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ALJAZAM Weekend News June 22, 2024

And Virtual Reality and Computer Games are helping to Treat Mental Health issues. Well be live with our correspondent in russia with reaction to the qualifying games. The saudi coriggs said it will stop bombing of yemen to allow for the delivering of aid. However they warned they would respond to any houthi aggression during the ceasefire. We need a better process. Were seeing different efforts in terms of bringing every together, but were missing one where everyone is there i think everyone underground is exhaust exhausted. The population is in dire situation. We have several colleagues from Doctors Without Borders helping those around the country. But it is extremely difficult to work under the circumstances. As i mentioned. The block block aids make it difficult. The most acutely hit areas like taiz like aden, like saada are often off limits due to the airstrikes that happen. Were looking at a ways weve seen many civilian infrastructure damage. Water, electricity there are a lot of remote locations. We talk about the cities but we should not forget about all the different villages all across the country. These villages are difficult to reach even in the best of times. The fuel shortage in country makes it very difficult to reach right now. This is only possible if there is a lasting ceasefire and if the blockade is stopped and we cannot emphasize this enough. Well, the acting representative for the u. N. s childrens fund. Thank you for being with us. Is it your understanding that the various groups have signed up for this . What are you hearing on the ground . We on the ground announced by the request. Well wait and see what it holds, we have a Response Team ready for the holding. What is going to be in your Response Plan . There is an Ongoing Program but which havent had access. Wellwe will we will try to bring medical supplies to. We hope to expand rapidly and continue. Geremi hopkins. I think well have to leave it there because the line is very bad. Thank you for updating us on the response that the u. N. Childrens fund will have when the ceasefire does take place if it is, indeed, implemented. Turkey has launched more air raids against the Islamic State in iraq and the levant in syria and against kurdish fight necessary iraq. In the latest of a campaign that ban on friday. The campaign has expanded to iraq belonging to the curd stance Workers Party or the pkk. This puts an end to the fragile ceasefire. From southern turkey,. Turkey is at war on two fronts. Its jets are now hitting targets across the border in iraq and syria. A day after beginning an air campaign against isil and syria turkish jets for the first time in years began hitting pkk or kurdistan Workers Party positions in iraqs mountains. The pkk immediately declared the already strained 2013 ceasefire with turkey dead. Turkish officials are not phased and talk about a longterm fight. Whenever we see a decrees or the vanishing of the threat then of course well make a reassessment. The third wave of operations are a part of this. This is a major shift in policy. For turkey isil declared war when it bombed a Cultural Center in the border town on monday. But many here believe turkeys decision to actively engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the battlefield in northern syria. The governments here is concerned about isil threatening Syrian Opposition groups in their strongholds in aleppo province. It is also worried about what it sees as the growing strength of syrias kurds. Syria as kurds or the ypg linked to the pkk now controls more than half of the 800 kilometer border with turkey. Turkey said it would an red line if kurds create a state in northern syria. Officials even blamed u. N. Airstrikes. Now there are those who believe that the deal addresses concerns. Turkey does not want the ypg to take mortar tore. The u. S. Supported the kurds. But now the u. S. And turkey are working together to clear aleppo from isil. Turkeys fear is that syrian kurds or isil could drive out Syrian Opposition groups from aleppo and control the important Border Crossing of kilis. It is no coincidence that turkish jets that target isil are close to the kurdish rebels. The Peace Process that stop a decades long pkk movement seems to have officially ended and police have officially conducted raids against pkk and isil sympathyers. It seems that the government believes that they they will try to destabilize turkey from within. Near the turkeysyrian border with this update. A major shift in strategy now turkey going after isil targets in syria and pkk targets in northern iraq. Turkey today effectively lumping isil and the pkk together officials here today saying that both those groups comprise a huge terrorist threat to the domestic security of turkey. Now Prime Minister gave a call to the president of Iraqi Kurdistan in which the Prime Minister said that so long as pkk kept attacking turkey, that turkey would take any measures necessary to protect itself from that threat. This is a huge shift in strategy. For a long time turkey has resisted getting further involved in getting into conflicts here in the region especially when it comes to syria. Now turkey finds itself involved in a twoprong attack. At a time when this region particularly is fraught with so much tension between the Kurdish Community and the turkish government. Now the Kurdish Community continues to say that they have believe that turkeys government is more insistent upon countering the advances of custodyish fighters in this region than they are in countering the advances of isil fighters. Of course, turkeys government has adamantly denied that. They call those claims nefarious lies. Now pkk officials were definitive. They came out and said that the unilateral actions in turkey in bombing those pkk encampments meant that the Peace Process was over. The turkey not nearly as definitive. Turkey officials suggest that Peace Process could perhaps condition. Now people were speaking with, especially members of the Kurdish Community in this region on the border of syria very worried about what lies ahead in the days to come. Elsewhere isil fighters say they have set off two trunk bombs. These pictures show smoke following the attacks. In u. K. The observatory for human rights say that people were killed but has not said how many. Earlier they captured parts from isil which it used to funnel supplies to its territory. Iraqi army said 77 soldiers and shia militiamen have been killed in Anbar Province. It has been killed in the fight for control of anbar and fallujah. Fighting along shia militias to push isil out. Soldiers on the outskirts of the fallujah have suffered casualties. They are isil are using suicide bombers to push them back. On friday the Ministry Said that the army killed a number of isil fighters and evacuated houses safely detonating 70 bombs. Two years since isil emerged in the region the armed group controls most of Anbar Province and iraqs second biggest city of mosul. A few days ago 3,000 iraqi soldiers trained by u. S. Coalition in iraq joined to retake ramadi for the first time. The Coalition Airstrikes in fallujah purposely hit cars to detonate explosives that were inside, and theyll continue to target force to help the Iraqi Security force operation and to protect civilians. Caroline malone, al jazeera. U. S. President and his kenyan counterpart wrapped up a day signing security agreements with a show of unity. Standing side by side barack obama commended president kenyatta for his efforts to root out corruption. The summit is about young entrepreneur, business start ups and invests in kenya. The government also has a role in creating the transparency, the rule of law and the ease of doing business and anticorruption agenda that creates a platform for people to succeed. The u. S. Driven Initiative Comes at a time when chinas heavily investing in africa. Trade between china and the continent have been rising swiftly and is now said to be three times the amount of trade between u. S. And africa. In this new p paradigm we cannot forward afford the old language of east versus west. As for kenya were firmly and irreversebly aligned to progress. Here is all about networking and political in the presence of president obama is an endorsement of kenya to the business world. All of this is not lost. Many kenyas are outside of the summit are proud. They too have expectations. This man hopes for economic growth. Truly the u. S. Is with our country, and therefore them help us in solving our countrys problems. President obama and kenyatta also hold talks. But obama also had a message of against us. As an africanamerican in the United States im painfully aware of the lift of what happens when people are treated differently under the law. The two leaders talked of strengthening ties between theirs countries, but analysts say its more about rebuilding a strained relationship after president kenyatta and his deputy were indicted by the International Criminal court for crimes against humanity. This followed kenyas 2007 post election violence where 1,000 people were killed. Kenyattas charges have since been dropped. Lets go to catherine soi. Youve been talking to people there. How have they been reacting to obamas visit . People here, lauren, are very excited, theyre very proud. Any kenyan we talk to will say that this was a long time coming. Theyre saying that this is a son of kenya and theyre very proud to be here. But there is a disappointment by kenyans because of the security challenges they would like to come out in big numbers and give a rousing welcome to president obama, a welcome befitting him the welcome the kenyan way. They would like to see what hell offer. What his presence here means to the country. What his presence means in terms of funding in terms of deals that hes going to bring as well. Theyre saying that he is a visitor, and visitors in the african context bring gifts bring blessings and theyre waiting to see what gift hes going to give, and how hes going to engage with kenya after his presidency, and they would like to see more of him post his presidency as well. Lauren let me just talk about an issue that has raised a lot of controversy here in kenya. Thats the issue of gay rights. A lot of kenyans in weeks proceeding this obama visit have said they do not want him to talk about the issue of gay rights but it was an issue raised at a joint press conference that was held with president kenyatta, and president obama said that really an affront to human rights, humans and freedoms must be respected but president kenyatta said of gay rights, this is a nonissue that there are more pressing priorities for kenya. He said that the government cannot impose on kenyans what they do not accept, lauren. Catherine soi, thank you very much indeed. Still ahead on al jazeera, desperate conditions for syrians displaced by the fighting between isil and the Kurdish Forces. And a look at the press in hong kong as we take a look at the state of Civil Liberties in the Asian Pacific region. And chris froome with the Tour De France success. Well have all the details in sport. Its been three months since nepals earthquake disaster. Almost 9,000 people were killed and 22,000 others were injure homes and businesses were flattened by more than 4,000 schools damaged or destroyed giving leaving children without access to education. So far 3. 8 billion has been pledged to help nepal rebuild the country. Considering himself lucky. He injured his leg during airports earthquake and was treated in the capital. He only returned to his village two weeks ago but then his leg became infected. I was having problems with my leg. This mobile health team said to go to headquarters immediately for treatment. They said that there were foreign doctors there, and it was closer than going all the way to kathmandu. But getting there was not easy. His family had to carry him for hours until they manage to get a vehicle to bring him the rest of the way. With the District Hospital still damaged these tents operated by the red cross provide basic and even surgical medical care for people near and far. We had one woman who would walk for two full days from sunrise to sunset. Theyre still seeing earthquakerelated cases but the number of patients who come from distant areas depend on the weather. Less people are coming. That is a huge peak. We had a peak of 51 almost 160 people coming. Thats because the district headquarters proper medical care is hard to come by, and even hard for travel to. Now bud slides have added to the obstacle to get to the hospitalerhospital for treatment or for treatment to get to them we came to this picturesque village. Hours damage after the quake still visible. Forcing patients and the only doctor here how to use tents. It is not safe in the hospital, we refer most cases to the district headquarters. The upside since the earthquake weve been getting more medicine sent to us. The goal is to rebuild 60 to 80 health posts damaged by the earthquake. But many of the role districts across the country are in a similar state. And like here healthcare is just one of many things that need rebuilding. Al jazeera nepal. Joining me in studio is tracy shields a Child Protection expert, thank you for coming in to talk to us. We see some of the problems still in general, but what about the children in general particular. What are they facing. Well, they have asked for their thoughts and experiences and what has it been for the last three months for them, the exceptions and recommendations and overwhelmingly the three things to talk about are shelter. Theyre concerned with where theyre staying every night. If theyre sleeping under corrugated iron. They want to go back to school. Schools that are not there any more. And sanitation and access to clean water and health, losing friends, family, schools temples, the our that another earthquake could happen. They look at kids and what their experiences are right now and what theyre thinking in the future. Certainly from other events that have happened we know that trafficking, particularly women and girls can be increased. So the immediate concern for that. The government shut down borders. They were controlling orphanages that are coming up. There is Strong Border control happening. 500 cases have been prevented in the trafficking of children. You know, kids say they werent sure they were going to some of the right places. Some said that they prefer to get more toys and Different Things than the things that were arriving. Its very important to take into consideration, and at vision one we make sure that things are going there once we distribute supplies we go back and have a record that it has reached the most vulnerable in the different districts in nepal. There are accountability offices. They make sure they tell the population what is coming in, when its arriving and they take feedback to the project areas to make sure there is that continued conversation of those who are receiving things and those delivering things. And it takes on board the concern. Over the past five years it Freedom House said that Asia Pacific Region has 4 billion people. But only 5 have what is considered to be a free press taiwan japan. We have reports now from hong kong about how how the media operates there. Setting the agenda the daily editorial meeting for hong kongs online newspapers. They say theyre trying to provide an alternative voice. It broke records in its Online Fundraising campaign reflecting immense Public Interest but already its facing hurdles. We have been hindered somewhat that we have not been allowed access. Its a problem becoming more problem. The protests last year exposed the governments reluctance to the media and proved to be a risky time for journalists. Cant get information. But they were physically attacked, life threatening attacks. They would help to come compile the index. Freedom of expression is given by law but International Watchdogs say that hong kong has hit an in low ranking 70th out of 180 countries surveyed. 13 years ago hong kong was among the top 20 countries for press freedom. Hong kongs media is in turmoil. This month alone three longstanding chinese publications are shutting down due to online competition and funding issues. Hong kongs oldest television station will stop broadcasting next year. And theyre closing some publications after loseing advertising. Somebody has to try to find a way to survive. The internet is eating everybodys lunch but nobody knows how to get the internet to make lunch. The editors say that theyre still finding their voice but to survive the site will have to resonate with the public and soon. Its only had enough funding to operate until the end of next year. Al jazeera hong kong. Still ahead on the news hour aid agencies come together to find new ways to save lives of new mourn babies and fifa president sepp blatter meets one of his greatest allies. Details on that later in sport. Wave reminder of the top stories. Saudi Coalition Forces have announced a pause in in military action in yemen to allow for aid distribution. Turkey has launched a new wave of airstrikes against isil fight necessary syria and pkk in northern iraq. Pkk said that the government ended the twoyearold pe

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