Aljazeera live from doha also ahead in Northern Syria a turkish Helicopter Shot down as ankara as offensive against Kurdish Forces continues. Talks on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics south koreas leader is invited to visit the north. And indias Prime Minister wraps up an historic visit to the palestinian territories. The dining of an israeli fighter jet by Syrian Forces has raised tensions across the region the israeli f. Sixteen was on a mission inside syria targeting what israel says are iranian bases there now the planes wreckage and pilots in israeli territory it all began when israel says it intercepted an iranian drone flying in its airspace israel says the drone came from syria it responded with a major air raid in syrian territory targeting what it claims are in. Iranian bases on the way back from the mission israeli jets came under syrian antiaircraft fire and thats when the f. Sixteen was hit israeli jets then launched another cross border air raid hitting twelve Syrian Government and iranian targets its believed to be israels most significant attack against syria since one nine hundred eighty two imran khan reports now from west jerusalem. 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 enemy fire as israel confirmed Syrian Air Defense shot at one of its f. Sixteen fighter jets the israeli Prime Minister was blunt israel iran and its. Responsible for todays aggression we will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security the crash followed the shooting down of a drone israeli army video shows what they say is the iranian drone flying towards the northern Golan Heights before it was downed in retaliation Israeli Air Force at targets in syria including the suspected Drone Command Center iranian targets and Syrian Air Defense syria alone surface to air missiles during these really raid and says it shot down the f. Sixteen which crashed in northern israel at the hands of. The syrian Political Leadership took a decision at the highest level to face decisively any Israeli Military aircraft over therion in space today syria did what it promised by down in israeli plane and striking at other planes this is clear for syria it is the decisive decision to confront the Israeli Air Force and its careless behavior. Both pilots ejected and parachuted to these race side of the border one is critically injured the Israeli Army Spokesman said it was wrong it was behind the launch of the drawing but didnt say whether it was armed or not the iranians have reacted theyve said that they are going to stand with syria against any fullish and. By israel the russians have also reacted saying that israel needs to respect syrian the slate state sovereignity also what were hearing is that the israelis want to send a strong message to the russians to get iran out of the region imran khan aljazeera westra slim mike hanna has more now on washingtons response to saturday mornings incident but despite irans denial that it was responsible for the drone incursion the state department appears to be convinced that iran is to blame for this round of combat that weve seen emerge over the course of this particular day a state Department Spokesperson has released a statement saying and i quote irans calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project power places the entire region at risk from she says yemen to lebanon once again from state department we also heard that israel has a right to defend itself a similar statement coming out of the pentagon which also stated very clearly that u. S. Played no role whatsoever in israels combat operations at targets within syria so from the u. S. What you are Hearing Support for israel not surprising but at the same time there appears to be a degree of concern about the further ramifications of the conflict thats emerged in the course of the day when carl was Deputy NationalIntelligence Officer for Trans National threats at the cia a earlier my colleague Richelle Carey spoke to him but the downing of the israeli jets she began by asking him whether it was just a matter of time before Something Like this happens again. We all have heard of murphy that the murphys law if something can go wrong it will and thats not a joke when you have at least twelve different major actors militaries involved in with overlapping alliances and resentments and objectives all of which conflict the slightest error and there will be many errors everyday by radar readers or pilots or men on the ground as soldiers on the ground or civilian leaders. Who will only have instance to respond to what appears to be a threat and sometimes even in good faith you will get things wrong the likelihood of an error like that and therefore a disaster is very high in probably the most dangerous place on the earth the ice is a hideous is a hideous phenomenon and its good that they are being and have largely been destroyed the larger strategic issue may be even worse because that could involve major war with iran russia saudi arabia United States israel iraq syria turkey and on and on all of whom have overlapping interests in conflicting interests right there thats the real problem so what will it take is the Million Dollar question for this this what has happened now in particular not to spiral out of control is a distant matter of will is that a matter of choices it is i think the most important actors in this moment i would say our intel of even in tehran and tehran was saying very selfserving things with that we just heard of course because they are the ones who are changing have changed the strategic equation by placing the missiles there that is a qualitatively different circumstance for israel and in the region that extends irans influence in iran is as netanyahu said and im no defender particularly of netanyahu but as he said iran has not changed its position of hostility to israel. And so the response to avoid conflict is not to have a conflict but that takes tremendous forbearance and politically is quite difficult in particular i think for netanyahu given his own pressures domestically from the right wing of his coalition who will not take kindly to gentle response to a rainy in extension of its power and its a military helicopter has been shot down in Northern Syria during an operation against kurdish fighters this video is said to show the helicopter the moments before it was hit for and killing two soldiers on board the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces say its fight says shut down the aircraft but he says the cause is still unclear a total of eleven soldiers were killed in the fighting on saturday making it the deadliest day for the countrys forces as they began the campaign in a fire in last month jamal sheil is in gas and he had close to the border with turkey and syria. The downing of this turkish manufactured attack helicopter that was killed through this is a Significant Development in this three week long military operation that brings the number of talkers soldiers killed by the wire p. G. Kurdish Militia Group through over twenty years far as the clerics 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 hours the Free Syrian Army which is fighting alongside Turkish Military in order to advance towards the y. P. G. Produce from hold of our free and i have managed to capture some villages on the road towards there as far as the turkish army is concerned and listening to president they will respond the thing to go through well behind that attack whats important to note here is that although the. Kurdish sources in the white p. G. Can. In that the Turkish Military has killed civilians in its operation ankara denies that basically the reason why this operation is ongoing its possible they wanted to is precisely because they have been trying to of rights and the death of innocent civilians them there have been reports that the y. P. G. And the p y b thats the political wing of the Kurdish Militia have actually been cards from other towns and cities to use them as human shields the kurdish officials there would say actually this is just the natural response of the kurdish population in order to protect their town against what they see as a foreign aggression. Three weeks now in through Operation Olive Branch and it does seem as i say to be steady advances made by the target and the Free Syrian Army towards our freedom but this downing over helicopter will be sure to incur the wrath of the targets military the north Korean Leader kim jong un has extended a rare invitation to the south korean president to go to pyongyang hosted kim system for talks in seoul on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics especially good m. Has more from cold. 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 mungy in to come to pyongyang at a convenient time soon little know its key president moon said early talks between north korea and the United States are essential to improve relations here just 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 shows it opens opens the door maybe just a little bit critics say they doubt that door will ultimately open much more for now the there is hope that the chang Winter Olympics is the catalyst for a reboot in intercourse and relations natasha going to aim el jazeera south korea thousands of empty fascist demonstrators have rallied in the italian city of much of the six africans were injured in a drive by shooting a week ago schools and shops in the city were closed on public transport suspended over fears the march could trigger violence a far right sympathizer being held by the Police Suspected of carrying out the attack and the racism rallies also took place in rome milan and. It comes less than a month before National Elections with far right parties expected to make a strong showing any of us here out of his Research Analyst at the think tank open europe he says many parties or political movements its only of being wrongly labeled as far right. The far right and in general deeds entire idea of fascist revival in italy shouldnt be exaggerated the far right is definitely quite strong now a days in in italy but i believe especially abroad there is a tendency to generalize and put a lot of parties into the same box which is not necessarily the case for it on what is definitely a far right and to some extent a fascist movement but for someone used to be a separatist and originalist party now under the leadership of mark there salvini as was rebranded the party moved much more towards the far right positions but the five Star Movement that many times abroad disputing the same box as these other parties is therefore not a far right Movement Still ahead here on aljazeera after forty years leading the Irish Nationalist Party shouldnt think the controversial figure gerry adams was the reins of power to the new generation. And desperate to get out of it as well as neighbors a tightening border control. By the springtime flowering of a mountain lake. To the first snowfall on a winters day. And there is still quite cold for many of us in the southeastern parts of china the temperatures in shanghai during the day all too bad theyre getting to around seven or nine degrees but at night theyre still dropping below freezing so certainly feeling very cool for us for the south and for hong kong will be around nineteen generally theres not a great deal of cloud around the coast there but head down towards the philippines a formal cloud here on monday thanks to an approaching storm so we keeping a close eye on not over the next few days thats not going to reach us until tuesday though so for the time being its actually being quite quiet of course. Philippines is the far more clout further south borneo and across job wrong all the way here and plenty more rain still to come as we head through the next couple of days towards the west while its largely quite quiet weather wise here stretching from thailand all the way down through k. L. And singapore theres a good chance of seeing plenty of dry weather over the next few days as we head across towards india you can see the cloud is snaking its way across bangladesh and into nepal thats not really giving us a very active weather is just been high cloud mostly were seeing some more active weather work its way across the northern parts now this across the northern parts of india it is giving us some heavy snow more still to come as we head into monday there with sponsored by qatar and hes. What makes this movement this era were living through so unique this is really an attack on its itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion even of what free speech is supposed to be about the context its hugely important to have a right to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provoke its all about it as people did setting the stage for a serious debate. Up front at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back lets just update your top story so far this russia and the us say they are concerned after israel launched a second series of it strikes in syria when one of its f. Sixteen fighter jets were shot down by president assads forces the strikes targeted government and alleged iranian assets inside syria. North Koreas Kim Jong moon has invited the south. Korean president to pyongyang for talks to kim sr so on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics. And thousands of demonstrators have rallied against racism in the italian city of much of a week after six africans were shot by a far right sympathizer protesters warned of a revival of neo fascist sentiments during the campaign for next months National Elections. The Irish Republican Party shin fein has elected a new leader to replace gerry adams who announced he was stepping down in November Mary lou mcdonald says shes committed to pushing for a United Ireland but has not been reports now from dublin she has more immediate challenges mean taking over from a man she calls a political giant Mary Lou Mcdonald paid tribute to gerry adams who became shin fein president when she was a teenager and he was instrumental in Northern Irelands Peace Process that led to the good friday agreement two decades ago he has defined politics on the science for a generation or more and when others said it was impossible gerry and Martin Mcguinness along with john hume and others bravely walked the path to peace macdonald and out of his have been involved in talks on reconvening Northern Islands devolved government which broke down a year ago shin fein which shared power with the unionist do you once movement on issues such as Irish Language rights of the removed i mean really facing us. The war is not over there is no matter your anger and anguish and again we dont have to agree on the past the reason youre seeing other historical hires. We will see how we can really. Is never again he says i think we can agree to disagree like mcdonald the partys new deputy leader Michel Oneill represents a Younger Generation of activists hoping to get shin fein into government on both sides of the border. This conference represents not just the ha