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pain for nigerian consumers. jordan has stepped up air strikes against fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant. the attacks are in retal yaition retaliation against the killing of mu'ath al kasasbeh. troops have been deployed closer to the iraqi border. i.s.i.l. released a video on tuesday showing the killing of al kasasbeh who was taken hostage in syria last year. the jordanians say the only positive thing is a major shift in public opinion. people are now saying they are speaking in one voice and that they are more united with the government some who are

wondering why jordan chose to be part of the international coalition of fighters against i.s.i.l. now got their answer. those who are still saying that jordan shouldn't be part of this coalition and are still opposed to jordan going to war are being silenced because they are coming under fire and people are telling them that these are unpopular opinions at this time. jordannians are very angry they want revenge and they say they want i.s.i.l. being crushed because the death of mu'ath al kasasbeh has touched every single jordanian and every jordanian home and people feel the war against i.s.i.l. is indeed their war. before that they didn't think there were good reasons for jordan to strike i.s.i.l. in syria and iraq and be at war with i.s.i.l. >> meanwhile the u.s. military is moving rescue teams into northern iraq in the murder of

the aftermath of the jordanian pilot. it would strike back against members of i.s.i.l. set the captured fighter pilot on fire and filmed the result. mu'ath al kasasbeh is not only a martyr but for all of jordan, we support his family forever. >> kasasbeh's fellow pilots got the order and bombed multiple targets in the region. it is not known how long jordan can keep up the pace or for how where, but relocated some personal recovery efforts into northern iraq many for pilots who crash in enemy territory.

in washington the jordanian ambassador read out a message from king abdullah about the fight ahead. this is a war the world cannot afford the lose. against today's threats to go beyond and to build the conditions for humanity and to live together in peace. in a.m.man mu'ath al kasasbeh's brother made a statement. >> translator: we will not allow anyone to utilize mu'ath's story and to utilize the country he grew up in. a reaction growing out of anger and understandable grief. rosalyn jordan, al jazeera washington. attacks follow rebel shelling and rooct tacks which killed sevenrocket attacks indamascus.

now made up of 50 smaller armed factions. its leerd leader, zaran al-alosh. >> to iraq now where a decade long curfew in baghdad is due to end on saturday as the government tries to improve life in the iraqi capital. some form of curfew has been in place since the u.s. entered iraq in 2003, hampering commercial activity and the movement of civilians. however some neighborhoods have become more stable. janejane arraf reports. >> getting to shops and restaurants in one of baghdad's most fashionable neighborhoods.

this is mansour. rakes mostly stayed in their own neighborhoods a decade ago. but as attacks decreased investments increased. some people say it protects the area from bombings. here within a few blocks is almost everything fashionable iraqis could want. there are no american chains here but some try to come close. while in other neighborhoods jewelry stores are still a target of attacks these have been immune. it's the first time bushra and her family have been in baghdad since they left for syria in the kurdish region two years ago. >> the situation has improved so we were encouraged to come visit. i didn't before because i was worried about terrorism for my daughters and myself.

>> most people love the hours near curfew. rakes love to go generosity even in baghdad. streets are filled with people shopping, going out for dinner or just getting out of the house. although 2 million rakes is left iraqis have left others have adjusted. getting an early start on valentine's day. restaurants and cafes are packed. investors opened this chain last year. they plan to open 13 more. >> iraq people now have money. they want to spend it. >> reporter: and there's more to come. this 33-story complex next omansour will include a shopping

mall a restaurant a luxury hotel. investments and enough stability to make them work. jane arraf, al jazeera baghdad. the biggest push yet to resolve the ten month conflict in ukraine that have killed 5,000 people. a last ditch attempt to avoid the u.s. arming ukraine in its battle against pro-russian rebels. simon mcgregor wood reports. >> first it was secretary of state john kerry meeting president poroshenko and then prime minister yatsenyuk pointing a finger of blame at moscow. >> russia and the separatists

are seizing more territory terrorizing more citizens and refusing to participate in serious negotiations. let there be no doubt who is blocking the prospect of peace here. >> reporter: significantly he said president obama would decide soon whether or not to supply ukraine with lethal weapons. later, francois hollande and angela merkel flew in. the talking comes as the fighting escalates in eastern ukraine which everyone here blames on russia and its separatist allies. in brussels, nato defense ministers put the finishing understand touches on its new defense force and its spearhead of 5,000 troops, deployable in days. it will have six command centers in eastern eastern europe.

russia is geared to respond to that. they also talked about russia's decision to upgrade missiles, this is a day when western leaders are trying to get new peace talks started for fear the situation may spiral out of control. while they do so, nato is working on how to respond to the crisis, if the talking fails. simon mcgregor wood, al jazeera. >> and russia has warned against any u.s. military support for ukraine. foreign ministry spokesman says such an act would be considered a threat. >> this also threatens the security of the russian federation, whose territory as you know has been repeatedly shelled from the croon side.

>> and rory challenge has more from moscow. >> so many are talking about this meeting as a last ditch attempt. a wider conflagration of the conflict in ukraine that draws in other countries in the region. sets off a broader conflict between east and west. considering all that it's unusual that we know so very little about this meeting and what is exactly going to be talked about. if you consider this, compare it to the minsk agreements that were signed back in september of 2014 when there are all sorts of documents pushed out and made public beforehand, a 12-point peace plan being talked about by poroshenko, again we know so very little about this meeting. and we do have a few hints about what might be going on here. the hint is that merkel and

hollande may be coming with a sort of good cop routine to offset united states bad cop. like look, we don't want this to go any further you don't want this going any further. we don't want the united states funding a ukrainian army. not the minsk agreement where they are right now. then there are rumors here what putin might have on the table as well and those are to do with u.n. peace keeping forces on the ground in eastern ukraine but of course we don't know any of this for sure. we have to hear what is going on on the ground. >> still more to come, results from the black boxes of the plane that went down on tuesday. and ruflg feathers in riffling

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>> the death toll could be much higher than anyone'd known. >> posing as a buyer to get in there. >> 10,000 people are already dead mr. president, who should answer for those people? >> awelcome back. a reminder now of our top stories. and jordan has stepped up air strikes against i.s.i.l. in what it describes as retaliation of the killing of pilot mu'ath al kasasbeh. now expanding raids into iraq. syrian government air strikes have killed more than 70 people in air strikes against damascus. in retaliation of a rebel assault that killed more than 70

people. in ukraine push for a peace plan to end the ten month conflict. as the u.s. considers arming ukraine against pro-russian rebels. taiwanese authorities have explained why a plane crashed one engine failed before the second engine was manually shut down. the news came as divers pulled five more bodies from the freezing waters near taipei. harry fawcett reports. >> already we have a stunning revelation from the aviation council in taiwan. executive director thomas wong telling reporters that one of the aircraft's engines number 2 on the right-hand side there was an auto-feathering.

propeller bleadz played running parallel to the direction of travel. it was working just not providing any forward momentum. there was a message from the pilots to the control tower saying they had had an engine flame-out and then just short of 20 seconds after that initial problem there was according to the aviation safety council using the data from the black box a manual command a manual command to the other engine. the one functioning engine that was still pulling the aircraft through the air to feather the propel her onler on that side. and neither engine was providing thrust to the aircraft whatsoever. i asked, are you saying that the one pilot shut down the operation of the other engine and he said there was a manual

direction of that. barack obama and the buddhist leader dalai lama, attended an annual prayer breakfast on wednesday. beijing considers dalai lama as pushing for tibet's independence. >> the chinese are not happy with any event where president obama and the dalai lama attend a function in the same room. if the two men had shook hands and had a meeting the response would have been altogether different. president obama and the dalai lama have met on three previous occasions. on all three of those occasions the meetings were held in privately but the chinese

spokesman still said his government was unhappy with what had taken place. >> we oppose to foreign countries receiving the dalai lama. we are against any country interfering about in chinese affairs. this cannot be succeed. >> well, the chinese government accuses the dalai lama of being a separatist, someone who wants to break tibet away from china. the dalai lama has softened his approach over the years. that is something the chinese remain resolutely opposed to. >> japanese foreign ministry says he's skeptical. when wolfgang shoburt met ya yanne

yannes. let's get this thank you very much alexander looks like both sides are unlikely to budge. in your opinion what option he are now available to greece's new government? >> well, i think they need really to do the first step that was the so-called trio can troika. the european central bank and start doing a more smooth bargaining with them. because for greece time is running out. they will need money towards the end of this month. and it means that they need to signal that they are willing to continue the missing reforms which were, again yesterday asked to be continued by the german finance minister. >> many people are asking, why

should this new government in grease bear the sins of the previous government? shouldn't all debts be forgiven? >> ha ha that's certainly a nice dream, to all debts should be forgiven. that's not the solution. what's that's not the main problem with greece. the debt of the greek debt, has long term maturity. for the greek debt, discuss the maturity issues. what greece needs to do now in the first place is think how they can start growing this economy. >> we're going to have to leave it there unfortunately alexander. thank you so much or the being with us, alexander krit rvetionkoitikof. ebola raising

hope the worst is over. almost 9,000 have died of the disease since october 2013.. jerald tan has the latest. >> spreading the message about ebola, this in itself is progress. many communities who were once suspicious of aid workers are starting to pay attention to their efforts. >> translator: yes ebola is still here. as long as the world health organization doesn't announce the ebola outbreak is over we will stay vigilant. >> reporter: in the past week the number of new cases went up for the first time this year. in all three of west africa's worst-hit countries liberia sierra leone and guinea. the rise ended what had been an encouraging downward trend. >> good progress is being made. but the outbreak still presents

a grave threat. and we really hope that there will be no complacency among anybody involved in the response. >> reporter: the w.h.o. says unsafe burial practices have contributed to the recent flare-up and there are also concerns that the battle against the disease will be sidetracked by a lack of money. >> at the end of february we will start running out of cash already which means two or three weeks from now. the one thing we can be sure of, there will still be ebola in two or three weeks. we cannot be sure we will have the money we need to stop ebola. >> the largest candidate of ebola treatment being run by french researchers has yielded encouraging results and liberia has begun the first vaccine trials but it's in its early stages. the w.h.o. warns that more needs

to be done before the rainy season begins in april which will make it difficult for health teams to reach affected areas. jarrod tan, al jazeera. >> al jazeera journalists mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed have spent over 400 days behind bars. peter greste has arrived back home in australia after being released earlier this week. security in nigeria has been stepped up ahead of next week's presidential election. a team from the international criminal court is in the country urging all parties to refrain from violence, before, during, and after the february 14th vote. >> no one should be insighted insighted to commit violence. the elections should be held under peaceful circumstances and a warning that anyone who insights violence, then who

comitleanyone whoeconomists crimes, the prosecutor will be watching. >> nienchnigeria has the largest economy in africa. the falling currency, has lost 10% of its value. yvonne ndege has the story. >> reporter: the prices have nearly doubled here because of the falling global price of oil. sellers buy their goods in dollars from abroad. the local currency, the nira, has lost nearly 10% of its value against the dollar. sellers have passed the increased cost to purchases. >> it's ridiculous.

i came intending to spend 7,000. i ended up spending 9,000. the products have been added money to so many of its commodities. >> nigeria's central bank, because of the falling price of oil, more than 90% of the nation's income comes from exporting oil and oil has lost nearly 60% of its value over the last six months. at stores like these in abuja that have been preparing for increased cost of importing goods. >> bringing in most of the goods from abroad has kind of slowed down. we kind of expected i.t. becauseit becauseof the drop in the price of oil. just bad for business. >> but the situation is a little harsher for consumers who have to buy dollars whether they

travel broad and they are having to spend more in nira for dollars. it is an important lesson. >> if you look at some of the arab countries they're also oil rich. they have diversified the economy away from oil. >> nigerians are hoping that the price of oil will stabilize so the prices can come down but there could be more pressure on the currency just around the corner. the presidential election is being held in just over a week and there are concerns if there is any insecurity that could further decrease the value of the currency. yvonne ndege, al jazeera nigeria. as sleuk reports a new kristin saloomey reports.

>> the man standing guard and the barbed wire outside the windows are a constantly reminder: this lesson on shakespeare's macbeth is taking place in the otis correctional facility. and most are inmates. >> change, i knew i had to change and education is a part of that. education opens up doors. >> students from the outside also participate in the class. they say they're learning from the inmates as well as their instructor. >> understanding how much they really care about the education how much time they put into it. how college students put off studying for parties. >> what makes it unique is that it guarantees inmates a spot here or at any city university after they're released. the idea is to provide an education that continues not

only beyond prison but also, beyond the classroom. robert tate is now pursuing a career in english after serving ten years for robbery. he says the program is a life line. >> my thing was when i came home find a job find steady housing find steady income and get back to family and start to build my life over again. i was starting as a 30-year-old as a 17-year-old. >> the program provides assistance with all of those things and more. >> specifically for a population that's coming back to the community after having served time it's vital to reestablish community. and a new community maybe from the one that you left behind. andto so the campus becomes that place to find a new self, find a new community and build a new life after prison. >> reporter: the new program is yet to see its first graduate but participants say they appreciate the second chance to

expand their minds and opportunities. kristin saloomey. al jazeera, new york. >> a quick reminder. you can always keep up to date with all our latest news, analysis and stories on our website. also the top stories on jordan's reaction to the killing of pilot. hi i'm lisa fletcher and you are in the stream. drones in the united states. there will be 30,000 of them flying above your head within the next 20 years. is america ready? ♪ by september 30th of 2015,