well historically turkey is opponents used to claim that there are 3 issues turkey is too poor turkey is too big and turkey is too muslim the fact that we are too poor is no longer correct because our per capita purchase parity is higher than some of the current e.u. member countries. the fact that we are too big is actually an advantage for europe because europe needs new markets because the european population is getting old the average age in germany is 49 but the average age in turkey is 27 so this young by now make consumer base is really important for e.u. companies to reach out to and to turn to shoot at turkey's to muslim is actually a great benefit for europe if they can only take advantage of it because. turkey in e.u. would be the best answer to defeat ears of clash of civilizations if you remember turkey and spain had established the alliance of civilizations which is today led by the former foreign minister of spain mr began more of he knows and that organization was a response to the biggest fear that we all have that what if the different civilizations were to clash and

turkey in e.u. would be the best answer to this fear is of clash of civilizations if you remember turkey and spain had established the alliance or civilizations which is today led by the former foreign minister of spain mr miguel more of us and that organization was a response to the biggest fear that we all have that what if the different civilizations were to clash and we would end up with another world war so it turkey can send a message to 1500000000 muslims around the world that culture of democracy and culture of islam can co-exist in a very harmonious way mansouri weber who is the leading candidate for here paying commission president says once he is since the presidency he will trump this session talks with turkic completely what will turkey's answer be to that but actually he's not telling the truth because even if he's elected even if he is the leader he will not have such an authority. the e.u. process the e.u. negotiation process the accession talks could only start with a unanimous vote

turkey -- such at humanitarian aid. turkey opened several embassies in africa. they fly to places like somalia, for instance so, turkey became a very active marry in the region, and i think what turkey is doing in the horn of africa and neighboring countries should be seen as part of that strategy. but i think so primarily turkey in the horn of africa was driven by economic motivations but now turkey's actions are motivated by this larger competition over regional input, particularly after the gulf crisis in 2017. so i think that was a moment that changed how turkey sees the region and neighboring countries. and turkey sees its role there as an important role, particularly to counterbalance what egypt is doing or counterbalance the saudi or the uae policy. but as yasmine said, turkey plays a much more nuanced role in the gulf countries, i think. now turkey is using influence, including religion as a tool. in 2011, president erdogan visited mogadishu and he was accompanied by a large delegation of organizations, humanitarian organizations. i think it started as a

turkey, what are turkey's objectives with respect to syria? how strong is our die lying with turkey to coordinate our objectives compared to theirs? mr. jeffrey: turkey's objectives like all of the countries are directly involved is to survive the horrific syrian civil war. turkey has been impacted beginning with 3.5 million refugees where turkey has spent many tens of billions of dollars doing by all standards a commendable job taking care of these people it's welcomed into its midst. secondly, turkey has a whole series of threat emanating from syria. i discussed the threat in the condo mountains where the p.k.k. to establish an offensive capability out of northeastern syria or elsewhere for that matter. secondly, turkey has a very strong emnity with the assad regime. and turkey has a traditional, we're talking about many hundreds of years, rivalry with iran for power within the northern middle east. and turkey is generally not he very happy with russian moves to itself. turkey has to deal with all these things and it deals with them in a var

well becky i think it's not that simple and i should 1st say this i'm really sad about what turkey has become it's my country we had a great accomplishment in the early 21st century we were the shining star of the muslim world unfortunately it devolved into a grim authoritarian scene in the past 6 years and lot of things have gone down refeed of speech independent press lot of things have gone down already what if least the elections were there at least elections were trusted and now with the cancellation of these stumble elections unfortunately now there are question marks about even the curious you have elections and the legitimacy of elections in turkey will be there even former president former former prime minister ahmed who are the people who built his party said that this is a this is really a bad thing for our democracy there are independent scholars who don't see any reason illegitimate reason for the cancellation of the elections the elections are canceled on a technicality that there were not. people there more than 30000 ballots in a stumble in 200 of them the people who ar

and try the new turkey bistro with warm turkey and smokehouse bacon.h black forest ham. the new hot pretzels, only at togos. how far would you go for a togo? - i own you, doug. ♪ ♪ >>> i spent the last few days traveling across turkey. and, trust me, that's a lot of miles. i could use a little r & r. and i've heard that sweating it out in a hamam, a traditional turkish bath, is the best way to unwind. i didn't realize it would be quite so intimate. >>> i'm getting all my travel wiped away, cleansed away from the body. oh, you can't leave turkey without doing this. >>> the hamam, with separate chambers for men and women, has been open since 1584. people come here daily to socialize, purify themselves before heading to the mosque or sweat the stress away in the 115-degree heat. >>> i'm sure i studied anatomy. he seems to know every muscle and every tendon and fiber in my body. everything here in turkey is about the tradition. when it feels like this, there is a reason these traditions stay. >>> traditional healing is also taking hold here, in one of the

for turkey to with those ports but also what turkey is trying to do is not only boost the economy but at the same time been using their religious guesswork but now they are a terrorist organization and on that religious network so that is significant and with that investment that the commercial investment because they think that they use that leverage and djibouti making modern investments of what turkey is doing at the horn of africa but those fears are overblown and what they can do in the region. >> so looking at the region if i could ask you to turn that around from the inside out with the perspective at the horn of africa with these foreign interests and the interventions and how do the states of the horn of africa the their ability to exercise their own agency and self-determination to increase international competition? . >> and those made by my fellow panelist. and with that perspective at the horn of africa that present pattern to spill over really isn't that new. so the arab-israeli conflict spilled over and that rivalry between conservative and more radicals you can still s

attitude towards turkey has not been as good turkey probably can apply to be in the book of records of guinness book of records because no other country has waited for such a long time to join any international organization in history we have been trying to become a member since 958 and it has come to a point where both the turkish public opinion and the european public opinion is sick and tired of this question so turkey can do with or without europe but europe also has to decide can they do without turkey and i think the time to answer that question is coming up so take this current foreign minister mr a china shop lew says that some member states are deliberately obstructing turkey's accession to the e.u. do you have any idea who specifically he means whisky referring to and wireless member states doing this well some of the states some of the founding members of european union nationally worry about turkey coming in because when turkey.

and try the new turkey bistro with warm turkey and smokehouse bacon.dijon with black forest ham. the new hot pretzels, only at togos. how far would you go for a togo? >>> tulga lives with the symptoms of autism, but he's never been treated with medication. his family invited me to attend one of his special education classes provided by the local government where his teacher is searching for other ways to reach him. [ speaking nonenglish ] >> how was tulga when you first met him? how would you describe him? [ speaking nonenglish ] >> in turkey educational opportunities for development developmentally challenged are few and far between. she's breaking new ground encouraging tulga and his classmates to transcend their diagnosis with school, art, and the tradition of sema, the 800-year-old practice of whirling. [ speaking nonenglish ] >> i think about what's happening here, and many of the students could not even be touched let alone participate in a group activity such as this one. what exactly is happening in the brain, why this works? we don't know. [ s

turkey is a nato ally. turkey on most issues related to syria is pretty closely aligned with us. that's very important. it's a country of 80 million population right in the center of the middle east. it's the 17th largest economy in the world. it's crucial for anything we're trying to do in the region. in most areas we cooperate pretty with them not on the domestic situation where we've had issues but on foreign policy. we are concerned about the relationship between turkey and our sdf partners in the northeast which is why we're working with negotiation with the turks in a safe zone. we think we've made progress and we're looking forward to more. if i go down the list of allies that we have human rights -- >> saudis and qatar, they seem to be fueling and giving arms to some of the rebel groups. what role do they play in this? >> let me start with iran, because you raised iran. there's no doubt including in the white house that iran is an extremely dangerous expansionist force in the region. almost everything we're doing in the region to some degree in afghanistan, certainly leba

the hard and fast answer is turkey finds t turkey buys the s-400, we do not sell them that platform. >> when the congressman gets there, i'm going to sandbag him and ask him how to solve this political politically. i'm not going to ask you to do the diplomacy here, but having said all the things you just said, this isn't necessarily like the showdown at the o.k. corral, right? there's no one specific point in time where there's a number of things that both sides could do to stretch out, change, modify, move this, where they're not forced to make this kind of decision where you're a nato ally, and in or out of the program. >> that's fair. turkey has not accepted delivery of the s-400. they have made every verbal statement they will accept it this summer. if they delay that, we can continue he delivers f-16s, where they can go into production of pilots and help us out in that process. once it's resolved, assuming that turkey goes down the path of not buying the s-400 we can move toss those aircraft to turkey. >> and reopened discussion about purchasing patriot? >> i think that's a wise

to turkey. >> u.s. government and turkey have reopen discussions about purchasing the patriot. >> i think that's a wise discussion. what threat is turkey facing that they need the s-400 system is very capable system, has a long range but the patriot has significant range. if the united states was going to attack turkey, maybe they might need the s-400 but we have no intent to that's not even in the discussion. what of the country would have the capability of doing that? may be russia and then you wouldn't want a russian system. >> for our other guests who walked in, yes, we know this is not michael mccaul. he's been delayed on some vote so j. d. cruiser air force expert at the heritage foundation or just talk about some of his recent expenses the cup that in some of the same areas. we're going to talk to the congressman and one more question about this and i want to move on to another topic, which is just so folks will woud understand just which were at stake here, what's the difference from the perspec

imposed sanctions on iran turkey received the baber and turkey was allowed to buy cheaper gas and from iran this has changed since last me president come from made very clear here he is out of the labor program this will put the turkish economy methods to be under pressure another example is the trade war between the us and china but potentially also with europe will affect the turkish exports also because turkey is have been linked with the european multinational enterprise its global economy slows down turkish exports slow down dirt can not change much on that front but on the domestic politics investors need signals for a reliable plan a bull policy and that is something which is not at that gender at the moment ok so you're talking about big external factors that are a play here not only the iran sanctions but also the u.s. china trade war and europe's influence on turkey as far as business goes but at the same time a little merrill election which seems to be throwing a cad amongst the pigeons. yes i mean the government tried to reassure international investors for example by annou

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and turkey? question andgreat thank you for inviting me and putting up with me for a couple minutes. i will try to keep my answers short so when the congressman comes and we can go arrange that. it is a significant issue pairing the s-400 with f-35. you are not all in deftly involved with this like i am, but we do some things that are simplistic with airplanes. we will stick them up on literal sticks that have the ability to rotate and will put them half mile away from a radar and inundated with radar beams of every variety and we call that characterizing the platform. what that allows us to do is find out where the vulnerabilities are for the f-35. how far away you can see it. lies that vulnerability with each of the individual radar systems. turks the f-35 with the s-400 system would allow either turkey or they're good friends, russia, to characterize the f-35 and nullify the advantage we have with this very expensive and capable platform. we have a 10 or 15 year competitive advantage over ever

why is it such a big political price in turkey. well first of all is symbol is turkey's largest city but it's also the most important city for president add on himself he started his political career here in istanbul as mayor all the city in the one nine hundred ninety s. and then rose to the presidency but it's simple also means that power to him it means prestige and it means enormous wealth to the president his family and to all of the other people in his inner circle of power there is a populous saying here who ever wins a stumble wins turkey so there is a lot of symbolism involved here both for the ruling party and present add on and the opposition. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a turkish court has overturned the prison sentence imposed on a prominent critic of the heir to one government d.w. contributor and journalist paling uncle had been sentenced to a year in jail for allegedly insulting a former prime minister who says that she must now pay a fine instead palestinian lea

financial system but it fails to stall turkey's all supply problem turkey's relations with the us are strange two of the major problems are u.s. support for the kurdish fighters in syria out with turkey calls terrorists and the u.s. stopping deliveries of f. the device that's what plays because turkey refuses to cancel a deal to buy air rushing the missile defense system and with the domestic issues such as weak currency and troubled economy it seems difficult for the turkish government to stand against u.s. sanctions on neighboring iran seen up to sort of al-jazeera a stumble or grab a break on the news hour when we come back we're looking at how the legacy of apartheid is fueling tend to. leading up to the next south african election. thailand crowns its new king two years after he inherited the throne. and eighteen women line up on the grid is a new motor sport series begins joe we'll have that and the rest of the sports a little light. rain clouds really have been gathering across central and southern parts of china lots of disturbed weather coming through hate see this weather st

financial system but it fails to stall turkey's all supply problem turkey's relations with the us are strange two of the major problems are u.s. support for the kurdish fighters in syria out with turkey calls terrorists and the u.s. stopping deliveries of if the device that's what plays because turkey refuses to cancel a deal to buy air rushing missile defense system and what the domestic issues such as weak currency and troubled economy it seems difficult for the turkish government to stand against u.s. sanctions on neighboring iran see now because all of al-jazeera the stumble now russians scientists think they may have made progress in the search for new antibiotics myron the mozzies up next hour with more from our european broadcast center mari. hi daryn yes a surprising story this and it's all down to these creatures living deep in russia's lake baikal scientists have identified crustaceans living in the lake that could be the source of new drugs but much more searches to be done before they can be used by humans al-jazeera is step fasten as the story it's more than twenty five m

firm from the officials in that these two turkey turkish nationals. they are just simple turkish people who are trying to earn their lives under difficult conditions in the working at a restaurant and they are still under arrest and. we have confirmed that they have no links. links to the intelligence. and his team argues over there but we know that turkish president has been very critical about mr hof there recently and. received some gas from the government and turkey believes that the if believed that the national accord government may need to was no seraj is the legitimate representative and turkey says they're not going to let's turn into a place like syria they have being a presence has been actually criticizing mr how dire as calling him dictator and he said that the current government the un recognized government is the legitimate representative but of course this is very interesting because when he spoke in a couple of days they go. that has been supported by some companies and some western countries and we know that france we know that russi

twist democracy to fit their will you could look to russia but it's way and then there is turkey president erda one's political party lost control of is stamboul in municipal elections back in march it was such a shock to airtel one that next month istanbul will repeat it's election tonight i'll ask a key party what's the plan next time to make sure the will of the people follows the plan of the president i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. for the shuttle launch course has been cheating has been corruption pulis is clear and unambiguous candidate in the list came from somebody who doesn't want to lose his policies so it's no surprise because my fellow citizens trying to take away the elections we've won on the evening of march the thirty first they have tried to steal our halls would be no this is a pre-planned game n.p. election authority is a part of. this decision doesn't represent voters it clearly has been ignoring the people's will do you think they've. come on let's go before the people and we will accept what the people's wish to times. is the simplest but. also coming up

triggered a diplomatic crisis between germany and turkey. and in. refugee and foreign embassies in caracas fearing arrest by the government of president. so-called opposition leader. remains free. hello and welcome. good to have you with us the trade dispute between the u.s. and china is heating up and could have far reaching consequences for the global economy the two sides have been in intense negotiations in washington all week but u.s. treasury secretary steven says his talks with chinese vice premier league are done . today beijing says it will take what it calls necessary counter measures after washington increased tariffs on some two hundred billion dollars of imports from china this international trade war is escalating. and let's go over to our correspondent in washington all of a sonnet one of the trade talks have ended for the day not long after they began what happened. you know those who are brief talks in fact but that did not come as a surprise. the negotiators said even before hand that it would be unlikely that a that an agreement w

now going on you know turkey being able to regain some control of kurdish areas. is the city close to a free in a free and has been taken over by turkey last year took it really wants to get this last point and russia could say go ahead mr i don't want you take it and we will take inside it live whatever we consider crucial to the regime's power they will thank you so much for explaining that. thank you. phil take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world pro-government forces in libya after forces you have clashed with forces supporting the rebel general. on the southern edges of the capital tripoli but these pictures were posted on the facebook page of have to ourselves libyan national army and he's been trying to convey he's been trying to take the city since the beginning of april. may and has freed two journalists jailed after every force on the country's treatment of its mostly minority wow alone and qualls soul who were arrested in december twenty seventh day in and convicted of violating the official secrets act it was sentenced

financial system but it fails to stall turkey's all supply problem turkey's relations with the us are strange two of the major problems are u.s. support for the kurdish fighters in syria out with turkey calls terrorists and the us stopping deliveries of f. the device that's what plays because turkey refuses to cancel a deal to buy air rushing the missile defense system and with the domestic issues such as weak currency and troubled economy it seems difficult for the turkish government to stand against u.s. sanctions on neighboring iran see now because all of al-jazeera the stumble. in france anti-government protesters marched for the twenty fifth straight. tweek turnout was down dozens of yellow vests demonstrators gathered in paris and other cities on saturday earlier in the week though as violence as tens of thousands of them took to the streets on may day hundreds were arrested after the street battles with police proposals by the government to increase tax on fuel triggered the first protests late last year the measure was never put in place but demonstrations continue. the issue

this is day eight of the news live from southern turkey as presidents roger typewriter and scores a victory in the fight for control of istanbul after a protracted legal legal battle officials now say the elections in the country's biggest city must be. the opposition who narrowly defeated the president's party say the decision to select the site of the country it's a plane dictatorship on the program united nations warns that a million of the primate species face extinction and a lot involved with the earth's threatening fire diversity. has been. the most amazing things are going over the course of three months when it's a boy holiday i'm just wife meggan the duchess of sussex welcomed britain's latest . i'm phil gal welcome to the program. election officials in turkey have scrapped the results of a controversial vote for the mayor of istanbul a humiliating defeat for president reggie. is ruling a k party one much is the local elections over all but last key merril contests in . the party had challenge the legitimacy of the vote will not be held on the twenty third of june. as. corresponde

of turkey's electoral board that ministers all turkey's elections during there will be a new vote held on june twenty third what are winning that rerun. what is going to be very hard he will face a galvanized opposition who are outraged over what they say is their greed just act of taking away their fair and square victory on top of that is believe that the k.p. party is deeply divided over this move to a vote there are many. voices of dissatisfaction a feeling that the country needs to move on to address the problem of the economy now on top of the economy that is going to be the biggest challenge unemployment food inflation running at over thirty percent and a tanking currency and there is going to be growing concerns is what will do to change the narrative to give him a chance to win and this is adding to fueling concerns that have already led to further falls in the turkish currency and the fear of political and economic chaos as his election unfolds story it's hard to under play the significance of the president party refusing to accept the results of a vote that they lost what do

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on up front today we'll debate why turkey is rerunning a major election but 1st i'll challenge nobel peace laureate and former liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf on corruption nepotism and the prosecution of war crimes. ellen johnson sirleaf thank you for joining me up front it's been more than a year since you left office as president of liberia you came into power off the back of a peace deal that followed decades of war and violence and. you ended your mandate with liberia's 1st successful democratic transition in 73 years you're the 1st woman to lead an african nation a nobel peace prize winner and yet some might say you've been more popular abroad than you have been at home what do you say to them. well you know i think your point really went around the country where i spent a lot of time going into rural areas able to work with farmers and road women and and trade is you know i found that i was very well connected with them but also it's in the cities some of the positions i took maybe not popular then that's fine but i also know that i had to be out in the global communi

you've got the russians, iran, turkey. all forces and israel to some extent of course we have a person. i know there's a sort o there in for the political process and by thinking 2021 some sort of election. can that be done with any legitimacy and what role would he play in that? >> is a complicated situation. i've been involved in other ones that are difficult as well and for better or for worse i was the ambassador in 2011 and i think we mistakenly as you said withdrew in the united nations and the bus were able to turn to people and say no reconstruction assistance until he allows free and fair elections and no return to the era of league until he does far more to have his own population returned to their homes. so, this has been working to it essentially freeze the political side of the conflict until we do have the un process move forwa forward. we are doing everything we can to freeze that the complexion line sent to turn them into 2254 cease-fires that are administered. since last summer there's been no significant

see the clouds down here particular down towards the southeast not so much the southern coast of turkey or greece we'll get to that just one moment but tickles your forecast map here on saturday plenty of rain all the way across parts of moscow as well putting that into motion from saturday to sunday the rain continues to move towards the east we've got some more rain coming out of the mediterranean bring some rain to parts of italy as well here across the peninsula well by the time we end the weekend things look good there with the temperature of 27 and the temperatures across the southern part of turkey we are talking to the high thirty's from many locations well here across the northern part of africa we are looking at a lot of rain for the next several days notice anywhere from parts of algiers over here towards tunisia the rain will pretty much be along the coastal areas in algiers you are going to be seeing the rain over the next few days tunas as well as we take a look at sunday though things get a little bit better towards the west but still lingering clouds and rain are going t

high security turkish prison because of denny's triggered a diplomatic crisis between germany and turkey. the homeless man in paris with thirty thousand twitter followers he doesn't just get lots of light action to from the city authority. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the trade dispute between the u.s. and china is heating up and could have far reaching into consequences for the global economy president says there's no rush to strike a deal the two sides have been locked in tense negotiations in washington this week but u.s. treasury secretary stephen a new shin says is talks with china's vice premier you they are done for today beijing says it will take what it calls necessary countermeasure after washington increased tariffs on to her. hundred billion dollars of imports from china this trade war is escalating. and let's go over to our correspondent in washington all of us saw that all over the trade talks have ended for the day not long after they began what happened. you know those were brief talks in fact but that did not come as a surprise. the negotiators said ev

turkey orders a rerun of the stumbles my all of the action after the president's party loses to the opposition. i'm done. one hundred years after the presence of the former first lady eva peron can still be found all over argentina. we start with some breaking news into reuters journalists jailed in me and have been released under a presidential amnesty they were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation it was sentenced to seven years in prison with the investigation into me and a crisis but immediately after his release thank people around the world who lobbied for his release. later said thank you. really have. i can with my user. let's go live now to wayne hay in bangkok so no doubt the families will be very happy this morning. yes no doubt this has been a very trying time of course over the course of the past seventeen months for the family members of while lone and sure they are both young fathers that made it particularly difficult for them and i think quite fitting there in that sound bite that you just played from while alone that he said that he couldn't wa

locations now you can see aleppo we're talking about 30 degrees there even the southern coast of turkey is seeing into the low thirty's over the next few days not a lot in terms of rain we did have wildfires in israel those have been controlled but aleppo 34 degrees as those temperatures rise baghdad we do expect to see a time to them of about 41 well here across the gulf well looking quite nice here in doha terms as about seasonal for this time of year about $38.00 degrees we expect to see but we do expect to see some more rain across parts of yemen so for sauna some showers pushing through there and as we go towards monday a little bit of break but up towards mist got a nice day for you with a temperature of 35 degrees and then very quickly here across parts of southern africa we are seeing some clouds across parts of cape town for durban johannesburg you are going to be into the low twenty's over the next few days but by the time we get towards monday we do expect to see more rain across parts of madagascar some showers could be quite heavy at 21 degrees but harare it is going to be

insists turkey must choose between russia a four hundred missile defense system and the american f. thirty five fighter jets it can't have bullets on her essays that's blackmail and the deal is already been done but the us as threatening sanctions against nato ally so can a compromise be reached turkey face it needs immediate solution to what it feels that threat to its national security team ampicillin of al-jazeera stumble. israel's new parliament has been sworn in three weeks after the general election the knesset is made up of one hundred and twenty members who will be holding their seats for the first time prime minister benjamin netanyahu is now leading negotiations with coalition partners to form the next government more from harry full set in west jerusalem. with ceremonials began with the arrival of the israeli president reagan rivlin he inspected an honor guard outside the knesset building before coming into the hall to preside over the swearing in of one hundred twenty members of this twenty first israeli knesset now all of this serving as the backdrop to the real politic

the pillagers happened over a century ago but turkey isn't ready to forget. like china and italy turkey has made the restitution of its treasures a political priority. within its culture ministry the turkish government has set up a special restitution unit. forty or so lawsuits have already been won resulting in the return of over four thousand objects. one of the special units successes is the restitution of this music of orpheus stolen in the nine hundred fifty s. then purchased by the dallas museum of art after several years of legal wrangling the museum was obliged to return it. while pillage nations like turkey have a legal framework to demand reparations this isn't the case in the private sector where only the market rules. in this antique shop window how many artifacts have a perfectly established origin in many cases it's practically impossible to verify . does the private antiquities market have its own rules immune to international legislation you know asco had attempted to extend its nine hundred seventy convention to better control private transac

when you take a look at the position of turkey in the. clashes speeches by. turkey is very. few it's. more than 3500000. turkey and russia work together in syria and sponsor a ceasefire in the area but the offensive is testing their relationship at a time of intensifying dialogue between turkey and the united states the area of hostilities includes a belt of territory that stretches from the northern countryside of. provinces reaching the southern edges of province as well as rebel controlled villages west of aleppo city the product side wants to clear those areas from rebels in order to open trade arteries and protect. aleppo cities under its control but little progress has been made so far advancing on the ground is proving to be difficult the offensive however has depopulated villages and created a humanitarian crisis. the almost nonstop airstrikes by syrian and russian jets on opposition controlled villages intensified since the rebel advance at least $200.00 civilians have been killed in turkey and russian ties have so far survived their relationship extends beyond syri

turkey orders a rerun of the stumbles my all election after the president's party loses to the opposition. visits by sports stars to the white house of becoming controversial of the president trump. let's start with some breaking news to reuters journalists jailed in me and all have been released under a presidential amnesty they were convicted in december in a case that drew international condemnation and was sentenced to seven years in prison over their investigation into myanmar crisis and immediately after his release. people around the world. like to say thank you must be really happy. that i can with all my used. laura hay is the research of amnesty international joins us now live from bangkok are you celebrating today. yet this is wonderful news for you and their families are they being imprisoned for over five hundred days five hundred days too many ultimately they should never have been in prison in the first place and this was a pretty shocking case actually about how the how the myanmar authorities treat journalists who try to try to report on military abuses by obviously yes w

financial system but it fails to salt turkey's all supply problem turkey's relations with the us are strange two of the major problems are u.s. support for the kurdish fighters in syria out with turkey calls terrorists and the u.s. stopping deliveries of if the device that's what plays because turkey refuses to cancel a deal to buy air rushing the missile defense system and with the domestic issues such as weak currency and troubled economy it seems difficult for the turkish government to stand against u.s. sanctions on neighboring iran see now because all of al-jazeera a stumble our scientists are hoping the world's deepest lake is our bring something which could help us saw new types of antibiotics have been found in cross stations lurking in the depths of lake baikal in russia but as steadfast in reports now more research needs to be done before patients can benefit. it's more than twenty five million years old six hundred kilometers long and holds a rich history of information about a changing climate and species this is siberia's lake baikal scientists recently found that one cr