♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha with your top stories, more confusion in geneva as russia accuses the west of attempting to derail the people. covered in ash, hundreds of thousands flee a volcanic, eruption in indonesia and family reunions after a top level meeting between north and south

korea. plus. >> i'm in tacloban after the typhoon and government facing criticism for doing too little too slowly. ♪ russia accused the rest of attempting to sabotage the peace talks in geneva and comes as a senior diplomate from the u.s. and russia agreed to try to end the deadlock of the talks which are showing distinct lack of progress and russia's foreign minister says the opposition demand for regime change isn't helpi helping. >> translator: we have an impression those back in the opposition of the process wanted to make the entire geneva ahead of the talks but they had regime change because everything they want to talk about is the creation of a transitional governing body. >> reporter: let's ask james our diplomatic editor about the

significance of the comments in geneva. >> this is deeply significant because we thought when russian and u.s. enjoy came to geneva and still here the idea was to kick start the process and have been the sponsor of the peace process and now it seems these two nations are briefing against each other and seems that he is saying the west and i'm sure he is saying the u.s. is trying to derail the process and it has deep significance of course because go back to last summer president obama was very close to going to war, to launching military action in syria. the reason there was no military action was, one, this peace process cosponsored by the u.s. and russia and, two, the deal on chemical weapons cosponsored by u.s. and russia. now on chemical weapons, the u.s. is accusing the syrian government of stalling and not doing everything it should do and on this peace process now the russians are accusing the

americans of trying to derail the process. the reasons that obama didn't go to war, the reasons he cited seem to be disappearing. >> reporter: james, why would the russians make these comments now and brahimi in a press conference said russia and u.s. promised to unblock the process. does that look likely with these comments? >> it doesn't look likely that it's going to unblock the process. why are the russians so angry right now? they are angry about what happened here and they believe they are trying to hurry the process and this is a process that will take many, many months and it will be a slow process and there should be no artificial timelines but i think it goes beyond what is happening in geneva and i think the russians are very angry about the humanitarian resolution and the west is trying to push in the security council and western nations will tell you they are trying to push it now because of

the sochi olympics. this is a good time when they will accept the resolution and i think the sochi olympics is a time of national pride for the russians where they feel empowered and don't want to be pushed around by the rest of the world and i think it's also worth mentioning somewhere completely unconnected with syria but the tensions are ukraine and straining relations between russia and the west. >> and this is james reporting for us from geneva. well the u.n. humanitarian chief is urging the security council to find a way to increase access to syria. so far the only real humanitarian success from the geneva talks has been securing a cease fire in homs and aid is being delivered and people are being allowed to leave but the u.n. is saying much more needs to be done. >> we have got 1400 people out and we have 240,000 people in

besieged community and we need to be able to get to the hard to reach areas. security needs to be improved. the kinds of administrative hurdles that have been put in our way, those need to be streamlined so that things are just much faster. >> reporter: well, it's not just homs where people have been trying to escape the violence, hundreds have crossed into lebanon after intense fighting and stephanie decker reports on the lebanese side of the border. >> it's hard to hold on to dignity here. and she has been forced to move three times inside syria and now she had to leave her country altogether. . >> translator: we have been displaced for over a year and now here. god help us. >> reporter: people are still arriving here. they packed what little they

have left and are coming across the border. lebanon is not only dealing with refugees, there is also security issues being felt here. the lebanese army patrols the camp surroundings and this is a border town and residents are supporters of the revolution and rebels are holding on to the town, the syrian army with hezbollah are trying to take it back and families forced to rely on handouts. aid agencies are here trying to organize the new arrivals and they have given mattresses, food kits that should last a month and aid workers have seen an increase of the number coming across the border. >> estimate is 500 households within the last two days and it's significant to get real exact numbers because people are entering from different entry points but family are

continuously coming so the numbers are increasing day after day. >> reporter: back in the camp fuel is given out to families to heat the furnaces and it gets bitterly cold at night and no sense of relief here just hundreds of people with one wish, to be able to go back home. stephanie decker, al jazeera, on the lebanon, syria border. >> police in ty are tearing down barriers in bangkok and demonstrators are blocking a major intersection near the office and they are demanding the government resign and wayne has more from the capitol. >> such is the reluctance by the government to use real force against protesters and some of the rally sites in bangkok have

been largely vacant and police targeted on friday morning going in the areas and clearing some equipment that the protesters have left behind. again, hearing from the prime minister on friday saying that she did not want to see any real force, any unnecessary force used against the protesters. the police did turn up here to suburb in very large numbers and met by a very small group of antigovernment protesters and after a brief standoff the police have now left the area. this seems to have been just a very small step in what may be a small process to clear parts of the ty government. >> reporter: around 200,000 people ordered to evacuate their homes in indonesia after a volcano volcanoer -- eruption. >> 1 1/2 hours later it erupted

and 200,000 people in 36 village's around the volcano did not have time to leave and it spewed rocks and volcanic of ash and within 10 kilometers are told to leave the homes and it darkened the skies over the large parts of the populated island java and airports were closed immediately and causing huge disruptions for millions of travels and it has a deadly past and erupted in 1990 killing 34 people and back in 1999 more than 5,000 were killed. there were no deaths after the most recent eruption in 2007 after authorities ordered a successful evacuation. another major eruption and another volcano and indonesia is taking the brunt of natural disasters and they are better prepared but the lives of

hundreds of thousands are effected again. i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: we, there are more than 130 active volcanos, and the one erupting is 140 kilometers from indonesia's second largest city which is a major industrial center. it's on the island of java home of 240 million people and because of the large population that is close to active volcanos hundreds of thousands of people live on the slopes. indonesia is prone to eruptions because of the location on the ring of fire and that is a series of fault lines through the western hemisphere to japan and west asia and we will speak to a volunteer who is in the red cross city and she is in a city near java and can you tell us

about the eruption and what you saw of it? >> can you hear me? you are live on al jazeera. can you tell us about the eruption of the mountain? >> okay, i'll tell you about what happened last night. so it's about 9:00 p.m. and they are on alert and about two hours later, about 11:00 p.m., the eruption happened. >> reporter: at the time of the eruption you are a volunteer with the indonesia red cross society, how many people did you evacuate and what were the most important needs? >> yes, because very high

presence, the department of mitigation, the high pressure like lava and gravel blows up 17 kilometers high but it doesn't really influence with our city because of the influence to the west and to the north. >> reporter: thank you and we will leave it there and thank you very much and she is joining us from indonesia. well, rare high-level talks between north and south korea ended and took place on the village and said reunions of families separated during the war will take place next week as planned. the last reunion seen here were this 2010. harry faucet has more from the

south korean capitol, seoul. >> a different conclusion to the talks than the ones that happen on tuesday when they went late in the night and no agreement and this time they were shorter and a statement from the south korea side which suggests there has been agreement on three core principles and first the family reunions between february 20-25 they will go ahead as planned. they have been thrown into doubt because of north korea objections to carrying out the events and these are reunions of families separated in the war 60 years ago and should not happen at the same time of the south korean exercises and south korea said they made no concession that the military exercises will go ahead as planned and they agreed to with north korea is both countries will stop squandered and an end of what is cross border slander and the delegate having to say the north

korean opposite numbers and he said that the south korean government could not stop that kind of coverage that north korea objections to in the south korean media and started thomas jefferson and explaining the importance of free speech in a democracy and the third is further such high-level discussions which have not happened for the last 7 years until wednesday this week and they will continue and another round of such talks at both country's convenience and we are left with something they had agreement to last week which is the family reunions going ahead but there is a prospect of further talks and a breakthrough certainly considering how bad they got last year in is certainly an improvement. >> reporter: and more ahead on the al jazeera news hour including the growing challenge of getting aid to the hundreds of thousands of people cutoff by the fighting in the demeanoric republic of congo plus. >> i'm with a group of

firefighters and only have two boats looking for blood victims in all of this region. >> reporter: and russians are calling it a tragedy as one of their greatest olympic medallist moments before he is due to compete and joe will have all the details. ♪ but first it's been more than three months since the typhoon ripped through the philippines and devastating and the first of a three-part series al jazeera looks at what happened and we will go live in a moment but first we have this report from tacloban, the city hit hardest by the storm. >> the streets of tacloban are bustling again but life is anything but back to normal. electricity and running water have been restored to most places. but three months after the

typhoon swept across the philippines much of the devastation remains, dead bodies are still being found in debris and survivors remain haunted by the memories. 66-year-old fisherman lost his home and five members of his family. year i thought humanity would be wiped out and everywhere i looked there was water, i looked up and it was dark and the wind and waves were howling. i had no hope there could be life after that. i left it in god's hands. >> reporter: and what is left of his family have been surviving on donations like others in the fishing community, he also lost his boat in the storm. his only means to earn a living. to prevent a similar catastrophe in the future the local government has banned anyone from living 40 meters from the shoreline. but many people in village's here say they have no where else to go and have rebuilt their shelters exactly where they used to be, just meters from the

water's edge. the local government has built temporary bunk houses to accommodate the displaced but not enough for those in need and housing is one of many challenges facing these communities. >> infrastructure and people trying to get back in the lives they had before especially vulnerable people and especially poor people in society, it's difficult for them to get them on the first rung of that ladder. >> reporter: more than 650 million u.s. dollars in aid have come in but solutions for long-term rehabilitation are not implemented fast enough for many. >> translator: they keep calling meetings but no help has come and what do we do when the relief runs out? >> reporter: but these children aren't as worried about the future. they take each day as it comes and unafraid can still build their sand castles on the shore.

i'm with al jazeera, tacloban >> tracking relief efforts for us is joining us live from tacloban. >> yes, i am at the evacuation camp in tacloban and we are here to talk to a young couple who survived the typhoon more than three months ago and this is mira and glemire and thank you for talking to al jazeera and you are a young couple and a mother for the very first time and you have a seven-month-old unborn baby at this point and you said you have lost your job and live in evacuation camp with no food and water, what are your other concerns at this point? >> we are very worried about the future of our family and the future of my baby. and we are living here in, no,

100 days at the evacuation center but no assurance to leave and the aid and the food and water and we are really worried about our security here in evaluation sn -- center. >> reporter: what do you want the government to provide for you immediately and in the future in terms over a long-term plan for recovery? >> we really need a permanent shelter, food, official assistance, medical assistance and aid because especially here, all the people here in evacuation center, the others got sick and we need medicine and we need it immediately. >> reporter: you said despite all these problems you are a young couple and you remain optimistic and how do you manage to keep your optimism, in fact, alive despite the situation you are in at this point.

>> praying to god he will provide everything we need here in evacuation center especially our security, our health and not only for us but also for the people in the evacuation center and hoping our life will be stable and we get our permanent shelter that we really need right now. >> reporter: thank you, miran and i hope it works out for you in the end. that was a young couple who survived the typhoon three months ago and they want a sign that things will eventually be better for them, back to you. >> thank you, we are reporting for you from tacloban where tie poon hit a couple months ago and i'm sure you report the typhoon we are reporting on and what do you have on updates for weather patterns. >> reporter: the uk is not as

bad as the philippines but bad enough and a conveyer of storms making their way in and this is the next one and making its way in the celtic sea and into wales and you see this well and truly entrenched already and the wet weather will go north and east through the day and some parts could see 20-40 millimeters of rain and a month of rainfall over the next 24 hours or so. some very strong winds as well. if we go through the day we will see the winds picking up to maybe gusting as high as 130 kilometers per hour and much of southern england of the uk seeing that very wet weather. the winds really stepping up as we go through the overnight period. come tomorrow and saturday, an area of low pressure in the north sea and we have blustery conditions saturday and still showers coming through

nevertheless and you go on into sunday and that is the dry day, a chance for things to improve slightly. it's a temporary respite and i will move out of the way and you see wet and windy weather coming in for the early part of next week. >> thank you for that, they are trying to get aid to areas cutoff by flooding there and 42 people killed and tens of thousands forced out of their homes since the downpours began in november and likely to get worse with more rain expected and we have more on recovery efforts near the city of trinadad. >> we are on a rescue mission with a group of firefighters going from small communities on the banks of the river and live in houses that are used to flooding. now the situation has gotten much worse. this family like many other families had been trapped by the waters for over a week and live in homes where they are used to

flooding but not floods this bad. firefighters have been bringing food and water to some of the families there because the situation for many of them is unbearable. people telling us that there are many children that are getting sick. now, the firefighters only have two boats and only five firefighters going for all the rescue missions and like they tell us they are very overwhelmed with this situation. >> reporter: to the democratic republic of congo where u.n. has plans to send more peace keepers to the southern province there and civilians are caught up in fighting between the soldiers and rebels and distributes food to hundreds of thousands of people effected is a challenge for aid agencies and rebels fighting in the province want to break away and become an independent state and al jazeera reports from the area there.

>> reporter: this food is going to feed hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in southern democratic republic of congo and rebel groups want independence and battling government troops and there is a growing humanitarian crisis and take three days for the food to reach the most vulnerable. >> translator: the situation is volit i le and word and people are running and makes it hard to know where people are and how many need help. >> reporter: officials are concerned about the growing violence and the village is 10 kilometers outside of the capitol was recently attacked allegedly by rebels and they want protection from more attacks. >> translator: the soldiers said if you hear shooting stay in the house, do not come

outside because you will be killed but we still don't feel safe, as the people ran in the bush. >> reporter: there are not enough soldiers or u.n. troops to patrol a province roughly the size of spain. the fighting has displaced more than 400,000 people. this area has been attacked several times and people live in constant fear and belongs to the chief and when the fighting started he ran away and has not been seen in a while. but the armed groups said at -- atrocities are done by the soldiers and they will sit with the democratic republic of congo and the province rich in minerals is a source of income to the government and letting it go may not be an option, al jazeera in the province. >> reporter: people from northeastern are linked to those in myanmar and face problems

because of race and many people say this type of discrimination is common. >> she a theatre actor in south india and routine for her to interact with indians and from the northeast region of india so is being discriminated against and many treat indians differently because to them they look like they are from china or myanmar and the worst experience with racism took place a year ago after a minor traffic accident. >> 30-40 men gathered and including the motorist and then the police constabal joined the mob and again assaulted me twice. >> reporter: at this college a third of the students come from the northeast and say they feel safe and accepted here but outside the campus it's a different story.

>> it just happened to be the morning after college. >> they would say toomloo which means you people come over here and you create nuisance and all that. >> reporter: not much they can do out of fear they can make things much worse. the it centers and the city's modern cosmopolitan feel attracted many people from the northeast. but influx of migrants to the cities in india over the past ten years and ethnic differences led to active racism in different parts of the country as well and some of them deadly. in january 18-year-old died after being beaten by locals in a new deli market and led to widespread protests. a former member of a minority's commission says racism is not systemic by rather the acts of a few. >> half or uneducated guys maybe

coming from poor families and who are in respective areas also. >> reporter: locals also don't believe it's a huge problem and they do take issue with the western clothes many northeast people wear and some consider too revealing. >> translator: i don't have a problem with them but they don't dress appropriately and have never given me any problems and i've never seen acts of racism towards them. >> translator: i consider them indians and part of the country but the way they dress is not appropriate for the culture but i have no problems. >> reporter: the comments don't help much and people on the receiving end of threats and insults say they feel like second-class citizens and this is al jazeera. >> reporter: much more to come on al jazeera including. >> i'm lawrence leon border between the united kingdom where

the fault lines and the search for gas are getting wider. >> reporter: hot under the collar and chaos in the indian parliament and a politician uses pepper spray on a colleague and in sport we go behind the scenes of one of the top teams in basketball and details coming up. ♪

♪ hello, the top stories on the al jazeera news hour russia accused the west attempting to sabotage peace talks in geneva and comes as senior deposition mats from

the u.s. and russia agreed to end deadlock with talks and showing a distinct lack of progress. around 200,000 people ordered to evacuate homes in indonesia after a volcano eruption and people were killed because of debris. and south korea says family reunions will take place next week as planned. and when armed revolutionarys brought down kadafi in 2011 they were hailed as heros by the media and the groups feel betrayed and taking it out on a series of attacks on libyan journalists and al jazeera john reports from tripoli. >> first came the masked gunmen, then evacuation order and bullets and rocket-propelled

grenades and captured on surveillance video. >> as you can see here this is completely destroyed. >> reporter: the attack left tripoli's television station bullet riddled and determined to pressing on with the news. >> we will not stop reporting and we will continue. >> reporter: response by libyan security forces, nothing. a show of strength of militant groups and the weakness of the libyan police and army. it's the latest assault in a rising wave of attacks on journalists. arm armed malisha and the militants are critical and active against journalist and all this in a country so secure that in

november the prime minister was dragged from his hotel and held hostage. the attack on the television station happened after it aired some hard-hitting stories from the congress. congress has made it illegal to criticize it so for many here in libya that sounds a lot like the old regime. >> you could be taken to court because of that. that is not what freedom is. this is not what we fought for. >> reporter: and a day after the attacks amid concrete rubble and bullet casings the news goes on. you fear for your life? >> yes, i am. every morning i kiss my children good-bye and i don't know if i will get back home or not. so nobody is safe. >> reporter: until the next assault on journalists who have increasingly turned a critical eye on the aftermath of libya's revolution. john with al jazeera tripoli. 29 people arrested in bahrain as they prepare to rally

for the first anniversary of the up rising and the ministry said the group was arrested thursday over vandalism and rioting and thousands of people are expected to converge on pearl square, the capitol after friday prayers. it was the focal point for the protest movement that started on february 14, 2011 and a post to achieve greater political freedom and equality for bahrain muslims. they may use violence to quash protests and in three years since the mass demonstrations in 2011 were crushed the human situation has deteriorated. in july last year the king issued a decree banning demonstrations, students and public gatherings and journalists and medics have been targeted and it continues to receive reports of torture and detention centers. it also says bahrain leadership has failed to put in place

recommendations made by the bahrain independent commission of inquiry in 2011. let's cross over to a member of the opposition party and joining us on the line from washington d.c., it's a three-year anniversary of when the up rising started in three years. what has your opposition group achieved? >> well, i think the opposition has issued bahrain an agenda and this is a small country and very much talked about by the organization and the issue is there. it has not gone really and i think i really give the critical position of maintaining peace in the country by avoiding really violence. >> reporter: you are calling the group is calling for demonstrations to mark the uprising on february the 14th.

do you think that is a wise move at this point? do you expect a crack down by police and security forces and do you think it will get violent? >> well, the rioting will take place on saturday the 15th outside the capitol, not inside the capitol. it's widely expected to be one of the largest in the country's history. it's endorsed by many in bahrain and i expect it to be peaceful and there could be some sk i rmishes here and there but engaging in activities. >> reporter: let me ask you about the political roadmap, the opposition coalition including what they put forward and last month there were meetings between your secretary general and what came out of that and where do you see the political

roadmap going? >> i think things are improving following that mid january meeting and the opposition were very quick to make it. these have been put forward for ensuring decision making giving full rise to the, elected and transparencies and there are some who do not want to see progress and quite pleased with the current situation and benefitting from that. >> reporter: thank you for speaking to us from washington on bahrain's three-year anniversary. now the trial of three al jazeera english journalists detained in egypt will begin on the 20th and 20 people charged accused of having links to a terrorist organization and it has been 48 days since our staff

were detained and the authorities took fahmy and peter getty and mohamed on the 29th they say they have ties to the muslim brotherhood and he has been in custody since last july and we reject the charges and demands the unconditional release of staff. 11 people killed on an attack in the prison in the yemen capitol and had a car bomb and exchanged gunfire with the prison. the country's news agency says 29 inmates escapes during the chaos. at least 18 people are dead and hundreds of thousands are without power as another winter storm hits the east coast of the united states. it's the fifthth since the beginning of the year and heavy snow is causing chaos across the country and thousands of flights cancelled and 22 states effected

and roads have been transformed into ice rinks. and weather in the uk now and there is more heavy rain forecast for friday. people there are struggling after weeks of flooding. one man has died and tens of thousands of homes are still without power. about 6,000 homes have been flooded since december. emma is joining us from the village where residents have been scrambling to protect their homes and what have they been going through and what have they been doing? >> it's cold and wet and miserable here this morning. the rain has started to really come down much heavier and the wind picked up in the last half hour and things have been improving. we are around 30 kilometers away from central london in a valley of where than more than a thousand homes have been evacuated and you see the water behind me that has been pumped from a bigger pool in the village but when we got it

earlier and people putting out the sound bites just trying to protect the homes as much they could, the village center was under water a few days ago but it has now dried out somewhat but this rain will do little to ease people's fears about what is going to happen next. there is a community center behind me and people in the community have been meeting this morning to discuss how best to protect the homes and moving around the village and fire service too just trying to protect the village. >> what is the picture emma for the days ahead? >> well, it's raining hard here and the storm picked up this morning, another atlantic storm, the third, in a week. and that battered the southwest early this morning and is moving up the coast. now places like summer set and summer set level is a big area in western england which has been bad by effected, bad weather is expected to hit them at some point today and that is

bad news for them because that land has been saturated now for weeks from people who have been forced out of their home for weeks. so any more bad weather of course really upsetting for the people who have been effected in making the job of the emergency services who have been working over time for several weeks, obviously that much more difficult. >> thank you emma hayward reporting from the uk. belgium parliament voted to allow assisted suicide for terminally ill children. under present legislation patients have to be 18 before they can ask to die. the bill is likely to become law in april. now, if appointed he will be this country's third unelected prime minister in a row. and he has this report on the latest political crisis gripping italy which is europe's third largest economy. >> selected to lead italy at the time of the political and

economical turmoil and since being prime minister last year it has been an up hill battle, a battle he could not win and will submit the resignation to the president on friday after his center left party withdraw their support. >> translator: this is an end and we have positive things to say about the work his government has carried out but we will start the crisis in motion. >> translator: we need to explain that we are doing this for the good of the country. we need to boost the energy levels and get through these new reforms which we really need. >> reporter: democratic leader was behind the move to push him out of office. >> translator: i believe we are facing cross roads and as such i wish for women and men of the democratic party to be aware of responsibilities. it's a radical change and it's enforced by the democratic party or no one will do it and must find our way out of the marshs. >> reporter: and he was named prime minister by the president

after elections last february. the show down began in december when he was elected to the party leadership and accused the government of dragging feet of vital economic reforms and failing to pull the country out of recession. the two men failed to resolve differences at talks on wednesday. at the time he refused to step aside and widely expected to be appointed as leader and you will be asked for a new coalition government, the third elected leader in as many years. on thursday they accepted the feet and announced the resignation but it continues the power struggle between the incoming and now going prime minister and didn't do favors to the democratic party which is now accused of choosing prime ministers rather than asking them to do so. >> reporter: police in the netherlands are expecting foul play in the death of a former

minister, the body was found in her home on monday and as the minister in 2002 she was part of a euthanasia bill for people to end their lives and they show her death was suspicious. the uk government said package bombs sent to british offices appear to be the work of northern island. 7 devices sent to locations in the england southeast including oxford and briet in. still ahead on the al jazeera news hour we hear on the shock retirement of one of their greatest skaters and details coming up, with joe. ♪

♪ hello again in northern island they are demanding a ballot on fracking because it's a drilling method to extract gas from rock and those opposed say it was devastate the country side where tourism is a key economic driver and lawrence lee reports. >> reporter: northwestern ireland the farthest reach of the united kingdom and pretty and no one is here so why not frack for gas because there is shale in the hills and there are people here and rely on the land for farming and tourism and air and water for life. when the g 8 had a meeting here last year all the security people who feared empty globalization protests instead got empty frackers and are

furious now. >> it will spoil it and change it to states we have never seen it before and it's irreversible and a worry for humans here and if something goes wrong there is nothing you can do. >> reporter: they are asking the people in their referendum if they want fracking or not. >> it's very, very important that we have an informed vetted and reach a conclusion. if that conclusion is that the people don't want it, then i would expect that everybody would respect that. >> reporter: economic studies are saying that opinion is uncertain about fracking and environment groups trying everything from blocking roads to legal actions against it say local reference -- referendum can be taken through the country. >> they are trying to circumvent what people think and a series of referendum would be something to look at. >> reporter: there is another

fault line in the story that is complicated and controversial, this river is the border between northern ireland in the uk and the republic of ireland to the south and many of the waterways here cross borders so what happens if fracking in one country end up polluting a different one? >> a few kilometers downstream is the irish farmingtown and the river shannon rises near the proposed fracking sites and it's the longest river and the government wants to use it for drinking and means polluting it would effect millions of people >> we say it cannot go ahead and not addressed by the authorities in ireland and not our government yet. we have not been represented as communities on the border. >> reporter: we wanted to ask the australian company if it wanted to carry on if it was

voted against it and what would happen if it polluted not one but two country's water and the reply said they had been granted a government license and look forward to beginning testing this year. lawrence lee al jazeera on the uk irish border. >> and thousands of students march through the streets of the capitol on thursday. and demanding justice for two students killed during antigovernment demonstrations the previous day, three people have died, 66 others injured and 69 people have been arrested during protests across the country. parliament in india had to be evacuated on thursday after an mp pepper sprayed the chamber and chaos broke out as politicians came to blow over a bill to create a new state. and gerald reports. >> reporter: debates in parliament often heat up but this session in india got hot, then spicy when an mp resorted to pepper spray and chili powder

causing mayhem. >> translator: the politicians fought with each other and came to blows and after that a kind of gas was released and they started coughing and the eyes started watering. >> reporter: the mp was protesting against a contentious plan to create the new south earn state and carved from poor districts and also include a wealthy it hub. several mps tried to stop the bill from being voted on during their scuffle the pepper spray was unleashed. >> translator: the incident that took place has disgraced the parliament and the entire parliamentary democracy. >> reporter: they were taken to the hospital and those involved in the fight have been suspended. announced last july the proposal has inspired violent demonstrations, three federal ministers resigned in protest.

the chaos in parliament is another sign of how passionate an issue it has become in india. gerald with al jazeera. ♪ joe is here with an update on sochi. >> he is announcing his retirement and he hopes to become one of the most decorated in history but that ended on sochi on thursday and due to skate in the men's short program but pulled out moments before he was to take to the ice, an injury during thursday's warm up left him clutching his back and the skater pulled up to the referee and announced a withdrawal and they were shocked but clapped as he took his financial bow and a few hours he announced his retirement from the sport and the newspapers

this morning are calling it a tragedy. after the withdrawal he said on the triple axle i felt pain in my back and didn't feel my legs and almost cried there, this is the end of my career and i tried to make it my best. and he was 31 and considered a veteran in the sport and already said that sochi would be his last competition as an amateur and 12 surgeries on his back it has been glittery and he won at 13 and was a 7 time european champion in men's figure stating and won the first olympic metal in salt lake city when he took silver and denied a second gold in vancouver by evan and despite landing a quad jump, the toughest and experts felt at the time he should have won and

despite pulling out on thursday he is the second person in history to win four olympic metals when he took gold earlier in the week and his teammate supported his decision. >> translator: right now we just have words of support and thanks. participating in the team and our success at the tournament. he has done his work and can leave. we are thankful to him because it was a great win for our team that contained a great champion. we wish him only success and happiness. >> reporter: and he had been due to compete in the free program later, there are six metals up for grabs and the men's 15 kilometer reached the climax on friday and super combined race with some of the best in the world including bode miller and axil competing and the 15 kilometer berger is the favorite and all eyes at the

men's figure skating is on japan who is the first to break the 100 point mark in the men's short program after his withdraw and metal in the women's skeleton and see the women compete for gold. more reaction to his retirement and the rest of the moves from sochi on our website and check out al jazeera.com/sports. and building a healthy lead over south africa on day three of the first test and dismissed the host on 206 earlier with johnson taking 7 wikts that is 192 short of the innings and they are 18 for 1. nba and the oklahoma city thunder strengthened their gaps on first place in the western conference by beating la, 107-103. chicago bulls snapped up a victory and hammered the brooklyn nets, one of five

chicago players to score double figures and patch gibson was the top with 16 points and chicago ran out 92-76 winners. and they are on course to make the playoffs. and basketball is hugely popular too in european countries like spain and turkey but in resent years it has also grown in lithowania and they are one of the countries to experience the love affair with the hoop. >> reporter: they have a new job, offered a position in lithawania took a leap of faith and joined the basketball team as the only foreign player. >> nobody loves basketball like lithawania and the whole country focuses on it. >> reporter: there is a hoop audz almost every house here and

the desire to succeed of the american sport was linked with independence from the soviet union. at the olympics in 1992, newly end one a men's bronze metal. and the new club now plays in the euro league. founded in the 1940s this is one of the oldest clubs in europe and they have a ranking of fourth in the world, incredible performance considering this is a country with just over 2 million people and the facilities were second to non-and look around here and you are excused that you were in the united states of america and this is the nba club. >> when they see this i love to play here i said man you should see how i feel when i come running out, it's like a chill feeling and putting me in the nba setting but i'm over here. >> reporter: and the team logo in the club locker room and players suffer a fine and den

mark has respect for his club but not all the fans however respect him. >> i get a lot of criticism outside like who am i playing with like you don't belong here, you are not good enough and i have a relationship with guys through the course i have been here, off the court it has been a little tough but basketball takes me to another place i have never been before. >> reporter: next year fans will be buying their tickets with the new euro currency and watching more foreign players as they continue to punch well above its weight in the arena of basketball. and i'm with al jazeera lithowania. >> reporter: that is the sport for now. >> thanks very much for the update and thanks for watching the al jazeera news hour and it's back to your regular program on al jazeera america and the rest of the viewers it

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