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lib i can't's internationally recognized government has called on the u.n. security council to lift an arms em boring oh, they say they need the weapons to fight isil. the national oil company has declared itself unoperational after a series of attacks u.n. brokered tacks are set to resume. we have this report. >> reporter: anan attack on the oil facility left it unop unoperable. most of them are linked to to isil. they destroyed equipment on wednesday. on monday, another oil line and eye pipeline carrying crude came under attack. and these facilities were also hit last month. at least 14 people were killed. in a country plagued by war in rekeep years libya's oil

industry is a prime tagger i production fall friend 1.6 million-barrels a day before the revolution to less than 300,000-barrels a day. soma tacks in recent days that libya's national oil corporation says it won't be fulfilling its contracts. it says it might close all of libya's fields and ports if the security situation doesn't improve soon. libya's two rival governments are still in a power struggle a delegation from one of them the court installed tripoli government was at this airport when it was targeted in an air strike. >> translator: we are here at the airport as we were going to the national dialogue meeting unknown war planes carried out a strikes and as you can see behind me, there are plumes of smoke. this is yet another attempt to prevent us from go going to the meetings and sabbath to himming the efforts of the libyan government. >> reporter: the airport was hit by forces loyal to the

internationally recognized government. talks are resumeing in morocco but expectations of a solution are low. >> translator: we have asked for dialogue since the beginning. dialogue based on fixed foundation, recognizing the legitimacy of the parliament is a red line and that's irrelevant reversible. we cannot go back to the beginning of the outdated national conference. >> reporter: in the meantime the country's oil belt is going up in smoke. al jazerra. iran's foreign minister says a nuclear deal with world powers could be close but there are still some major gaps that need to be killed. u.s. and iranian officials have wrapped up through he days of negotiations over the nuclear program. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has been holding talks with his iranian counterpart. the parties have until the end of march to strike a deal. syrian activists wants the united nation to his press is

sawed. they say people are dieing and starveing from disease zeina holder report from beirut in neighboring lebanon. >> reporter: these children say they are hungry and they have no food at home. rebel-controlled area is under siege by syrian government forces. local charity organizations are able to provide some help to families. but even those groups find it hard to bring in supplies to this besieged suburb of damascus. over the past two years the u.n. has been able to bring aid to this district. but activists say it has been months since any goods were allowed in. >> translator: there is no food at all. and you are hearing the words i am hungry from many people every day. already 15 people died from starvation. there is no drinking water. the regime is using starvation as a tactic against rebel areas.

>> reporter: this is not the only damascus district where people are hungry. others have been sealed off from the outside word. children are dieing from starvation. just 20 days old, he was the 172nd victim in the past two years. people here don't only need food there is a lack of medicine. >> my daughter has asthma and the other four children have similar cases my nine year olds daughter fouls down every time she tries to walk, there is no medicine here to cure them. >> reporter: the united nation nationsing over 200,000 people live in besieged areas where conditions are deteriorating by the day. many are not being reached because of the fighting and the lack of access. >> the problems of getting aid and food in there are immense and growing. since the sixth of december, we have been able to get virtually nothing in. and this is the population which has been living now for years

under a siege a very cruel siege, part of the problem is that there are clashes in the camp and part of the problem is that we don't get clearance from the syrian authorities. so there are problems and the 18,000 civilians there are the ones who are paying the highest price. >> reporter: and they have been appealing for help. u.n. resolution have his been passed to increase aid access across the front loon in frontlines in syria but they have had little impact without political action, zeina holdzeinakhodr, al jazerra. an attack on a u.s. ambassador, he was in surgery for two hours after he was in surgery for two hours. >> reporter: this is him second seconds after his attack, he was attending a routine breakfast conference in seoul. as he was leaving the events a man rushed forward he shouted

referencing the u.s. military exercises and south and north korea should be reunified. he was quickly overpowered and pushed from the scene. police would only identify him as a man called kim. the ambassador was taken to a local hospital, his condition is described at not life threatening. u.s. and south korea are currently carrying out extensive military operations which will continue until next month. they are described as defensive in nature. but they have been branded unprecedentedly provocative in nature by the north koreans. u.s. base is more than 20,000 troops in south korea long the world@'s most fortified border it is seen -- [ inaudible ] mark is a popular figure his wife gave birth and seoul and he gave his newson a korean middle name. he has received a call from u.s. president obama who heard him a speedy recovery but this attack will lead to a review of

security for him his family and all u.s. diplomats in south korea. alan fisher, al jazerra washington. china's economy is slowing down the premier says exports are dropping off and people should be encouraged to buy locally made goods. they have been addressing leaders at the national people's congress, our china correspondent adrian brown has more now from beijing. >> reporter: of course no economy in the world matters more than china's right now. and today premier has been out lining his economic forecasts his projections for the year ahead. he says that he hopes china can achieve an economic growth rate of 7%. significant because that is confirmation, proof that china's economy is going to continue to slow. last year, the economic growth rate was 7.4%. the premier says that china is entering what it calls a new normal of economic development. that means that the period of stellar economic growth is over.

china's economy is beginning to mature. economists say the danger is this, what happens if china's economic growth rate falls below 6%? that could create widespread job losses in the manufacturing sector creating what the government here fears most, which is social instability. the premier touched on unemployment, he said he hopes that unemployment can be kept below 4.5% in the cities, and overall he hope today create 10 million more jobs this year. but clearly this is a prime minterministerminister with an awful lot on his play. regional leaders made thursday the deadline for the president and the rebel leader to agree and bring the country out of conflict. the warring sides about be been holding direct talks in ethiopia. let's join dag run soi.

what chances are there of ideal being signed today, do you think think? >> reporter: if you at that you can to many analysts they are saying the chances of signing this comprehensive this much after anticipated comprehensive peace deal are slim. the leaders disagree on everything, they brought in new items to the existing agenda. now the president and the rebel leader have been holding their talks since tuesday they have -- they are not agreeing on the power sharing agreement -- on the power sharing deal that is on the table. the power sharing deal says the first vice president, of course the president and then a second vice president. now, the rebel side says the first vice president has to share some responsibilities with the president. and vet some of his positions.

the president wants the first vice president and second vice president to have equal power. they also don't agree on security arrangements. how will the two armies be reintegrated? will they be reintegrated? will they stay separate. what power arrangements will there be here and what security detail, who will provide the security detail to him when he returns, they also talked at length when and how will this be implemented. how autonomous will the federal states be. a lot of things still up in the air. still a lot of mistrust. joining me to discuss this is mr. duke who has been following these developments. how do you expect things to play out? >> as it stands now chances

that a peace agreement will be signed are very slim, but i am still optimistic that a peace agreement can be reached by midnight today. >> reporter: and what if the deal is not reached? what are the implications to this country? >> well, if ideal is not reached. it's clear that the citizens of south sudan are fed up of the war. and the leaders should heed to their call and make this happen by all means, they should remain and ask them to give them the amount of time that they need to reach an agreement. we do not want them to come back to juba or go back to their fighting bases throwing out excuses, because enough is enough. >> reporter: the international community has threatened sanctions if this deal is not signed s this a way to go? is there too much pressure perhaps? >> well, i don't think it's too much pressure.

they have been threatening the parties for quite sometime now. but we haven't seen any action translate from the punitive measures they have been promising. putting in place these sanctions by the security council i think is a very important step in the right direction. because now if the parties don't play the blame game, so and so is responsible i believe. which we all know will not translate in to peace this regime has to be accuracy t* i straighted so that the parties will realize how serious the international community is towards bringing peace. >> reporter: thank you very much. and, nick, i must tell you it's not just the even u. threatening threatening sanctions the african union has threatened to make public a report of investigation.

it implicates both sides of the divide. just this week the u.s. security council passed a resolution for sanctions against what they say entities are both sides of the conflict, those that fail to start the peace interesting tiles ahead and it interesting to see how all of this plays out in the coming weeks or indeed the coming months. >> thank you very much, catherine. still to come in al jazerra anger at ukraine's government after a tragic mine disaster in a rebel-held city. already scared by months of conflict. and much-needed money from muslim charities in the u.k. is held up for fears it's ending up in the wrong hands.

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♪ ♪ hello again welcome back. these are the top stories on al jazerra. libya's internationally recognized government has called on the u.n. security council to lift an arms embark owe. they say they need weapon to his fight the rise ofize ill. it follows a number of attacks. south sudan's leaders are under pressure to sign a lasting peace deal. regional lead verse made thursday the deadline for them to agree and bring the document are you out of conflict. the united states has condemned an attack on its ambassador to south korea. mark lippert was slashed in the face at a breakfast function in seoul. 1010 miners are still missing following a gas explosion at a ukrainian mine which killed at least 23 others, as john hendon reports from donetsk ukraine's

mine minister is accusing the rebels of slowing down the rescue effort. >> reporter: after the the blast came the confusion. >> translator: suddenly there was dust everywhere. and people were groaning. >> reporter: outside the mine, too, things were murky. >> translator: there was an explosion, it's unknown where the people are. what condition they are in. no one knows so far. >> reporter: most of the 230 men who entered the mine were evacuated. some with horrific wounds. >> translator: there was a bang and then it threw me so hard i flew for three or four meters. immediately the heat, temperature rose. and here are the consequences. and then the temperature became a little lower. and we slowly started crawling out. >> reporter: for the families of those who didn't make it out there was wait and worry. >> translator: he was supposed to retire next year. everyone is angry that they say on tv that 32 people died.

but nobody tells us anything. >> reporter: the deadly blast left ukrainians asking whether politics delayed help for the men dropped underground. ukrainian prime minister says the separatist government that controls the mine denied entry to 60 experienced mine rescue workers he sent. perhaps costing the trapped miners crucial minutes. >> translator: i gave instructions to sends six brigades, each composed of 10 people. but the russian terrorists did not give an opportunity to the ukrainian mine rescue brigades to get to the site and to help to pull out people and save the lives. >> reporter: the separatist government says those rescuers were not needed. >> translator: we are using 135 men for rescue operations inside the mine. these men belong to the military mountain rescue service of the donetsk people's republic. if it's necessary the head of the republic is going to ask for

help from the russian minister of emergency services. and the luhansk people republic. >> reporter: then there is the question of what caused the blast. the separatist government, the donetsk people's republic, said a buildup the methane gain is to blame. this is the latest of deadly accidents it's happened enough that there is a tradition of burying them in this cemetery near the mine. a gas field explosion killed more than 100 people, it was the deadliest mine accident in ukrainian history. john hendon, al jazerra donetsk, eastern ukraine. former u.s. police officer darren wilson will not face criminal charges of violating civil rights after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager. michael brown was shot dead in ferguson, missouri last august. the incident sparked widespread protests across the united states kimberly how death has halkett

has more. >> reporter: the investigation lasted for months, it was ordered bite nation's top lawyer, attorney general eric holder who concluded. >> the facts do not support the filing of criminal charges against officer darren wilson in this case. michael brown's death though a tragedy, did not involved prosecutable conduct on the part of officer wilson. >> reporter: hole der said his teams of investigators reviewed ballistic, forensic, and physical evidence. they gathered testimony from dozens of witnesses. in the end the justice department concluded the evidence did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that officer darren wilson intentionally violated michael brown's civil rights when he shot and killed him last august. after brown's family learned of the justice department's decision they released a statement saying, while we are saddened by the decision we are encouraged that the department of justice will hold the ferguson police department accountable for the pattern of racial bias.

it is our hope that through this action, true change will come not only in ferguson, but around the country. in a concurrent investigation the department of justice did find that the ferguson police department had been engaging in a longstanding pattern of racial bias and violated u.s. law. >> today's report allows the city of ferguson to identify the problems not only in our police department, but in the entire st. louis regis. we must do better not only as a city, but as a state and country. we must all work to address issues of racial disparity. >> reporter: after combing through more than 35,000 pages of police records the department concluded ferguson police officers routinely stopped and arrested without probable cause and reasonable force was often used during those arrests. >> both policing and municipal court practices were found to be disproportionately harmful to african american residents, all of these conditions unlawful practices and con constitutional

violations created an intensely charged atmosphere where people feel under assault. >> reporter: the attorney general says his department will not work to develop instructs trail reforms and force compliance so that in the future everyone in ferguson and around the united states will be treated equally under u.s. law kimber halkett, al jazerra washington. the leader of one of mexico's most violent criminal gangs has been captured by security forces. he heads the drug cartel. he was arrested in a pre-dawn raid in a northern city of monterey. venezuela is marking the second anniversary of the death of the former president hugo chavez. his successor nicholas maduro still faces massive economic challe compensation losing support even among his core followers. virginia lopez has this report. >> reporter: it's been two years

since venture have swa* los los venezuela's hugo chavez died of cancer. his absent is still felt for some taking on a relike us furfur, for others, sadness has given away to dissolution. the oil-rich nation faces the highest inflation rate in the world. chronic food short i believes and an overall sense that the golden years of the revolution are over. continuing shortages of milk and auto parts hit her twice at as hard. she often returns home empty handed. >> translator: i personally think if chavez hadn't died maybe things in the country would be working better and not like they are now. our situation is critical. we have to queue for hours we can't find basic products, shortages are becoming too much to bare and that affects all venezuelans. >> reporter: and yet only a few doors away, another shop owner

says life here is still business as usual. >> the revolutionaries, some are unhappy with some things in the process but i think it's because they are not seeing things clearly, i imagine that's what's happening to many of them. they are unhappy so they think maduro isn't doing things well. >> reporter: as people gear up to celebrate two years of chavez's death. many here feel the leader's support as wavered under his successor. chavez had an undisputed political acumen, he also courted popular support thanks to state-run grocery stores, medical clinics staffed by cuban doctors and even cashed happened outs but charisma can't be handed down, unless president maduro succeeds in tackling the economy and renews his mentor as message, analysts fear his base of support will weak glen there is a weakening in the support that president nicholas maduro once had the revolution is no longer giving answers to

economic needs, eight out of 10 10 venezuelans think the country is heading in the wrong direction but it's still a strong social, cultural and political force. the weaknesses in president maduro's leadership have to do more with his economic policies and the absence of any new message. >> reporter: this year's commemoration may surf serve as a distraction from every day violence and escalating tensions with the united states. but the respite will be temporary in the face of soaring inflation and a lack of goods on the she felts. virginia lopez, al jazerra caracas. u.k. banking regulations are springing muslim charities from sending low donations to places like gaza and syria, according to a group of charity who his claim their accounts are routinely blocked by banks over fears they are paying armed groups, they want the government to prove that they are acting in good faith. >> reporter: this is the traditional charity shot. second hand clothes good goode for sale, small donations for

big props nobody usually raises questions about where charity money end up. in the u.k., muslim charities are under the microscope. this is one office of a big charity muslim hands that raises millions of dollars a year for victims of trouble spots. they like other charities have had donations delayed by the blanks or blocked completely and that they say can cost lives. >> a month delay on a three-month payment with bring work to i grinding hold. where you work in emergency zones and that money is destine today food parcels medicine, basic medicine or refugee camps or whatever you it can cost lives. >> reporter: the argument from the authorities pushed enthusiastically by much of the british media is the charity donations can end up funding terrorism either deliberately or by accident. owe the banks have to prove they aren't channeling money that way or they can risk find and

reputational damage. the problem is that instituting the due diligence checks demanded by the financial industry would cripple many charities, they say their requests for help are being met by silence the effectively the charities say they are acting under suspicion of guilt until they can prove their own innocence. the banks insist they are only do what the government is telling them to. the government says it has to stop the money trail to terrorism, but the charities say that neither the government nor the banks is bothering to explain to them how they can prove that the money is going to good rather than bad causes. so a group of muslim charities commissioned are you report in to how much money from well-meant donations have been blocked in the last two months, there is no clear answer but it's certainly in the millions. >> if the banks wanted to they could roll up their sleeves and say we understand there is good that we could be doing here. but in general they don't take

at that attitude. these clients aren't profitable. they present potential headaches and actually perhaps the banks would prefer if they went some else. >> reporter: this isn't the first time this problem has a runs barclays decided to pull the plowing a money transfer service from the u.k. to somalia for the same reason that prevented ex-patriots from sending money home. you might think that banks which have been accused of things like money laundering would want to help charities prove their own innocence but as the now it seems the financial district prefers to keep its distance from companionate competences of islam. well, the u.k. government is responded by saying that it is committed to insuring that consumers, charities and businesses are able to access the banking services they need. a fossil found in an ethiopian desert appears to be changing what we know about the evolution of mankind. the jawbone with five intact teeth is more than 2.8 million

years old. and that makes it half a million years older than any previously known human remains. the direction of our website aljazerra.com is the address all the news, of course, that we are covering plus plenty of opinion and plenty of analysis. >> on "america tonight,." >> 87 year old celia van de grift remembers her time in the hospital at the lynchberg state hospital. for the epileptic and feeble minded. witnessing thousands of forced sterilization procedures. >> the end, a superrace, something we connect with nat dizzy germany. >> at the