>> at least 13 people are killed after a shell hit a trolley bus in the ukrainian city of donetsk. >> welcome to al jazeera here in doha. >> the european central bank will inject billions of dollars to boost the euro zone's ailing economy. >> we're following developments in egypt a court ordering the release of hosni mubaraks son in a corruption case. >> the leader of the church in

the department republican of congress tells the government stop killing your people. >> at least 13 people have been killed when a bus was hit by shelling i have not donetsk. this attack happened in a part of the city that is under the control of pro-russian separatists. there's been heavy fighting recently for control of the airport in donetsk. this is the approximate area that is currently under the control of separatists right now in the east of the country according to the united nations. more than 4,700 people have been killed since april, when the fighting initially began. here's this report now. >> life stops dead again in donetsk. this time, a bus hit by a shell or mortar. some passengers died in their seats, others were thrown into the road. windows and lives shattered.

>> they called me and told me my wife was killed. i haven't seen what happened. i just came. i saw them putting her into a car. >> his wife's body was then dumped into a van. this brings the total killed to over 4,800. ukraine's prime minister ironically marking unity day in kiev had this to say. >> russian terrorists today have committed a horrible act against humanity and responsibility lace on the russian federation. >> so much blood has been shed in donetsk since the start of the conflict, particularly here at the region's airport once the pride of the city, now obliterated. ukrainian forces have battled for months to keep this from falling into the hands of pro-russian rebels, but they've lost too many men. they are pulling back. >> a decision was taken to withdraw from the territory of the airport terminal to new

positions. fierce fighting continues at this moment. yesterday, 16 ukrainian servicemen shell shocked during a fight were captured. >> as the fighting escalates calls for a ceasefire were discussed in berlin. no break through on troop withdrawal but some progress made. >> there has finally been an agreement that the demarcation line as stated and marked will be the line from which heavy weaponry have to be withdrawn. >> the grim task of clearing the dead continues. they've seen no withdrawal of weapons yet. >> hundreds of activists rallied against shia houthi fighters in the yemeni capitol protesting the fighters storming the compound tuesday.

houthi fighters continued to sound the palace wednesday. >> two tribesman have been killed fighting with houthis as the fighters tried to capture a base. >> 20 migrants are feared to have died off malta. a government spokesman said eight of 100 people have been rescued and need medical treatment. an italian coast guard vessel picked up a vessel carrying 70 migrants. they were rescued off the coast of libya. >> in somalia, three people including two police officers were killed in a suicide attack independent capitol mogadishu. the attacker drove a car laden with explosives into the gate of a hotel where a turkish delegation was staying.

the armed group al shabab claimed responsibility. >> european central bank announce add bond buying program to boost the euro zone's flagging economy. it will print money to buy up the $69 billion worth of sovereign bonds from march in my the end of september next year. it hopes that what's known as candidative easing will improve confidence in the euro. the announcement was made just a short time ago. >> the good morning council took the following decisions. first, it decided to launch an extended asset purchase program encompassing the existing purchase programs for asset backed securities and covered bonds. under this expanded program the combined monthly purchases of public and private sector securities will amount to

60 billion euros. >> quantity tative easing, one of those awful financial jargon terms which can get oversimplified to money printing. we start at a given central bank which creates money. just a few keystrokes on the computer and billions of dollars are there. that is then used to buy assets, mostly government bonds from banks and financial institutions. in turn, those banks start lending to the businesses, consumers and so the cycle begins. that is how the money is injected, how spending increases and in theory, interest rates go down and inflation rises. it's deceptively simple and does work. we've seen that in the united states, the u.k., it's why japan has followed suit. and it is finite resource, an injection, eventually, quantitative easing has to be eased.

it's not the woman and man on the street that feels it first. banks want to lend to stronger customers, pension funds insurance companies, things like that. stagnation in the euro zone has gone on for years. austerity has only done so much. the powers that be have finally recognized that and decided to get spending. >> the sons of former president mubarak will be released from prison. it was said they should be released because they were not being tried in any other cases. >> just to give you some background, they were arrested in april, 2011 and sent to prison while under investigation for corruption. they appeared in court for the first time in august. prosecutors announced more chars in may 2012, accusing them of stock market manipulation. they had some corruption charges thrown out the next month but

remained in prison. in may of 2014, mubarak sons were sentenced to four years in prison for stealing millions of dollars in public funds. a retrial was ordered in the corruption case. the lawyer said they should be released since they are not being tried in any other case. >> a senior lecturer at the institution for arab and islamic studies told me why the timing of this announcement is so important. >> i think the timing is quite critical because you have their release, where you have the supporters will be quite happy and by cheering for that, the ones who really wanted to change the mubarak regime and participated in january 2005 uprising will be more or less keen on going down on january 25, 2015 to protest

basically their release. >> the leader of the catholic church in the department republican of congress has called on the country's president to stop killing his people. human rights activists say dozens have died in three days of unrest. malcolm web now reports from the capitol. >> following days of anti-government protests, ruling party politicians are trying to assert themselves. here the city's governor speaks to supporters. thousands have demonstrated. they say the president through politicians in his party is trying to change the law to extend his 13 year rule. the governor repeats it. >> the issue the people don't understand is that they think he wants to cling to power. listen to me clearly. have you ever heard him suggest constitutional changes to parliament? where does it come from. >> the protests have been violent, dozens shot dead by

police. protestors threw stones and burned cars. in some areas there's been looting. >> this is what remains of the goods from this chinese store. goodbye is written on the wall. it's not clear why chinese properties are targeted. many say jobs here represent chinese traders better off than them. some say the chinese government supported the government with aid. some see chinese property as a legitimate target. >> in the senate, politicians have been discussing changes to the voting law. the ruling coalition said that's because it wants a census before next year before the election. it could delay the election by years and that's why the opposition is suspicious. we met opposition politician at his home. he says he's been in prison 46 times for criticizing the government and he says the president must go at the end of his second term. >> we will mobilize the entire

population to chase him out of power. he vowed to uphold the constitution in front of the whole country. he's meant to be a guardian of the constitution, so today if he breaches the comment he made to the people, then in accordance with provision 64, the people will evict him from power. >> some people seem willing for a struggle. here protest affairs burned a local authority's office in a suburb. neither side shows signs of backing down. malcolm webb, al jazeera. >> u.n. sponsored peace talks on libya collapsed after one of the two rival governments of libya walked out. the parliament is accused of orchestrating new violence. united nations launched a new round of talks in geneva last week. >> early results in zambia's presidential election show the ruling patriot ok fund candidate slightly ahead.

the election was called after the president died in office last year. police fired tear gas at some opposition protestors who believe the result was rigged. >> there is much more to come still this half hour. we'll look at a new medical test that could make it easier to diagnose heart attacks in women. >> high level talks continue in cuba we'll gauge the reaction of the business community and more than 1 million cuban americans that call south florida home.

>> welcome back. you're watching al jazeera. let's update you. 13 people have been killed by a strike on a bus in donetsk. the city is a pro-russian separatists stronghold. it happens after hours for calls for a ceasefire at talks in berlin. >> an egyptian court ordered the release of the two sons of former president muck remember. they are to be retried in a corruption case. their lawyer said they should be released because they weren't being tried in any other cases. >> the european central bank will boost the flagging economy. it will print money to buy up to $69 billion worth of sovereign funds. >> japan is looking at all possibility to say secure the

release of two nationals taken hostage by islamic state of iraq and the levant. a government spokesman said the government is trying to negotiate with hostage takers, as we report now from tokyo. >> less tan a day remains before the deadline given to save the lives of these two men. the journalist and military consultant. the price for their return, $200 million. japan's government said it will not give in to terror but is trying to open lines of communication with the hostage takers. >> the japanese government is prepared to consider all possible ways to save the two hostages. >> a freelance journalist was asked by isil as a fellow muslim to abwitness at a planned sharia trial last september. he returned without being able to see the captive. he said the government has failed to use his contacts after

separate accusations he was trying to help a japanese student joan the armed group. >> i think the situation is almost hopeless. isis has always made sure to threaten the people they threaten to kill in the videos. >> >> this international crisis represent as major test here at home for the more muscular foreign policy. for supporters. this represents a need for japan to play to bigger part on the world stage. for detract it's a sign of what happens if you do. >> efforts to talk directly to the captors have met without success. japan's recent announcement of aid for the fight against isil is humanitarian, not military in

nature. >> most of what i think you hear the administration saying now is not really aimed as islamic state, but at the japanese public. he that to show he cares he's trying and he's not taking everything off the table. >> isis has a record of video threats followed by video murders. >> al jazeera tokyo. >> iraq security forces are months away from staging a major counterattack against isil. that warning came from the british foreign secretary ahead of a conference held in london. iraq prime ministerial abadi is there for the talks bringing together those fighting isil.

>> a blast happened at the entrance of a military base at dozens of soldiers were heading home for the weekend. security officials say 21 others were wounded. no group has claimed responsibility. >> the recent attacks in paris have prompted widespread condemnation among religious leaders. since then, french soldiers have guarded mosques and 16 goings. many in the muslim and jewish communities fear a backlash, as we now record.

>> i want to bring you more on the european bank's massive bond buying program to boost the

flagging economy. the e.c.b. will buy up to $69 billion worth of sovereign bonds every month until september of next year. let's talk to adrien live for us at the world economic forum in davos. watching comments closely i guess the big question that many must be asking is whether or not it's going to be enough to get inflation going and kickstart growth. >> absolutely. the response to that announcement broadly positive. the corridors here at the world economic forum suddenly buzzing after the announcement. the feeling i think here is that something is better than nothing. of course, he went further than the markets were expecting with that package, 110 trillion euros over two years the markets expecting between 50 billion and 60 billion euros per month but there were some dissenting voices within the e.c.b. it would seem germans and dutch

particularly unhappy about who's going to have to mop up all of the debt. insist be there will be a euro wide responsibility for debt. what's all this money going to do? it's supposed to be loaned to companies, corporations, to private individual to say kickstart the economy, but there's nothing to stop that money going abroad. if banks wanted to, they could buy up u.s. debt. there's a better yield i.e., more profit on it. we'll have to wait and see whether that money does trickle into the euro zone economy. it is very different for the u.s., where it took a program five years to work. in the euro zone, we've got extremely high unemployment, deflation, as well the price of oil currently not helping with that deflationary problem. the feeling here, the talk here is of how long it's actually going to take for that

quantitative easing program to kick in and work, and whether it will actually work. marion. >> i guess that's been the question that's been asked all along throughout these multiple q.e. programs. it's one thing to sort of help the forecasts in some ways, but we're not seeing the benefits trickle down to ordinary people who are still really feeling the brunt of the recession. what are we hearing from the germans? as you said, it is an dependent institution, but germans have very strong views on what certain countries in the euro zone should be doing to tackle debt. >> they do indeed. angela merkel, the german chancellor is speaking in the how well. obviously i'm speaking to you so can't be reporting on what she says. that money takes time to trickle down. the first team to benefit from the injection of cash will be

the stock market. many people will be thinking hang on, this is not who it's designed to do. in the u.s., where quantitative ease has gone worked, the u.s. economy very different to the euro zone, it's taken five years. it took up until 2014 from 2009 for them to actually deem that it was a success. taking a big risk here, i think what investors in particular are happy about is that the e.c.b. is at last showing that it is independent, willing to go out ignore the dissenting voices and do something to kickstart this euro zone economy which is just what it needs. >> thanks very much, with all the latest reaction from davos at the world economic forum. >> high level talks for cuba is about to resume for a second day. there has been disagreement, allowing special privilege to cubans who might migrate pop

florida is home to million was cuban americans. for many, it is a difficult dividing issue. >> the call in show is a forum for an older audience and many aren't afraid to air opposition to a change in u.s.-cuba relations. the station's managers say some have more cautious views about what might happen in the future. >> perhaps the only positive thing that might come out of this is that the mantra of the cuban government that the u.s. embargo is the reason for the problems that whole line of reasoning might fall apart in their face. >> south florida is looking to the future, trade and enend to the embargo is more realistic now than the past 50 years. excitement is tempered by the

realizationation that an end will need congressional approval a move not likely to happen overnight. >> there's a good reason this change is referred to as a fore. any significant economic change will be slow in coming. there is one company here in miami that has seen significant developments sings that historic announcement in december. >> the front reds are just looking super good. >> this is the office of the basin fund, a firm trading into the stock market. for years they've invested in companies that could benefit from better relation witness cuba and since december, shares haveriesen dramatically. >> i remember the movie jaws and the actor sees the shark coming out of the water and says we're going to need a bigger boat. that's exactly how i felt. we're going to need a larger fund. >> for local leaders like the mayor of miami the questions about what normalization might

mean remain unanswered. >> i feel bad as an american, worse as a cuban american, because the united states is the leading country in human rights and fight for democracy and yet we are not demanding anything from cuba. >> for this community moves to normalize operations will have a big impact. while most accepted it is out of their hands, they are paying close attention to what the future holds. al jazeera miami, florida. >> police in the mexican border city of tijuana say a drone carrying drugs that crashed into a supermarket car park. packages taped to the drone were covered with plastic bags containing crystal meth. six pacts were taped to the remote controlled aircraft. >> the leader of germany's anti-islamization movement has resigned after a photo of him

posing at adolf hitler. >> hundreds of minors are staging a sit in at a mine in kosovo protesting a government clamp down on the mines. the government said it would take control of the mining complex which was facing closure but back tracked monday. serbia claims 75% of the mine -- that it owns 75 percent and warned any attempt by kosovo to take it would threaten mediative talks between the two sides. >> in bangkok the former prime minister was forced to resign. she's been defending herself in parliament. m.p.'s are deciding whether she should be impeached. she said a ban from politics for the next five years would be a violation of her basic rights. she faces charges for her alleged role in a controversial scheme. she faces a ban from politics

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