turkish traditions are taken very seriously, as our ankara's official positions. >> we don't think that it was a genocide. that's a false accusation. there are two schools of thought on this. there are historians, even armenian and western historians who show that people died on both sides. >> nobody here thinks ankara will call the massacres a genocide any time soon. >> other news now -- the standoff continues between greece and its european creditors. there's been no progress on the reforms needed to avoid default and possible exit from the euro. >> in the latvian capital the greek finance minister came under fire from his eurozone peers for failing to come up with a conference of list of proposals after weeks of talk. >> there were sour faces all around as eurozone finance ministers net. once again he was empty-handed. he was supposed to present new reforms by the end of the month. >> we came to an agreement two months ago, and today, of course, we had hoped to hear a positive result and an agreement on which we could then take a decision, and we are still far from that, so, yes it w

before he went there the saut hermes interior minister met president recep tayyip erdogan in ankara. we don't know what they talked about. but we do know that turkey offered to provide logistical support for the saudi campaign. this is despite political differences that the turks and the saudis have notably over saudi arabia's support for the coup ending in the removal of president mursi in egypt. >> so what extent is all of this the event in yemen straining relations between the two countries? >> the two countries need each other. turkey needs iranian gas and iran turkey's foreign exchange. there are apparent political strains, particularly over yemen, the two are tied economically. there's no suggestion that there'll be a risk affecting the economic ties. >> at the moment bernard smith live from istanbul. thank you >>> let's talk more about all this now from tehran. joining us live is a journalist for an international and political analyst. thank you for being with us. i am sure you heard what the correspondent was saying there. i want to ask you about this economic relationship be

olivier: ankara has refused the term genocide, speaking instead of civil war. the eu pronouncement comes three days after comments from the vatican proctored anger in turkey. on sunday, pope francis paid respects to the armenian victims. >> this tragedy is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th century. olivier: the remarks resulted in the recall of turkey's ambassador to the vatican. the killings came at the end of the ottoman empire between 1915 and 1917. 20 countries including france, italy and russia have recognized this as a genocide. last year, recep tayyip erdogan then prime minister, expressed condolences to the arminians for the first time without using the word genocide. genie: tributes to the victims of the holocaust are being held in israel today. people stood in silence as sirens wailed across the country. today's holocaust memorial day marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the nazi death camps. 6 million jews were killed during world war ii. in south africa, immigration is becoming a hot button issue. somalis, ethiopians and ot

snow is still falling in the mountains and low-lying areas such as ankara. showers are expanding over the iberian peninsula. watch out for large hail and high waves. a and dry area in the admit part of europe. temperatures are actually may to june-like as we go into the next couple of days. take a look, berlin you'll see the high reaching 20 degrees on your saturday. all right, that's it from me now. up next is your three-day forecast. >>> don't go away there's more to come here on nhk world. for all of us here on "newsline," thanks for watching. ♪ cast is reportedly shut down by the islamic state. hackers take over all 11 channels and the website and social media account. iranian ships had to yemen, raising the stakes in the air campaign there. shiite rebels are slowly taking over the country backed by iran. new details about the south carolina police officer charged with murder af

iranians arriving in islamabad, and the turkish have been travelling to and fro from ankara to saudi arabia and a fellow and parliament likely to continue for a day or two. the iranian foreign minister arrives there soon. what do you expect to come out of that trip. how significant is his trip to pakistan? >> well for the first time since the conflict began, there's a ray of hope that a diplomatic solution some sort of negotiations may be a good thing to do because it will bring the warring factions to agree to a ceasefire. so the fresh push of course is for turkey pakistan to play its role, and to try to convince tehran that it should back away from confrontation in yemen, and at the same time get the saudis to sit at the negotiating table. fresh moves offer a ray of home. -- ray of hope much however it will be a difficult proposition given the situation on the ground in yemen. >> thank you >>> there's a push to create a humanitarian corridor. the camp is on the outskirts of damascus yarmouk, and has been under siege from i.s.i.l. there's no food water and electricity, some escaped,

the minister of foreign affairs summons the vatican ambassador in ankara and says they are straying from the facts. in the english edition it says the pope was only citing a statement that had previously been signed by his predecessor pope john paul ii in 2001. it notes that while a number of countries have recognized the genocide but not the united states, and he wonders if the armenians will try to get barack obama to mention the genocide. thus far he is only using the armenian expression for the great calamity because he does not want to upset turkey, which could freeze military cooperation at a critical time in the middle east. annette: the armenian genocide has been somewhat benefiting from a rather high-profile visit. oliver: "the guardian" reports that reality tv star kim kardashian is visiting her ancestral homeland. she has gotten support for government officials and intellectuals, not that we can say that has happened many times before. she visited with her sister and her husband, kanye west. at first people were uncomfortable with the kardashian visit -- this is a conservative

majority turkey said it may provide logistical backup to the saudi-led coalition against the houthis, and ankara put to one side some differences with riyadh, especially the opposition for the saudi arabia-support for the coup deposing mohamed mursi. >> the foreign policy and practices seems to be assertive. they are supporting military organizations. they are supporting a group of military organizations, arming them. but this support do not solve any problems. they become more complicated. >> reporter: yemeni is the latest flashpoint in the region. it's on iraq, and significantly syria where turkey and iran are at odds. >> iran consistently backed syria's president. while turkey wants bashar al-assad gone. turkey suspects of iran using the fight against i.s.i.l. to extend its influence there. in northern iraq. both countries hope to increase bilateral trade to $30 billion. we may expect more conciliation rather than confrontation when recep tayyip erdogan arrives in tehran. >>> in the u.s. a jury will deliberate in the case of the boston bomber on tuesday. >> dzhokhar tsarnaev is charged with k

michaela: no doubt, this is something that will not go down well in ankara. this is due to the fact that the ottoman empire is still seen as something very positive. also, the word "genocide," which has been used by the multis prime minister -- the maltese prime minister in relation to those deaths of hundreds of migrants in the mediterranean, that implies intent. that implies wanting to kill a group of people, and ethnic group or religious group -- an ethnic group or religious group for who they are. it is a very strong violation of international law. brent: no one is saying germany is leading the way with this decision. france has done this. the european parliament, the pope. michaela: absolutely. germany was not leading the way on this. more than two dozen countries who came first. this can be criticized, but, of course, there is a large turkish community here in germany, so it seems that berlin took care not to offend them and not to offend that important partner in turkey as well. brent: it is easy to see how sensitivities can change, even if it does tak

sowy bitradition she would have come here to ankara. perhaps she hurries along a street like this looking forward to being with her cousin, with whom she can share this amazing secret. >> elizabeth! elizabeth! >> mary? >> elizabeth tells marine layer how, despite being too old to conceive, she really is now six months pregnant. >> as soon as i heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. >> when mary goes to elizabeth and they're both pregnant, john the baptist leaps for joy. we can imagine there's a rapport between these women. >> there is an attempt throughout the gospels to portray john as the forerunner who prepares the way for the coming of the lord, the lord being jesus himself. >> 2,000 years on, the possibility that john and jesus are related has triggered fresh investigation into the study of john the baptist's relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom higham and george kazam have come to the nelson atkins museum in kansas city. they want to analyz

so has the german president and the eu both drawing sharp rebukes from ankara, even after as candidate for president as obama would. >> for those of you who are aware, there is a genocide that did take place against armenian people. >> president obama said woe say the g word but hasn't. he's not alone. every other president since reagan has also shied away for fear of angering turkey, a secular society. turkey hosts insurlik air base. >>> that we will not speak the word genocide even though that's the word of exactly what happened to the armenian people because we don't want to oofned ally. that's a far from courageous stand to take on a seminal human rights issue and it is not something america can be proud of. >> reporter: friday, turkish supporters staged their own demonstration. 100 years on it's time to put the issue to rest. >> let's go to the broader tragedy that exists to both muslims and armenians. >> they feel they were lied to. >> my ancestors are survivors of the genocide. it pains me, angers me, frustrates me. >> another year with lack of recognition of the suffering of th

some of them such as exploring of ankara walk -- the ruins of an kara -- ruins of angkor wat. flowing down the river, landing this was landed in the middle of saulsbering in a hot air balloon and hunting in mozambique much has been written about bill's sensitivity and diplomacy in managing the brilliant but combustible founding editors of "national review" and of his other pulemical and intellectual skills. but in my opinion his genius as editor has been underrated as a major factor in the success of the enterprise. it was in his role as editor that i worked most closely with him and could evault his -- and could evaluate his effectfness. what was of paramount importance to him in editing "national review" was that the writing be distinguished. it seemed to him more important that a writer write beautiful prose than thet he be a movement conservative. indeed some of the people we publish never were conserve ative. young john leonard later editor of the sunday "new york times" book review certainly was not and is not. some started out as conservative or perhaps nonideological a

so by tradition, she would have come here to ankara. perhaps she hurries along a street like this, looking forward to being with her cousin with whom she can share this amazing secret. >> elizabeth! elizabeth! >> elizabeth tells mary how, despite being too old to conceive, she really is now six months pregnant. >> as soon as i heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. >> when mary goes to elizabeth and they're both pregnant, john the baptist leaps for joy in elizabeth's womb, we can imagine that there's a rapport between these women. >> there is an attempt throughout the gospels to portray john as the forerunner who prepares the way for the coming of the lord, the lord being jesus himself. >> 2,000 years on, the possibility that john and jesus are related has triggered fresh investigation into the study of john the baptist's relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom hyam and george kazan have come to the nelson atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. the

>> the kurds and ankara established a strategic partnership beginning in 2011. a pipeline was built from kirkuk to jahan on the eastern mediterranean. oil would be exported and stored in tankers in jahan. in 2013 there were $13 billion worth of turkish goods sold in kurdistan, there was an additional $30 billion worth of construction contracts that were agreed to, so there was a lot of economic cooperation. what happened in 2012 in turkey was a seminal shift in the country's approach. then-prime minister erdogan felt deeply offended by president assad of syria. he turned against assad, with whom he had worked to establish friendly relations. he thought that the u.s. would lead an effort to support the free syrian army and the syrian national council so there would be are ea regime change finish there would be a regime change. when that didn't happen, turkey decided to support arab sunni extremists as the point of the spear fighting the assad government. and that included support for al-nusra and, ultimately, for the islamic state. so turkey was serving its own n

dozens of 81 provinces were affected including ankara and istanbul. trains were halted millions lost power. the prime minister said the likely cause was a problem with transmission lines. amnesty international says governments around the world executed fewer people in 2014 than the year before. the agency believes it's a sign of support. al jazeera's erica pitzi explains how high-profile cases in the u.s. may be driving the decline. >> according to amnesty international, the numbers of people known to have been executed worldwide as seven. saudi arabia iraq united states were among those leading. several states in the u.s. and ohio and oklahoma came under fire for boxing executions carried out by drug injections. witnesses say death row inmates suffered for almost 30 minutes before he died. according to an investigation by the associated press, lethal injections are suppose to take half that time. >> he after 2 minutes began to gag audibly. >> literally gag. it begoings gloat. cases like that is why the american pharmacists adopted a policy on monday

there's snow in the forecast if you're located near turkey, anka ankara, two to five inches. some elevations could exceed 20 centimeters. fog? take note of. i'll end with a beautiful picture in paris. if you've been to the city, you know how special it is. it's even that much better when you get out and enjoy it in the springtime. i want to end with the photo because i love the eiffel tower and love this time of year in paris. >> it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. >> without a doubt. >> friends and family love it. >> thank you very much. >>> half of all flights, speaking of paris, in and out of france could be canceled thursday. the second day of an air traffic controller strike is underway. french aviation officials asked workers to cut their flights in half. >> part of the dispute is over plans to raise the retirement age from -- listen to this -- 57 to 59. they also claim staff members are declining despite increasing national and european regulation. air traffic controllers are threatening more two-day strike later this month and in may. >>> greece due t

more in the ankara region. between five, perhaps ten centimeters of snow in the forecast. something we'll be monitoring as cold as slips and slides across that region. in fact, temperatures there running about ten degrees celsius below where they should be. well, this is a pretty nice photo to end with. people enjoying the springtime weather. the warming trend set to continue for places like paris and london, that is a nice place i'd like to be. i don't know if you've ever been to the eiffel tower, but there is no substitute for being in paris in the springtime. >> i've been there. snapped lots of pictures. also the season brings out, i feel, the best in people. new ideas, new plans, new relationships. >> i like that. new relationships and friendships. love it. >> ending on a good note. see you soon. >> thank you. >>> we'll get you news out of afghanistan now. a u.s. soldier was killed wednesday in what's being described as an insider attack. officials say an afghan national army soldier opened fire with a machine gun on u.s. troops in jalalabad. this as they were leaving

turks who not only recalled their ambassador to the vatican and summoned the vatican ambassador in ankara to emperess unhappy not. we heard from the turkish foreign minister who tweeted that the statements are unacceptable, those statements by pope francis, and are out of touch with both historical facts and legal basis. the turk have always contended that the massacre of armenians which left 1.5 million dead were simply the result of intercommunal violence during world war i. of course, if you look back at the historical record, diplomatic correspondents, press reports at the time, it does appear that it was indeed a systemic genocide of the armenians during the first world war. but as i said, the turks have always denied it. it's important to note that in fact pope francis was, as you mentioned, merely referring to a statement made by pope john paul pope ii in december, 2001. it certainly is not a statement without precedent. it is one that clearly has riled turkish sentiment. errol? >> ben, rosemary here. what's the pope hoping to achieve by raising this sensitivity issue that dates ba

by the otto man authorities to wipe out the armenian nation in turkey that caused a lot of upset in ankara. >> it happened in 1915 but is a serious issue in turkey and armenia, and people are divided. >> it is sensitive. turkey has shut the boarder, there's barely any diplomatic contacts between the countries, what makes the issue sensitive is it's the 100th year anniversary that the pope classified as a genocide. >> how much sway does the pope have in turkey. >> the pope doesn't have much sway in turkey but they understand his global moral authority, the that is correct that he speaks for a billion catholics, and his statements are widely disseminated. that's the reason why turkey was upset by the use of the pope of the word genocide. >> what else is turkey likely to do what could to do to protest. the summoning of the ambassador is it symbolic or will there be a fall out. >> turkey follows the same pattern, whether the parliament or the political leadership is used to classify events of 1915. it withdraws the ambassador for consultations. after a period of time they restore to the post.

. >>> turkey is summoning its ambassador to the vatican back to ankara for consultation after pope francis used a word that angered the country. during mass on sunday, the pope said the killing of armenians by ottoman turks a century ago was "genocide." in a tweet, the turkish foreign minister called the pope's comment unacceptable and out of touch with historical fact. here's exactly what the pope said -- >> translator: in the past century, our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies. the first which is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th century, struck your own armenian people. >> armenian groups and scholars say turks massacred more than one million ethnic armenians in the final years of the ottoman empire. turkey says armenian christians and turkish muslims died fighting each other during world war i and since exists there was no genocide -- and insists there was no genocide. >>> still to come, five feminist in china await word on whether they will face charges. we'll bring you the latest from beijing on the women's detention over their fi

an ottoman studies was really under the tight control of ankara. that has passed. there's a new generation of young talented ottoman scholarshs and many, many other scholars in different fields. at the breakthrough in the ottoman studies world has been really noticeable. i think what was once a more pernicious situation is less so. nevertheless, there are still official kind of state involved turkish deniers out there, and they exist in a few pockets around the nation. i think slowly that willie road because they remain on the wrong side of truth -- will erode because the remain on the wrong side of truth, angry, and history. amy: simon maghakyan, talk about what is happening at the state capitol in denver. >> governor hickenlooper and the armenian community will unveil a monument in memory of all crimes against humanity. amy: how did this happen? >> starting three years ago when the armenian community was offered a donation by men from armenia, and we already had a guard installed by armenians of colorado in 1982, so building on that project, we were able to work

we are honored to have foreign minister cavusoglu here from ankara. he will be making his remarks as we spoke and then -- then we'll be taking questions and offering a discussion before he has to depart. there's no challenge, difficult issues confronting turkey, its allies and other states in the region. he will be addressing those. one of them that we have worked on here at carnegie in particular is the challenge posed by iran's nuclear program and the diplomatic effort to deal with that. we have just published a book here with a colleague and it's available outside. if anyone is interested. turkey's nuclear future, looking forward. but as i say, the minister will speak and cover a whole range of these issues and then we'll have a discussion from thereafter. minister cavusoglu is minister since the last two years, but previously he was the minister of european union affairs and also is a dnr one of the founding leaders of the jk party in turkey. so, with no further adieu mr. minister, please. [applause] >> thank you so much. for the introduction. dis

washington this past week after ten day visit to coalition capitals where i met with partners in rome and ankara, berlin and finally in brussels where i briefed the members of the european union in the north atlantic council. my engagements in each of these stops reinforced my confidence in the coalition strategy to council -- to counter isil across the informational, the physical and the financial spheres in which it operates. the territory isil has lost in the increasing financial strain on the organization and the diminished morale and increasing desertions of its fighters were clearly degrading its capabilities. the so-called caliphate is under direct assault. to date, the coalition has conducted nearly 3,000 air strikes, i believe in fact one over that number last night. against isil territories. more than 1600 of them in iraq and nearly 1300 in syria. we have taken out isil's fighters, many of its commanders, as well as infrastructure, support to its terror infrastructure and facilities and including 20 training camps, and over 200 oil and gas facilities. so as the coalition campaign began

in from ankara. he will be making his remarks as we spoke and then -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> then we will be taking questions and offering a discussion before he has to depart. as we mentioned, there's no challenge of difficult issues confronting turkey, its allies and other states in the region. he will be addressing those. one of them that we've worked on here at carnegie, in particular, is the challenge posed by iran's nuclear program and the diplomatic effort to deal with that. we've just published a book here, a colleague and i, so it's available outside if anyone is interested. turkey's nuclear future looking forward. as i say, the minister will speak and cover a whole range of these issues, and then we'll have a discussion from thereafter. minister cavusoglu the past two years. previously, he was the minister of european union affairs and also is one of the founding leaders of the jk party and -- in turkey. so without further ado, mr. minister, please. [ applause ] >> thank you so much for the i