Ever an indian Prime Minister pays an official visit to the occupied palestinian territories. Plus after releasing the republican memo on the russian probe u. S. President donald trump says no to the democratic republic. We begin with a dramatic confrontation in syrias war an israeli warplane has crashed after an iranian drone was shot down near the border with syria the syrian state t. V. Is reporting explosions and what it says israeli attacks near the capital damascus so heres how events have played out israeli media says an iranian drone was launched from a syrian base in the homs desert and shot down near its border syria denies the drone and israeli air space well shortly after that an israeli f. Sixteen war plane crashed in northern israel the jet had been targeting the military base in homs the Israeli Army Says it encountered fire with syria says it shot down the jet in response to an israeli act of aggression both pilots ejected and parachute is safely into northern israel one was severely injured while in a few moments in a hot air will join us live from beirut but first lets cross to western talk to. Some confusion as to whether or not these rainy operation is finished what more can you tell us about this jet being shot down. Well can tell you that the israeli army have confirmed that the operation is still ongoing against what its calling iranian targets and syrian ed Defense Systems on the syrian side now what theyre saying about the israeli jet is interesting theyre very very careful language they wont confirm whether it was actually shot down with it was shot down by syrian air Defense Systems all even Russian Defense system that is likely to try and avoid a big escalation of this conflict clearly the syrians are very angry and theyve issued a statement saying that they will retaliate against any Israeli Aggression on the territory the ministry of defense is actually leading this operation they are in meetings right now trying to figure out what theyre doing next but yes the operation is still ongoing but no confirmation as to how these really sixteen will playing which crashed and we know the israelis have been speaking to the russians they of course control the airspace above syria one of the israelis been saying about that. Well the israeli ambassador to russia has been very clear saying its time to get rid of iran and hizbollah militias from the border with syria now theyve been saying this for a very long time but in the summer they really ratcheted up the language when it came to iran these rallies and said that they will not accept any presence on the border any iranian presence on the border and that going off the iranians how gets right now like hed send a very big message to iran but what can russia really do russia and iran are on the same side theyre supporting the syrian president Bashar Al Assad so russia really has to take a look at what it wants and what it wants to achieve and how useful iran is to remember the iranians are fighting force within the syrian conflict and one of the major fighting forces in support of the fighting forces like hezbollah so they crucial they have a crucial role for probing president Bashar Al Assad so the russians really now need to listen to what the israelis are saying and then decide whats in russian interest whats israeli interest whats in syrian interest but its likely the nothing much will change given that they do support the iranians all right to him and calm there in west jerusalem in one thousand plus corso now to the lebanese capital beirut until tuesday to hold as a no this isnt the first time israel has carried out strikes inside syria but how serious was this particular incident. Well like you mentioned it wasnt the first israeli air strike of its kind there have been numerous strikes over the past few years but this is the first time that syrian air defenses have shot down the plane a very serious incident a very serious confrontation between syria israel and iran and after the plane was shot down there were further strikes israeli warplanes targeting Syrian Army Positions what they said were iranian targets and they were targeting an area southwest of damascus an area known as close by where we understand an Iranian Military base is being built its not the first time theyve targeted this area the base is not operational yet but clearly it is a message to iran we will not allow you to set up permanent bases we will not allow you to entrench yourself militarily and we want you away from the border so serious escalation hezbollahs media unit issuing a statement and for the first time this statement was signed by syrias allies it said that any aggression against the Syrian Government or syria will be met by force so syrias allies coming together issuing this statement so a serious confrontation and but so far you know in one way or the other it has been contained and zain what about the russia fucked up because israel says it has red lines when it comes to iran how they made that clear to the russians. Theyve made it clear time and time again the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu made numerous visits to moscow his last trip just two weeks ago and he made clear we will not allow iran to reach our borders we wont allow iran to have so much influence in syria what we understand is that there have been negotiations between the russians and the israelis to create some sort of a buffer zone in southern syria to keep the Iranian Forces and their allies away from this buffer zone not playing out who hasnt been happy with the deal so far hes made that clear in fact last year in the summer of last year trump and put to the u. S. And russian president s and now its the ceasefire in the south of syria and that was to appease the israelis but the israelis are not happy and making it clear they need the iranians and their allies to move further away from the border so you know how to live from beirut say no thank you. Now the leader of north korea kim jong il and has extended a rare invitation to the south korean president moon jay and visit pyongyang it happened at a historic high level meeting between both sides of the president ial palace in seoul the north korean delegation which includes kim sr is in south korea for the Winter Olympics but i should remain as more from congo. If this meeting transpires it would be historic this would be the first time that north Korean Leader kim jong un met with a south korean president since taking office in twenty eleven theres been a lot of speculation in the south korean media in the last several days that kim jong un sister kim leo jiang a trusted advisor and high Ranking Party leader was coming with an invite in hand she delivered a letter and virtually asked that president moon come to the north soon at a convenient time president moon says lets arrange that and lets create favorable conditions to make that happen but moon is also saying that although hes keen to reboot into a korean relations that dialogue between the United States and the north is essential and hes encouraging both sides to come together Narendra Modis making the First Official visit by an indian Prime Minister to the palestinian territories hes meeting palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas a trip to the west bank as part of a three nation tour to strengthen ties with the middle east earlier he laid a wreath in the tomb of the former Palestinian LeaderYasser Arafats smith has more from ramallah. Its a very short visit three hours he flew over took a helicopter from the jordanian side landed here in the occupied west bank and is leaving in about an hour or so time now from the Indian Perspective this is a visit aimed they said helping build up palestinian capacity in the Health Technology and education areas theyre investing in a Technology Park here in ramallah is also opening a school that the indians have helped fund its a very different to the relationship from from the early relationship decades ago between the indians and the palestinians the unions were the first to record the first non arab state back in one nine hundred eighty eight to recognize the state of palestine and then they viewed their relationship through the sort of colonial prism the indians are being colonized by the british and they saw the palestinians as being colonized by zionist palestinian territory being colonized by zionists so then there was a lot more solidarity today the indian relationship is much more pragmatic israel is what really matters to india forty one percent of israels arms exports go to india so its that thats important but modi has decided to separately visit the west bank to show that they still believe there is a sort of special relationship if you like between the palestinians and the indians here is President Donald Trump has blocked the release of a classified Democratic Party memo on the probe into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election its a rebuttal to a republican paper released last week which accuse the f. B. I. And the Justice Department of anti trump bias trump says the document should be made public because of National Security concerns kristen salumi has the latest from washington d. C. The letter from the white house citing significant Law Enforcement and National Security concerns was supported by another document another letter from the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and the head of the f. B. I. Christopher ray which goes on to explain that theyre worried about revealing sources and ongoing investigations but it should be noted that the f. B. I. Had the same objections to releasing the republican memo and President Trump went ahead and released it anyway and then after it was released said that the report had quote totally vindicated him of course democrats saw things much differently they wanted to have a chance to respond they said the republican version of events left out significant facts and they wanted a chance to put that forward even trey gowdy a republican on the House Intelligence Committee said that the memo had not in any way discredited the Mueller Investigation so democrats now are crying foul they say this is a double standard and for a president who was talking about transparency when he released the original memo this just didnt make sense the question asked by both the democratic leader of the house and the senate is what is the president hiding of course the white house says that the Justice Department would be happy to work with democrats to revise their memo so that it is able to be released without compromising security and democrats say they will take them up on that offer a lot more so its coming on aljazeera including. 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Hello there the weather is all quite smoke over the northern parts of asia at the moment you can see plenty of cloud there making its way across the north and south korea and making its way across japan and thats giving us a few outbreaks of rain and snow and its certainly not warm a tools i was a maximum temperature in tokyo were looking at around eleven degrees here this should be a fair amount of sunshine but for the western parts of japan hair there be more in the way of cloud and a few breaks of rain and snow quite a good deal of wintery weather actually further west just cool for us as we head through sunday mike some temperature of minus four there in seoul getting up to around minus two as we head through into monday further west it is mild air force in beijing hot temperatures up at six down towards the southeastern parts of china and here its a lot milder than it has been were looking at nine now in shanghai and around twenty four its in hong kong so the temperatures here have recovered there just ease off a fraction as we head into monday this time seven as a maximum they shanghai and nineteen in hong kong they will cloud will be building out towards the west but most of this will just be cloudy wont be giving us and the significant rain a bit further towards the south and is actually quite quiet across the southeastern parts of asia at the moment the wettest of the weather is across java and the southeastern parts of born yet. In twenty twelve aljazeera traveled to iraq people here are definitely scared to speak on camera theyre saying that if they talk to us they think theyll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of a country ravaged under Us Occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed its one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq turned into a battleground between the mighty army and the americans six years on rewind returns to iraq after the americans at this time on knowledge and see. Welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on aljazeera israel says its fighter jet that crashed was most likely shot down by Syrian Forces syria says it was responding to an Israeli Aggression israel had earlier down an iranian drone it says it strayed into its territory. North koreas leader kim jong un has extended a rare invitation to the south korean president to visit pyongyang moon as host of kim sr the talks in seoul on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics and making the First Official visit by an indian Prime Minister to the palestinian territories a trip to the west bank as part of a three nation tour to strengthen ties with the middle east. Now turkeys militaries establishing a new position in syrias province as part of efforts to expand the socalled deescalation zone the state News Agency Says troops have been deployed to tell toucan Russian Forces are expected to position themselves six kilometers outside the town they want to create a line dividing Syrian Government forces and opposition fighters to prevent contact rebel held it liberates been the site of intense bombardment and Ground Fighting in recent weeks. And turkey is facing what could be difficult talks on syria with the u. S. Secretary of state next week its offensive in Northern Syria against kurdish fighters is straining ties with washington but the operation has strong public support in turkey some cost reports from istanbul. These are whole its the shelves in production theyre used by the turkish army in operational of branch in Northern Syria. An offensive jointly conducted with the Free Syrian Army in syrias kurdish enclave afrin province employees of this arms supplier well into to work an extra hour every day they say it is the least they can do to support the army. He also yaman a twenty one year old student is one of them. He wants to join the army as soon as possible. By submitting this application letter i wanted to show a positive and concrete support for our soldiers and set an example for others if the operation hadnt been launched and the y. P. G. Would have attacked us with the weapons the u. S. Provided to them. Turkey vs the us spec could have armed group in syria the y. P. G. s as a branch of the p. K. The Kurdistan Workers Party which is this is as a terrorist group by turkey and the us. The fortieth pull flick between the picking and turkey has cost around thirty thousand lives from both sides as the result of this operation should have been launched much earlier our border should have been cleared of terror as the weather gets colder women launched different campaigns to support the army some are knitting schools and socks for the soldiers. Others are sending jars of jam or will pray for the safety of the armed forces. I made a presentation protestants approach to the after an operation something that is quite rare in turkey but it is Parliament Members say the military intervention in africa is actually an invasion in the african area. And there is nor ever sure tread. For the turkish borders and the turkish state some of those who oppose oppression all of rens play what they call turkey is misguided policies in syria for escalating the situation others say this is a move by the government to preserve the nationalist votes in next years election none of them however wanted to speak to us on camera saying they were scared to be framed now this is a concern considering how frayed gyal and polarized turkey is political and why mint has become so numb to sort of aljazeera istanbul Egyptian State media says the countrys security readiness has been raised to its highest level after the military launched an operation against armed groups in the S