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actually work. >> hello, at least one person has been killed during explosion at a school not far from the border with syria. three others have been left injured after a mortar shower fired and exploded on the grounds in the school. investigation is underway and government leaders are blaming isil for the blast. al jazeera's andrew simmons has this update. >> this is a school reception. imagine the panic when the first plasmati happened. the emergency services were on the scene very quickly. they tried to save the life of a woman right here, but she died. there was also a female student who was critically injured and taken to hospital where she's in serious condition.

look at the blast damage. this rocket came 17-20 kilometers. it came from isil positions urged do turkish security sources, and there were two others also fired, and they landed nearby in a field on soft ground. but this is a very ugly development in the whole process here. many people say they're frightened for their children, and frightened by what could happen next. it has not been confirmed this is an isil attack. but every suggestion points in that direction. look at the damage here. every single window smashed and when you look at the position of the isil potential attackers, this could be a response to the latest pressure from the turkish military who have been responding to the isil attack in

istanbul last week with the prime minister claiming that up to 250 isil operators were killed in a matter of 48 hours. so is this an escalation that could mean more attacks here? it is unclear at this stage. >> syrian observatory for human rights said that isil fighters have captured new areas near the eastern syrian, and the area is just north of th of syria where the group has killed 300 people and has been described as a massacre in the city over the weekend. well, diplomatic talks to try to put an end to the war in syria is due to take place next week. but the french foreign minister has been unable to confirm whether they'll go ahead. joining us live is diplomatic editor james bays. are these talks going to happen, do you think?

>> el dat >> the data is still in the diary, but it is still touch and go of whether the talks will take place. briefing the security council by video link on the latest, that's taking place behind closed doors. i expect we'll get some feel for what he is saying in the coming ours at the end of the meeting when we speak to diplomats. it was clear the position of diplomats as they went into the meeting. we spoke to some of those arriving an hour ago when the meeting started. the russian ambassador told me these talks must happen after all the preparation that has taken place, and representing the u.k. their delegate peter wilson said that it's important that talks take place this month, but admitted it is going to be tough. the reason why we still don't have a definitive news on the talks is because i think of the

opposition side. there was a meeting that took place at the end of the last betwee week. in which the saudis told the u.s. that they can't yet say that the opposition will attend. remember, saudi was given the role of coordinating an opposition delegation for these talks. that's why later in the week john kerry, u.s. secretary of state will be meeting with sergei lavrov in switzerland, and then he'll be taking a plane to go to riyadh himself to speak with the saudis and i suspect to get mentions from the opposition delegation. they could go to gentleme geneva, but they're worried about what happened two years ago. the syrian government came to talks two years ago in geneva. did not cooperate with those talks. used delaying tactics, and the talks collapsed, and the

opposition side said yes, we'll come to geneva again, but we want an assurance that the u.s. and it's allies have a plan b if the syrian government were to do the same thing again. >> thank you very much, indeed. >> airstrikes with the saudi coalition fighting in yemen have left 20 people dead. police building the is a gnaw was hit with reports that civilians were among the dead. they've been carrying out daily strikes against iran-back houthi rebels. meanwhile attacks by the rebels in yemen are beginning to look like a systemic campaign targeting the pro government security services. on sunday an official was killed by a roadside bomb. and the car bomb attack at the police chief killed 11 people.

al jazeera i a inrahn khan reports. >> a suicide-bomber exploded his car outside of the home of the regional security chief. on the city's neighborhood. this attack on sunday came despite districtly enforced cure if you that has been extended for another month. a spokesman for the government said supporters of the rebels have infiltrated the security services. meanwhile, in sanaa they continue to pound houthi rebel conditions leading to desire situation in the infrastructure. >> they have the security institutions will undermine security cause instability and shake the domestic front. the more violent the airstrikes and the killings get, the tighter the domestic front will be. >> the fighting on the ground in

yemen along with the airstrikes have killed 6,000 people since july half half of those are said to be civilians. a prominent local journalist was also killed in a saudi-led airstrikes on sunday. a reporter for several western and international news outlets died while on assignment. al jazeera. >> iran has denounced new sanctions on the missile program whic the head of the atomic watchdog with a has arrived. they're also meeting the atomic organization they will does the monitoring and verifying of today iran's nuclear program. >> the opec group has predicted that the price of crude oil will make its price of recovery. non-opec country won't be able to sustain production given the current low prices. a barrel of oil cost more than

$147. by late 2014 it dropped to just over 60 but there it has now sunk below $38 a barrel. in part because the market has over supplied and fears that it could become more so with the lifting of sanctions on iran in order to increase crude oil production by 500,000 barrels a day. under sanctions it produced 207 barrels a day. the prediction from opec that things will recover, what do you make of that? >> well, it fits with the pattern that we're expecting to see over the course of this year, which is a gradual rebalancing, the fall in prices has caused a decline in investment, in oil production around the world. it takes some time for that to show up in the numbers. we think by the second half of this year it will start to show through and the market will respond. >> so the predictions of bloom

and doom could go down to $10 a barrel is off the mark? >> from the fundamental perspective they're looking for supply and demand. it's true that the market seems more driven by economic concerns, about china, concerns what iran might potentially do now that it's coming back to the market. you can't rule out prices overreacting but that would feel very extreme especially given how far we've fallen already. >> how quickly might extra supply come online from iran? how quickly can they do that? >> they can begin the process pretty rapidly. it's about the volumes that they can manage to bring back and how easily they'll be able to breeze the number of buyers. although most sanctions have been lifted those still are going to be problems with dealing with u.s. dollars, problems with getting insurance, it's not going to be that straightforward. and buyers may still prefer suppliers from other sources given oil from any seller is cheaper at the moment. >> what about the way opec has

behaved? they didn't want to reduce supply and presumebly this was in part to making some other new oil producers like the shale producers to suffer. what is the long-term future of those kinds of industries? >> i think opec strategy is working and it's brought a lot of pain with it in terms of the revenues for all the opec numbers. even the best funded saudi arabia are suffering in terms of much lower income. but over the long term we're definitely seeing a big reduction in investment not only in the u.s. but in all sorts of parts of the world in oil production. that will be with us three, five, seven years, which probably means higher prices to come. >> and what about those who might benefit from those oil prices. >> well, consumers around the world are going to benefit. in particular i think oi

oil-importing countries, it has benefited from low energy prices. the danger is if low prices are going to be followed by much higher and volatile prices over the next couple of years, that's not helpful for consumers or producers. >> thank you very much for your expertise. thank you. still to come this half hour, the u.k. parliament debates whether to ban donald trump from entering the country. and more than 100 people are guaranteed in sierra leone over ebola fears. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,

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>> a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. often explosion that has fallen near the border of syria that has killed one person. three others were injured when the mortar shell landed on school grounds. the oil cartel opec predicts a recover this year. the current low prices were forced on opec countries out of production. five soldiers have been killed in a training exercise iin the french alps. they were a group of 50 soldiers skiing in the area when the avalanche struck on sunday. on wednesday two students were killed in a school skiing trip. another ukrainian skier was also killed in that incident.

should donald trump be banned from britain? british ph mps will debate the petition. they say donald trump is not welcomed because of his controversial call to ban muslims from the u.s. >> love him or loathe him, donald trump can't stay out of the headlines. but some people in britain now say that he should stay out of their country because of comments like this. >> donald trump is calling for total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> more than half a million people have signed an online possessio petition urging the government to ban him from the u.k. the woman hyped the petition said that donald trump is no

different from others who have been barned from britain on the ground of hate speech. >> they really should do it. there have been cases in the united states where his hate speech has led to actual violence. >> suzanne kelly's long campaign against trump's development of luxury golf courses in scotland against the wishes of local residents. >> mr. trump's planning consensus for 2008 for this golf course. there is no golf resort. there is a golf course and a clubhouse. you would be gullible to accept his claims now. >> he has had his status as scotland's ambassador and honorary degree taken away. here in the capital it prides itself on its diversity. >> we have price places in

london and other places that are so radicalized that the police are afraid for their own lives. we have to be very smart and very vigilant. >> that claim is ridiculed by london's metropolitan police. but while many find donald trump's comments offensive, not everyone agrees that he should be banned from entering the country. >> i don't think we can ban him at the moment, but i really don't like what he stands for. >> you have no right to talk about banning donald trump from coming to england. the reason being america and england has always had a good relationship. now if you start that, you'll break off the wonderful relationship they've had before. >> the remarks have been called decisive, not helpful and wrong, either way monday's debate is unlikely to affect his prospects in the u.s. election. al jazeera, london.

>> a man has been arrested in morocco over the attacks in paris which killed 3 130 people in november. the man fought in syria with al nusra front before joining isil. german police have made their first arrests on sexual assault charges from attacks over new year's eve in cologne. accused of groping a woman and stealing her mobile phone. hundreds have come forward saying they were sexually assaulted on new year's eve. new talks aim and ending a decade of fighting between government forces and the taliban in kabul. calling on all taliban groups to enter talks with the government. more talks are due in islamabad. the taliban has recently stepped

up its campaign against the government. burkina faso and mali have agreed to working together against assaults. burkina faso's prime minister said that the threats were transnational. >> there is strong political will on the part of the two states to combine our efforts to fight a terrorism that has become a transnational phenomenon effecting all of our countries. and we'll work with mali in affairs of information sharing, joint patrols and many other fields. >> we are seen the attack on friday, the splendid hotel where vehicles lined up outside of the

hotel. the hotel is largely destroyed, and investigators from france, the u.s. and burkina faso is combing the debris looking for any leads they can find. moments earlier the president of burkina faso they were shown the vehicles and also the where the attacks first began. now the president is the second west african leader to visit burkina faso to show solidarity. but the under lying rhythm for the visit is the realization that al-qaeda is no longer confined and is now flexing its muscles carrying out attacks not only in mali but neighboring countries and the encounter al-qaeda. they'll have to do that with outside help. the militaries of burkina faso

are heavily challenged. >> very small band of the the world's wealthiest people own half of the world's population. it said that 62nd super rich earn as much as 3.5 billion people. with the network of $79 billion micro founder bill gates has the same wealth as the world's smallest 41 economies put together. also estimated $7.6 trillion of that wealth was in offshore tax havens depriving governments of $190 billion in revenue. the culture of wealth inequality needs to be reversed. >> it makes no economic or moral sense to have so much wealth concentrated in the hands of so few. at a time when we really need to fight the battle against extreme poverty we really need to reverse this trend where actually most of the proceeds of growth and most of the

accumulation of wealth is going straight to the richest people. we need to make sure that work pays. so we need to see better salaries, better wages and more security employments for many people. we also need to make sure that everyone gets the opportunity to participate fairly in society and to do that they need decent education and healthcare. so public services are really critical. but then in addition we need to make sure that people are paying their taxes and paying the taxes that they are due to pay. and that the loopholes that exist that allow individuals and companies to avoid paying their taxes are closed for good. >> just a week after the "world health organization" declared west africa ebola free more than 100 people have been quarantin ed in sierra leone. from the capital of free town we report of how survivors are playing a key role in educating the public. >> a nurse who foot the ebola

crisis in 2014. she caught the virus treating a patient. now she's suffering the after effects. >> medication is supposed to be free for her, but she offer ends up having to pra to pay for it. her children have stepped in to help with household work as she's not strong enough. she worries about how she'll cope. >> i think the research they're doing now will start to get a draw that can help the survivors. >> she said if experts had known more about the disease earlier maybe there could have been better health preparations for survivors like her. that's part of the problem. there is still a lot unknown about the ebola virus. it's playing a key role in understanding how long the virus can linger in the body after recovery, but initially it was a huge challenge because not enough was known about it.

as more information was discovered it became clear having public message like these were and still are crucial. >> several international and local organizations have stepped in to stop the virus from spreading. one of the challenges was getting people to understand that it was reel. many thought it was rumor it was difficult for the people to abide by and respect the protocol. they did the wrong thing. so the virus had a field day. >> what worked most in all of this was providing community engagement. that meant getting authorities and local communities to understand ebola and explain it to others. >> for example, recommendation leaders people who are local glides still he says the biggest len lesson learned was that it should have been done faster. the fact that the country has a poor health system to start helped with the set back.

this latest death is a warning that assuming is dangerous. the term ebola-free does not mean that ebola is gone forever. >> it comes to safe practices, hygiene and sanitation measurements. that's where the social mobile ga mobilization is still ongoing. >> for now ebola survivors say she's trying to move in a positive way. despite all the challenges she's grateful to have survived. >> promising justice will be done in the case of a death of former state prosecutor. president macri met the

prosecutor's two daughters on the anniversary of his death. he was found dead in his apartment hours just before he was to testify in the bombing of a jewish center. hundreds have employees have lost their jobs in argentina. many of them are political activists and supporters of cristina kirchner. >> a prong test by people who say they have lost their jobs. this woman said she had been working for six years and now her contract has not been rene renewed. the government is playing off state employees and they're accusing of us being activists, of getting paid and not coming to work. i have three children to support, and my contract has not been reviewed.

>> president macri came to power promising change after 12 years of the populous government of kis cristina kirchner. he said that the politics of cristina kirchner has left the country in the red. that's why they're looking at the status of hundreds of thousands of employees. there are fears that they do not hold jobs at all but rather just collect a sall salary. >> these people chant that they want to work. hundreds are having their contracts reviewed. many have been fired. they say they'll continue protesting until they get their jobs back. >> all around argentina there are thousands in a similar situation. at the cultural center the contracts of 600 people have not been renewed. working in stenography, he claims that they are not even allowed to enter the building. >> we signed the contract with the previous administration

until december 2016. they are ignoring that contract, and many of us are not working. i work here for 12 hours every day. >> macri faces strong opposition that mostly comes by the supporters of form president cristina kirchner. the government claims that for years the previous government handed over public jobs in exchange of political support, another way of generating jobs that the private sector did not. >> we're reviewing all contracts because we found very strange things. for example, in the last three years we've seen an increase of state employees. if anyone is being paid and is not working, that's disrespec disrespectful to the workers. it is public money. >> protests like this one will probably continue in argentina as the new government tries to bring about the promised change that got mauricio ma macri

elected and they promise to fight back. >> you can find out more by checking out our website www.aljazeera.com. and watch us live by clicking on the watch now icon. www.aljazeera.com. >> lawmakers in london are debating whether to ban donald trump from the u.k. >> the democrat it can presidential hopefuls focus on the issue as the clock is ticking closer to the crucial iowa caucuses. iran now prepares to increase its oil output. and the less than stellar