Arrests and detentions in india protesters against the controversial law accuse police of using excessive force. So the United Nations is warned of devastating consequences for civilians in syrias last rebel held province when 235000 people have fled the area in the past 2 weeks i made a renewed government offensive parts of it led have been on the daily aerial bombardment by russian backed Syrian Forces but the u. N. Says a shortage of fuel and volatile security situation is limiting movement out of the area those fleeing are also faced with bitter winter temperatures. There it is on the map many of them heading north of course towards the Turkish Border but the turkish president has warned his country cant cope with another influx of refugees from italy province russian backed Syrian Government forces theyre now focusing on tap during the rebel held city of matan man that area is key for damascus it sits on an important motorway which links the capital to aleppo once syrias largest city. It has more now from the mud out on them on the standard how to get. You can see civilians fleeing displacement from modern phenomenon continues same with socket city both are now empty of president s and all the surrounding villages was noteworthy is that the airstrikes have stopped in the last 2 days because of the bad weather to look like there may have been some civilians drones flying over the area but there hasnt been any shelling still the civil unions are fully in a must because of the fear of defensive there are no civilians not even birds. While turkish authorities have closed their border to Syrian Refugees fleeing the violence mohammed joe has more on that from the archaea in turkey. Most of these people have. Fled their homes heading to cities such as set our kids on the cup with all of the province others have gone to government. But the last. Month from the 80 s. Where the city and the forces have been. Most. Toxic. And strategic city that sits on the m 5 which assads forces are really keen to take from the rebels they have most of them come to the border and. Any of the Syrian Refugees to all of the comps are also fool so they are mostly in the open something up mix shift you know depending on Turkish Charities giving them warm food but they do not offer proposed that it to show or. Any other amenities will have a set up but come. With us on skype David Swanson hes the United Nations regional spokesman for the Syrian Crisis david lets stay with the turkish side of things for a moment if if the turkish authorities are close their side of the border to Syrian Refugees what does that mean for a large hundreds of thousands of people where can they go. Well this is obviously for us a very worrying Development Turkey has in the past and continues to be an incredibly generous host to the Syrian Refugees after almost 9 years of conflict hosting more than 3000000 people and do we continue to hope that the situation will improve at the moment right now the vast majority of the people being displaced in the area are moving northward are in northern italy and to urban areas. Close to the Turkish Border. And whats what are they going to i mean we talk about refugee camps of the silicates what is able what is able to be supplied to them by the United Nations and by other groups well as you can guess the situation on the ground continues to me quite fluid what makes it particularly difficult is as your reporter said we had an earlier figure of 235000 people being displaced that figure has now already increased were looking at. Devon sorry i hope you can still hear us but we cant actually hear you already cut out for a 2nd there. Yeah we cant go back to david just now unfortunately we will move on to some other news though an airliner which has crashed on takeoff and killing at least 15 people the back jet came down the airport smashing through a wall before hitting a house rescue as of worked in freezing temperatures to reach the 98 people on board were from the. Emergency crews calm the wreckage of the airliner torn in half the main body of the back barely recognizable its ria resting in a field the flight had just taken off from airport bound for the capital now soltani survivors say passengers screamed as the plane started shaking then tilted before smashing into a concrete faints and slamming into a 2 story house raisky has worked in subzero temperatures to save dozens of injured including 8 children see what you know we found 2 sets of skid marks from the back of the plane on the runway maining it touched it twice and mostly those passengers at the front of the aircraft were the ones who died in flight recorders have been found and have been brought in for inspection nobody will be left without state support we will provide the needed help to the families of the victims and the injured president kasim caiaphas formed a Government Commission and says anyone responsible for the crash will be in his words severely punished hes also declared a day of National Mourning on saturday because the plane itself is so rugged and well built that they are in very high demand. And its very difficult to get a good for 100 to die. Their life seems to go on because if they will mine time and theyve got a very long structural lot the governments ordered the airline to ground its fleet of dutch built jets which are more than 20 years old only flights have been suspended until crash investigations can work out how this happened brian al jazeera. Sky back to our story on the Syrian Refugees 230000 up and leaving the country at the moment weve got David Swanson back on skype United Nations regional spokesman for the Syrian Crisis david thanks for coming back we when we lost or you were talking about what these people can actually go to if i can cross the border into turkey they go into other areas what is grazing and. Well whats particularly challenging for members of the humanitarian community is that as you can imagine the situation on the ground is quite fluid and most of the people moving northward close to the Turkish Border and where they are trying to receive assistance the difficult part for us is that many of the aid workers and n. G. O. S themselves that were on the ground have themselves and their families been caught up in the violence they they themselves have also been displaced so its a particularly difficult situation in many of the ngo partners at had to suspend their operations and move northward into the areas to receive displaced people as they arrive and i guess the weather is making things pretty difficult as well absolutely winter and winter temperatures can be quite cold in this area and theres a dire need for humanitarian assistance particularly in the areas of shelter trying to get my head around all these numbers you know the headline weve been talking about today is 235000 in just 2 weeks i mean thats extraordinary isnt it a quarter of a 1000000 people adding on to. So many hundreds of thousands more all of her probably being displaced from other parts of the country just tell us a bit about the scale of this now sure i mean actually the figures have actually been increasing as we speak right now the figure that we now have is more than 204243000 people women children and men have been displaced between the 1st of december and the 25th of december ok upwards of 80 percent of nys Population Group are women and children now this comes on top of the displacement figures that we had from the end of april to the end of august where more than 400000 people have been displaced so what we have is a displacement crisis on top of another displacement crisis this area is home to scurry 4000000 people there who are 1000000 people in this area and more than half of them are i. D. P. s themselves extraordinary David Swanson thanks for talking to us david is the uns regional spokesman for the Syrian Crisis. Now a runaway ship in turkey has closed one of the worlds busiest waterways. Something its not nervous motorists watching is that fraser ran aground in istanbul mechanical failure is being blamed for the mishap in the bosphorus the famous Narrow Strait reopened when the ship was towed away for repentance. Iraqs political standoff is continuing after president bottom salo refused to approve the nomination of assad other than the as present Prime Minister his nomination by iraqs largest political bloc as further afield the antigovernment protests dozens of hours into the square on friday vandalizing posters of l. A. Danny they praised president saleh for saying hed rather resign than approve downeys appointment demonstrators are demanding an independent candidate and we want to honor as Prime Minister and depend on our door citizenship we want to generate iraqi official who can feel our pain who can relate to us someone who doesnt have any loyalty to others. As a protester i see it as a her weak action by the president of the republic but humps because he rejected one of the can do this from the political blocs because that candidate was rejected by the protesters in Tahrir Square the political elite havent done anything in the past 6 years and their want to be any think of the future is the same names for me. As far as they do about him and that the yahoo has thanked his the could policy members then promised to lead them to an election victory after fending off a leadership challenge as rival gideon hope to convince members it was time for a change but the stuck with netanyahu despite his indictment for corruption thats going on with this from western wisdom. For the 1st time in 5 years likud members had the chance to elect someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu as their leader on thursday they chose him again solidifying his nickname as the magician because of his ability to pull off victory after victory netanyahu campaigned heavily to beat his challenger former interior and Education Minister gideon sar so theres money does this is the time to unite to bring a sweeping victory to the liquid and the right to the knesset elections most of the people support the right and most of the people support me to lead a government but the final decision in the primaries the final and sweeping primaries decision was a huge expression of trust in my way and alway even though netanyahu is the 1st sitting Prime Minister to be indicted on corruption charges his popularity has remained steady among his right wing base a feeling. Sars that tactics of sitting on the bench and not trying to do anything active in in the public fields is wrong i prefer people who take action. Source pitch to voters is that netanyahu failed to form a government twice why would he be able to reach a different outcome a 3rd time he warned maintaining the status quo could mean likud loses power in National Elections in march. Sars supporters cited concerns over the corruption charges trailing netanyahu charges he calls a politically motivated witchhunt the sar camp has also alleged. Election meddling and voter intimidation but theres a bit in going to take a moment in the democracy from within the party and generally in the newsroom israel is in the midst of an unprecedented political crisis netanyahu has until january 1st to ask the knesset to grant him immunity hell need a 61 majority vote he was unable to get that same number of seats to form a government in the last 2 elections and on tuesday the Supreme Court is expected to rule if an indicted sitting Prime Minister is allowed to form a government natasha going to. West jerusalem. Now protest as of march through the indian capital new delhi to protest a controversial new citizenship law which critics say is anti muslim protesters was symbolic handcuffs they chanted slogans calling Prime Minister and the runner modis government a dictatorship 25 people have died in the bonds and from legislation passed 2 weeks ago and at least 1500 have been arrested in 98 go might be. Innocent brothers and sisters who are locked up immediately released along with that these play clues like the citizenship of the bit and the National Register of citizens need to be immediately withdraw. More from elizabeth per annum who was among the protesters. Police a detaining any protesters who come to look there for their house here in the capital new delhi theyve imposed a ban on public gatherings no more than 4 people are allowed to gather but there detaining anyone who comes even if they come on their own there are also protests taking place elsewhere in new delhi and of our own food for the film by in the now and in how much it if each be the citizenship you know it was cost and Rights Groups say police on to alone people to protest peacefully and when protests do take place that theyre being broken up with indiscriminate and excessive foules protests to say they will continue until at least until the Supreme Court hears petitions against the sos and ship your next month. Still have your knowledge is there a germanys social democrats are attempting to revive their Popular Support and feature on what hes been and putting together why communities in lebanon say they rely on each other not the government suffice. Hello again its good to have you back well we are going to see an increase of rain here across parts of china as well as into taiwan over the next few days saturday is going to be a good day were going to be seeing a lot of sun across hong kong with attempted there of 21. 00 but really as we go towards sunday notice the increase of rain anywhere from hong kong to go over here towards taipei as well temperatures are coming down we do expect to see a chilly and rainy day in hong kong with about 1000 degrees there well for india the northern part of india we are talking about of course the winter has been sitting in very hard across much of the region i want to show you some video across much of the region this is job the visibility is coming down with very dense fog temperatures only reaching to about minus 4 to about minus 3 degrees and overnight its into the minus double to Single Digits its a very cold very stagnant air across much of the area were going to be seeing much of the same over the next few days new delhi a little chilly for you as well with the terms of their of about 60 degrees down towards the south though finally were getting a break from that very heavy rain that was also affecting parts of sri lanka up towards kolkata though it is going to be a partly cloudy day with attempt a few up 22. 00 degrees and then very quickly across the gulf we are going to be watching an increase of rain across parts of somalia with attempted there of 27. 00 degrees and as we go towards sunday more heavy rain across the region. Almost the last time you out on the streets testing whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every level or layer further and further into the jail oh if you join us on sand and she has to start from day one whether again youre in detention or your own car suppose this is a dialogue everyone has a voice so for there to stay 6 oclock oclock all right will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on how does iraq. This is al jazeera and these are the top stories this hour the United Nations warning of devastating consequences for civilians in syrias last rebel held problems of more than 235000 people the fact that area last weeks. New government offensive. People been killed in kazakhstan after an airliner crashed shortly after takeoff that backed jets smashed through a wall before hitting a house and almaty with 98 passengers and crew. And iraqs Anti Government protesters have praised president bottom siler for rejecting the nomination of assad as the new Prime Minister deepening political standoff to spark more protests in baghdads to square. To lebanon now which has been without a government for 2 months while political deadlock is not rare this one comes at a critical time the economy is near collapse and the lebanese are now relying on themselves to survive the crisis which has been described as the worst in decades with this report now from beirut at least 7 people a day are depending on the generosity of one woman to eat it to their bottle expects that number to rise as lebanons economy continues to collapse her bakery is offering free bread to the poor dont leave your family hungry is what this find reads this is one of many initiatives by lebanese who are trying to help each other as at the day a young girl asked me if she could buy half a sandwich for the 500. 00 lebanese pounds she had that struck me i realized how people are desperate and hungry my daughters told me why dont you help people and that is what im doing now poverty is on the rise and so is unemployment lebanon has been without a government for weeks. Politicians are bargaining over power instead of implementing much needed reforms to unlock billions of dollars in foreign aid. The dire Economic Situation is the result of bad economic policies of previous governments their policies failed theres been a lot of corruption in theyve stolen money from the states the economic crisis isnt its been building up there are now more cases of lebanese becoming homeless because. They no longer can afford rent she brought her family to this square in central bei