you know vienna philharmonic and i wish you. oh i. see in you a concert is broadcast from austria to some ninety countries and is watched by more than fifty million television viewers. the orchestra is now under new management and a number of changes are planned but the traditions of the new year's concert will remain unchanged according to the new managing director michel blood over and chairman daniel for shall receive in addition to this combative vienna feel on the whole thing has a perfect dramaturgy from pickle so in terms of the basic idea i believe we just can't make any major changes we have a number of specific qualities and for us it's essential that we don't give up these things that sets us apart. so that we don't just become like alphas that's beneath her big support we avoid an agony which quite want to focus on in a most quality sic we want to play the best concerts there are. these keep. every year the performance ends with the right that's good march played as an encore the orchestra then even encourages the audience

in vienna the new year always gets off to a lively start. the music by the strauss family of composers is full of energy and a lot of believe. on january first the vienna philharmonic orchestra performs it with particular devotion this time for the concert and the record trial are unique you only get the atmosphere in the whole of this concert but it's like they're like you and are in a sort of dream dream for two reasons because you have the vienna for the morning. and second reason. because the music of strauss gives you a sort of you know sort of utmost fear. or. no one is said to play strauss better than the vienna philharmonic. the orchestra was founded in eight hundred forty two and is self administered with no principal conductor instead the orchestra works with various guest conductors. this is the fifth time riccardo muti has had the honor of conducting the new year's concert with this music so typical of vienna. and guineas vault it is something that nobody knows but these in the soul or for the orchestra and so i learnt from the m

in vienna the new year always gets off to a lively start. the music by the strauss family of composers is full of energy and what have you. on january first the vienna philharmonic orchestra performs it with particular devotion to his home for the concert and the record trial are unique you only get the atmosphere in the whole of this concert but it's like that like you and are in a sort of dream dream for two reasons because you have the vienna for the morning. and second reason. because the music of strauss gives you a sort of you know sort of utmost fear. or. no one is said to play strauss better than the vienna philharmonic. the orchestra was founded in eight hundred forty two and is self administered with no principal conductor instead the orchestra works with various guest conductors. this is the fifth time riccardo muti has had the honor of conducting the new year's concert with this music so typical of vienna. and viennese waltz it is something that nobody knows but this in the soul of for the orchestra and so i learnt from the music

in vienna the new year always gets off to a lively start. the music by the strauss family of composers is full of energy and a lot of believe. on january first the vienna philharmonic orchestra performs it with particular devotion to his home for the concert and the record trial are unique you only get the atmosphere in the whole of this concert but it's like that like you and are in a sort of dream dream for two reasons because you have the vienna for the morning. and second reason. because the music of strauss gives you a sort of you know sort of atmosphere. no one is said to play strauss better than the vienna philharmonic. the orchestra was founded in one thousand forty two and is self administered with no principal conductor instead the orchestra works with various guest conductors. this is the fifth time riccardo muti has had the honor of conducting the new year's concert with this music so typical of vienna. and viennese waltz it is something that nobody knows but this in the soul of the orchestra and so i learnt from the musicians th

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backed peace talks in vienna trying to push my b.g. kurdish fighters of forces out all of the african region especially the ninth round of talks comes at a very critical time in the conflicts. a convoy of helicopters including the u.s. marine one carrying president donald trump is arriving at the. landing zone for the world economic forum and with the first. sitting u.s. president to attend the summit says the two thousand. can bring to the table of a global focus for him given his america first agenda. former u.s. diplomat bill richardson has resigned from an international panel tackling the ranger crisis calling it a whitewash at least seven hundred thousand. region for bangladesh since the military crackdown in or. the death toll from an attack on a kabul hotel has now climbed to twenty five the thirteen hour standoff at the enter continental hotel began on saturday taliban gunmen targeted foreign workers and guests still looking at how security was breached c.c.t.v. footage shows the armed men were not searched before entering the

sponsored peace talks on syria gets underway in vienna for more i'm joined by kerry sky ring in the austrian capital and dorian jones in istanbul hello to you both kerry let's start with you is the turkish offensive in northern syria affecting the peace talks in beata. it's not a direct effect but certainly an indirect effect what it does what that incursion by turkey does is signal the great differences that exist by the international players in the syrian conflict and the people sitting at the un peace table here in vienna they will have allies and former enemies among those international players and they just see once again that there is no unity at the international level on the way forward for syria it also comes at a critical moment this conflict in that area of syria where turkey is making the incursion of the moment we've had these talks described by the u.n. envoy for the syria talks as a critical moment we will see the french foreign minister call it the last hope for the syrian peace talks and again the conflict is going to increase the humanitarian problems and much of the energy

vienna which once again proved. this. desire to continue to which is a bloody war on its people without any intention to engage in any sort of dialogue . it is just only normal that she is relying on the interview submission. little willingness to engage in serious political negotiations and. international business for the regime has ended yesterday and the regime was in that she is lucky she is continuing its run since you. and the light of our commitment to the diplomatic process and firm conviction that the diplomatic political solution solution is a must which realizes desperation of the syrian people and that's why we continue to positively respond with the united nations so that tangible progress can be achieved and within this context i believe that all the meetings held the world are very. useful namely our mutual understanding over the coming day. is out of order a strong belief to reach lugo solution that meets the u.s. very sions of the syrian people these days on the international germs of its. own we have ong

backed peace talks in vienna turkey's trying to push why p.g. kurdish forces out of the african region the u.n. special envoy for syria says the ninth round of talks come at a very critical time in the conflict more from al jazeera as horrible honeyed in vienna. the two main boys they would like to discuss at this stage is the writing of a new constitution and presidential elections but if you remember during geneva eight which were which lasted about two weeks in early december well certainly nothing happened there and at the end of those talks as defined the mystery had expressed frustration and he had actually pointed the finger at the government delegation saying that it had only wanted to talk about terrorism the opposition says it's now here it is somehow unified donald trump is arrived in davos the world economic forum he's the first sitting u.s. president to attend the summit since the year two thousand many are skeptical though about what he can bring to the table of a global focused forum given his america first agenda. former u.s. dip

thank you very much trying to identify me and in vienna. want to tell you about in the program eight years after the haiti earthquake millions remain without allies in basic necessity water. reinforcing its modern my density and yet marks the day sixty nine years ago it became a sovereign state. how i was saying some rather cold and when she weather pushing across china recently central areas seeing a fair bit of snow some leeway in this in hong kong temperatures around twenty celsius barely getting up to around four degrees there in shanghai on a sas day off ne might be a touch woman to go on into sunday but a tough snow here as well some wet weather on the southern flank still getting up to around nineteen or twenty celsius there in hong kong i suspect it will cloud over through the course of the day increasing cloud also pushing towards southern parts of india towards schrank you can see this the line of storms that just around the southern most parts of the being goal they are heading towards flank the eastern side of the country could

khrushchev went to vienna spoiling for a fight. there was nothing jfk could have , save conceding a nato presence in berlin, there was nothing kennedy could have done to have a good conference. vienna was a setup. it was an ambush. khrushchev set it up. he wanted to put pressure on kennedy in the hope that kennedy would give him something that eisenhower had been unwilling to give him, which was the removal of the nato presence in west berlin eared kennedy stood up to him and did not given and went and called up some reserves. khrushchev backed down. the essential thing to understand about khrushchev is that he believed that the soviet union was strategically inferior. assumed thaters countries believe themselves to be strategically inferior are not risk takers. it is a basic misunderstanding that you can see throughout the u.s. foreign-policy elite that goes back to world war ii in japan. american observers of the international system, because they project the united states on the world, tend to think that foreign leaders who know

a new military front opened by turkey in the syrian war could further complicate peace talks in vienna. for the past six days he's been attacking kurdish forces in the northern syrian region of afraid they want to push the fight says who's they say a terrorists out from the area and create a buffer zone on the border and the special envoy for syria says the ninth round of talks comes at a very critical time in the conflict a correspondent joins us live from vienna what are we hearing from the talks so far . we're actually hearing not very much what we do know is that the meeting between the u.n. envoy to find the minister and the syrian government delegation is now over but we haven't heard any comment at the end of that meeting it lasted about two and a half to three hours now in about an hour you will have the opposition coming here to the u.n. building and they will hold their meeting or at least their first round of meetings for this talks with the founder mr and now the opposition yesterday did say that these talks were critical and definitive as they put it and when asked why the

genie: the vienna talks backed by the u.n. come days before russia is sponsoring its own syrian dialogue in sochi. who is involved in those talks and are they helping or undermininu.u.n. effortsts? are another indicatioion ofof the challenges surrououndig reresolving the whole syriaa conflict. has its own geostrategic interests which it has been representing since it entered the conflict on the side of a bashar al-asassad and have cropd up his regime. they have been promoting those interests for the past few years. the conference in sochi is going to bring together the key playayers. it's going to bring together representatives of the regime. it's going to bring together regional representatives from turkey, iran. it''s a parallel procesess. on the o one hand you have countries like france anand the united states that say the only possible logical solution to the syria conflict runs through these un-sponsored talks. ththey say that's the only way o come to a political solution and then at the samame time a few ds later you hav

that the syria talks in vienna thank you huldah inside syria turkish forces oppressing on with their offensive to take over for him this is a kurdish enclave in the north of the country activists believe turkey has mobilized about ten thousand allied syrian rebels to help them as we said the target here is the kurdish people's protection units known as the wife he turkey regards from the terrorists these pictures. to show you the counter-offensive from the y. p.g. i just believe dozens of scientists have been killed thousands took his campaign six days ago the exact numbers there as i'm sure you can appreciate almost impossible to know we're going to check in with stephanie decker who's covering this event for us stephanie any clarity at all well after six days of fighting now well it seems have been relatively quiet today in terms of if you look at it as what we've seen over the last six days as you mentioned i could only speculate as to reason why certainly the ground offensive we understand was very very quiet there was some shelling that's been going on for days intensely today l

i had to live for us and vienna hota thank you. president donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children but that's only if democrats agree to funding a mexico border wall it would mean one point eight million so-called dreamers would be protected from deportation to the country of their birth the white house says the proposal could attract enough votes to pass through the senate. plans a twenty five billion dollars fund to build the wall which he pledged to do during his election campaign he also said at the time that he would have mexico pay for it and return trump says around two million immigrants who entered the u.s. without documents when they were children will be eligible for citizenship but that process will take ten to twelve years they'll have to meet specific criteria for education achievement and what's called moral character trump also plans to tighten rules on sponsoring family members and only allowing young children and spouses at the moment u

vienna which once again proved. this. desire to continue to which is a bloody war on its people without any intention to engage in any sort of dialogue . it is just only normal that she is relying on you to be sufficient. you know little willingness to engage in serious political negotiations. international business for the regime has ended yesterday and the regime was in that she is looking she is continuing its run since you. and the light of our commitment to the diplomatic process and firm conviction that the diplomatic political solution solution is a must which realizes that space enough.

a new military front opened by turkey in syria threatens to complicate un backed peace talks in vienna. and a small step for man one giant leap for monkeys for such as around the world hell the cloning of the first primates in china. we begin in davos where after much anticipation u.s. president donald trump has finally arrived at the world economic forum and already he's making waves over his threats to withhold aid from the palestinians if they don't pursue peace with israel our diplomatic editor james braze reports from davos . all right the u.s. president seemed in upbeat mood as he arrived here. and prosperity between israelis and palestinians that seems further away than ever you might think that when you've alienated one side in a negotiation in this case the palestinians you might reach out to the inc you very much flanked by us really prime minister benjamin netanyahu the author of the art of the deal showed that not his way when they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great vice president to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in support trem

led talks which have continued in vienna looking for a solution to that war in syria u.n. special envoy stuff and de mistura has met the government and opposition delegations separately they refuse to even be in the same room the last talks were in december i filed just like all the other rounds before them his head of the hamid in vienna indoors today which is i'm sure much better for you what have you found out today i've heard about some documents which have been circulating within the. yes indeed i mean today you had a very long session between the opposition. and. u.n. envoys to fund a mystery. during which at some point the russian delegation also took part there was some exchange between the opposition and the russians now from what we understand from our diplomatic sources there is a new working document in circulation it has been put forward by five countries do you do us france saudi and jordan now that document has ten points and those ten points tackled the issue of constitution of elections of devolving the presidential powers increasing the prime minister pow

like an island of peace the czech town of telco is located midway between prague and vienna where the borders of bohemia moravia and lower austria meet. in the fourteenth century the luxemburg kings ruled this region charles the fourth but soon control of it as a young margrave. here monex feuded with one another nobleman switch diligence and robber barons and bands of britons exploited the intrigues of those in power finally the land was devastated by religious conflict. in the mid fifteenth century things became more peaceful husain in catholic churches each accepted the existence of the other the town lay at the crossroads of important trade routes its burgers brewed beer and salt salt. tell castle was taken over by the hundreds family since fifteen twenty six they'd been faithful servants of the house of hapsburg and even more devout catholics. thus the lady in white raised her veil and went about the council with a smile on her lips because happier times were about to dawn. in fifteen fifty zacharias the second son of the chancellor of bohemia. may tell his residents craftsman ha

sponsored negotiations in vienna which have been extended for a day though there's been no breakthrough. we listen to many good n.t.'s concerning . commitment but none of them will deliver somehow and. we are we are tired of that we need real involvement we need real commitment and the ball is in the russian court and the say that they have the upper hand in syria. and they were responsible for saving this region for a long time and they can bring it to commit itself to international legality was aleutians and if they won't they can meanwhile turkish forces continue their operation against kurdish fighters in afrin in northern syria the violence has increased tension with the us which supports the kurdish y.p. g. forces in the area as they battle eisel let's draw all this together now with stephanie decker who is live for us from and taki a staff starting with the ceasefire at least and good to remind us how many people are trapped there is this cease fire holding. well the u.n. estimates around four hundred thousand people a.j. and why is this important because also the seeds you menti

like an island of peace the czech town of telco is located midway between prague in vienna where the borders of bohemia moravia and low austria meet. in the fourteenth century the luxemburg kings ruled this region charles the fourth assume control of it as a young margrave. here monex feuded with one another nobleman switched allegiance and robber barons and bands of britons exploited the intrigues of those in power finally the land was devastated by religious conflict. in the mid fifteenth century things became more peaceful husain and catholic churches each accepted the existence of the other the town lay at the crossroads of important trade routes its burgers brewed beer and salt salt. tell the castle was taken over by the high adage family since fifteen twenty six they've been faithful servants of the house of halves book and even more devout catholics. thus the lady in white raised her veil and went about the council with a smile on her lips because happier times were about to dawn. in fifteen fifty exactly riots the second son of the chancellor of bohemia. might tell his reside

like an island of peace the czech town of telco is located midway between prague and vienna where the borders of bohemia moravia and lower austria meet. in the fourteenth century the luxembourg kings ruled this region charles the fourth assume control of it as a young margrave. here monex feuded with one another nobleman switched allegiance and robber barons and bands of britons exploited the intrigues of those in power finally the land was devastated by religious conflict. in the mid fifteenth century things became more peaceful husain and catholic churches each accepted the existence of the other the town lay at the crossroads of important trade routes its burgers brewed beer and salt salt. tell castle was taken over by the high adage family since fifteen twenty six they'd been faithful servants of the house of hapsburg and even more devout catholics. thus the lady in white raised her veil and went about the council with a smile on her lips because happier times were about to dawn. in fifteen fifty zacharias the second son of the chancellor of bohemia. may tell his residents craftsm

back talks in vienna al jazeera is one of the hobby that has been speaking to the opposition delegation and they explained their position. this round in vienna was meant to be a real test for the commitment to the implementation of us you could go solution two to five for. the details in it unfortunately this test has been. they failed that both the regime and those who are supporting that he deemed to continue surviving now based on that is all it's all the vote that there could be a commitment the citizens could have been made regarding what russia is proposing unfortunately the test was where is this going to go i mean how many times are you guys going to attend talks way to geneva or anywhere else and each and every time there's no outcome absolutely all right but you have to think of the person who was trying to obstruct the political process from the very beginning of the g.m. has selected the military solution to be the strategy for just silencing people however the world quote a political solution should you once you could at the council resolutions that is somebody who is worki

so in vienna the opposition as presented by represented by three groups. made up of people who have been living outside syria for a very long time. and if we are talking about working and creating a new syrian constitution we need to engage all ethnic groups all population women minorities and so on and so forth and so this is what these sochi. meeting will be about we have invited all representatives of the syrian people there including tribal leaders representatives of the civil community and so on and so forth because the people who will be living and they cut in their own country the people who have never left their country and it is their voice including with the voice. of the immigrants. will be heard in sochi and we hope that by the end of this congress in sochi itself and there was to receive recommendations about who else might be added to the. constitutional commission.

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my name is luka i'm a photographer and live in vienna i've been able to travel to north korea seven times since two thousand and five getting a picture of the country's people and their world view during these trips i saw more than i was allowed to be shunned any journalists visiting the country is accompanied by mind as around the clock i've known mine for a few years now. i'm taking pictures with them they check what you film who you talk to and what about i see the familiar images but time and again i see new ones i notice that there are a few new. ideas for many of the people caught in this collective mindset. a paranoid system one that i too have to submit to. it is a requirement on every visit to start by going to the statues of the two great leaders i'm familiar with this. they're part of the large man sued a monument which commemorates north korea's fight against the japanese occupation. the capital pyongyang is home to more than three million people and to a middle class that's becoming economically increasingly independent of the state a middle class that could in the long term

now in vienna a night's round of u.n. led talks to find a solution to the war in syria appears to have reached a dead end little progress has been made in this round or even earlier rounds held in geneva and the government and opposition still have not met face to face well let's get more from abdul hamid who is following developments for us in vienna tell us what's the latest on these talks. well certainly there have been it's been a very long day i would say for stephon the mistura the u.n. envoy started with a very long meeting with the opposition about five hours during which they discussed this working document that has been put forward by five countries france britain the us saudi and jordan now this document was described to us working document two to discuss mechanism to basically kick start the over revive the peace talks because we keep on saying these are peace talks but what has been going on at least for the last two rounds they're basically trying to find ways about how to start the substance of negotiation

at the hamid and vienna the two main boys they would like to discuss at this stage is the writing of a new constitution and presidential elections but if you remember during geneva eight which were which lasted about two weeks in early december well certainly nothing happened there and at the end of those talks to fund a mystery i had expressed frustration and he had actually pointed the finger at the government delegation saying that it had all he wanted to talk about terrorism the opposition says it's now here it is somehow unified. donald trump has arrived in davos for the world economic forum is joining billionaires and other heads of state gathering at the end he's the first sitting u.s. president to attend the summit since two thousand and he is skeptical about what he can bring to the table of a global focus forum given his america first agenda. spaces and. dabbles this year very much like every other year the global business leaders political leaders talk of global values global trade that's the normal davos the normal davos ended about half an hour ago trump is here trouble

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melinda immigration on refugee policy all the divisions chamberlain and vienna as strong as they have been in the post. both leaders were trying to indicate that they're not for example both stressed to their agreement on the need for stronger protection of e.u. borders on the need for clear measures in the area of development policy to try to encourage people to stay in their own countries and not travel to europe and also on the need for resettlement of those who come to europe and perhaps don't have a right to stay to stay but where there was a clear disagreement was again on the issue of quotas that european union member countries should fulfill in terms of how many refugees they do take in of those who are entitled to stay there mr court said that he still thinks the issue is very much over emphasized whereas the chancellor said that she expects e.u. member countries to abide by their obligations so i think that is one point where germany will be watching austria's actions as she said. but again there were. clear indications that the chancellor of austria is right when he says th

work to do if they want to you know have the meeting of the minds the divisions between berlin and vienna are they going strong as they have been in the past if we look at the whole picture. well the key issue here really is immigration and the policy towards refugees and there mr kurtz is criticism of the chancellor's policies had been quite harsh that was not in evidence today that two were saying that they agree on things like better protection for austria's borders or on the need to come to good resettlement agreements with their countries of origin from which many migrants are departing and they also said that we need to better development policy to make sure that the numbers of people who want to come to europe decrease but the fact is there was significant disagreement on the idea that for those refugees who do when admission to european union who have a right to stay that there should be further quotas for their resettlement throughout e.u. member countries and they are the chancellor said that she absolutely sees that as an obligation that countries need to abide by whereas the c

melinda or immigration on refugee policy all the divisions chamberlain in vienna as strong as they have been in the post. both leaders were trying to indicate that they're not for example both stressed to their agreement on the need for stronger protection of the e.u. borders on the need for clear measures in the area of development policy to try to encourage people to stay in their own countries and not travel to europe and also on the need for resettlement of those who come to europe and perhaps don't have a right to stay to stay but where there was a clear disagreement was again on the issue of quotas that european union member countries should fulfill in terms of how many refugees they do take in of those. who are intitled to stay there mr court said that he still thinks the issue is very much over emphasized whereas the chancellor said that she expects e.u. member countries to abide by their obligations so i think that is one point where germany will be watching austria's actions as she said. but again there were. clear indications that the chancellor of austria is right when he sa

and the opposition the two days of talks in vienna come after eight previous rounds in geneva now even though a breakthrough seems as far away as ever u.n. special envoy for syria. remains optimistic meanwhile in the north of the war torn country another conflict is raging on turkey's offensive targeting kurdish militia in the region of a three most turks appear to approve of their government's new war but speaking out against it carries risks our correspondent stan bowl filed this report on how operation all of branch is being perceived back home. more on every channel the military operation in syria as the top story on turkish television the tenor of the reporting they re petry all tick how critical the majority of tickets people it seems support operation on of branch in this tea house at least no one thinks the offensive is a mistake would be that the terrorists were looking for an opportunity to divide the country but we won't let them shove them of unused desertions us is all we have fighting against isis and other terrorist groups those who don't want to help us should at least

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and opposition of the two days of talks in vienna come after eight previous rounds in geneva even though a breakthrough seems as far away as ever u.n. special envoy for syria stuff on demist euro remains optimistic meanwhile in the north of the war torn country another conflict is raging turkey's offensive targeting kurdish militia in the region of free most the turks appear to approve of their government's new war but speaking out against that military campaign it carries risks of a correspondent in stamboul filed this report on how operation all of branch is being perceived back home for. more on every channel the military operation in syria is the top story on turkish television the tenor of the reporting there e petrino take howard lee critical the majority of to people it seems support operation on a french in this tea house at least no one thinks the offensive is a mistake to do that the terrorists are looking for an opportunity to divide the country but we won't let them shove them of unused just got us is all we have fighting against isis and other terrorist groups those who don'

joins us now live from vienna so what's been happening so far well the u.n. envoy to fundamental has been closed in a meeting with the syrian government delegation they've been in there for about two and a half hours now. talks that are needed direct even proximity talks at the moment while the government defend them is meeting in this building well across the street the opposition. should be coming here later in the afternoon once the first meeting is over but as you said earlier yesterday the funding mr when he landed here said that these were critical talks we heard just same thing from the head of the opposition delegation who did say that these were not only critical but this talks that these this latest round would actually show who is serious and who is not serious about trying to start these negotiations which basically have been at the deadlock for now three years what's going to be discussed in these talks with the two different sides. well if you listen to the opposition they say they want to tackle. the rewriting of the constitution and setting a

efforts to broker a peace deal the decision came as the latest round of un talks wrapped up in vienna without a major breakthrough. what did require. if political will it is high time the diplomacy dialogue and negotiations prevail for the interest of all the syrians they said they think the general. is being briefed and will be briefed tonight on the outcome of these discussions and then it will be up to him to take to the efficient what will be the u.n. response to the invitation to attend the. us president donald trump has taken his america first message to the world's elite addressing the world economic forum in davos he declared the u.s. open for business but he's warned that washington will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair trade practices diplomatic editor james bays has more from davos. as the band played president trump stood somewhat could leave aside the man who founded the world economic forum klaus schwab his vision for almost half a century open world trade is not at all with the president's america first policy taking the role of salesman in chief trump declared no a

meetings as a draft up in vienna without a major breakthrough ultimately what is required if political will it is high time the diplomacy dialogue and negotiations prevail for the interest of all syrians that's a distinct original goal new which is being briefed and will be briefed tonight on the outcome of these discussions and then it will be up to him to take to the station what will be the un list balls to the invitation to attend the sochi we will take as president greater tiber one is warning that its operation against kurdish fighters in syria could be extended to the border with iraq the turkish offensive to push fighters out of the region has been going on for more than a week it's increased tensions with the u.s. which supports the kurdish y p g militia in trying to secure parts of northern and eastern syria donald trump has told the world economic forum that the u.s. will not turn a blind eye to unfair trade practices the u.s. president insisted his country's open for business but he also stuck by his america first message or remaining members of the usa gymnastics board hav

if they won't make that announcement came in vienna where the latest round of year in talks between syria's government and opposition has wrapped up the conference finished without any major breakthroughs in nine rounds of u.n. talks between the warring sides of made little progress toward ending the civil war the u.n. special envoy for syria says he hasn't decided whether he will attend the talks in russia he said he shared the immense frustration of millions of syrians at the lack of a political settlement to date. what is required if political will it is high time the diplomacy dialogue and negotiations prevail for the interest of all syrians. to do which is being briefed and will be briefed tonight on the outcome of these discussions and then it will be up to him to take the decision what will be the un response to the invitation to attend the sochi and it appears that a potential ceasefire deal has been agreed in the besieged damascus suburb of east and go to a spokesman for the second largest opposition faction there says the group has received an offer from russia but the details rem

now that announcement came in vienna where the latest round of year in talks between syria's government and opposition has just wrapped up the conference finished without any major breakthroughs nine rounds of un talks between the warring sides have made little progress toward ending the civil war the u.n. special envoy for syria says he hasn't decided whether he will attend the talks in russia he said he said the immense frustration of millions of syrians the lack of a political settlement to date. what is required is political will it is high time the diplomacy dialogue and negotiations prevail for the interest of all syrians. general this is being briefed and will be briefed tonight on the outcome of these discussions and then it will be up to him to take the decision what will be the un response to the invitation to attend the sochi u.s. president donald trump is taking his america first message to the world's elite addressing the world economic forum in davos he declared the u.s. open for business but he warned that washington would no longer turn a blind eye to unfair trade practi

in vienna. and whether of next year then. people. on high sometimes sleeping rough in the u.k. the number of homeless reaches a record high. african nations look to develop a global gateway to bolster economic trade with the rest of the world. we're still going to few wintry flurries pushing across japan but not quite as heavy as they have been recently see how the the winds are coming in from the sea of japan easing into that western side of honshu so can't really add a little possibility of one or two snow flurries just coming in over the high ground temperatures in tokyo starting tonight up six celsius on saturday and five degrees for sunday should be a dry crisp day for many at this stage but still with the possibility of a little bit of snow coming through still a fair amount of snow into central and eastern parts of china cold enough in shanghai with a top temperature of four degrees to four degrees celsius the hong kong should be fine and dry temperatures around nineteen or twenty over the next couple of days but that disturbed weather further north as you can see it doe

there with the latest from those talks in vienna how to thank you. turkey's president says the operation to push kurdish fighters out of northern syria will extend as far as the border with iraq turkish forces have been fighting for a week night to expel the kurdish y p g militia from the african region it is a key part of the syrian democratic forces who are backed by the u.s. dozens of people have died in the fighting each side says it's killed hundreds of enemy fighters. will continue to all branch operation which is on its seventh day today until we reach all of our targets after this will cleanse man bridge from the terrorists as it has been promised to us nobody should be bothered by this because the real owner of memories is not those terrorists but the arab brothers they're after this we'll continue our fight until no terrorist is left more than a year have to the demolition of the new tourist jungle camp there's been a sudden rise in the number of young asylum seekers arriving in the french port of cali of course this point on the european m

thank you for that and for that report as well excellent stuff we're off to vienna now to talk to what i mean as i said we've got dual tracks to look at the other being the diplomatic side of things so to bring us up to date with what's happening there and i guess looking ahead to sochi as well. well it's been two days of really intense oh maraton call to patients and meetings was that the. really even despite all his efforts there was no common ground to be found between the two delegations the opposition and the government delegation there was one document that was floating around the working document that was put forward by five countries france u.k. u.s. saudi arabia and jordan that document basically was tackling the mechanism to sort of try to revive these peace talks that have never really taken off the ground even though this is a row of talks they're having. to do you patronage now actually the syrian delegation came out rejected outright that document saying that if it was about reviving those peace talks well all it did is jeopardize even further now at the beginning of all

in vienna she spoke to a member of the opposition delegation and he explained that position. this round in vienna was meant to be a real test for the commitment to the implementation of us you could go to the solution two to five for. the details in it unfortunately this test has been played they failed that test both the regime and those who are supporting that he deemed to continue surviving now based on that is all of the thought that there could be a commitment the citizens could have been made regarding what russia's proposing unfortunately the test was where is this going to go i mean how many times are you guys going to attend talks where the indian name geneva or anywhere else and each and every time there's no outcome absolutely all right but you have to think of the person who is trying to obstruct the political process from the very beginning of the g.m. has selected the military solution to be the strategy for just silencing people however the world of a political solution should un security council resolutions that is somebody who is working against these politic

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