And eighteen a Winter Olympics opens and an explosion of fireworks with north and south korea sitting side by side next to america and the extraordinary show of unity and he just emits pyongyang twenty eighteen has been declared open but earlier the court of arbitration for sport rejected the last minute appeals of forty seven russian athletes and coaches to a bidding to be allowed to compete. Our other top stories egypt launches a sweeping military operation aiming to crush on the groups ahead of a deadline set by president sisi. Played upon the time. Of the hama signals an end to the u. S. Governments latest shutdown the stage is set for a bigger battle the over immigration and ballooning deficit. Also what the mayor government didnt want the world to see evidence of a massacre and the journalists who revealed it have been jailed. I am. Extraordinarily and unexpected show of unity north and south korea have sat side by side under exploding fireworks as the two thousand and eighteen Winter Olympics opened on a peninsula beset by generations of anger and suspicion. The sister of north koreas leader kim jong un shook hands with south korean president jay in also a watch and a lap or a show of light and sound and singing just in front of them as u. S. Vice president mike pence south korea is hoping the games will offer a chance of a news communication after a long period of high tensions lets go and join our correspondent in south korea and sasha cohen joins us from kong none now attach a slightly shorter a low Opening Ceremony was not due to the cold but no less of a spectacle was the message that south korea wanted to send. Well this was already a historic day in south korea so this lavish Opening Ceremony seemed to be a fitting end the message of the Opening Ceremony it was titled peace in motion spectators were transported back in time given a history korean History Lesson if you will and shown how quote koreans have had a relentless pursuit for peace this topic by the way was already settled upon before the North Koreans agreed to participate and send an historic high ranking delegation to the games among that delegation was the leader kim jong un sister kim jong she is a high ranking official in north korea a close and trusted adviser of the leader there and she sat in very close proximity to u. S. President mike pence after days in which the two countries went back and forth pence said that more tougher sanctions were on their way to north korea and north korea saying they had no desire to engage in any kind of dialogue with the United States but at least on the diplomatic front for south korea this has been an opportunity and a day for rebuilding hope and hopefully setting the stage for reconciliation between the two koreas president moon jay in is son of refugee parents he has always pushed for engagement and he is seizing this opportunity he will be meeting with that north korean delegation tomorrow we dont know what theyre going to be talking but the overall mood here in south korea is one of excitement and pride that theyre hosting this event but also many are waiting to see if it will lead to something bigger while there are still a lot of skeptics laura you of course like the sister of. A rival has been dominating the headlines how has she been received by the people in south korea. Well by the south korean media like a rock star wall whole wall coverage all day she was greeted very warmly by president moon and people are tracking her movements very closely theres some speculation in the south korean media that perhaps she will be sending a message and extending an invite for president moon to visit north korea who knows analysts that its unlikely anything major will happen on the diplomatic front critics have said this is just more propaganda and a way for north korea to advance its agenda ok thats ash i will leave it there for the moment many thanks for joining us from. Well well have more olympic Coverage Later this hour early warnings will be telling us about the russian athletes who failed in their last minute attempts to take part in the games plus all the action with peta Egyptian Army has launched what its calling a comprehensive operation against terrorists and criminal groups in the Sinai Peninsula on these websites announced the start of the offensive local media is reporting what it calls an unusual increase in the number of military vehicles in north sinai hospitals have been put on high alert us in order to prepare extra beds and nursing staff to deal with emergencies a medical evacuations by the. This morning Law Enforcement forces began implementing the plan a comprehensive confrontation against the terrorist and criminal elements and organizations in north and central sinai and other areas in the delta egypt and the desert back in the west of denial dolly this comes in addition to training and other operations on all Strategic Directions in order to tighten control of the ports of view gyptian state. Head of elections next month president. Faces election a deadline for Security Forces to restore stability to northern sinai i did that last november after three hundred eleven worshipers were killed there when attackers hit a mosque it was the deadliest incident in egypts modern history and thats when the deadline sisi declared three days of mourning and said the victims deaths would be avenged dozens of soldiers have also been killed in attacks over the past year twenty six died in a single suicide blast in july last eighteen more were killed during an ambush in september and Coptic Christians are a regular target more than one hundred were killed over the past year in a series of bombings and shootings are sure is a professor of Security Studies at Doha Institute he says there is a political dimension to the new offensive. If you saw the pattern from twenty thirteen on words youll find the scale ations happening with one Major Political events are coming up so when the coup happened in july twenty third dean you had an escalation following in september and the whole idea part of the coup and the result that of the new regime coming is that security and counterterrorism needs to be implemented partly in sinai but also elsewhere the interesting part about the communique of the armed forces is that theyre not talking just about sinai theyre saying that escalation in central delta and there is in this creation in the western deserts which are the two other areas that you saw some kind of Political Violence happening in there i think it has to do a lot with the forthcoming president ial elections i think these escalations and the level of. Men and the ship the sinai is not new. You know suspending the Internet Communications blocking roads this is all not new been happening since twenty fifteen and probably before twenty thirty years ago so im not sure if theres something new or theres a measured saying that you know the strongman is back hes trying to secure the region and therefore mobilize for him in the next president ial elections which is happening next month. U. S. House of representatives has joined the senate in approving budget legislation and overnight federal shutdown measure which will now be signed off by President Donald Trump will extend government funding until march twenty third significant battles over ballooning deficit and emigration are far from over White House Correspondent joins us live now from washington d. C. As you can do we saw a brief second shutdown there in less than a month over funding the u. S. Government but now have we finally got men to americas budget in crisis. I think there is a temporary halt to some of this battle thats been going on back and forth there wont be these sort of short term kind of bandaid measures that weve seen recently you point out the one that happened just last month the latest word from the white house is that this legislation that was passed in the senate with quite a bit of drama and then in the house of representatives according to the white house the president about to sign this legislation sometime in the next few hours this is significant because it does have a bipartisan plan in place for a country that is deeply divided along political lines and particularly a congress divided along political lines but whats significant right now is that this is a party that rather a congress thats controlled by republicans so republicans got a lot of what they wanted in here namely big increases for military spending but democrats got what they wanted as well for the most part they got a lot of increases when it comes to some of that entitlement spending that typically republicans try to control what about protections for the dreamers can be the children of Illegal Immigrants when that was a kid the democrats rules and why are we not saying that part of the deal. Right so bad is what democrats didnt get and that is what looked like it could threaten this from going through it and essentially preventing government workers from heading to work friday morning in the end it was democrats who caved on this to the disappointment of many because this still now has to be worked out and will be a focus of debate in the coming weeks given the fact that donald trump ended those obama era protections for socalled dreamers or doctor recipients essentially these are children who have now grown up here in the United States now are adults but were brought here illegally by their parents no no other country than the United States facing potential deportation of the white house says the chief of staff john kelly says no thats not going to happen will give congress and time to work this out but this is a subject of deep debate its an issue that congress hasnt been able to resolve not for years but decades so this is now in the forefront and this is certainly a concern not only for those doc up recipients who are looking at those protections ending but the democrats who in an Election Year promise to resolve this and it remains unresolved so a big issue still to be addressed by the u. S. Congress absolutely ok kimberly well leave it there thanks so much joining us from washington d. C. Syria is accusing the u. S. Of committing a war crime by bombing feisal to president Bashar Al Assad and the province u. S. Led Coalition Says one hundred faces loyal to the Syrian Government died in the strikes and says they were in response to what it called an unprovoked attack on the headquarters of its ally the Syrian Democratic forces but russia which backs assad says the strikes a part of an effort by washington to control key economic assets in the region pentagon correspondent. I said at a briefing with secretary of defense jim met a c. Was off camera but on the record and he called what happened in syria a quote perplexing situation and he said because for years the Euphrates River has been a kind of do not cross line that if the u. S. Or u. S. Backed forces or russian or russian backed forces were going to cross it they talk about it before and he said that didnt happen this time he said u. S. Forces were embedded along with the s. D. F. And they saw tanks and artillery start rolling in and say that one shell got within five hundred meters of the s. D. F. Headquarters he says that is when they picked up the phone they called their russian counterparts and he says he doesnt think that the group that moved in is actually controlled by russia he called this a Great Success story because in his words two great powers did not fight each other still the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations was less than pleased i asked him to remember that the. Syria illegally in fact. They would look like the. They claim. The fight the International Terrorism but we see that it goes beyond that. To confront. The. Decided say is is given secretary mabus didnt speculate on how many casualties were caused by the firing from u. S. Jets and heavy artillery positions but he did say that they took out two of the incoming tanks and the heavy artillery positions the u. S. Is calling this selfdefense and warning that that happens again the left again for a fifth consecutive day bombs have been targeting rebel held eastern goose her on the edge of the capital damascus a days as he said government and russian asterix have killed at least two hundred thirty people Rights Groups say hospitals have been enough the targets of strikes including the bombing of a red crescent. A five year government sees the enclave is running desperately not on food medicine and medical equipment. Theres a number of those being killed and he rises by the hour the war is taking its toll on the survivors. And they. All say. Thank you. But will increase shelling and destruction every time the plane turns there are twenty five explosions there demolishing the entire country people dont dare to leave the shelters can leave in the cold is given to us theres nothing in the shelters the people who believe in peace talks and so she vienna in geneva dont see whats happening here on the ground. Bombing raids over the northern syrian enclave of aframe after a five day break kurdish media posted this video showing turkish air strikes on the outskirts of the area so he began an ground operation last month to oust the. Guards the wife as terrorists. Still ahead here on the news hour what israel is demanding from the family of a palestinian man who was crushed to death under a military vehicle. Outside mediators help bring an end to months of political strife. And. On pouring in sweden where five hundred years of history could be on the side of the story as they continue their battle against nor why the Winter Olympics. Prices News Agency Says it has evidence that ranger men were massacred in manama last september its the first time such an account has been backed up by witness statements from buddhist villages and Security Forces themselves the two journalists behind the investigation have been detained him in law and denied bail and wanting jobs silvas report contains images that some viewers may find disturbing. Its a chilling and detailed account of what can only be described as a premeditated massacre the photographs provided to reuters by a buddhist village elder dont lie the first the News Agency Says was taken on september first and shows the ten ruhi captives lined up in a row the second taken the day after shows their slain bodies in a mass grave their ages range from seventeen to forty five among them were students fishermen farmers shop owners fathers they were all part of the same community from the village of indian in myanmars northern Rakhine State but a little bit about the building when they were taken them away they said do not worry we will send your sons back soon taken them for me till i die hard on all that you know of indian six thousand rocking chair remained in the village as of october and surprisingly their relatives are reluctant to move back. I would not go back there how can i go and they killed our husbands we have all listened babies how will they survive myanmars military says the ten men belong to a group of two hundred terrorists that had attacked them earlier but accounts given to the news agency by both ranger and buddhist witnesses deny such large scale attack ever happens in the village the writer story draws for the first time on interviews with buddhist villagers who confessed to torching rohingya homes bury bodies and killing muslims it also marks the first time soldiers and Paramilitary Police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel themselves the two reporters behind the story wallow in your story who are both myanmar nationals and were detained on december twelfth for allegedly obtaining confidential documents a Statement Released by the military on january tenth confirms what they were preparing to report ten right in demand had been massacred in that village their release coincided with a judicial request by prosecutors to charge the two journalists under the official secrets act they have been denied bail and the convicted face up to forty years in prison on the silver aljazeera. There is Refugee Agency is raising the alarm about surging violence in yemen which it pains for a spike in the number of people being forced from their homes its december the u. N. H. C. R. Estimates more than eighty five thousand people have been displaced right across yemen most sixty one thousand on the run from regions near the west coast in the who data and governance yemen is the Worlds Largest humanitarian crisis twenty two Million People are in need of aid the civil war intensified in early twenty fifteen when a saudi Led Military Coalition intervened in support of the government which is fighting against rebels. To is u. N. H. C. R. Yemen spokeswoman she joins us via skype from sam so most of these people latest wave of people one running from the western regions what exactly is happening. Where were seeing displacement across yemen from various different alliance but the majority of the eighty five thousand people that are arms are in fact still use that are ongoing. 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