Continues to divide opinion. And around a Million People turn out in italy saying no to plans to legalize samesex unions. And in sport for once Serena Williams is denied success in a grand slam final. Angelique of germany winning the Australian Open final and her first major title. Hello, so we begin with that developing story out of turkey. Which has summoned the Russian Ambassador after what it says was a violation of its airspace by a russian fighter jet. Turkey says that despite radar warnings the russian su40 like this one violated its airspace, last november you remember turkey shot down a Russian Air Force jet it claimed that was flying in its territory killing the pilot. That led to an escalating war of words between the countries. After the latest incident the turkish president erdogan says he wants to talk to his russian counterpart vladimir putin. Al jazeeras zeina khodr is live in southern turkey. Tell us the latest on this situation, just how serious is it, zeina . Reporte
Syrians main opposition representatives are in geneva. They have yet to commit to direct negotiations with the assad government. Our diplomatic editor, james bays has the latest from geneva. Reporter a large group of press here, quite chaotic scenes when they arrived here because we all want to know the position, the exact position, of this the main opposition grouping. When the spokesman came here, they said that they still believe the u. N. Resolution at the end of december means there are things that should be put in place now before talks take place. He said they werent hiz groups conditions. Conditions of the u. N. Security council, and i pressed him as to whether these conditions would have to be met before they sat down. If those conditions are not met, will you engage in talks . We will we are ready we are ready to start negotiation, but at least we should see something, you know, on ground there in syria. We should stop these massacres. Save our children, the remaining childre
Threatens to split the party will get the latest. And in the book is legal find out why shell car getting a reputation as the comeback kings of the week. And have you called us and welcome to the program we begin in pakistan where a Suicide Attack on a Church Service has left at least five people dead and more than a dozen wounded the two gunmen targeted a Methodist Church in quite that in the southwest of the country more than two hundred worshippers were gathered in the church at the time of the attack police and army troops around at the church and exchanged fire with the heavily armed militants before one of the attackers blew himself up. Joining us now on the line from islamabad is journalist aside his shame aside the details are not entirely clear at the moment whats the latest. Well yes as you say its still developing situation with the fire to figure out exactly what happened that the Methodist Church and quite what we do know is that the death toll has now risen to at least ei
South african president jacob zuma now the contest to select a successor threatens to split the party will get the latest. And fleeing the fire residents in california have been ordered to evacuate as a massive blaze threatens to gulf the city of Santa Barbara. And welcome to the program we begin in pakistan where a Suicide Attack on a Church Service has left at least eight people dead and more than a dozen wounded the two gunmen targeted a Methodist Church in quite the and the southwest of the country hundreds of worshippers were gathered in the church at the time of the attack police and army troops around at the church and exchanged fire with the heavily armed militants before one of the attackers blew himself up. Joining us now from islamabad is journalist aside his shame as side whats the latest on the ground at the moment well yes as you say we know that two Suicide Attackers were involved in this attack they were attempting to storm the bethel memorial Methodist Church in quitte
They have not moved legislation in the senate just yet but Senate Leaders did agree on a six week extension. Im glad the leader thinks the government should not shut down over the president s demand for a wall and democrats will support this c. R. The president and the house should follow that lead because shutting down the government over christmas is a terrible idea. Lets review why this step was necessary even in the face of a great need to secure the border and following good faith efforts, by the president s team, our democratic colleagues rejected an extremely reasonable offer. Yesterday. The stop gap spending bill funds the government until february 8th. It does not include the 5 billion President Trump wanted to fund a border wall. The House Freedom caucus is hoping to amend any spending bill to make sure it includes funding for the wall and they plan to spend the evening making speeches on the floor on the house floor to that effect. Freedom caucus leader mark meadows told rep