there are daily struggles when we go get emergency force to stop us when we go there and then shoot at us out of the right and peaceful protests during the interior means the fines and resistance and piecemeal time its means not for night and freedom life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on al-jazeera. south korea's president orders an investigation after dozens are killed when fire broke out of the hospital. hello i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up.

a strong show of military force in india as the country celebrates its sixty ninth republic day plus. all that money is not going to that unless they sit down and negotiate the tough words from donald trump the palestinians return to peace talks with israel or else. but african nations look to develop a global gateway to bolster economic trade with the rest of the. fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses in an intensive care unit firefighters in the southern city of marianne managed to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames critically injured survivors have been taken to other hospitals in the city the country's president is calling for an investigation into president moon j held an emergency meeting. chief

aides a short while ago to discuss the fire at a marian hospital he expressed regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out at sage on hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after a fire in chase young's and over a death toll that could still increase president moon says the government must prioritize minimizing additional deaths by taking necessary medical measures for the rescued victims more now from the serious kathy novak. this fire broke out at about seven thirty am local time at the at a hospital in near young in the south of south korea it was extinguished by about ten thirty am local time but not before dozens of lives were lost and dozens more people were injured we're told there are about one hundred people in the hospital there was also a nursing hospital next door ninety six people were evacuated from that building president is taking the situation extremely seriously he called an emergency meeting and said this is extremely regrettable and is sad investigations are

ongoing into the cause of this fire local authorities say the majority of people who died suffered from suffocation it was not attributed to the burns that caused those deaths but in fact i did the suggestion is that those people inhaled toxic fumes this fire is the second in as many months twenty nine people were killed last month when a fire broke out in a fitness center in another city in the south of the country india has celebrated its sixty ninth republic day with a military parade attended by leaders from ten southeast asian nations it's the first time that that many foreign leaders have attended the event being hosted by prime minister narendra modi the day marks the adoption of the indian constitution in one nine hundred fifty daily sixty thousand security personnel were deployed in new delhi for the parade or modis decision to invite leaders from all ten southeast asian nations that make up the ass and group is being seen as

a bold move to try to isolate china as part of its act east strategy is hoping to strengthen political and economic ties with southeast asian nations currently india trails behind china in trade with. in the last two years china's trade with southeast asia was more than six times that of india india has just signed a maritime agreement with nations that's in response to recent moves. by china beijing has been giving economic aid for infrastructure development under its one belt one road initiative that aims to create a giant economic zone connecting asia and europe. is the director of the national maritime foundation and says that india doesn't need to directly compete with china to get the attention of asean leaders china has an dependency amongst them then our countries which is very very significant some of these countries are indebted to china but what india can do is perhaps to bring

a certain amount of compliment daddy and off on an r. done it option to these countries and that i think has been the primary focus all right mr monti china is making inroads into south asia in a very visible manner but it could only as far as the about it time domain is concerned and as part of the bed or initiative. today we have china. in the end. where it's traditionally used to be india but as it were india's backyard and i think india is conscious so i think. we as unique you know. trillion dollars. worth of options. us president donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s.

as children but that's only if democrats agree to funding for a mexico border war it would mean one point eight million so-called dreamers would be protected from deportation to their country of birth the white house says the proposal could attract enough votes to pass through the senate. from plant a twenty five billion dollar fund to build that wall which he pledged to do during his election campaign in return trump says that around two million immigrants who entered the u.s. without documents when they were children will be eligible for citizenship but that process will take ten to twelve years there have to meet specific criteria for education achievement and what's called moral character trump also plans to tighten rules on sponsoring family members and only allow in young children and spouses at the moment under eighteen year olds and siblings can be sponsored and trump wants to end the visa lottery system its supporters say that random selection ensures diversity but the president says it's dangerous and must be shut down. this

framework will fulfill the four agreed upon pillars securing the border and closing legal loopholes indian extended family chain migration cancelling the visa lottery and providing a permanent solution on dhaka after decades of n.a.a. in action by congress it's time we work together to solve this issue once and for all the u.s. is urging turkey to stay focused on defeating eisold in syria and not get distracted by its operation against kurdish forces near its border to accuse president. military leaders of the operations command center on thursday to launch the offensive to clear the afrin region of kurdish wife p g finances last week it calls them a terrorist group particularly in in a frame operations turkish operations in a frame and all operations in a frame that have the effect of inducing friction into the equation of making it hard to focus on why we are in syria which is the defeat of isis in the afraid to

rally or a negative thing the german government's delaying a decision to upgrade battlefield tanks which are being used by the took a shot me in the world in syria leopard two tanks exported from germany have phasing kodesh forces in efren so he wants the tanks improved to protect against land mines chancellor angela merkel's can take a government would consider the request until a new coalition deal is signed us president trump has given his first international interview since taking office more than a year ago in the interview on britain's i.t.v. trump was questioned about his posting of empty muslim videos on twitter last year in the event but trump retreated three inflammatory videos from the far right group britain first britain's prime minister condemned the retreat calling it wrong i see v.s.p. as morgan trying to say sorry for the posts but he fell short of giving a categorical apology here's the exchange. just for the retreats of well if you're

telling me i need to go a long way here's what's fair if you are telling me that are horrible people horrible racist people horribly i would certainly apologize if you'd like me to do that i know nothing about them and we disavow this of a people i don't want to be involved with people are you telling me about this because i know nothing about these people trade across africa is about to get to know a whole with measures aimed at cutting the cost of doing business it so to digital free trade zone will make connecting online easier for export and import companies at a much larger deal covering a whole continent as in the pipeline from either miller reports now from one of the biggest trade ports in east africa or the kenyan coast. with the british families run this manufacturing business in mombasa for decades he wants to expand sales of his wooden doors and other products beyond kenya's borders while moody can import the room materials he needs red tape a lengthy cross border processes make exports difficult. buying through

the agency because the amount of paperwork required and the taxation changing every now and then was the date now is we're talking. big pictures and policy between. i think one of the models for now the other thing the brain but this year the regional economic bloc komisar the common market for eastern southern africa plans to roll out a digital free trade area which would benefit traffic hubs like mombasa as its east africa's largest port and serves as the main gate to wait for trade for kenya and its neighbors the east africa community has already adopted and integrated regional system if for example congo is cleared here in mombasa on the kenyan coast can be tracked in neighboring uganda now the commis a free trade zone. would ideally bring together more african countries beyond this

region to enjoy seem less important export new technology would be used to connect the chain of people governments and agencies involved in the import and export of goods the move away from manual paperwork would be a first for africa allowing war goods to move through the region faster the east and southern african zone has still to be finalized while a larger continental free trade area covering all of africa is also looking for political backing this year it covers a single market of one point two billion people and a combined g.d.p. of more than a three trillion dollars it's thought the agreement could increase trade by at least fifty percent but the reality is there are challenges across african borders we look collected as a continent where by real by roald the structure is poor. so that poses a challenge because it will continue to impact on the cost and time it takes to do

to do business within the continent other barriers are a i for see is the fear of loss of revenue for the government because when you free up of a region you the government will effectively been doing itself customs and duties and taxes that they receive from exports and from imports there's also concern that while the political will maybe there duplicate regional and continental efforts will take a long time to implement adding to worries that the continent's private sector may not have a strong enough voice to drive africa's dreams for me to miller al-jazeera on bus support kenya we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then. go deal with people you know that. are high sometimes you know sleeping rough in the u.k. the number of homeless reaches a record high. at a stray. it's national day but not everyone is celebrating we'll tell you why.

from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. how in places say we have got some dry weather now pushing across northern parts of france you can see the area of cloud here that has been producing the fairy heavy rain sinking a little further south was this is the weather system where the heaviest rain now lies we have a levels will of course remain high right through the weekend you can see slightly clear skies started to push their way into where paris for example as we go on through friday nine degrees celsius not celsius to insert some heavy rain coming in here into southern parts of france and also affecting a good part of eastern and northern spain elsewhere across europe we got some lively showers still in place just a rather decent side of the med these will clear through and by the time becomes a sad day as you can see it will be clear dry and sunny at long last for paris but

wet weather not too far away that's going to make its way across england and wales in grassy sing for the south was going to be wet weather just around the western side of the maddened that area a cloud also affecting the fall northwest all of africa such a possibility of some down weather coming through forests i maybe even some snow have the high ground in a northern algeria algiers will have a high of around eleven celsius slightly modified fourteen degrees therefore we're back we getting up to eighteen in the sunshine in a southerly wind that soon s. and a high of seventy four kyra. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible in number happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an

activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and nurses in an intensive care unit firefighters in the southern city of marianne managed to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames the country's president is calling for an investigation and a review of safety procedures. india has celebrated its sixty ninth republic day with a parade which was attended by leaders from ten southeast asian nations events being

seen as an attempt by prime minister narendra modi to isolate and counter china. and u.s. president donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to the only two million undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children but in return he wants government funding to build a wall along the border with mexico and and some types of family sponsored immigration. bill the u.s. president is threatening to withhold millions of dollars in aid to palestinians unless they pursue peace with israel donald trump may. at the comments of the world economic forum in davos where he also reaffirmed his commitment to recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital his statements were condemned by the palestinian leadership and renewed debate about whether the u.s. can fairly mediate future peace negotiations from davos our diplomatic editor james bays reports. the us president seemed in upbeat mood as he arrived here. and prosperity between israelis and palestinians that seems

further away than ever you might think that when you've alienated one side in a negotiation in this case the palestinians you might reach out to the flank by use really prime minister benjamin netanyahu the author of the art of the deal showed that's not his way when they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great vice president to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in. tremendous numbers numbers that nobody understands that money is on the table that money's not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace because i can tell you that israel does want to make peace and they're going to have to want to make peace or we're going to have nothing to do with. of course the reason the president pence on his visit was

shunned by the palestinian president and heckled by palestinian members of the israeli parliament the knesset was the controversial u.s. decision late last year to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital something again praised down force by prime minister netanyahu this is the core group. that will be for the market for generations to come we took jerusalem off the table so we don't talk about they never got past seriously we took it off the table. hard to talk about. one one point and you'll give up two points later on the negotiation if it ever takes place i don't know that it ever will take place that seems to be a complete misreading of the situation the president is suggesting that he's removing the stumbling block of jerusalem from the negotiations in fact most believe he's making it an even more divisive issue previous us administrations knew

the recognition card was one they needed to keep and not use to maintain leverage with the israelis a two state solution requires pressure on the israelis to give up illegal settlements they built on land that should form a palestinian nation great honor to be for the trumpet ministration israel seems to get only praise and never pressure james pays zero s. the us ambassador to the un nikki haley has told a security council meeting the palestinian leadership lacks the courage needed for a peace deal the accusations been rejected by a palestinian counterpart kristen salumi as more from the un. the united states and palestinians exchanged accusations during the security council's monthly debate on the middle east palestinian ambassador riyad monsoor spoke passionately about how his people had been demonized and dehumanizing and accused of disrespect while the israelis were rewarded for building settlements on palestinian land he pointed out

that jerusalem status according to previous international agreements should be decided in negotiations but the united states ambassador nicholas accused palestinian leadership of walking away from peace talks. in response to repeated this our position i am compelled to clarify further our position is not intended to respect. this respect. and should not be translated as such by anyone in the contrary it is a position rooted in full respect for the law for the principles of justice and equity for the charter for this concert for the assembly and for the decades long international consensus and the parameters of a peaceful solution we will not chase after a palestinian leadership that lacks what needs what is needed to achieve peace to

get historic results we need courageous leaders history has provided such leaders in the past for the sake of the palestinian and israeli people we pray it does so again the united states is isolated in its position here at the u.n. even its closest allies in the security council the united kingdom and france voted in favor of a resolution calling on the u.s. to rescind his decision to move its embassy to jerusalem the u.s. veto that resolution the new york times is reporting that the us president ordered the firing of special counsel robert muller in june he's the man leading the investigation into the trunk campaigns links to russia but the report says the president backed down when top white house attorney donald threatened to resign if the order was carried out. the order says that trump i am i'm sorry that doesn't make sense let's move on. an armed group loyal to libya's national unity government

says that it's arrested a gang accused of kidnapping and torturing sudanese migrants outrage has been growing over the mistreatment and torture of like once by people smugglers in libya al-jazeera has more just a warning that you may find some images and jamal's report distressing. celebrations for a happy ending after a nightmare ordeal for this sudanese family two of their sons were amongst those kidnapped by traffickers and held captive for weeks in libya one of their brothers was overwhelmed when he heard news of his loved ones released. as you can see everyone is so happy and relieved i never thought we would see him again the. video had emerged showing several sudanese migrants being tortured by people traffickers in libya the kidnappers demanded large sums of ransom money to release

their captives saddam's former minister says it was diplomatic efforts that secured their release that you would wish that a shot at fear was out of the thirty year this was a coordinated effort between the ministries of defense interior and foreign affairs we had five their citizens to refrain from migrating illegally to libya or any other country for their own safety in a country where poverty is rife and unemployment high many youngsters anees feel they have no option other than to smuggle themselves abroad in search of a better life and as if crossing the desert by foot or the risk of drowning in the mediterranean weren't enough migrants in search of safety in their livelihood now have to deal with sadistic smugglers aiming to profit from some of the world's poorest people. or just. spain's central government is taking steps to prevent the reelection of sacked leader khalid supporters want as head of cattle lonia the regional parliament is set to choose its new leader on tuesday and push to mount is the only candidate on the

ballot he's been in self-imposed exile in brussels since his government declared independence in a votes that was ruled illegal by a court in madrid spain is now seeing whether his candidacy can be appealed in the courts. judges in brazil of barred former president. silva from leaving the country the order follows the loss of his appeal against convictions for corruption of money laundering three years ago three years were added to his jail sentence despite that's he's been named as his party's candidates to campaign for reelection in three isabeau reports himself. against a courtroom firms. on corruption charges brazil's workers' party. the former press. candidate. that will take place in october remains defiant and he said that if he becomes brazil's president again he will

rule for this country. on wednesday. with little room for higher courts and then. expected to block his candidacy. over one million dollars. in the form of a trip his lawyers say is politically motivated. victim of political persecution and that there is not enough to condemn him. what we saw was that more than once president lula was convicted without ever having committed a crime the votes read during the day by the appellate court judges were not able to demonstrate any elements that would indicate that a crime had been committed. to. continue appealing to the higher courts and the parties that he would be the candidate and the very end but he could be detained the way something that would

increase the tension. and the political turmoil that already exists in this country it's party time for millions of australian people are celebrating the birth of the country where british navy ship sailed in. some two hundred thirty years ago but aboriginal some warning what they say is the colonial invasion of their land under thomas is that one of the alternative a straight day rallies in sydney. there is certainly momentum behind the change but i campaign i've been covering australia day events for a few years now and every year the protests grow the marches and alternative events like this one but people aboriginal i'm not an original who don't like australia day being on the twenty sixth of january and want to change the dates but asked me say people here are still a minority most australians i know while friday they celebrate something quite sick a troll and i suggest that my dogs they use the day off what's

a cop out of his party to go to boston enjoy themselves not many commemoration reflects in that's right and that is built and it's a view of some people here don't change the dates but i surely change the nature of the day make it almost obligatory in the morning of australia day to commemorate to reflect on the suffering that the twenty sixth of january seventy nine hundred eighty s. began the indigenous people in australia and then only in the afternoon shift the mood and make it a celebration of australia has become. the number of homeless people in britain has reached record levels a new government report estimates four and a half thousand people are sleeping rough leave baka reports. david coasters been sleeping on the streets of london for more than a year it's a bleak existence it's noisy is really hard is she is there with the call you've got to deal with people you know the. aren't nice sometimes you know he lost his job as a carpenter and couldn't afford to pay for housing he's now worried about his mental

health i just want commendation a roof over my head and maybe get a you know she she she she a doctor to get my head back to go back to work you know. one of the wealthiest countries in the world war more people are now living on the street many are struggling with addiction mental physical illness others are escaping violence of abuse but an increasing number of here simply because they can't afford to live anywhere the situation is made worse by a critical shortage of affordable housing and cuts to social welfare benefits according to the government's latest figures there are more than four and a half thousand people sleeping rough in england streets but the scourge of homelessness doesn't end here hidden away in bedsits and temporary emergency accommodation and thousands more homeless people of all ages the entire population of great britain is around about two hundred fifty thousand people roughly is the

most visible and and i have to say the most outrageous form of homelessness in terms of you know it being absolutely unacceptable the average age of death is just forty seven years old you're seventeen times more likely to be attacked on the street than anybody else the government says is committed to having rough sleeping in for years and eliminating it all together in a decade. but this is not an isolated story homelessness is on the rise in every european country except finland in the greek capital athens as many as one in seventy residents are homeless and in paris the number of people sleeping rough has reached critical levels. in finland when a person becomes homeless they give unstable accommodation first rather than slowly progressing through levels of temporary housing the british government's planning to trial a similar scheme in the u.k. but those forced to sleep rough need real change now. london.

volcanic ash continues to cover farmland around mt mail and in the philippines lava continues to spew from the mountain for the second week more than seventy four thousand people have been moved to safety from the dangers around the volcano and it's not certain when they'll be able to return home scientists have discovered a human fossil in israel that could transform what we know about ancient human migration the fossil was found in a collapsed cave on the northern coast of israel it's thought to be nearly two hundred thousand years old that's almost twice as old as any previous homo sapien and remains discovered outside africa where our species is thought to have originated. it is good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories this hour fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including

patients and nurses in an intensive care unit firefighters in the southern city of million managed to rescue dozens of others trapped by the flames south korea's president is calling for an investigation into the cause of the fire at a look at safety procedures that the president in held an emergency meeting of his chief aide a short while ago to discuss the fire at a marian hospital he expressed regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out at sage long hospital which led to a high number of casualties not long after the fire in session in december and over a death toll that could still increase president moon says the government must prioritize minimizing additional deaths by taking the necessary medical measures for the rescued victims india celebrated its sixty ninth republic day with a parade which was attended by leaders from ten southeast asian nations it's the first time that so many world leaders have attended the event and it's being seen by an attempt as an attempt by prime minister narendra modi to isolate and count of china. u.s.

president donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to nearly two million undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children under the proposal one point eight million so-called dreamers would be protected from deportation but in return he wants government funding to build a wall along the border with mexico and donald trump is threatening to withhold millions of dollars in aid to palestinians unless they pursue peace with israel he made the comments of the world economic forum in davos where he also reaffirmed his commitment to recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital the statements were condemned by the palestinian leadership spain's central government is taking steps to prevent the reelection of sacked leader colace pushed him on to as head of catalonia the regional parliament is set to choose its new leader on tuesday and pushed him out as the only candidates on the ballots he's been in self-imposed exile in brussels since his government declared independence a vote ruled illegal by madrid spain is now seeing whether his candidacy can be appealed appealed in the courts those are the headlines here on al-jazeera right

after the stream next. the difference. and the similarities across the. al-jazeera. ok with me. we are wrapping up our coverage of this year's sundance film festival. i think. i am here alongside filmmaker cody and indigenous activist and mark you're so right now you are a live stream.