microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera the fact. the smallest corpus on the planet and one that could soon be lost forever with an international team of scientists is the time and not to let that happen without intervention to give the cuba i would say year two about just now it's a race against time to try and face a species i think chrysler that's in the matches the plan they've all extinction tagg know at this time on all jazeera. at least thirteen people are dead in a taliban gun attack at a college in pakistan. and

i'm jane dutton this is al jazeera live from the host coming up. president unveils his cabinet with many faces from the mcgarvie era returning to senior posts. clashes in honduras as the country anxiously awaits results of the contentious presidential election. a potential game changer for renewable energy the world's largest lithium ion battery is turned on in australia. gunmen have stormed a college in pakistan and killed at least nine people it happened in the northwestern city of push our all attackers were killed after two hours of fighting with the army and police the taliban faction in pakistan says it was behind the

attack. joins us on the phone line from islamabad to us more about what happened come on. well this particular dr drew on board in the morning we. could be reading. and were given by. reading the really. be agriculture training institute. on a killing spree off the late. reaction force of the army and the police. back in. dozens of people have also been wounded some of them may be in serious condition and the faction that has claimed responsibility paul did that's why he thought of on the hated by most of what was also the overall or head of the. state

that all the barn focused on and do we have any idea why it would be that toggles and why now what sort of message is this. well it did a number back in december going before getting there was another. over one hundred and he's still getting spit on me by the school and. the david dollar bonds are great fungibility but that also but. the budgets on the military has been saying that groups are all for getting from just across the board up in of one it's done in particular it can gauge that for the year itch secretary of defense. in progress on bush sr stalled because of different state budgets on maintaining that they need to be done about it focused on a few things they have sanctity don't be on one side of the border still they get there is an estimation of the. inside budgets on just a week ago the additional in the gender of police were no so good but it's

interesting to know that they would have been hired today if said that it was the it was a holiday because for dishonest commemorating the property of the culprit muhammad and bill they would all are dead four hundred students but just dumped on normally but today we're told that only one hundred and fifty students were dead so there would have been a much higher casualty rate there was their goal is that the attack is what you are doing to a child. not to kill that they were able to detonate them or not come out thank you . the head of the roman catholic church is lead a mass for some one hundred thousand people in bangladesh's capital dhaka pope francis is on a six day visit of the region he's been criticized for not publicly mentioning there were hanging crisis during the me in my leg of the tour but he will meet ringle refugees in dhaka later on friday more than six hundred twenty thousand of them have fled to bangladesh since august escaping

a military crackdown in me and my let's bring in charles stratford in cox's bazar in bangladesh where many rangar are living in camps first to talk about the pope what's he up to today. well he has given a mass in one of the cars large parks around eighty thousand people turning up for that mass where he ordained sixteen priests we saw him arrive in what is being described as a locally made popemobile the pope's visit here basically having come from myanmar is treading very much a diplomatic tight rope here's what is being described as later in the days going to be speaking to the prime minister holding a meeting with the prime minister in the vatican ambassador here sorry in the car the way he's also going to be meeting as you say these these members of the ranger here who traveled from the refugee camps to the car sixteen people are going to

meet him but this diplomatic tight rope made very much indicative of the fact that he hasn't used the word ranger that the entire international community uses to describe the hundreds of thousands of people that have fled this latest me and mark crisis we understand certainly from vatican spokes people that the reason one of the reasons for this was because there were fears of a backlash against the christian community in me and mark one of the top cardinals in bangladesh today has said that the pope cannot be expected to be a problem solver but he's here very much to prepare the hearts and minds of people to deal with this crisis but certainly you know he's he's very much up against it in the next few hours or so when as i say he'll be meeting. ranger refugees that have traveled from these camps specifically to go to go and see him tell us more about the impact of this crisis on bangladesh because he paid thanks bangladesh for

helping the refugees. well the impact on this country has been massive let's not forget that even before this latest influx of refugees arrived since august the twenty fifth there were around four hundred thousand rangers that were here from previous crackdowns statistics supplied by experts here are saying that just housing those four hundred thousand refugees was costing this country about a billion dollars a year of course the military deployed very much in this operation so it's holding them back is costing a lot of money to deploy the military here it's indicative basically of the bangladesh government's generosity potentially drawing up here a plan that has been put forward by bangladesh and we are to start re patrie ating

some of these refugees in the next two months and interestingly it was only last week that the government here signed off on a two hundred eighty million dollar plan to try and move some of the range of refugees to a coastal island to move them into temporary shelters there as well so as i say a big indication of just how much pressure this country is having to deal with in dealing with this crisis and i thank you for that that chance. so a new president. has announced his team the new cabinet includes politicians loyal to the ruling party and members of the military ousted former leader robert mugabe was sworn in a week ago so has the reaction from harare. watching some people react to the new cabinet some people say that they are disappointed the new cabinet has some soldiers in it a lot of people from the old guard people who were in government. it was still the president. disappointed that is still part of the old guard in there why that

nothing is going to change one man said is the same bus find the drivers no longer driving in maybe the conduct is but it is still the same bus that said some people are cautiously optimistic saying they hope the prison him is a menace one knows what he's doing they know he's a businessman the people he's put in place will try and work to resuscitate the economy because right now that's what most people want they want jobs this country has an unemployment rate of more than ninety percent unemployed graduate degrees standing on the seas did absolutely nothing hoping for some kind of well these are frustration and anger in this country so i think while these full mixed feelings about the cabinet just a lot of people will hope that another problem will go up in the form of prison is gone and we now have a new place that they're hoping that he perhaps understands the reality on the ground and they hope that he's the man who will try to turn run the economy so while it's the point of other cabinet some hope that the prison knows what he's

doing they hope that he has a plan to resuscitate the economy and they hope that even though you have the same people in cabinet them. they hope that these are people who are qualified and they don't want to. japan's emperor akihito is to step down and april two thousand and nineteen making him the first monaco to abdicate in two hundred years a kid who had previously said he's age and health would make a difference. well for him to fulfill his duties the eighty three year old will be succeeded by fifty seven year old crown prince not a hit to prime minister shinzo and a special panel decided on the date of the abdication michael paine as president of the get to news agency he says it was really the emperor who called the shots over his abdication. what's the application so he basically made it very clear that. he didn't want to rain. look i've worked all

my life as a symbol of the nation of empire and my health was declining and it's fine for me to step aside and so it was really the emperor himself who started the debate and so i walked out and this was the government which didn't want to be emperor so once they go along the number of people in the army is very small and of those who may have had children many at most you know some of them so looking to the future it's probably fairly certain that there will come a day when there will be a need to have a female emperor or you know or acknowledge other branches of. the great material and this is something that obviously once again we are we don't just not want to. but there are other horses. that one up and in fact. in the medieval and ancient parts of the hard. people in honduras have protested against the long wait it's taken to count the ballots from sunday's presidential election supporters of the

main opposition candidate salvador attacked the electoral center in the capital the result so far put incumbent president one on monday and then there is ahead the opposition is accusing the electoral court of manipulating the results but as a vote has not. it's been four days since a presidential election seen on the task these people say they're gathering in the capital to defend their vote when the stomach up at the stand up again we are challenging the results so we don't know is around a one but the electoral tribunal is corrupt and is defending the interests of the president and betraying the hunger and people we won't allow these elections to be stolen like happened in the past won't be stolen. bulls precedents why. and his t.v. star opponents. claim victory after sunday's election initially the result of. this after holed up in the count. remote municipalities that have not been.

counted as the victory of our party because rural areas vote in favor of the nationalist party. has one of the highest murder rates in the world and there are fears that the current political crisis will increase the violence that already exist in this central american nation. i don't even want to think about it this could get worse. i'm afraid for my children my family and my wife respect the results. of american states managed to have both candidates signed a statement where they vow to respect the final results once the disputed votes are checked. but nothing later rejected the agreement saying the government is trying to steal the election and supporters to take to the streets protesters set up

barricades and clash with the police used tear gas to disperse them. the next president whoever wins is going to be in a weak position because of the thin margin and the suspicion around the election. of winning three four illegitimate. institutions against them. on the road is already battling poverty and crime political instability. the situation here even further. still ahead on al-jazeera. protesters in the democratic republic of congo put their lives on the line to force the president from office. that's a renewed effort to stop ancient relics from being trafficked by armed groups. from the waves in the south. to the contours of the east.

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are you watching al-jazeera might have our top stories this hour taliban gunmen have stormed a college in pakistan and killed at least nine people all attackers were killed after two hours of fighting with the army and police in the city of charlotte that of the roman catholic church has led a mass four hundred thousand people in bangladesh capital dhaka pope francis is on a six day visit of the region and will meet refugees later on friday. president. has announced his team politicians loyal to the ruling party and members of the military who helped oust former leader robert mugabe. united nations security council failed last month to agree on investigating chemical attacks in

syria the inquiry into their use expired after russia vetoed a resolution to extend its mandates and as a binge of aid reports the inaction is causing fear among syrians that the perpetrators will become bolder. when syrian children play in the street their games in opposition held areas are often disrupted by the sound of warplanes. usually russian or syrian jets fly overhead. an airstrike killed obeys mother this exterior was injured when syrian government attacked concha hoon with chemical weapons. remembers that day when he was in his brother's room and he smelled something funny. when he woke up in turkey his mother was gone. we met him there in april when he was being treated the un found the syrian government responsible for the sarin gas attack in honshu horn which killed around one hundred syrians they bring all the staff and doctor up to lead their mission as

he's witnessed dozens of other attacks including one which killed more than one hundred people in a car bomb in hama province the town was controlled by isis fighters at the time and witnesses reported suffocation after poisonous gas was dropped on them dr their wish accuses the world of ignoring chemical attacks even in areas which were not under ice and control his colleague dr ali that wish was killed in the attack in march he refused to leave a patient on the operating table the doctor continued to surgery and died a few hours later in an ambulance but he saved his patient dr abdullah says what happened amounts to a war crime and no one's been held accountable. we were told by the un's chemical watchdog i brought all the evidence with me the clothes dr ali was wearing blood pieces of metal from barrel bombs and samples of soil. other victims of chemical attacks and punchier kuhn in april the twenty five members of the use of families

included have been handed usis wife and two children the world briefly took notice when news of what happened to them been vital. seven months on a bill has been really about the nightmare every day. for me you can't imagine my pain i was hoping after this attack a sad news regime would face something that is still the same we're in painting get no justice. that's a feeling shared by victims of hundreds of chemical bomb attack in syria and investigators have found the government responsible for most of the people fear that now that the united nations security council will not be investigating chemical attacks and with a limited mandate those carrying out chemical attacks will be emboldened. in order. to opposition leaders have been arrested in the democratic republic of congo after pushing for protests which the government has banned they want president joseph kabila to leave office his mandate ended last year but he's vowing

to stay until december two thousand and eighteen because of problems organizing an election charlie bellus reports. opposition leaders in the democratic republic of congo want president joseph kabila he has overstayed his mandate by a year and says he'll stay for another day lift the security of this residence in kinshasa prepared to start bloody clashes to run him out. kabila promised to crack down if they went ahead this was the two sides colliding. police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters outside the home of the leader of the opposition coalition felix chizik eighty two opposition leaders were locked up as their followers nationwide protests. today we are participating in a march of anger a march as angrily say to can be no never again could be a little office in two thousand and one after his father was assassinated the

second term as president ended in december twenty sixth he refused to step down and the un says congolese security forces killed forty people who protested the decision four hundred sixty were arrested. now kabila says he'll stay for another year because there are delays in registering millions of voices joining us today dared him to use all available means to beat us but he needs to keep in mind the past. will chase him out of the country even if we pay for it without blood. opposition voices can be heard binding the fractured country from all corners even in the troubled east a thriving battleground between groups. they want to transition to a new president from december thirty first and they won't be allowed to have nor passionate those who've seen the results of previous tensions in the city we hope

in could be. as one of deescalation shallop bellus al-jazeera a turkish iranian gold trader has admitted money laundering and helping iran evade u.s. sanctions reza told a new york court that turkey's president or one who was prime minister at the time approved the transactions one of the banks implicated in the scandal. denies any involvement christensen has a story. iranian turkish gold trader reza zurab is the prosecution's star witness he's testifying against a turkish banker after pleading guilty to his role in an elaborate scheme to launder billions of dollars in iranian money through turkish banks and avoid u.s. sanctions on thursday zurab testified that president reza tayyip erdogan then the prime minister of turkey not only knew about the scheme but authorized it it's just one of the explosive allegations made by zurab during the proceedings he's also

testified that he paid the former economy minister tens of millions of dollars in what prosecutors described as bribes everyone has denied turkey violated u.s. sanctions saying his government has legitimate business dealings with the law and he and other members of the government have described the trial as an attempt to discredit turkey. in there is a big campaign of slander against turkey what kind of justice can you expect from such a judiciary i don't expect any justice. so rob is expected to continue testifying on friday in a trial that's expected to last three to four weeks and is putting the already tense relationship between turkey and the united states under further strain because jan fourth is a senior analyst at the bipartisan policy center he says the case would worsen relations between the u.s. and turkey. in order to deal with these accusations in order to discredit them the

target government's done its best to simply ignore the case when that's not possible its work to presented as a us government conspiracy an effort to not just bring down aired on but to damage the entire country of turkey in doing this in suggesting that the turkish main opposition party is implicated in this anti turkish conspiracy it risks badly damaging its relationship with the united states and undermining whatever veneer of democracy turkey has left at home but it's the fact that this comes at the same time that the leader of the turkish opposition party has also made very serious allegations about bribery are sorry about corruption involving a family and close associates of the turkish government to try to link these two cases again saying that the turkish opposition is essentially committing treason and early as this morning there was a legal case opened against the head of the main opposition party it's this kind of linkage that could really make the situation become dangerous for my talent prime

minister silvio berlusconi has been ordered to go on trial again this time on bribery charges he's accused of paying a witness to lie during a hearing when he was accused of having sex with an underage girl he denies the charges. and to navy has ended the search for the crew of the missing submarine contact with the san juan was lost on of him of the thirteenth the crew message to say there had been and then electrical failure off to sea water got into forty four people on board. therion is calling for international cooperation against trafficking of relics during armed conflicts heritage sites are threatened by fighting worldwide satellite images show many of them are near conflict zones in the middle east whether in a hardened reports. it stood for more than three thousand years and was obliterated in seconds i so find is laid waste to the ancient iraqi city of new madrid on a spring day two years ago palaces and temples were blown up

a towering pyramid bulldozed just thirty percent of one of the world's great logical treasures now remains the united nations says such deliberate destruction constitutes a war crime just describe it as cultural cleansing islamic state is used these destructions of cultural heritage to attack cultural memory cultural identity and cultural diversity and a systematic campaign of cultural cleansing throughout the region. now other groups such as islamic state was stablished the destruction of cultural heritage and property as part of jarring terrorism others are going to do the same when i saw was at its peak in two thousand and fourteen there were more than seven hundred recorded a text on cultural heritage in syria and ninety in iraq we're talking churches mosques shrines in symmetries many of them places in your spy local people as well

as ancient sites like the temple of bel here two thousand years old it's ruins were considered among the best preserved in the syrian city of pell myra this is that before and now after i still had been through only the main entrance arch survived the explosives. beisel fight is reveled in the attention filming themselves on this spree of destruction this mosul museum in iraq most of its ancient treasures were looted to finance isis war but monitoring groups say there's evidence it wasn't always eisel syrian government forces and members of the syrian opposition are implicated to innovations in digital technology or offering hope that all is not lost preserving the archaeological knowledge for future generations . fifteen years after the afghan taliban blew up the bridges of bummy and the

international criminal court gave a nine year prison sentence to a man who helped destroy the fabled trines of timbuktu in mali it was the first time the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage was judged to be a crime. ancient sites have now been rebuilt and archaeologists are returning to the rubble of ancient treasures elsewhere but given the atrocities often committed alongside that destruction caretakers will also be mindful that many here rich sites are no longer just to distant nations. and al-jazeera a potential game changer in renewable energy has been turned on in australia tesla has built the world's largest lithium battery the hundred megawatt battery was unveiled near a wind farm in south australia the state just turned off its call fired power stations and is transitional to renewables but a freak storm last year caused a statewide blackout and exposed faults with the reliable supply of electricity the

government source help from tesla's mask who built the battery in sixty days. it. be the biggest battery in the nation but it's proved to be the biggest battery in the world that the great thing about iran is that he delivers and he made a challenge he decided that he'd come here and give a commitment to have this thing here to hundred dies and he delivered on that commitment and this has put us at the center of the take universe reaction from jamestown residents is mixed it lifted their spirits because everybody's are happy about it and we have a christian but the result in result will want it because it's never been called into action we really don't know what's coming and. so that when it does the job well and if it doesn't it's just.

that i get the top stories on al-jazeera gunmen of storm to college in pakistan and killed at least nine people all attackers were killed after fighting with the army and police in the northwestern city of shower the taliban faction in pakistan says it was behind the attack that of the roman catholic church is that a mass four hundred thousand people in bangladesh is capital dhaka pope francis is on a six day visit of the region and will meet the refugees later on friday for his following developments from cox's bazar in bangladesh where many rehang living in camps. scheduled to meet a group of ranger refugees that have travelled from these camps now his visit was planned well before this recent most recent crisis but there's no doubt that his presidency is drawing massive attention to what can only be described as one of the worst humanitarian crises crises in the world at the moment more than six hundred

and twenty five thousand ruins your refugees arrived in these refugee camps in the last couple of months zimbabwe's new president emerson one on god has announced his cabinet it includes politicians loyal to the ruling party and members of the military you helped our former leader robert mugabe japan's emperor akihito will step down in april two thousand and nine hundred making him the first monarch to abdicate in two hundred years to a city's age and health would make it difficult for him to fulfill his duties the eighty three year old will be succeeded by his son crown prince now he too tempers are becoming increasingly frayed in honduras about the time it's taking to nantes the results of the presidential election supporters of the main opposition candidate salvador attacked election headquarters in the capital protesters say the result is being manipulated in favor of the current president one

a londoner and under his argentinean navy has ended the search for the crew of the missing submarine contact with our son one was lost on november the thirteenth aircraft and ships from eighteen countries have been looking for the submarine. those are the headlines the news will continue but first it is the stream. where ever you. hide from me ok you in the stream live on al-jazeera i don't you change not a day what day three stories you've been keeping a close eye on i really could be

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