egypt prevents british airlines from flying rescue flights in sharm el-sheikh leaving passengers stranded. ♪ hello, this is al jazeera live from doha and i'm adrian and also coming up, myanmar reaches a milestone in its transformation from military rule to democracy and campaigning draws to a close ahead of sunday's historic election. a dam broke and dozens are feared dead and refugees desperate for a better life and using a route far less traveled to enter europe.

♪ egypt has prevented the uk budget airline easy jet for sending flights in or out of sharm el-sheikh and 8 of 10 have been cancelled and cancelled because of fear that a bomb brought down an airliner on saturday and several governments warned against travel there and let's cross live to london for the latest and paul brennan is there and does this apply to easy jets regular flights or just the additional repatriation flights. >> just the repatriation flights and it has been confusing and fluid in the last 70 minutes and an hour ago i read the statement

that easy jets said the following egyptian authorities currently suspended uk airlines from flying into sharm el-sheikh and in 12 minutes they clarified with the following saying the situation for uk flights in sharm el-sheikh remains fluid and advised the egyptian authorities will allow a restricted number of uk flights from sharm el-sheikh today two of which are easy jet flights. after the initial statement we phoned around some of the other airlines and monarch and british airways to find out if their flights are effected and are not, british airways will fie a delayed flight in sharm el-sheikh to pick up passengers and bring them out later on friday and monarch airlines has two planes on the ground on sharp sharp and two additional to repatriate passengers stranded in the resort and the flights will go ahead and appears what is effected here is the eight additional easy jet flights which are intended to be

flown in empty to sharm el-sheikh to bring out thousands of people, it appears that the two easy jets on the ground will get off the ground and back to uk as planned but the eight rescue flights in you light will not be able to at the moment. the situation are on going. >> could be a pass capacity problem couldn't it, you have eight additional flights to cater for and an airport like sharm el-sheikh will get busy for people trying to catch their regular flight. >> it is entirely possible that is the route cause of all of this and again we go back to what easy jet's original statement was and it was perhaps in hindsight they are regretting the way they phrased it by saying egyptian authorities ban all uk airlines so i think they retracted somewhat on what they originally said just an hour ago and it appears now the hope of getting eight aircraft may indeed have been as you said that the egyptian authorities

were not able to cope with in the circumstances. >> paul brennan is live there in london. myanmar has reached an important milestone in its transformation from military rule to democrat is i and campaigning officially drying to a close in the historic election and opposition leader has promised to form a reconciliation government if her party the nld wins sunday's pole but there are concerns that it is marginalizing ethnic minorities and we report from hancock. >> reporter: hoping to run this year but disqualified that his parents were not citizens when he was born. he rejects those claims and says the real reason is realligion. >> translator: my mother has declared muslims in myanmar and in parliament in particular.

>> reporter: he is referring to a group of buddhist nationalists, the association for the protection of race and religion, all known for anti-muslim rhetoric and have thrown their support behind the ruling military backed party. >> translator: we just say we need to protect our religion and our people. we don't say we kill other people so those criticisms are not really fair. >> reporter: what critics describe as hate speeches have gone unpunished and the government accused of giving into pressure for them in other ways, earlier this year it backtracked on a proposal that would have allowed temporary identity card holders to vote after protests from nationalists and the move mostly effects hundreds of thousands of rohinja and mainly live in western rokind state and were allowed to vote in the last election but not this time and not recognized as citizens and suffer severe

discrimination. growing concern led to some add ambassadors and the attorney general himself to speak out and the use of a political agenda based mainly on the protection of the race or religion is dangerous especially in a country as diverse as myanmar. but the damage may have been done. neither of the two largest parties the ruling party and the opposition national league for democracy is fielding any muslim candidate. and he says he is worried about the future and asks who will speak up for his community, florence lee. the death toll from a factory collapse in pakistan is up to 32 and dozens of people are still missing in the rubble and one of pakistan's worst industrial accidents. an investigation will begin once the recovery effort is complete. let's take you live now to lahor

and kamal is at the scene of the accident, what is the latest? >> reporter: well the recovery and relief effort has now finally gathered some momentum because in the first few days of this population there was a lot of confusion and didn't know how to get through those concrete slabs to any survivors who may have lived to that. and importantly as you mentioned the death toll is mounding because they are recovering more bodies. we have been told the owner of the factory also his body has been recovered but there are still some signs of life. there is a report that a telephone call was made by one of their drivers to his family that is still alive so it's a race against time but there is still hope that some people may be trapped under this. >> kamal any idea yet, any clear

idea why the building collapsed? there was an earthquake last week with structural damage in the area but other people say the building was poorly built. >> reporter: it was alrea poorly built into. there is built into, no doubt about it and the earthquake caused structural damage and it was a three-story building in poor shape and the owner went for a fourth floor and basically what led to the complications. there was total disregard of safety of the people working inside. we are told entirely families have been work gz here so there is an expectation with a lot of women and children under the rubble and pakistan has to come out with tough rules when it comes to building regulations and building codes and without that you will see many more accidents like this. >> live in lahor. at least one person has been

killed in brazil after a dam burst flooding a mine and nearby homes and government says 15 people are missing but the miner union says 45 are unaccounted for people and told to move to tier ground and we report. >> reporter: this village did not stand a chance against the thick torrent of mud that swept through it when the dam burst and thousands injured in brazil and state and the mud is two kilometers from the dam to the village and 600 people live here and most of them are miners and homes swept away and some fell through the roof with mud and no power as electricity lines brought down by the strong current and people missing when they arrived and unlikely to find survivors under the toxic mixture and struggle to get to people as all roads are blocked and they are trying to figure out what happened.

>> translator: at the moment we cannot concern the cause and extent of what happened or the number of victims, i repeat our focus at this critical moment is to preserve people's well-being and the environment. >> reporter: operated by mining companies and owned by larger companies in brazil and australia and doing all it can to help people. >> translator: the brick was detected this afternoon and immediately activated its emergency action plan and mobilizing with civil defense forces and military brigade and police and all the necessary efforts to prioritize the treatment and well-being of employees working on the ground and who live close to the dam. >> reporter: the government offered help by deploying the army and teams and in the old mining, hub it looks like it will need all the help it can get. al jazeera. our colleague al jazeera journalist peter greste has returned to nairobi where he was

based before his wrongful impressment and were convicted of supporting the ban muslim brotherhood and working without a license and released after international pressure on the egyptian government. >> it really gave what i was doing and going through a sense of purpose and meant i was a representative of the press, that i needed to be strong, to want to be kind of the support i was getting from the outside and so that made it much easier to put up with the conditions that we were going through. >> reporter: still to come here on al jazeera we will take you to the port in lebanon which has become the starting point for syrians seeking a one-way journey out of their war-torn country plus saving money and saving the planet, we will look at the revolutionary the way plastic bottles are being reused in south africa. ♪

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beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the soundbites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. hello again and top stories on al jazeera, egypt prevented the uk budget from sending extra frights in and out of sharm el-sheikh and leaving many passengers stranded at the airport and easy jets says eight of ten flights have been cancelled and aviation ministry say flights are restricted due to limited airport capacity. dozens feared dead after a dam burst in brazil, a mudslide engulfed homes in a town in the south. and campaigning is officially drawing to a close in myanmar's first openly contested

parliamentary election and allegations of threats and intimidation against opposition party workers in the run up to sunday's historic poll. i.s.i.l. says russian air strikes killed at least 50 people in syria, the group posted this video which it says shows the aftermath of attack on a market in al-boka-amal and on the border and under i.s.i.l. control and they said it hid 2000 i.s.i.l. targets in the last month. a leaked report by the world's chemical weapons body says mustard gas has been used in syria and opcw says it was used in august during a battle between i.s.i.l. and another rebel group. it's the first confirmation that chemical weapons used in syria since the government agreed to destroy its stockpile in 2013 and greg is a senior fellow with the arms control association in the u.s., the source of the

mustard gas is unclear at the moment but he is concerned that i.s.i.l. may have found a way to manufacture chemical weapons. >> there is obviously concern about i.s.i.l. from a number of perspectives but one of the great achievements of getting rid of this very large arsenal of assad's chemical weapons us was that we greatly reduced the danger that any of the parties in the syrian civil war would have access to or be able to use these very lethal chemical weapons so although the hope was that these agents had been removed from the table, if that is not the case, if i.s.i.l. has either found some way to get the remaining government stockpiles or has figured out a way to

manufacture it that is a new element which will make this awful and bloody conflict even more deadly. >> the u.n. says that cholera spread from iraq to syria and the disease could develop into a regional epidemic partly due to refugees forced to live in unbearable conditions in camps and some have decided to leave to seek a better life elsewhere, at a major departure point is the lebanese.of tripoli and we report. >> reporter: many of these ships are bound for turkey but for many of the passengers turkey is not their final destination and lebanon's northern port of tripoli is a way out for syrians and those who deport from here do illegally and do not neat visit need visas to enter and they get visas to go to lebanon and it's up to them to what they do next.

>> translator: they get the tickets to go to lebanon or others and from there they can find their way to the greek islands and eventually to other european countries. >> reporter: 18-year-old is one of them, he didn't want to reveal his identity but tells us he is looking for a future which he no longer has at home and has family who already found their way to europe. >> translator: my brother has been in germany for six months, i'm not going because the sea is too dangerous, europe is not going anywhere. if i don't go now i will go later. >> reporter: many of the passengers on this bus are new arrivals from syria and enter on transit visas because of new restrictions imposed by lebanese government. increase in the number of passengers who travel to turkey from here and since beginning of year 90% left and 90% syrians and 90% other and that is why it is hard to say good-bye and

these women are from the government controlled city of homs and they are boarding the ship and do not talk about their intentions but their relatives do. >> translator: my sister came from homs and is going to turkey and there is a possibility she will join her son already in austria. >> reporter: others would like to do that but cannot and don't have the paperwork. >> translator: i want a future for my child but i need a sponsor to renew my residency in lebanon, without that i cannot leave the country and take this to turkey. >> reporter: many did not want to appear on camera, scared and distraught his only fear is not being able to see his family for years to come. these people have one-way tickets but their destination is only the first step in a journey to find a new life, dana, al jazeera tripoli, northern lebanon. no end in sight for europe's

refugee crisis and 3 million people are thought to arrive or are expected to arrive by 2017 according to the european commission and refugees are finding new ways to reach the continent even braving the bitter cold of the arctic circle and the remote region may be safer but better than the strict border police that hundreds of thousands are facing on other routes and more from rory challenge in moscow. >> reporter: so many intriguing elements and first of all the mode of transport and people are cycling from russia to norway and that is because at the border crossing foot traffic is not allowed and the cheapest way of getting across by foot which they cannot do is by biological and pedal across and the whole remoteness of this crossing. we have seen the heart-breaking story of hundreds of thousands of refugees trying to get through the europe's front door

and balkins and mediterranean and they are going the long way around and get in the backdoor of europe and it's so far north and the next stop is the north pole but there is a logical reason for it, it's much cheaper and much safer than risking death and drowning in the mediterranean or paying people smugglers to come in through the balkins or other routes down in the south of europe and let's hear from a refugee and afghan and explaining why he left his count country. >> translator: no other option in afghanistan and have to go to norway, there is no other way and moscow does not provide us documents and say go away from her and don't give us documents and no work, there is nothing good left for us in afghanistan and many taliban there and mess with us everyday. >> reporter: it's interesting the norwegian taking all the refugees coming across the

border are now saying they want to send some of them back to russia because they say a lot of these refugees have not just come from the war in syria or other war-stricken parts of the world but have actually been living in russia for some time and as long as 12 years and says that russia can perfectly look after these people and it's not europe's job and norwegions believe the process is actually being managed by the russian security services and the norwegian government asked the russian foreign ministry for an explanation. protests against corruption in roman yeah continued for a third night and 20,000 valleyed in the capitol bucharest and the rallies were sparked by a fire in an unauthorized nightclub which killed 32 people. violent confrontations between

anticapitalist protesters and police in central london, the police car was set on fire and at least 28 people arrested, thousands of people wore white masks associated with the activist group anonymous and lee barker is in london. >> reporter: no discernible hierarchy and leadership the popularity of anonymous growing globally in years and there are thousands of people who have r marched under the banner and back in 1605 tried to blowup the houses of parliament and killed king james but this is very much a symbol of resistance, political resistance, many people here are representing different campaign groups from around the country, similar marches were also taking place globally as well and hope ing this will be a million million masked march around the world. they are representing lots of

different things when it comes to animal rights and when it comes to being against digital surveillance but in resent years they have taken on the likes of klu klux klan and united under one banner this one. >> building schools in south africa is helping to ease the shortage of classrooms and to save the environment, recycled plastic bricks are replacing the conventional play and cement ones as harry reports from pretoria. >> reporter: soon these children in the primary school won't be having their school meals cooked and served outside, it may not like it but the kitchen being built behind them is made from recycled plastic bricks, a shortage of buildings in some of south africa's poorest communities. plastic bottles are not bio

degradable and end up in landfills but recycled plastic bottles are in brick shapes and sold for less than 50 cents, the kitchen is nearly complete and builders put in the steel metal frame and plastering the walls and this keeps it in place and those behind the project say it's the way to save the environment and up lift the local communities. >> give them water that obviously become part of the community and we get the bottles back because of the environment and such and once we get them back they are automatically a brick and we take those and do structures like you see behind me. >> reporter: another school in the community will have its own interesting structure and the bricks a simple to stack like lego bricks and this is how you interlock the plastic bricks like this and takes about 15,000 of these to build the structure and this is going to be a kitchen and builders said it was very fast and rough live took them three hours, this youth

center in the township opens in january, officials at the bottle to build school initiative says depending on the finishes used it's 40% cheaper to build with cheaper than to build with clay or bricks. >> benefitting and if you are skeptical contact me and i'll show you. >> reporter: google was initially concerned about the plastic bricks accidently catching fire. more than 20 school buildings and youth facilities have been built using recycled plastic bottles in south africa so far and hoping the low cost and green way will be used across the african content, harry in pretoria. world architecture festival

held in singapore and finding solutions to crucial problems in our cities including over crowding, pollution and lack of green spaces and al jazeera is there. >> reporter: the world's most creative architects gathered in singapore, over 2200 professionals from 60 countries are here with the creations they have built, will build and hope to build in the future. all are up for scrutiny and awards. the annual architecture fast value is the largest of its kind and helps to shape the places in which we live, work and spend our leaser time. what architecture has is a body of knowledge, a system of thinking, is a way of creating some sort of commonality of experience across the world and i think these are ways in which architecture might be able to give a little bit of help of issues of international conflict. while the professionals are in deep discussion and debate the

next generation is waiting in the wings and these are the fine finalists in the competition and the challenge with the locations based on their past and potential future use and university of singapore and london westminster are jointly working on the business direct of singapore. >> analyzing the buildings and analyzing the area in general we can kind of see things either that we have in common with them or that they actually pick up on that we don't so it gives us a different perspective and in that sense it's a good collaboration because we learn from each other as well >> this five star hotel used to be the central post office and the challenge here is not just about design but working as a team. the future is also on the mine from spain and his bam boo skyscraper is tipped as a potential winner in the category and for him the environmental impact of buildings is an

important design issue. >> we design with this structure because our invention is for a live building and producing this, we design our environmental-friendly building because we are not producing c 02 and people want to see more environmental-friendly buildings but companies don't get the revenue they would like with these kinds of projects. >> reporter: after four years in singapore next year's festival is moving to europe, asia has been a popular and successful venue but it's felt that another continent should benefit and inspire a future generation of architects. terminally ill star wars fan has been granted his dying wish to watch the force awakens and from texas he saw an early cut of the star wars move yo after a social campaign called the force for daniel went viral and 31-year-old has aggressive form

of lung cancer and has two months to live and the star wars film is due to be released in the u.s. in december. there is more real news about real issues and real people like you and me along with analysis and comments on our website, al jazeera.com. a history of hostility makes it hard for america and tehran to trust each other. it's been four months since iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme after years of negotiation with five world powers, including the united states. the reset in relations between iran and the west, that president obama and others hoped for doesn't appear to be materializing.