Of the engine in that all this it sounds as they are live from london also coming up a Taliban Attack that i will tell in kabul ends after a sixteen hour gun battle eighteen people are killed germany social democrats vote for talks about forming a coalition with angola marco but their leader faces criticism for changing his strategy. On the pope appears to wrap up the most controversial visit of his papacy. Hello there warm welcome to the program the u. S. Is calling for restraint from turkey in its operation against kurdish fighters in Northern Syria turkish soldiers have entered the clave of a frayne part of an assault to drive out Kurdish Peoples Protection units or y p g well turkish president is vowing to crush the group which ancora views as a Terror Organization step deca reports now from the charkhi syria border. The border echoes with the sounds of war turkeys offensive on africa is now well under way the ground operation started on sunday turkish soldiers supporting Free Syrian Army fighters inside syria. Turkish president brigitte type edging defiant as he addressed a march crowd in the city of course. This is a National Struggle and then this National Struggle to crush anyone who stands against and let this be known. Its been a week of rhetoric politicians promising that turkey was going to attack a free to rid of the y. P. G. Kurdish fighters that ankara sitters terrorists but theyre also the u. S. Is best ally on the ground in fighting eisel regardless of International Complications turkey is fully committed to this offensive were in turkeys border with africa and throughout the day weve heard the sound of jets in the sky also intense artillery and machine gun fire outgoing from a turkish base behind that mountain although why p. G. Are extremely well trained they know the terrain in offering but turkey has superiority when it comes to the skies and that gives it a huge advantage. Belligerence here heard the airstrikes late on saturday as turkey started its offensive and they are a little uneasy. Over those. All that we are right next to the action with planes flying over our heads and theres a lot of shelling of course we are confident but at the end of the day anything can happen shells have already fallen in turkey so we are worried this could happen here. Turkey says it will continue its operation until its pushed the y. P. G. Away from its borders no one knows how long that will take what the implications may be Stephanie Decker aljazeera on the turkey syria border. The taliban says it was behind an overnight attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan Capital which killed at least eighteen people gunmen stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in kabul on saturday night august and foreigners and government officials jennifer glass reports from kabul. Explosions and gunfire lasted for hours as Afghan Special forces moved through the hotel guests trapped in their room who sheets and curtains to try to escape the attackers intent on bloodshed and murder or to have known way out for the weekend there were people and children inside the hotel rooms the attackers were knocking on the door ate room to reach their targets they killed many people and officials told him they were taught that in foreigners especially the hard journey but. As the fighting intensified and grenades and gunshots echoed around the hotel some mula high call could only wait for it to end his brother cari hussein was trapped inside and had stopped answering his phone to put up with. Them he told me he locked himself in a room its very difficult with a Family Member trapped inside and its tragic and in pain for profit something fortunately something is happening its not just out of many other people or travelers here and i hope to see him and i hope this fighting in a country aids. On the roof of the hotel Afghan Soldiers signaled the end of the fighting by waving an afghan flag almost immediately i call her from his brother missy. But marjon was not as lucky a visiting cousin had jumped from a Hotel Balcony she thought he was alive but couldnt find him in any hospital she says she looked online before discovering who was doing. All i know its difficult to be around afghanistan my cousin lived in holland three years came here for just makes this tragic incident happened all as Afghan Forces and International Advisers left the area officials headed into the hotel to assess the damage and look for casualties and survivors this is an attack that unfolded in the public eye live on t. V. And watched by hundreds on the streets the afghan president commended Afghan Security forces saying theyd done all they could to minimize the number of casual. These he wants an investigation into how the attackers got into the hotel the question also is how they did so with enough weapons for a sixteen hours to jennifer glass aljazeera call that. Germanys social democrats have voted to go into formal talks about forming a coalition with Anglo AmericanConservatives Party delegates now really approved a step at a conference in bonn some would argue they shouldnt pop up another miracle government dominic a report says it was a vote with profound implications for the social democrats for germany and perhaps the e. U. By a clear but not necessarily large majority Martin Schulze now has the authorities and to formal negotiations with Anglo American the platform slogans proclaimed a new time needs a new politics but on offer was much of the same old government in a wide ranging speech should spelt out why another coalition with merkel was the best option lock me up. Believe me this hasnt been easy for anyone but i never doubted for a moment that we should follow the play of the president was the way out of this difficult political situation as a social democrat heres my fame conviction that in this exceptional situation we must at least try to provide the best outcome for the people of germany and the euro mind. But many in the hall and in the wider party did not agree perhaps the most vocal opposition came from the partys Youth Movement lloyd has been absolutely im sure people negotiated well its a reason i and many of those in and outside this room are not happy with the results its not because they did bad work but because after twelve years of anger and eight years of grand coalition we no longer have the same views on resultant issues this conference is opens up some very clear divisions inside this party between the Party Leadership and the rank and file between those prepared to compromise and those who arent and between the Younger Generation and the older one some analysts believe the current leader has to bear responsibility for what the c. E. O. Says that he is very good support for market choice and not just as clearly he is. Not a part in the future i would say i would actually even call him a yesterdays man as of today and yet as of tomorrow schultz will be the leader who takes his divided party formally into negotiations with the christian democrats but the final deal which then emerges must be passed by a ballot of the entire Party Membership and if sundays vote is anything to go by that may not be easy dominic cain aljazeera bomb and america also welcomed this big decision to go ahead with Coalition Talks will start as soon as possible. Once is the news quoted soon. For us its important in the Coalition Talks that germany has a stable government that can deal with the issues facing us in the future for me became issues include economic strength especially the necessary changes that we need and its. As the foundation for social justice and security the negotiations will be within the framework of the preliminary agreement already reached with the social democrats many issues remain to be resolved in detail and much shorter require intensive discussions. Jordans King Abdullah has appealed to the u. S. Vice president to rebuild trust and confidence after the trumpet ministrations decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital mike pence says the u. S. Still believes in a two state solution to the israel palestine conflict and has arrived in israel where shes expected to receive a mixed welcome has more now from occupied east jerusalem. On the second leg of his regional visit the u. S. Vice president was keen to offer assurances to a major middle east an ally and by extension to the palestinians who refused to meet him on the issue of jerusalem we are committed to continue to respect jordans role as the custodian of holy sites that we take no position on boundaries in final status those are subject to negotiation and and as i think clearly you are the president make clear the World United States of america remains committed if the parties agree to a two state solution through the arab worlds public outrage with a recognition by u. S. President donald trump ob jerusalem as israels capital the jordanian king offered a conciliatory tone your visits here im sure is to rebuild the trust confidence in not only how we move forward with two state solution on the us drew forth like sixty seven lice and hes jewish but as a capital opening up and a palestinian state but living side by side with a secure recognizes ready quotas for internationals yet he said thats far from the line being taken by the palestinian leadership its president Mahmoud Abbas declaring that the u. S. Had given it the slap of the century reiterating his position that the u. S. Could no longer be involved in the Peace Process the u. S. Vice president isnt meeting the palestinians but he does have a message publicly apparently tailored towards them reiterating u. S. Support for a two state solution if thats what both sides agreed to of course for the palestinians that message is entirely overshadowed by what donald trump said over a month ago declaring that the u. S. View jerusalem as israels capital. For many the messenger himself is part of the problem the shift in u. S. Policy with which pence was closely associated was welcomed by his evangelical christian base many of whom believe the return of the jews to the holy land is a precursor to jesus Second Coming and says and gender that is extremist fundamentalist looked. Christian absolutist idiology which goes against all that we leave commitments of the arab and Palestinian Christians and particular and they feel that they have been betrayed by somebody who is leading them to mend this injustice he was in their lives and as a justification for israelis its a different picture and represents the u. S. Administration to recognize what they see as an uncontroversial reality jerusalem status is the capital of. A great friend of the state of israel arrives here this evening a true friend United StatesVice President mike pence we welcome him here and im looking forward to our discussions we will discuss the trumpet ministrations efforts to halt irans aggression the Iranian Nuclear program and ways to advance peace and security in the region. Thank you for the warm welcome before leaving jordan for israel pence visited u. S. Troops didnt undisclosed location on the Syrian Border telling the president how the back and that isis would be driven from the earth very soon his next speech would be to the Israeli Parliament the knesset on monday Israeli Palestinian representatives of vowed to boycott the event amounts are a force that how does era occupied east jerusalem. Still to come. Negotiating with President Trump is like negotiating with. Lots of finger pointing among us over to blame for the Government Shutdown but can they for. Sundance Film Festival is casting a critical eye on global issues. Hello there weve had some very heavy snow over parts of europe recently its been you. Rain where weve seen some of the worst of it over the last day or so these pictures are from kiev show the heavy snow there it did disrupt traffic and also brought down some power lines as well leading to blackouts now the system responsible thats heading off towards the east now but weve got this other weather system thats galloping down towards the southeast corner and this whole region is going to be pretty messy as we head through the next day or so so expect heavy rain expect some snow on the Northern Edge and expect some strong winds as well meanwhile another weather system is working its way in from the atlantic thats giving us some heavy rain and some snow but its fizzling out as we head through into tuesday barely anything really left to it there for tuesday instead its just staying fairly unsettled in the northwest as well as being unsettled though its also rather moderate about london at thirteen in paris twelve for the other side of the mediterranean well for most of us here its fine thats just the outside chance of your share around the coast of libya perhaps into parts of egypt there but for most of us it should be dry not that warm at the moment chuen is there around nineteen for some are about where were sixteen is in the east of our mark you can see that swirling storm thats the same one that was affecting us in the southeastern parts of europe its also making its way over into parts of turkey. For centuries egypt has sort of come on power over the miles even though we arent harming any of the moderates and country they dont mean for most of the debate get their water from rainfall upstream this dominance is being challenged by countries who want to go into the i dont know some people even if you. Would question you circumstances have changed in change whatever struggle over the mind of this time on aljazeera. Or mind of the top stories here on the. U. S. Is urging turkey to use your strength against kurdish fighters in Northern Syria turkish soldiers have entered the own cave freeing part of an assault to drive out Kurdish Peoples Protection units or. The taliban says it was behind an overnight attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan Capital in which at least eighteen people were killed. Germany social democrats have voted to go into formal talks about forming a coalition but marcos conservatives. With the u. S. Government shutdown for a second day republicans and democrats in the senate have been trading blame for the deadlock public and Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said the democrats had been wrong to grow a temporary funding bill but he said he didnt agree with president of the senate will should be changed to a budget could pass with just a simple majority says republicans should use the socalled Nuclear Option if the stalemate continues for more on this lets go straight to rose jordan who is in washington d. C. For us hi there were also so is congress any closer to finding a solution. Well the Reuters News Agency says that the scene senate excuse me leadership the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and the minority leader Chuck Schumer are supposed to have a meeting later on sunday but that does not mean that theyre any closer to finding some sort of compromise in order to restart Government Operations in fact there is a vote scheduled at six g. M. T. On monday to see if they can pass another short term funding bill to keep the government running for another three weeks while they try to work out these issues the one dealing with immigration policy and the status of some eight hundred thousand people whose status is been put in limbo as well as dealing with health care for the very poorest children in the United States as well as funding for most Government Operations in iraq. Damaging is this for president. Thats a good question theres been a lot of back and forth a lot of personal attacks between republicans and democrats saying whether this is a the fault of the u. S. President donald trump or whether this is the fault of the Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer and youve seen the hashtags in social media either calling this trump the shutdown or schumer shutdown but really doesnt really wont have to be known for another day or so will be what ordinary americans think until the first polling on this comes out and perhaps more important what government functions actually start to affect ordinary americans lives perhaps the one thing that might affect pretty much every american or every person who files an income tax return in the United States is the fact that about half of the employees at the Internal Revenue service which collects income taxes has been put on furlough has been sent home without pay until this is all resolved and with the new changes in the tax law and the Filing Season just getting under way there could be real real problems for people as they try to file their tax returns as jordan their life in washington d. C. Was thank you. These five people have died in antigovernment demonstrations organized by Catholic Church leaders in the democratic republic of congo around sixty nine people have been arrested protests to say president joseph kony is violating the constitution by staying in office beyond his term two people were killed during a similar protest in the capital new years eve catherine soil is in the capital kinshasa. This streets in the capital kinshasa has now been cleared but it has been an all day huge presence of police and president the president ial guard against stone throwing protesters we saw priests and washing because from this main Catholic Church in the city dispatched by police using tear gas as they marched along with the rules are by walls and tweaks in their peaceful protest in the east police lopes tear gas inside a child several people injured there is while a lot of people are very frustrated with the political situation in the country and theyre looking more to the charge for guidance and leadership if you remember the charge brokered this political deal between the opposition and ruling parties back in play to sixty in the deal was to see an election a president ial election in the last december that did not happen the deal has expired thats why the Catholic Church leadership hes so angry and saying that they are going to continue calling on their faithful to come out in peaceful protest too demanding for electoral justice demanding full of politicians to respect the constitution and also for president Joseph Kabila to peacefully step down because hes minded has expired and he is not illegal to run for a third time. In the bop way the opposition m. D. C. Alliance is holding its first rally of the year but its concerns are growing about the health of the movements leader Morgan Tsvangirai the issue is even more pressing as president emerson is promising to hold elections within five months or metastases an outside the capital harare. Leaders in the opposition say there. Is going to be president eliciting the other way is to take place in a few months time of the on some of the songs and some challenges. It can save his country outside the country at a hospital getting treated something could take a good beating participate in elections but will they take place with the leadership in the light and say here is a little candidates no matter what. Our candidates and were going to play chords with with his like. But in the unlikely event that is unable to continue. The there are leaders still there. Chances are we have to give our people in fighting chance some people are also concerned about. Opposition alliance the crowd is a couple of hundred meet well usually in the positive this is managed to a lot better than say because of luck in fighting the opposition over the issue was basically saying get out if hes no longer able to manage elections we told him. To threaten to leave the president because ultimately theyre not the ones put into certain positions a lot of stake on the opposition lines not publicly and telling his supporters everything is ok was a vacuum the countrys been ready for the elections are. They going to. Pope francis has changed in the final mass in the. As his jewish sides america comes to an end up to a Million People are expected to attend the service at an air base improves capital head of the mass the pope met local bishops a month but his visit has been overshadowed treat victims of a sex abuse scandal in chile of slandering a bishop should they see tried to cover up the crime Mariana Sanchez has been following the popes visit and she joins us now from lima hi there maryanna so its been the popes most controversial visit the first then on how it went. Well i think its been a very political a very political visit here in. But its been basically overshadowed by the fact that the pope hasnt really talked much about the sex abuse scandal in latin america especially in. The book as you very political talking about many different issues more than religious issues hes talked about how the peruvians and the indigenous groups really need to protect the environment hes also talked about and how its important to stop criticizing the room but also hes spoken about corruption in front of the president. Whos being investigated for having received money from all they would it be brazilian and the brazilian. Construction companies so its been a very political trip for the for the pope. American to want to truly be in catholics say about the sex abuse allegations involving clergymen. Well in peru unlike him she lived people havent talked much about this theyre the protests were banned and people were saying here that perhaps the pope was under a lot of pressure by bishops that there needed to be much more. Investigations at the maybe that the pope had his reasons for not talking about the sex scandals within the clergy bazzi out like she did in chile weve seen people beat out breasts that theres been protests and theres been churches that have been burned and of course the survivors of the sex scandals have been very theyre feeding your emails at the boat saying that poll is showing a different face now. Just there live from lima mariana thank you. Thousands of people taking to the streets in northern greece to call for the republic of macedonia to change its name protest to say the neighbors cant use macedonia as its also the name of the group province the two countries have been locked in dispute over the name ever since macedonia declared independence from yugoslavia in one nine hundred ninety one greeces objections have left macedonia without an officially recognized name means the country can join International Organizations like make to. At least one person died in the fighting between protesters and police in honduras as demonstrations continue against the reelection of president juan orlando have nanda is defeated opposition candidate salvador unless rada joined demonstrators on the streets of the capital. And they accuse the authorities of manipulating the results of novembers election dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more jailed since hernandez was declared the winner last month. Sundance Film Festival is one of the worlds leading platforms for Independence Cinema film showcase their often deal with the big issues in society whether its Political Leadership the environment or the human condition reports now from the festival in park city. At a time of rising nationalism and rising oceans. Almost unchecked capitalism and individual isolation the films at sundance reflect the arrow we live. By the. New president is a film about the election of donald trump as u. S. President told entirely through excerpts from Russian Television reports that clips from russian social media. Timeshare is a mexican movie about Luxury Resort workers and wealthy guests caught up in a corporate conspiracy that the horrific comedy stephanie speaks about like globalization and just like savage capitalism its you know a critique on what we think you know we need to be happy filmmaker Sebastian Hoffman reflects on how mexican media views trump who called immigrants from his country rapists and criminals i think through humor i mean i think you know we think of donald trump as this you know crazy but the biggest clown in the world and everything thats happening everything its like a big circus the trump administrations rejection of Climate Change science is in the background of our about the people of the Pacific Island nation of here about facing destruction from rising water the time of change for me i saw has been about whose lives are being affected by what is happening former president no to tone. With the policy of america fast. But what about the rest of sometimes wondered in my mind if i was to extend that policy is that America First and the rest be damned but the question is and the challenge that i continue to pose for the international communitys use i youre going to allow this to happen to us. Is the worst thing in the mid multiple crises looming disasters and personal tragedies how can is individual response one answer is sadness the theme of pity a film from greece about a man who is happy only when he is. An independent films are casting a critical law on the world as we know it and asking where were going robert oulds zero park city utah fishermans been killed and nine injured when a racing sail board collided with a fishing vessel off the coast of hong kong it happened when the american danish was approaching the finish line in the fourth leg of the volvo ocean race none of the goats crew was injured but the boat was damaged and forced to retire from the waves and island volcano in Papua New Guinea has erupted again triggering tsunami warnings for nearby coastal communities plumes of steam and ash are being shot into the air from conover i know and you know by flights have also been council volcano first erupted earlier this month causing thousands of people to flee from surrounding islands papa new guinea sits on the pacific ring of fire an area of intense seismic activity you can find out much more about the stories were following here in our head to our web site at w w w aljazeera to call home. Remind them the top stories on aljazeera the u. S. Is urging turkey to use restraint in its operation against kurdish finds his Northern Syria turkish soldiers have entered the only page of. An assault to drive a Kurdish Peoples Protection unit a y p g russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says unilateral actions by the us made turkey angry turkeys president made Tayyip Erdogan says he wants to prevent a kurdish corridor being opened on the border with syria. There has been nobody protesting on the streets so far. Congress is not a target either anybody that he needs those calls the mix the mistake of taking to the streets with their high price i need to stress this this is a National Struggle we will crush anyone who opposes our National Struggle. Afghanistans interior minister says for afghan and fourteen forwardness were killed in a siege on a luxury hotel in the capital kabul. The talibans taking responsibility for saturdays sixteen hour attack on the heavily guarded Intercontinental Hotel they say they were targeting government workers Security Forces and foreigners. Jordans King Abdullah has appealed to the u. S. Vice president to rebuild trust and confidence after the trumpet ministrations decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital mike pence says the u. S. Still believes in a two state solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Jamey social democrats have voted to go into all new talks about forming a coalition with anglo marcus Conservatives Party delegates now really approve this step out of conference. But these six people have died in antigovernment demonstrations organized by Catholic Church leaders in the democratic republic of congo around sixty million have been arrested the protesters say president Joseph Kabila is violating the constitution by staying in office beyond his term. But the u. S. Government shutdown for a second day republicans and democrats in the senate have been trading blame for the deadlock republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says the democrats have been wrong to block a temporary funding bill but he said he didnt agree with the president the senate will should be changed so budget could pass with just a simple majority says republicans should use the socalled Nuclear Option if the stalemate continues. Up today those are your headlines so its al jazeera is coming up next. With wars and conflicts continue to rage in crises off the crises in the safety and wellbeing of millions of people around the world the question is who and how