Between global powers threaten to open a new conflict zone in syria they worry theyll become targets if turkey makes good on his threat to move against kurdish fighters along its border also at stake the relationship between nato allies turkey and the United States also on the grid keeping up what they call a peaceful Pressure Campaign the u. S. And canada cohost an International Summit on the north Korean Nuclear threat twenty countries a participant but china north koreas biggest trading partner which has leverage over kim jong uns regime is not attending so what can be achieved and begging for forgiveness pope francis expresses pain and shame over the Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church as he arrives in chile the first leg of his not an american papal tour but hes been greeted by protests us today still reeling some the repercussions of a priest abuse scandal. And in venezuela a fire fight between Government Forces and a former Police Pilots who join the opposition has caused a nationwide mania im here in the home is next they also use the hash tag a. J. News spreads. Here with the news grid live on air and streaming online for you to Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com thank you for joining us a potential military conflicts nums over syrias northern border after a u. S. Decision to form a new Border Security force led by. Kurdish fighters is inflame tensions between washington and its nato ally turkey president typewriter one is now calling on nato to take a stand against the us the turks are threatening to launch a new military offensive against kurdish fighters who may consider terrorists iran and russia the key backer is a syrian president bashar assad say the new Border Security force will create more instability and the chief negotiator of a Syrian Opposition group too has warned against washingtons plan saying it will lead to a future partition of syria the u. S. Led coalition though insists that the new force is part of its strategy to prevent a resurgence of eisel along syrias border with turkey and iraq now while that diplomatic showdown continues its the civilians who are caught in the middle of it. They will become targets if turkey carries on its threats of a military offensive sin and has this report from the turkey syria border. Is one of many kurds whose grandparents left Northern Syria years ago but he still has family in africa which is cool spy on the syrian side of the border to maine and his relatives there are growing increasingly worried as turkey prepares for a minute through operations against u. S. Backed kurdish why preview fighters. Who are no friends of the white p. G. They recruit young boys and girls thats where my brother in law is fled after and moved istanbul four years ago the weapons provided to those find his body u. S. Scares me my village is the closest to offer and we dont feel at peace while our people are there. The wife is in control of the land just beyond us will the u. S. Reckons its fighters are key to why female eisel in syria. That infuriated turkey which considers the y. P. G. To be an extension of the p. K. K. A Kurdish Group which turkey the u. S. The European Union deemed a terrorist organization. Have never been for turkey six years ago after the syrian war. President footballers realises we cant go back to syria we came here and worked in farming with other refugees from a mountain from aleppo Everyone Wants peace in syria and africa because its the civilians that get tom the most many kurds who are living in religious near the border avoid t. V. Cameras some have relatives and a friend were military action is planned and the villagers may also need to seek safety if the fighting that start the Turkish Military is massed on the border and ses its ready to supply against the new border force which it sees as a direct threat at stake is the relationship of two nato countries senior. Al jazeera turkey syria border and joining us now on the news green is Nick Danforth whos a senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center is live from washington d. C. Very good to have you with us the turkish president is clearly very angry at the u. S. Support for the y. P. And this ripples border force and is issued an extremely strong warning even by his standards how worried are they in washington about what the turks might do. Its worth noting from the outset that this is not the first time that aired on has threatened to take military action against the kurds in syria theres been a series of these threats over the past year but this is certainly the most direct and the most forceful and as you say the most provocative which worth noting in this case the United States is building a border force for with the syrian kurds east of the euphrates the actual threat from turkey right now is to attack Syrian Kurdish forces west of the euphrates and so this is still not quite the nightmare sinister scenario for u. S. Turkish relations but its nonetheless worrying for much of the war in syria the United States and turkey a naked have worked together jointly supporting forces that are fighting against Bashar Assads government but we seem to be seeing now russia and turkey siding increasingly with each other where do you thing this liza relationship between the u. S. And turkey and what can the Nato Alliance which both countries are part of do about this deteriorating relationship. Well and certainly as it became clear that the United States and turkey were not going to be working together to bring down assad the stress that you mention has intensified and it became clear the United States his focus was on isis and turkeys focus was on dealing with the wife e. G. The syrian kurds and this rift has only continued and widened what turkey is up against now which makes their situation even more difficult though is that theyre not only. Confronting the United States in this case but also increasingly at odds with their newfound russian partners its actually in the section of syria that turkey is threatening to attack now its been Russian Forces that have been present working with the syrian kurds turkeys situation now is that both United States is doubling down on its support for the kurds in one part of syria and russia seems to be increasingly interested in bringing them into the diplomatic process and ending the Syrian Civil War leaving turkey with no one to turn to what about nato his role in all this nic i have a comment here from one of our viewers on Facebook Steven who says its hard to get nato it to go against the u. S. Given the u. S. Is responsible for so much of nato funding do you agree with that. Yeah i mean i think given especially that the other nato members from their point of view are also like the United States far more focused on the threat of isis and turkey is really unique in being focused on the threat from Syrian Kurdish fighters its you know turkey is at odds rightly or wrongly with the consensus of nato on this issue thank you for speaking to a snake in the danforth is a senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center he was joining us on the news great from washington thank you for your insight and you know theres a very good explainer on aljazeera dot com about this Border Security force a u. S. Is helping to set up along the turkey syria border the purpose of it how Kurdish Forces are involved the reactions of the various players involved in syrias conflicts to this Border Security force its all explained there on our website at aljazeera dot com and elsewhere in syria activists say the socalled deescalation agreements aimed at reducing violence have done nothing to stop the slaughter of civilians in a pocket of opposition territory on the outskirts of syrias capital damascus more than three hundred people have been killed in eastern guta in recent months and as osama bin jahvid reports its not the only place where syrians a sufi. The. More bombs are being dropped by Syrian Government and russian warplanes on the besieged rebel held district near the capital damascus is home to four hundred thousand people activists aboard dozens of air strikes on the air being and across the areas in the last twenty four hours they. Are supposed to be part of a deescalation zone but at least three hundred people have died in air in artillery strikes since november. Many of the wounded including children are dying because of the lack of medical supplies and. With get we hide inside the room all the toys. Our message we are children who have nothing to do with this war the regime bombards us every day children everywhere else can study and drink here we have nothing and theyre happy. Feet im always very scared of the siege of began in two thousand and thirteen and the relentless when bodman has destroyed most of the city. As a matter of fact the bombardment and the russian weapons being tested here against the poor people of syria have badly affected us no one has given support to our oppressed people and its. You walk down the road with absolutely no money in your pocket you think of how you can feed your hungry and thirsty kids at home and all of a sudden another man comes across you asking you for some spare money to buy food for his kids and you feel confused whether to cry for your bad situation or for his worse situation. Critics of the United Nations and aid agencies say the world either doesnt care or just pays lip service while bombs continue to fall then is leaving over four hundred thousand people who live or living there even them to free to face a fate. By starvation. Even in areas where fighting has finished such as. I saw the mines in what was the point to sell to get copper to continue to kill and maim as well as unexploded bombs dropped by u. S. And Coalition Aircraft the Group Doctors without borders is calling on all warring parties and their allies as well as demining organizations and donors to increase mine clearance and rock and its suburbs and to help inform people of the risks to protect them from avoidable deaths and injuries. And that suffering is being repeated in many of the cities and towns across syria some of the job the others there. And weve been getting quite a lot of good comments on the situation in syria and the current tensions between the u. S. And turkey over this proposed border force along the turkey syria border a comment here from facebook on from poll on facebook from paul who says playing power politics with civilian lives when a creates future terrorism and another very good comment from emory also on facebook who says give picks shovels and concrete mixes to the u. S. Backed forces and send them to rebuild syria the country they destroyed would love to hear more of your comments on this and other stories were covering on the news great today all the different ways to get in touch with us on the bottom right of your screen right now the hash tag as ever a j news grades onto other world news now and Foreign Ministers from twenty countries are meeting in an hour from now in vancouver canada to discuss the north Korean Nuclear threat the summit is being hosted by the United States and canada and will include south koreas key allies theyre looking for ways to increase diplomatic and financial pressure on north korea to force it to give up its Nuclear Ambitions now china and russia have not been invited beijing is north koreas key trading partner and its only allah is called the summits meaning less the meeting comes at a crucial time on the Korean Peninsula what have been signs of cautious from gris north korea and south korea have held direct talks for the first time in more than two years kyung young has agreed. To send its athletes to next months winter Olympic Games in south korea and south korea is keeping the door open for future talks and speak to a committee what in washington for its committee tell us more for us about this summit organized by the u. S. And canada in vancouver whos taking part and one of they hoping to achieve right well as you point out it is certainly notable that both russia and china not there and in fact the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov saying in fact that he believes nothing notable is going to come out of this meeting as a result still as you point out twenty different nations including canada and the United States the secretary of state Rex Tillerson along with Christopher Hill in the foreign minister in canada working very hard to try and bring all of these nations together with really two key goals fall in that is the first to make sure that there is sort of a better implementation of sanctions that have been put in place by world powers to isolate north korea from the Financial System the global Financial System and also to to prevent north korea from of aiding the measures that have already been put in place at the level of the United Nations so certainly what the goal is of these Foreign Ministers is to try and show theres a strong and United International front Rex Tillerson is efforts on north korea kimberley have sometimes been complicated by bellicose rhetoric from his boss President Donald Trump is there not a more coherent and unified approach to the north Korean Nuclear issue in the Trump Administration and what options are they considering right now. Right theres no question that Rex Tillerson bill of the to do diplomacy on behalf of the United States has been complicated by the president s use of twitter or his very public statements whether it was promising fire and furious he did over the summer or whether or not it was even just something as simple as saying major conflict is possible it makes talks very difficult but of course in october when donald trump said that rex is wasting his time essentially undermining the secretary of state his efforts certainly did complicate the process still Donald Trumps sort of top diplomat around the world has said repeatedly he plans to stay into the job through twenty eighteen he believes that the relationship with the white house has improved somewhat and hes continued to stay on message and that is that the trunk administrations approach is to apply maximum pressure is to apply peaceful pressure and they point to those talks and discussions that have taken place with between south korea north koreas examples of how its working yeah and President Trump has suggested in fact that he is responsible for north koreas willingness to resume dialogue with a soft korea i wonder though kimberly is the u. S. Supportive of what the korean government is trying to achieve right now because. They have been tensions it seems to recently between south korea and the u. S. Over how to deal with this north Korean Nuclear issue. And tensions too between south korea and north korea over the fact that south korea attributed these sort of discussions getting underway between the two because of help from donald trump its its very complicated its very nuanced and i think thats just exactly what were getting to in terms of whats going to be discussed in north korea rather in vancouver with regard to trying to limit north Koreas Nuclear program is that words matter when youre dealing with multiple languages things can be inferred that werent intended and so i think thats one of the reasons why these Foreign Ministers are trying to get together in vancouver to try and iron all of this out to present a united front so there are these misunderstandings and misconceptions moving forward kimberly thank you very much for that can really help it live for us in washington d. C. And as we mentioned china has not been invited to the summit in vancouver but it will significant influence over north korea which depends on its neighbor for ninety percent of its trade as rob reynolds rob mcbride rather reports from beijing china wants gentle diplomacy to work first and set of toughest sanctions. Tensions have increased and tensions have eased but the trains and trucks have continued to roll. But the friendship bridge undone dont some of the essent