is has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put every day but the message is simply state you have been trained good logical rational person crazy monster and misinformation is right dismissal and well documented accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. south korea's president orders an investigation of the dozens killed twenty five broke out of the hospital. and i'm adrian forget this is al jazeera life also coming up.

a show of military force in india as the country celebrates its sixty ninth republic day. a devastating water shortage in haiti leaves thousands with no safe water to drink yet more fallout from the powerful twenty ten earthquake plus. i'm not talking about that in paris where persisting is on flood alerts as the river continues to rise. a fire at a hospital in south korea has killed at least thirty seven people including patients and says in an intensive care unit firefighters in the southern city of marianne managed to rescue dozens of others who were 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 that the president in held an emergency meeting of his chief a short while. go to discuss the fire at

a marion 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 from most 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 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 that being hosted by prime minister narendra modi the day marks the adoption of the indian constitution in one nine hundred fifty nearly sixty thousand security personnel were deployed in new delhi for the parade modi's decision to invite leaders from all ten southeast asian nations that make up the ass group is being seen as a bold move to try to isolate china as part of its act east strategy new delhi is

hoping to strengthen political and economic ties with southeast asian nations currently india trails behind china in trade with c.n.n. in the last two years china's trade with southeast asia was more than six times that of india india's just signed the maritime agreements with nations it's in response to recent moves by china beijing has been giving economic aid for interest infrastructure development under its one belt one road initiative that aims to create a giant economics connecting asia and europe. bhasker is 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 the then r.c.m. 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 of prime minister monti china is making inroads into south asia in a very visible they're not particularly as far as the about it time domain is concerned and as part of the bed or initiative today we have china's for it in the end our south asian region which traditionally used to be india's domain as it were india's backyard and i think india is conscious so i think asio up which has its unique beyond almost two point five trillion dollars offer as an option for india. u.s. 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 the for mexico border wall it would mean one point eight million so-called dreamers would be protected from deportation to the country of the of the white house says that the proposal could attract enough votes to pass through the senate trump plans a twenty five billion dollars fund to build the 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 bust that process could take ten to twelve years they'll have to meet specific criteria for educational achievement and what's called moral character trump also plans to tighten rules on sponsoring family members that only allow in young children and spouses of the moment under eighteen year olds and siblings can be sponsored 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 eisel in syria and not to get distracted by its operation against kurdish forces near its border turkey's president. met military leaders at the operations command center on thursday to launch the offensive to clear the afrin region of kurdish y p g fighters last week it calls them a terrorist group. particularly in in a frame operations turkish operations in a frame in all operations in a frame that have the effect of or 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 is

really rally or a negative thing the german government's delaying a decision to upgrade battlefield tanks which are being used by the turkish army in northern syria leopard two tanks exported from germany a fighting kurdish forces in africa turkey wants the tanks improved to protect against mines chancellor angela merkel's caretaker government won't consider the request until a new coalition deal is signed us president donald trump has given his first international interview since taking office more than a year ago trump was questioned by britain's i.t.v. about his retreating of anti muslim videos on twitter last year in the event up trump shed three inflammatory videos from the far right group britain first he was condemned by u.k.'s prime minister to resign made on t.v.'s piers morgan to say sorry for the post spots he fell short of giving a categorical apology has the exchange i got an apology out of you just for the

read tweets of well if you're telling me they're going to go a long way here's what's fair if you're telling me that a horrible people horrible racist people i would certainly apologize if you'd like me to do that i know nothing about them and you would disavow us of a people like that i don't want to be involved with people are you telling me about these because i know nothing about these people britain's prime minister is being pressured to cancel a proposed visit to london by the saudi crown prince because of the war in yemen mohammed bin solomon is due to visit london soon but campaign groups including the stop the war coalition say no millions of yemenis are suffering the world's worst humanitarian crisis with famine is threatened and diseases are widespread stephen bell is the spokesman for the campaign to block the visit. we are calling upon the u.k. government to withdraw the invitation. in view it is not acceptable to lay out the red carpet for someone who is responsible for what the u.n.

says is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today the fact that the most recent u.n. report indicated up to eleven million children or risk from the war cholera famine and the blockade of the country destruction of infrastructure all this means it's not suitable to invite someone who is the prime responsibility for the continuation rule opinion pose a vindicated over sixty percent opposed to continuing military arming of the saudi regime this is i would say brutally reflected in parliament insofar as are all the major parties apart from the government it's. the piquante engine against the continuing to support the saudi. war efforts so we think public opinion is

broadly on our side but it's necessary to organize to bring political opinion into line judges in brazil have barred former president louis a class a little of the silver from leaving the country the other follows a loss of his appeal against convictions for corruption of money laundering three years were added to his jail sentence despite that he's been named as his party's candidate to campaign for reelection in november and october i'm sorry to raise above reports from sao paolo. as an act of defiance against the court's ruling that confirms the will of the famous come on corruption charges for those workers party power firm that the former president and their office held candidate for this year . that will take place in october. 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 trying. to block his candidacy. over one million dollars paid by a company in the form of a red truck his lawyers say is politically motivated the victim of political persecution and that there is not enough proof 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 will be the candidate and the very end but he could be detained on the way something that would increase the tension. and the political turmoil that already exists in the country

spain's central government is taking steps to prevent the reelection of sacked leader colace pushed along as the head of catalonia regional parliament is set to choose its new leader on tuesday and pushed him out as the only candidate on the ballot has been self-imposed exile in brussels since his government declared independence in a vote that was ruled illegal by the constitutional court in the dritte spain's now seeing whether his candidacy can be appealed in the courts we're going to weather update next. week tough words from donald trump the palestinians return to peace talks with israel or else another. step closer the doomsday scientists issue a warning on how humans are destroying the planet.

the usual heavy showers across southeast asia some lobby down poles making their way towards the philippines over the next day or so but for the time being doesn't it too bad the majority of the cloud a little further south was still some lively showers there in say the malaysian peninsula pushing over towards singapore and i showers if anything becoming a little more intense as we go through sunday easing further west was on the east the waves and by sunday some very heavy rain coming back into the philippines as the big downpours the likely at this stage you're seeing some very heavy rain into nor the possible strait here recently in cairns one hundred eleven millimeters of rain in twenty four hours you can see how that cloud that chain of clouds makes its way right across the gulf of carpentaria into the top and into northern territory darwin one hundred one millimeters of rain again in the past twenty four hours not wet weather is set to stay in place not further south high pressure in charge here

with the winds coming in from the interior brickfield away in temperatures in adelaide touching forty one celsius on saturday kid be even hotter as we go on into sunday could reach forty two degrees by that stage at thirty nine there for melbourne warm enough here i'm sure you'll agree rather more pleasant twenty nine for sydney and for brisbane further west it's not too bad in perth where the top temperature twenty five. as witchcraft is sorcery killing spreads across papa new guinea when used exposes shocking human rights abuses. of a specific mission stark's. one when used at this time i now do sera. al jazeera. every.

well 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 who were trapped by the flames the country's president is calling for an investigation and a review of safety procedures india has planted sixty nights republic day with a parade which was attended by leaders from ten southeast asian nations the events being seen as an attempt by prime minister the interim ody to isolate and counter china and 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 but in return he wants government funding to build a wall along the border with mexico and to end some types of family sponsored immigration. to the u.s. president is also threatening to withhold millions of dollars in aid to palestinians unless they pursue peace with israel donald trump made 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 from davos on diplomatic editor james bay is reports. that the u.s. president seemed in upbeat mood to see arrived here nice cold and prosperity but 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 them flanked by

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the author of the art of the deal showed that not his way when they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great vice president to see. and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in the war tremendous numbers numbers that nobody understands that money is on the table that money is 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 it. 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 in downforce by prime minister netanyahu this is the core. that will be for the heart to work with for generations to come we took jerusalem off the table so we don't talk about they never got pastures when we took it off the table not to talk about it more. one one and you'll give us some 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 of the stumbling block of jerusalem from the negotiations in fact most believe he's making it an even more divisive issue previous u.s. 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 it's

a great honor to be with you from the trumpet ministration israel seems to get only praise and never pressure james pays zero davus. the u.s. ambassador to the un nikki haley has told a security council meeting that the palestinian leadership lacks the courage needed for a peace deal kristen salumi reports from the un. the united states and palestinians exchanged accusations during the security council's monthly debate on the middle east palestinian ambassador riyad mansour or spoke passionately about how his people had been demonized and dehumanize 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 nikki haley accused palestinian leadership of walking away from peace talks. in response to repeated

this of our position i am compelled to clarify further our position is not intended as this respect i repeat this respect and should not be translated as such by anyone in the contrary it is a position rooted in full of the spec 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 on the security council the united kingdom and france voted in favor of a resolution calling on the u.s. to rescind its 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 in june he's the man leading the investigation into the trunk campaigns links to russia the report says the president backed down when top white house attorney donald threatened to resign if the order was carried out according to the report trump said the could not handle the investigation impartially. in haiti around two million people who live in the capital port au prince appealing for help to get clean drinking water the devastating earthquake eighty years ago wrecked sanitation systems and temporary tarps and toilets used since then breaking down palace reports. this is the only source of drinking water in the domus neighborhood of port au prince a twenty leagues

a bucket of water costs sixteen cents blanchard is one of few haitians who can afford the daily ritual and. would like to get drinking water we'd like them to build a tank so we can get washed out because his life without it we can't live we need the state to build a bathroom there's no bathroom here. but those who cannot afford the sixteen cents for clean loose or come here the water is contaminated but they fill up the containers and drink it anyway despite the threat from which to build cholera more than half a million haitians have had the disease. about to move you know we need water if the people don't have water what will we do. this tank doesn't work water is healthy water is life there are people who don't have that when this tank worked we had water. it all flows back to this haiti's devastating earthquake in twenty taney two hundred twenty thousand people died and

infrastructure was destroyed and international aid agencies flow wind to build temporary infrastructure including water tanks eight years on they are breaking down as the wait to rebuild infrastructure drags on. listen half of haitians and rule areas have access to clean water and only a quarter of a tortoise. i'm waiting for the international community and for nonprofit organizations to help us only they can make something for us but the international community has been distracted by other disasters the u.n. mission has pulled out and they it has dried up yet hey she remains one of the poorest nations in the world charlotte ballasts al-jazeera. treasures of the famous loot museum in paris are being moved to safety because of the threat of floods through the same has burst its banks after weeks of heavy rain that are. stranded restaurants and submerged bridges as the river seine in paris continues to

rise its pedestrian eyes banks have disappeared usually bustling with cyclists and now a no go zone and the city is on flood alert. to get within we have overcome for some hate whites into floods going over six majors one in spring and the other in winter it is clearly a question of paris adapting to climate change. the city council has put in place special measures river traffic has been stopped only emergency boats are allowed and ten pre-flood barriers are being installed paris's world famous museums are also playing safe the louve has closed a wing and is moving some all it works to higher ground for some people here the swollen river has become something of a tourist attraction for more than one hundred fifty years parisians have used this statue as a gauge now normally the water level is around two meters and the fields of the

statue are visible but as the water rises the whole body disappears now city officials here in paris say that they expect the water level to be above six meters in the next few days come a visit almost every year every other year and we've never seen a rebel like this and we live right down there and we've heard about the statue most of. my work in offices nearby and we've taken precautions in case there's a flood and power cuts over the past century the same has risen in paris several times but it's not safe to float since one thousand nine hundred ten when flooding turned the city into a french venice flood prevention has improved since then but experts say it's not enough a major flood in paris could hit the whole. actually it could go between two such a billion euros in terms of the direct advantages but also this could have consequences at the macro economic level because the paris region represents one

sort of the national g.b. so it can have an impact on growth under drug market and public finance to. the rising water is the result of weeks of heavy rain in france forecasters say drier weather is on the way people here hope it will be just in time to prevent paris's historic center for becoming swamped with sasha buckler al-jazeera paris. much better weather on the other side of the world where it's party time for millions of australia day they're celebrating the birth of the country the british navy ship sailed in some two hundred thirty years ago but aboriginals a mourning what they say is the colonial invasion of their land under thomas is it one of the alternative astray rallies in sydney. there is certainly momentum behind the change that i am i mean 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 and on average you know who don't like

australia day being on the twenty sixth of january and want to change the dates but as we said people here are still a minority most australians i know while friday day to celebrate some quite sick and so one survey suggests that by done they use the day off what a few parties to go to boston enjoy themselves not many commemoration reflects in this right and that is built on it if you have some people here don't change the dates but appreciate the 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 what a strain it has become. a symbolic doomsday clock which represents how close humanity is to destroying the planet is the nearest it's been to signaling the end of the world since nine hundred fifty three the clock was moved forward by thirty

seconds on thursday by the bulletin of atomic scientists because of mounting concern over a nuclear war and climate change the last time the clock was a two minutes to midnight was when the u.s. and the soviet union were testing hydrogen bombs which at some of the is a member of the science and security board at the bulletin of the atomic scientists he says it's more important than ever to educate the public. one of our main motivations in even having the dims that clock and going to the trouble of setting it every year is to motivate people to be concerned to learn about these new issues and to make their views and concerns known to the governments we see a lack of submission of a concern so for example us russian relations have deteriorated was no ongoing high level talks about nuclear arms control between us and russia the two countries which between them have almost all of the nuclear weapons in the world today and i think it's this lack of strong international action that concerns us and that's

very much to an area of climate change as well all kinds of cash continues to come a farmland around town my own 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. 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 wall and coast of israel and it's thought to be nearly two hundred thousand years old that's almost twice as old as any previous homo sap ians remains discovered outside africa where our species is thought of originated. it is good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines an al-jazeera 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 who were trapped by the flames south korea's president is calling for an investigation into the cause of the fire and a look at safety procedures at the president in held an emergency meeting of his chief aide a short while ago to discuss the fire at a marion hospital but 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 has marked 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 it's being seen as an attempt by prime minister narendra modi to isolate and counter 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 palestine unless it pursues peace with israel he made the comments at 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 in spain the central government is taking steps to prevent the reelection of sacked leader colace push to mount as the head of catalonia the regional parliament is set to choose its new leader on tuesday and pushed him on to is the only candidate on the ballot he's been in self-imposed exile in brussels since his government declared independence in a vote ruled illegal by the constitutional court in madrid spain is now seeing whether his candidacy can be appealed in the courts we shall see the news in

a little over twenty five but it's right after one or one east next. facing reality it's growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter the mean maher government calls you a ping gullied terrorist hear their story on to al-jazeera at this time. in public a growing wave of witch hunts is sweeping across the country women accused of causing sickness and deaths by sorcery are being brutally tortured and executed with authorities struggling to contain the violence the deaths of innocent women are going.