with the y. p.g. but again it's not the region which is important for them in the middle of all this is free and what is going to happen if nobody steps in to help the kurds there. well i think if the syrian regime doesn't get in now i think that turkey will stay there and try to get rich off the p.k. k. so if you have a look on a friend who's living there we see that we have about three hundred fifty thousand people living in a free and. what yes to billions of of course civilians. and in the will address interestingly about one hundred thousand of them not kurds but arabs mostly refugees of course so this is the civilian population and then we have the y.p. gee they're the most syrian military branch of the p.k. which is for several years administering the region and many of the currents living there particularly would like to get rid of the y. p.g. because it doesn't have a good record on human rights but of course they don't want to have turkey in there and they don't want to have the regime in th

were willing to use it would it have political leverage these a v the y p.g. or the p y d in order perhaps to get some kind of or enunciate of claims that are troubling turkey and thereby pacify the situation yeah. i think the u.s. had very little political leverage at the moment for and that's the result also which is your choice i think what they can do now is excess the pressure they have on the wife e.g. to keep a low profile to withdrawal to two of the continents in the to give up a feeling basically to withdraw to to conference in the east and to somehow try to preserve and defend what they have and then pressure turkey to stay away from from further interference but then we have to also reckon with the russians we have to put the russians into the equations because this this rift between the u.s. and turkey is a strategic goal in my view and also a strategic asset for the russians that's why the russians are not interested in somehow you know easing the situation. but they are interested in further escalation which we. know most of this is somehow it can

could one say that by arming and strengthening and training at the y. p.g. militia the u.s. essentially set up the kurds in northern syria for this offensive by turkey. well i mean when you look at history and you know go back a couple of decades and remember what happened in iraq you kurdistan right after the gulf war it was pretty much the same scenario because there are also a kurds in iraq and the u.s. at the time armed and supported the iraqi kurds which had deeply alarmed the turkish state at the time and turkey was very upset again you know sort of talked about terrorism threats etc over time turkey's policies have changed now the turkish state at the moment has good relations with the barzani of vision who barzani is a leader of the iraqi kurds and that was opposing you know the kurdish autonomy in syria i think we need to from the purse when we talk about turkey and turkey policies in order to understand what's going on we need to sort of think remember history and put all of this in historical context and just remember that from its foundation from the foundation o

turkey's been focusing on pushing the y. p.g. away from its border areas with footy and there's been heavy outgoing artillery not just now as you can hear but really throughout the two week period that this offensive is now carrying on its nor any easy flight the f.s.a. those the free syrian army fighters they've been pushing along these borders as well along with turkish soldiers they've taken some areas but there are still certainly pockets of why p.g. along these border areas and just briefly also particular when it comes to the civilians inside these areas we understand that from those villages most of them have fled farther inside to syria to seek safety but very very difficult for them because no aid can get in to are freed and as you can hear along these villages along the border it is a very ongoing campaign a judge in brazil has ordered the return of former president lula da silva this passport was taken last week after a court upheld his conviction for corruption that increased his jail term to twelve years he's likely

if the syrian militia if the government forces if the bashar assad's forces fight alongside with y. p.g. it is a clear violation of nine hundred ninety eight of the agreement and this is truly a clear pursing a clear red line in. missional defense understanding i think the syrian regime's intentions clear goal is to replace them at least curb any kind all kurdish autonomy intentions in the west of the u. freighters away from the us covered right now oksana bosses are being questioned by british politicians about sexual misconduct in haiti in twenty eleven the charity is already apologized to the haitian government but the u.k. government wants more answers some of that stuff accused of using prostitutes joining an aid mission in haiti after the earthquake but to be phillips joins us from london what have we heard so far barnaby. what we've seen is senior oxfam executives being grilled by parliament's international development committee and it is an exercise in contrition one after the other they've said how sorry they are how a shame they are about what happened in haiti how they let do

turkish troops continue their offensive against a syrian kurdish rebel group called the y. p.g. but the u.s. considers the y.p. g a key ally in the fight against what's left of the islamic state organization. the alliances among the states involved in the syrian conflict are constantly shifting. his or her to one leading turkey into international isolation. so let's pick up immediately oh my course you know ricker is the president to a leading took into international isolation well he is leading turkey into a confrontation with the us but of the same time he comes on brusha that's very obvious that now is somehow a that he things that his biggest ally is putin at the same time of close turkey is the become part of it fourteen is the one who says what is happening in turkey has some hold obey but that's at this find i think the best option. adlon things he has because he wanted to have a wall in order to somehow. have a good news for his own domestic base because at home they have a big economic problems and the economy is collapsing there's a high unemployment so he needed to so

y p g practically. really unfortunately i'm very sadly for from my point of view that the why p.g. the kurdish group has decided to make an alliance with the united states big mistake in general they could you know. yeah the kurds always choose the wrong side i mean historically they do this and they have done it again. dan let me it's very sad very sad dan let me go to you. what i mean what is the possibility that we're going to see turkish in u.s. forces go head to head because the u.s. seems to it seems to me it's a policy of spite it is a spoiler made one see it lost the war assad still there and it wants to spite the russians in the iranians but that's really childish thinking when you think about it go ahead dan there's a spoiler but i don't agree that this collision course necessarily on the on the cause between ankara and washington i mean from washington's point of view the thing is they want their goal is to just weaken and preferably destroy any independent force in the global south first the that's the big strategy right and so that includes the syrian state frankly tha

turkey's been focusing on pushing the y. p.g. away from its border areas with footy and there's been heavy outgoing artillery not just now as you can hear but really throughout the two week period that this offensive is now carrying on its nor any easy flight the f.s.a. those of the free syrian army fighters they've been pushing along these borders as well along with turkish soldiers they've taken some areas but there are still certainly pockets of why p.g. along these border areas and just briefly also particular when it comes to the civilians inside these areas we understand that from those villages most of them have fled farther inside to syria to seek safety but very very difficult for them because no aid can get in to are freed and as you can hear along these villages along the border it is a very ongoing campaign leaders of the palestine liberation organization will meet in a few hours to discuss ending the oslo accords and suspending the recognition of israel the palestinian president declared last month that the peace agr

the time that directly links him to the attack now has to be said that the both the p y d and the y. p.g. militia have tonight any involvement in that attack that they strongly dispute that they were involved in any way linked to the insurgency inside but from unger's perspective they have strong evidence from their point of view that links this militia to that attack and therefore link salim muslim cell now has to be said the fact that the czech court dismisses case and the fact of the muslim has been traveling for europe meets with high level european union officials and of also u.s. officials and it has to be pointed out a few years ago he was coming to istanbul and ankara to have talked of turkish officials in the early days of the syrian civil war and turkey in some point and he cooperated with turkish authorities in helping the turkey of move a very important monument inside syria to a kurdish region on the safer control so one time sadly muslim with a man the uncle was doing business with and i think this is an indication of how bad relations have collapse of turkey's relations wi

and its armed when the y. p.g. terrorist groups and turkish forces began a campaign against the wife and syria's more than a fleeing region last month. christian leaders in israel have closed the church bill to the side where jesus was burial said to have taken place in protest against a new tax the church of the holy sepultura and occupied east jerusalem as a hugely significant site for questions they believe jesus was crucified and buried there before resurrecting jerusalem church leaders say a proposed tax on church property is part of a systematic campaign against them by the israeli government. the listing post is coming up next once held in one of australia's toughest detention centers now a world renowned surgeon when he. returns to his hometown baghdad to give you the hope of walking again at this time on al-jazeera. elections are coming from president sisi to leave to our product. and of the. lamb about the return of security i say and actually it's telling. us. a lot richard gaisford in europe the listeni

kurdish fighters of the y p g a group it considers terrorists and a threat to its border but the y. p.g. helped the u.s. in the fight against eisel further straining u.s. relations with ankara and now turkey faces a new enemy pro syrian government troops the could say they've done a deal with syria to join forces to fight turkey syrian pro-government troops and their involvement well that was announced by syrian state t.v. on monday. set the tone for the following the turkish attacks on our families and their friends and following the request of our friends citizens from the regime to protect them from the ongoing tega should question that led to so many killings and destruction it has been declared now that popular troops were and to a friend within hours crucially how did turkey receive that news has the turkish foreign minister you know suddenly changed it were in him if the regime is intermediate to clean for k k m p y d then there are no problems however if they come in to defend the white g. then nothing and nobody can stop us this applies to efren as well as mehmet b. into the ea

unilateral movements of a washington by forming and training thirty thousand security force of the y. p.g. that is a major threat i guess i want to just be doing a bailout because all right a lot of chomsky's me jumping in here bailout so the opposition is not involved in the talks they still want assad to step down he's not going anywhere we've got the fighting that's continuing the abuse of the deescalation zones as long as the fighting continues a political solution is not possible is it yes i think military conflict is deepening can see it again fortunately there is no war where you there is no way or room for a political solution so if your confidence the experience of sorts of confidence show does that russia is not as credible partner to set up a credible peace process for the syrian question russia is already imposing it is on interest and agenda on our own all of the insight in favor of assad regime i think that afford. process doesn't produce peace but it produces. pretty that is the situation normally hope we have is. journal of our meeting we hope that you are on. the third ge

along the border after turkey launched an offensive to clear it of syrian kurdish forces known as the y. p.g. . and those are the headlines that he's going to continue here on al-jazeera after inside story of ossie in half an hour of life. they say knowledge is power but education funding is declining worldwide and no way is that more apparent than in sub-saharan africa in the region strained by poverty security issues and child marriages can international organizations come together to close the chapter on the literacy this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm jane duff and ending poverty often begins with a solid foundation for education but teaching the future leaders of tomorrow is an investment and it's currently more than three billion dollars short at least two hundred sixty four million children and teenagers worldwide aren't receiving the education they need and that's is largely due to underfunding the totals around a quarter of the entire population of europe the united nations says children in the poorest countries are nine times more likely to miss school then in rich

relationship between the united states washington are deeply divided over the role of the kurdish rebels the y. p.g in the fight against the islamic state group the u.s. says the y.p. g.'s a key member in the war against the extremists turkey says they are part of a terrorist organization and have to be expelled from the region well correspondent to teri schultz joins us from nato headquarters in brussels welcome terry u.s. defense secretary has been speaking with his counterpart but what came out about me he said. well yes if you listen to secretary mabus he says that the u.s. and turkey are finding common ground he admits the problems are very complicated in fact the most complicated he's seen in four decades of his military career but if you listen to him he says that there they're going to be able to work it out that they're finding common ground and there's still some uncommon ground now the turks are not quite so positive the turks are having none of this u.s. insistence that the wife is not part of the p.k. k. a terrorist organization so while the defense minister has been talking prime mini

potentially independent strong kurdish force and it includes turkey so if they see the turks and the y. p.g. tearing themselves apart that's that fits ok into into the us game plan and if they're doing in the syria inside syria all the better so i don't see this is so odds with washington they're going to be ok they made this announcement they wanted a border force and it's put the spoiler on on that but there's many ways to destroy a country is not many ways to build up a tree but again many ways to do is to destroy so i guess what you're saying there is a method there's a method to their madness go ahead jump in understand go ahead go ahead. because i would like to add something about american policy. in turkey. you know government and people are mostly get. try to create. a kurdish zone between turkey and syria and iraq in order. in order to use this policy to educate turks persians and arabs and also it is good for. to be created is satellite not independent dependent to the united states creators on just perfect for america and most of people in turkey most of. us and all you know colu

fulfill it so that they can come in for example they said that they want to have the weapons which the y. p.g. got they said they want to control the border they said they want to recruit and they want to establish a new administration they are so i think the reason why nothing has happened tonight is really because there are still discussions probably between the syrian government and turkey what would it mean if we saw an all out confrontation between syrian forces and turkish forces in. well as we said we will see more while and and in the end if the syrian government takes over again the syrian courts will those who lose of course because they will then have to live again under a regime which has persecuted the current some of for a very long time even though one must say that the situation now under the white p.g. is much better because they are also not interested in human rights or a better situation for the syrian kurds really all right so good chance we could see further violence as you're seeing in the region a president of the european center for kurdish studies thank you very much

most wanted terrorist list earlier this month encore considers the p y d in its song going to the y. p.g. to be terrorist groups with ties to the banned kurdistan workers party will turkish forces began a campaign against the y p g in syria's northern a free region last month three days of air strikes have pounded a rebel held port in western yemen displacing thousands of people who were already in need of aid and many whose he finds his have reportedly been killed by the saudi led coalition attacks on hard data in test has the story. one of the saudi led air strikes spared little here but data is the strategically important port city in western yemen saudi warplanes have repeatedly targeted surrounding neighborhood since thursday reportedly killing dozens of who the fighters and civilians before the start of the civil war nearly three years ago today the port handled around seventy percent of yemen's imports including critically needed food and humanitarian supplies since then it's become one of the most complex front lines controlled by who the rebels it is either being bombed or block

within days the young clave is controlled by the kurdish y. p.g. which ankara regards as terrorists some avenge of a dismal from gaza and top. free syrian army fighters backed by the turkish government into this military say they have effectively separated the city of offering from the turkish border and sounded from the front they say they have been in control of about ninety sites around the city of offering pushing them closer to inserting the whole city this comes off the back of the latest developments in the last twenty four hours very cruel syrian government fighters have made it inside the city of offering for the first time after the kurdish fighters asked for the help a number of these five just try to enter the city of offering but after heavy shelling by the turkish government they turned back but some of these fighters have made it inside the city this would be this would make a defers to reinforce them and that has arrived in the city of often enough with the asked for help they are saying that they have been facing heavy bombardment

turkish authorities for more than thirty years and current considers them a terrorist organization the y. p.g. on the other hand is a mostly kurdish militia based in syria regards them as a branch of the p.k. k. however the us led coalition sees the why peachey as allies in january the pentagon announced it was creating a kurdish led security force right on turkey's doorstep in northern syria in response to a military campaign against kurdish militia has long been complaining about the us army syria's coast however washington insists that its weapons supplies a limited we have never given heavy arms to the wife e.g. so there is none to take but we should be using we should be telling the kurdish region to be that this matters really proving to be the most really do is now the turkish government considers these kurdish forces operating in syria to be terrorists and feels quite threatened by them and has been a long outspoken man doing that the united states and its support for these forces . why does the u.s. troops and where you are in syria even after i see. why do these weapons still arrive

suffered its worst day yet in northern syria is launching since launching rather its offensive against y. p.g. kurdish fighters more than two weeks ago on saturday seven of its soldiers were killed in fighting turkey wants to push the wife p.g. who it calls terrorists out of our free and create a buffer zone on the border well swear in syria a russian fighter jet was shot down by opposition forces over italy province russia's defense ministry says the pilot managed to eject but was killed in a ground fight near the town of samarra afterwards moscow launched dozens of air strikes twenty three civilians died and russia says it killed thirty fighters there's been heavy fighting in it live for weeks the u.n. says about one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced stephanie decker joins us now live from anti-car so stephanie how much of a game changer is it now the rebels show they can shoot down russian planes. i don't know if it's going to change real policies on the ground but certainly a major symbolic victory for them because i think it's fair to say that russia is the country with all

turkey has been focusing on pushing the y. p.g. away from its border areas with africa and there's been heavy outgoing artillery not just now as you can hear but really throughout the two week period that this offensive is now carrying on it's not any easy flight the f.s.a. those the free syrian army fighters they've been pushing along these borders as well along with turkish soldiers they've taken some areas but there are still certainly pockets of wife. along these border areas and just briefly also particular when it comes to the civilians inside these areas we understand that from those villages most of them have fled further inside to syria to seek chafey but very very difficult for them because no aid can get in to are freed and as you can hear along these villages along the border it is a very ongoing campaign mean wrong day for a syrian army says it will investigate allegations its finances mutilated the corpse of a female member of the wife p.g. pictures paying tribute to burying kabbani are being circulated on social medi

claims by the turkish foreign minister the doldrum has said to mr everyone no more funding for the y. p.g. so that could save another massacre you think there may be a massacre being blurred the lines between the turkey and the groups that they're using isis and isis a large and some of the isis militants are just changing clothes and becoming our coder and as for the next they kind of you know this is. a very easy conversion between between the forces and i think as one is there to finish what i said can finish with the people of the region with the kurds and also the going is there to go to all the way to aleppo because he's saying you know a little with ottoman ottoman land then we will go there and they will start praying and the mosque will be praying praying in allah to most so he's dream is not to stop in efren his dream is to go down all the way to aleppo and not on his dream but a lot of measures of turkish people are saying you know we want the our land back in this land was also always invaded by daughter one for a certain time and it was then sort of recovered for them from th

take a town on the road towards that so there have been some advances and it does appear that the y. p.g. despite its being able to down this helicopter is on the back foot and jamal so how do you think summing up if we can operation all those branches seem to be growing. well there are still a lot of supports amongst turkish society for this operation not least because of the resentment they hold towards the white p.g.d. who they see as just another branch of the kurdistan workers party an organization anchor also considers to be terrorist has been fighting and bombing several tarka cities for decades and also there is still supports for that however the advancements is being considered to be sluggish considering the might of the turkish military it is the second largest nato member in terms of military size the turks say that the reason why you dislike bush is because they are trying to prevent civilian casualties not something that the currents would contest but having said that i mean within the space of three weeks several towns and cities have been captured it does appear to be a s

turkey's most wanted terrorist list earlier this month and considers the p y z and its armed wing the y. p.g. so-called terrorist groups with ties to tell he's banned kurdistan workers party. kosovo's prime minister is promising to revive one of the region's largest companies to help fight youth unemployment but the plan is far from straightforward as no neighboring serbia says it owns the mining for cost if it wants to develop under similar reports from attributes or. trap show used to be one of the former yugoslavia is biggest companies mining plentiful minerals with good profits and thousands of jobs kosovo's war changed that you don't have to look far to see damaged buildings and the conflict two decades ago decimated this business now the few miners who remain a part of a dysfunctional company that's cut into these a kosovar albanian miles and we've recently been celebrating their country's tenth anniversary of independence not far away is the other half of trips run by the minority cause of all serbs they're more likely to listen to serbia's government than their senior management at t

along the border after turkey launched an offensive to clear it of syrian kurdish forces known as the y. p.g. . and those are the headlines the news going to continue here on al-jazeera after inside story in half an hour of life. they say knowledge is power but education funding is declining worldwide and no way is that more parents then in sub-saharan africa in the region strained by poverty security issues and child marriages can international organizations come together to close the chapter on the literacy.

defend themselves so slow progress yes death tolls are rising on both sides of this more so on the y. p.g. front of an east under fifty kurdish fighters being killed in the past three weeks but advancements have been made in terms of territorial gain by the turkish military on the f.s.a. and jamal as we've been reporting eleven more turkish soldiers killed yesterday i mean this is making their free not to ration extremely costly to turkey isn't it. indeed costa i mean thirty military personnel have been killed in the past three beats are talking about an average of ten a week and whilst that is an you know catastrophic so to speak it is something that is significant but it's important to note here daryn that the amount of public support behind the turkish military is really almost unmeasurable in that it transcends all the different political parties and domestic differences that people may have in terms of their political convictions turkish society is an extremely nationalistic patriotic one and it really does hold the miter out a high degree of respect and more so when it comes to pitt

support for our soldiers and set an example for others if the operation hadn't been launched and the y. p.g. would have attacked us with the weapons the u.s. provided to them. turkey vs the us spec kurdish on group in syria the i p g as a branch of the p.k. k. . the kurdistan workers party which is listed as a terrorist group by turkey and the us. the fourth are you pull flick between the picking and turkey has cost around thirty thousand lives from both sides as the result of this operation should have been launched much earlier our border should have been cleared of terror as the weather gets colder women launched different campaigns to support the army some are knitting schools and socks for the soldiers . others are sending jars of jam or will pray for the safety of the armed forces. i made a presentation protestants approach to the after an operation something that is quite rare in turkey but it is parliament members say the military intervention in africa is actually an invasion in the area. and there is nor ever sure tread. for the turkish borders and the turkish state some of those

this security and care reform if you were to go in there and basically rescue the whore from the y. p.g. then the main sort of turkish just became should the counterterrorism just because of being there would sort of subside because there are a lot of wild cards in terms of what's going to happen for example what is russia going to do russia stood aside and essentially allow the turkish are there going after however were there to be some sort of direct confrontation between the turkish military in the syrian military one would expect russia to side with the stop so how exactly russia will relate to a church remains very much a cup what he did in louisville what an important aspect of this. fog is hampering efforts in iran to locate the wreckage of a passenger jet that crashed in mountains killing all sixty five people on board yes man airlines jet disappeared from radar fifteen minutes after leaving the capital tehran are an internal flight mohamed el r.t.c. reports. distraught family members still near have at st into one where fifty nine passengers and six crew members departed on the

in the area turkey launched an offensive to clear the region of syrian kurdish forces known as the y. p.g. which it calls a terrorist group and the free syrian army says it will investigate allegations its fighters mutilated the corpse of a female member of the y.p. g guard in coburn is understood to have been a member of the all female kurdish women's protection unit video seen by al-jazeera appears to show free syrian army fighters standing over her body in a village near the turkish border stephanie decker joins us now from gold bar in turkey that's near the border with syria so they've been relentless air raids on an area which is or areas which is supposed to be part of that deescalation zone where do we stand with that. you're talking about it in the province yes absolutely what you're seeing happening in it live over the last two months or so sami is intensive airstrikes and troop movement syrian government forces making advances in the southern area if you look at the map what the rebels control the group there are in charge of. the backbone of that group is the group formerly kno

turkey has been focusing on pushing the y. p.g. away from its border areas with footy and there's been heavy outgoing artillery not just now as you can hear but really throughout the two week period that this offensive is now carrying on its nor any easy flight the f.s.a. those the free syrian army fighters they've been pushing along these borders as well along with turkish soldiers they've taken some areas but there are still certainly pockets of y.p. g. along these border areas and just briefly also particular when it comes to the civilians inside these areas we understand that from those villages most of them have fled further inside to syria to seek safety but very very difficult for them because no aid can get in to are freed and as you can hear along these villages along the border it is a very ongoing campaign the u.n. human rights party is calling for the immediate release of an al jazeera journalist from jail in egypt saying that his imprisonment violates international law mamata same was jailed on this fourteen months ago

turkey says the y. p.g. is a terrorist organization that's killed dozens of soccer civilians and soldiers in recent weeks this support for the kurdish fighters has baffled the turks who say the americans should be siding with their nato allies and not with an outward group according to tillerson the disagreements over syria are being resolved on both ankara and washington will now be working towards the same goal our two countries share the same objectives in syria the defeat of isis. secure and stable zones and independent and unified syria. tillerson and his counterparts. announced that they've established a mechanism so that the true nato allies would be able to resolve all issues and better collaborates but no details were given and there's another problem this is not going away the continued refusal by the us to extradite from. the amount of orchestrating that reminded twenty sixteen felt. only fed up honest and invited in relation to. do we have evidence do we not have evidence can he be extradited or

region sarky launched an offensive against the kurdish y p g there last month ancora considers the y. p.g. terrorists deployed further special forces to a free a monday on sunday turkey welcomed the un resolution calling for the ceasefire but said it wouldn't affect its campaign in a free well it took days of negotiations for the un security council to reach any agreement on the syrian cease fire and the other similar wrangling over a resolution on yemen let's go live to a diplomatic editor james at the u.n. for us in new york hi there james so what are they saying there about the cease fire currently in eastern guta and what else is happening in yemen at the u.n. . well there's a great deal of unhappiness about the situation with regard to syria because remember after days of wrangling and negotiations here at the security council they finally on saturday afternoon new york time did pass a resolution but of course the fighting has not stopped and i think what's added to the anger is the suggestion from president putin that there can be now a five hour pause in syria each day and other se

forces in syria whether we see maybe our withdrawal in the y. p.g. in the kurdish militia or maybe a reduction in their firepower how the rhetoric coming out of her to man and his politicians will be in terms of visibly their attacks on the u.s. what they see is criticism of u.s. policy all of that will let us know whether this was a real beginning to a new phase in the relationship or whether it was a failed attempt to patch up maybe something that is difficult to hide jamal you keep us up to date i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much keeping us company here in the studio seven i'm proud he is associate. told me he is an associate professor at the doha institute for graduate studies i guess that's a measure of the point that jamal was making that of how complex the situation is that you've got two major major nato allies circling each other trying to identify the areas that they can work on yes so actually it's very important to listen carefully to that authority that came from the press conference where in fact i notice that there is more of a

has some bill daley was injured in the same attack when a rocket fired by the kurdish militia the y. p.g. hit their home in the early hours of the morning resumed your look because we were sleeping a lot son woke me up i couldn't see anything for a second it was pitch black when i looked up there was a hole in the ceiling the wall next to me had collapsed i felt incredible pain on my ankle doctors say that while bill k. will be able to walk again his leg will never fully recover he won't be able to run or jump again. the mourners here don't only share feelings of sorrow they're united in their opposition to the kurdish militia who they consider to be terrorists atma takes me to see his house it's around ten kilometers away from the border with syria the destruction calls does extensive not only has he lost his daughter he's also lost his home this is the room where falk must spend her last night in this world she was sleeping when the rocket landed came through the ceiling and it killed her instantly blood still stains the place where she lay on that fateful morning. as far as her father

the largest interest really is with turkey which wants to get rid of the y. p.g. which is the syrian militia the p.k. k. which are currently with a lot of arms which were provided by the united states in the syrian parts of kurdistan so turkey wants to get rid of them this is why i freeness so important for turkey really the united states on the other hand which also one of the poem of course they don't have no specific interest in a free and really i mean their military bases are not in a free. and they are in the us so they will just let everybody do what people really want to do there i think russia which is supporting the syrian regime of course but on the other hand if the syrian regime takes a friend or not it's not of great importance for for russia and iran again of course they also have an alliance with the with the why p.g. but again it's not the region which is important for them in the middle of all this is a free and what is going to happen if nobody steps in to help the current. there well i think if the syrian regime doesn't get in now i think that

syrian government troops will deploy to some border positions within two days al-jazeera spoke to the y. p.g. spokesman nuri mahmud he said we are calling on the syrian army to protect our frame because we'd love to preserve the united unified syria we are saying this because the international community continues to address the syrian leadership as sovereign and we call on this authority to protect its territory. is following the story for us from istanbul. when it comes to fruition this deal would not be a surprise because kurdish fighters the people whose production units are white b.g. have been in negotiations with the bashar al assad government for a number of days now sources have been telling us that there are sticking points including the man with reconstruction of kurdish fighters to the syrian government forces there giving up of heavy weapons by these kurdish fighters and giving up all of their military bases and manipulations going to one of those was some of those points that they were agreeing to as were being asked by the syrian government the details of this agreement have no

it will investigate allegations that its fighters mutilated the corpse of a female member of the y. p.g. parent body is understood to been a member of the all female kurdish women's protection unit video seen by al jazeera appears to show free syrian army fighters standing over her body in a village near the turkish border let's go live now to al-jazeera as stephanie deca who's into the near the border with syria let's start with the latest on the fighting there in that border region stan. we've been here for the last couple of hours and there has been intense outgoing artillery over one of the main roads that where we've had to move back from that base we were filming because the villagers didn't want us to be there but from time to me outgoing and so it really falls into a pattern that we've seen here over the last few weeks which is a campaign of trying to push the wiping away from its borders now the f.s.a. there's the free syrian army fighters backed by turkey have taken some of these pockets along the border but there still remains certainly a lot of areas to take also briefly you

been focused on the kurdish enclave of african close to the border now afrin is controlled by the y. p.g. that's a u.s. backed kurdish militia that turkey regards as a terrorist organization. now germany's biggest political parties are meeting in berlin for what they have called a decisive round of talks over forming a new government now the two sides had set a deadline for today though they have agreed on two extra days for overtime negotiations an agreement would move germany a step closer to a continuation of the grand coalition between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives and the social democrats but there are still sticking points including financial and health policy well as the german chancellor headed to the conference room merkel expressed her hopes for a conclusive outcome. the here we are meeting again today for the decisive round of talks in the one that's again you don't have stored come i can't see how long they will take it for but you made a lot of progress yesterday but there are still important issues we need to resolve that i'm heading into these discussions with g

operation olive branch the army campaign in northern syria against kurdish y p g fighters turkey says the y. p.g. is a terrorist group allied to the p.k. k. al-jazeera has some costello is at that party conference and in ankara. turkey is proposing this party h d p is going to be electing the chair today and the party's current curtsey is the last and scimitars has been president. for a year. or to be. detained and arrested following that santa which took place in july two thousand six hundred currently when we look at the numbers there are and night and he's prepared to spark in these are arrested and kill them or out of the country and seven of them have been stripped of their parliamentary status and the total number of. m.p.'s in trouble are just parties down to you. when you look at the race and on going in northern syria you see that there is a rising. protein and h.d. . also being released by the government. so. why. was this party and had been set down by the. decision the president of the philippines wants to change the constitution and switch to a new form of government. says that regi

p.g. and a p y d that's the political wing of that car just militia have actually bussed the . kurds from other towns and cities to use them as human shields the kurdish officials there would say actually this is just the natural response of the kurdish population in order to protect their town against what they see as a foreign aggression. three weeks now into operation on a ranch that does seem as i say to be a steady advance made by the tarps and the free syrian army towards are fine but this down and go for helicopter will be shorter and car the rest of the targets from the tree. north korea's leader kim jong un has extended a rare invitation to the south korean president lungi and to visit kyung yang when hosted kim sister talks in sell on the sidelines of the winter olympics as i should i am has more from none. in the presidential blue house in the capital seoul relations between the two koreas continued to thaw the meeting had two firsts jiang is the first member of the ruling family to cross into the south since the korean war the sister of the north korean leader came