>> eight dead a gung men storm a hotel. >> we're live from london. also coming up. team tsipras and doctors using

3-d surgery. eight people are dead after an attack in tripoli that is popular with foreigners. the security guard was killed when a car bomb was detonated. gunmen them stormed the building. the siege lasted several hours before security forces eventually regained control. intelligence groups say that an group affiliating itself with al-qaeda is claiming the attack. >> masked men stormed the building wearing bullet-proof veterans. there was a gun battle that lasted several hours. it came after the men blew themselves up after being surrounded by security forces on the 24th floor. >> this involved a car bomb in the parking lot off the hotel. also there were reports that an

rpg was fired earlier this morning, and then gunmen have swarmed the attack. so this was a very well orders nateed attackcoordinated attack an audacious attack on the hotel . >> a group linked to the islamic state in iraq and the levant has claimed responsibility for the attack. al jazeera cannot independently verify the statement. the hotel in the libyan capitol of tripoli is popular with government officials and foreign diplomats. there have been violence and rivalry among the militia backing up muammar qaddafi. libya is now under the control of two rival governments each supported by armed groups engaged in fighting. analysts say this attack could derail peace talks taking place in geneva. >> both governments have come

out and attempted to get political scores and political point scoring amongst them. they have come out saying this is the work of the former regime and it's already coming out from members of the hor. this is a case of the muslim brotherhood and other islamists in charge. >> in july libya dawn took over the airport. but the attack on this luxury hotel is a reminder that the situation on the ground is dangerous. victoria gazenby al jazeera.. >> in kobane a day after kurdish fighters say they liberated the

town. the majority of kobane's population escaped to neighboring turkey after u.s. launched nearly daily airstrikes in october. some tried to go home but found themselves being tear gassed by soldiers and found it too unsafe to return. it's too early to say mission accomplished as isil has a presence in areas around kobane. two rockets have been fired from syria into the israeli-occupied golan heights. there was no claim for responsibility but israeli media requested army forces saying that hezbollah was to blame. it comes two weeks after an israeli airstrike in syria killed an iranian general and six hezbollah fighters. we have more details from jerusalem. >> the media outlets are quoting an unnamed army source,

emphasizing that israel holds the syrian government responsible for these attacks coming from its certificate tore. now without blaming or even mentioning hezbollah prime minister benjamin netanyahu also said on tuesday evening that those who play with fire will catch fire. earlier on tuesday the israeli army confirmed that two rockets were fired from syria into the owe began heights after there were sounding of northern communities. the rockets landed in an open area and did not cause any casualties or any damage and were fired from a distance of seven kilometers. the army responded immediately by fireing 20 shells into syria according to army officials to send a message that israel will not tolerate or allow these attacks. now hezbollah for its part said it has no comment for activity in the golan heights. now this would be the first

cross border isn't korean attack since. hezbollah vowed to retaliate and the situation at the border remains tense with army deployments and reports that the iron dorm defense system was deployed to that area. now the israeli army never or the government claimed responsibility for the attack. but western intelligence sources at the time said that the attack targeted a cell that was plotting to launch arts into israel and send terror operatives into israeli territory. >> yemen's shia houthi groups

located the locate where it's president, prime minister and cabinet resigned. in greece alexis tsipr as will renegotiate its bail leo deal. >> reporter: some ministers chose the license ceremony, but tsipras is a new breed of politician and chose a secular swearing in instead. they hope to convince european countries to forgive a large

part of greece's debt. and another challenge to restore the faith of the greek people. this is how bad things were, an mp and foreign minister were new democracy was attacked on the street simply for being recognized as a politician. they cried thief as they beat him. we went to speak with him. he said they will not find it easy to win concessions from the countries who lent greece money. asking for forgiveness or new terms is both very risky. but we all live in this country and this is it.

>> much will now depend on what now happens in this building, tsipras said it will clamp down on tax evasion. but that's something that successive greek governments have promised to do with only limited success. these are the offices of a new opposition party. we came here to meet one of its mps. he was in charge of tax collection for the outgoing government but ran into powerful interest groups which resisted change. >> there is a whole system that is based on inefficiencies. this is a system that works because they're accused because there are problems. etc. you'll have to fight against the special interests and the way the system works. >> reporter: athens ways to see what this new government can

achieve. there is a sense of forboding forboding that they may be entering a new dangerous phase of the greek crisis but others hope that the worst is over. >> argentina's president is planning to dissolve the country's spy agency. it comes after the death of a prosecutor who accused the government of covering up the bombing of a jewish center in 1994. we have more. >> reporter: after a more than a week of controversy and protest there has been announcement of a major shake up in the national intelligence process. >> i have taken the decision from the secretary to be dissolved, and an agency to be created that will be led by general director and sub director. they are iowa pointed by the executive by the required agreement of the senate to be able to function.

>> reporter: the prosecutor was found dead in his apartment last week. a day before he was supposed to testify at an inquiry into the 1994 barning of a jewish center in ben nice aries. he spent a decade investigating that attack that killed 85 people. he accused the president for covering up the bombing in order to sign an oil deal. president responded. >> no one is going to blackmail me. no one is going to intimidate me. i'm not afraid of them. they can say what they like, make the accusations they want to. let the judges call me. the prosecutors denounce me. they're not going to move me. >> police are continuing their investigation into the death of prosecutor and vow and a bill

to rebuild the spy agency will be spent to congress. it restrict the contact between government officials and the new agency. >> al jazeera's latin america lucia newman is in costa rica where media is gathering for a summit. >> argentina's president cristina kirchner will not be attending the summit. she has much more important things to do at home, obviously including sending a bill to congress to dissolve the spy agency and create a brand new intelligence agency for argentina. she has been telling her countrymen that the agency had been feeding false information to the deceased prosecutor who was accusing her and the foreign minister of trying to cover up the bombing the 1994 bombing of

a judicial cultural center in argentina in order to protect iran. she said this is all absurd but she has implied at least part of the intelligence agency has been trying to undermine her. this is a plot against her and her government, particularly during this year which is an election year in argentina. most argentinians at this stage don't even know what to think. there have been so many conspire theories around the prosecutor who was said to have committed suicide. now they don't really believe that. now they wonder who to blame and there have been hard facts to explain it. >> still ahead,en inquiry into the death of a former russian spy in london reveals he was given radioactive poison more than once. and remembering the holocaust from the thal wits

camp.

>> hello again a reminder of the top stories in al jazeera. gunmen have stormed a hotel in libya killed eat people before blowing themselves up. austerity figures are being sworn in the greek congress. and syrian town of kobane shows the devastation of nearly daily airstrikes.

the u.s. said it's too soon to say mission accomplished. european union threats are threatening new sanctions against russia as fighting intensifies in eastern ukraine. charles stratford has traveled to the front line and this is what he found. >> the ukrainian crops are moving towards hello-held territories. the ukrainian government has declared a state of emergency and state of alert. right radios ukraine.--across ukraine. as we head forward it became increasingly deserted as we moved to the line. rebel-held territories are five kilometers up the road behind me. we're at a military checkpoint and they're telling us that they're coming under fire every day and every night. the villages hearsay they can

hear the fighting and many have left the area, increasingly concerned for their safety. >> of course, there is nothing to look forward to. to fight means it is difficult for us to work for our children. >> you people are scared. they don't know what is going to happen on this side or the other. people are suffering. >> it's obvious over the last couple of days it has been a worsening of the situation now. donetsk is behind us and we've been stopped on a number of roads as we try to get to donetsk. we also hear shelling all the while rebels are vowing to push forward to take territory. close by we saw a number of detroit ukrainian tanks. on arriving in donetsk rebel tanks carried fighters through the streets.

charles trait stratford al jazeera donetsk. >> eight years after a spy is poisoned in london, he he accused vladimir putin of personally ordering his murder. >> who killed alexander. he had been a russian agent. fought the chechens in the 1990s. he became so disillusioned with his motherland he turned dissident. when asked to kill his friends he had made his grievances public and even had taken them up with a certain vladimir putin who had just become his new boss at the russian security service.

you wonder if there was any connection with his death. >> if it was revenge and the men asked to execute it the inquiry heard that they traveled several times to london several weeks and left a radioactive trail behind them at this hotel in central london. radiation was found all over their bedrooms. it was suggested that he had been poisoned not once but twice. the first time at the offices of a security office, and then again at a hotel where it's thought he received the fatal dose. the deathbed statement was read to the inquiry in which he spoke of hearing the beating of the wings of the angle of death. he went on. the sound of protest from across the world will reverberate mr. putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.

may god forgive you for what you've done not only to me, but to beloved russia. now he has his own tv show in moscow. it's called traitors. a program of those who have betrayed the motherland. still he insists on his innocence and he said it was more likely the british security services trying to frame him. while he had racked up many enemies over the years she hopes that this inquiry will rule out the conspiracy theories. >> the return side continues to deny that he died at all or the causes of his death. i want to end all the speculation. >> the inquiry heard that he had a rare poison and wanted to find a cook in london to administer it. sothey have been asked if they would like to participate in the inquiry, so far they have not

said. >> protests in kosovo's capitol. officers fired tear gas and water canon to disperse the crowd. protesters are angry about the fate of huge mining complex. the government had pledged to take control of the mine which is claimed by serbia. on saturday protesters called for an ethnic minister to quit. >> u.n. averages say it cannot afford to repair homes in gaza because it's not receiving enough money from aid donors. homes were destroyed during the 50-day offensive on gaza last year. it has received a third of the $720 million needed for reconstruction. a spokesman called the situation unacceptable.

>> we have run out of money and that means that here in gaza, it is in grave place because of the frustration, the anger every moment and this is really very dangerous to everybody. right now the big blitz from donors did not reach gaza. what about the billions that had been pledged. we have to tell the truth to the people also to the international community that what is going on in gaza is unacceptable.

we're in bad need, for the first quarter for $100 million to continue the process that we started just a few months ago. >> al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three colleague who is have been in prison in egypt for 395 days. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste were falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood charge they deny. al jazeera continues tothey have been given a retrial. president obama went to saudi arabia to pay his respects in the death of king abdulaziz. . >> in the u.s. a blizzard

warning remains for much of massachusetts and rhode island. let's get more with tom ackerman. in some places not as bad as expected but still fairly serious stuff. >> yes as you said the travel ban continues in effect in masses and rhode island and connecticut, and the snow, as you can see continues to fall. there has been 16 hours of steady snowfall, it has not quite approached the technical definition of blizzard in most places but, indeed it is a blizzard in some place where is you had at least three hours of continuous snowfall and steady driving accumulations. right now i wouldn't exactly call this a winter wonderland. we're here at the boston common in the heart of boston, but you do see your fair share of snowboarders and nordic skiers and dog walkers.

you can say that these are conditions that new englanders are accustomed to and its bearable. one thing that we should stress that the casualty cap is remarkably low not because the storm was less ferocious but there were rigid restrictions on travel. we had practically no reports of road accidents and fatalities, and that's remarkable in and of itself. >> you in terms of the next few days, preparations are in place and it seems as though it has been. >> well, the other good thing here is that the streets are being cleared by this snowploughs and the sidewalk clearer. people are expected to be back to business by tomorrow when the sun will come back. >> thank you for that update from boston.

two yearly girl in london is the first ever to benefit from breakthrough in heart surgery. the life-changing operation was made possible by a 3d printer. it has been described as a game changer. >> looking at little mina playing happily now it's hard to visualize the sickly child she was three months ago. she was born with a large hole between the two ventricules of her heart. it left her breathless and unable to breathe properly. even her hair would not grow. >> she used to vomit all the time. >> patching the hole was the on remedy but the surgeons weren't sure that they could be repaired. then they consulted a 3d printing technology at st. thomas hospital in london.

first an mri scan was used to map the precise structure of mina's heart. then the doctors used a specialist 3d print for make an exact copy. it gave the surgeons the confidence to plan an operation that would work. >> with this type of imaging the surgeons are relying on me, the cardiologist of what's what. with this he shows me what is what he shows me how he's going to operate knowing what to do, that will be a game changer. >> using the 3d model, a patch was created to plug the hole for mina. now three months on from the surgery she's well on the way to a full recovery. thanks in no small part to the doctors at the hospital. >> she was ventilated for 14 hours. as soon as they unventilated

her, she was shouting at the nurses nurse nurse i said, mina. >> here is the actual model of mina's heart. clearly the hole in the middle of her heart that needed to be helped. it's extraordinary to think that this simple piece of plastic enabled a surgery to go ahead and gives hope to thousands more people all around the world. paul brennan al jazeera london. >> cutting jobs as part of a restructureing to save it from bankruptcy. holocaust survivors are marking the liberation of the auschwitz liberation camp. they traveled to the site of nazi germany's worst wartime

atrocityies. jews rma homosexuals and soviet prisoners of war were killed. >> two years ago, buddhist mobs tore through rohingya muslim communities in western burma, attacking anyone in their path. it sparked a wave of sectarian violence that spread to other parts of the country with little hindrance from the authorities. now tens of thousand of rohingya are housed in primitive camps under government armed guard while others have tried to flee oversees to malaysia. but as jason motlagh reports the refugees are being exploited and abused by people traffickers, while aid agencies and governments are failing to protect them.