a time for change for burkina faso in electing first new president in 27 years. this is jails live from doha. al jazeera. a war of words, russia accuses turkey of downing its jet for i.s.i.l. oil supply a man goes on trial for the murder of a man. a blanket of smog continues to choke chi knee's cities as the

pope urges action to tack emclimate change. -- tackle breaking new. lebanese army has received the body of a soldier killed by news road accident front rebels in a long awaited prisoner exchange deal. more soldiers are expected to be handed over on the lebanese/syria border. a number of soldiers will be freed by the rebels in exchange for the release of prisoners held by the government. burkina faso has a new president after a year of turmoil. roch mark kabore won more than 5 pa% of the vote. sunday's presidential elections were the first since an uprising in october last year that led to blaise comparore resigning after 27 years in office. al jazeera moham ed ado has more. >> reporter: celebrations in

the results of the elections. former prime minister mac mac was proclaimed the winner. he will be the first civilian leaders in almost five decades. in his victory speech he promised to follow through on his campaign promises. >> translation: we owe to those who sacrificed their lives for their country. the restoration of our peaceful order, national reconciliation. >> reporter: the citizens informant are celebrating political turn melbourne, the end of, this their country. the new president will herber in a new era of peaceful democracy. >> reporter: rack rack split with blaise comparore last year in a movement for people's

progress. not everyone is happy with the victory. >> translation: he was not my candidate and never will be. i don't see any difference between him and blaise compaore. he worked with blaise compaore for five of the 27 years he was in power. >> reporter: the elections bring to an end the administration installed during blaise compaore in an uprising last year. blaise compaore seized power by force and won four elections all of which were disputed. he was toppled when he tried to change the constitution to extend his rule further. this is a very good thing. this is the biggest achievement since the resurrection of october 2014. >> reporter: comfortable in the

knowledge that months of turmoil are now behind them, the people continue to celebrate their country's new status russia's president vladimir putin is accusing turkey of shooting down a russian jet to protect oil smuggling route. he says oil is entering turkey on an industrial scale. >> translation: we have now received additional information that oil produced in territory controlled by i.s.i.l. and other terrorists organizations and in huge quantities on an industrial scale is being supplied to the territory of turkey. we have every reason to believe that the decision on whether to shoot down our plane was dictated by the desire to ensure the safety of these oil supply routes to turkish territory turkey denies any state involvement in smuggling ow i will oil. it said it shot down the jet

because it violated its airspace. >> translation: on 24 november, the problem does not rest with turkey by any means. we have no intention to escalate this situation. we are ready to talk add every level in order to prevent further similar cases on turkey's syrian's border. not the border of any other country the u.s. government says that it can confirm that the russian jet did enter turkish airspace before being shot down. >> reporter: these comments by the u.s. ambassador at u.n.'s headquarters in brussels, the first time an american official has gone on the record and explicitly stated that the u.s. has data backing up turkey's version of events on november 24 saying that the russian plane

had, in fact, entered turkish airspace. until now, they hadn't been so forthright, although they offered, of course, turkey their full support. just before the u.s. ambassador spoke there was a joint conference between nato secretary general and the turkish prime minister and he did say clearly that all nato allies full support turkey's right to defend its airspace at the same time restabing contact with moscow and deescalate the situation. i think certainly to be fair to ankara there are some efforts to deescalate the situation, but at the same time it's not clear what those contacts are. they seem to be pretty much severed the remains of the pilot killed in that incident have been flown home to russia.

a military honor guard greeted his coffin at aan airport in moscow. the chief of russia's air force warned those responsible for his death will get the punishment they deserve. britain's prime minister says he will call a one day debate in parliament on wednesday to decide whether britain should launch air strikes in sir yachlt cameron needs parliamentary approval to extend british military action against i.s.i.l. from iraq to syria. i believe there's growling support across parliament for-- growing support for the compelling case to answer the call from our allies to act against i.s.i.l. in syria and in iraq. the headquarters in many ways of the terrorists are in syria and it makes no sense to recognise this border in the action we take when i.s.i.l. themselves don't recognise this border. so it's in the national interest. it's the right thing to do. we will be acting with our allies.

we will be careful and responsible as we do so, but in my view it's right to do this to help to keep our country safe at least 18 people have been killed in violence in central iraq. five craveians were killed by shelling linked to the army. a car bomb killed 13 iraqi soldiers at a check point. pope tran says is calling for urgent action for leaders at a u.n. climate conference in paris. he says it's the last chance to avoid a global environmental disaster. >> translation: i am not sure, but i can say to you now or never. from the first one which i believe was held in tokyo to now, little has been done. every year the problems are getting more serious. we are at the limit. if i may use a strong word, i would say that we are at the limits of suicide. i'm certain that all of those who are in paris at co p21 are conscious of this and want to do something

schools in china's capital have been told to keep students indoors after air pollution rose to dangerous levels. the air quality in beijing was more than 35 times internationally recognised safety limits. industrial plants have been ordered to reduce production or shut down completely. china is the world's biggest carbon emitter. china correspondent reporting from beijing >> reporter: well, imagine waking up to this. this is the fourth straight day of hazardous pollution levels here in the capital. mid morning on tuesday the air quality index was more than 540 t but on monday evening in the south of bay jack ginning the air quality-- beijing index reached nearly a thousand. that's how serious it was on monday evening. the government, of course, has pledged that by 2030 its emissions of greenhouse gasses will have peeked but that still means we're going to have many

more days like this or, perhaps, even worse. in the meantime, for the moment, the government is ordering factories, some 2000, to slow their output or to close. schools are not closed, but many parents are choosing to keep their children at home because of this and who can blame them investigators in indonesia say a faulty part and subsequent crew action caused the air asia plane crash that killed 162 people. it's the first official explanation since the passenger plane crashed into the java sea last december. it went down halfway into a two hour flight. it's one of a string of aviation disasters in south east asia's biggest economy. to jakata no now. findings were announced at the press conference. what did we learn? >> reporter: yes. the press conference is still ongoing, but the investigators

have described the horror of the last part of the journey to singapore on 28 december last year, already 11 months ago. basically it started from a small technical problemss which were than handled well with the pilots, but they happened within minutes. then when the fourth matter happened, the pilot made the wrong decision. the computerised system of the aeroplane fell out and the pilots were forced to fly manually and then a lot of wrong decisions were taken after that and investigators have described the plane going vertical. it was rolling around like this and it went nearly vertical and then it went up very steep, into a stall, which means that the plane has completely - you can't steer it at all, you can't control it any more and then it

fell down in sea. 162 people were killed the pilots at the time were trying to avoid a storm, weren't they? >> reporter: apparently nothing had to do with the weather. there were five or six other planes in that area who all safely landed. it has been confirmed that the whole crash had nothing to do with the weather. it basically came down to small technical problems which need to be investigated further because the air buses actually recognise this problem. it comes down to a crack in the component of the computer system. they say they are giving warnings to all air becauses around the world to keep an eye on it. it's not a fatal problem. it happened when the pilots were not capable of flying the plane

manually and that's why aall the airlines to give additional training to pilots to fly in what they call an emergency mode many thanks for that. still to come here on al jazeera, china's quick fight joins a select group at the world' elite's country see.

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a developing story, the lebanese have received the body of a soldier. more soldiers are to be expected to be released soon. burkina faso has a new president. former prime minister roch mark kabore has been elected as the fir first. russia's president vladimir putin says that oil produced by i.s.i.l. is being smuggled into turkey on an industrial scale. he believes that turkey shot down a russian jet last week to protect smuggling routes. one of six police officers accused of killing a black man in the u.s. city of baltimore has gone on trial. william porter faces charges over the death of freddie grey. the 25-year-old suffered spinal injuries in police custody and

died a week later. his death in april sparked protests. >> reporter: the case against william j porter really is manslaughter. he is facing lots of charges, but manslaughter is the key one. in other words, a duty of his care of responsibility to freddie grey in the back of that police wagon and when he allegedly asked for medical help it wasn't called for a further 24 minutes and that was the job of officer porter. the defense is going to be very succinct. they will say there was a new seatbelt law in the city of baltimore in which suspect were to be seatbelted into the back of these police wagons, but it was very new. also it was not universely applied and some vehicles didn't have seatbelts. they're going to try to say freddie grey contributed to his own death by being violent and aggressive in the back of that police wagon the international military

fund has antidepressanted the chinese yuan also known as the renminbi. it joins the u.s. dollar, the you're row and the japanese-- euro and the japanese yen. it reflects changes in china's economy. it is a recognition of the significant reforms that have been conducted, of the significant opening up of the chinese economy tony nash chief economyist. the move is one of credibility. it is as if the country or central bank can say this is a currency good enough to hold. if you imagine, for example, a

country where china is a large trading partner, if they want to pay for those goods in chinese renminbi, then they can do that. they can hold that in their reserves, which they could do before, but now it has an imf seal of approval, it's easier to do because they're seen as much more credible. i think what people need to recognise is that china is the largest trading country in the world, so 13% of all traded goods go in and out of china. the u.s. is numbered 2 at 11% of goods. within asia, china is the largest trading partner of most countries in asia, so the chinese yuan will become more of a factor in trade and in dead in a schwab particularly china's president xi jinping will arrive in africa.

he will pledge money to the cash strapped country. there is concern that the proposalise of new loans could eventually burden zimbabwe with more dead >> reporter: most products sold in this world are made from china. i just went and for almost for two months, i have visited. >> reporter: zimbabwe's manufacturing sectors operate at less than half its capacity. many goods sold here comes from china. western sanctions are blamed for the weak sector. allegations that the government denied. china has been criticised for not speaking out against its trading partners of the government officials say they want to borrow money from china

live now to the lebanese/syria border. we told you about that prison swap which is due to get underway. we are told it's happening right now. the lebanese army has received the body of a soldier killed by the armed group news road accident front last year. this is the first stage-- nusra first. this is the first deal with that armed group. more soldiers are expected to be released soon in exchange for prisoners held by the lebanese government. on the phone, retired lebanese general. he is in beirut and can explain the significance of what we're seeing on the screens at the moment. yeah. actually, the swap is going down n now.

it is by the al-nusra. it is a situation of negotiation by the government and the lebanese government. it has also the last month the turkish ambassador, the families of the abducted soldiers the handing over of the body earlier was the first step in this complex negotiation, as

you've described it. a pretty delicate deal, this whole exchange. 16 lebanese service men are to be freed. they're being held by the armed group the nusra front. in return they're going to release prisoners and give aid; start?

(technical difficulties) some 30 hostages were taken originally, four of who, i understand, were executed while a fifth died of wounds whilst fighting. give us a background to this case. when did this sorry affair begin?

held as prisoners. soldiers are still being held by i.s.i.s., which means most of the area operation of al-qaeda group. so nobody talking about them and nobody is talking to i.s.i.s. no news the main prisoner exchange has taken place some, if indeed it has taken place, some 30

kilometres away from i.s.i.l. itself. the media are not allowed to be present at this prisoner exchange. i don't know if you can see the footage on the screen, but there appears to be vehicles approach where the media are allowed toing. is this convoy possibly containing those who have been freed?

it's in a rural area for the moment, stay with us on the line. i just want to bring in a correspondent from our sister network, al jazeera arabic. johnny, bring us up to speak. we're watching as this convoy arrives. that's right in the exchange between al-nusra and the government, as we are watching, the al-nusra, they are at the exchange point and they have lebanese soldier prisoners. they are waiting to for-- for

the convoy to arrive. the army should - they have 13 prisoners in prisons. also the al-nusra are waiting as well, watching. they are waiting for the moment to make the deal. it's really important to mention that niece extreme soldiers, they were prisoners. there are also nine lebanese soldiers. they are there is no connection

between the government and the i.s.i.s. they are waiting to continue with this issue and how to forget, maybe, or to make a deal to receive the nine remaining soldiers you're seeing the same pictures that we are here. who are the masked men, the armed men that we see in these pictures at the moment?

lebanese convoy to arrive at this point and make the excha e exchang johnny, how long has this prison swap taken to arrange? negotiations have been delicate, haven't they?