♪ reports say at least 40 people have been killed in a syria government missile strike in ada mass cousin suburb. diplomates from around 20 countries meet in vienna to try to find a solution to the conflict. ♪ hello and welcome to al jazeera i'm jane dutton in doha and the last prisoner in guantanamo bay and had been detained without charge since 2002 and proposal to create the world's biggest marine ra severe gets support

from china but falls short of an agreement. ♪ we begin with breaking news from syria at least 40 people have been killed by government missiles east of the capitol damascus, conflict monitor and a local rescue group say 100 people were wounded in the attack on a marketplace in duma the observatory for human rights said they fired 12 missiles on the town and top diplomates are meeting in austria to find an end to the violence and u.s. secretary of state wants to see a way forward with talks but john kerry says it will be very different and france's foreign minister says there must be significant change in syria and the first time both sides have been invited to the table and u.n. secretary ban ki-moon has called for flexibility and we

are joined live from vienna and what is the plan for today, mohamed? >> reporter: well, jane, the plenary section started in the last half an hour. all the diplomates meeting at the hotel imperil behind us, the area which is hosting these talks today. the first time that iran is at the negotiating table discussing the future of syria, very interesting development that iran is here, in the past iran wanted to join but the u.s. made sure they were disinvited and now since the completion of nuclear talks they are involved in these negotiations but as you just said u.s. secretary of state john kerry and several diplomates today and yesterday insisted these talks will be nothing if not difficult and a short while ago i caught up with the saudi delegation that is a few hundred meters to our left here and across the street from

the hotel imperil and one asked when how things are going said we will see, really striking a note of guarded optimism and heard from all the diplomates who arrived here from yesterday and it is significant that the archrivals in the middle east will be sitting across from each other at the table and if they will yield a difference in syria that has yet to be seen. now what has been interesting is there seems to be a softening in tone from many of the western diplomates the past few days of the syrian president bashar al-assad possibly taking part in some portion of the transition process including the french, the french in the past said syrian president bashar al-assad had no role to play in the process and softening their tone in that regard and let's listen

to what the french foreign minister had to say to reporters a little earlier today. >> translator: france's position is well-known and want to free syria, syria that is an entire country that has all the components of a society who can live properly. today we have a terrible war and it's necessary that significant changes take place, first of all we need to fight even more effectively the terrorist of da'esh and al-nusra and then we need to organize the political transition and of course mr. bashar al-assad who is responsible for a large part of the syrian crisis and cannot be considered the future of syria. >> reporter: no matter the statements we heard of guarded optimism the mood here the fact remains that it seems that the diplomated bar here has been set very low. everybody is stating going into this that these are going to be very difficult talks, in fact, yesterday u.s. secretary of state john kerry says it's like

a charting a course out of hell and under scored by the fact fighting is going on today with the renewed initiative and diplomatic talks and trying to find a compromise and with your lead into my jane 40 deaths from a missile strike in syria just this morning. also the u.n. just in the past few days saying that at least 120,000 newly internally displaced people in syria just in october alone because of the increase in fighting because of the uptick in air strikes from the syrians and the russians so these are going to be very difficult talks, it's unclear whether they actually will end tonight, originally we were told they would end tonight but there does seem to be indications perhaps they could stretch on for another day if there are results seen earlier today in this plenary session. >> thank you. the last british prisoner in guantanamo bay has reportedly been released, and he had been detained without charge at the

prison since 2002 and emma hayward reports. >> reporter: held at guantanamo bay for more than 2000 days, never charged, never convicted, the last british resident to be detained at the u.s. base. supporters have always maintained he is an innocence man and that his family has been robbed of a father, a husband and a friend. the campaign for his release has been a long one. >> 14 years of torture, i mean torture is bad enough be when someone has never been charged and assumed innocent it's just intolerable. >> reporter: picked up in afghanistan in 2001, his family says he was doing charity work and that he was sold for a bounty to u.s. forces. u.s. authorities alleged he was leading a unit of taliban fighters. in his 13 years as an inmate in the world's most notorious

prison he was never charged and went on hunger strike several times, one of the many prisoners whose only form of protest was through their stomach. campaigners say he was held in appalling count discussions, sometimes in solitary confinement and beaten. early in his presidency barack obama promised to close guantanamo a legacy of predecessor's war on terror and so far it remains open and it's still a subject of human rights allegations. and his release comes after 13 years, it's expected he will be reunited with his family including one child born during the initial stage of his incarceration, the fate of the 113 inmates inside guantanamo is uncertain. emma hayward, al jazeera. free-lance investigative journalist who has been a lead campaigner for release and joins

us on the phone from london and good to have you on the phone and i should imagine you are relieved and his family is relieved. >> this has been nearly 14 years of an absolutely unforgivable detention, how many people without charge or trial, that is unacceptable. >> why was he released? what were you told? >> reporter: well, he was released because he was told by the united states, i'm shocked by this still eight years ago under george w bush they didn't want to keep holding him and a high level review person with president obama maybe six years ago also said that they no longer wanted to hold him and so it should have been a very straightforward method to return him to the uk but what have all had to conclude over the years is that the people were pushing for him not to be released because he has been a troublemaker in guantanamo. what i mean by that is that he has resisted the injustice of

his detention on that of everybody else and from the beginning wanted to be treated in accordance with the law and should be charged with a crime if they think they committed a crime otherwise they should be held in protected by a convention as prisoners of war and he has been a thorn in the side because he has been eloquent and out spoken. >> what sort of man will be walking out of jail now, what sort of condition is he in? >> reporter: well, you know, we understand that physically he has a whole catalog of ailments as a result of his long imprisonment and also it has taken its toll mentally on him and reports he sounds very upbeat and eloquent as i say and not in a great stage and the most important thing on his release is he is given time and space to have his medical and

psychological issues addressed. >> andy thank you for talking to us. at least 22 people have died after two boats carrying migrants from turkey to greece sank and one boat sank near the greek island of roads, the other near the island of kalamoose and 138 people rescued and thursday eight people were killed with the boat carrying refugees capsized off the island of lesbos. chaos on the border of slovania and austria and tried to climb over barriers and police and austria soldiers trieped to stop them and a policeman was punched in the face. and they are making the perriless see crossing and camps in neighboring countries and some seeking further away and going to brazil's largest city south palo and we met some of them. >> reporter: a familiar sight in an unfamiliar land, many

refugees found sanctuary here at the busy brazil mosque in the heart of south palo, built in the 1920s by arab immigrants and this is from the wider community but brazil authorities know assistance and arrived a few months ago and now speaks some portuguese and adopted the football team. >> translator: brazil is good for me and mosque helps me get a job and living really well. >> translator: we are helping 1800 refugees with donations from the community. but we definitely need more h p help. >> reporter: he did not know they spoke portuguese when he arrived in brazil more than a year ago. >> translator: brazil is a paradise, i'd love to bring my family here but i don't have a job and i don't know if i'll be able to stay. >> reporter: he is desperate to

work and moved in with brazil friends, helped by the charity for the homeless. >> we just have to get them the first step to help them with the first step and after that they are human beings and professional and children and they are youth who can live here. >> reporter: far from the syria battlefields and refugee camps from neighboring countries the track to south america for south in the south palo neighborhood for liberty. up eight flights of chairs in a run down squat. this is a destination at the end of a long journey and the start of a new one to build a new life, to learn a new language in a strange country on the other side of the world or perhaps simply to wait for peace to return to syria so they can go home to rebuild. part of the brasilia welcome, the son of palestinian immigrants helping the resent arrivals to adapt and survive.

>> translator: we help them find a place here without paying huge rents and we can help them to find jobs and settle down. >> reporter: he arrived only a few months ago desperately missing his family, stranded in a refugee camp in lebanon. and a lost life, a lost land and about an uncertain future. daniel with al jazeera, south palo. coming up, on al jazeera fighting intensifies in yemen as houthi rebels and sunni backed troops battle for the city of thai. life without parole for something you can put in your pocket. >> reporter: forces a rethink of jail term for drug offenders. ♪

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prison since 2002 and expected to return to the uk. u.s. government preparing to release 6,000 prisoners to reduce over crowding. inmates are all held in federal jails and have been serving sentences for nonviolent drug crimes now considered to be unjustified and patty has more. >> always having fun. >> reporter: charles ford is a man who really likes to talk about his brother, todd. >> comedian. just he is the man in the room. always have. has the know about him. >> reporter: pictures show a pair, always smiling growing up in the poverty stricken side of washington d.c. but this is where the pictures stop, at 24 years old todd foster with his run in with the law was found guilty of a nonviolent crime dealing crack cocaine along with seven others they possessed 15 kilograms and men his sentence life in prison, no chance of

parole. >> you sell drugs, you do get time but life without parole for something you can put in your pocket? no. i would never see that in a million years. >> reporter: the judge had very little discretion because they have mandatory minimum sentences and a formula that looks at the type of drug, quantity, circumstances and that adds up to the sentence. the independent commission that over vsees sentences talking abt how long they will have to serve and shaving two years of prison time for drug offenses but people sentenced to life means they will know freedom, part of the reason is money. the u.s. spends $80 billion a year on prisons and they are over crowded. almost half of the inmates are there on drug charges. congress is considering lowering the penalties further but that has its critics. >> it's going to drive the crime rate up because these people are

unfortunately they are going to go back many of them to what they did previously and that is victimize the public by selling heroin, meth and crack and poisons that destroy people's lives. >> reporter: those who get out are sent back to prison and lord knows the challenges they are facing. >> with me in his life his support system he can go anywhere and you can call me and i'm there so i'm going to be tied like this. i got to make sure it's right so he is going to be good, i promise you that. he ain't got no choice but to do the right thing. >> reporter: after 21 years of thinking there was no hope of freedom now he will have a chance to find out, patty with al jazeera, washington. palestinians called for a day of rage across israel and the occupied west bank, on thursday israeli forces shot dead two palestinians in

separate attacks and they say in both incidents the palestinians stabbed israeli soldiers before they opened fire, palestinian eyewitnesses dispute the israeli accounts and israeli soldiers fired on palestinian protesters in the city of ramallah and red crescent said 14 were injured and 66 palestinians have died since october. some of the worst violence between israelis and palestinians may be yet to come and we spoke to al jazeera. >> offending 1.5 billion muslims when you talk about the al-aqsa mosque and provoking them and have raised the flag saying that it's very dangerous that the west bank start this decent. >> do you believe this? >> i believe so.

if the occupation is still there, if the sentiment is still spreading, then we are going to see one of the worst to follow. >> reporter: you can watch the full interview with the qatar interview up front on friday at 1930 gmt. fighting has intensified around the southern city of thai, at least 45 houthi rebels and eight fighters loyal to abd rabbuh mansur hadi were killed on thursday. meanwhile the medical aid group doctors without borders wants security guarantees to continue working in yemen. gerald tan reports. >> reporter: the sky has been the greatest advantage for the saudi-led coalition in yemen and since march they have strikes to dislarge the fighters and those who were loyal to saleh and attacking each other from opposing hill tops on thursday

but the saudi-led coalition is also being attacked on a different front and facing mounting pressure for bombing a hospital in the sada district run by the charity doctors without borders. >> translator: it is very clear the hospital was bombed by an aerial bomb and so a bomb from the coalition. there is only the coalition occupying the skies of sada. >> one injured in the attack on monday and taken pictures showed the facility reduced to rubble angering residents. >> translator: this is the hospital and hit by saudi american aggressive and four air strikes that destroyed the only hospital in the district that serves dozens of surrounding areas and the only hospital we can go to for treatment. >> reporter: the u.n. has repeated condemnation of the bombing again blaming the coalition for its part the saudi government continues to deny responsibility. >> msf have provided coalition forces with exact coordinates of

the hospital and in turn these coordinates were placed within the forbidden targets, accordingly this hospital could not have been targeted by the coalition forces. >> reporter: as the war drags on rights groups expressions deteriorating humanitarian crisis thousands offensi civili have died and many aid agencies says yemen is becoming too dangerous for them, gerald tan, al jazeera. russia has prevented the go ahead to create the world's largest protected marine zone off antarctica and it's 2.2 million square kilometers, let's take a look at what scientists and government have been fighting so hard to protect, the cold nutrient rich are feeding the world ocean and says human activity is putting this diverse echo system at rich and governments from u.s., new

zeeland, australia and to be given protection status and 1.25 in the sea, one of the most intact systems in the planet and the second is 940,000 square kilometers in east antarctica and andrew thomas has been covering the story for us. >> reporter: antarctica is one of the most presteen areas on earth and the least touched continent and species that exist no where else and the hope and has been the hope for a few years is set up marine protected areas in antarctica that largely ban fishing, certainly keep other interested commercial partners out so that the species and the eco systems can thrive and see effects of climate change and a laboratory in a sense and mark ebsteen is from

the antarctica and southern coalition and mark it's important this area is protected and tell us again why. >> as you said they are incredibly important species that live and depend on healthy ocean eco system and compared to the rest of the world where 80, 85, 90% of fishing stocks have been depleted here they are a thriving populations that we hope will be maintained but they also are there and are important to larger predators such as sea lions, penguins and whales. >> and in the past russia and china have be enthe two countries that have vetoed this and china is prepared to sign up for at least one of the protected areas and russia is a sticking point. >> meeting still going on and can't get into details and last year they blocked a substantive conversation and this year at the 11th hour has exceeded to

the sea becoming the first major marine protected area and the second only to the south islands. >> thank you very much mark. the formal declaration of what has been decided here will come a little later on friday but if as expected these protected areas are not signed up to here this year will be another 12 months, the delegations will be back next october and hopefully then the protected areas can be established. cancer one of the leading causes of death worldwide, the number of cases in latin is twice that of more developed nation and a report says while cancer care still needs urgent attention it is starting to improve, the oncology commission says the proportion of people covered by some kind of health insurance has gone up 46-60% in the last two years. latin american countries particularly brazil and argentina are starting to address the shortage of cancer specialists and a number of

countries in latin america devised national cancer plans including ecuador, peru and el salvador and puerto rico and has expanded to cover all kinds of cancer. >> reporter: he has stomach cancer and has been doing chemo for 50 months and subsidized the health insurance and covers the cost of her treatment and leaves her waiting for weeks before her medicine is authorized. >> translator: because of this she developed an infection in her lungs and i don't know why this happens if this medicine is part of the national health plan for terminal illnesses, the cancer doesn't wait. >> reporter: cancer mortality rates in columbia are almost double the rate for european countries of the united states. however, the ability to treat and diagnose cancer here has improved in resent years. the government has devised a national cancer plan and

instituted a single benefits package for the entire population. today 96% of colombians have some form of health insurance, one of the highest rates in the atmosphere and by large it covers all types of cancer, the challenge today is to ensure quality care for all. the doctor works at columbia national cancer institute that provides affordable healthcare for low-income patients. >> translator: the way the system is regulated right now doesn't ensure comprehensive care. the law requires medical attention but doesn't require the quality of attention and that quality is not mentioned. >> reporter: that is particularly true for those who live in remote regions whose diseases are rarely detected on time. >> translator: where we come from there are no specialists and none of the doctors detected my doctor's breast cancer and we traveled all the way here and now the tumor is too advanced to

operate. >> reporter: the columbia government says they are taking steps to cure patients sooner. >> translator: today almost 60 days past between the first suspicion that something is wrong and the care so the challenge is reduce that time and have our system operate as a network, who does the diagnosis has to be better connected with primary and intermediate care units which is critical to improve survival. >> reporter: with the aging of the population the number of cases in the country are expected to rise. so more needs to be done and soon to increase the odds of survival for those who get sick in the part of the world where cancer has too often been a death sentence, al jazeera. the u.s. space agency nasa has released photos of pluto from the new horizon space craft nearly 2 million kilometers away and show the layers of pluto's

atmosphere as well as mountains on the planet. new horizons is the first space craft to visit pluto, dramatic pictures there and remember you can always keep up to date with all the news just log on to our website al jazeera.com. ♪ >> i'm ali velshi. on target - justice for all. meet the court-appointed lawyers who made it their mission to expose crooked cops and prosecutors. and the critics that say it has nothing to do with justice, and everything to do with politics. anyone like me watches a lot of cop shows can revit the miranda warning na police officers must read to suspects. you have the right to remain silent. anything you can and say will be used