counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. what makes this moment this era we live in from so unique this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding the distortion even of what free speech is supposed to be about that context is hugely important level wise to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provocative or whatever those people do. setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. the deputy director of the f.b.i. resigns andrew mccabe had been accused of bias by president trump.

hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up syrian warplanes mountain a major attack on rebel territory killing at least twenty people as russian brokered peace talks begin but without the opposition. colombia's president puts peace talks with the rebels on the hold off to a string of attacks killed seven police officers. and we'll tell you why thousands of union workers from the u.n. agency the palestinian refugees have taken to the streets of gaza. the deputy director of the f.b.i. is stepping down from his post had been accused of bias by president trump is resigning several weeks ahead of his planned retirement date in march criticized him several times in the past accusing him of supporting hillary clinton in the two

thousand and sixteen election 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 public relations if you're going to. 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. over the latest on this let's go to alan fish in washington and allan what do we know about the nature of mccabe's relationship with trump. what we know just in the last fifteen minutes or so the new york times is reporting that christopher reeve who is the director of

the f.b.i. saw an inspector general's report on boat the conduct of investigations into both hillary clinton and donald trump at that point he asked for on john mccain to be moved to another part of the f.b.i. mccabe so that is a demotion from the deputy director's post and decided instead he would go on leave for the next six weeks before he retires with your pension in march we know that mr mccabe would become almost a lightning rod for donald trump and had been criticized on twitter by the president four times over the last few months essentially he was seeing that mccain was not an impartial investigator that first of all he should have recused himself from the hillary clinton investigation because hillary clinton's. friends have donated to his wife's campaign when she ran for office in virginia as a democrat no he did actually recuse himself at some point in that investigation but that wasn't enough for donald trump and he said because of those links that he

should never have been involved in the investigation of the alleged links between the trump campaign and the russians know mccabe and many people around him said that he was a professional f.b.i. investigator and there was no real issue with this but that wasn't enough for the president who at least four times criticized him on twitter and no he stepped aside donald trump will feel to some degree i'm sure vindicated although assyria huckabee saunders was insisting the white house had nothing to do with this final decision nevertheless how could it impact the investigation into allegations of collusion between trans team and russia. well donald trump has been trying to build this narrative that this investigation was partisan this was democrats who were very upset at losing the election going ahead and launching this investigation into to donald trump they suggest that there was something rotten in the f.b.i. that james comey was part of it even though hillary clinton actually specifically

says in their boot written after the election that james cohen's intervention just before the election when he said that he was investigating her for her use of e-mails again probably lost her of the election in her view and certainly paul's would back that up so for him to go from that position to somehow be working against donald trump isn't entirely clear but then this whole narrative is slightly confusing so donald trump believes that there are people who are in the f.b.i. who were biased against him and therefore should be excluded but there are those who point out look if there was nothing in these claims if there was nothing in this why doesn't the white house why doesn't the republican party just step back say there's nothing to see here there is no collusion cardio the investigation and when it comes up with nothing then the democrats will essentially be setting themselves on fire because they have carried out this long investigation that

doesn't seem to what with donald trump who wants to somehow shape the inquiry against him who wants to influence it even though as president he really should be slightly detached from it so he continues to put pressure we are told on the justice department and the f.b.i. the f.b.i. answers to the justice department and so will this stop those attacks highly unlikely but we do know that mr mccabe will be leaving his position in march as he was going to do anyway is just walking away that little bit soon thanks very much alan fischer in washington. our other top story this hour syrian warplanes have launched a fierce offensive on the rebel held province of adlib killing at least twenty people women and children are among the dead want to see is a saying the jets tolerated a market and then a hospital full of people wounded in the earliest strike meanwhile

a russian brokered cease fire on the edge of the capital damascus seems to have collapse activists reporting several trees violations by government forces besieging east and but at least eight people have died russia has also launched a diplomatic push to end the war hosting a new round of talks in sochi the u.n. is also there but the main syrian opposition group has boycotted the meeting saying only recognizes the u.n. sponsored geneva talks the kurds who control almost twenty percent of syrian territory are also refusing to go they are currently the focus of a turkish military operation in northern syria where it says that their fight is on terrorists al jazeera stephanie decker reports from the town of killie's 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 saw 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 on. france and britain saying that they will not take part in tuesday's peace talks and such because they're not part of a un led process because rory chalons has more now on those discussions. 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 short comings 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 his edis 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 y. p.g. then not here either they are considered to sign on grants or 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 sort she 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 not 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 suggest that is confirmed or not. well isn't there perry is a lecturer in terrorism and security studies at king's college here in london he spoke about the prospects for such talks. the military

remember them has been behind russia and its ally the assad regime for at least a couple of years now remember aleppo fell in october twenty sixth seen thereabouts when the massive offensive happens more or less since that point onwards the russians are of course looking for a way to transform their short short military intervention into what could be construed as a relative success but a sad governments terms that's really what this is about the reality of course is whether that can actually come to something that has form and shape in regards the situation on the ground in syria there may be a degree of tension in terms of trying to limit a science own aspiration he at one point said i want to retake all of syria from the rebels whether very competitive impulses from your amiens who have provided has been lost support to help assad this far the russians who provided the air power it's a pretty ramshackle coalition that they've got going they do have military mentum on their sides but they also have is a degree of subjugation of the u.n.

process the geneva process death and the mistura talks they are now following the pace and the possible ability for the sort she talks and he started talks different cities in which these talks have occurred to be able to say something relatively tangible about what a future syria might look like what sort of steps might be taken. or regime forces a reported to have targeted a turkish convoy in the countryside according to al-jazeera sources the convoy is made up of dozens of heavy vehicles that entered syria from the crossing the column of turkish military was heading to ice and aleppo province as part of ankara's jeeves's to monitor the deescalation zone and it led. on moving to our other top stories this hour colombia's president has suspended peace talks with the rebel group the l.n. after a string of bombings over the weekend that last seven policeman dead the worst in bar and killed five offices and injured more than forty others talks have been

going on since february to try to end five decades of violence. yes he has the latest from bogota the decision by president santos to suspend the talks became inevitable after this latest string of attacks in particularly the bombing of a police station in a major city violent kiev the coastal city of about and yet is seen as the last straw for the government of a situation that has been the theory orating since the end of what had been a very successful fire between the government and this rebel group in the last three months of two thousand and seventeen but since then the year land started a new offensive in different parts of the country and this latest string of attacks has really left to some throws with no option but deciding to suspend the talks these and there are a lot of pressure also by opposition politician conservative politicians here in

the country who are asking him and the talks with the yellin for good in a statement the rebel group to say that they hope that the talks can restart and said they favor a new cease fire but attacks will continue unless the news to use fire brokered to which. in turn will make it even more difficult for the talks to start again. still to come refugees sleep rough on the streets of northern greece just growing numbers cross the turkish border also. i you know people i would bring right before them brimfield buring for their lives i'm betting i will even mighty bow down to defeat also pollio are already fourteen people have died in the last month.

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a top temperature in christchurch of thirty degrees really very warm there on choose day this weather system though is gradually galloping its way southward and that's going to bring some of us some very intense rains as we head through the next few days it starts on wednesday in the south islands and then gradually pushes its what east what's for all of us. i don't know when to leave in the world where everything is designed in california and to me. the cutting edge is in my hands of the corporation the only way to be subversive is to be able to control the technology to put my small bands he has built a chip that anyone can do to build and nothing to make it cheaper to cost like a pizza spearheading a global movement to democratize technology and make our part of the rubber game series at this time on al-jazeera.

i'm back with al-jazeera an update of the stories making headlines the deputy director of the f.b.i. is stepping down earlier than planned he had been accused of bias by president trump syrian warplanes launch a fierce offensive in the rebel held province of idlib as russia host talks to try to end the conflict. and colombia has put peace talks with the then on hold after a string of attacks killing seven police offices. in all the stories we're watching thousands of union workers from the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees are protesting in gaza against planned budget cuts it follows the u.s. decision to cut millions of dollars worth of funding to the aid agency imran khan

reports from gaza. this was one of the largest demonstrations gaza has seen in recent months the union organizing says thirteen thousand people turned out palestinians are angry that the u.s. is withholding one hundred ten million dollars in funding for the united nations relief works agency that agency is responsible. palestinian refugees some one million in gaza alone yeah agency itself is in crisis mode it's introduced austerity measures and warns it only has two months of funding left after that all . the palestinians if you will fix it there will be no food there will be no colborne there will be enormous this is it will be ignored you cation for these kids which are looking to be as kids in other parts of the war on palestinian in gaza city but on that seas which is

a very very serious situation if some of gaza's most desperate the will be hit hardest people like who saw his see who receives unemployment payments from he supports a family of six those payments a jew to come to an end if money isn't found. on the show and. stops this project then we're kind of going. how can i feed my children how can we raise them. there is no other choice construction has stopped and we are on the feet there is no option other than without it there is nothing. under or says a humanitarian crisis is coming experts in the business community already warning that the goals of the economy is on the verge of collapse now some seventy percent of gaza live in refugee camps like this and they're the ones that are going to be the most affected that's almost half of the population of gaza imran khan the gaza

strip i still says it was behind an attack on a military academy in afghanistan's capital kabul eleven soldiers were killed and sixteen others injured in a gun battle near the marshall for he 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 officers died. the head of the fire department in kenya's capital has been suspended after a fire left thousands homeless at least four people died and more than fourteen thousand others have lost their homes as a huge place went through the state area of nairobi kenya media report that firefighters at the scene ran out of water soon after arriving. well i am moving to brazil where more than twenty million people are being vaccinated against yellow fever after an outbreak of the disease at least fifteen people have died in the southeastern state of minutes yes in the last month and a public health emergency has been declared stories of bio reports. this is the

largest forestry serve in an urban area in the world. in the state of south is where and i live a lot with son and her son who died of yellow fever a few weeks ago. my oldest son is devastated by were together all the time he's not even coming to our place because he's suffering a lot he was planning to write his kids he left us here. anderson did not want to get vaccinated and i lay there says he started having headaches and then his complection turned yellow the doctors didn't know what the problem was until after he died brazil is fighting a yellow fever outbreak that has already claimed dozens of lives at least fourteen of them here in mighty border a massive campaign has now been launched to vaccinate people living in high risk areas against what's considered to be the worst outbreak of the decease since the

one nine hundred forty s. . leni says yellow fever was four years in there making only certain areas of residual but things have changed. a few environmental studies noted impacts in forests but the mosquitoes predators such as frogs and dragonflies were extinct the mosquitoes then managed to migrate to this person brazil. and it's not now just in remote areas but also in brazil's major cities this is befehl followthrough and it's been temporarily shut down because of the already found one that monkey that was not from this but lived in the surrounding area infected with yellow fever means that the virus is already here and that's why the government has stepped up efforts to vaccinate people living in the area hundreds of other monkeys have already died across brazil in the last year as the virus has spread but is so powerful and. there are not enough vaccines for everyone if i jean could not

protect her family i said i want it was really busy when i arrived people were queuing for five hours and they told us it was over no more vaccines i have to come next week in madiba the other members of anderson's family have been inoculated yellow fever has already left this family shattered the government's priority is to prevent the virus from causing even more deaths. brazil. aid agencies say there's been a surge in homelessness among refugees in northern greece the country's second largest city has apparently run out of space to howe's new arrivals refugees are avoiding the greek islands and are instead crossing over the land border with turkey they're often forced to pass through the everest river aren't reports from. many people believe pakistanis or iranians own refugees and so they cannot know

what's happening in the border province of block you stand where these people come from they spoke out against tribal leaders there who want independence and they were threatened with death so they run for it. they cross the river from turkey into greece walked for five days and added up sleeping here intestinal nikki for months the men had to take it in turns to stay awake to protect their wife and sister. i felt like committing suicide i was going mad i thought i should have stayed in my country and let the tribespeople kill me i just wasn't expecting this to toll the bill got frostbite in thick snow on the river border he can no longer bend his fingers. for. any watch from me i can't even go to the total of almost self my brother has to help me there's no way i can work it's really stressful. where they took us to where they've been sleeping we realised we'd been here before in november two thousand and sixteen then it was different people all

suffering the same things that winter turned out to be the coldest for decades water froze in the refugee camps greece's lack of preparation was exposed the full year on nothing has changed it's due to the fog about their fundamental rights are being violently those people don't have house don't have access to medical care. they see absolutely nothing the baloch family got shelter three months ago through the norwegian refugee council saima is now pregnant but their only guaranteed accommodation for three months more so they could end up back here again before she gives birth. while the greek authorities and charities try to prioritise families single men have no chance one meal a day provided by young european volunteers working off to nations and that's it. there's no doubt the big increase in people crossing the every river into northern

greece is simply compounded the homeless problem here and that's the only thing we're told is now completely full there is simply nowhere to put all these people there to be the good news is that the winter so far hasn't been anything like as cold as its terrible conditions this time last year but if it does get worse greece could have a full blown crisis on its hands. they showed us where they sleep underneath an abandoned built concrete block if the police catch them here they can go to jail so the dental to even light a fire. presumably when they sleep they dream of nothing because that is exactly what they have. zero. prepared to give his state of the union address one of his big campaign promises was to bring back steel to the us i just seen a sharp decline on job losses. chances travel to pennsylvania to see a vote just think 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. flipped the state in twenty six to the collapse of the industry was devastating but u.s. steel is clear remains the largest coal plant in the u.s. and the local. explains that it was to safeguard the plants future but he voted for drop under every president we've taken a hit republican democrat and the trade agreement both parties have to agree to it i wanted something different was clear when he was campaigning to bring steel back . 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 average may still be several months away the white house is reported

to be split on the issue at the. disappointments 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 with jones didn't vote for trump we're still flatline like 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. in other than you know money but money for. now for the top floor i see him several times over the last year i 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 kariya will never leave but since then hundreds of workers have quietly been laid off from the plant as jobs moved elsewhere donovan groundskeepers the president of the clinton

branch of the united steel workers that's true it seems to be his nature. 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 has ever come through with the progress has been pledged to revitalize communities here in the moment 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. pennsylvania. now human beings have been around for a long time that it could be a quarter of a million years longer than anybody thought this partial job done just that in israel is the oldest ever found outside the african continent away and it appears

to have completely reset the entire time scale of human evolution. the common notion was that modern humans evolved in africa somewhere between two hundred to two hundred fifty thousand years ago and left africa some of their old one hundred thousand years ago now we know that more than humans have all of the left africa roughly around two hundred thousand years ago implying that the biological good story of phones. is very long and should be pushed back to roughly around half a million years ago. a comment analysis in a video on demand just this is going to go out there dot com. a quick look at the top stories before leaving here the deputy director of the

f.b.i. is stepping down from his post after being accused of bias by president trump mccabe is resigning several weeks ahead of his plan of a time and date in march criticized him several times in the past accusing him of supporting hillary clinton in the two thousand and 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. who i believe will be making a statement later today and our other headlines syrian warplanes have launched a fierce offensive on the rebel held province of ed lip killing at least twenty people wanted to say the jets targeted a 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 u.n. is also that but the main syrian opposition group says it will boycott the negotiations. colombia's president says it has suspended peace talks with

a rebel group in the land after a string of bombings at the weekend that left seven policemen dead the worst in bahrain 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 the president who won manual santos now says his patience is exhausted. eleven afghan soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military academy in kabul i still says it was behind the attack fighting lasted for hours after at least five men attacked the academy in the early hours of the morning they army says two of them were shot dead and two others blew themselves up and people smugglers are targeting ranjit muslims who fled to bangladesh from myanmar al jazeera spoken to form a smugglers who say the prize for go in the refugee camps is around sixty dollars even if their rescue they often can't return to their families as they don't have

passports rights groups say the situation is getting worse with the recent influx of more than six hundred eighty thousand range of refugees to the camps fleeing the violence in myanmar war in our top stories coming up from doha in twenty five minutes time not for myself in the team in london. you understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al jazeera. digital print one of these moments and you see these men in. india in a t.v. billion economy and you. see in this country and. in which everything in our lives proved. and here.