We begin with a greater involvement by turkey in the fight against isil. The United States and turkey are said to be finalizing plans to create a safe zone along the turkey syria border. Mike viqueira joins us live from washington. What more are you learning about this plan . Reporter for months they couldnt agree on the best tactics to confront isil now theres new cooperation and a new agreement, but turkey has a different agenda and another enemy than the United States. A week ago in the border town turks gather in an anti isil protest. Moments later, tragedy. [ explosion ] reporter amid the chaos, 32 are dead. Isil is respect expected of carrying out the attacks. The next day turks urge the government to do more. Against this backdrop of unrest turkey stepping deeper into the fight against isil. Agreeing to allow Coalition Aircraft to fly out of their air base and the turks have launched their own attacks against isil targets. Now the u. S. And turkey are negotiating a socalled safe
Havoc across the region. Another avenue for tens of thousands of refugees heading towards germany and austria was cut off on friday when croatia announced that it will not allow refugees to proceed to slovenia. Croatia has closed seven of the eight road crossings from serbia after a huge influx of refugees seeking onward passage. More than 14,000 have entered croatia in the past 24 hours with tensions high and many exhausted. The croatian Prime Minister said the refugees flooding in would have to be moved on and that his country had reached its limit. It plans to redirect people towards hungary and slovenia. Lawrence lee reports from southern croatia. Reporter its all relative and no doubt this miserable line of people waiting for someone to take them further looks absolutely desperate, but in relative terms its certainly better than being tear gassed by the hungarians and as the day wore on, the buses came regularly, shipping them north towards the capitol. And to the untrained eye, t
For some mexican residents after the arrest of the head of a deadly cartel. And two decades after an historic United States agreement to improve the lives of women, where progress on many fronts has stalled and even gotten worse. Good evening and well coto Al Jazeera America im steph. The quest to end the bloody conflict in south sudan is in doubt tonight. Peace negotiations between the countrys two warring parties have fail. Today talks in ethiopia were suspended indefinitely with no future meetings scheduled. The south sudan president and rebel leader had been discussing a power sharing deal since monday. Civil war erupted in south sudan in december 2013. Since then more than 10,000 people have been killed another 1. 5 million displaced. Catherine soi has the latest. Reporter the talks have been as long winded and difficult as they have been intense. 13 months of negotiations have ended in a stalemate. The president and rebel leader held several direct talks this week. Their position
A Senior Commander of the alqaedaed link rebel group us in are front has been killed in syria, abu hammam alshami died in an air strike in the city of idlib on thursday. He held the title of general military commander for the alnusra front. Reporter his death comes at a critical time for the organization. There have been reports that the alqaeda branch has been asked to cut links with the organization and become a purity syrian force so it can receive funds and weapons. This video was reportedly filmed in apep low in december. It emerged after alnusra announced his death. He was also fighting for alqaeda in afghanistan and iraq and analysts say he was among the socalled hard liners. They were the hard liner extremist proalqaeda segment of alnusra that have been against the offer made to alnusra in recent times to take a different course than it is now. Alnusra has been asked by many via many channels and by many external forces regional and international that it has to decide. A cartel
Trial charged with insulting the president. But first some developing news from the United Nations Security Council in new york. In the past few minutes it has approved a resolution condemning the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon in syria. James bayes at the u. N. For us now. What more can you tell us about this latest resolution on syria and what it means. Reporter its a rare moment when the Security Council managing to agree on a resolution. This resolution was passed. Only one country was opposed and that was venezuela. Were still in the meeting right now, some of the countries explaining their national positions. The french ambassador is speaking now, explaining the french positioning in his National Capacity as we speak. We have heard from a number of other ambassadors saying this resolution is important because there have been these chlorine attacks in syria, and this promises that there will be measures taken in future if there are chlorine attacks. The venezuelans interesti