no word on whether recaptured drug lord joaquin guzman will be extradited to the united states. this is al jazeera live from doha. also ahead, desperation in syria as thousands remain stranded due to a lack of aid supplies in the besieged town of madaya. a police chief is sacked following assaults in cologne on new year's eve. the war of words in venezuela over these pictures of its late

leader. the future of mexican drug lord joaquin guzman is uncertain after his recapture following his recapture. authorities are not saying if he will now be extra dated to the u.s.-- extradited to the u.s. he escaped from a prison through a tunnel six months ago. >> reporter: for a third time the world's most notorious drug lord was arrested by security forces. it ends a six-month embarrassment for the mexican government. >> translation: months of work was used to disemanate that around this criminal. we had the necessary complablts

to overcome-- capabilities to overcome the threats. when we work together there is no adversity that we cannot overcome >> reporter: the government says joaquin guzman was arrested in his home state on friday morning. someone called to complain about armed men holed up inside a motel. during a shoot out the government says it killed five criminals and arrested six including the head of the drug cartel. joaquin guzman has taken on mythical status here in mexico. his mull tie billion dollar car tell is provided a significant amount amount of the drugs that ends up in the u.s. twice he has escaped from prison. people say he will escape again. for the president it was an opportunity to reclaim the upper

hand after his escape from mexico's most secure prison last july. joaquin guzman's escape from his prison cell was global news. he escaped from a hole in the shower in his prison cell that connected to a one-mile long tunnel. it had air conditioning and a motorcycle. he was rearrested after 13 years after his first escape. they have been reluctant to extra diet him to the u.s.-- extra diet him to the u.s. he will be sent to the states where an escape is considered less likely the united nations is coordinating efforts to get food into besieged areas in syria where people are starving to death. it is estimated that 42,000

people are trapped in madaya which is under siege by government troops and thousands of others are in other areas. this video emerged showing starving people being looked at by a doctor. we cannot verify these pictures. >> reporter: on 8/1/2016. what's your name? >> translation: noa hshgs. >> reporter: long have you been without food? >> translation: four days. what have you taken from the hospital to survive? >> translation: this packet >> reporter: a packet of salt? are you hungry? god help us a report from the sir lebanon border. -- syria lebanon border.

>> reporter: a protest. syrians and lebanese here marching in solidarity with people suffering nearby, including some who are from the areas where people are trapped. >> translation: we came to lebanon because of the air strikes. they destroyed our homes and burnt our fields. there's nothing left there. the people fled with their families to madaya. they put them in a big prison. >> reporter: there have been marches in syria as well. people here want to make sure their fellow syrians get access to food and medical aid as soon as possible. there are more than 40,000 people in madaya who have been out proper food for months. the last time the u.n. was able to get aid to them was in october. al jazeera managed to speak to a resident of the town. >> translation: we don't understand how the world can do nothing to resolve this crisis after witnessing such tragedy. civilians, including women and children are being killed because of the use of this

cowardly weapon. >> reporter: unfortunately there are many places under siege in sir syria's war and more than 400,000 people that have been cut off from food and medical supplies. that's something other syrians in lebanon say they can relate to. >> translation: we lived in the same situation as madaya. we had the same hunger. we came to stand in solidarity with the families there because the hunger and the suffering is the same for all people. >> reporter: the u.n. says it will be able to send some aid from damascus to the villages as well as to others near the border of lebanon. >> we expect that the humanitarian operation, the joint operation, should take place in the coming days. >> reporter: the aid will help a small number of people out of the thousands who are suffering through this five-year war in neighboring iraq

thousands of people have fled conflict are facing a harsh winter in camps. our correspondent is in north west of irbill where more than 4,000 people are living. tell us more about where you are and what the people are facing there on a day-to-day basis. >> reporter: we're at the camp here, baharka camp, and the winter conditions have made life here much harder than they already are. i want to bring in a guest here, somebody who can talk about this more. we will speak more to this man. i want to ask you with all the various concurrent crises going on in the region when it comes to internally displaced and refugees, is it difficult for unicef and other organizations to get the resources you need to help the people of iraq?

>> thank you first of all for this opportunity. i would like to start with how concerned unicef is of the situation of children in iraq and across the region affected by the multiple crisis we're facing. iraq is a unique situation that we're facing. we are calling it a forgotten crisis because we are surrounded by other countries with much higher profile, but let me state a few facts. we have 322 million displaced population. we have nearly 250,000 refugees that are also in iraq. out of the 3.2 million based in iraq the majority majority of them are children. those children are going through a difficult situation, getting them to school is hard and the majority of them, at least 700,000 of them, miss at least one year of their schooling. there is no proper hygiene,

there is no water, there is no proper health care system. the entire life of the children is affected and their future is crashing on their head and we are actually watching a situation that we will see a quite large number of children that lost their future. so we are dealing with a situation that is so dire that getting sources to support children, put them in school, put them in protection, put them into a life with dignity where they get proper water, hygiene and appropriate toilet is becoming difficult because getting increased resources in iraq is not as easy as it is maybe in other places >> reporter: what are the particular challenges right now with the onset of such cold weather worsening, winter weather conditions so far as getting the type of aid that these people desperately need right now in camps like this? >> imagining living in this

flimsy tent as a child. we are wearing layers and layers of cold and we are feeling miserable. it goes sometimes to subzero and children do not have warm houses, warm water to take shower, they do not have warm clothes to wear, they do not have a warm school to go, they do not have a warm shelter to go. it is still haunting me every day we wake up. we visited one camp, we parked the car and i come back. i find a child with no shoes and no warm clothes under the engine of the car to warm themselves. it is as difficult as mi human being can imagine. we just have to find a heating system in the schools to get children some sort of heating in the classroom. we have distributed in this particular town 1900 winter kits and 1900 children received warm

clothes, but it's the type of the ice. we have distributed around the country 770,000 winter kits to reach children, but look at the 3.3 million families, people that i talk about, and the number of children that are 50% affected by the winter. it is very harsh winter. it breaks even the people who are wearing warm clothes. if we do not get resources to warm these children, we are likely to see many children affected by this harsh winter. >> reporter: you were describing extremely haunting scenes that children experience on a daily basis here, things that you've seen with your very eyes. even today with the distribution that has happened, i'm seeing children walking around in sandals in this weather. >> it is getting worse. we are now in early january and this is the peek of the winter

and we're going to see this condition for a while. we're not going to see the situation improving unless we get resources we need to address those many children. agencies are trying their best. unicef is putting the best we could to address this sort of situation. the winter situation that we are dealing with. we are getting air conditioning in the schools, we're getting kerosene heating systems in the schools and child-friendly spaces, but it's small and very small portion of what children need. we are in this difficult situation where i would hope the world will understand the situation of iraq is crisis that has been forgotten. it has been forgotten places that needs support from the international community. >> reporter: thank you so much for being with us.

we really appreciate you walking us through the crisis here, explaining just how dire the situation is. in so many places here in iraq, i can tell you in this camp because of the rains the last fuf days, there are flood-like conditions. there are tents and we're talking just tarped. it doesn't really guard much against the cold. they have caved in because of the water on top, the windy conditions. the kids here are cold. it is a dire situation. it is getting worse. the aid workers couldn't be sounding the alarm bells any louder than they are but still there is concern that the world is not paying attention or distributing as much aid as people need thank you for that. it's hard breaking the conditions that these children are facing in egypt three tourists have been injured after being stabbed at the red sea resort. egyptian security forces say two men armed with guns and knives

afakd the bell avery that-- attacked at the hotel. one gunmen has been shot dead. he was a 21-year-old student. gunmen claiming to have links with i.s.i.l. attacked a hotel in egypt. coming up after the break, thailand strengthens laws against child pornography. we will tell you about a student's attempt to make the rail system safer. ystem safer.

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a recap of our top stories. mexican police have recaptured drug lord joaquin guzman six months after he escaped from a maximum security prison. the u.n. is coordinating efforts to get food into besieged areas in syria where people are starving to death. it is estimated that 42,000 people are dropped in madaya. in neighboring iraq thousands of people in conflict are struggling to keep warm. in other news, two palestinians have been shot dead in the occupied west bank this saturday. it happened at the check point just east of nablus. they were shot after allegedly being involved in a stabbing incident. electoral reform and harmony between different religious and ethnic groups are the aim of sri

lanka. our correspondent has more. >> reporter: some of the key changes are expected will be changes to the electoral system which some analysts say are deeply flawed. against, the abolition of the office that gives power to the legislature and the government in a broad based fashion. lots of work to be done by this assembly. there is formal process of consultation which seeks to include all parties, all opinions with regards to the constitution and what we're seeing is that house will debate and discuss the potential changes at which time it will come up with a cohesive set of proposals for the constitution change and then seek to take it through and bring it to fruition in germany the city of cologne's police chief has been forced to step down after a

series of alleged sexual assaults on new year's eve. several men have been detained for questioning. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a night to celebrate. instead new year's eve in cologne turned into one of chaos and violence. with allegations of serious sexual assault, robbery and threats by groups of men against dozens of women close to the cathedral. an internal police report says officers were not in control. >> translation: i thought to myself if we stay here in this crowd they could kill us, rape us and nobody would notice. >> translation: there were so many people that i no longer was in control of myself, where to go or how to defend myself >> translation: they felt like they were in power and that they could do anything with the women who were out in the street partying. >> reporter: protesters say the police could and should have done more. what happened more than a week ago is fuelling the debate in

germany about immigration. witnesses said many of the suspects looked like they were arab or north africa. more than 30 suspects have now been identified by german police. some of those are asylum seekers, but they are not being connected to the sexual assault allegations but face violence and robbery charges. chancellor merkel has demanded a far-reaching investigation. >> translation: the feeling women have in this case have been completely defenseless and at mercy is for me personally intolerable. so it is important that everything that happened must come out into the open. >> reporter: cologne is home to a large muslim community. many of them are ethnic turks who have lived in the city for decades. they're worried people are pointing the finger at muslims and north africans when the facts are still not clear. >> translation: it has nothing to do with the religion of the

goods the individual -- it is about the individual. lack of respect for women is not a religious problem >> translation: i have been here for 30 years myself and i've never see seen anything like this. >> reporter: the german chancellor has warned that any foreigners who were involved in the crimes could now face deportation the white house has announced how it plans to fight i.s.i.l. in other armed groups in the u.s. and abroad. the measures including new task force which will target online propaganda. more from washington dc >> reporter: there was a two-pronged announcement. number one, that the government is deciding to give up on the tactic of direct messaging responding to i.s.i.l.'s recruiting messages with messages of their own counter propaganda at times mocking them. these tactics have proved not to be very effective by the admission of officials here and,

secondly, they're meeting with high-tech leaders in silicon valley in california, leaders from facebook, apple, drop box, twitter, to see if they can get more cooperation from these companies in trying to filter out the appeals of i.s.i.l. using these tools in better effect in actually working against i.s.i.l. up to now they've had mixed results because although these companies say that they certainly are not interested in becoming conduits for i.s.i.l.'s propaganda, on the other hand, they have privacy concerns, in particular, they have objected to the government's attempts to build a sort of dekripgs escape roots - decryption back doors so they can go into encrypted

messages. we don't know how successful the government has been in getting the companies to see things more to their light in venezuela the president has condemned the removal of important traits and photos of-- portraits to be taken down. pro-government protesters are calling for his portrait to be put on every street corner. more from our correspondent >> reporter: down town here woke up with freshly graffitied images of the late leader. in response of the removal of the walls from the national assembly. also of the independence here and this message that reads the opposition has the assembly. the people have the street. on wednesday, a day after the first opposition led parliament in close to 17 years, the new president says the images had no

room under the new administration. so seemingly a symbolic gesture, the paintings have hit a raw nerve in this country. people have been gathering in the central square to protest what they say an affront to their larger than life leader and their country's history. also the president suffered a crushing defeat in december's parliamentary elections, his pre-desosor and mentor. the movement over him spear headed might have suffered a setback with the loss of parliament, but most of the other government institutions remain firmly under loyalist hands. this tit for tat reaction is emblematic of how deep the issues are thailand is implementing tougher penalties for child

pornography offences. people found with such material will be sentenced with you to five years in jail. >> reporter: many of these border areas are remote and under developed leaving children vulnerable. thailand is one of the hubses of the child pornography trade but finally police have some laws to work with. this area is coming to terms with the arrest of one of its well-known residents >> i'm going to be a bit late. there's a big crowd of immigration police just coming to do a check. >> reporter: it was far more serious than that. investigators came to arrest british national fabian blandford after a tip off from authorities. they found 600 pornographic images of children on his computer and phone. >> i often give them warm

clothing every winter and other clothing i buy cheap in the market >> reporter: the 64 year old had been living in the area for 18 years and had clearly dpand the trust of the community. one of his projects was sponsoring the local school. in this case he was a former monk. when he quit he became intimate with the children by teaching them to meditate and teaching them english. >> reporter: the government enacted new laws late last year which finally criminalized possession of child pornography. it also said up a new police task force to combat choild exploitation. it's those changes that helped them arrest him. he was the third foreigner to be caught under the new laws. it is a delicate time for those in the small community where he lived. people come to thailand from myanmar for economic reasons

like this group whose daughter attends the school >> translation: we came here because we in a tough life. i want people to know this. if someone came to monthliest our child or take photos it would be terrible. i would be heartbroken. >> reporter: being caught in possession of child pornography can now lead to a jail term of five years and seven years for its distribution. wayne hay hundreds of thousands of catholics in the philippines are taking part in the annual procession. trying to touch a black statue of jesus christ which they believe can deliver miracles. it dates back to the 17th century. to bangladesh now where an engineering student is helping his invention - hoping his invention will improve rail safety. an average of 71 people were killed by trains every month last year.

>> reporter: this doesn't expire much confidence in this man. many are decades old. some were laid during british colonial rule before 1947. worrying from reading reports on derailment, he built a robot. it detects cracks and derailments, sending alerts to the nearest station. >> translation: right now all the maintenance work and check ups on our rail tracks is done manually. you need a huge amount of han power for that. the rail department doesn't have enough employees. so we're trying to introduce an automated system. >> reporter: the maintenance is not the biggest problem for rail safety in dpl bangladesh. a large number of tracks run through chaotic marketplaces and the middle of busy slums. it is a real danger for people around. in 2015 police say an average of 70 people died each month after

getting hit by trains. he says he has seen many accidents in the years he set up shop here. he has recovered 10 dead bodies with his own hands. >> translation: some people are wandering onto the tracks talking on their phones, some are absent minded, some have in an aargument with a girlfriend and looking to end things. >> reporter: railway police say a proliferation of illegal crossings pose another threat with vehicles getting stuck on the uneven ground. >> it is very damaging accidents. they stop inside the rail track. the train came. the driver saw the train is coming but sympathy could not move. >> reporter: with thousands of unregulated crossings around the country, rail safety remains a huge problem that will take coordination. in the meantime, this student is

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