace deal we listen to many good entities concerning. commitment but none of them will deliver some and. we are we are tired of we need real involvement we need real commitment and the ball is in the russian court and the say that they have the upper hand in syria. and they were responsible for saving the sujiatun for a long time and they can bring it to commit itself to international legality has a new shin's and if they want they can. well that announcement came in vienna where the latest round of u.n. talks between syria's government and opposition has just wrapped up the conference finished without any major breakthroughs nine rounds of u.n. talks between the warring sides have made little progress towards ending the civil war they want a special envoy for syria says he hasn't decided whether he'll atten

civilians have been affected it seems a serious seven year war is entering yet another phase stephanie decker of the turkey syria border. at least twelve civilians including children have been killed by government shelling in east and go to in syria the shelling is thought to have hit a market in duma airstrikes also talking to the tans of how morea and are have been which are currently under rebel control. meanwhile syrian state television says government forces have taken control of a rebel held air base in northwest syria who are based in the province was captured by rebels in twenty fifteen defense of this part of the government's ongoing efforts to regain control of the area. coming up on the news hour women marked the first anniversary of donald trump's presidency by bradley again in a drive to get more female candidates running for office. pope francis wraps up his not american tour but is facing criticism for comments he made in chile. and in sports roger federer is a step closer to defending his trillion in the title details coming up next. branded himself the art of the deal preside

this fall as increase pressure on the government to end its crackdown on opposition voices as stephanie decker reports. theo 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. the go on the idea of the prime minister of egypt realizes that. it will continue to be a. political junkie and that it is still stuck in a political battle in order to avoid really the international community needs to be really the only level of the society. the protests of the past two years of call for political and economic changes. to romeo and i'm hardly agents 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 if the government came to power in one nine hundred ninety one hundreds of civilians have