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the presidential candidates. and angry protesters demand that south africa s president repay taxpayer s money he used for home improvements. the united nations has called on turkey to open its borders to syrian refugees fleeing fighting in adepot. tens of thousands of people are stranded at the boarder. but turkey s foreign minister has warned that if the regime s military campaign continues the number of refugees could reach a million. let s take you live now to the turkish city near the syrian border. stephanie decker is there. stephanie why don t turkey allow these people to cross its border? reporter: well, what the officials here say is that at the moment they can handle them perfectly where they are. they say we can provide for them here as good as we can over the border. turkey of course is also concerned because it has a huge number of syrian refugees already here, over 2.5 million. and the message from the government is they sort of feel russia is putti ....
great again. two outsiders ride to victory in new hampshire on a wave of discontent and the republican field narrows. reports that russia has proposed the cease-fire for syria to begin on march 1st. it comes as health workers say that hospitals near the front line in northern syria are under attack and overwhelmed with the russian airstrikes in support of the government. the red cross says that the on surge in violence has now displaced an estimated 50,000 people, most of them in northern areas of aleppo province. adding to the misery it says that the water supply system has been cut in the city of aleppo itself. and this as the u.s. comes under pressure to do more as it s policy over syria is attacked from all sides. the fiercest criticism comes from president erdogan who said that the u.s. support has turned the region into a sea of blood. they re looking at carrying out humanitarian air drops. we have this report now on the worsening humanitarian crisis. fever am ....
more people in new york city are homeless today than at any point since the 1930s. floors. it s really difficult once you find ways to just get through day-to-day from finding clothing to finding shelter to finding where you will eat. today it s hectic because of the snow outside and not a places for us to sleep now and everybody is kind of coming in. in just a decade the number of people living in new york s homeless shelters has nearly doubled and reaching 60,000 a night last year. it s a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any city. what we see today, the homeless that we see, the exodus from this city, families doubling, tripling up, the rent sky rocketing, this has been a crisis that has been cooking for 20 years. why are so many in new york homeless? this week fault lines looks at the forces that are displacing thousands from their homes. we are on our way to the south bronx to new york s intake center for homeless families, more than 70% of the peopl ....
the cosmos says einstein was right about gravitational waves. i m robin adams in doha and stories coming up including iaa president and fight the decision and its sponsor ship deal with athletics following resent corruption scandals. talks have started in munich aimed at revising the floundering syria peace process and u.s. secretary of state john kerry and sergei fedorov are hosting discussions and said a ceasefire to start on the first of march but the u.s. says it will push for the ceasefire to begin immediately. meanwhile on the ground there is continued fighting near syria s border with turkey in the latest battles they captured an air base which was originally controlled by the syrian military before it was seized by rebels. elsewhere nato defense ministers meeting in brussels agreed to send war ships to the aegean sea to stop smuggling refugees and migrants to europe and lots to get through first and we will start in munich and speak to our editor james base ....
workers. we meet orphans caught up in the fighting in eastern ukraine even though there is supposed to be a ceasefire. sports story this friday six months ahead of the rio olympics one of the most successful countries kenya could find itself ban from the games. right now it s only an agreement on paper and won t result in a complete ceasefire or an end to russian bombing, following a marathon meeting in germany world powers have settled on what they are calling a cessation of hostilities in syria beginning in a week s time. one priority is delivering food, medicine and shelter to besieged towns and cities and james base reports from munich. reporter: 19 delegations the sponsors of international peace efforts in syria gathering in an effort to get things back on track. but the most important meeting happens several hours early on the 15th floor of the same munich hotel, this is where russian foreign minister sergei fedorov and u.s. secretary of state john kerry cam ....