the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage what part of this case you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it when i go at you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind a distance on al-jazeera. this is zero. allegedly went on this is the news hour live from london coming up. process forces come to the aid of syrian kurds in africa bringing them into likely conflict

with turkey. taking it lying down protesters take their message to the white house as pressure might some lawmakers over the florida school shooting. oxfam issues its first direct apology to the haiti government after an internal report reveals that new details about the prostitution scandal that's rocked the ngo. and she needs under threat the passage of time overtakes the philippines favorite many buses. and sport norway are enjoying their best ever winter olympics that's top of the medal table after winning two more golds on day ten it's a long shot. but we begin in syria where developments near the border with turkey have the potential to further complicate the battle ground turkey says its troops will fight forces

loyal to the syrian president if they enter the northern on klav of afraid to defend kurdish fighters syria's state news agency says the syrian forces would enter our freedom within hours to join what it called the resistance to turkish aggression a report now from stephanie decker. syrian state television and now says that forces loyal to president bashar al assad will be deployed to a free in. turkey launch an operation against the people's protection units or y p g who are in control of the province almost a month ago and calls the y.p. g a terrorist organization. the united states considers the group its most effective ally in fighting eisel. this new move by damascus in africa could mean its allied militia directly confronts turkish troops turkey's foreign minister was defiant yes in the name of the regime is in trying to clean the k.k. and p.y.t.

and there are no problems however if they come in to defend the y.p. g. than nothing and nobody can stop us the supplies to efren as well as members into the east of the euphrates river the developments hence said behind the scenes negotiations the details of which are unclear if the kurds are going to accept the major conditions of the syrian regime we'll decide on that very heavy weapons. dance artillery rocket launchers will they be exiting the city because the syrian regime is syria democratic forces to exit the city and to move to the east of the euphrates the kurdish why p.g. holds the areas in yellow which include the region of africa in the green areas land controlled by the syrian opposition supported by turkey and they're advancing on africa and under the turkish operation olive branch president assad's government controls the area to the south and the i.p.g. is territory to the east of the euphrates is where the u.s. has military bases and personnel on the ground syria's seven year war seems to have

entered a new phase with the foreign powers who have long backed different sides trying to solidify their spheres of influence stephanie decker al-jazeera. or russian media says the leaders of iran russia and turkey are planning to meet in turkey in april turkey's president has discussed the african operation in two separate phone calls with his a rainy and and russian counterparts tire bordeaux and warned vladimir putin over the actions of the syrian government which is russia's ally osama bin jovian has more now from istanbul. the first batch of kurdish fighters has reached the city of free and that's according to s.t.'s which is a u.s. backed force and these kurdish fighters have travelled from the city of aleppo this is a city which is under the control of the syrian government forces so syrian fighters have been saying that this group prove their point that kurdish fighters off the right to people's protection units have been allied with the syrian government all

along there is expectations that more convenience of pro-government militias not regular syrian government forces will do the city of against this operation that is being launched by the turkish forces called all of branch on the diplomatic front we've been hearing from presidential sources that the turkish president has been speaking to his russian counterpart and he's told them that there will be consequences if the syrian government continues on its path this is the part that the foreign minister had also alluded to saying that the turkish government has no problem with the syrian government contains and controls its own territory and borders but it will have a problem and it will confront anyone who allies itself with the with these kurdish fighters that turkey sees as terrorists well joining me in the studio is tell a. researcher at the university of texas strategy and security institute a tell a very warm welcome to the program as you were just talking

a second ago about how intrinsically interlinked and complicated i mean things have always been complicated but it just appears to be getting more intense so what's your take on the syrian kurds coming to this agreement with the syrian government and allowing the syrian army. i guess we have to figure out what that actually means as well afraid i think what's important is that the syrian kurds this is not the first on the deals with the assad regime early on in the conflict they did the very much same thing and basically they allowed the they would draw. this is the acid regime that is withdrew from kurdish claim territory so that they can kind of split the ranks of the syrian rebels make them fight against multiple fronts so this is not completely unusual whenever they feel pressured they'll come to some kind of accord with the syrian regime it's also important to point out that this isn't the syrian arab armies it's no it's not the official as abridging mommy these are kind of militias that are backed by iran who kind of support the assad regime

and who will be trying to make their way in it's unlikely though that they're going to be able to top the balance in the favor of the white p.g. so where then does that leave russia because they back as sad syrian government forces but they're also allies of turkey so the russians had apparently tried to come to an accord with the kurds before this operation in started the idea was that the kurds agree for that region to come back under syrian government control when the kurds refused when the refused the russians essentially give the green light to the turks to continue on with their operation olive branch which is what the results of a with what we're seeing today now russia may be using this kind of operation to bludgeon the kurds into accepting look because either side with the regime come back into the fold of the unitary state possibly with some kind of concessions from federalism or else we're just going to leave the turks to. back to you frankly so

the russians are probably going to play this by ear and they're also going to make sure that they also keep the turks happy. how concerned diplomatically should our other players in this conflict in the region be i mean how much more messy could this get do you think it can get significantly more messy but like i said it all depends on what forces are committed to any assad regime intervention if it's just these militias semi official anyway so the assad regime can distance itself from it although the official state news has been kind of pumping that up. because they'll say well hang on this isn't our official army it's not the regular forces these are irregulars so if they were to commit regular forces though we have to bear in mind that the syrian army has historically lost every single war it's ever been involved and it's never actually one of war so it will come up against a nato quipped trained and you know

a highly proficient and professional fighting force as the turks army it's highly unlikely that they're going to win or come out not bloodied so is what we're seeing . i don't want to use the language of a new phase out another phase in what is a conflict now of seven years in length i mean i'm no where do you see things going except to become even more complicated well i suppose it is actually the thing that the defining characteristic of this was the things become more complicated not less so even when you have the de confliction zones of the escalation zones that the russians and the turks were supposed to be overseeing that didn't quite work out and for obvious reasons because at the end of the day the russians have an interest in crushing the rebellion as well as the assad regime as well as the europeans and the turks are kind of just there to try and sort of gather what they could of what's left. especially when we're now looking at the situation in africa in it's only going to get worse it's not going to get better and we have to bear in mind

the situation in libya as well if the turks are successful and managed to break the why previous hold of a flea in their free syrian army. allies are going to be in a position to reinforce for the units in it live and also possibly open a route to aleppo which was you know so brutally taken from the revolution about a year ago so tell that when when we talk about that some of the talks that we've seen that happen inside medicine do you find yourself sort of raising you know your eyebrows northwards and thinking oh well here we go again or are they still important in a way despite the fact that what's happening on the ground becomes more and more and more fractures also has become more of a theater these days so you have for example the the u.s. backed talks in the un backed talks in geneva and on the other hand you've got the astana process and the two divergent processes so while views things on both going on the reality is the syrian people that are suffering and who are dying every single day so it's gone

a bit beyond ridiculous now because they're just talking and not achieving anything while people being bombed tara thanks very much for joining us like he is still in syria at least eighty five people have been killed by airstrikes in eastern that's according to the monitoring group syrian observatory for human rights local observer to believe that attacks are a prelude to a major offensive on the rebel held territory which has been under siege since twenty thirteen in a horder reports from beirut and a warning some viewers may find some of the images in her story distressing. rockets missiles air strikes activists fear the renewed bombardment of the besieged opposition area of eastern hooter could be the beginning of a large scale military operation. it seems russian broke at the gauche ations to bring about a gravel surrender they have so far failed and in a week of relative calm yet again civilians were the victims since the end of december a stepped up military campaign killed more than four hundred people at least one

hundred of them were children the fear now is that the numbers will only rise if a wide scale attack begins. the syrian government and its allies are sending military reinforcements to the edges of the rebel enclave just outside the capital damascus pro-government media are promising victory and what they say will be a decisive battle it will be the first time they will try to storm. past ground offensives where we by rebels and people are defiant. we have man who. they won't be able to capture one inch of his land. this is what we have been steadfast for seven years they tried many times and he was all kinds of weapons but they weren't able to take anything out. the syrian government and its allies haven't taken ground but over the years they have.

residential neighborhood the syrian government. after securing these. other controlled areas. in the northwest. of the people and. about four hundred thousand people. here's a live civil defense volunteers say it's not usually the case. oh no no no no no. i did this a mass funerals been held in the iraqi city of basra for

a group of shia find to see were killed by axel eisel fighters killed at least twenty seven men during sunday's ambush in the outskirts of how we in northern iraq they were disguised in their walkie army uniforms and pretended to man of fake checkpoint massoud the governor of nearby koku warned eisel still poses a security threat in the area. the white house says u.s. president donald trump supports improved background checks on gun purchases in the wake of last wednesday's school shooting in florida and he gun protesters have been holding a live demonstration outside the white house seventeen students and staff members were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle in the floria florida city of parkland will trump this to speak to survivors on wednesday and what's being called a listening session alan fisher was at that demonstration outside the white house. there's still a handful of people here from the protests that we saw earlier where young people

who started talking on social media on friday about making their voices had decided to come together here in front of the white house and stage what they call a dying where they lay on the growing and called for action they say it's time that the politicians put aside the money they get from the n.r.a. and they start taking action to protect young people many of them said that they were scared to go to school because they don't know what school is going to be next though we saw the people who gathered here and there were dozens and dozens of them and they brought along their parents and their grandparents the red or the names of everyone who's died in a school shooting in the united states since one thousand nine hundred ninety and there was a lot of them and they say that florida is perhaps a time of change that every incident like this is described as a breaking point but maybe no this is the breaking point that they can make people understand that this is the republican issue or a democrat issue this is about a school safety issue but people feeling safe when they go to school and that is

why they're calling on the politicians to take some action it's not just events like this we're seeing this plan for a march on washington on march the twenty fourth and also a national walk out of schools across the country at some point in april the young people see the no they can't vote but they're determined that here in washington after this latest tragedy in florida their voices will be hurt and while the gunman accused of carrying out that mass shooting in florida has appeared in court that class could has confessed to taking a legally purchased semiautomatic life or in some large areas still in high school and opening fire. seventeen counts of lighter. well there are reports that get another agent to the u.s. president is likely to plead guilty as part of the f.b.i.'s investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election according to the l.a. times donald trump's former deputy campaign manager richard gates who pleaded not

guilty to charges of fraud in october is now expected to change his plea gates would become the third leading travel aide to plead guilty particle him has more now on the story from washington d.c. . we should point out that the l.a. times is pretty much solely reporting this right now but it wouldn't be all that unexpected if you read the tealeaves in washington gates recently dumped his legal some of his lawyers and the reason why was under seal that led to broad speculation that he was going to make this plea deal obviously you don't need high powered attorneys if you've already done a deal it's a federal holiday here in the united states so i don't expect that we'll see anything in the courts today but if it is true in the next couple of days we should see rick gates come and plead guilty now the reason this could be important is he was not only part of the trump campaign but he stayed when man afford left and if you read the indictment it is very damning and the team has case after case of what

they say proves money laundering they have bank accounts they have purchases they have the records so if someone does this makes a plea deal like this usually they're doing it because they're evil to provide evidence on someone higher up the food chain oxfam's apologized to haiti's government over allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its staff during an aid mission its former director for haiti has the mid-city using prostitutes during rebuilding efforts after the quake in twenty ten charities also released an internal report revealing three of its workers threatened witnesses during an investigation into sexual misconduct oxfam published the report after being criticised for a lack of transparency over the allegations are to be philips reports from outside the hague embassy in london. the report has been presented to the haitian embassy here in london to the haitian government with apologies from all for what it says are its mistakes it's a revealing insight into a pretty dysfunctional operation of oxfam's in haiti in the immediate aftermath of

the terrible twenty ten quake bullying intimidation downloading all pornography it says it can't rule out the possibility of sex with on the. age girls it says that oxfam needs to deal with problem staff in a better way to ensure that they don't go on to work elsewhere in the aid sector a case in point the country director in oxfam the man at the center of allegations he were told to work for another aid organization in bangladesh of course this is a crisis that goes beyond oxfam itself remember that britain one of the very few countries which actually meets the un recommendations of spending point seven percent of gross national income on a many people particularly on the right in british politics arguing that that is too much money and when aid organizations are seem to behave in such a morally reprehensible way well the case for spending that much money of course is

that much weaker and on choose day the heads of oxfam save the children and the government's own department for international development summoned to the british parliament for urgent questioning still to come on the al-jazeera news hour the seventy people are killed in mozambique after a rubbish collapses during several. presidents of ghana and guinea step in to solve a political standoff in told. sport find it is still the show of basketball's annual showcase for its best play. the seventeen people have been killed after a garbage dump collapsed in mozambique rescue workers in the capital maputo believe more bodies could still be buried the fifteen meter tall pile of garbage collapsed in the early hours of the morning in heavy rains burying several homes. thousands

of families have fled their homes child. journalist based in my. he says that the garbage dump this located in one of the poorest areas of the capital . problems. will govern each year daily or more flowing to floors of the down right leaders are nearly always hundreds of people living nearby and it's because also the word press for the less fortunate people those who are poor and you of prison are rounding broken glass is toxic claims and decay is essential for getting much you don't want to be sold well it is almost all exactly the case before the court of control is everyone's issue so you know it is what cause us to be working to pull out of our boat is as though from the people to us to be confounded. unkind it will shoot the satanic female suicide bombers blowing herself up at a university in northeast nigeria the bomber targeted the university of my degree

in the heart of the city there are reports she was the only casualty of the attack security is tight as authorities search for a second bomb whether they believe is still on the run sudan's foreign minister has told al jazeera all political prisoners who were detained last month will be released more than eighty have already been freed including prominent opposition leaders sit down have faced international pressure to release the detainee who were arrested after antigovernment protests but the rising cost of food mohamed evolve has more. the move to release dozens of political prisoners from jails in the sudanese capital of khartoum came as a surprise. most were arrested last month after protests about soaring prices and tough economic conditions turned violent turnout. we will work hard to get rid of the reasons that have led to demonstrations and detention we will be in contact with all parties concerned we will keep and maintain the human rights and we will

put an end to political polarization in the country for the sake of our nation. the families of those released from prison were delighted but concerned for the ones still detained that we are happy we need all the prisoners to be released we need our country to live in peace we need nothing but peace and security is that is ult of the commitment of the government to political freedoms and that is primarily was very short. as it used up in the past we are all very happy and all the sudanese people are happy can assure you that everybody will be released this is that this is you know of the president and the rest will follow . the freed prisoners included leaders of the opposition who are calling for all political factions to unite in order to find a solution to sudan's problems and they are demanding the release of prisoners of

opinion. we need a full and comprehensive dialogue such a dialogue is the only way to take our country away from this crisis the tension and prisons will never sort out our issues it is now the time to resort to the best methods to find peaceful solutions to the problems in our country. the presidential decree to release the prisoners came after the appointment of a new security chief and it followed calls from representatives of several foreign embassies the arrests were made during a wave of protests in several cities against the rise in bread prices and other economic difficulties facing the sudanese people many now hope the government and opposition parties can get together for talks aimed at resolving the country's persistent crisis. our desire. talks of a gun between togo's government and they opposition to try to end the six month political standoff attend a meeting is big by the presence of garland and jamie. after

months of a turn standoff that took at least government and opposition parties are finally agreed to hold talks broke up by gunnels president none of. my friends is there. to help assist in the dialogue between the various political and. of the sky the talks are expected to last ten days and discuss a range of issues including the reintroduction of the nineteen ninety two constitution that placed a limit on the number of times a president could serve two to a popular vote was approved by in one thousand nine percent of voters in a referendum. a coalition of fourteen parties and president phone yes imbecile ruling union for the republic party represented by seven delegates each really did listen to show in reality the solution depends on the president and his family who

have ruled as for fifty long years they should listen to the people's demands and they weren't be a solution if we don't speak openly and freely to each other that. the two sides will also discuss a political transition on electoral reforms took at least president phoniest seemed it was been in power since two thousand and five has faced calls to quit since last seen the embattled president took over from his father who had been president since ninety six to seven thousands took part in protests in august demanding political reforms which include limiting presidential tom's been stating out to round elections system and allowing that to release outside the country to vote since then there have been demonstrations almost every week most rallies have seen violent clashes with security forces and at least nine people have been killed many more have been arrested and the opposition had only embedded the release of this prison as a precondition to an indigo situations. a defiant phone. diffused to entertain such

demands and he's also repeatedly told reporters there will be ignored discussion of an imminent departure by the president. and a commitment by him other talks to stop the mohammed i don't. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour i slam considers banning male circumcision and is accused of attacking religious freedom. taking a job in fashion to new heights one of america's largest stores begin selling cold's marketed towards more slim with anas for the brazilian football match that ended early due to a lot of players and he's here with that story. out

of the snow falling again and actually expanding old to do is what's trying to develop around the age of his message slow moving as you can see is part of a biggest circulation that i think will produce rain for many how brainy dancer agrees but snow creeping up the towards a good part of austria vienna reflects still cold in this part of europe one two or three degrees typically factors subzero in kiev in contrast it's quite mild in sparta normally when in london at ten degrees about fifteen madrid with a bit of rain for the pyrenees and this rain rolls and stay on notice that you take your day forward there is still snow there is rather less that is intensity on this and extent but this rain probably does out rubble strongly up the coast of the adriatic and talking back into its face all the action seems to be in this part of europe that's certainly been reflected in recent weather in the levant for example and it's still as a developing not as a cause well unpleasant windy and rather rough seas conditions the coast of algeria rain is likely to fall into musea probably parts of libya as well and the breeze

itself will be noticeable keeping the temperature in the teens all last march he slowed in this direction and we've got more rain developing somewhere in the middle of egypt's part of the desert part of egypt as carter twenty. in two thousand and eight raggy omar traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you have to be american first i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim would be elected to the united states congress but ten years on mort has changed rewind islam and america at this time on al-jazeera.

running six continents across the. al-jazeera is corresponding sleeping bringing the stories that tell you that this was. a good news from the book nothing less this you know. we're out of the worst of the rajinikanth for palestinian brothers. soon didn't world news. of mind at the top stories here on mt you see what turkey's foreign minister says turkish troops will find forces loyal to syrian president bashar al assad a favor and the know it all paid afraid to defend kurdish fight this. activity so

staged to lie down protests outside the white house over gun control laws in the wake of last week's school should say in florida. five hundred college eyes to haiti's government over allegations of sexual misconduct by some of the staff during an aid mission there. were any media say whisky teams have now found the wreckage. a passenger plane that disappeared in the gross monckton's emergency workers have brushed through maintenance to rain and temperatures of minus sixteen degrees celsius to get to the site yes many airlines aircraft went down in forty weather on sunday killing all sixty five people on board iran's president hassan rouhani has ordered an investigation into the incident indian piece of arrested three more employees of punjab national bank over a one point seven billion dollars loan fraud among by branch was closed off by police investigating the case to author p n b employees have been arrested and

accused of helping a billionaire diamond jeweler and his business partner access millions of dollars in bad loans bank has lost more than a quarter of its share value since and i'm seeing the scam number of read the number of. their follow up action that has been taken as read video extraordinary that the government is doing absolutely everything possible. thousands of people in zimbabwe have paid tribute to morgan chang guy at a rally in the capital harare the former opposition leader died from cancer on wednesday opposition members say they will try and keep the party united despite divisions over leadership or metastasize more now from harare. when morgan tsvangirai body arrived at the place opposition parties called freedom square his supporters called him a hero for defending human rights and always calling for free and felix ins this is their last chance to say goodbye many here won't be able to attend the burial and

choose to embrace her. home two hundred kilometers from the capital they say they'll continue his work and prepare for the election in a few months. you know that this. president. hasn't heard the entire leadership of the main opposition party showed up for monday's rally but there is speculation the movement for democratic change could split if some key officials decide to walk away the opposition is one of the party to hold it has been congress to elect is an answer to these appointments. the national council is illegitimate. at the rally there were calls for the party to stick together a little candies to do it to so do. the it to bustamante miles so if he needed congress. for months but this election is

coming and she's got to do it is. for now opposition supporters say they are united and will deal with whatever problems lie ahead after more good time guy has been banned. al-jazeera. and egyptian company has agreed to buy fifteen billion dollars worth of israeli natural gas the deal israel hopes will strengthen diplomatic ties operators of israel's leviathan offshore and. asked fields will supply a private egyptian firm dolfin us holdings around sixty four billion cubic meters of gas a word decade israelis energy minister has called it the most significant export deal between the two countries since their historic peace treaty in one nine hundred seventy nine israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has welcomed the deal so close it is we need to understand that this will put billions into the state treasury to benefit the education health and social welfare of israel citizen course many people did not believe in the guest outline we lit it knowing that it

would strengthen our security economy and regional relations peace in israel are investigating the drawing of swastikas and anti polish slogans on the gates of poland's embassy it comes a day after the polish prime minister calls i waged by saying jews were amongst the perpetrators of the holocaust some of the graffiti accuses polish people of being comparable to nazis legislators in iceland the trying to make male circumcision illegal saying it falls under the umbrella of child abuse if the bill passes ice the movie the first european countries if i'm the practice circumcision is carried out for lead just social medical and cultural reasons thirty percent of men around the world of to be circumcised jews and muslims in other nordic countries say the move is an attack on religious freedom that targets a traditional practice their community. or globally the world health organization

estimates that about one in three men have been circumcised most soon after birth is practiced for religious reasons by jews in this thems and on social cultural or medical grounds in various parts of the world the legality of circumcising baby boys who are unable to give their consent for the procedure has been debated before but iceland would be the first european country to ban it well jonathan are is the president of the board of deputies of british jews here in london and group that represents the u.k.'s jewish community he says the jewish community is concerned but i since moved to trying to ban the practice the irony is this is coming from the most liberal countries in europe taking the very deliberate practice of banning something because you don't agree with it all about smoking medical evidence is that the best time to perform circumcision which is a very minor procedure is when a child is eight days old which is exactly when jewish people do it because that's

when we're commanded to do it in the bible male circumcision is a very minor procedure that causes no harm at the time or lost in harm female circumcision on the other hand is a very intrusive procedure that is a mutilation of a woman's sexual organs it causes search children urine re problems and pain for almost all women who have it done for the rest of their life it's criminalized in this country and rightly so there is nothing wrong with cultural or religious grounds when it doesn't do harm and it has a degree of good or the american pediatric association finding was that in developing countries where health and sanitation isn't as good there are huge benefits because a massively reduced incidence of h.i.v. which is probably why across africa it's been a cultural custom for hundreds of years. tried to modernize transport in the

philippines is threatening a much loved fixture of our ben life minibuses known as being updated drivers of the popular mode of transport fear it's putting their jobs at risk though when reports live from manila. when tourists think of the philippines they often have the jeep in mind it is an offshoot of the american military jeeps that were left behind after world war two since then filipinos have made it their own zir unique colorful and have long been called the king of philippine roads. for decades they've also been the solution to the country's lack of public transport jeepneys are affordable and available but have also been blamed for the city's chaotic traffic. the philippine government wants more control it says it is time to improve the g.p. industry it wants g.p. operators to start registering as corporations instead of running corporative

independent. basically or what their station project. can be. changing or. it can. include being. operating conditions. it also wants to phase out jeepneys that are fifteen years or older government officials want you models they say they are safer and edgy efficient and environmentally friendly. it is some fear the assistance the offer is not even enough there is no other in the world it can only be found here and it must be preserved. jeepney owners groups oppose the plan to saying the model that the government is demanding is double the price and g.p. operators and workers cannot afford it the majority of g.p. drivers belong to the poorest sector of society. these see forcing owners to

upgrade without enough government assistance could mean an end to the g.p. industry all together. they said the one. that heard that out there and what did he do in the end he told them i don't care about you you can all day in hunger isn't that such a but they are. very nearly three hundred thousand japanese all across the country and many of been flying the streets for decades but majority of commuters prefer jeepneys like this one modern colorful and fast. the government says the plan to improve the g.p. is just part of a broader project to overhaul the transport system. these are often seen as a conic moving art pieces that reflect the filipino ingenuity. but for many here people to become a symbol of the government's neglect. dogon al-jazeera manila. now

a decision by the u.s. department store chain macy's to sell his jobs as part of a new clothing line has cost control for see online some twitter users have taken to using the hash tag boycott maisie's accusing the retailer of promoting what they say is a symbol of oppression for women the user here tweets you are the first major u.s. department store to sell the hit job the ultimate symbol of oppression of women what's next and i'll use a tweet still accept the still normalization of the hit job in america ever it's not our culture and it will never be but there's been some approval to people like sarah say they support macy's move to be inclusive she says she loves her macy's we're in a collection his job you support is them before macy's labeled this car as his. well joining me now to discuss this further is from the council on american islamic relations she's in washington d.c. hi there's enough thanks very much for your company saying that why is this a control forsee. you know it's

a manufactured controversy i think for the vast majority of particularly muslim women but just you know ordinary americans this is just a move by macy's to be more inclusive and to be more more diverse in embracing of diversity but more importantly more than that it's more it's a business decision a sound business decision made by b c's to tap into a growing market that is very lucrative financially and you know by all accounts and purposes muslim fashion is a multibillion dollar industry that has generated you know an amazing amount of revenues and nieces decided that they want to piece of the pie at the same have so when when you see a tweet like the one that we featured there saying you know this is a symbol of oppression how does that make you feel. i think oppression is depending on perspective i think for many of the muslim women who

choose to wear the hijab or the headscarf for them to be forced to you know not wear it or to take it off that would be a form of oppression i think it's not society's place or government's place to decide whether or not women should wear the headscarf and if being that is specially now as more and more women are rejecting the notion that we should be forced to bear skin or show we're here in order for us to be deemed attractive or for us to be deemed acceptable by societal standards is just it's a great step in the right direction i think every woman should have the autonomy to choose whether or not she wants to wear the headscarf and we applaud this decision by leases it's a step in the right direction as shows the first major mainstream department store that's made this move and where we're hopeful that more will follow suit suzanne and i'm guessing you weren't surprised at all when it literally you know flew off the shelves. so it's interesting we just learned that just

a few days after the roma collection was made available online through macy's the their inventory has been depleted significantly and many of the items that were on sale i mean much of the apparel has been sold out and i think that that's just a indicator that you know there is a market out there for for modest attire and not all of the market as a muslim woman or muslim girls many people who are not muslim who also enjoy wearing modest clothing according to the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen global islamic education economic report in twenty fifteen will in about two hundred fifty fifty billion dollars worth of clothing with that were sold to muslim consumers and that is expected to increase up to almost four hundred billion dollars by twenty twenty one and i think that that also is a reflective of a growing market consumerism within the muslim world but beyond the muslim world as well and it's an indicator that modest fashion is here to stay the same and why do you think it is that some people find you know macy's still keeping an item of

clothing that might be worn by you know any number of women frightening i mean that's what strikes me about some of these tweets is is the toll it at its heart sometimes seems like one of fear. i think it's an it's symptomatic of a broader problem that we have with the rampant islamophobia here in the united states and western world and beyond where there's a lot of misconception and misunderstanding about islam and about women in islam and just the hit job in general it's one of the most politicized articles of clothing in the world and for many in the west they see the hit job as a form of oppression until they meet many muslim woman and they hear our side of the story and they realize that you know it's actually couldn't be further from the truth personally i decided to wear the hijab when i was nineteen years old i became the first muslim woman in my family to wear the hijab and it was really a form of liberation for myself for

a way for me to express my identity and i think many muslim women who wear the hijab also feel the same way and i think a lot of it is just comes down to dismantling a lot of the misconceptions and stereotypes that exist about islam and muslim women particularly and just educating the broader public on what the head job is and why it's not something that people should be afraid of in a charger they're joining me live from washington d.c. to say no thank you. in the time of war business. business

. the war in syria has whipped thousands of families apart and disrupted millions of lives it's had a profound impact on every aspect of society including family life millions of men have either left the country been forced to fight or lost their lives creating particular issues for a growing number of single women castillo piss though and has the story ali's wedding shop has plenty of dresses but not enough brides syria's war has led to less romance and fewer potential grooms. there's a lot about the men are leaving the country there's immigration and the military aspect which is taking away a lot of them as a result the women ratio has increased single women are still looking to get married but the war is changing the dating scene

a growing number of women are in their thirty's before they get married if they do at all there's probably a picture for a while i'm at a club and it's become perfectly normal to see women over thirty who are not yet married and at the same time the age of marriage has considerably decreased in some remote rural areas especially where there are refugee camps and displaced people since two thousand and eleven more than four hundred fifty thousand syrians have been killed in the conflict injuries have reached one million more than six million are displaced omar stayed in syria but says finding a steady job and income is almost impossible which makes people think twice about marriage and starting a family they want to be a world of vehicles or yami under those conditions it's a crime to have a child if you have a child you have to give them medicine education and security right now you don't know when you might have to take off and take the child with you some of my friends have had to give birth in hotels. are yearning for love has led to many couples

meeting online for. a couple while the so couples communicate and getting gauged over skype or on the internet now i see the brights coming into my shop alone to buy a wedding dress or organize a party before they travel to where the groom lives romance and weddings maybe taking a backseat in syria but ali says he's not too worried the search for love even in war is timeless lopa so the young al-jazeera. the little. up let's get all the day's sports news now here's andy thanks so much julie well for the first time in twenty years ago old metal has been shared at the olympics

canada and germany couldn't be separated in that same man bobsleigh meaning both countries can celebrate a victory some reports on the tenth day of action at the chiang games. fine margins often decide the success and failure at the lympics but the two men bobsled to produce that rarest of sporting outcomes namely two winners germany and canada posted the exact same time up to four runs meaning both teams get a gold medal this has happened three times in the limbic history of the event the last time was in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight one canada shared gold with italy. canada will also have a shot a gold in the women's hockey is through to the final off to beating the olympic athletes from russia five months thing for the fourth successive elim picks that it's the usa who await them in the final the u.s. beat finland by the same scoreline in their semi for once the dutch didn't dominate

the speed skating event instead it was norway the harvard the ensign taking gold in the men's five hundred meters there ensign becoming the first no region champion over the distance since nine hundred forty eight the netherlands one all three medals in the distance four years ago no way deep to more history in the men's team ski jumping a vent the four man squad edging out germany and poland to win the title for the first time with twenty eight medals in all this is already norway's most successful winter olympics son home washed all disappear. confirmation there of noise position of the top of the medals table they finished second in twenty four team behind russia have been banned from these games for doping offensive offenses five more golds up for grabs on choose day now some russians are competing at least games as you troll athletes in the court of arbitration for sport has opened

a door open case against one of them alexander crucial netsky won bronze in mixed doubles coaling he's suspected of testing positive for mild boney m. that's a banned substance that increases blood flow and improves exercise capacity. doping testing and sanctioning the olympic winter games pyong chang twenty eighteen is independent from the i.o.c. therefore the i.o.c. cannot communicate on individual cases while the procedure is ongoing on the one hand it is extremely disappointing when prohibited substances may have been used but on the other hand it shows the effectiveness of the anti doping system at the games which protects the rights of all the clean athletes or manchester city maybe sixteen points clear at the top of the english premier league but they've been knocked out of the f.a. cup by third say it wigan athletic city at the fender fabien delf sense of just before half time and full advantage a goal from will great given his side are worn nil when they'll play southampton in

the quarterfinals. chelsea will be hoping to maintain their record of keeping barcelona striker lino messi quiet it seems a getting ready to meet in london on choose day when the last sixteen stage of the champions league regimes messi has failed to score in any of his eight previous games against the reigning premier league champions. in munich aiming for their seventh straight course of final the germans are at home to turkish champions bush tax who tops their qualifying group by end of one last thirteen games in all competitions for all puppets overseas decency dark we have to focus on tomorrow we have to face the european top team because they won their group they have great names great players in their team they have quality in their teams they are tactically very strong so we should be aware and try to be tash and we need to do with a good result here at home. now a game in brazil billed as the piece darby didn't quite manage to live up to its

name it featured no less than nine red cards the fixture between bar here and that story has a reputation for violence on and off the pitch in this game exploded in so life just after halftime a brawl involving both things resulted in a long delay in seven players being sent off the referee eventually ended proceedings a little later on when victoria had their fifth player red carded. bubba watson is back winning titles after a two year victory droughts the two time masters champion said his form got so bad he considered retiring last year thirty nine year old american winning the genesis open here by two strokes. it's his tenth told us. that means a lot my goal has always been to get ten wins and so this got to my tenth when. there's so many emotions going to my head right now never know if you're going to play good again never know if you're going to be able to lift a trophy again. so many things out there about retirement i mean there's just so

much stuff going to my head right now i can't believe i'm going to lift a trophy here in a second lebron james stole the show at this year's n.b.a. all-star game the event is an annual showcase for the best players in the world's top professional league helmet reports. if anyone needed reminding who's the biggest name in boston they got to that view all star game the french lebron james was in fine form after hand-picked by took on the team selected by steph curry. james hadn't b.v. all-star game envy people for the team. that looked like changing changing too soon or knocking down cars never want that particular accolade he only scored eleven points overall i didn't seem as invested in v. if that's liberal the cleveland man would eventually back a game high twenty nine points and ended up being in a dream a close contest. leading by just one point with on the twenty second to

go le bron delivered to the sister of the night for ross and westbrook to increase the lead by three. teams deafened could have levelled it but blew the chance in the brawn side winning it one forty eight to one forty five with james bagging the m.v.p. award sometimes you have to improvise you know when to break down and was able to do that and that's the i mean that's the beauty of being on the floor were a bunch of stars it doesn't always work that way but when you have all stars were guys a high i.q. and guys that want to play the game and play the game the right way then it works out for the best now that the fun is over it's back to the race to the playoffs for the n.b.a.'s best al-jazeera. ok that's the sport let's get back to julie and london. and the thank you that's like warnings have been raised to the highest levels around indonesia in the bunker the volcano has been releasing ash clouds to reach more than five thousand meters in the air hundreds of nearby houses were left covered in debris the volcano has been rumbling since twenty ten but activities

picked up in recent days people are being urged to stay out of a seven kilometer exclusion zone around the crazier we can find out much more about the stories we are following card they head to our website be address is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com or be back in just a sec but much more. the

sam's in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in bubble most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several berlin museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is part of life it's culture. more than

a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw a map. but what were the last thing effects of this agreement there is a regional set to six because it's at those borders were drawn with consulting the people have to live with the. psych speak out lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. so asaad forces come to be a deaf syrian kurds in a frame risk of an armed conflict with. all of them to meet all of this is sound sincere ally from up also.