Coffee table diplomacy north koreas olympic delegation was welcomed by the south korean Prime Minister. Plus the challenge Small Businesses in nigeria come together to fight rising costs. Israel is responding to the downing of one of its warplanes by Syrian Government forces with its most significant attack on syria in decades israeli fighter jet was shot down near the occupied Golan Heights on saturday it all began when israel said it intercepted an iranian drone that flew into its airspace from syria israel replied with airstrikes targeting what it says were iranian bases in southern syria near the capital damascus the u. N. Secretary general meanwhile is calling for an immediate and unconditional deescalation and russias president Vladimir Putin is warning israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu against raising tensions. Well imran khan joins us live now from west jerusalem him and so what do you expect to come out of israel today. Well a Cabinet Meeting is taking place right now now thats likely where theyre going to formulate any kind of political response to whats going on and what will the political response likely to be whats going to be a message clearly to the russians weve seen that kind of language already take place in the last twenty four hours they warn the russians that the iranian presence in the region is a threat so its likely that thats where the political strategy will come from theres also been a letter written by the israelis the United Nations the investor to the United Nations danny danon has called for the Security Council to condemn irans actions and theyre also looking to the United Nations for a strong condemnation of the russian role when it comes to iran also so those are the political kind of things that were expecting to see in the next coming days and weeks but theres also a security Cabinet Meeting taking place that will be likely to look at what sort of military strategy is going to take place now in the last hour as weve been speaking to the israeli army vos them what targets were hit in syria and whether the operation is uncombed ongoing and theyve now declined to comment on all of that but we are hearing from senior military former military officials that this is the largest operation against syrian air defenses unit since the war in lebanon in one thousand nine hundred eighty two so severely significant operation and development is going on but the Israeli Military arent confirming anything which is interesting because when the operation began they were actual forthcoming with information so its likely that they are now moving in some sort of defensive mode when it comes to talking details but really its all about russia right now and you kind of person that israel can place on russia which then can place pressure on iran that way you can avoid any kind of military escalation as you quite rightly said you know in the russian president has been warning the israelis to respect syrian civility. Thank you. Well washington has backed israel and blamed iran for the escalation my comment has more but despite irans denial that it was responsible for the drone incursion the state department appears to be convinced that iran is to blame for this round of combat that weve seen emerge over the course of this particular day a state Department Spokesperson has released a statement saying and i quote irans calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project power places the entire region at risk from she says yemen to lebanon once again from state department we also heard that israel has a right to defend itself a similar statement coming out of the pentagon which also stated very clearly that u. S. Played no role whatsoever in israels combat operations at targets within syria so from the u. S. What you are Hearing Support for israel not surprising but at the same time there appears to be a degree of concern about the further ramifications of the conflict thats emerged in the course of the day. Eleven turkish soldiers have been killed in Northern Syria german operation against kurdish fighters two of them died when their helicopter was downed in the a freeman this video is said to show the aircraft moments before it was hit kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces say its fight to shut it down but turkey says the cause is still unclear its been the deadliest day of fighting since turkish soldiers began their Campaign Last month. Has the latest natural gas the entity thats near the turkey syria border. Together with their allies in the Free Syrian Army those are the Syrian Rebels whove been fighting Bashar Al Assad for years now they have made some steady progress over the three weeks this operation has begun according to the statements coming out from the military youre talking about thirty seven zones that have been what the as they claim liberated from the kurdish fighters the militia the white p. G. Thats twenty three villages and several strategic hilltops it is a mountainous region in the past twenty four hours or so with the latest town to be captured by the f. S. A. In tarkus military from the Kurdish Militia is one called to the west of our freedom so there has been some steady progress over they say its not been as swift as they would like because of the use of human shields according to the turks by the wipe e. G. The Kurdish Militia which has made it difficult for the turks to progress because they dont want to kill civilians as they claim the why p. G. Would say thats not true and claim that the turks have killed civilians over the past few weeks but there has been on the ground some steady progress in the advance which often. Also in syria the u. N. Says two hundred thirty civilians have been killed by syrian and russian air strikes in the past week the u. N. Commissioner for human rights described it as some of the worst violence during the almost seven year long conflict Cedras Al Hussein says the strikes mills have constituted more crimes he confirmed his office had received reports of the possible use of toxic agents early this month in the rebel held town of santa can. The president of the philippines wants to change the constitution and switch to a new form of government he says the move would see regions get more power and help alleviate poverty but critics say its a smokescreen to prolong his rule. Former philippines president for didnt marcus ruled with an iron fist for decades his martial rule was seen by many filipinos as oppressive in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the people power revolution removed him from office ushering in a new era of democracy the one nine hundred eighty seven philippine constitution was drafted with an emphasis on bringing about social justice past president s have tried to change that constitution in the hope of prolonging their stay in power president a very Good Authority is making another attempt this time to change to a federal form of government he wants to decentralize power from what he describes as an imperialistic mandela and improve life for those living in rural areas no person should be deprived of life liberty or editors who helped draft the present constitution says it is not the form of government that is problematic but the quality of those people in government more than eighty percent of those elected officials come from political dynasties a federal form of government could help the remain in power charter change for me. Is a trojan horse because behind the effort to change the constitution or believe our transitory provisions were in fact there will be no elections or there can be a continued stay in office but most of those in congress say the election of the delta is proof that people want a decisive leader that can bring about radical change. In. There is no assurance in any form of government because we are in a democracy this is a Democratic Society so how can we. The people who do in the. Territories Political Party p. D. P. La ban has already drafted a proposed constitution but critics say the charter it is proposing is dictatorial in nature giving the president legislative powers and even allowing him to rule indefinitely a local survey shows the majority of filipinos have little or no knowledge of the constitution many are also unaware of the plans to amend the constitution this is what critics say is dangerous those who lead the transitional ensured that the nine hundred eighty seven philippine constitution they drafted would serve as event guard restoring checks and balances within institutions so that power will never rest with one man alone jim duggan aljazeera manila north koreas olympic delegation has met the south korean Prime Minister nucky on in seoul the Group Includes the sister of north koreas leader kim jong un on saturday she extended a rare invitation to the south korean president mungy in to visit kyung young the delegation has been holding talks with the south korean government on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics that iran is marking thirty nine years since its Islamic Revolution hundreds of thousands of people are taking part in mass rallies and president rouhani has been speaking in tehran Freedom Square nine hundred seventy nine revolution so the overthrow bashar monarchy and the creation of the Islamic Republic was in bus driver joins us live now from the iranian capital tehran zain how important are these rallies almost the mood like on the streets. Well there and this year the anniversary of the revolution comes after a time multi was time for iran both internally weve seen. Political protests opposition protest against the government counter protest by people who support the government externally iran has been involved in the protracted conflict in syria and has been cementing its regional prowess across the region president rouhani speech focused very specifically on domestic issues the national Security Council secretary spoke earlier in addressed the escalation yesterday with the downing of an israeli jet but. Grew hard the speech focused very much on things like the environment on the development of the economy on expanding the countrys oil and gas reserves on. Various issues involving the construction of infrastructure and providing people more homes and redeveloping own homes in earthquake zones so his focus was that very much about domestic concerns and it was a sort of state of the union in which rouhani resoundingly celebrated a lot of the successes of his government he also spoke about some of the shortcomings and addressed peoples concerns but said that iranians needed to come together and be united and a unified stance was the only stance that would ensure irans ongoing stability and progress and he said that elections were one of the main things that keep the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic of iran alive as it is today and he said the current form of government wouldnt exist if people didnt vote in parliamentarians if they didnt participate in president ial elections but in the same breath he said that people of the elite class the youth any opposition Political Group should respect the peoples throat and when someone is voted into office we shouldnt try to participate in political wrangling over in demonstrations they should instead instead of chanting slogans take their voice to the ballot box and now iranians when you speak to them speak about the one nine hundred seventy nine Islamic Revolution is something that is still alive today and something that needs to be propagated in the future and we met some of them and heres their story. The founder of the islamist republic of iran ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is still watching over his people and you never have to look very far to catch a glimpse of the man at the center of the Islamic Revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine still in exile in paris khomeini famously ordered every runyan onto the streets to help overthrow the shah reza pahlavi one of the women who answered the call was sub. Born in japan is. She changed her name when she married an iranian businessman she met in tokyo they moved to iran after their first son was born it was the one nine hundred sixty s. And iran was a very different place. It was before the Revolution Society was different then in iran it wasnt like today no one cared about islam not. Baba he said the shahs government tried to ban women from wearing head scarves and attempt to replace iranian culture with western values all part of a plan by foreign governments she says to control iran and irans natural resources. Message of independence she says resonated with many people. He said there shouldnt be any. He meant we should take care of poor people that should be justice everyone should be equal well many of the iranians welcomed this bubble you survived the Nuclear Bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki in World War Two and lived through the iran iraq war that started almost immediately after the revolution when iraqi forces led by Saddam Hussein invaded iran. Volunteered to fight and was killed he was nineteen years old. Decades later she still struggles to talk about it but says even knowing the pain of losing him she would sacrifice him again to preserve the Islamic Revolution for many iranians the teachings of the countrys first Supreme Leader are as relevant today as they were in one nine hundred seventy nine but for some Islamic Revolution has not fulfilled all of its promises. While they do not necessarily want to tear down their countrys government most iranians we spoke to said they just want their leaders to do a little more to solve their problems as. People or important figures in history many of them died for the revolution but our demand is that current government should care about the nation all different classes of people from the rich to those who dont have a good economic situation. Behind shes a kid the base thing that could happen in a society is the equality between a man and a woman the more we work for this the society will have when making policy irans government often looks to the past for much of its inspiration iranian people it seems want them to look more to the future. When we come back. Or oh. Moving forward the irish public can partition fane begins a new era. And desperate to get. A tightening border controls more on that status. Hello there the showers are generally quite subdued across the southeastern parts of asia at the moment you can see some of them over parts of borneo and a few more theyre making their way across java but elsewhere theres a good deal of fine draw a weather to be found you can see this area of town though thats off towards the east thats galloping its way towards the philippines and its a developing system now i dont think the winds are going to be too strong probably be around eighty Kilometers Per Hour by the time the system makes landfall but when it does hit us its going to give us very heavy rain and that could well cause a few problems in mindanao so lots of what weather then already building as we head through the day on monday and then the system actually making its way across us late on monday and into choose day further towards the south or for some of us in australia as being pretty warm recently ahead of this weather system here but now is that one is lowering its way across us things will turn a good deal cooler as we head through the next few days so for sydney i think twenty seven degrees will be our maximum there on monday no higher but look at the difference brisbane where we are five staying cold for us in melbourne twenty two degrees oh mark some temperature in towards the west were looking at thirty two in perth so a warm day for us not quite as well as we head into tuesday. From Satellite Technology to three d. Printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change Building Communities creating employment and solving problems theyre challenging systems and shaping you what its about creative thinkers shaping their continents future innovate africa at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here aljazeera israel says its targeting iranian positions and its biggest attack inside syria in decades the raids followed claims that an iranian drone ended its airspace on saturday and the downing of an israeli fighter jet by Syrian Government forces. Hundreds of thousands of iranians are rallying in tehran on the thirty ninth anniversary of the Islamic Revolution is that a republic was created in one nine hundred seventy nine after the overthrow of the shah and his monarchy. North koreas olympic delegation has met the south korean Prim