guest: it has been a good thing for the turkish president. turkey still faces a problem of large numbers of refugees and the possibility now that turkey could face rising tensions with the very powerful country of russia. anchor: gentlemen, to both of you, thank you very much. the turkish president possibly visit was overshadowed by a short but explosive incident near turkey's border with syria. a russian plane violated turkey's airspace. it was only there for a few seconds, yet the white house and nato are calling it a provocation. ankara is exclaiming its rules of engagement are clear. from now on, the military says even if it is a flying bird, it will be intercepted. reporter: unfavorable weather conditions were to blame according to the russian defense ministry. officials said the fighter jet was only in turkish airspace for a few seconds, but nato strongly condemned the incursion into turkish territory. >> i just met with the foreign minister of turkey to discuss the unacceptable violations of turkish airspace by russian combat aircraft.

to theurn right now turkish prime minister, the turkish prime minister davutoglu who said the suicideers may have been responsible. >> we will continue our investigation regarding -- at the moment, potential group second carry out such an attack are obvious. pkk, leftist, martin luther king p, and others. conference of investigation underway regarding potential suspects. our ministers of health, justice and interior have given detailed information regarding the attack. according to the evidence we have, there are strong suggestions this attack was carried out by two suicide bombers. amy: speaking saturday, hdp leader condemned the remarks made by the turkish prime minister following the attacks. >> they came to a point in playing the hdp bond its own rallies and killed people to gain support the an votes. the prime minister talked about half an hour. he's first 20 minutes insulting us. the prime ministers and half the time threatening me while talking about in event where 100 people lost our lives. did you hear one word of condemnation from isis? ,> our guests are hisyar Özsoy member

air force, the turkish air force along the border. inevitably, this increases the opportunity for one side shooting down the plane of another. anchor: thank you. on, a french press agency is reporting french airstrikes in syria might have killed french jihadists. there has been no official confirmation from the defense ministry. it is understood french strikes on friday targeted a training camp for islamic state militants. it is the second time french jets have targeted i.s. c amps in syria. on a visit, the prime minister questioned whether the strikes have targeted french nationals but refused to confirm. joining us is our specialist on jihadists. we have not had confirmation from the french government of this. >> it has been a contradiction because official sources said french jihadis were targeted. the ministry of defense did not confirm it, as you just said. you should know the first strike that targeted islamic state militants in syria was made against a camp created and monitored by the french jihadi. this is what we should poin

this attack by the turkish air forces, the turkish military - they say they have hit a couple of weaponstorage facility. the military doesn't say it was targeted by the p.k.k., but they were statics targets that the turkish military decided to strike. >> do we know yet whether the p.k.k. will maintain the unilateral offer of a ceasefire, or whether it will resume fighting now. >> no, it's far too early to be told anything about that. there's no notification, no reaction to these strikes by the turkish military, just confirmation from the turkish military. >> on the other matter of great concern to many turkish people, that's the events in ankara, there has been a commemoration ceremony to mark the 95 people or so that lost their lives in what is amounting to the worst single attack on turkey's territory >>> yes, there was a commemoration at the scene of the bombing earlier on today, led by the trade unionists and the co-chair of the people of the h.d.p., the pro-kurdish party. a lot of its supporters were killed. >> the co-chair of htp was - has blamed the attacks on the murderous state.

air strikes against turkish fighters. the economy and party politics may have topped the agenda in the last election but now security and or the lack of it is the concern >>> the prime minister said the attack is aimed at destructing the countries way of life. >> this is tack is targeting every aspect of our society *. our citizens have seen this attack as targeting themselves, their children, and their families. there is no citizen who does not share the deep sorrow for those who have lost their loved ones in these attacks. our democracy has been a target >>> turkey's pro-kurdish party has accused turky of not doing enough to stop the attack. * >>> members of political parties and people who don't want blood to be shed just like the majority of the country. >>> four palestinians have been killed in palestine. we're crossing over to ramallah. set the scene for us in ramallah. what's been going on there today? >>reporter: this standoff has been going on since a few hours already. this is on the main round about. yesterday

nato has held an emergency meeting in brussels after a turkish exit -- after turkish f-16 fighter jets were scrambled after a russian warplane entered turkish airspace. them toled on immediately explain the violation. reporter: it is days since moscow launched airstrikes in syria. an aerial incursion into turkish airspace by a russian fighter jet has sent pulses racing. >> they said it was a mistake, that they respected turkey borders, and it would not happen again. reporter: they urged russia to cease, this is, and explain it's a. >> i call on russia to fully respect turkish airspace. i urge them to align their actions with the steps of the international community in the fight against isil. reporter: russia claims it has been doing up. others claim it has targeted the moderate rebels. >> we have continued airstrikes on the islamic state of syria. >> their approach, which is to support assad rather than a political transition, and meanwhile, fight the opponents of assad of all different kinds, is doomed to fail. reporter: tough talking from washington, but no one has denied that the ba

>>> at least 30 have been killed in an attack during a peace rally in the turkish capital ankara >>> hello, you're with al jazeera, i'm martine dennis, live from doha. also coming up, another palestinian is shot dead as tensions simmer across israel and the occupied territories. >>> a grand military spectacle and a warning to the united states. north korea celebrates the 70th anniversary of the ruling party >>> and we are in nepal where anger over the new constitution is causing a shortage of basic supplies >>> at least 30 people have been killed in two explosions in the turkish capital ankara. the blast happened during a the blast happened during a morning peace rally near the main train station. the turkish government called it a terrorist attack, and are investigating claims that a suicide bomber was responsible. >> reporter: calls for peace drowned by the sounds of explosions. this was the moment of -- a bomb targeted a peace rally in the turkish capital ankara. death and chaos ensued. this was the scene outside the main train station moments after. dozens of people were reported

that left eight turks and one dual turkish american dead. >> there is sympathy among the turkish citizenry of humanitarian rights. but allied that public sympathy for palestinian rights with political support for hamas. >> turkey has a porous 800 mile border, a smugglers' haven for centuries. now turkey's neighbors syria and iraq are swept up in violence and turmoil. president erdogan was once a leaf ally of bashar al-assad. but crossing the border into syria to fight against the assad regime. over time, many armed militants have joined the islamic state of iraq and the levant, beginning in 2013, i.s.i.l. forces swept across northern syria and northern and western iraq. capturing iraq's second largest city, plowls i mosul, in june 2. turkey chose to ignore black market oil smuggled into the territory. black market oil supplies i.s.i.l. with as much as $2 million a day in revenue. >> now if i.s.i.l. is smuggling oil over that border, well maybe some turkish people benefit from that. not a great security for turkey, but turkey's view of the islamic state is slightly ambivalent, they are dete

the turkish military is keeping up its operations against p.k.k. targets. >> thank you for that update from istanbul. >> still ahead on al jazeera, there's tight security in guinea as people vote for a president after days of fighting between rival supporters. >> how family farms are dying out with yuck people moving to the cities for cleaner pastures. >> they don't fear anything. >> they're consuming economically important species >> we're offering something on our menu that no-one else is offering. >> the top stories on al jazeera, human rights watch has accused israel forces of using excessive force against palestinians in the latest wave of protests and violence. since the beginning, 23 palestinians have been killed by israeli forces. four israelis have tied in attacks by palestinians. the iraqi air force said it has struck the convoy of isil leader al baghdadi. his fate is unknown. >> thousands of people have gathered in the turkish capital to remember the 95 victim of saturday's bombings at a peace rally. two suicide bombers carried out the a

local time after crossed into turkish airport under turkish laws of engagement aimed at syria.it allows them to shoot down any plane coming from syria that enters turkish airspace. it believes it crashed around five kilometers into turkish territory. this area is very sensitive as islamic straight controlled one of the region. sarah: what does this do for the russian, turkish relations? >> and will add to tensions, undoubtedly. added to that it will add to turkish warnings to moscow that any of its planes approach to this air sprays then they will face these rules of engagement and can be shot down. turkey was very angry over the fact that they have violated turkish airspace. they have put one, the smells, notice that it will not be tolerated anymore. sarah: they say the drone is not there, so what is turkey basing these accusations on? >> at the moment they are providing very little evidence to support this claim. analysts do say that this could mean it is an iranian drone. if that is the case it will then likely be operated by the syrian military, not the russians. sarah: tij

nato said the plane had been repeatedly warned by the turkish air force not to come into turkish air space but he did anyway. there are two accounts of what happened there. >> saying russian should explain itself immediately why there was any curgs but also incursion. >> hasn't made responses yet but it's pretty clear what russia is likely to say about this. because russia's position on syria and on the different groups fighting in syria at the moment has been fairly consistent. and essentially, while the west makes distinctions between i.s.i.l. and the other groups that are fighting, and it likes to see some of those groups as more moderate, it is those groups it's been supplying with weapons and training. russia doesn't view it in that way at all. for russia these are all enemies of president bashar al-assad and bashar al-assad is russia's ally. and russia is in syria for moment to shore up bashar al-assad's assets to protect him, essentially. so it's going after any of these groups that it sees as oparticular threat to bashar al-assad, whoever they may be. not just going after i.s

there was yet another -- if we believe turkish sources -- a violation of airspace on the turkish-syrian border. president erdogan reacted sharply, saying it would be a great pity if russia were to lose cooperation with turkey and he accused the russian president of maintaining a state of terror in syria. an hour or two later, we hear from moscow the sweetest tunes -- let's all get together, sit down and talk about command structures and how we can avoid these measures in syria. brent: it is like nato has to juggle a lot of balls right now. add to that, russia now has ground troops in syria. guest: that is what they have said. around one airbase mainly used by russians, there has been not only a military buildup, but more than military advisers and the service personnel that usually comes with sophisticated weaponry. moscow strenuously denies that. however, what seems to be clear, that president assad is preparing for a ground offensive supported by iranian revolutionary guards and supposedly even a number of russian personnel. brent: it reminds me of when we were talking about those gre

yes turkish authorities were unable to prevent the attack. turkish authorities were unable to prevent the attack, the worst of its kind in the country. it came only three weeks ahead of the general election, which is still set to take place. the attack is causing further divisions in an already polarized country. laura: turkish officials have been attempting to link that attack to the outlawed kurdish and they have, been cracking down on kurdish fighters in northern syria for three months now. today, turkey summoned the u.s. and russian ambassadors to warm then against -- to warm them -- to warn them against armed groups. reporter: setting the record straight. after saturday's bomb attacks in ankara, the turkish prime minister called the u.s. and russian ambassadors when the message -- ambassadors with the message. deepens, investigation we concluded through twitter it ists and ip addresses, highly likely both the islamic state group and the pkk might be behind those attacks. turkey cannot accept any kind of cooperation with terror organizati

have been saying and we heard what the turkish prime minister thought, that is being told to turkish represents and government earlier today by the russians that this is a mistake, that it won't happen again, there has been no official comment other than what the kremlin has said. the russians will take that information back and checking it, verifying it. that's what we've heard so far, though. there have been other comments around the issues like the defense or the foreign minister talking, saying that he would like to see some cooperation between russian and american forces on their bombing campaign on syria, but nothing to do with this incursion into turkish air space. >> it may have been a mistake. it may not have been a mistake. we may find out in the hours to come. but what is clear is that russia has said that it is going to target armed opposition groups. now nato is saying don't. just go after isil. that's a bone of contention that has not been removed. >> yes? nato does not believe this was a mistake by the russian war plains, it thinks this was a calculated attempt to prob

the turkish story gets darker. in the cross hairs, the group declares private channels satanic and on the list for emim nation. oil money, it's a slippery slope. news of the refugees by the refugees for danish readers. in the past four months since fays one of the turkish election, we have returned to the "listening post". turkey's media landscape is diverse, noisy and has become polarized and under pressure. this past week when twin bomb blasts rip through a peace valley, the change of reporting the story was magnified by the tension felt across the media. authorities were swift to issue orders, forbidding pictures of the blast, and instructing telephone operatos to slow down. there were stories unfolding in turkey, the battle between the military and kurdish fighters. the air strikes on i.s.i.l. in syria, and there's phase 2 of a make or break election. a key party came across the airwaves, in the past two weeks there has been more attacks. and a series of opposition broadcasters taken off the air. as turkey head

the turkish military says. despite the p.k.k. calling that ceasefire, the turkish military is keeping up its campaign against what it deems a terrorist group. >> do we have any idea as to whether the p.k.k. will maintain it's self declared ceasefire of yesterday or whether it is abandoning that or is ready to enter the fray again. >> there's no immediate reaction from the p.k.k. about the strikes on the turkish military. the p.k.k. said it wouldn't engage, it wouldn't take part or launch attacks against the turkish military on its own. what they do in response to this, they have not made a comment yet. there was a meeting, a gathering in ankara, at the scene. bombings, where people gathered to remember those that killed. they spoke to the people gathered there, and blamed the government for what had happened on saturday. turkish president recep tayyip erdogan said that this was a heinous attack. and said it targeted our unity and our country's peace. >> bernard smith life in istanbul. thank you >>> now, the taliban claimed respon

the russians said it was an accident, their plane coming into turkish air space, the turkish saying no it wasn't. >> turkey feels this was perhaps a premeditated russian incursion into turkish air space. >> with what in mind? >> i think that turkey is deeply unhappy with the russian air campaign against the anti-assad forces primarily located northwestern syria. turkey has expressed its unease, regarding this russian air campaign. the fact that russia established an air base in latakia on the syrian coastline, on the mediterranean sea, and president erdogan himself expressed these deep reservations towards russia. >> it all seems rather difficult at the moment to put it mildly. but imagine if the russians continue to attack what they say are terrorist groups inside syria which turkey and the west say are simply opposition groups, could turkey then be in the position of supplying more aid to these others who are fighting assad and the russians would be effectively coming in and taking them out, that possibility of a conflagration where turkey is attacking russian assisted people is even

a peace rally in the turkish capitol. they killed nearly a hundred people with you know -- unofficial death tolls much higher. >> she didn't want war, she wanted peace. and they killed her, say this woman who lost her sister in the blast. the attack follows an upsurge in violence between the turkish government and militants from turkey's kurdish minority. today as kurdish politicians tried to lay flowers at the scene of the attack, there was a confrontation with police. who said investigators were still working at the site. nobody's claimed spoblght. as many of the mourners believe the turkish government is to blame because they say it stirred up unrest ahead of a national election next month. but the turkish prime minister said that kurdish militants and isis were possible suspects. turkey used to be held up as a rare example of civility and democracy in the middle east. but jeff, just three weeks away from a national election, in which kurdish voters could play a decisive role, the mood here in turkey is tense with many

visas for turkish citizens and reenergized e.u. member ship talks, that could cause a problem with some e.u. leaders, couldn't it? >> well, that's it, angela merkel is only 10 days ago said that she was opposed to turkish membership of the european union. there has to be on the visa issue a qualified majority of e.u. member union states can grant that union free actions to the zone, i understand but needs one major country to back it amongst all the other e.u. countries. it only takes a few countries to oppose the idea of visa free access and it's shelved again. none of this is clear. it's by no means certain at all that turkey will get the access to the european union it wants. you might ask how will europe work out if turkey has stopped? how will they know whether they stopped access anyway. winter's around the corner, the numbers go down naturally as the weather worse wees. the big test might go in spring and summer of next year. >> bernard, thank you. >> bernard in istanbul, there. >> turkish prime minister has said a solution

the turkish air force as they gave three verbal warnings to move.didn't, so they shot it down. it is not largely particular, about a 2-meter or so wingspan, and it doesn't have any identification. there are reports that the americans believe the drone is russian. earlier on this month, russian jets twice violated turkish air space as they fly combat missions over syria, and the russians have apologized for those two violations and set up a working group to try to make sure it doesn't .happen again. but it highlights the dangers faced by all parties. this is the first time since world war ii that nato and russian aircraft have been flying combat missions in the same air space. all parties keen to make sure that the others know what they are doing, so there isn't a risk of any escalation or confrontation between nato and russian aircraft. >> dozens of people have been killed in two separate.com attacks in northeastern nigeria. two female suicide bombers blew themselves up. earlier two suicide bombers targeted a mosque in the city. 30 were killed there

what can you tell us about what happened in the turkish capital today. >> okay. until now, the only official statement is what the turkish minister made. he said many are wounded. according so sources it was a suicide bomb blast, but no official confirmed that. people gathered in front of the ankara railway stakes, and at the time of the explosion, it happened. what happened, what i saw, it was half hour after the explosion, there was a lot of ambulances coming in and out. there was a lot of bodies and wounded people on the ground asking for help. right now police don't let anyone in. >> tell us about the rally, tell us about the peace rally, who the organizers were. who the participants were, and what they were buying in defense of. >> they were here for peace in turkey. here to put [ inaudible ] unions and kurdish forces, fighters. [ inaudible ] they were here to protect the government. >> and this, of course, comes against a backdrop. increased security concerns throughout the country, that have beset turkey for the last month or so. are i'm afraid we have los

. >> tells russia to keep its planes out of turkish air space. good to have you with us, you're watching al jazeera, live from london. i'm david foster. the air strike on a medical clinic in afghanistan killed 22 people. 22-year-old palestinian boy shot dead during altercation with israeli security forces. >>> tape taptranspacific partne. >> after in kabul can bring us up to date. exactly what do you say? >> david i was speaking to a senior official at the time ministry of interior. he confirms to us that a suicide car bomber detonated his explosive in front of a house of a former governor for helmond province. there is another house also being targeted which belongs to an advisor to the president, but that will not be confirmed right now. we believe a number of attackers have intler entered these build, special forces have been brought to the area and the area has been cordoned off. taliban spokespersons have telegraphed us and claimed responsibility for that. the name of this attack is an important afghan intelligence office. we heard also from

why a turkish classic? the long forgotten the state is back on the agenda, according to this article. their season of dÉjÀ vu in the country. this article is incredibly critical of the ruling. genie godula: let's move on to other papers across the country. they say that the u.s. has delivered weapons to rebel groups fighting in syria. we talk about washing delivering arms to rebel groups. also reporting on these ramifications. it urges greater say ever since russia began air attacks in support of the syrian government, they have been receiving us-made government weapons. this is turned into a proxy war between the u.s. and russia. it is now the u.s. versus russia in syria, and nails to talk about this proxy war that is starting to emerge. where papersrance are focusing on an announcement made yesterday that six inch jihadists were killed and a french airstrike. they talk about this anonymous but official france source that says the air raid was carried out late thursday night against an islamic state group.

turkish government officials called it a terror attack. al jazeera has the latest from the turkish capital. >> reporter: calls for peace drowned by the sounds of explosio explosions. this was the moment targetting a peace rally in ankara. this was the scene outside the main train station after. dozens of people were reported to have been killed significantly, the final death toll, however, is still unclear. hundreds of turks had gathered to participate in what was called a peace rally. it was organized by trade unions and other groups calling for a resumption in peace talks between the governments and the armed kurdish separatist group, the p.k.k. the security situation in turkey became volatile in recent months. the peace process between the government and the p.k.k. collapsed. p.k.k. killed more than 40 soldiers in recent months, and the turkish army conducted several air strikes against fighters. turks are scheduled to vote in parliamentary elections in a few weeks. the economy in party politics may have topped the agenda in the last el

i speak good turkish. he's not talking turkish. it must be greek. it was like, yes!ed on the ground with my arms in the air. more soldiers came up and running. and i'm on the ground, laughing like a loon. i knew at that point, i made it. i landed at jfk. there was my dad, his hair all silver. and he was ecstatic to see me, as i was to see him. there is a photo of me and my dad sitting there. and i was, like, hanging onto him. once again, i'm a little boy, and my father's taking care of me. >> still feel guilty about it? >> oh, terribly guilty. terribly guilty. you know, my dad has been dead three years now, and i still feel guilty. once i got out, everything changed. i was a happy guy, and i was on top of the world. you know, i've got a book and i've got a movie and i made money. and i met my wife. and i had a wonderful life. and all that good stuff. but deep down, i still feel somehow i had to make -- make it up to him, what i put -- put him through. looking back now, i can talk about it being experience and life, and i learned so much. and i did. but the cost to my

people and turkish president. what happened is an act of terrorism. and surely this is an attempt to destabilize our neighboring and friendly country. all the more so, it was committed in the course of an election campaign. it's an obvious provocation. >> we have a political science professor, he blames the government for what he calls increased lawlessness across turkey. >> what needs to be expressed here is who has political responsibility. and it is clear that the government has primary political responsibility for first failing to protect the right to live of all its citizens as it should indiscriminately. and second, for failing to -- for contributing to an atmosphere of polarization and to lawlessness. in fact, the party, the government and president regularly conduct rallies that are of much bigger scale than the one yesterday. >> the taliban claimed responsibility for a morning suicide attack in kabul. at least three people were wounded in the explosion. at least 37 people have been killed after five suici

you have the turkish prime minister saying it's an attack on the state. and then you have the head of the hdp, the pro-kurdish opposition party. for the first time in their history coming out and directly blaming the state for the violence that took place. and, you know, we're outside of where the autopsies are happening on the bodies of the dead. everyone here in such shock. but people already, you know, playing this blame game and talking about how political it is. even while there are so many who are, you know, in tears. so much has been lost. people are also coming out in solidarity at this stage, bringing things like blankets and food. but everyone also expressing their concern about what's going to happen next. how is the country going to actually secure itself? and, yes, how is this going to translate politically speaking when it comes to those november 1st parliamentary elections. >> she's the chair of turkish studies at the london school of economics. thank you for being with me. look, you have said in the hours following this attack today that,

turkish officials suspect isis or kurdish rebels are behind the deadly attacks. turkey -- err right -- they're raising carried out unlimited number of strikes on the group as well. the leader of turkey kurdish party says those responsible will be caught. >> we are in great pain and great anger. we have the strength and the courage to bring them into account. for. the turkish government imposing temporary blackout of the terror attack aftermath. a government spokesman said this was done so as not to create a feeling of panic. many people are reporting not being able to access social media web sites for hours after the blast. christina. christina: lidia curanaj thank you. are three shootings in fewer than four days. yesterday an 18-year-old freshman died after being shot next to a student housing complex. two men have been detained in connection with that shooting rate a few hours earlier there was another shooting at the same complex. no one was hurt there and on tuesday university police say one person was hurt when shots were fired after an on-campus poetry even

turkish police stormed the istanbul headquarters. the opposition claims the move is to silence them. also coming up, volkswagen begins to account for the image and scandal. -- for the in missions -- for the e-mail scandal. the daring escape of the pilots that spent decades behind bars. that was in the dominican republic. first our top stories. iran has said it will for the first time participate in international talks over syria. iran's response comes a day after washington declared itself ready to engage with its longtime book. mohammad javad zarif will join john kerry. -- russia's farm minister foreign minister. serrated -- surgeon like rough. there is what our correspondent had to say. >> with the united states -- it is really more involving saudi arabia. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry persuaded the saudi foreign minister that it would be beneficial for these talks, for iran to be included. because iran has very direct channels with president bashar al-assad in syria. it is a reality that iran has to be involved. the forei

anchor: the turkish president was in brussels for talks with the eu.e urged the eu to consider a saison in northern syria -- safe zone in northern syria where refugees could take refuge. >> and apparent united front to address the migrant crisis. during tense discussions in ,russels, the turkish president his country already housing 2 million refugees, proposed a plan. one that was brought into question by western officials. >> if we wish to resolve the refugee crisis, there are three issues we need to consider. one to focus on training and equipment. two, to declare a safe zone. three, a no-fly zone. >> differences between the two parties are greater than ever. created a zone to shelter refugees. it is urging turkey to do more to stop the flow of hundreds of thousands that have landed on its sure. >> the situation or that hundreds of thousands are fleeing to the eu and it must be stopped. we expect turkey to manage its border, just the same. anchor: the israeli military has torn down the homes of two palestinian militants in east jerusalem responsible

>> >>> two explosions at a peace rally in the turkish capital ankara. reports of at least seven dead >>> hello. you're with al jazeera, i'm martine dennis, live from our headquarters in doha. also coming up, israeli forces shoot dead another palestinian in gaza as tensions continue in the west bank and occupied east jerusalem >>> celebrations in north korea as it commemorates 70 years since the founding of its ruling party >>> and a move to preserve florida's everglades. will it come at a price for the air boat culture >>> now, we start with breaking news out of turkey. there has been two explosions in the capital ankara. there are suggestions of props as many as 20 people having been killed. some media reports are talking of seven people have been been killed. as i say, other media reports suggesting perhaps 20 people have been killed. let's gone on the line to istanbul, and our correspondent. what can you tell us? >> what we are hearing, unfortunately, today, is that in the capital ankara there was, unfortunately, with a peace rally that was expecting

the turkish currency lost a little currency against the dollar. because of an increase in stability after the june 7th election, when there was no overall winner and no one able to form a coalition, the p.k.k. increases attacks, and the government increases crackdown on the p.k.k., in turkey and northern iraq. there has been another suicide bombing a couple of months ago. and this one, yes, security is the main focus of concern, and i imagine in the weeks running up to the november 1st election, security will be at the forefront of the campaigning for the second round, a second attempt to have an election in turkey. >> thank you for that. bernard smith in istanbul >>> world leaders condemned the bombings in turkey. u.s. president obama offered condolences and they stand in solidarity. russian president vladimir putin called the attacks an act of terrorism. >> i want to expression deep condolences to the turkish people and president. what happened is an act of terrorism, an attempt to destabilize the country. all the more so committed in the course

according to turkish estimate. 3 million potential refugees may come from aleppo and its neighborhood. >>> prisoners at a pen 10 share any southern brazil are rioting over bad conditions and overcrowding. they have over powered guards and have taken at least 10 people hostage. caroline malone reports. >> reporter: they are supposed to be serving time for crime, but prisoners are in control of this unit at the state jail. they are armed with knives and sticks and have threatened to though their hostage says, fellow inmates off the roof if their demands are not met. their complaints have been heard before. conditions are inhuman and prisons are notoriously overcrowded. there are nearly 600,000 people in prisons across the country in cells designed to hold less than 300,000. many of them around 40% haven't yet seen a young and so have not yet been convicted of any crime. >> these prisons are full with people waiting for trial. who are held together with convicted prisoners. that's a violation of international law. >>

the attacks carried out the turkish government speculating. some of those gathered here are here because their loved ones are being treated inside. they read out a name, a list of the names of the wounded who are here. others have come to donate blood. some are bringing food, tea, things like blankets. you heard from the prime minister earlier in the day declaring three days of mourning. also saying that the intelligence apparatus have received information that suicide bombers would be trying to come from northern iraq into turkey, he said. adding without going into too much detail that the authorities had captured two suicide bombers, not exactly disclosing when this happened. but those two, the issue with today's attack was at this rally where around 14,000 people had gathered when the blast took place at about 10:00 in the morning, this was meant to be a peace rally. and there wasn't necessarily a very intense security presence at the time. this is a country that has been grappling with terrorism. the government launching, targeting, trying

what are the main turkish concerns over the russian airstrikes? >> of course turkish concerns are entirely different, contradicting to a large extent with the russian concerns. turkey supports moderate opposition factions in syria, while for russia, these moderate, or less moderate factions are also part of the targets, because initially, at the very beginning, russia has already pointed out that it is going to take as a target not only the isil, but the other terrorists, and their definition of terrorist is the definition that the syrian authorities use. so at the beginning, they already said that it was going to target non-isil targets as well. this is what they are doing. >> are you worried that russia's motive is to support president assad? >> well, i think russia has more than one target there. one is to help the syrian regime, because thanks to this support russia will be able to settle down in syria to begin with. then from there to expand to other middle eastern countries, perhaps one thinks. secondly there's another target which appears m

two turkish policemen have been killed in a shootout with i.s.i.l.s in the southeast city and police were raiding a dozen properties on the outskirts of the city early on monday when the gun battle broke out. argentina will face a runoff presidential election next month after an unexpectedly tight first vote and daniel is neck and neck with conservative makary in the first around. tell you about some breaking news now, reports of an earthquake being felt in the cities of iz ramp bad, new deli and kabul and a pretty powerful one, earthquake of 7.7 magnitude has struck northern pakistan as well. reports of it being felt as we said in afghanistan's capitol kabul. we hope to get a report from the afghan capitol from our correspondent there in a moment but we will keep you up to date with the latest, we are also hoping to go to our correspondent in islamabad kamahl to get the latest from him but indications at the moment is this is quite a powerful earthquake that is being felt across the region so for the latest on that stay with us. a comedian turned po

>> german chancellor angela merkel moments the turkish prime minister to push the e.u.'s plan to stem the flow of refugees. >> welcome to the show. also on the program, anger and outrage after violence in the occupied palestinian territories. three people are killed and thousands displaced as a powerful typhoon sweeps into the philippines. >> all those i remember clearly have died. i barely remember my sister's face. >> a rare reunion after decades of separation. >> the turkish prime minister has said the refugee crisis in europe can't be solved without a solution to the conflict in syria. holding talks with the german chancellor angela merkel in istanbul, an action plan offers aid and closer e.u. ties to turkey in exchange for stemming the flow of refugees to europe. he said the burden should be shared fairly. >> turkey and germany and europe as a whole will need to tackle the refugee crisis. we have considered these matters, and it is our agreement to work together to prevent the matters getting even worse in syria to prevent further influx of refugees from that locati

turkish military is reporting that it is a non-military model plane. smith is in istanbul. >> reporter: there are reports that this drone was three kilometers inside turkish air space when it was engaged by the turkish air force close to the border, as they gave three verbal warnings for the drone to move. it didn't, so they shot it down. it's not a particularly large aircraft. pictures posted online suggest about a two meter or so wingspan, and it does haven't any identification. there are reports out of washington, d.c., that the americans believe the drone is russian. now earlier on, this month, russian jets have twice violated turkish air space that they fly conduct missions over syria. the russians apologized for those two violations and set up a working group to try to make sure it doesn't happen again. but highlights the dangers faced by all parties flying over northern syria. this is the first time since world war ii that nato and russian aircraft have been flying combat polices in the same air space. all parties keen to make sure that the othe

we saw two turkish planes, two russian planes fly over turkish territory earlier on.urkey did not shoot at them but that could be an issue in the future. >> more near-misses this week, assuming it was a russian drone, if we keep seeing these transgressions could this ignite the powder keg further? >> it could. we saw secretary of state kerry this morning came out and said that he -- if russia is just going to help assad and is going to attack the moderate syrians, america would not accept this. so there's a sense, america's pushing back but at the same time, they offered a sort of peace -- they offered some kind of negotiation. it's clear that the americans want to negotiate with russia, over what's going to happen ne next. the question is that russia's asked the americans to define who the moderate syrians are. that is the problem here, there's a rainbow spectrum going from al qaeda over to fairly liberal and moderate syrians. where make draws the line is very unclear. america doesn't want to make that distinction. it wants to be on the side of the sunni rebels more

this is the first time on turkish soil that there has been a shootout o on turkish soil. adding to the headache the national elections held on sunday. then there is the g-20 leader summit. >> syria now and oman said it will give any effort it can to find a solution to the war there. discussions have been put forward, assad said that the political solution is possible but rebels and many in the international community say that there is no future role for him in syria. >>> now european union foreign ministers are holding talks in luxembourg on the conflict. they are the first such talks since the air campaign on syria. these talks are a day after e.u. and balkan leaders agree on new measures on refugee arrivals. >>> belgium police have detained a man suspected of trying to attack an army barracks. they tried to crash a car through the gates south of brussels. guards fired warning shots before he fled the scene abandoning the car. there are no indications of a terrorist motive and no explosives have been found either. argentinians must vote again for their next president. >>

the turkish air force escorted the fighters. they are proposing to see where the bottom line is. >> the turks had strong statements. president recep tayyip erdogan says they can't tolerate the violations of turkey's air space. as an n.a.t.o. member, they were committed to protect turkey, russia can't possibly want to risk a major incident. >> that's right. there's two things going on. one of them is russia is intervening in syria for a number of reasons. it wants to prop up the regime. it wants to push the u.s. and influence out of syria and maintain a permanent measure, and wants to strengthen the relationship with iran and the middle east through that connection. it does not want to take on turkey or to take on n.a.t.o., but it does want to push us back so it has a freedom of manoeuvre in the middle east itself. >> and to further the intentions that there are reports that russian n.a.t.o. assets moved into the area. russians are going nowhere. does the u.s. have a strategy to deal with it. >> no, we don't. we should have had a

no one has claimed responsibility for the attack near ankara's main rail station, but turkish officials are pointing to the islamic state, or isis. some demonstrators blamed lax security by the government of turkish president recep tayyip erdogan, which is waging a military campaign against kurdish fighters in the southeast part of the country. yesterday's bombings came as turkey is also partnering with the u.s. campaign against isis militants in neighboring syria and iraq. turkish president erdogan said today national parliamentary elections in three weeks will not be postponed. joining me now via skype from istanbul, turkey, to discuss the impact of the bombings is "wall street journal" reporter emre peker. z you lived there for several years, you've been working for the journal for a few years there, how bad are these tensions now. >> hari, thanks for having me on the show. it's pretty bad. this is kind of unprecedented and unchartered territory that we're in. we're in the lead up to snap elections. we had elections in june that could about turkey's first hung parliament since 2002 a

>> well, the attack today is being blamed by those hit on the turkish government because the turkish deposit is in a political back and forth and a fight with facing elections where they could lose any more seats. some of them to the kurdish opposition. so you have this internal investigation. just stop isis and other foreign fighters going over the border and to allow the u.s. and the coalition into coalition territory. either way you look at it, this is a deposit under pressure both externally and internally. >> bob, to you, when we have seen isis make attacks within turkey it has been along the turkish ~/- s syrian border. >> poppy, what's strong about this is there is no claim. usually the islamic state would make a claim. the hdp have been fighting us and we're striking back in turkey's capital, ankara. there hasn't been a claim, which makes me doubt that the islamic state is behind it. the so-called turkish deep state, which is accused of terrorism. it is part military, part intelligence, part president seu. it is odd. we have never been able to identify. i can see why the kurd

i want to return now to the russian incursion into turkish air space. a lot of debate around at the moment about whether it was deliberate or not, a way of testing turkey and nato. what do you think? >> i think more than likely it was deliberate. i mean, there's a possibility that these accidents do happen. russia is flying in syrian air space, but i don't think it was by chance. i think it was intentional. i think they were looking to see what nato's reaction would be and turkey's reaction would be and sending a mess badge back pressuring the west to see if they wanted to engage further with the coordination contacts and kind of showing what would happen if there wasn't closer cooperation. >> how strong do you think nato's reaction to this has been? >> oh, i think nato had a very strong reaction. you know, there was a gathering of nato ambassadors today in brussels and the secretary-general of nato sfoek and showed robust support for turkey. nato's attempt is to demonstrate to russia that turkey will not be bullied. they don't want these incidents to h

this is the first time on turkish soil that there has been a shootout involving isil. it highlights the increasing threat the group poses to this country, adding to the security headache a national elections here on sunday. then in mid-november world leaders head to the southern coast for the g-20 summit. >> the strong evidence of genocide in myanmar against its rohingya minority according to a report by yale university law school. we have the story from western myanmar. >> this baby is mall nourished but there plenty o in the nearby town. this woman is hemorrhaging after losing her baby, but the local hospital would not treat her. this woman has an illness but she does not have the money to pay the bribes to get to the doctor. many areries necessary in refugee camps in their own homeland. >> there are many who need to see medical professionals but they're unable to do that because of policy that deprives them from healthcare. when you contain them in displacement camps and then deprive them of needed services, the conditions are deplorable. >> the difference here is t