♪ coming home lebanon exchanges prisoners with syrian rebels. ♪ hello this is al jazeera live from doha, i'm adrian and also ahead prove it, turkey challenges russia over claims that it shot down a russian jet to protect oil trade with i.s.i.l. beijing and deli choke under a thick blanket of small and a triumph in burkina faso as a new president is elected.

♪ lebanese army exchanged prisoners with al-nusra fighting in syria and joyful scenes on both sides and 16 captive soldiers released after months in captivity, the lebanese army received the body of a soldier who was killed last year and al jazeera arabic abraham was there when the exchange happened. >> translator: it was a long and difficult journey to reach this point. we are here in al-nusra controlled territory. we are witnessing the release of the captive lebanese soldiers, the release of these soldiers were mediated by qatar and efforts by al-nusra front and lebanese government to make this deal happen. this is the convoy of the lebanese security forces bringing@nusra prisoners to be

exchanged coming from i.s.i.l. >> for the prisoners it was a moment of joy and relief. >> translator: god has blessed us and we would like to thank al-nusra. >> translator: we thank everybody who helped broker the deal and thank al-nusra front for helping a lot and also thank the lebanese government. >> translator: i'm a prisoner here and thank god for being released and thank everyone for the release and to return back to our homes. >> reporter: let's get some analysis from al jazeera who is with me in the studio and put this into context and here we have a group that is affiliated al-qaeda and the lebanese government was able to negotiate with qatar help to arrange a prisoner swap. >> that is the most interesting part about it and shows the

al-nusra front being an al-qaeda affiliate and stigmatizeds it to particularly western governments and saying they can demonstrate they are a group and you can do business with like with i.s.i.l. and that is one of the interesting things here is that what we are realizing is that even though there are a lot of different groups fighting assad there are those who are able to maybe reach out to governments and if governments do not like they will talk and there are those that do not and it's important to know there are nine other captives from the lebanese army who i.s.i.l. captured for example and it's a much harder task trying to get them released. >> they thought they would never see their families again and with a group that is affiliated to al-qaeda and here they are. >> and we understand four were executed and 30 who were captive and taken captive in the beginning and those released it will be a huge relief not only to them and the lebanese government and family as well in

a situation like this when there is an absence of diplomacy for such a long time and very daunting to think of how these people would have felt during that time particularly probably they were on the move from one place to another so they wouldn't be located and that kind of human aspect gets lost in the whole kind of analysis but something that is very important. >> thank you very much. turkey has rejected accusations from russia's president vladimir putin that it shot down a russian jet to protect oil trade with i.s.i.l., turkey's prime minister called on russia to reestablish communications instead of making accusations that he said were baseless and let's go live to istanbul and this diplomatic spat and doesn't show any sign of easing, does it, bernard? >> well, adrian and while russia seems to be racheting up the

rhetoric turkey is trying to calm things down a little bit and repeating this morning what he said yesterday calling on russian and turkey to open channels of military communications to thwart similar incidents and let's open diplomatic channels to mend relations and hope we will never experience such an incident again but the thing is that russia and what russia really wants out of turkey is an apology and both and erdogan says they will not apologize for what they believe is necessary to defend their country and also erdogan had a meeting with barack obama earlier on today and in that meeting obama backed up turkey's right to defend itself but he also said they discussed how turkey and russia can work to deescalate tensions between each other adrian. >> many thanks and bernard live

from istanbul. israeli army has shot dead a palestinian who they say tried to stab an israeli and it happened at a busy intersection near a west bank settlement in a separate incident a palestinian woman has been shot after she reportedly attempted to stab soldiers at a crossing and her condition is currently unknown. voters in burkina faso have elected a new president and the first civilian leader in nearly 50 years and kabore will replace blaise compaore and we have the latest. >> reporter: celebrations rocked as soon as elections were announced and prime minister blaise compaore is the winner and will become the first civilian leader in almost five decades and in his victory speech he promised to follow through on his campaign

promises. >> translator: we owe to those who sacrificed their lives for our country the restoration of constitution an order and peaceful governess that strengthens democracy and reconciliation. >> reporter: burkina faso is celebrating the end of political turmoil in their country and the hope of many here the election of a new president will usher in a new era of fiscal democracy. kabore was the president of the national assembly and president blaise compaore and split with blaise compaore last year and formed an opposition, the movement for people's progress. not everyone is happy with his victo victory. >> translator: he was not my candidate and never will be. i don't see anything different between him and kabore and worked with kabore of five to seven years he was in power.

>> reporter: bring to an end a transitional administration when blaise compaore was over thrown in a popular uprising last year and blaise compaore seized power by force and won four elections all were disputed and toppled when he tried to change the constitution to extend his rule even further. >> no politician, no political part will come and impose the idea or practice of government. this is a very good thing and this is the biggest achievement since the resurrection of october 2014. ♪ comfortable with months of turmoil are now behind them the people of burkina faso continue to celebrate their country's new status, mohamed with al jazeera. kenya capitol nairobi one died after an apparently botched

security drill at university and at strat more university were not told about the exercise and panicked fearing the drill was a genuine terrorist attack and a stampede ensued as hundreds made for the exits and china's beijing is in zimbabwe on a five day trip and will have funding and investment to the cash-strapped country but as we report now more loans could lead to more debt. >> reporter: most products sold in this mall are made in china, and has just returned from there where he goes to stock up on supplies. >> for the past four or five months it's me but for two months things are very good and i cannot complain. >> reporter: zimbabwe operates half the capacity and many goods

sold here come from china and blame western sanctions for the weak industrial and manufacturing sectors and sanctions imposed years ago for human rights reasons and allegations the government denies and china criticized for not speaking out against its training partner and government officials want to borrow money for hospitals, roads and schools but the economy is struggling and ask me how the government plans to pay back china. economists say paying back could be difficult. >> the country will have to pay back only from increased stability to produce and export and hopefully rising prices on the world markets. now, all of those are difficult to imagine happening and very difficult to achieve. >> reporter: in the past zimbabwe has been accused of not paying back some of its loans but china is investing in a project and construction, it is also building and donating

medical equipment for poorly resourced public hospitals. china's loans are often linked to commodity arrangements and zimbabwe has plenty of raw materials but now the commodity prices have fallen new terms have to be agreed on how to pay back those loans and some fear it could lead to zimbabwe going deeper in debt and harry with al jazeera. international monetary fund says the chinese known as the ramindi as a reserve currency and a victory for beijing recognition as a global economic power and joins the u.s. dollar, the euro and the japanese yen in the select group and head of imf says the decision reflects changes in china's economy. >> the addition and inclusion of this in the sdr basket of currencies is a recognition of the significant reforms which have been conducted of the significant opening up of the

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♪ hello again and top stories on al jazeera, lebanese army exchanged prisoner with al-nusra front rebels in syria and 16 captive soldiers have been released in exchange for prisoners held by the government

and the former i.s.i.l. leader was among those freed. russia's president vladimir putin says oil produced by i.s.i.l. is being smuggled into turkey and thinks they shot down the jet to protect the smuggling groups and they say the accusations are baseless and burkina faso has a new president and kabore was chosen as the country's first new leader in 27 years and served under the deposed president blaise compaore as prime minister and germany has plans to support the military campaign against i.s.i.l., its cabinet agreed to have torn tornado ships and war ships and 1,000 military personnel to the region in support roles but won't actively engage in combat. britain's prime minister david

cameron is to ask parliament to authorize british air strikes in syria and leader of the uk opposition labor party jeremy offered mps a free vote on the issue, let's get more on that now from barnabie phillips from london and what will it mean for parliament's decision? >> almost certainly a victory for the british prime minister david cameron and humiliating defeat for the opposition leader jeremy korbin and he has the support of most conservative party and he will take a substantial chunk of labor opposition supporters with him including some very senior figures within the labor party the shadow foreign affairs spokesman hillary been and korbin will be left with a core of labor mps in the house but they probably will be a minority so this bitter debate that we are expecting tomorrow will lay

serious divisions within the opposition party in the uk. >> what will the approval of british air strikes and britain is already operating in iraq but what that mean for the credibility of i.s.i.l.? >> that is a very good point and britt has eight tornado aircraft in cyprus so how much difference they will make on the ground or in the air rather i should say is not entirely clear. as you were saying they have been hitting targets across the border in iraq since last year and cameron says they hope they believe the line in the sand between syria and iraq and neither should we, at the same time he admits any such british strategy against i.s.i.l. has to be part of a long-term plan, that there needs to be a political, humanitarian wing to it, if i.s.i.l. is to be defeated and of course if peace is eventually to be brought to

syria. but he says that british ground troops absolutely will not be involved so that raises the question, yes, british aircraft can hit i.s.i.l. targets in syria as french and american aircraft have been doing it should be said in greater numbers in resent months but what will all that mean? david cameron is speaking last week in parliament spoke about some 70,000 what he called moderate rebels who would take the fight to i.s.i.l., that number has caused an awful lot of raised eyebrows and not entirely clear which forces in syria he is talking about and it's not clear at all that those potential forces would cooperate with each other and seen how multi facetted and complex the civil war has become in years, and live in london. the second day of the climate change conference in paris and

francois hollande was at tuesday's main event along with many other world leaders on what solution africa can offer to help solve climate change and in the capitol beijing have been told to stay indoors for the first time in two years and the second highest orange alert issued over air quality and adrian brown reports now from beijing. >> reporter: in paris they are talking about how to save the planet, in beijing they are just trying to breathe. smog thick enough to see, accurate enough to taste. government leaders call these conditions unfavorable, many others call it crazy bad and it's been this bad since saturday. yet some appear obvilous to the threat there the pollution is so bar and doesn't matter if you wear the mask or not, how much can the mask really help you? >> translator: you can't wear the mask all the time, if you

are in the room the smog can get in and impossible to wear the mask 24 hours. >> reporter: schools are open but many parents like lou-ping are keeping their children at home. >> translator: today the school is still open but my son doesn't feel well and has a sore throat and the pollution has been really bad for the past few days and don't want him getting worse by going outside. >> reporter: even here though it's not entirely safe, red light on her air purifier indicates a high level of pollutants in the room, beside her home a reminder of one of the reasons why a child can't venture outside, the coal-fired power station that provides heat to her apartment block. the worsening air quality spurred an increase in gadgets that measure air quality often offering advice and dark humor. in one part of beijing the government monitoring station recorded a reading of nearly

1,000 on monday night. anything over 100 is considered unhealthy to at-risk groups such as the elderly, people with asthma and children. china is the world's leading e mitter of gasses and hope it will peek by 2030 and still means we could have many more days like this or perhaps even worse, adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. thick smog hanging over new deli too and al jazeera is in the indian capitol. >> reporter: this area in the east of new deli is officially according to deli's pollution control committee the most air polluted part of the city. the levels today on tuesday have been recorded at eight times the permissible limit and let's put these figures into context and anything that is three times the permissible limit is noted as hazardous by this committee which means there could be

serious health side effects, anything more than that suggests there are many millions of lives at risks and despite the high warnings of the kind beijing is seeing and there is a lot there at the moment despite these high readings and many warnings from agencies from the world health organization no formal process exists to actually alert residents of these kind of impending dangers of being outdoors and what it can have on their health and livelihood and this may look just like a gray winter's day in this part of the world what you are actually seeing is air pollution and that is the reality that residents across new deli are noticing ever before and becoming more concerned about as the conditions continue to worsen. let's take a look at what roll the weather plays in all of this and with me now is al jazeera metrologist richard and let's start with beijing first of all, what is the problem there? >> let's take a look at the map

of beijing and the surrounding area and you can see the mountains up towards the north, in excess of 2000 meters and the problem is when you have the flow coming from the east and southeast adrian you bring all the pollutants and it's not just beijing but the cities in northern china and such pollutants here and get polluted air moving across the city and the mountains tend to trap it politically if you get an air of high pressure on the top and puts a lid on the whole thing and means that pollutants circulate and the more it circulates it can do that and nasty conditions and no where to go and new deli is the same or is this something to play there? >> new deli is for this time of year, the big plain there and the problem across new deli and into pakistan and punjab is we are in stubbel burning season

and the stubbel after they take it off the crops and they burn it and did not happen 20, 30 years ago but it's burned to get rid of it and makes the pollution worse and pointing out they do not have an official monitoring or warning position for poor air quality. >> i thought smog was something we confine to history and remember london and pea supers, what is different about london's fog of old compared to beijing and new deli problems today? >> shows that legislation can really work. once the clean air act camp in for the uk the visibility improved almost overnight and i suspect if it was glasgow or other places effected the legislation would not be passed but london where the lawmakers lived they brought it in and the air cleaned up almost overnight and that is powerful legislation. >> needed elsewhere in the world

and richard many thanks indeed and ships left for whaling in the antarctica ocean and pressure and activist outraged forced japan to stop killing whales, two years ago the international court of justice ruled the expeditions are commercial hunts and not for research purposes as claimed by the japanese government and our correspondent harry faucet has more from japan. >> reporter: two vessels left the southwest town earlier on tuesday and they will meet up with two other vessels including the mother ship and a fishery agency patrol board as they head to antarctica ocean and whaling from the end of december and kay carry on through march and they told the crew there was nothing happier than this day and marked the resumption of japan's whaling after last season after which time they took no whales whatsoever because of the march 2014 ruling by the international court of justice ruling that

japan's scientific whaling had no scientific basis whatsoever and no need to kill the whales to monitor their population there and eating habits and reproduction but japan said it wants to resume full fledged whaling and why the scientific research as it calls it is necessary and will continue it says to take a reduced number, about a third of what it used to take 333 whales every year between now and 2027 and australian government says it does not agree at all on the concept of killing whales for research and has been examining its legal options and as well as that the pressure group will be saling to the antarctica ocean to resume the confrontational tactics used against these japanese whaling vessels in the past. >> indonesia investigators say a facility part and subsequent crew action caused the air asia

plane crash that killed 262 and the explanation since it crashed in the java see last december and went down halfway from a two-hour flight to singapore. it's world aids day today and sigma surrounding the condition still exists in many communities around the world. in malaysia hiv positive orphans are often overlooked for adoption but as robin reports now one woman is hoping to change attitudes there. >> reporter: appears to be just like any other 13-year-old boy, playing with his brothers and sister and getting into all sorts of mischief but life for all five of his adopted siblings is not easy and has been looking after hiv infected children since 1991 and two of his siblings were abandon on the doorstep as babies and others

given up by parents who didn't want the responsible of a sick child and they help immediately and bringing the community on board took more time, nearly a decade. >> if it's a face-to-face then i have to explain to them the reason why we have to take care of the positive children. so i just hope that whatever i have explained can educate them. >> reporter: few like her willing to care for children with hiv and gives them hope of a brighter future. >> translator: when i leave school i would like to be a mechanic, i really like fast cars. >> reporter: government figures suggest there are 13,000 in legally registered care homes and no statistics with hiv and the children she has adopted are seen as fortunate and taken in by a woman who is kind and selfless according to her community. yet these children were taken in as babies. it's far more difficult for

others. the government has assembled a consult and advisory council which includes parents and they are aware that more needs to be done for sick children. >> children who are disabled, impaired, medically they are not well. the best interests of the child is paramount interest to the council and we have lively good discussion and from there we will come up with policies, we will come up with plan of action, that is very focused on the types of children that i just mentioned. >> reporter: her only adopted daughter is paralyzed and has cerebral palsy and taking on more kids that have hiv compassion of children scarred through no fault of their own and offers a future instead of an institution of their own and has a loving secure home and a woman they call mom, al jazeera,

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