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hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. the deputy director of the f.b.i. resigns after being accused of bias by president trump. colombia's president puts peace talks with the rebels on hold after a string of attacks killed seven police offices. and deep sea politics the chinese research expedition that's making waves with scientists in the philippines. the syrian warplanes have launched a fierce offensive on the rebel held province of idlib killing at least twenty people women and children are among the dead is a saying the jets targeted a market and then a hospital full of people wounded in the strike meanwhile a russian brokered cease fire on the edge of the capital damascus seems to have collapsed activists are reporting several troops violations by government forces

besieging eastern guta at least eight people have died russia has also known a diplomatic push to end the war hosting a new round of talks and sochi the un is that but the main syrian opposition group has boycotted the meetings saying it only recognizes the u.n. sponsored geneva talks the kurds who control most twenty percent of syrian territory are also not attending they are the focus of a turkish military operation now in northern syria and chris says their fighters are terrorists al jazeera stephanie decker reports now from the town of killis on the turkey syria border. there's just been incoming from syria into turkey we were actually preparing for a live when we heard a whiz over our heads. and then we saw the smoke landing around five hundred meters from our position well the police have now come to inspect the crater this is

a reminder of course that this is an active conflict and there are consequences for these border towns these border cities kilis has had rockets and shells land here before also they hardly on the other side of the border but people that residents that we've spoken to here will tell you that they are concerned they're used to it because i still was here just a couple of years ago along the border and there was this kind of tense situation as well but one gentleman we spoke to yesterday said he was worried and he was already wife and children away you could see people are tense and they want us to move out of france and britain is saying that they will not take part in g.'s days peace talks in sochi because they're not part of a un led process or a challenge has more now on the discussions in sochi on monday. well the news earlier on monday the another group of opposition figures was going to be staying away from sochi really exposes i think the shortcomings of this congress russia has tried to make this as inclusive as possible inviting people and groups from across

the syrian cultural religious and political spectrum so the robot is here there are these there are sunnis and shias allo whites and various different political platforms including the moscow platform the rest on a platform but there are a few notable exceptions now those are the s.n.c. the syrian that negotiation committee which has said that it will stay away from sochi believing that this is undermining the geneva process the kurdish groups such as the why p.g. then not here either they are considered persona non grata by turkey and of essentially being shut out i don't think they want to come anyway because of what's going on in africa and so this all basically steers towards the moscow and damascus perspective on the syrian conflict the upshot of this congress is likely to be the endorsement of the new what they're calling

a constitutional committee made up supposedly all of the syrian government on one side and opposition representatives on the other but if the main groups of the opposition are not here then this allows damascus to essentially say that the opposition groups boycotting sochi boycotting this process are saboteurs of peace the big question of course is where the u.n. stands on the of this and whether stefan de mistura will approve of these measures and allow this to filter in to the geneva process the russians believe that he is on board rafters wait to see whether the u.s. that suggests that it's confirmed on. the deputy director of the f.b.i. is stepping down from his post op to being accused of bias by president trump

andrew mccabe is resigning several weeks ahead of his planned retirement date a march trump's criticized him several times in the past accusing him of supporting hillary clinton in the two thousand and sixteen election within the last few minutes the white house spokeswoman had this to say we've seen numerous ports as all of you have and any specifics i can tell you none of this decision was made by that of the white house in any specifics i would refer you to the f.b.i. who i believe will be making a statement later today to see that the white house was not involved in the decision be clearly the president seemed to be involved in the public relations game gives you. a look at the president stands by his previous comments but in terms of the situation today as i just said we've seen the reports just as all of you have we don't have any specific comments and i would refer you to the f.b.i. for any specifics on the things that are taking place today. let's see if we can get more than from our white house correspondent kelly halkett following all these

developments for us and so you can believe how significant is it that mccabe should step down earlier than planned. it's significant in that four weeks after mccabe has will really months and or mccabe has been a bit of a focal point for criticism particularly from conservatives on the right of the political spectrum who believe that he should not be a part of the russia investigation that is being conducted by the f.b.i. into whether or not there was meddling in the twenty six thousand election and also to whether or not there was an exclusion between the trump presidential campaign and russia and the reason the end of the cave has been such a focal point of this concern by the right is because his wife in fact received hundreds of thousands of dollars from hillary clinton's presidential action committee or rather political action committee and this is of been particular concern given the fact of course that hillary clinton was donald trump's opponent

in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election so fur quite some time there has been pressure not just from the political right but even from the president after it was revealed just last week in the oval office that donald trump asked who he voted for in the twenty sixteen election certainly if not illegal this is something that would make many people i'm comfortable it's very similar to some of the conversations that james called me the former f.b.i. director fired by don't trump said that he had in the oval office with donald trump that were concerning so in terms of significance this is a big deal particularly with respect to the russian investigation there are many that will be celebrating this but again this comes down to just as we saw with the firing of james coldly there will be as many questions on the left about this as there are concerns in the past on the right about him still being there really essentially helping to lead this investigation looking at the white house. will

there be implications then inquiry into these allegations of collusion between the trunk campaign and the rush russians what might happen next. well certainly as the special counsel robert mueller has very quietly been doing all along this investigation is ongoing he tends to work very quietly methodically and that investigation has been intensify we've seen more than a dozen associates even at the campaign level or rather the cabinet level who have been questioned and of course the spotlight on the president now in terms of whether or not he will be as searing any questions he's given a number of answers to that when asked by reporters whether or not he'll grant that interview he's been very cagey about it leaving an awful lot of doubt as to whether or not he will actually do this something still to be negotiated so in terms of the russian vest a geisha that will continue the f.b.i. is certainly a professional law enforcement agency that will not change but certainly

politically there are implications as a result of entry mccabe's departure all right thank you very much kimberly his from the white house now colombia's president has suspended peace talks with the rebel group the then off to a string of bombings over the weekend that left seven policemen dead the was killed five offices and injured more than four she has been going on since february to try to and five decades of violence as going out on a sunday in bogota. why did. decide to suspend the peace talks what have we heard about baes. well maryam at this point there was really no other option for president juan manuel santos everybody here in colombia consider it this asian inevitable after this string of bomb but tax all over the weekend in particularly the deadliest one the one in the coastal city but on kenya

surprised everybody because it happened in one colombia's major cities and now one that has been at the center of this civil. civil conflict that and one where the. rebels usually operate in this happened just two weeks before its famous carnival where a lot of tourists arrived from across the world so really centers had no option there he's also under a lot of pressure by conservative politicians here in the in the country remember that we're just two months away from legislative elections here who are asking for these talks to and completely showing that and this is what a lot of people now think here the u.n. is showing over and over that they are part of this group is not interested in

peace and has no interest in ending these attacks that we've seen a recurring go almost every week since a bilateral ceasefire between the government and the u.n. and it earlier this month and yet we know that president santos has made discussions with the l.n. really. main priority for him before he says why these negotiations proving to be so much more difficult than the talks which took place with the rebel group. there's no doubt that president santos would love to be successful in these negotiations with the land as well and this president see with a country act chief at least formally that doesn't seem like a possibility at this point especially because there are huge divisions among their year land leadership among it's very different divisions that operate in different parts of the countries they have different interests they have

a different their social base depending on where they operate and over it over it seemed more and more clear at this point that a year and central command then negotiators in quito don't really have full control of their troops in the in their countries and analysts who don't know the yellen very well are told us that there are some among their leadership that are not interested in peace want to see these negotiation negotiations fail and there is also growing pessimism that this is exactly what will happen that if these attacks continue centers will have no other option but to end these talks for good thank you very much for. all the latest from bogota and watching out as there are much more to come for you a mother's tears for her lost daughter an exclusive report from bangladesh on the trafficking of range of refugees. and

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a maximum in paris nine in london so the south is largely fine and dry sixteen is the maximum in athens but also southwest we've had rather more active weather over parts of southern spain in fact for some of us in malaga the winds have been so strong that they have brought down some trees now the storm responsible for this one here and it's gradually now tracking its way towards the west still going to bring us some lively weather as we had through the next few days strong winds then opposing morocco on choose day and the southern parts of spain just about into portugal as well seventeen the maximum in revenge then the rain gets going once more as we head into wednesday so heavy downpours this time on the border of algeria and morocco some snow over the atlas mountains as well and it certainly won't be woman revanche hot tub temperature of fifteen. explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how libel reigns influenced

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is stepping down after being accused of bias by president trial. in colombia has put peace talks with the lion on hold off to a string of attacks killing seven police offices. in bangladesh ranjit muslims fleeing neighboring meon mobbing increasing a targeted by human traffickers at refugee camps in this exclusive report al jazeera has been speaking to men who were involved in smuggling girls out of the country as well as the family of one of the girls from could see apollo refugee camp correspondent charles stratford reports. the. old boy daughter she cries. she asks me when we talk oh mother what shall i do now how can i come back to you how will you get me out of india to be with you again. my own a council says her daughter yasmeen was thirteen years old when she was snatched by

a man in the refugee camp and smuggles to india. was three years ago no iona and the as mean fled a military crackdown in myanmar in two thousand and twelve by on a says the trafficker was arrested in india and yasmin was rescued her daughter is living at a safe house for other trafficking victims in kolkata meon maastricht the region jury of citizenship in one thousand nine hundred to be to noyon no or yes mean have possible so they can't be reunited my own ases every month she saves a little money to chat to the adults for a few minutes on the phone. only gold knows the pain i experience every day she says i don't have money to go to india my daughter warns mabel to try and cross into india without a passport. my own story is not uncommon in the ricky refugee camps rights groups say that trafficking gangs have thrived in the ranger refugee camps here in

bangladesh for years but the recent arrival of more than six hundred fifty thousand new refugees means the situation is getting even worse now we met a traffic and he told us that men come from outside the camps they pay range of families for their daughters promising them work for the girls often never seen again. we sit by the road in the men come to us the man tells me they also because if we can get the helpless type of people families are ready to provide goals because they don't have enough food. the man says men often the specifically want girls of a certain age he says they pay the families around five thousand talking about sixty dollars for each go. for the girls around twelve to fourteen years old he says they tell me they have difficulty with their domestic work at home they say they need someone to cook for them and the man tells me he has

stopped providing the main with girls now and only trafficked a few young women. when the parents come to find me that i have to highlight he explains they want information on that delicious but i have no information the little the un's refugee agency is trying to help noyon to be reunited with her daughter but he says only the band with danish all sorts he's to make a decision. lio decision has been never made her father because he died before she was pulled she is afraid the sofa may die without ever seeing me again. i want nothing more than like daughter she says it would be so kind if you get your daughter back well yes mina is a peace with my whole. camp.

i still says it was behind that attack on a military academy in afghanistan's capital kabul eleven soldiers were killed and sixteen others injured in the gun battle you know the marshal for a national defense university five of the attackers were also killed the same site was the target of a suicide bombing in october in which fifteen offices died the united states ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has taken members of the u.n. security council on a tour of washington d.c. among the highlights a look at the iranian missiles and equipment she unveiled in december as alleged evidence of to her hands violations of security council resolutions diplomatic edited james bass has more from the white house. and on usual trip to washington for the u.n. security council ambassador nikki haley the u.s. ambassador presenting them with evidence to try and sway them in their views about iran she took them to a military base on the edge of washington d.c.

showed them fragments of a missile which she and saudi arabia says was far that riyadh and is of iranian origin and she's trying to persuade the security council to take tougher action against iran she's also brought them here to the white house where they are meeting president trump he's talked about the threat from iran and also about the situation in afghanistan and we'll also discuss what more we can do to defeat the taliban i don't see any talking taking place i don't think we're prepared to talk right now. oh all different fight over there they're killing people left and right innocent people are being killed left and right compare those comments with what ambassador haley's said on the seventeenth of january we think that the taliban coming to the table is very important it appears president trump has changed strategy here we all assumed in the past that the strategy was putting pressure militarily on the

taliban to force them to the table that now seems to have changed well in all the developments donald trump is preparing to give his first state of the union address one of his big campaign promises was to bring back steel to the u.s. which has seen a sharp decline and job losses over recent years shavar chancy has traveled to rural pennsylvania where support for trump was strong in the twenty six thousand election to see if the president has kept his promise. pennsylvania hadn't chosen a republican president since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight but thanks in part to support from rural communities where the steel industry still. don't trump flipped the state in twenty six days the collapse of the industry was devastating but u.s. steel's clanton coke plant remains the largest coke plant in the u.s. and at the local union john mclaughlin explains that it was to safeguard the plant's future but he voted for trump under every president we've taken a hit republican democrat and the trade agreements both parties have to agree to it

i wanted something different donald trump was clear when he was campaigning is going to bring he'll back. and trump won here because of his stated opposition to trade deals that lead to a lot of cheap imported steel and his pledge to investigate whether the u.s. is reliance on steel imports is a threat to u.s. national security but a decision on that which may still be several months away the white house is reported to be split on the issue at the plant and you know all the disappointment not least because while the white house has a tate's steel imports have soared i thought it would have been done a little summer make a decision but overseas they know this might become an artist dump and even more will jones didn't vote for trump we're still flatline might not i mean since the election but then he never trusted trump he was willing to retain some hope that hasn't yet been justified. and other than you know money

but money. for the top. several times over the last year don't trump has touted his job creation skills only for job losses soon to fall or the most infamous example is the carrier factory in indiana kerry will never leave but since then hundreds of workers have quietly been laid off from the plant as jobs moved elsewhere jonathan ramsgate is the president of the clinton branch of the united steelworkers that's what seems to be his nature you know say exactly. there's still hope in the moment but having been failed by both the democrats and republicans in the past if trump's words turn out to be empty they say it's nothing new but you have to remember one thing we've been promised a lot of things over the years nobody's ever come through with the progress has been pledged to revitalize communities here in the mom valley with ambitious plans to refashion them as hubs for twenty first century jobs but by pledging to return

them to a heyday not seen for seventy years for many here it was worth a try however improbable. the al-jazeera of a moment value pennsylvania. cash was defense minister says he looks forward to close a military cooperation with the united states in the future speaking in washington he said there were lation shit was critical to cats in light of the blockade imposed by neighboring gulf countries last chair. out of the blue bin. we lost our only. border. with the saudis and we find out a lot since without any axis in the air so this is seventeen's really a risk you the us we have to initiate. and bridge and go out to key to go to oman to bring all the necessary foods and medicine until we figure out how we are going to get all those flows in.

floodwaters in paris have continued to rise and are now threatening towns downstream along the seine river heavy rain has forced road closures flooded in by ments and council riverboat cruises through the french capital the high water levels are expected to remain for the coming days and even weeks to come. well now moving to the philippines where i have been protests against a chinese research expedition to an underwater region called phantom rise it's an important arena area in the philippine sea with untapped resources and the un has declared that it belongs to the philippines. reports. in two thousand and twelve the united nations confirmed that the bene rise is part of the philippines there are tree it's an undersea plateau located on the country's eastern coast it's

at the center of the planet's marine by a diversity and its resources are untapped with more than thirteen million hectares believed to be rich in minerals and gas. which travelled to bynum rise a few months ago back then the philippine military boasted of a long term plan to improve its patrols of the area the agriculture ministry also planned to build a reserve that will be a refuge for filipino fishermen the benon rise was seen as a possible solution to the country's school shortages but that appears to have changed now president rodrigo the third to says china may now lead to exploration in the year he's government says the research is purely scientific but market time experts say deter does apparent cozying up to china is alarming we can see that this is all part of. this that we could be history showing this bali scene of friended new stores china which you know is also gay going overboard because it's

just about in every aspect of of national life now china is also long in a dispute with the philippines and other countries over the spratleys group of islands in the south china sea its incursions in the area have raised tension with other regional countries some fear the same could happen in the bedroom rise it should be a new drug. three that have no busted into this that have no claim without. without exclusive you cannot be sure that's why i said let's follow the a.b.c. rule anyone but tell you that. filipinos scientists are demanding justice parents from detectives government they want the government to release the details of the expedition so the public will know the concessions given to china but the government refuses to address the issue directly we do not have to solve it in the in the benham rates because what we only have in the big number right aspired to

the extent that going to mental shift is the right to explore exploit the natural resources found around filipino scientists have been exploring behnam rise for years and want to continue their work although china has become a powerful player in the region many people we spoke to here say they believe the government stand on the issue may endanger the country's interests and those of its longtime allies. duggan al jazeera mandela. was more in everything we're covering right here including peace talks that are taking place on syria in sochi amidst an escalation of military activity and more on that in just a couple of seconds. syrian warplanes have launched a fierce offensive on the rebel held province of idlib killing at least twenty people wanted to say the jets helga to the market and then

a hospital full of people wounded in the earliest strike it comes as russia launches a diplomatic push to end the war hosting a new round of talks in sochi the united nations is there but the main syrian opposition group says it will boycott the negotiations. the deputy director of the f.b.i. is stepping down from his post after being accused of bias by president trump andrew mccabe is resigning several weeks ahead of his planned retirement date in march trump's criticized him several times in the past accusing him of supporting hillary clinton in the twenty sixteen election but the white house says it wasn't involved in his resignation we've seen numerous ports as all of you have and any specifics i can tell you none of this decision was made by that of the white house in any specifics i would refer you to the f.b.i. believes will be making a statement later today colombia's president has suspended peace talks with the rebel group the after a string of bombings at the weekend that left seven policemen dead the worst in

bahrain he killed five officers and injured more than forty others talks have been going on since february to try to end five decades of violence but present one manual santos now says his patience is exhausted. eleven afghan soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military academy in the capital kabul i still says it was behind the attack the fighting lasted hours after at least five men attacked the academy in the early hours of the morning the army says two of them were shot dead and two others blew themselves up and people smugglers are targeting random muslims who fled to bangladesh from myanmar al jazeera has spoken to form a smugglers who say the price for a go in the refugee camps is around sixty dollars even if they're rescued they often can't return to their families as they don't have passports rights groups say the situation's got worse with the recent influx of more than six hundred eighty

thousand range of refugees to the camps fleeing violence in myanmar over going to bring you more news at the top of the next hour in about twenty five minutes time after the string. hi i'm femi oke a enjoying the stream today a new bollywood film has people talking about the cost of the songs but most importantly about the message the importance of mental health and hygiene by bringing the story of one indian innovator to the big screen the film's producer director.