A friendly lunch and a rare invitation south koreas leader is asked to visit. The forget the handshake its all about the hug in the palestinian territories indias Prime Minister wraps up a historic visit. Im far is small and our top sports story north and south korea played together on an olympics for the first time a unified womens Hockey Team Begin their pyong chang campaign. Out of their very warm welcome to the news hour we begin with one of the biggest confrontations between israel and the ron in years and thats ended with the dining of an israeli f. Sixteen fighter jet well the jet crashed after coming under fire during a mission inside syria but it landed in israeli territory it all began when israel says it supports a draw in flying in its ear space into set to hit israel says the drone originated from syria and it launched a major air raid in syrian territory in response with its warplanes targeting at least a dozen syrian and iranian basis well syria responded with a barrel of aircraft far thats where the f. Sixteen was done and well among khan has more now from western. In the early hours of saturday morning syrias war escalated to a new level for the first time in thirty years israel lost a fighter jet to anybody. The crush full at the shooting down of the drug israeli army video shows what it says is an iranian drone fly. Towards the northern Golan Heights before it was downed in retaliation of the violation of serenity the Israeli Air Force it twelve targets in syria including the suspected Drone Command Center iranian targets and Syrian Air Defense syria launched surface to air missiles during the israeli raid and says it shot down the f. Sixteen both pilots ejected and parachuted to the israeli side of the border ones critically injured these really Army Spokesman blamed iran for launching the drone its not known if it was armed iran cant aljazeera western slope. Well its not the first time israel hit targets inside syria iran a set military advisors allegedly thousands of its revolutionary guards to help the Syrian Government and the build up of the reigning in assets is that increasingly worrying for israel said a harder explains. This is the Golan Heights territory israel captured from syria in one nine hundred sixty seven the war in syria has brought iran and its allies like the Lebanese ArmedGroup Hezbollah closer to that border israel says that is something it wont tolerate it has reached out to russia an ally of the syrian and iranian governments. Before this was the deal that was signed by netanyahu and put it on the thirtieth of september when netanyahu went to russia in two thousand and fifteen russia will prevent the iranians from Building Bases near the borders with israel this is when the russians entered syria and launched their military operations we have been witnessing israeli air strikes ever since. Israel has struck targets inside syria for years and has had convoys carrying weapons destined for hezbollah arms depots bases clearly with a green light from russia moscow does control the air space the Israeli Air Force was flying challenged until saturday when one of them was shot down by syrian antiaircraft batteries after it struck targets around damascus. The downing of the plane coincided with what some believe is the beginning of a more aggressive strategy to rollback iran rules america are the russians in front of a confrontation with the americans in syria are the americans in front of a possible confrontation with the russians in syria or is there an unannounced deal between the russians and americans to reduce iranian presence in syria. Israel considers russia its guarantor for security along its border with syria they have talked about a buffer zone but israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has said the ceasefire agreement in southern syria didnt address. What he called Iranian Military ambitions israel has repeatedly said it will not allow iran and its allies to entrench themselves militarily in syria and it wont allow syria to become a Forward Operating base against israel not to know who calls them red lines now the Syrian Government and its allies are introducing red lines of their own they say the downing of the israeli jets is a clear message that the days of carrying out attacks in syria are gone russia to both sides is calling for restraint and for serious sovereignty and territorial integrity to be respected it was a serious and dangerous incident the israeli army said it was not a war more than a confrontation for now all sides have taken a step back after making their message clear. Well jimmy is the senior resident scholar at the Arabia Foundation she joins me live from washington d. C. Geneva very warm welcome to the program i wonder what you are taking on israel to this. Presence and of course of the loss of its jet well you have to consider that you know as your reporting indicates the israelis are feeling under enormous pressure because of the iranian buildup in syria and because of hezbollahs presence there because of the revolutionary guards the Iranian Revolutionary guards and this is been going on of course throughout the war in syria but presence has intensified and i think that there is a feeling among the israelis and really among some arab states as well that the iranian involvement in the middle east ok were not just talking about syria were talking about iraq were talking about yemen in lebanon that its reached the point now where action must be taken is there more than a loss of. I dont want to use the word pride but its the word thats coming to mind here geneva you know just how significant is the loss of the jet in itself. Well its very significant because you know again the israelis are feeling under enormous pressure and obviously this isnt the first time the israelis have bombed inside syria theyve done so in recent years and during the war years too so you know we have i think that although all parties including the russians particularly dont want a confrontation among all the states in syria the risk now is that syria is becoming a battleground for so many different parties that have been involved in the syrian conflict including the United States and just last week actually President Trump and his administration and veiled their new syria policy which includes you know u. S. Military presence in syria so were talking about a battlefield where that involves multiple countries with very differing interests in geneva from this particular incident do you suspect that tensions will further escalate i mean of course we are talking about the Golan Heights where you know its a its a long term longstanding area of conflict isnt it. Yes absolutely and i think that we there are other indications of the iranian buildup along the goal line there are indications or in recent months since december of what is becoming sort of a region wide shia Militia Coalition that includes the iranians that include both and they actually marched on the Israeli Border to show this new alliance in december so there is not just been military confrontation there has been a lot of symbolic indications from hezbollah and from iran of this kind of new she coalition that we could actually call a regional shia militia that the iranians apparently want to. Engineer in the middle east to be there from washington d. C. Thank you. Both koreas leader kim jong il and has extended a way or invitation to the south korean j. M. To visit kiln yang and then hosted kim says if it talks in seoul on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics its a good name has more now from kong. In the president ial blue house in the capital seoul relations between the two koreas continued to thaw the meeting had two firsts jiang is the first member of the ruling family to cross into the south since the korean war the sister of the north Korean Leader came with the first ever invitation kim jong un is asking south korean president moon is in to come to pyongyang at a convenient time soon little nuance key president moon said early talks between north korea and the United States are essential to improve relations north korea to be more proactive to move forward to have a dialogue with the United States. Its unclear when that might happen the u. S. And north korea have rebuffed lose attempts so far if an interesting meeting transpires it will be the first time kim jong un has met with the south korean president since assuming power in twenty eleven the last time leaders from the north and south met was eleven years ago during a summit in p. R. Because of all the global attention i believe reunification will be brought forth the government is making efforts and i think people are rooting for it organizers of the olympics say theyve been moved by the diplomatic breakthrough it was quite on the story a moment. And something that as you know the i. O. C. Has been generally working for since probably two thousand and fourteen. And you know i think it is it shows it opens opens the door maybe just a little bit. Critics say they doubt the door will ultimately open much more for now there is hope but the pyong chang Winter Olympics is the catalyst for a reboot into recovery in relations natasha going to aim old zero south korea now it might be all smiles and handshakes between south and north korea but the fiery rhetoric between chung and washington hasnt died down well u. S. Vice president mike pence started his visit to the Winter Olympics saying he only had a message of maximum pressure for pyongyang north korea retorts it saying it had no interest in meeting him either but john chang is a small place and contact is inevitable north Korean Leader kim jong un sister kim jong was seated close to pence of fridays Opening Ceremony but he refused to engage with her or any other north korean official just before he left the games pins tweeted saying the u. S. Would not allow the propaganda charade by north korea to go on challenge then the world can turn a blind eye to the oppression and threats of kim jong uns regime while north korea was quick to respond to that accusing the u. S. Vice president of shameful snobbish behavior. Well for more on this im joined by korea unless aid and force of cossar from exeter hi there aden im guessing youre watching all this activity with interest how much of this is kind of shell bolting in theater and how much of it is about genuinely making some sort of small progress. I think that a great deal of it is about i must say kim jong un and north korea who we dont do is associate with subtlety and charm of play the blind they both come in the last minute well mistaken novoa made themselves the center of attraction politically but that these games and its left to the u. S. Vice president mike pence to look like the grumpy old man standing up for what is the international communitys position so kim jong uns game really is to drive a wedge between the u. S. And south korea and a pension i see keeps reiterating that there is no daylight but i think now that the invitations been made for the summit all kinds of questions arise should mungy him go should he go unconditionally should he insists that north korea should also talk to the u. S. Well those kinds of questions will be vigorously debated i think between the allies and in the south korean media theres a lot of talk right now isnt there about this idea of a reunification although im sure that since distant as ever but that if there was a bit of progress you know at this summit what could that potentially look like. Well in my view not a lot i hate to sound pessimistic and i must say i wish the koreans didnt do is file everything under reunification ratio is a best that the end of an incredibly low road lets talk about reconciliation but even that is difficult because everybodys hands are now tied by a whole raft of u. N. Security Council Resolutions because especially in the last two or three years comptroller and thats been firing off the stick missiles and doing your head tests like theres no tomorrow should be concrete i get it two koreas used to have an Industrial Park together but one of the un resolutions not specifically says no joint ventures with north korea a little new so its hard to see how you get more than symbolic maybe more Sports Cultural stuff but politically unless theres some progress on the Nuclear Issue i dont see this going very far im sorry to say what is the u. S. Perspective coming they. Well its also hard to know because i mean donald trump is this he was well known a president like know all the. Banks policy by tweeting he mostly has sounded awful mareeba sort of strongly coming back strongly against north korea like people remember the playground exchange about whose bottom is big but every now and then we get a different name that he would be prepared to talk to him knowing that theyre trying to work it out on the worrying thing is that what i can gather no one has completely excluded this i wish i would the socalled bloody nose well sure there are some people in the white house did looted today and dangerously who apparently think you could sort of take out one north korean site a little script wouldnt immediately run far in seoul city of ten Million People just across the border they would and that is the worry that that is gripping South Koreans it can foster costs of joining me there from eggs so if you take care this much more to come on the news hour where the shadow of death is never far away we report on the psychological impact the sky high murder rate is having on the people in the mexican city of acapulco after forty years they did the Irish Nationalist Party should face controversial figure gerry adams and the far right i dont support hurricane is the difference or talk now again in the English Premier League. There enter modi has wrapped up the First Official visit by an indian Prime Minister to the palestinian territories is that palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas the trip to the west bank is part of a three nation tour to strengthen ties with the middle east earlier he laid a wreath on the tomb of former Palestinian LeaderYasser Arafat where despite this morning 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 an hour from the Indian Perspective this is a visit aimed they said helping build up palestinian capacity in the Health Technology and education areas there investing in a Technology Park here in ramallah is also a school that the indians have helped form and its a very different to the relationship from from the early relationship decades ago between the indians and the palestinians the indians were the first to record the first non arab state back in one nine hundred eighty eight to recognise the state of palestine and then they view 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 the Turkish Military helicopters been shot down in Northern Syria during an operation against kurdish fighters this video is said to show the helicopter moments before it was done killing two soldiers on board the turkish president. Says it happened near the Southern Province jamal sheil has more from gas and air turkeys border with syria. The downing of this turkish manufactured attack helicopter that was killed to his soldiers is a Significant Development in this three week long but military operation it brings the number of cristal just killed by z y p g Kurdish Militia group to over twenty years far as the serbs are concerned theyve killed at least one hundred fifty kurdish fighters now some advances have been made on the ground in the past twenty four forty eight whereas the Free Syrian Army which is fighting alongside Turkish Military in order to advance towards the y. P. Cipro just stronghold of free and i have managed to capture some villages on the road towards there as far as the turkish army is concerned and the listening to president merchant tehran they will respond the same to those who were behind that attack whats important to note here is that although the. Kurds are sources in th