Youre watching the aljazeera news online from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a russian backed syria peace talks are delayed by several hours as some Opposition Groups stay away from the Opening Ceremony. Also finding escalates in the southern port city of aden in yemen the session is fighters taking over a military base linked to the president. Of opposition supporters rally in nairobi years of kenyas a shadow president is on officially sworn in after a controversial vote. No war anonymity the south korean government cracks down on the trade of Digital Currencies. The company on the news are we start in russia where there are efforts to host talks on syrias political future have had a rocky start in the resort town. Sochi the meeting was delayed by several hours the main Opposition Groups on the kurds have boycotted the meeting a small section of the Opposition Groups who are inside she are also refusing to participate they mounted a sit in at the airport after apparently taking offense being by the presence of official syrian slangs in the terminal building where the meeting was finally opened by russias foreign minister sergei lavrov. Today we have all conditions to turn the tragic page of syrias history considering all the latest achievements a dialogue between various syrian factions is necessary to reach a political solution with the u. S. Backed mediation. Well on the ground in syria the government is continuing to attack the rebel held on plave of eastern guta at least six people have been killed and Dozens Injured in the fighting nearly four hundred thousand people have been living under a government siege for nearly five years well well be talking to stephanie deck in a moment to use in the last man on the turkey syria border first lets go to rory chalons in sochi and of course. One of the main things was of course speech from. He had some pretty poignant things to say what was said in addition to what weve just heard. Or heard from two people in the opening remarks the Opening Ceremony we heard from a Syrian Government representative to basically had a strong message his message was hands off syria foreign involvement foreign interference should stop he made a thanks to the what he called the glorious syrian army for its military victories and then said long live syria then after that we heard from Sergey Lavrov who read a message from the mir putin he was saying that basically russia continues to take steps towards the peaceful resolution of the syrian conflict thanks to the past on a process which russia iran and turkey have joint sponsored zones of deescalation that this is set up these have all helped bring the level of violence down in syria and that itself has been created essentially to pursue the object is of u. N. Council resolution twenty two fifty four and the thanks the various parties here gratitude to turkey iran and of the United Nations itself and of course a great deal of confusion about which of the Opposition Groups were going to attend were not going to attend or were just going to boycott and now were getting news about certain Opposition Groups wanting turkey to represent them in sochi what seems to be going on. Thats right well i mean of course we over the last few days weve had various Opposition Groups saying that they would not be taking part of the Syrian Negotiations Committee announced that over the weekend there were more opposition figures that dropped out yesterday and overnight last night we had this scenario where a turkish baths delegation of the opposition arrived at the airport in sochi saw government flags plastered all over the place to took offense of that and said they would not leave the airport until those flags were taken away now that. Basically meant there had to be some very last minute negotiations involving with Turkish Foreign ministry and the russian Foreign Ministry and we understand involving the the u. N. Representative stefan de mistura who was waiting to see what the outcome of this this process would be well what we understand is that the opposition figures of turned around and have headed home and essentially given the turkish government representatives here the job of representing them so thats whats been happening for them you just touched on judgment is pivotal in all of these talks not stuff and of a story the u. N. Representative whos been involved in geneva talks has sort of overseeded attended a starter ones as well for our International Viewers so very confusing to hear about sochi at the start of in geneva it all leads really to geneva doesnt it. Well yes thats thats what everyone says on the surface of course the opposition figures who decided to stay away from sochi say that they have concerns about this whole platform of the syrian peace negotiations because they say its a distraction from geneva they want everything to be concentrated on geneva itself and all these arrests saatchi all these other platforms are basically a way for damascus iran and more. Go to enforce their agendas on on whats going on and the staff and the restorer has come here basically to make sure that this is a process that doesnt try to veer away from geneva doesnt try to rere away from the resolution twenty two fifty four but directly channels into it and thats what the opposition thats what turkey and thats what certain demister are are trying to achieve by coming here well for the moment theyre rotary well leave it and come back to you through the day as we get more news out of that conference lets cross over to Stephanie Decker whos at dulles model the turkey syria border of course they can talk as much as they want stephanie but the harsh reality is that the bombardment continues certainly with the turkish offensive and kurdish groups continue to defend their positions just bring us up to speed on whats been happening over the last twelve hours. Well weve been hearing some artillery in the distance we are at the turkey syria border you can probably see there is a war that turkey built to divide the border how close syria is in many of these places there is of course the watchtowers a heavy military presence the fighting is ongoing so what we saw over the last twenty four hours or so was a reinforcement of buses with soldiers yesterday at the end of the day driving along these roads because of course not only is there the Eastern Front which is inside syria turkey together with the Free Syrian Army forces have also been going in across the border into syria along various parts of this northern and western borders that turkey has with after having said all that we have managed to speak to some people inside sources who will tell us that the situation for the civilians is incredibly difficult because what they say of random shelling into border towns particularly the areas of rajkot engine that is which is sort of further down this section so incredibly difficult situation for them aid very difficult to get into the the kurdish red crescent operating there weve seen some pictures hard to verify but some of them are certainly incredibly difficult not sure if you picked that up but that was outgoing as well so it is its an active frontline in turkey very much adamant that it is going to continue until its pushed the white p. G. Which they have coursed call the terrorist organization away from its borders for the moment stuff and leave it on the course i join you through the day thanks a lot crossover now to something not the director of the Levant Institute for strategic interest joins me now from the lebanese capital beirut good to have you with us on the program certainly what is the point of having a meeting with fifteen hundred delegates according to the russians from a crosssection of Syrian Society when its not the main Opposition Groups that are fighting in syria. I mean yes because the Main Objective of the conference for russia to. Diplomatically it has been investing and realizing. Military side and but i mean was fixing like objectivity first of all to get syrian legitimacy for this confidence then International Legitimacy the third object there was to move to words in the settlement but none of these objectives were met first of all in terms of seeing that they shipped him a seat that are important to groups important stakeholders was a big cloud on the field that were not present that kurds whatever we think of the kurds whatever it is the problem with. Who are not present control like fifteen percent of the territory seven s. And c. Which is most important and most of it but is that the groups this Syrian Negotiation Committee also who were present at the geneva talks. Meeting in terms of International Presence and the fact that the americans who are who have an important game were not present as well for fear that this will get a. Talks i mean deprive this event from their national. Was looking forward however. To what are may be the only woman of. Confidence because it gives kind of fuel and backing for this Conference Mr not let me just get in there because we sort of lost but we can still hear you quite clearly. Weve got you back again technically thats great how important is it that obviously what were seeing is that the gender is be. Very much by russia syria. Iran even turkey to a certain extent and it doesnt quite does reflect really the ground realities for the opposition because no matter what they do their voice is not being heard theyre not being negotiated with because were seeing intense bombing and attacks of opposition areas even deescalation zones which really dont amount to anything how much is that is influencing the way that russia is pushing forward pushing ahead to try and get a resolution yes yes russia. Is running against time because it knows very well that the more this situation drags the more their military operation will continue on the ground the more. The military. Or the military sides are weakened so its taking a risk by this is why its trying moscow is trying to achieve a settlement whether its not putting enough pressure on the Syrian Regime to give in the objective was to come up with a new constitution up to now with this union the regime is not in phase with moscow position the Syrian Regime doesnt want to talk about in your constitution all it sees talking about is an amendment of the constitution as you mentioned there are people in sochi talking about being on the ground. In the south of. That bad continues and continued very fiercely over the moon well have to leave it there are some in other thank you very much for your insight from beirut in lebanon. Now the session is forces in southern yemen of taking over a progovernment military camp in a known try to target the president ial palace is the latest escalation in violence by the u. S. Backed forces after they tried to take control of the government held city two days ago progovernment troops have been deployed from the city to dailor in aden in response the Yemeni Government is accusing the saudi arabia of ignoring the action of the u. A. E. Linked forces now for nearly three years yemen has been mired in a complicated war between forces loyal to the internationally recognized government of president and who the rebels but in recent days its become even more complex a split has emerged in the Saudi Led Coalition that supports had the u. A. E. Backed forces have turned on the president s troops the u. A. E. Has thrown it support behind separatists fighters the secessionists or to separate state for southern yemen they say that the region has been neglected and mistreated by the government south and north yemen are separate countries for much of the latter half of the Twentieth Century before they united in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight in used to be the capital of south yemen. No at least thirty six people have been killed in the port city of aden in yemen during the past two days after heavy fighting with southern secessionists trying to stage a coup heres part of the video the International Committee of the red cross posted online about whats happening on the ground. And we are going through it quite a bit. But. Tell me we have very little in our civilization maybe you. Should you know this so what we are living with us here. To get in touch with are these are the other and maybe people missing. Kids. Help yes yes. We are managing the scene with these gets to the other must. Be done as well unfortunately this is somebody bites the same. Well to african our Kenyan Police have fired tear gas to disperse thousands of opposition supporters gathering to celebrate an unofficial swearing in of. Now the attorney general has warned that challenging the official president will amount to treason opposition supporters have been filling the who Route National park as you can see these live pictures coming from nairobi now writing their claims he won the president ial election in august but the Electoral Commission declared who are coming after the winner challenged the results on the Supreme Court agreed nullifying the results over those irregularities because ordered a fresh vote in october last year which can be up to one. Boycotted the vote science and a lack of electoral reforms catherine soy is our correspondent in the capital nairobi and we already knew was going to be a very tense situation how would you describe it now at the moment catherine. Catherine if you can hear me we news always beginning to be a very tense situation how would you describe it now quite noisy behind you. I can barely hear you sahil i think something has happened to the sound like asking about todays event and i thought that intro into talking about this yes it was by. Some people just feet in the sense that there was one thing important to us she seemed bored and us she was while and i have so much to development in the last few hours we still. Coming in oh sorry see thats the government i mean the kitchen body blocking the lyceum noise of some of the countrys main media stations currently the opposition leaders are having a meeting at imagine some meeting to discuss that and that was back of the swearing in weve also seen some preparations going on of the days weve seen some politicians pass through that is an indicator that rylan do. Guys going to be here at some point for the swearing in ceremony he supported have been waiting for him since very early in the morning well we havent seen any security presence even a little part since morning and his supporters very passionate about this day they all believe that he won the election on all just eight election that was invalidated by the Supreme Court and they say that is the basis to which they want him sworn in as the peoples president but also on the many questions about also you know a lot of people are asking now what kind of only eat basic obviously eat takes an oath as a president and president of the republic of china that is going to be problematic because its going to i mount to seize on and what is these peoples president if thats all hes going to take with these peoples president. Going to swear him in some little bit of our broadcast to mess up our political one third thing and also you would think what is going to happen i think two days out what steps easily. We solicit you follow events very noisy events there in nairobi with you catherine throughout the day for the moment thank you. Well still ahead here on the aljazeera news hour somalias government says its come up with a Long Term Plan to tackle drought and famine we have a report from mogadishu. Plus whats expected from the president trying to see past his second state of the Union Address in the coming hours and in sports a sixty year old Baseball Team logo is to go to. Explain why he spoke. To the americas not where the f. B. I. Deputy director under became president he stepped down weeks before his official time and date hed been criticized by u. S. President donald trump who accused him of favoring his right. Well Hillary Clinton in the twenty sixteen president ial race now the f. B. I. 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