Of them to be with donald this is sound just live from london also coming up. Turkeys military begins firing into syrias afrin region their target is kurdish fighters. And told brennan at the institute for Cancer Research looking at the possibility of a blood test which could be a breakthrough in cancer diagnosis. And the giants like festival help in london this fight all the would simply say is. A very warm welcome to the program good to have your company a qatari while who was formerly a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured in an explosive audio recording obtained by aljazeera shake up dillard been. Can be heard accusing both saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Of fabricating the with with qatar as a way to seize their neighbors wealth he also says he was on the so much pressure from the two countries that he wanted to end his life. As the story. The man saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Were presenting as an alternative to qatar leadership stepped up his attacks on the blockading countries in a new audiotape shake of the lebanon early earth any a member of qatars royal family says the gulfs biggest diplomatic where it was triggered by saudi and him or to crown princes whom he accuses of plotting to take qatars wealth by force. As. I dont. Let him. In the old youre recording the shea says he was under so much pressure from saudi arabia and the u. A. E. That he considered taking his own life he also appeared in a video posted online on sunday where he says he was detained against his will in the u. A. E. A claim which the night but two days later. He left the u. A. E. This is the only picture taken of him when he arrived in kuwait his family said his health deteriorated during his alleged detention in the u. A. E. He was told that he can leave to saudi arabia but not to. The end of the day he was allowed. To leave. And he has two daughters with him and it was about twelve oclock at night that. They told him that they have to go to the airport and then the information changed that you are not allowed to go to the u. K. The u. K. Refuses your entry and that is false. And that your daughters can live and you must. Stay in the. The little known shape became a central figure during the Gulf Cooperation Council crisis when he was first received by king solomon but of that as hes of saudi arabia media affiliated with saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Portrayed him as the head of the opposition to the qatari government but soon the shade was nowhere to be seen except for tweets attributed to him the recent statements of the shape shed more light on the g. C. C. Crisis that started in june when saudi arabia the u. A. E. And it cut off diplomatic ties and imposed a sea land and embargo. The post from the lebanon early support qatar stands the other west is public ated and politically motivated. Lets listen to the full audio recording of. Me. From scott. Unless he. Understood them actually. And. Hear. Them tell you. I did. Yes. Well. I just got that. I could. Have. Just. Lost. A mouse was as far as. I dont remember. Yes and i thought that was one of the kind of. Letter. And well well well known one. I dont know. One which included the one letter by letter well it. Could be a commuter. Lets speak here a senior political analyst one. Always good to see more when can you explain the significance of this recording but put it in some sort of context for us for the wider g. C. C. Rift clearly this is a symptom of a larger crisis and clearly its part of a pattern. Once we understand that we see why while this is just an order recording it actually reflects something thats quite dramatic in the gulf region a region that was supposed to be a stable region within the more volatile greater middle east region. So why do i say its a symptom of a greater crisis well because. Already in the gulf crisis six months into into it the United Arab Emirates especially but also saudi arabia have basically been inciting against gotten all kinds of ways including the use of this man at once at one at one point in order to further destabilize cutter but clearly the the ways and means with which this crisis has been ignited by the United Arab Emirates have become a comedy of sorts i mean so much so that they would use this older man in order to destabilize qatar in a way thats always not apparent to acceptable to him so much so that he would record video saying that im held hostage and i would be ready to commit suicide and source of war but as i say thats also part of a pattern. Its part of a pattern because i would not be has already held the former egyptian leader slash candidate to the presidency much a feat for a while until he releases on video saying i am being held hostage and i would not be as you know riyadh was also held saddam had a the Prime Minister of lebanon even reports about. The leader in yemen been held in korea so really theres a pattern of Holding People up there you know you go they go there and to suddenly they get stuck for not accepting these diktats or whatever the issue of the day is so really you know we tackle an issue like this we lead with it not because this very particular issue per se is is so grave it is because it is a symptom of a larger problem that is the stabilizing the entire region how worried is the u. S. That that the rift continues to say. There is no doubt at this point that washington is completely and utterly irritated by the fact that this crisis continues knowing all too well by u. S. Intelligence services that it was fabricated. That this crisis was fabricated by hacking into a news agency planting news and so on so forth lying to the american president duping the american president into believing that got that did this and that and the thing so much so that six months later the american President Donald Trump gets on the phone with the emir of qatar and says congratulations and bravo for you know confronting and fighting terrorists also for so the United States adds not only has. The greatest the biggest military base in the middle east in qatar not only that theres phone calls by come forth not only the american president not even call the the emir of the United Arab Emirates but cause a bit of qatar and yet this continues so i was just reading a report by the Washington Institute that you know i think thats very close to israel and to egypt and the besieging countries saying look everyone is for the with this thing and this is going too far and the u. A. E. According to the diplomats within the region is behind is the engine behind this destabilization has been going on for six months but also been going on for the last several days so all to say it must stop and apparently it will have to be the United States thats going to step in and stop i want thank you. Turkey has fired artillery into a kurdish controlled plane in northwest syria the cross border bombardment of a friend comes after days of threats by president reagan Tayyip Erdogan against the Syrian Kurdish fighters known as the why. Well step deca is following developments for us from un tacky hi there steph so this is the beginning of a promised military campaign. It certainly seems so we have the the turkish minister of defense today say that it was going to start it was going to start soon he stopped short of saying it has started but he did say that it started some want with this shelling that turkey says in retaliation to shelling from the y. P. June the way p. G. Says that is being shelled upon so its the usual back and forth but certainly the rhetoric coming out of ankara over the last week it really is pointing out that they are very intent on carrying out this operation across turkish media headlines youll see terence amassing on the border ready to to go in so to speak you also have we had reports today around fifteen thousand Free Syrian Army fighters these are the rebels that turkey supports inside syria south of its border east of our fleeing they seem to be ready to get involved in this fight so it is a very complicated situation we did have earlier conflicting reports about Russian Troops pulling out of that area why is that significant wolf because this area is sort of you know supported in a way by the russians they have a couple of hundred troops so they also control the air space so this is why weve seen turkish officials in moscow over the last few days trying to negotiate perhaps their access because nothing can happen without russias tacit support in a not shell there is confrontation on the knob sporadically with shelling it seems to be gearing up but officially a major offensive has not started as of yet and step what about the civilians. Will they be affected. Well absolutely of course they will because basically this area is pretty much completely knocked off theres possibly a couple of sort of places that people could leave but its not safe you have if you look at the jogger a fair bit to the north and west you have the Turkish Border then to the to the east you have those rebel supported by turkey who are ready to go in as well into the south you have a few. Hundred or less than that turkish soldiers inside syria and then you have a rebel group called. A coalition that is led by the group for me known as the nostra front so its a very complicated situation there are around thirty thousand i. D. P. s inside a free because it has been relatively safe throughout this entire conflict and of course then you have the ordinary residents estimates at around a Million People but theyre very difficult to confirm but of course if a military offensive takes place it will be terrible for the people there what form will it take but were already seeing shelling there are talks of Ground Troops and of course the big question mark is airstrikes and this is something again that russia will need to tacitly not tacitly will have to say yes to because theyre the ones who control the skies so all these things certainly do not bode well for anyone inside that region staff second there live from Antakya Steffen care. And the u. S. Says that the state department is denying the move is a way to pressure the palestinians to return to the negotiating table well among commas in the gaza strip and a look at how this will affect families already struggling to get by. This house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently theres an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts are about twelve hours a day now the u. S. Is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean i know our supply things like this sacks of flour rocks its the basics that they supply you know the only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flour about this big needs to last a family of nine for that long so theres already a cute shortages. For sure we are worried because this is the only help we have to live we have no choice from where else are we supposed to get food we cant buy it cant work there is no work if they decrease to eight what shall we do theres about two Million People in the gaza strip now about one point one million of those people rely on food aid in some way or another is people like these that are going to be affected the most now the u. S. President has said that he wants changes to the way under operate you also wants the International Community to step up and donate a lot more aid he said that the u. S. Is very generous but other countries need to step up whether by withholding it is actually taking food away from people like these from conrad poor saying theyre still to come on the program well what waits is an interactive god we visit south koreas flushing new terminal made just in time for the Winter Olympics plus. Im Charlie Rangel in london for the new me a festival which progresses to transform the city into a nocturnal battery. This focused on the quite right from middle of january is warming up in both shanghai showing due and hong kong these are several degrees above average with feeding moisture in and the cloud is building sufficiently high to produce rain and all the sun if youre lucky a bit is snow should be dry should be the northeast monsoon this time the year it just isnt to the west of that its rather quiet and knows a suggestion that maybe theres bit of a breeze picking up in the north indian plain but so far its been falling or smog continuously in for example delhi you would expect much to change that about me some slight variation otherwise its the dry time the year any showers around a light to be in sri lanka but even here it seems an unlikely event there is wet weather coming through the levant at the moment and a southerly breeze ahead of its been producing dusty weather in kuwait and saudi without go in the next twenty four hours and we end up with something of a northwesterly rain temporarily falling into right and then concentrating icing only in iran now for the southwest and the following day it still looks fairly dry this is going to be cloud around and told by this time its light to be in western europe and maybe the southwest Society Temperature wise to twenty two in die hard cool down a bit still thirty three in mecca. Its. Young even treat. Your brain. Just. Destroyed. The minds of the top stories here on aljazeera got story well who was formerly a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured in an audio recording obtained by aljazeera turkeys fired artillery across the border into the courage controlled enclave of afraid in northwest syria. The u. S. Says it will withhold another forty five Million Dollars payment to the uns Relief Agency for food aid to help alice tinian put future. The Lebanese Army says its found the bodies of nine Syrian Refugees who foes today trying to cross the border into lebanon they were found by Army Officers after a snowstorm near the mines in this area of the musts now Border Crossing six of those were safe but one they said died in hospital i mean patrols are still looking for other refugees caught in the snow and they arrested two syrians their charges. Well nearly a million million Syrian Refugees who managed to make it into lebanon are suffering through a bit so when so flimsy tends the flood easily and with no protection from the freezing temperatures u. N. H. C. R. Says its really has received less than sixty percent of the funding it needs to help Syrian Refugees through the winter and its frankly desperate for donations so in order has more now from the bekaa valley in the open and. Heavy winds snow lower temperatures lebanon is being hit by a storm making the lives of the nearly one million Syrian Refugees even more miserable they face many challenges during the winter months among them the lack of proper shelter they live in tents that are made for plastic sheeting which does little to protect from the cold and the rain on monday martin we couldnt sleep all night the tent was flooded we stayed up and moved all our belongings outside the conditions of our tents a bad its the shepley familys sevens winter in displacement so its fleeing the conflict in neighboring syria in winter the refugees require more help they need fuel for heating thermal blankets and warm clothes. With nothing and. We are dead we are living in misery we have nothing but pain sickness and suffering we are deprived of everything a good. Families like the abdullah how much cant survive without assistance the father is half blind the youngest child sabrine is mentally challenged the eldest has a Heart Disease and their mother suffers from asthma and eczema. Here i need medicine and i need help we all cannot work we dont have water and fuel to keep warm we are living only by gods mercy i may be kicked out of ten soon because they didnt pay the rent for a long time. The United Nations does provide some assistance but a shortfall in funding means not everyone is reached the United Nations doesnt help the more than five million Syrian Refugees in neighboring countries it says thirteen Million People need help in syria six million of them are internally displaced and the displacement continues in recent weeks more than two hundred thousand people were forced to leave their homes the war is not over. It may be a while before these refugees can go home the lebanese government doesnt want them to stay that is why it has prevented the United Nations from building permanent camps it also doesnt allow any concrete construction but this may not be their last harsh winter in exile. Because valley lebannon. Stone frederique which has wreaked havoc across western europe has dumped several centimeters of snow in poland overnight treacherous Road Conditions led to a number of accidents and fifty five thousand people were affected by Power Outages on thursday the storms Gale Force Winds caused travel chaos in the netherlands germany and at least eleven people lost their lives hundreds of thousands of children in south sudan may die if Emergency Action isnt taken to boost Food Security thats according to the new executive director of the uns childrens Agency Unicef is visiting the country millions have been displaced by fighting between forces loyal to president salva kiir and follow us of his former deputy we had mansour. Has been held as a massive step forward in the battle against cancer scientists at John Hopkins University in the us have developed a blood test capable of detecting eight forms of the disease or brennan reports. The scientists here at John Hopkins University in baltimore analyzed more than a thousand patients who chose symptoms of cancer to see whether this new test would accurately confirm the diagnosis and they were excited to discover that for certain tumors the councils seek test was up to ninety eight percent accuracy and the same test was effective for eight different types of cancer polluting five which no early screening currently exists heres how it works as a chuma forms and grows the cancerous cells within it change reproduce and die sometimes cierra shed cells that can get into the bloodstream and when cancer cells die they can also release d. N. A. And other fragments that also get into the blood cancer seek is described as a liquid biopsy and analyzes a patients blood sample for traces of that cancer d. N. A. And identifying which genes in mutations are most active can identify the type of cancer and the best treatment the importance of early diagnosis of cancer cant be understated for example in the case of bile counts Ovarian Cancer and Breast Cancer ninety percent of those diagnosed early will continue to live for more than five years but the survival rate if its caught at an advanced stage is much lower in the case of a variant cancer is just five percent in the u. K. Cancer specialists are giving a cautious welcome to the findings this is a very exciting first step along the way to such a blood test theyve shown that you can pick up a toy any traces of the cancer and apply. But potentially has the ability to pick up cancers early on and identify patients for surgery but it is a first step another specialist though wants to see the test accuracy improved stage one when we want to diagnose these cancers this is. As you do with these white glue its just about forty foot so that is something. That might hold this test but. When we try to think about the main thing. The baltimore study worked with patients who had already shown symptoms of cancer the true breakthrough will happen if this test can identify cancer before the symptoms a match that could really make a massive impact on survival rates this test is one step closer to the. Brennan aljazeera london. Sports fans heading to south korea for next months Winter Olympics can look forward to using the new terminal which has just opened at Inchon International airport it can handle eighteen million passengers a year and boats everything for what waits is interactive kathy novak has more. This is the brand new terminal at Inchon International airport the main gate way for people arriving here in south korea travelers are testing out technology thats been introduced to make their experience more efficient and a bit more fun as in any airport there are plenty of places to grab a coffee but for something a little different why not order a latte from the robot arista for those who may want a workout after hours of sitting on a plane there are a selection of active games at the digital gym and to take the flying experience to the next level strap in for some Virtual Reality based jumping. For calmer option passengers can sit in the indoor garden and take in a musical performance or experience some examples of traditional korean culture. Before boarding their flights travelers can come and check out some of the artworks on display this interactive piece has taken traditional works and digitally enhanced them to be projected on the curved screens. Just one of a number of installations scattered around the terminal this new addition to the airport will help cater to all of the visitors who will be coming to south korea for the Winter Olympics the Olympic Organizing Committee estimates almost four hundred thousand foreigners will travel here for the winter games. The london speak winter is getting a bright make all the landmarks in the city have been adorned with lights and installations as part of a four day live me air Festival Works of dozens of british an International Artists also big put on display john angela reports. A tunnel of triangles lighting up londons dark when tonight a line of bread is weaving through the streets this is londons lumiere festival a chance to see the city in a different light for forward nights only with the capital as their canvas some of the fifty artists have transformed by conic buildings with large scale projections westminster cathedral with its martyrs painted in glorious technicolor that the original architects could only have dreamed of audiences have to wrap up warm but organizers say its a chance to change into something other than a Screen Company that i run that produced the event its really dedicated to creating moments in peoples lives that are a way for screens you know whether thats a phone or tablet or a computer or tele you read all of those things you can be anywhere you can meet anyone you like but actually its so not real the free festival hopes to do more than a million visitors at a time of year when most stay at home some of the works into active and stick to like this sculpture called control trolls. The more playful ones like impulse give adults a chance to play in a public street like children once did less to square is overrun with Nocturnal Animals a reminder that we share this city with others that we dont always see we tend to be very self centered and actually were part of a much broader picture and everything is connected artists and scientists collaborated for this piece cosmos scope a chance for viewers to contemplate our universe try to be quite a kind of oldest equal total statement about the history of our understanding of the cosmos and the cosmos itself and our place importantly within it and what it means to think about the universe i judge of it ones own individual existence some of the pieces do pose a question like this one water by a dutch artist the idea is that we are underwater after the effects of Climate Change and rising sea levels have taken their toll and it is eerily surreal to must yourself even further you can take out your phone download the soundtrack of that goes with it and plug in your headphones. Illuminating spaces that people would normally pass by without a thought do me a is a rare chance to see london in a new light Charlie Rangel aljazeera. Lets take another quick at the stories making the headlines right now a concern we will who was formerly a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured in expose of audio recording obtained by aljazeera shake up to lebanon ali al thani can be heard accusing both citing arabia the u. A. E. Of fabricating the rift the cuts are as a way to seize their neighbors wealth. Im. I dont. Want to be kind of. Well i want one title but i think i can. Apply. Turkeys fired artillery into kurdish controlled on klav in northwest syria because border bombardment of a frame comes after days of threats by president reject tired already went against the Syrian Kurdish fighters known as the y. P. Ji ancora fears the establishment of a kurdish corridor along its border the u. S. Says it will withhold another payment to the uns Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees forty five Million Dollars was promised last month for food aid on tuesday washington and eyes that it was going to withhold more than half of a one hundred and twenty five Million Dollars aid package. The Lebanese Army says its found the bodies of nine Syrian Refugees who follows to death trying to cross the border into lebanon it was discovered after a snowstorm near the mountainous area of the must now Border Crossing hundreds of thousands of children inside sudan may die if Emergency Action isnt taken to boost Food Security thats according to the new executive director of the uns childrens Agency Unicef is visiting country. Scientists in the u. S. Have developed a universal blood tests capable of detecting eight different types of cancer the aim of the test is to catch the disease early and save lives while experts are hailing the test as an Exciting Development they say more Research Needs to be carried out. Thats all for now well be back in around half an hours time right after an actual risking it all featuring the brazilian children risking their lives to sell their goods to to us. I i. I