the eu needs turkey now more than ever. is the turkey-eu deal a fair one? fear can mean many things. dilek kurban, you sit on the eu commission's independent network of experts. if they came to you for advice, what would you tell them? would you say this is not a fair deal? i have -- what i would say is what i have been saying all along over the years. it is not fair. when you read the statement, there's only one reference to media and they say the discussed the situation of the media. the eu leaders could have done much better at least to add something about their concern about media freedom in turkey. melinda: given the fact that turkey has just shut down a major newspaper. dilek: who is going to make that determination? -- ay has atria graphical geographical reservation to the geneva convention. whooesn't consider anybody comes from countries east of turkey as refugees. only 10% of refugees in turkey are in refugee camps. there are reports of exploitation of syrian children in sweatshops. schooling rates are very low. towards thebe fair kurdish refugees

additional money for refugee camps inside turkey. turkey wants to double that money. in a draft resolution already leaked, the e.u. seems to be willing to provide that sort of financial support. brent: we are talking about 6 billion euros ingres -- ankara is asking of the european union. the one person orchestrating what we are seeing in brussels is the german chancellor. she has invested a lot of energy and political capital. earlier, she stayed up until 2:30 the morning talking with the prime minister of turkey. what is at stake for her tonight? >> two things. first of all, she sees the refugee crisis as an x this until threat to europe -- existential threat to europe. she feels a personal responsibility because as a christian democratic chancellor, she follows in the footsteps of great european leaders. she is very committed to seeing the european union makes it way through the crisis and does not break down on her watch. that is one side. the other side is domestic politics. her party has traditionally said we will not allow the rise of any party to the right of u

the eu is going to try make sure that turkey meets their demands, that turkey really invests the money that they may be getting in the right ways, that they really try to do more to contain the crisis. but so far everything that they've done hasn't stemmed the flow and it's going to be very difficult weefn a even with an d amount of money to make sure this flow stops. >> thank you very much, mohammed jamjoom, at the departure point of many who are leaving turkey coming to europe. >>> many are trapped awaiting the outcome of the summit. >> translator: we're expecting the best and that they open the gate and leave these people in. people are tired. some people are sick and have children some do not have any more money left and some are being sent back because of the name of their cities. >> translator: we hope that they open the instigate and end this ridiculous situation. yesterday, people had a fight over wood. look it hit me in the face. look at it. they had a fight over wood! >> many of those stranded in greece are at the border point with macedonia. the humanitarian crisis made wors

say that turkey has already spend more than 10 billion euros for the refugees in turkey and turkey wants to share more of this with the european union and by the way of course this plan together with the action plan that was agreed upon with the eu before suggests that there will be more refugees in turkey rather than less in the future which means that turkey will have to spend even more and i think it's only normal that turkey wants to share this responsibility with the european union. on the other end i must say linking turkey's membership process to the refugee deal is somewhat against the spirit of the process because eu process was enormative process and would closer to the eu for certain criteria and implementing certain reforms and now actually this normative nature of the eu access process is being destroyed and replaced by some sort of bizarre bargaining between turkey and the eu which i think it will actually which actually will hurt turkey's eu membership prospecs in the future. >> thank you for speaking to us from ankara. meetings to resolve rift between leading political pa

-turkey deal on refugees. french prosecutors say paris attack suspect salah abdeslam wanted to blow himself up but later changed his mind. historic visit, cuba prepares to welcome a u.s. president in nearly 90 years >>> world leaders have joined turkey's prime minister in condemning an attack in istanbul. he says it will not stop his country from fighting what he calls centers of terrorism. five people were killed along with a suicide attack in the heart of the attack. no-one has claimed responsibility for the blast. >> reporter: on the bomb goes off in turkey. this time in the heart of istanbul in the middle of the city's busiest shopping district. it is the streets also a major tourist designation. this street would have been packed with shoppers and visits. witnesses say hundreds of people allowed explosion. the government nor was at the scene shortly after the blast. >> translation: a suicide bomber blew himself up around noon and killed three people and wounded 21 others. three of them were in a critical

wants to see is that turkey make it easier to stay in turkey. for example, so they can get work permits and make a living for them and their families, so there can be better encampment and more camps built for the 727 million syrian refugee who is have come in. this is the country who has taken in the most number of syrian refugees thus far along the refugee trail. turkeyagtour acknowledging that it is difficult to take in more refugee who is will be coming back from greece and other countries. now they're demanding more money so that refugee's education, refugee's healthcare can be guaranteed and they can have a better existence and the turkish government can have much more help from the e.u. to try to contain this crisis. >> thank you. mohammed in turkey. >> at least 45 people died in a gun battle between an armed group and security forces in the tunisian border. it is thought the fighters came in from line i can't. attacking an army barracks with a rocket-propelled grenade. thten members of the security forces and seven civilians also died. t

it's not actually surprising that it has happened in turkey >> everything going on in turkey, all lawlessness, violation of human rights and media freedoms, they all boil down to the corruption investigation of 2013 because the investigation implicated allegedly erdogan's family in order to detract investigation he needed a scapegoat and that turned out to be the movement and unfortunately a significant portion of the turkish people support this argument. >> reporter: according to the new york based ecommittee to prejt journalists, china, egypt and iran has more journalists in prison than turkey does. 33 are behind bars the majority are kurds reporting in the south-east. censorship and blocking of platforms have become routine. since the fighting spurred up last year, the largest fighting news agency had its site blocked 29 times. another new is agency and the biggest selling kurdish paper also had their websites closed when the fighting began. they can be seen from outside turkey but not from within the country. then there's the case of i mctv a channel that focuses on kurdish issues. the st

and from turkey. the only way the state has been able to cope with all these the wave ofby solidarity that has been sweeping the country. ordinary greeks rallying to help. 65% of all arrivals are actually from syria or iraq. a lot of them are children. it is something that the premier also understands. that is what he wants to pass on to europe. this is a refugee crisis and not a migrant crisis. anchor: a contingent of residents and workers from calais has come to paris today to ask the government to help salvage their town's reputation. the french port used to be known as a tourist gateway. it has put her the map in a way that is damaging their town's reputation. a new camp for migrants has opened just off the coast of northern france. near dunkirk. people who have been living rough along the coast. 200 he didn't wooden cabins plus toilets and showers. theas been opposed by government. it was built by doctors without borders. in conjunction with the local town hall. he called it a great day for human

if turkey was progressing, one could imagine that a sped up european union membership process, but turkey has moved backwards from the promising years of 2003 and 2004. it is hard to see how the european union could move up this process. katty: it looks like europe is caving? to some extent, europe is saying to the turks that we accept your political and domestic politics. we are signaling that we are ok with the accumulation of power at the hands of the president, but inviting turkey to join the european union on this issue is a huge step that i don't think europe is ready to take. they will have to see how the turks respond to the deal. if they will stop the smuggling. tracking eufast talks and allowing fisa free travel by june, giving money as an indication of the strong hand that turkey has in the crisis and the weekend that europe has -- and the weak hand that europe has. gateway tobeing the europe, has the power. the question is if the turks will take the money and the reduced restrictions, pocket that, and do the same things. i think this will stem some of the flow of migrants, but

from turkey to europe. however, migrants from other countries find themselves in a gray area, wondering what will be their fate if they returned to turkey. the united nations has condemned the saudi led coalition in yemen. the senior human rights official says the air campaign has killed twice as many civilians as all other forces put together there. earlier this week, a saudi coalition airstrike hit a market, killing 119 people. riyadh's that its military coalition will scale them operations in the country. north korea fired a medium-range missile into the sea this friday. that is according to officials in both south korea and the united states. it was in defiance of a recent u.n. resolution as pyongyang has condemned ongoing military drills between south korea and washington. the susa has the details. stepping up its defiance of international sanctions, north korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea weeks after the countries leader nuclear andore missile tests to improve their capability. the tests we

and turkey reached a tentative agreement that will see all migrants arriving in greece from turkey sent back. and then a syrian in turkey would then be resettled in the e.u. many are in the refugee camp where health workers say 70% of the children are sick. al jazeera's diplomatic editor, james bayes has the latest now from the united nations in geneva. >> reporter: the u.n. refugee agency are saying they were not privy to this plan, and they are seeking urgent clarification from the european union. they say they are very concerned. they gave a news conference here at the u.n.'s european headquarters in geneva, and there i asked the regional coordinator for the refugee crisis, whether this e.u. plan, in his view, could be illegal under international humanitarian law. >> yes, collective expulsion of foreigners is prohibited under the convention of human rights. an agreement that would be tonight mount to blanket return of any foreigners to a certain country is not consistent with european law and not consistent with international law. >> reporter: meanwhile ban ki-moon has added his voic

in turkey alone. the highest number of refugees in any country that has taken in refugees since the refugee crisis began. now, here this is one of the main points that refugee also try to cross every day, thousands of them every day, and it's going to take a lot of effort for the turks to insure that this tide really stops and can stop as quickly as possible to try to make the e.u. happy in this negotiation that's going on. >> good to see you, mohammed, he mentioned how many millions turkey has taken in. more than a million have gone from there across to turkey. the majority of them from syria. that's just in one year last year. angela merkel, the german chancellor, has seen her popularity at home begin to lower. >> the late winter sun has brought out the customers. this part of berlin is in the political center ground where the main parties vie for top spot. the opinion polls suggest that angela merkel's popularity is waning. but what do people here make of they are policies? >> i'm surprised by the

for turkey joining the eu. of course, not everybody is happy, and there are some deep concerns across the board about what the details of this proposed plan could mean. >> neve, i wondered if you talked about turkey's arm twisting, it's bribery saying we'll do this but only if. are there countries who are saying we will block this unless asking for concessions for them? >> yes, we're in a dangerous situation. there isn't as i said before a sense of absolute cocoa heegs against the states. that's absolutely vital for any form of agreement goes forward, focusing on cypress that threatens to derail negotiations altogether. they're long-standing agreement between cypress and turkey. they don't recognize the government, the turkish government and also france and the czech republic raised concerns about turkey being in a position to somewhat blackmail the rest of the european union into getting what it notes when it comes especially to the easing of visa requirements. concerns also from the likes of spain about the h

laurence lee, al jazeera, southern turkey. >>> leaders from the eu and turkey are meeting to finalize a deal to stem the flow of refugees into the eu. they want to send new migrants arriving in greece back to turkey. for each migrant returned one syrian asylum seeker will be resettled in the eu. in turn turkey wants the eu to double the amount of aid to $6.7 billi billion. turkey want visa-free travel to be brought in sooner than planned. it also wants negotiations for its own membership at the eu to be restarted. martin schultz criticized countries along the balkan route taken by refugees for making the problem worse by closing their borders. >> what we are facing is 20 to 22 member states are refusing to stick to what they agreed, the relocation scheme, 160,000. we imagine we would distribute now 160,000 refugees. we have no problem. i find this relatively hypocrite that some of the member states did not stick to the own agreements are criticizing the negotiation with turkey. >> live to talks in brussels and we're there. it's incredibly difficult, isn't it, to finalize this deal? >>

newly arrived in greece back to turkey. also talk of that all-important resettlement program as well whereby in return for turkey taking refugees from the eu and resellingsing them in turkey, the eu has in turn promised to resettle here in the european union refugees, syrian refugees who are currently living in turkish camps. it's very difficult to understand the logistics of all of this. we imagine if an agreement takes place, there's a tremendous amount of wrangling to take many more weeks and months as we establish exactly how the movement of refugees and asylum seekers and migrants will really take place between turkey and the eu. >> thank you. >>> plenty of wrangling taking place in cypress itself and they're tlening any veto with turkey until it recognizes the scorch knit. this is an associate professor in history and science at the universitied good to have you with uses on program. you could start by reminding them. >> cypress wants turkey to recognize the republic of cypress by opening ports and aircrafts to vessel

america has much more for turkey. turkey believe it or not is being destabilized, a cult is led in the poconos of eight to 10,000. they have asked the u.s. to extradite him. he runs a large islamic uh islamist cult trying to establish a theocracy in turkey. even though it's been on 60 minutes, this plan runs the largest charter school network. they're being investigated by the fbi for all sorts of abuse of the immigration system. there's a federal lawsuit saying he has kidnapped people for two years. we need him like a heart attack. we need to support turkey, we should deport patula kalin today. >> jd, really appreciate your insights, thank you. >>> the source of the five year conflict and i.s.i.l.'s role in the country's civil war. we'll talk to an expert on the rebel group. >>> and later, angela merkel's generous refugee policies come back to haunt her. >> in tonight's in context statement. tonight parks the fifth anniversary of syria's war, armed conflict that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of syria

back to turkey. they will then be placed at a back of a waiting list to legally seek asylum in europe. but question whether it will work or even if it's legal. mohammad adow, al jazeera, idome informationi, greece. >>> antigovernment demonstrations are continuing in brazil, one day after dilma rousseff brought lula da silva back into the government. protest against lula da silva's return to government. his supporters are holding a rally and the former president is expected to attend. our correspondent daniel schweimler is joining us. there have been scuffles between lula's supporters and those against him. tell us what supporters are saying now. >> i'm in the center of

turkey. this of course is a come kayed complicated process and it's clear to everybody and refugee numbers are very high but i would like to make it clear compared to october and november they have gone down quite a bit and we have spring in the aegean sea area at the moment so i can see there is a certain change compared with the autumn situation last year but we have not reached the end of our efforts here and why monday is so important and intense of discussions are important but understand fully and i stress this that turkey expects the european union to deliver and that the first projects are actually being put on the road so that there are real projects for the refugees. of course there is also and agenda of further cooperation on the level with turkey and opening of the chapters, et ceter cetera. >> reporter: you have been listening to angela merkel the chancellor of germany along with president francois hollande the french leader there talking about not just the ceasefire in syria bot

in return turkey gets political and financial awards. sending people who arrive on greek islands by boat back to turkey. neave barker reports. >> it is a deal that will affect thousands of refugees and migrants poop game changer in an disagreement that has shake.the very foundationest of the european union. >> turkey will be getting all those who are crossing, to aegean islands illegally, meanwhile, european countries will receive the same number of legal migrants from turkey. so this is a very fair and encouraging steps for refugees, as well, those who are looking for the their future. >> many play think this agreement is a silver bullet but the reality is more complex. it is one pillar of the european comprehensive strategy and can work only if the other pillars are also implemented. >> in return turkey has asked for the eu to double the amount of aid for refugees in the country to $6.7 billion. turkey wants a visa free travel for its citizens in eu. this could happen as early as june. this agreement goes into effect on sunday, all mig

>>> >>> >>> turkey and the e.u. come up with a new plan for refugees, but there's little hope for these people stuck at a closed border. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also coming up, tunisia's prime minister says an attack on a bordertown near libya is an act of terror aimed to established an i.s.i.l. emirates. the anniversary from the lost malaysian plane. plus >>> we're in mexico where this group of women is using a unique way to fight sexual harassment >>> turkey has made a bold proposal to stop the flow of refugees to the european union. ankara is offering to take more refugees back with more money and a fast-track of its e.u. membership bid >> reporter: at the end the break through they hoped to. they reached an agreement with turkey that they believe marks the beginning of the ends of europe's refugee crisis. >> this is the real game changer >> translation: the days of irregular migration to europe is over >> our objection is to disurge illegal migration to prevent human smuggl

and turkey for the migrant crisis. catherine: we are going to start with the turkish front pages of the papers there. a headline, "turkey's demands green light from the e.u.," and it shows the turkish prime minister shaking hands with the president of the eu parliament. of course, all smiles here. on the front page of another turkish daily, it features a family photo op with all e.u. officials and the turkish prime minister. smiling once again because basically in the negotiations turkey has had the upper hand here in asking for additional 3 billion euros and no visas for its citizens to come to the e.u. genie: what about the british press? they seem to be less positive in their coverage today. catherine: it has. there is a photo of a boy trapped in barbed wire, and it says he is somewhere along the greece-macedonia border. the headline, "refugees caught in the middle as e.u. haggled." the paper goes on to say that there are real fears that closing the balkan route that the migrants are using could trigger violence. if

resettling more than 70,000 refugees from turkey. they fear the majority of those who arrive in europe qualify as refugees and require protection. >> it's 10 or 11 kilometers from greece to turkey, so this port now they told me six hours inside the water we lost, ok, and the smuggler go back to turkey, so i don't think they will be agreed to back to turkish. >> some are not aware of the new rules and restrictions. all they know is they managed to escape war and are hopeful their lives will become better. >> she tells us that she was scared while crossing the sea. she also knows why her family had to do it. the situation in aleppo is very bad because of the bombardment, she says. the agreement to send back new arrivals on the island entered force on sunday. the e u.s. promised greece assistance to deal with the asylum cases. these people say they won't accept any move to take a step back. lesbos, greece. >> villages in the palestinian community of douma have accused israeli settlers of arson. a fire broke out of a home belonging to th

they feel that a deal with turkey could result in mass deportations. >> turkey can be a safe country, not only because there is violation in turkey, but also even when you look at only if i may say so, the geneva convention, they're not respecting that at all. >> but not only turkey, also the situation on the greek mass don'tan border is a concern for european leaders. more than 10,000 refugees are stranded here in dire conditions. >> we have to face a humanitarian crisis because of the unilateral actions in the balkan route. this is the same for a common culture. >> with all of that hanging in the balance, german chancellor angela merkel expressed slight concerns. >> complicated negotiations but the basic direction is clear. i agree with council presidentalls who say they are cautiously optimistic with emphasis on cautious. everybody is expecting a long night in brussels and the work continues when the turkish prime minister joins the negotiations on friday morning. >> with a long night ahead, let's bring in our correspondent in brussels, max hoffman, max, thanks for being with us. f

turkey has been bombing the targets in iraq. mohammed jamjoom reports. >> in ankara, a palpable sense of worry, of viscerale, a sense of fear. as investigators continue to comb the scene, residents were reeling from the second such blast to rip through the heart of the city in less than a month. the third attack to hit turkey's capital since october. >> there are serious and almost certain findings that point to the separatist terrorist organization, this will be unveiled after the investigation is complete >>> in all, over 200 people have been killed in a string of suicide bombings in turkey since last summer. attacks blamed on isil or kurdish militants. >> turkey, i can say, is under immense stress from various state and non-state actors. the crisis in syria has put turkey at odds with russia, iran, syria as a state and other counties in the region, as well as non-state actors and terrorist organizations. they are all around the spectrum. with the p.k.k. on the one hand, and the islamic d.a.e.s.h. on the other. >> with fall ou

that goes for every country, including turkey. every time there is an issue with human rights, we will have to react. reporter: the turkish president accused the european union of hypocrisy. >> at a time when turkey is hosting or than 3 million refugees, those countries that cannot find space for even a handful of refugees must first look at themselves. reporter: the turkish prime minister joins eu leaders in brussels and praised it as a stepping stone to turkey-eu relations. >> turkey and the eu have the same destiny, the same challenges, the same future. reporter: to seal the deal, eu leaders also agreed to grant turkish citizens visa free travel and give ankara financial aid to combat the crisis. the deal will begin as early as sunday. phil: max hoffman has been following these developments for us in brussels. max, tell us about this deal. is everybody a winner in this deal? max: some consider the eu to be the loser because they cannot control the migrant situation and had to strike this deal with turkey, with their shady civil

turkey has been invited to the summit and what with the eu like from turkey? in a nutshell, what the eu would like to see from turkey is a cessation from the refugees coming from turkey to greece or at least a stemming of the flow of refugees. what a lot of the countries would like to see is turkey agreeing to accept -- accept back the refugees that have already made that careless theney, and particularly refugees that don't qualify for asylum in the european union. all the refugees that haven't come from syria is much. turkey realizes that for its part, it can request things of the european union. it would like to see the european union fast track. that still hasn't happened. the eu would like to see some assistance foral turkey to help deal with the problems back at home so the european union doesn't have to. it's very clear that the eu needs turkey. they need to find a strong ally. as their criticism of their closing of the opposition paper? ryan: we did see some people criticize the closing event opposition newspaper and the police handing -- handling of t

needs turkey more than turkey needs the u.s. and offense times it seems like it does, turkey is seen to be critical in the fight against isis in at tempt to solve the syrian civil war. for the europeans it is absolutely critical that they deal with turkey to try to stop the flow of refugees that is destabilizing europe itself. and so we expect a lot of help from turkey. and so we bite our tongues and do not criticize them in the hope that they will continue offering that help and maybe change their ways and so far, that strategy hasn't really played out very well for the last two years. but i guess we are going continues to see if it will work in the future. >> how is this freedom of speech issue in the idea of this religious, reeducation affect the refugee crisis. >> well, i think what it's really swog dog is giving the president the authority to hide the nation's problems. so you have a country that is on the edge of civil war, but reporting about what is happening in the country's southeast, the plight of the kurds who are be

from an alliance perspective, the eu and turkey are getting closer at a time when turkey is feeling threatened by russia. scarlet: something turkey had been pushing for. will this plan work or will we need to see european leaders meet again to discuss this? >> they will have to meet again. only agreed to take in 72,000 refugees from turkey within the legal framework. this is just to get the ball rolling in terms of a resolution. us beyondt, refuge that, refugees that went to the european union let turkey for a reason. many of the refugees have not turkeyom the south of and they will be looking for other ways to get into the eu. there is concern that it closes one corridor, a perilous journey across the sea from turkey to greece, but will open up another as the refugees and migrants look for another path from libya to italy and we have seen that over the last few days, 2000 refugees and migrants arriving on italian shores because they are afraid that the window for them is closing. mark: great job, thank you for joining us. up on the european close today, all three major central banks have deci

for each migrant returned to turkey, one syrian asylum seeker in turkey will be settled in the e.u. and turkey has asked the e.u. to double the amount of aid to $6.7 billion. turkey wants visa-free travel for its citizens to be brought in sooner than planned. european parliament president criticized countries along the balkan's route for exacerbating the problem. >> what we are facing is 22-member states that are refusing to stick to what they agreed, the relocation scheme, 160,000. imagine we would distribute now 160,000 refugees. we have no problem in [ inaudible ], and i find it relatively hypocrite that some of the member states that stick not to the agreements are criticizing the negotiation with turkey. >> live now to brussels and speak to al jazeera's neave barker. neave these are difficult talking that are taking place right now. >> reporter: they certainly are, and when the european council president arrived here a little bit earlier on, he said he was more cautious than optimistic that there would be a break through. of course this is the second round. the first time the e

turkey and the e.u. have reached a new deal to try to stop the flow of refugees and migrants to europe. turkey get political and financial rewards in return. it is said that people get sent back to turkey who arrive on boats. >> reporter: it is a deal that will affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of stranded refugees and migrants. a game changer in a crisis that has shaken the very foundations of the european union. turkey is to play a crucial part in stemming the flow of refugees into europe. >> turkey will be getting all those who are crossing to islands illegally. european countries many receive the same number of legal migrants from turkey. this very fair and encouraging steps for refugees as well, those who are looking for their future. >> i think this argument is a silver bullet, but it is a small complex. it is just one pillar of the strategy and can work only if the other are also implemented. >> reporter: in return they have asked for turkey to double the amount of aid to 6.7 billion dolla

needs turkey on side and turkey knows that it has a powerful role to play. al jazeera, brussels. >> the secretary of state will visit russia next week for two days of talks. john kerry will arrive on wednesday. the main focus of the trip will be to discuss how to resolve the syrian conflict. they hope that the visit will contribute to the normalization of relations with the united states. >>> a 17-year-old palestinian has been shot dead by israel forces in the west bank. the palestinian ministry of health said that the victim was killed in hebron. the man tried to stab an israeli soldier. 204 palestinians and 29 israelis have been killed. >>> nigeria's oil rich river state is holding elections on saturday. the election highlights the two most significant issues in africa's largest oil producing nation: security and the economy. when it comes to the economy it is a big talking point. nigeria relies heavily on it. >> at the moment it is quite painful but the outlook is very bright. to turn the opportunity of this for the economy. we're spending money on the in

turkey is one otour tourism is turkey's main source of revenue, at the moment this is safe but it will have to do a lot more to be safe from visitors. >> well, we're standing by in istanbul. what is the latest? what's the update? >> the turkish prime minister was at the meeting with the minister here in istanbul, and we're expecting a statement after the meeting, but it didn't happen. and the prime minister's office said that they will make a written statement after--within th an hour about the meeting, but they didn't mention anything about the explosion to date. i would like to talk about the details of the nationals of the 36 injured people of today's explosion. turkish authorities say that six of the injured is israeli nationals, two of them from ireland, one from germany, one from iran and one united emirates. and 300 people who have lost their lives in the explosion are holding israeli passports, too. >> thanks very much, indeed. reporting there from istanbul. let's now look at more detail at the other recent attacks that have put turkey on edge. in january, a blast in istanbul k

we see more refugees trying to enter turkey although turkey is trying hard to stop it. turkey's resettlement plan, they call it humanitarian relocation from turkey to europe, some countries have proposed this as one of the solutions on the table today. >> thank you very much, thank you, gari van gulick from neamenamnesty international. >>> 300,000 south koreans and 17,000 u.s. troops. an excuse for holding invasion rehearsals. since north korea's nuclear test in january and the launch of a long range missile in february. >>> the deadline has now expired for relatives of those missing aboard mh 370 to file compensation claims. relatives ask sue over air accidents within two years. the plane never arrived at its destination, beijing. >>> the u.s. state of virginia has approved a bill allowing the state to use the electric chair to execute convicted prisoners if they run out of drugs for lethal injections. virginia currently gives death row inmates a choice of the chair or injection. but is being hit by a shortage of lethal drugs. any drugs companies refuse to supply them.

another idea would push turkey to do more to stop migrants leaving turkey from greece. here is more now from francois hollande. greeces hollande: it is that will take the largest portion of refugees, and we must help greece. to avoid the refugees arriving in greece, we need to work with turkey, so the plan is simple and difficult to put into place. working closely with turkey and to show our support for greece. that is france's position that we will present today. >> turkey is ready to be a member of the e.u. as well. and i hope this summit, which we will not focus on the regular migration but on the turkish accession process with the e.u. genie: there have been more migrant deaths at sea. another 25 drowned over the weekend, including three children. officials say over 320 migrants and refugees have died in the past two months alone, and many of those who survived that journey are now stranded on greece's border in macedonia, where the conditions are only getting worse. our correspondent is covering talks on the migrant crisis in brussels, and he joins us from there. w

directly from turkey. amnesty international has accused european leaders of what it calls double speak. >> if you unpack the deal, the essence of it is you introduce a system that discourages to 0 the numbers of people arriving and by extension, therefore, to 0 the number of people that the e.u. would be rerelatesing from turkey. so the end game of this strategy is to resettle no-one. >> reporter: any refugee deported from greece to turkey will be placed at the back of a waiting list to seek asylum in europe. there are questions over whether this plan will work and if it's actually legal >>> 18 egyptian policemen have been killed during an attack on the sinai peninsula. it was hit by mortar rounds. i.s.i.l. says its fighters were behind the ambush and that a suicide car bomber was involved. at least 43 people have been killed by a series of air strikes in the northern syria province of ramadi. the victims include five children and seven women. the area is an i.s.i.l. stronghold and the target of syrian gov

, another $3.3 billion, to help aid for those refugees in turkey, and schenge schengen.travel.from turkey, and a one to one resettlement plan as allegedly part of this resettlement plan. eu will agree to admit one syrian refugee if camps into turkey for every syrian refugee that turkey takes back from grease where of course, all of these people are pooling in increasingly squalid conditions, turned back from macedonia, that's the draft proposal. we may have a long night waiting to find out what everyone makes of it. >> okay, jonah, thank you. turkey's already the largest host as we mentioned there to refugees anywhere in the world. mohammed jamjoom my colleague is in the turkish coastal city of ismae. not all of them make it. turkey has basically been saying listen we can only help you if we get the extra money. even if it gets the extra money how sit going to cut the number of refugees leaving its shores in a peaceful straightforward manner? >> that's the key point here david, even if they do get these promises, even if they do get this extra money it is going to be difficult to staunch

turkey deal. we're joined by our correspondent who is live from the camp on the greece-macedonia border. what is the situation like at the camp now? >> reporter: as you can imagine, people are growing even more desperate, frustrated, impatient. they're asking a lot of questions and they're not getting any answers. some 12,000 people or more really living out in the open. there are tents, but the tents do little with the cold and the rain. so people are going increasingly impatient. what they want is for the borders to open so that they can continue on the migrant trail to northern europe. as we know for weeks now. that route has been closed. what the greek government wants to do is to relocate these people, put them in government-run camps across the country, even close to the border, better conditions. at least they have some sort of shelter, but niece people are refusing to leave. what we understand is that, approximately, 20 buses are going to arrive today and the authorities are hoping that a

resettling refugees from turkey. they fear the majority of those who do arrive in europe qualify as refugees and require protection. >> it's 10 or 11 kilometers from greece to turkey. this port now they told me six hours inside the water, we lost, ok, and the smuggler go back to turkey, so i don't think they will be agree to go back to turkey. >> little child and her brother know that they managed to escape war and are hopeful that their lives will become better. >> she tells us she was scared crossing the sea. she also knows why her family had to do it. the situation in aleppo's very bad because of the bombardment, she says. the agreement to send back new arrivals on the side has entered into force on sunday. the e.u. promised greece assistance to deal with all the asylum cases, but that may not be the hard part. these people won't accept any move to take a step back. >>> syrian refugees in at your keep at the moment, we hear about europe's refugee crisis, but it's dwarfed by turkey's refugee crisis, isn't it? how d

turkey being turkey, this isn't the first time there has been explosions. this hasn't been the first time that we have seen incidents of this kind. as someone who lives there and works here, actuarially your chances are good. you don't expect to be caught up in a bomb blast. i'm more careful than i've ever been about going around the city or just keeping my eyes open. there is that sense of anxiety. in a country of 78 million people with thousands of people walking the streets there, their ability to fight this war is limited. there's a great - when you say it's coordinated, perhaps they are coordinated. in a sense turkey is fighting on many fronts. of course, a lot of people would argue they're not fighting wisely or well. at the moment the government is trying to - the agenda of the government is to elevate the issue, to create a presidential, very powerful presidential authority. people often suspect that there may be welcoming this instability in the way of increasing authority, making people turn towards a strong leader which they might not otherwise d

back to turkey. all of these things will need to be discussed, but in the next 30 or 40 minutes, we're looking at the conclusion of a lengthy and diplomatic process. >> neave barker thank you. >>> the deal in brussels is going to add to the fears and frustrations of syrians looking for safety and security in europe. other people in turkey, though, see opportunities from southeastern turkey here is lawrence lee. >> reporter: the bizarre here was a trading post on the silk route in the 16th century. still today the smells and sites will be familiar for people who have travelled through central asia or north africa. it's a mixture of kurds, turks and arabs. the deal between the e.u. and turkey would allow them all visa-free travel through europe. many you speak to here have no idea about the deal. but some who do say if europe wants to let them in without a visa, why not see more of the world. >> why not? anybody ask if they have opportunity and some money they can go for holiday, and they don't have to

directly from turkey. amnesty international has accused european leaders of what it calls double speak. >> if you unpack the deal, you introduce a system that discourages the numbers of people arriving and by extension the number of 0 that the number of people resettling. the aim is to resettle no-one. >> reporter: any refugee deported from greece to turkey will be placed at the back of a waiting list. there are questions whether this will work and whether it is legal >>> in turkey the coast guard picked up more than 300 refugees off its coast on saturday. turkey says they were trying to reach the island of lesbos. in recent days turkey and nato have stepped up patrols in the sea. >> translation: we want to cross but they took a position to prevent us. where shall we go. if they don't want us to cross, they can bring a plane for us. why does the about not continue and finish his help. why is he stopping his help what time we're in the middle of our journey > >>> five people were killed along with a suicide

turkey would take back migrants entering the eu illegally. >> in principle, turkey would be obligated to take back all migraine -- migrants who have crossed the aegean sea. the turkish prime minister has suggested that whenever a syrian migrant is sent back to turkey, a refugee would be sent back to europe in a safe, and legal matter. -- manner. chancellor merkel sister party has opposed the plan, for once, the opposition left party agrees with the conservatives on this issue. >> you are trying to win points with a man who has turned turkey into a player in the syrian war, and his country into a target for terrorists. merkel sees turkey as a viable partner. >> the fact that turkey has taken in well over 2 million people already, has taken in 2.7 million people for years, cannot be praised enough. it is a no credit to europe, when you consider that a union of 28 countries with over 500 million citizens has found it so hard to share the burden. merkel now faces a tough sell at the u.n.'s summit. once again, she will appeal for a europe-why the solution to the migration crisis. anchor: j

back to turkey. it's part of a deal struck between the european union and turkey. and even as the operation begins to remove some people, more refugees are actually arriving. zeina khodr report now from the islands of lesbos. >> reporter: this was supposed to have stopped. but the boats keep coming in. europe's refugee crisis is far from over. the latest arrivals are refugees from syria. many of them from the war-torn city of aleppo. they are still making the dangerous journey across the aegean sea to reach the greek islands. the european union was hoping that a yes rent agreement with turkey would discourage asylum seekers. but people who managed to reach europe' shores are still hopeful they won't be turned back. >> translator: i don't think they will reject us because we are coming from a destroyed city. we are asking for asylum on humanitarian grounds not only is there war in our country but the situation in turkey is bad for us. >> reporter: these people want to mack their way to mainland europe

. >> translator: some people like turkey and some people don't want to go to turkey and some want to stay here and some say that, no, if we stay here we don't want to stay here. they should deport us in afghanistan. >> translator: i appeal to the entire world to come and see us and the conditions that we are in and to have some compassion for us. it's enough, enough. have some compassion for these children, for the women, have compassion for all the single mothers. >> reporter: for more on this i'm joined by steven professor at essex university and welcome to the program and great to have you with us and described as an extraordinary plan what is your take? >> it's potentially going to be a big legal problem, there is no issue in principle sending refugees to another country but has to be a safe country so the big issue is turkey a safe country and a lot of people will go to the greek courts and maybe the eu and the european court of human rights to argue if turkey is a safe country if this plan is actually put into effect. >> so turkey is set to get an increase in the amount of mone

-turkey relations right now. ankey has long been especially important american ally, critical to american foreign and security policy. it has been an ally for 65 years . this is especially a difficult for turkey as it is for much of the world. turkey faces internal and external challenges, which all of us, whatever our perspectives and concerns, hope will be resolved in a way that contributes to regional peace, strengthens bilateral ties between our two countries, and upholds the democratic values of the transatlantic community. we look forward to hearing from the president his perspective. colleague will conduct a conversation with the president followed by an opportunity for him to take a few questions from our guest's. president, thank you once again for being back at brookings. and now, erdogan: directors of the brookings, i would like to greet you with respect. celebrating its centennial this year. it is a pleasure for me to meet you once again in this very reputable think tank. i would like to start my word

to give turkey what it doesn't want to give, like an easing of restrictions, and turkey being part of the european union, and importantly, there are major concerns about how legal an agreement would be as well. there are concerns about turkey's humanitarian status, about how its human rights records have been seen over the last few years, and there's deep worry if you send refugees back to turkey, the future may be uncertain. >> thank you, thank you very much indeed. live from brussels. sno . >> to the war in yemen, shelling by houthi forces in central tiaz, a city in the south. elsewhere fighting continues between houthis and forces loyal to the president. on the eastern and western outskirts of the city. 13 fighters killed. 20 hurt in air strikes launched by the saudi coalition. the senior official in yemen says the number of people killed on a market on tuesday has risen to 119. which makes the attack north of the capital one of the deadliest in the year-long war. the u.n. statements 6,000 people have been killed by air strikes and fighting since the saudi operation began. >> donal

for each syrian refugee returned to turkey, one other syrian refugee in turkey will be accepted into the e.u. for resettlement. now in return, turkey has asked for the e.u. to double the amount of aid to help it receive refugees. and turkey wants visa-free travel for its people in the e.u. to brought in quicker than originally scheduled. live now to brussels and neave barker. neave, the pushback to this has basically been the e.u. doesn't quite know what to do -- or it doesn't want to do more than it has been doing. so how do they square that circle? >> reporter: well, yes, arriving here a little bit earlier in the day, the european council president said that he was perhaps more cautious than optimistic about a real outcome. but in the last ten or so days between the first meeting on march 7th, and this, round, two, a tremendous amount of work has been going on behind the scenes. we do know there is a slightly watered-down version of the deal on the table over the talks through the day, but you are right in saying there has been a significant amount of pushback from at least five e.