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man in to part machine. ♪ ♪ we begin in denmark where police have shot and killed a man near the site of two earlier gun attacks. two people are dead and five police officers have been wounded in central copenhagen, the police say the man opened fire on officers near a train station in the district. earlier a shooting in the front of the synagog left one person dead. a cultural center around four-kilometers north of the synagogue was the target of the first attack on saturday afternoon. that's where a gunman fired his way not building while an event on freedom of speech was being held. danish police are yet to concern if the incidents are linked but they are treating the shootings as terror attacks. >> it's obvious that from the first incident we decided to investigate as a terror attack.

seeing an incidents another shooting shortly after it makes perfect sense for us to try and investigate it down the same route, so, yes, we are. but we don't have the information to confirm it at this time. >> christina marker has been following developments developments in copenhagen and she files this report. >> reporter: a second attack this time right in the center of downtown cope copenhagen. police say shots were fired at this local synagog. one man was shot in the head. two policemen were injured. passers by pled in ban i can and the danish capital is tense such a heavy police fence is unprecedented in denmark. the shooting at the synagog came just hours after a debate on free speech at this cafe turned violent. >> denmark has been hit by a very serious act of violence tonight.

we feel certainly is a politically motivated attack and it's a terrorist attack. we take this extremely seriously, we are in high alarm all over the country and our mine priority at this stage is to catch the perpetrators and make sure that we find them as soon as possible. >> reporter: guests event included the french ambassador who sent tweets saying that he was under fire but still alive as a began machine gunman tried to storm the building spraying the cafe with shots when he couldn't get it. swedish cartooners is who stirred converse i with his cartoon of the prophet mohamed. it's reported that he hit in the cold store as police did battle with the heavily-armed gunman ultimately surviving the attack. for now it's unclear whether the two attacks were related and how many gunmen security forces are looking for. police are scouring the capital and beyond, trying to maintain calm but the scale of these

attacks is yet unknown. >> we are taking you live now to copenhagen where we believe this is a police representative who is holding a press conference at the moment on the shootings. the various attacks that have occurred in copenhagen. we will, of course, be bringing you more details on this developing story as the day goes on we are hoping to get a ahold of our correspondent who is there in copenhagen to spoke to us more about this press conference as well as the attacks that have occurred overnight in copenhagen. for now let's move onto news out of yemen where explosives have been found at a major political meeting betweens the houthi coup, the talks were due to take place in over just an hour ago and they have now been postponed the meeting was an attempt bring together members of different political factions across the country. jamal has the very latest now

from aidan. >> reporter: a very local government official here in aheadadentold al jazerra that before the meeting was due to take place they found several explosive devises at the venue the significance cans of the meeting was that it was going to include members of the dissolved par lamb that was dissolved by the houthi led coup, members of the resigned government as well as other senior figures across the political spectrum would immediate here in aden to discuss way to his unify their efforts against the houthi power grab. now, up until this meeting was postponed the southern movement, the separatist movement, those who have been calling for separation from the north, they have been campaigning that this meeting does not take place in aden they said they don't want the north exploiting his problems to the south. they have even threatened to we siege the different hotels here

in aden to prevent the politicians from leaching their hotels to go to this meeting. in fact, they even cut off some of the roads late on saturday evening. although they haven't claimed responsibility for planting those explosives yet. meanwhile, the political -- on the political front. the gulf corporation council continues its effort to try to put international pressure on the houthis to reverse their coup and their power grab. they are asking the u.n. to adopt a resolution under chapter 7 allowing for international military intervention in to yemen as a way of possibly getting the houthis to rethink their power grab. all of this shows just how divided the situation is. but how violent it is and can get even more violent unless some sort of solution is found very quickly. news out of iraq now where the government has sent reinforcements to al baghdadi after it was captured by isil.

the pentagon has played down the attack as a minor setback. but the gains put isil fighters within striking dis' of the air base where more than 300 american troops are training iraqi forces. isil staged an unsuccessful attack on the base on friday. >> they certainly did get to the perimeter of the base. that kit here and tell you the degree to which the perimeter was breached. we 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 casualties. we don't have any indication right now of iraqi casualties as well. meanwhile, key members of iraq's parliament say they are

suspending their participation in the government. the announcement comes after the killing of a prominent sunni tribal leader. he was among a group of 12 people kidnapped by eye shia group in baghdad and then murdered. warning, though, that imran kahn's report does contain images viewers my find disturbing. >> reporter: iraq's plungeed in to political turmoil as two major parties suspends their participation in parliament after 12 sunnis were found killed. one senior sunni m.p. warned the government of dire consequences. >> translator: we want to go against those br* -- we warn against those trying to conceal those that committed that heinous crime it will be a message to minute that it happened with the knowledge of the government opening a the gate to a full-blown sectarian war that will never end. >> reporter: the united nations assistance mission in iraq also responded with special representative issuing a statement saying i call upon all law enforcement agency today work quickly in order to bring

those responsible to justice. 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 low take, one p.m. released badly beat within a broken leg. 12 bodies were then found in three zip rat location as cross the capital. the government says it's launch ahead investigation but with sectarian tensions running high and blame being placed on the shia militia for the murders that will be little to placate the sunnis. imran kahn, al jazerra baghdad. pictures are now emerging of the aftermath of an attack carried out by boko haram fighters in chad. government officials say seven people were killed in friday's a tag, including a local village chief in the village. that's 20-kilometers east of the nigerian border where boko haram is active. aerial footage shows the entire village burned to the ground. the united nation is his asking

for urgent humanitarian access to the south to displayed boko haram fighters. >> with the violence that's plagued northeast nigeria spilling over to tunisia cameroon and chad. we are calling for you are general humanitarian access to refugees and internally displaced people in these country to his provide you are generallily needed assistance for many refugees for locals, for aide workers to the situation is now becoming increasingly terrifying. let's take you back now to our top stories and shootings in copenhagen where police in denmark have been just issuing a press conference. let's go live now to our correspondent there christina marker who joins us from copenhagen what can you tell us about the press conference? what did the police have to say? >> reporter: good morning. the police have just wrapped up a very brief press conference want to go just get the media a little bit more information that they have this morning. they started out by

characterizing the police operation taking place in copenhagen as the largest of its kind in modern time. the other thing that came from the press conference is that they believe that the same gunman stood behind the -- or was behind the two a jacks. saturday and early sunday morning, that's the attack at the cultural cafe where a debate was taking place about blas fem and i freedom of speech and at a synagog in the certainty of copenhagen. the latest that has happened this morning is that at biff 5:00 a.m. local police shot and killed a man who they had approached. they had been monitoring his home and were waiting for him to return and when he returned and they called to him he immediately eached fire at the police. the police returned fire and killed him on the spot. no police officers were injured in this attack.

we are now dealing with three separate incidents in copenhagen in there's les than 24 hours. >> give us an idea of what has been the general reaction in denmark to these shootings. >> reporter: there has been a lot of shock on one hand. this isn't the kind of thing that you often see in copenhagen and just looking at the police presence on the streets here, this unprecedented to have armed police monitoring the streets closing off several areas in central copenhagen, evacuating train stations this has not really happened before in modern times as the police were saying. but also denmark is the birth place, if you like, of the controversy over the cartoons depicting the prophet mohamed. it was a danish newspaper who first printed them. and it led to riots across the middle east against western interests. so in that sense it was expected. but furthermore denmark has

been actively involved in the wars in iraq and in afghanistan and has been a very close ally of the united states. so in that sense, there is a feeling that this would have happened at some point and also there is almost a sense of relief that it wasn't a -- that more people haven't been killed that it didn't happen in a busier location like a train station, it wasn't a bomb blast. >> christina, thank you christina marker there speaking to us from copenhagen, we will of course be bringing you more on this developing story as the day goes on. and still ahead on al jazerra. how thousands of tamils in sri lanka still waiting to go home after the civil war are pinning their hopes on the new president.

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al baghdadi five-kilometers away from the air base on thursday. iraqi forces have sent reinforcements to the area. we have some news out of ukraine now where government forces and row-russian rebels are accusing each other of violating a ceasefire only hours after it gun both sides agreed to the truce after talks in the belorussian capital minsk. the ukrainian president ordered his army to stop operations at 2200 gmt on saturday. >> these negotiations are at the highest level possible. and this time the other party will observe the terms of the agreement with the necessary attention and responsibility. >> let's take a closer look now at that ceasefire deal in ukraine and it's known as minsk two because an earlier truce called in september collapsed shortly after it began think the two sides have agreed to pull back heavy artillery from the frontlines within 14 days and all foreign fighters and their weapons are to leave ukraine.

a demilitarized zone of at least 50-kilometers will be established between the two sides along the agreed frontlines. all prisoners are to be exchanged within five days of the ceasefire and if the withdrawal is successful, local elections will take place in separatist-held donetsk and luhansk regions but they will be held under ukrainian law. if ukraine grant more power to the east, it will regain control of the border. now, this includes allowing those regions to form their own police force and to trade freely with russia. let's go live now to charles stratford who joins us from donetsk. so charles the ceasefire has been agreed to, but both sides now blaming each other for violating the terms. >> reporter: well, i must start by saying that certainly here in donetsk it's been very quiet. it's been the first quiet night if you like, for weeks. no sound of any shelling either

incoming or outgoing from here. however, as you say there have been these mutual allegations accusations by both sides of violations. now, no big details of those violations coming out. we spoke to a spokesperson for the separatists here, he was accusing ukrainian military of committing some of these violations around the flash point town which we have reported from from extensively. we have seen some of the most intense fighting around there. this after the rebel leader last night said that the town's status was not included in the minsk agreement and he had threatened to take action against what are believed to be thousands of ukrainian soldiers inside that town. the separatists say that they have surrounded it. but as we say, we cannot verify any of the allegations being made by the separatists. and similar allegations being made by the ukrainian military

as well. the beginnings of what sound to be, so they say violations of made. but it is very early days. no doubt the o.s.c.e. will be monitoring and possibly analyzing these allegations allegations to get more details certainly here in donetsk overnight it seems as if the ceasefire is so far holding. >> charles, thank you. charles stratford there with the latest from donetsk. as sri lanka's president is set to arrive in india. he is likely to bring up the issue you of thousands of slow lan can tamal refugees living in india. they they fled the country's 25 year war. tamils are still displaced even from within their own country. >> reporter: he heads a family of hindu priests. for the last 25 years he has had to live in this camp.

his home and temple are within large tracks of lands like this taken over by the sri lanka military during the 3-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: she is another camp resident who wants to return to her village. she says the years 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 allalways be little. >> reporter: the 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 there is hope, hope that the new president that they voted in will deliver. tamal's say they resent their homes and fears being taken over by the military especiallily to build hotels or grow vegetables. as parts of its campaign promise the government has announced it will give back armed 400-hectares of land. >> we don't want to compromise the security of the country no way. but any land in excess of that limit that they are using and if that land is utilized by the government or the army they will be given back. >> reporter: the announcement came a few days ahead of the united states president's visit to india. the issue you is also likely to fetch never his discussions with indian leaders. there are 10s of thousands of sri lanka refugees in india many who want to go back to slow sri lanka. like gabriel and his family who ones four monthswhoreturned four months ago.

>> people want to return but they must have somewhere to come back to and a away i to make a living. >> reporter: it's something that the president has realize the. to hong kong now whereas many as 20,000 mainland chinese cross in to the territory each day to buy goods to take back to china. now, critics say many of them are smuggling excessive amounts in what's known as parallel trading. this has led to angry protests. as sarah clark reports. >> reporter: every day they come by bus or train from mainland china. over the border to this district in northern hong kong. they arrive with suitcases and bags. baby formula used to be the main purchase. these days shoppers come to buy anything from snacks to medicines. >> i come here to get food, fax chocolate and powder.

>> reporter: the goods sold her are often better quality the shoppers can also avoid import taxes when they return to china. >> translator: because it's cheaper. and there is more variety. >> reporter: business may be booming, but not everyone is happy with the rising influx of day trippers. many are personal shoppers, but some are buying here and smuggling goods back to china to sell at a higher price. a scheme known as parallel trading. >> they claim they are tourists, but clearly 80% to 90% of them are the traders, they are not a realtorrist. >> reporter: customs indicates as many as 20,000 mainlanders arrive here some days, locals say it's putting pressure on public transport and pushing up retail rents. this shop has been here for 12 years. but the owner can't afford to stay and is moving elsewhere. >> translator: these shops used to sell every day stuff but have

now charm are change today pharmacies, there are more pharmacies than convenience stores. >> reporter: last weekend the issue you came to a head with angry protesters tagger targeting mainlands shoppers. there are more rallies planned in coming weeks. >> the hong kong government has done nothing to solve this. and it seems it's unlikely to do anything. >> reporter: nine issue of parallel trading is not new it's been happening here for around a decade. but the number of shoppers arriving from china is growing. and it's feeding the anti-mainland sentiment held by some groups here in hong kong. the hong kong government has put in place some limits, but it says the increasing number of day trippers is good for the economy. with some locals grappling to deal with the changing landscape, it's threatening to become yet another case of the deepening hong kong china

divide. sarah clark, al jazerra, hong kong. pope francis has appointed 20 new cardinals. many of them are from developing countries, including tonight gas, myanmar and oaths open i can't. a ceremony was held at st. peters basilica in the vatican, the cardinals along with 150 others will one day choose the pope's successor. well it's the stuff of science fix fiction part human part machine a new surgery allowing those that lost their limb to his receive robotic replacement, andrew thomas right-hand from sid 234eu679 in 1998 jed christy lost his leg when pipes collapse odd him at a building site. after 17 years struggling with a prosthetic limb which oven rubbed his skin sore christy 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 the leg on traditionally would taken it, 15 joins put it on properly. whereas this will just be a case of clip it on, off you go. >> reporter: part of christy's new robotic leg has been surgically implanted in to his body it works with residual muscle and nerve to his give him feeling. >> if i tap as simple as that. >> yeah, i can feel that jed. >> jed can feel it. they regain the ability to feel the ground. >> reporter: surgery involves drilling in to the bone above where a limb has been removed and inserting a titanium rod not cavity. the surgeon grew up in war half torn iraq and saw how people struggled with artificial limbs but it was hollywood that inspired him. >> 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 dream and now this dream is becoming true.

>> reporter: when under sadam hussein surgeons were order today remove surgeon's ears as punishment for did he percent he fled by boat to australia. he's now a world-leading osteo integration surgeon last june paula fell off her bed while putting up curtains she broke her leg so badly that after complications it had to be removed. watched by a british army surgeon keen to learn techniques to treat injured soldiers, he is giving her the implant for her to flip khr*eup on a new leg. >> this sort of surgery is still very new. there are fewer than 10 surgeons in the world that have ever caredcarried it out and fewer than 400 patients that have received the implants that allow 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 wheelchair since i came out of hospital. after i have had my showery just -- it's just put my leg on and it's part of getting dress.

>> reporter: most of her surgery was covered by her health insurance, depending on its complexity surgery and limbs can cost between one and $500,000. but prices will fall as robo limbs become more common. andrew thomas, al jazerra. united nations commits i is urging the complex can government for further investigate what rule happened to 43 students who went missing in september. the u.n. apartment says thousands of disappearances with be link today police or security forces. it's urging mexico to establish a special prosecutor's office to lead investigation. the mexican government says the u.n. report does not adequately reflect the information the panel was given. 140 pilot wales have died after they became stranded in new zealand. conservation workers and volunteers have managed to refloat 16 whales but they couldn't save them all. it was the country's largest

stranding in recent years. experts say the area is a whale trap because of its shallow waters. quick reminds arer that you can always keep up-to-date with all the latest news and analysis on our website that's at aljazerra.com. is "techknow." a a show about intersection of hardware and heuvment and we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science, by scientists. tonight, "techknow" investigates mining the deep. dr. shini somara is a mechanical engineer. tonight, one company's ambitious plan that could