police fire shots during the manhunt. one reportedly hit. following two gun attacks in the danish capital. ♪ ♪ hello and welcome to al jazerra, live from our headquarters in doha. i am is liz beth. also address. ukrainian government forces and separatists accuse each other of violating the ceasefire only hours after it began. the gulf nations label the houthi take over in yemen a coup as thousand pro against the test

against the group' rule. >> reporter: we track a tiger through the snow. we begin with some breaking news out of denmark where we are getting reports that police have fired shots near a train station in the capital. one person has reportedly been hurt. a massive manhunt had been underway across copenhagen after two shootings that killed two people. the latest attack happened at a jewish synagog, one person has died after being shot in the head. the first shooting targeted a calf able. a gunman opened fire on a celebration of free speech. they are treating the shootings as error attacks. >> it's obvious when the first incidents that we decided to investigate as a terror attack.

seeing an incident, another shooting shortly after it makes perfect sense for us to try to investigate it down the same road. so yes, we are. we don't the information to confirm it at this time. >> christina marker has been following the developments, she sent us this report. >> reporter: a second attack this time right in the center of downtown copenhagen. police say shots were fired at this local synagogue. one man was shot in the head. two policemen were injured. passers by fled in panic and the danish capital is tense. such a heavy police presence is unprecedented in denmark. the shooting at the synagogue game just hours after a debate on free speech at this cafe turned violence. >> denmark has been hit by a very serious act of violence tonight. we feel certain now that it's politically motivated attack

and, thereby it is a terrorist attack. we take this situation extremely seriously. we are in a high alarm all over the country. and our main priority at this stage is to catch the perpetrators and make sure that we find them as soon as possible. >> reporter: guests at the event included the french ambassador francois who sent tweets saying that he was under fire but still alive as a gunman tried to storm the buildings spraying the cafe with shots when he couldn't get in. swedish cartoonist lars who stirred controversy with the prophet mohamed is said to have organized the debate. it's reported that he hid with other guests in the cafe's cold store as police did battle with a heavily armed gunman, ultimately surviving the attack. for now it's unclear whether the two attacks were related and how many gunmen security fors are looking for police are scouring the capital and beyond. trying to maintain calm, but the

scale of these attacks is yet unknown. christina marker, al jazerra copenhagen. >> a journalist for a political newspaper he says the shootings have shocked denmark. >> denmark reacted like most of the world with hor arching you or or, horror. most people thought it was awful. but at the same time, it also gave people in denmark extra thoughts about our own security situation. because although we have had terrorist attempts aura testimonies to make attacks against denmark we haven't had successful attacks in denmark. but, of course, a lot of people thought after the charlie hebdo attacks, if it can happen in paris, can it happen in copenhagen we don't know for sure yet but it looks like today it did happen. and some news just in from denmark. danish police say that they have

killed a man or rather that the man that they shot at the train station close to the site of the previous copenhagen attacks has now died. again, news coming in from denmark, police saying that the man they shot has now died. we will get you more on this moving story as we get it. to ukraine now where government forces and rebels are accusing each other of violating a ceasefire only hours after it began. ukrainian president petro poroshenko ordered his army to stop operations at 22 gmt on saturday. both sides agreed to the ceasefire after hawks in the bell russ an capital minsk. >> these negotiations were at the highest level possible. at this time they will observe with the necessary attention and ability. gulf nations have condemned

what they feel called a coup in yemen. foreign ministers from the gulf corporation council issued a statement urging the u.n. to take action to end the take over by shia houthi rebels. meanwhile, talks are being held between houthi rebels and the party of former president. it's hope the leading will lead to the formation of a transitional body that will last for two years but it hasn't stopped anti-houthi protests spreading from across the country. >> reporter: angry protesters set fire to a shia houthi vehicle. yemens third largest city. they say the car was being used by the houthi to his prevent them from holding a demonstration. this is one of many predominantly sunni regions where ante houthi sentiment is on the rise. this is the a see south of the

capital. shia houthis are in control of parts of the city, but people are worried. protesters are out on the streets. >> translator: they kept beating me. torturing me for hours they wanted false confessions that i was never involved in. they want immediate to lie and say nobel laurent and other figures were paying to us protest against them. that american and british organizations are instigating the youth in yemen against them that much they are paying us money to protest against the houthis. all lies. >> reporter: anti-houthi protests are spreading across the country. in the city, many gathered in the main square to express their solidarity with the president who recently forced to resign.

last week shia houthis dissolved parliament and said they were run the country on their own for a period of two years until elections are held. the coup was denounced by the international community. the u.n. is renewing efforts to bring the factions together including calling for new powers for its envoy. many countries have evacuated their embassies in the capital sanaa, including the u.s., which has been actively engaged in drone attacks against al qaeda in yemen. >> translator: we do not coordinate anything with the united states when it comes to these reports about their air strikes in yemen. we only coordinate with the yep enyyemeni army. we reject the u.s. and this play can't interference is blaming some. >> reporter: there is growing

concerns that the power vacuum could lead to more violence and instability. al jazerra. the eye be foreign ministry says it's prepared to intervene in libya as part of an international force combating the islamic state of iraq and the levant. also suggested italians leave libya. on friday isil supporters claimed they had captured the toast the city of s.i.r.t.e. the pentagon has played down the attack as a minor setback but the gains put vice ill fighters within striking distance of the air base, that's where more than 300 american troops are training iraqi forces, isil fighters staged an unyou can is successful attack on the air base on friday. >> they certainly did get to the perimeter of the base. i can't sit here to tell you the degree to which the perimeter was breached. i just don't have that level of

detail. but they certainly did arrive at the perimeter of the base. i also think it's important to make clear that they were immediately engaged by members of the iraqi army. seventh infantry of the iraqi army and all were killed. we don't have any indication of any iraqi certainly no coalition casualty. no indication of iraqi casualties as well. key members of iraq's parliament say they are suspending their participation in the government. this after the killing of a sunni tribal leader. he was among the group of 12 people kidnapped by a shia group in baghdad and then murdered. and a warning imran kahn's report con tank images viewers may find disturbing. >> reporter: iraq has been plungeed in to political turmoil as two major parties sus spent their participation in parliament after 12 sunnis were found kill. one senior sunni m.p. warned the

government of dire consequences. >> we are against those trying to conceal the perpetrators of this crime but this will be considered to many as a message that the crime happened with the knowledge of the government. opening the gate to a full-blown sectarian war that will never end. >> reporter: the unites nations assistance mission in iraq also responded with special representative nikolai issuing a statement saying i call upon all law enforcement agencies to work quickly in order to bring those responsible to justice. while there is no indication who might be responsible for the murders of the 12, it has sent shock waves through baghdad. it's alleged the men were kidnapped by militia at a checkpoint in baghdad and taken to an undisclosed location. one m.p. was released badly beat within a broken leg. 12 bodies were then found in three separate locations across the capital. the government says it's launch ahead investigation but with sectarian tensions running high and already blame being placed on a shia militia for the

murders that, will do little to placate the sunnis. lebanon's former prime minister has made a rare visit to the country on the anniversary of his father's assassination. he was among thousands of people who gathered to honor him. he was killed 10 years ago along with 21 other people. two al jazerra journalist says are out on bail after 411 days in jail in egypt. their fight for justice isn't over. bahar mohamed and mohamed fahmy are still charged with colluding with the banned muslim brotherhood. their previous conviction was thrown out. but their retrial is set for the 23rd of february. al jazerra is calling on the court to dismiss the absurd case and release them unconditionally. still ahead on al jazerra. >> reporter: i am rory challands deep in the russian arctic.

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station in the capital. a massive manhunt had been under under away across colon hagen after two shootings there are treating as terror attacks. gulf leaders have named the houthi take over in yemen as a cure. after rallies against the group. separatist rebels are accusing each other of violating the ceasefire only hours after it began. president poroshenko ordered his army to stop operations midnight local time on saturday. let's take a closer look at the ceasefire deal in ukraine it's known as minsk two. they have agreed to pull back heavy artillery from the front lines within 14 days and all foreign fighters and their weapons are to leave ukraine. there will be a demilitarized zone of 50 meters along the agreed front lines all prisoners are to be exchanged

within five days after ceasefire. if the withdrawal is talk successful, local lexes will take place in accept history held donetsk and luhansk wing regions but under ukrainian law. allowing the regions to form their own police force and to trade freely with russia. well fox many ukraine who already left their homes any ceasefire is too late since the fighting began nearly a year ago. hundreds of thousands of people have fled to russia about 40,000 have sought refuge in a region where officials say they have take then up to 200 refugees every day. some live in temporary accommodation, others are sent to cities around western russia, thousands of kilometers from their homelands. rory challands reports from the arctic city. >> reporter: it's been seven months since dimitri and his wife and son fled the bombs of

eastern ukraine. they left behind a house and everything in it. now they share one room in a college dormitory. they haven't even a spoon or a fork when they arrived. but this family doesn't do much complaining. >> translator: he started working as a builder on a construction site a month ago he got work at the port. a representative from the company came here and said he needed men. several guys from the dorm got jobs there. i work as a shop assistant. >> reporter: the dorm houses 50 thief ukrainian refugees at the moment. down from a peek of 128. since december the 1st. they have been paying their own way after the russian government shut off financial support. thankfully most have picked up work. home may be thousands of kilometers away, but these days the internet keeps friends and family connected. christina is getting news from back in luhansk. >> translator: why didn't you leave? >> translator: i didn't get the chance to go.

>> translator: it's because of work, she had a job and a salary now they can only work half a day. they want to leave but they can't. you need to get a permit to leave the city. >> reporter: the winter nights are long here. it's colder. not all the locals are happy with ukrainian refugees taking good jobs. and the accommodation is cramped but as the man overseeing their building points out, all of that is preferable to what's going on back home. >> translator: the only motivation for them to stay or go is safety. if it's more safe here, they'll stay. >> reporter: now a third grader at a local school, it's highly possible he'll graduate, find a job, start a family here. ukraine will be just a fading childhood memory. rory challands, al jazerra. sri lanka's new president is arriving in the indian capital new delhi on sunday. it's his first foreign trip since taking office. one topic on the agenda will be the welfare of the tamil

minority. >> reporter: heading a family of hindu priests. for the last 25 years he's had to live in this camp. his home and temple are within large tracks of land like this taken over by the slow lan can military during the 30-year conflict. >> translator: these rights and rituals that my family has performed through the generations despite losing our temple, i am pleading with the gods to take us back to our lands. >> reporter: another camp residents who want to return to your village. she says the year she has spent living in temporary housing the lack of proper facilities and a stable income have been difficult. >> translator: even when they go to play our children are identified as camp kids. no matter how well they do in school the label sticks. and they are always belittled. >> reporter: the new president has promised to give people like

them their lands back. if they are not being used to safeguard national security. people here especially those who have lived in camps like this for three generations are cautious, they have heard these promises before. but this time they hope, hope that the new president will deliver. tamals say they he want resents their homes and fears being taken over by the military especially to build hotels or grow vegetables as part of its campaign promise the government has announced it will give back around 400 400 heck 400-hectares are concerned. >> they need land in the excess of the limit that they are using, if that lane is utilized directly by the army, the said lands will be given back. >> reporter: the announcement came a few days ahead of the president's visit to india. the issue you is also likely to feature in his discussions with indian leaders. there are 10s of thousands of

sri lanka refugees in south india many that wanting to back, like gabriel and his family who returned four months ago. >> translator: people want to return to this land where they belong. but they must have somewhere to come back to. and a way to make a living. >> reporter: it's an issue the new president appears to have recognized in his attempt to bring reconciliation to a country covering from a long and bloody conflict. al jazerra, i don't northern sri lanka. protest nurse malaysia have been rallying in support of jailed opposition leader i object ream. he is serve a five-year sentence after his appeal against a sodomy conviction was rejected earlier this week. his supporters say the charges are politically motivated. argentina's a president is being formally investigated over accusations she covered up iran's possible involvement in a 1994 bombing were a jewish center in bone he she denies the

allegations. the prosecutor tack took over on friday after the former prosecutor was found dead in his arm. he died just hours before he was scheduled to testify against her. united nations committee is urging the mexican government to find out what happened to 43 students who went missing in september. the u.n. panel says thousands of disappearances can be linked to police or security forces. the mexican government said theup report doesn't adequately reflect the information the pam was given. pope francis has appointed 20 new cardinals. many of them are from developing countries like tonga myanmar and ethiopian. the ceremony was held at the vatican. the cardinals will one day choose the pope's successor.

now the world's tiger population appears to be slowly recovering. although the animal is still critically endangered the wild tiger population dropped 97% over the past century taking it to the brink of extension illegal poaching and habitat loss are main reasons for the dwindling numbers. there are as few as 3,200 tigers in the wild spread across 13 countries. they have all but disappeared from much of southeast asia where they once thrived. india is home to nearly 70% of the world's wild tiger population following a concert the effort by the government to save it. and once in a decade survey of the endangered a mur shows it too is making a dramatic recovery. nick clark recovers from russia. >> reporter: in the russian far east close to the border with north korea and flanked by china is the poured city once a soviet navel base, closed to outside

world. and always here the tiger has been revered. there are monuments to this rarest of beasts dotted around the city. four hours out of town, deep in the province, biologist and tiger expert pavel briefs his team. it's part of a mass mobilization of trackers surveying an area of tiger habitat three times the size of the next land. the trackers fan out. they have to be alert every now and then humans are attacked and killed. and they know tigers are nearby, the snow apparently is an open book that you can read if you know how. a tiger's age and gender can be identified from their paw prints the trackers also determine the number of tiger cubs there are. >> translator: this is a male we med earlier over there. he passed through around three days ago. >> reporter: given the dire state of tiger populations in populations in southeast asia the story of the

amur tiger is a prettied good one. from a post world war ii low of about 40 tigers the population has increased more than tenfold to around about 500. this is nature in the raw. where all kind of wild animals thrive. everyone is aware what is at the top of the food chain suddenly an urgent call out and we race in to the forest. we find a warden visibly shaken says he surprised a tiger that's just made a kill. he says he heard the tiger crash off through the under growth and he fired his gun in to the air. sure enough, there is evidence all around. the paw prints. and the tiger's prey, a wild bore. pavel has seen many kills like this and quickly deduces what's happened. >> translator: she eight around 15% of it then went up the hill to rest that's what sasha spooked it. >> reporter: later that night

nearby remote cameras give us all rare glimpse of what is probably the tiger it certainly. it is apparently the same animal seen in recent days and almost certainly responsible for the kill. and then more footage of the tiger in daylight. a powerful and wild presence. demonstrating why so much effort is spent trying to save it. certainly the team here can reflect that the amur tying never this part of the forest is thriving. nick clark, al jazerra russia. now, a new type of surgery is allowing those who have lost limbs to get robotic replacements andrew thomas reports. >> reporter: in 1998, jed christy lost his leg when pipes collapsed on him at a building site. after 17 years struggling with a prosthetic limb which often rubbed his skin sore, he traveled from the u.k. to australia for pioneering surgery to give him one of the world's first integrated mechanical

legs. >> even just putting leg on traditionally would take, 10, 15 minutes to put it on properly, whereas this will be just a case of clipping it on, off us. >> reporter: part of christy's new robotic leg has been surgically implanted in to his body it works with the residual muscle and nerves to give him feeling. >> if i tap as simple as this. >> i can feel if. >> jed can feel. they regain their ability to feel the round. >> reporter: a surgery involves drilling above the the where the lynn was are you moved. the surgeon grew up in war-torn iraq and saw how people strug we would artificial limbs but it was hollywood that inspired hype. >> in 1984, i watched the terminator the movie and i was fascinated about how a human being can be part machine part human. and i always had that doom. and now this dream is becoming true.

>> reporter: when surgeons were ordered to remove soldiers ears under sadam hussein he fled by boat to australia. he is no you a world leading integration surgeon. last june, paula fell off her bed while putting up curtains, she broke her leg so badly that after. >> i kphr*eu indications it had to be removed. watched by british army surgeon keen to learn techniques to treat injured soldiers, he is given her the implant for her to clip on a new leg. >> this sort of surgery is still very new. there are fewer than 10 surgeons in the world who have ever cared carried it out and fewer than four patients that have received the implants that allows them to attach robotic limbs. six weeks after surgery she is getting used to her new leg with crutches for now she's walking again. >> i haven't used a wheel cheer since i came out of hospital, after i have i have had my showery put my leg on and it's part of getting dressed.

>> reporter: most of the surge -- most of her surgery was covered by insurance, did depending on complexity they can cost between one and $500,000, but prices will fall as robo limbs become more common. andrew tom is, al jazerra sydney. this week on "talk to al jazeera", musician, songwriter, producer akon, the senna galees american artist that sold for than 30 million records. >> first i'm a businessman. >> akon is an activist and philanthropist and spend a lot of time promoting peace in areas congo.