Is our life nandan also coming up in the program United Nations calls for yemens main port to stay open for vital a deliveries inside the restrictions begin again on friday to resume a welcome to britain for talks where shes expected to pledge millions more dollars to strengthen border controls and fraud. And pope francis performs a first airborne papal wedding during flight attendants the chilean. Military chiefs are in russia seeking support for their plight attack on a kurdish controlled enclave inside syria turkey is not threatening the main area controlled by the u. S. Backed Syrian Democratic forces in the north east of syria it has said they will attack the enclave around the city of afrin which is in the northeast of the country that although there are friends held by kurdish. Dominate the s. D. F. Russia also has forces in the area seventy deca reports now from antakya on the turkish side of the border with turkish tanks been massing this week the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the Syrian Border president russia has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area for almost a week now theres been sporadic shelling after the mines in the north west of syria turkey borders the area on the north and west turkish troops are present inside syria on its southern edge and to the east are Turkish BackedSyrian Rebels so it is in effect surrounded. African is one of the autonomous enclaves controlled by the Syrian Kurdish p. Y. T. Party and its armed wing the wifely the i. P. G. Has been working with the u. S. In order to push ice a lot of syria not enough rain further east of the Euphrates River in turkey seize the y. P. G. Is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k which it together with the u. S. In europe considers a terrorist organization a free has been relatively peaceful throughout this war and it hosts tens of thousands of internally displaced syrians the americans have never had a presence here unlike the other kurdish area of syria but the russians do and im chris says it has every right to protect its borders and the timing is interesting it will let you know africa has been there for quite a long time as never threw like you know. A serious issue to threats or turkey but are going to probably need to these kind of nationalistic. You know rhetoric and potentially use its military in order to be able to gain more. With the Upcoming Elections in in turkey so i think. You know set aside when it comes to the attention of interaction and into a friend tensions have been stoked further in recent days by the u. S. Announcement of a socalled border force which will be based east of the euphrates along the border with turkey and iraq and the y. P. G. Will form its backbone not. The United States a nato supports a terrorist organization that threatens turkey can this be acceptable its on acceptable and inexplicable. But u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says its not a border force the u. S. Role has been mis portrayed and turkey is owed an explanation he says the build up is aimed at countering the resurgence of eisel will be internally focused and is important for the stability of syria however thats not what others involved in syrias war think ankara to han moscow and damascus have low voice their opposition to the force once again it highlights the complicated nature of syrias war isis been pushed out of most of the territory that it once held and so the battlefield is becoming perhaps even more complicated with each side trying to carve out its fear of influence and it seems the syrians are the ones that hold the least sway of all Stephanie Decker aljazeera and. Now that Syrias Foreign Ministry has told the United States to stay out of its affairs this softer the secretary of state Rex Tillerson unveiled the trumpet administrations goals for syria which include keeping u. S. Troops in the country for the forseeable future but lets be clear the United States will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring that isis cannot reemerge our military mission in syria will remain conditions based we cannot make the same mistakes that were made in two thousand and eleven when a premature departure from air iraq allowed al qaeda in iraq to survive and eventually morph into isis. It was that vacuum that allowed isis and other terrorist organizations to wreak havoc on the country well its an Important Development lets talk more with our senior political analyst bob bashara about the significance of the u. S. Keeping its troops in syria what do you make of this development. This is a major departure from both the Trump Administration strategy or speaking of strategy the last year and its certainly a major departure from the obama administrations strategy in syria and in the greater middle east. In fact you know when weve course would say that this is well thought through stretches the probably took weeks if not months just like what weve seen the kind of a departure of a new strategy in afghanistan i think now were seeing a change of policy towards syria where the National Security council meaning the state department of defense and others in the United States are coming together and thinking through and in fact declaring and you start to g. s so this is not a trump midnight tweets this is the strategy of the United States in syria and it really marks a major departure whereby as weve heard theres going to be an indefinite deployment of u. S. Military presence in syria its going to be a military presence that will push towards the removal of the assad regime in syria its going to create a safe haven of some sort whereby it allows for refugees to come back into syria its going to support a local force notably the white b. G. With a strong kurdish presence and so forth the worse the north and the east and its clearly going to put iran on notice its going to confront the new russia iran turkey triangle in syria its going to contain israels war ease about rising iranian influence in syria its a lot of things are going well thats a potentially a geo political but certainly objects or its potentially a nightmare it is if the russians are not listening or theyre not necessarily. Accepting if you will of the new american strategy meaning if the if put in a will say look from for serious about syria and now i have a partner which is the United States once again and maybe we should work out some kind of a deal whereby we the russians and the americans will you know create some kind of a transitional period leading to democracy elections the constitution without assad right and then we could actually see some proof for results unfortunately a lot of us are suspicious of any such scenario which means that we could see confrontations happening in syria beyond and above what weve seen thus far the last seven between whos well i mean now we have russia supported forces assad and so on so forth we have iranian supported forces militias and so on so forth we have turkish supported forces and now we have the us supported forces so we have regional powers we have global powers and we have local syria city and powers and militias and cells or all in addition to isolate. So any which which configuration could really lead to a major escalation bit well in a sense it wasnt anything that the United States could do given what to listen to say about what happened in iraq and the creation of isis this i mean thats why i think we also heard just several weeks ago an announcement on afghanistan but the trumpet ministration is not going to pull out forces from afghanistan the taliban might have won might have lost but the u. S. Is going to stay and see the mission through as it were in afghanistan but its also a signal Something Else lets take the the thirty five thousand feet view of this since the Carter Doctrine of the one nine hundred eighty s. Whereby the u. S. Committed to deploying forces to defend its allies in the gulf since then every time the United States got involved anywhere in that group that middle east and beyond its state and even when it just recently and thats why i said this image of departure it said well no we are no longer. Were going to be committed were going to get out of iraq were going to get out of afghanistan would not going to get involved in syria and if we had to get involved in libya its only short term well guess what now were back to square one since the 1980s every time the u. S. Gets involved somewhere it somehow stays and somehow gets implicated and its somehow its a kind of a moving sands as it were so is it Mission Creep its just in a will they coordinate with the russians would you have to know but certainly its a major departure from the past Big Development or months very much a day more bizarre than like you. Know the u. N. Is calling for the yemeni port of her data to remain open beyond friday to allow the delivery of lifesaving goods to continue on tuesday the Saudi Led Coalition authorized the ports opening the use of four u. S. Funded cranes to help offload the aid would be to handles about seventy percent of yemens imports but damage from a two thousand and fifteen air strike and a blockade by the saudi Led Military Alliance has severely restricted aid access more than eight million yemenis are on the brink of famine and the country is suffering outbreaks of cholera and syria. Khalil is the deputy regional director for the International Committee of the red cross in yemen and he said the aid is critical to prevent famine. The yemeni population is dependent on aid. Ninety percent of the needs of the yemeni people are sustained for imports and as such. The restrictions on imports prevent. Flow of commercial goods and humanitarian aid from reaching the yemeni population so that is where things should be moving on lessening those christmas we need more we need less restrictions on imports fuel is key and central for the survival of the population in yemen fuel is essential for the running most hospitals in the house so somebody is faltering all the forty five percent of house the facilities are functioning today in yemen but fuel is also important for water water pumping stations depend on fuel. Sewage Treatment Plants depend on fuel vehicles that collect the garbage depend on fuel and all of this creates a vicious circle were the population being weakened after years of exhausting their resources and not having any more the capacity of staying will only have more to be demi its like diphtheria coming back to them if these conditions are not treated immediately. Israeli forces have killed a palestinian man and injured others during a raid in the town of jenin in the occupied west bank Israeli Police was searching for the killer of a rabbi who was shot dead a week ago two israeli officers were injured in the right imran khan has more now from ramallah. Im sorry about that well move on from that now the french president manuel macro is in the u. K. To hold talks with the british Prime Minister to resign may the two leaders are meeting at Sandhurst Military Academy which is west of london where theyre expected to reach an agreement on strengthening border controls france is demanding more funding from london to help deal with a number of people gathering in ports like calley to try to reach the United Kingdom may is expected to use the talks to try and win goodwill in the brakes in negotiations well under the deal the u. K. Is expected to pay an extra sixty two Million Dollars for security measures in cali and other french channel ports this would increase the u. K. Contribution under the two thousand and three to two k. Agreement which allows british immigration checks to take place on the french side of the channel britain may also agree to take in more refugees and migrants from cathay especially unaccompanied children there are also reciprocal agreements on military cooperation the u. K. Will send three helicopters to join French Forces fighting groups in the sahal region of west africa in return for others will supply troops to a u. K. Led force in the stonier part of a nato deployment in response to a possible threat from russia all right lets take this all me can speak to across want to know how he joins us live now from. Jenna tell us why this focus on defense and security. Two reasons probably in the first place simply because theyve got a lot of Common Ground in defense and security these two nations theyre the sort of Predominant Military powers in the European Union albeit neither a strong perhaps as they once were they both both face. External enemies they both face common threats at home both countries have been the target of recent attack and. Have suffered a substantial substantial loss of civilian life and of course they also share the border as we were talking about their border on the french side that includes the sometimes troubled port of callahan the problem of migrants and refugees of course the second reason is you know if youre a country like britain and you are facing an exit from the European Union at a particularly sensitive time in negotiations and you are trying to perhaps improve relations with key members of the European Union well you simply cant do deals in areas like trade in the economy and not allowed to under European Union rules you can do deals in areas like defense and security areas over which brussels as far less control of individual members policies so this really is looking to the future really about relations post. Nic i lost you there but i think i make out the question is this really about relations between britain and other nations post drags it well yes essentially it is the suspicion is that is that this meeting is as much about defense as it is about diplomacy because as trade talks with the e. U. Begin now the most difficult phase of negotiations britain knows that in order to maintain relevance not just in those negotiations but also afterwards is going to have closer ties with key members france of course the upcoming power in the European Union politically and further afield so there is perhaps a sort of diplomatic template being created here between britain and the e. U. Leaders we may well see this sort of process repeated in the future. Press conferences between. The. Financial lifelines of being threatened. And. We visit Virtual Reality where theyre taking creativity to another level. Hell it is remarkably warm considering its the middle of winter in china nine degrees in shanghai twenty one hong kong and sixteen children these are all several degrees above the average and if anything theyre rising in the next day or so the onshore breeze means its fairly humid home call that a cloud will form a shower too is possible with our southwest otherwise its a dry picture there has been fog arrived i think increase in breeze in particular in shanghai will get rid of that not so for northern india and positioned for still the thing around new delhi and want to other places fall or in the worst conditions its the quiet time of year there is still cloud running through the hindu kush some cloud in sri lanka which might bring a shower too otherwise you dont expect a lot of change just yesterday just yet nor will there be any and if you go directly west to the Arabian Peninsula its more a case of is there windows in the window there has been a bit of a northerly breeze going down the gulf is now i turn to a southerly this is in the forecast course of friday temperature wise were all in the twentys now including mekere at about twenty eight as for cloud precious little visible heres you can see a hint maybe the northerly breeze comes down through the gulf again and meccas crept up to thirty one powerful that spot the difference. On the fringes of some of africas mega city. Make islamists perched on stilts. But the cities are beginning to develop even precariously with. Objects the army is offering more sustainable solution to the communities on the state of the types of changes to the law could have to continue with working. This time on just. How to get or much of the top stories here on aljazeera and tuckers military chiefs are in russia seeking support for their planned attack on a kurdish controlled and cave inside syria. To nations is calling for saudi arabia to allow the yemeni port of haiti to to remain open be on friday to delivery of lifesaving goods can continue. And french president emmanuel macro is in the u. K. For talks with british Prime Minister theresa may on Border Security and on defense. A fire on a bus in kazakhstan has killed fifty two passengers that any five people managed to escape from the vehicle when it caught alight the victims were all my current workers from neighboring uzbekistan the bus was traveling in a remote region on the main road between his back is down to russia theres no indication yet what course of place the police launching an investigation. Gunmen in pakistan have killed two women working on a Polio Eradication Campaign in the southwestern city of quota aside kenya bibi and her twenty year old daughter lisa were giving immunization drops children into government on a motorcycle shot at them pakistan this week launched a driving it across the country. The leader of south koreas Main Opposition Party has criticised plans for the south and north korean athletes to much together at next months Winter Olympics the day after the plans were announced on june pows said his country was dancing to the chuen of kim jong un hes not the only one whos unhappy as kathy novak reports now from salt. The Winter Olympics are just twenty two days away and the two koreas have come to a last minute agreement that they will walk together at the Opening Ceremony the south korean government says its all part of an effort to promote this event as the peace olympics but not everyone here is happy a recent poll found only about four out of ten support the idea of marching under a unified Korean Peninsula flag and others are against the idea of a joint womens ice hockey team. I think we need to carry our own flag i am also against a united team because the athletes have worked so hard as a team so this is not fair and that its going to leave that up we should be unified anyway so i think its a good idea we are the only separated nation in the world and i think its mainly because of political reasons. Some critics have questioned the decision to allow south korean athletes to train at a north korean ski resort which is known as the leader kim jong uns pet project they worry that south korea is helping promote tourism there and while there has been a thawing in north and south korean relations these talks have been limited to discuss india lympics and not the bigger issue of north Koreas NuclearWeapons Program so the question remains what happens after the olympics when the u. S. And south korea are due to resume joint military drills which always anger the north. U. S. President says his plan to build a wall along the u. S. Border with mexico has quote never changed or evolved contradicting comments made by his chief of staff wednesday john kelly told despite it can all make some of trumps immigration views during the campaign were uninformed and later in a t. V. Interview kelly insisted his views have evolved but in the apparent rebuke of kelly trump tweeted that the wall is the wall and it will be paid for by mexico because Foreign Ministry has issued a statement denying this. Well my skins living in the United States is sending home a record amounts of money is concerned grows ever trumps immigration crackdown last year workers in the u. S. Transferred twenty six billion dollars a lifeline to some of mexicos poorest communities might well repel a reports now from where uncertainty over the future of these remittances has some families very word here ah who deanna cruz and her mother or handcrafting pottery the same way most of the women in the town of san marcos make a living its not always enough to make ends meet but who gets help from her brother who lives in the United States. This work that i do helps us and sometimes when my brother sends money that helps us to. Ghana isnt the only person here who receives money from relatives in the u. S. This line outside a local wire service is a common sight and on most days the line can be much longer for many mexicans these remittance payments can be a way out of poverty is that they may says so they use this cash mainly for food to buy clothes to build their homes and they also use a very small amount for savings. Last year remittances sent from the United States increased by four percent experts say its a result of changing policies in the United States. Theres a fear among immigrants that the u. S. Government will take away what they have part of the reason for the increase in remittances is over the fear that their assets will be seized at the. Money sent home by migrants has historically been an important part of the mexican economy accounting for more than two percent of the countrys g. D. P. In two thousand and seventeen remittances outpaced all of mexicos commercial exports combined excluding oil and according to Mexico Central Bank that cash totaled twenty six point one billion dollars between january and november of last year. For families like cruise and her mother its pottery that puts food on the table but that extra cash for brother sends goes a long way in maintaining their quality of life. Mexico. Pope francis is visiting the northern chile in city of a key k. For his final stop before he leaves for peru in his homily the head of the Catholic Church as a people there to continue to be welcoming to migrants thousands of people from peru and from bolivia come to work in the coastal desert city of chile has turned toral disputes with both countries bolivia in particular is demanding access to the sea in the arab border region between the three neighboring states and it seems the paper is staying busy on his trip even finding time to officiate the first ever airborne marriage on his plane yeah he was the celebrants at the wedding of two flight attendants from chile that latter. A couple tied the knot in a Civil Service in two thousand and ten but couldnt arrange a Church Ceremony because of the earthquake that hit chile that yeah. I dont feel sorry about the pope married us the pope married us he took my hands and said if you want to marry then i can marry. Something totally extraordinary happened to me with but its. The hostesses and the stewards were going to get their photos taken and once were coming in for a couple you know weve been married we met on a plane eight years ago thats all they said i said well thats interesting and then as they walked by they came back and said. Mary its a religious ceremony which obviously has never happened on a people played before they were super happy. The first the pope heard about it was this morning too its not like youre with people its part of the plan. That does a great story now emirates has three of the Worlds Largest passenger jet a lifeline with a deal worth as much as sixteen billion dollars the dubai based airline has ordered twenty air bus a three eighty s. With the option to buy sixteen more it is the first order for the super jumbo in three years boss had previously warned it would have to stop production of the double decker planes if the deal fell through at least four people have been killed as a major storm lashes Northern Europe winds of up to one hundred forty kilometers an hour have hit the netherlands causing trains and flights to be canceled in germany red operated Deutsche Bahn says it suspending Long Distance services across the country two teenagers in australia have become the first people to be rescued at sea by drone swimmers got into trouble off the lennox head beach south of brisbane the lifeguards launched the dragon and used it to drop a rescue pod into the water and its use was then used it to get back to shore the lifeguards had been getting ready to practice using the drain before the emergency gave them the chance to try it out for real. One of the worlds first dedicated Virtual Reality out spaces is open in london new wave of artists has begun experimenting with a technology set to revolutionize the way it is produced viewed and even sold new parker has more from the gallery in central london. Its a gallery space like no other bare walls no sculptures canvases or photographs just several headsets and a dark spawns lined room for centuries new technologies helped to evolve this is the next level im floating in a colossal bright space it feels like im in miniature and there are giants around me theres a huge garden ive now floated into a huge room and what looks like the artist is sitting on a floor down below me it all sounds very alice in wonderland why quite simply because it is the works by american artist rachel ross in the first of several immersive displays on show in this dedicated Virtual Reality art space this isnt just simply about representing the real world in the virtual its also experiencing the artists mind frame an emotional state at the time of creation long before the tech was sort of commercially available people were experimenting with developing kits to make make games authors are increasingly turning to it as a sort of new medium to explore and as with anything thats kind of early stage it is really interesting to see what the scope of it might be several right now and artists are now experimenting with the medium among them celebrated british artists call it sure this work threshold is a portal to the past view is a transported back to the eighteenth thirtys and an exhibition of early photography Virtual Realities redefining the traditional art gallery and reshaping the artists studio. This is where color sure works serve a computer screen and headset all the tools of the virtual artist theres a lot of all works out there that all or along with all wrong scrotes or mall both tokens of and i think its all work should be dealing in the medium that all the cutting edge stuff that where basically assimilating images and videos and pictures representations of the world so its important to deal with that medium the technology is developing fast so i can see it was a mouse that just. Says your plan has around. The market is now establishing ways to buy and sell securely in the near future it may even be possible to download a virtual home there are seemingly infinite worlds yet to explore need barca aljazeera london. All right before we go lets have another look at the main stories making news here on aljazeera and Turkish Military chiefs are in russia seeking support for their planned attack on a kurdish controlled enclave inside syria turkey says it will attack the enclave around the city of afternoon in the northeast of the country tensions have been in recent days by the u. S. Announcement of a socalled border force based around the cottage why. Not. The United States and nato supports a terrorist organization that threatens turkey can this be acceptable its unacceptable and inexplicable you know if nations is calling for the yemeni port of who did it to remain open beyond friday to continue the delivery of lifesaving goods on tuesday the Saudi Led Coalition authorized the ports and use of four u. S. Funded cranes to help offload the eight million yemenis or on the brink of famine. Israeli forces have killed a palestinian man and injured others during a raid in the town of geneva in the occupied west bank Israeli Police were searching for the killer of a rabbi who was shot that weekend. French president emanuel macro trends in the u. K. For talks with the british Prime Minister to resign may are expected to reach an agreement on strengthening border controls may is expected to use the talks to try and win goodwill in the negotiations if it breaks. A fire in a bus in kazakhstan has killed fifty two passengers but only five people managed to escape the victims were all Migrant Workers from neighboring uzbekistan on route to russian government in pakistan have killed two women working on a Polio Eradication Campaign in the southwest and he quit sakina bibi and her twenty year old daughter and he said were giving immunization drops to children in two gunmen on a motorcycle shop. Pope francis is visiting the northern chile in town of a key k. For his final stop before he leaves for peru the head of the Catholic Church addressed immigration in a speech in the coastal does it city home to thousands of migrants from peru and from believe you are up to date with all the headlines here on aljazeera on the back with more news just under half an hour stay tuned for rebel architecture for now thats it. Architect has always defined the human. Trump the simplest struck chance to the greatest monuments. And rebellion is underway. Led by a new breed evocative the foots people before