the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty metres in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships in cape town children sometimes a court in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking past to try to take control gang violence i lost my. door years ago i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking buses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. a political power play in the maldives as the opposition tries to impeach senior government figures.

i'm sam is a dam this is a live from also coming up italy's prime minister condemns the shooting rampage by a far right supporter who wounded six african immigrants. questions about who shot down a russian a fighter jet in syria as turkish troops offer their worst day for casualties. last waltz in the name of thousands of people protesting in greece after a decades long dispute with their neighbor macedonia. political turmoil in the maldives as ram top in the past few hours the opposition's decided to file a motion to impeach several senior government figures including the defense minister and the tourney general also seeking a no confidence vote against the parliamentary speaker. troops have surrounded the

parliament building after days of unrest police fault with crowds who are rallying in support of the supreme court's order to release political prisoners judges reinstated twelve m.p.'s who were expelled for siding with the opposition if they return to parliament the ruling party will lose its majority to m.p.'s who have since returned from exile now being arrested at the airport earlier the attorney general warned that any attempt by the supreme court to unseat the president would be illegal because he said only palmer has the power to do so journalist ahmed explains why the president is unlikely to be removed. would need two thirds of the parliament majority right now and they have a majority a slim majority of. three to five members in the education of the two well m.p.'s that last so they will need. to at least. ten or more members from their ruling party in order to successfully teach the president

however impeachment of. the other senior figures that we talked about at the home minister the defense minister attorney general and the prosecutor general can be carried out if it be. with the majority that the opposition has right now and b. is that there were instead best on. or and that have been active for a while being charged with. bribing trying attempting to bright parliament members the same times that has been brought against the son of former president human and p. five smallman as well so if that is an indication of how things will proceed if for example the phone president returns i think that means that he will be arrested and taken back to prison as well. italy's prime minister is condemning a shooting by

a far right support the saying hatred and violence won't be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants were injured in the central town of much errata a suspect is in police custody pizza shop has more. this was a drive by shooting that italian police said was racially motivated firing from this vehicle the lone gunman is said to have targeted foreigners on the streets in a shooting spree that lasted over two hours. it took place in the central italian city of mature otter the mayor said six people were wounded all of them black one with life threatening injuries a twenty eight year old italian name does look at try any was arrested by military police draped in an italian flag he reportedly wore during the shootings tourney had no previous criminal record and his motive for the shootings is unclear he did

stand as a far right candidate for the northern league in recent local elections but received no votes in the count the italian prime minister was quick to condemn the shootings i mean ticket i mean only known for so nobody else will know what you what's rimmel behavior can all have ideological motivation criminals are criminals will start to set up but they're going to meant to serve it over to your state will be particularly severe against whoever thinks of nourishing the spiral of violence let's stop this let's stop this right now. tensions in mature outer had risen this week following the discovery of pamela musto pietro's body she had run away from a drug rehabilitation center on monday and police said she'd met a nigerian drug dealer the next day he was arrested by police. more than six hundred thousand mainly african migrants have reached italy by boat over the past four years and the center right block says the vast majority have no right to

asylum in this promised mass expulsions if it takes power peter shop al-jazeera or thank you as a journalist based in italy he says saturday's shooting does not meet the country's threshold for terrorism. we've been charged with that must that aggravate the by the luck or not that's why he as. a part of police that has not been found me lean by between the call police and all three of our law organization not any where on lending to do that. that is in. charge of the investigation or the sky and the act that the act of a mad men that normally we only structure the organization

equally plea of the gore and up who are specific law in the life of the. family and connected with we do that with all across the world in the last decade or more. up to the low that the thing that someone can be charged with burglary them or if the producer of for example are probably a bit older and least you know getting rid of that evening for that then leave them all if it isn't doing the thorough what they know or they're doing something for the internet but a webpage is thought that is a pretty piccolo you need to leave that there in case that without a booth of this being the can talk about that it is a. refugees in germany have been protesting against hate crimes in the eastern city of called worse if follows two recent knife attacks by syrian teenagers refugees

say far right groups are using the incidents to stoke anger against asylum seekers foreign supporters how their counter-demonstration to protest against what they say is rising crime by migrants. hundreds of thousands of people are rallying in greece against the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic these are live shots coming out from the greek capital greece won't allow macedonia to become a member of nato all the european union without an agreement on the matter of jacks to the use of the name macedonia arguing it could imply territorial claims over its own northern region of the same name both governments have signaled they're willing to compromise but convincing their voters may be more difficult for us as more from athens. this is what happened when yugoslavia broke apart a quarter century ago and its southernmost state claimed independence as the republic of macedonia a million people gathered into selling the capital of the greek region of macedonia

outraged that a non greek nation should lay claim to ancient greek heritage that is still the dominant view here today. they're trying to inherit all of macedonia and alexander the great this is a farce it's all happening because the americans want them in near so early attempts at compromise came to nothing the government in the former yugoslav macedonian capital scorpio refused to relinquish the term macedonia and greece rejected the use of even a composite name that included it such as northern or slow of macedonia one hundred countries recognized the new state including many nato and e.u. countries concerned for its stability and survival but greece has cited its own security concerns as a vital part of any agreement but government in scope would be called. pond to remove articles in its constitution but greasers implied claims on its territory article forty nine talks about protecting macedonian minorities in neighboring

countries article three leaves open the possibility of changing the country's borders in two thousand and eight the greeks vetoed former yugoslav macedonia as entry into nato undeterred the government in scope erected statues to ancient king alexander the great and his parents but now there's a more moderate government in scope here willing to compromise over the name and greece's official position has changed to accept a composite name that includes the word macedonia but as far as greeks are concerned these are legal niceties that skirts the real issue which is national identity from a long name symbolize something if i come to her house and we say we're going to have the same surname that means we have the same father and same rights this is none and we're not obliged to give with us. professor finals daucus agrees that a nation comprised principally of slaves has no historic claim but says charity is in the greek interest but we don't like them being called go calling themselves

macedonians bed. can they call themselves in they need an identity can we convince our macedonians public opinion that giving them a bit of identity from ensign's home history will not races in this the talks that reopened last month are over the country's name and do not address identity or ethnicity but as both peoples see the two issues as interlinked reaching an agreement they will accept appears a difficult jump al-jazeera for us. turkey says it's had its worst day yet in northern syria since launching an offensive against y p g kurdish fighters more than two weeks ago on saturday seven of its soldiers were killed in fighting turkey says the y.p. g r terrorists wants to push them out of a three in to create a buffer zone along the border seventy deca has more from the syrian border. this is

a russian fighter jet shot down by opposition forces. i mean remember the pilot manages to eject but he didn't survive. for these syrian fighters it's a huge symbolic victory. russian the syrian government have intensified their bombardment of province over the last two months government forces a slowly capturing territory in the south what is the last remaining syrian province under full rebel control. they're inching closer to the city of soccer which lies on a strategic road linking the northwest all the way to the capital damascus territory that is now almost fully under government control. and in syria's complex web of regional and international allegiances some say this offensive has been well planned and has further implications been there are some people who are in fact wondering if there is

a tacit agreement between the russians and the turks whereas the russians would actually give the green light for the turks to act in against the kurds in exchange for the russians and allies actually to capture parts of this of this. the government offered mainly adored between the mosques and that there by. that offensive against the kurdish controlled district is now into its third week turkey's backing fighters from the free syrian army against the kurdish people protection units. turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist organization even though it's the united states is most effective in fighting i still turkey has been intensely to areas there is a base just right behind us and this is in line with what politicians here are saying the first phase of this operation the push the y.p. . away from its borders. all along that border

a steady stream of military movement vehicles i mean and buses packed with syrian f.s.a. fighters this is a very visible operation but it's also a difficult one the wipe e.g. know the terrain well and they have been preparing for this it's the latest frontline in a war that year after year simply changes its form and never seems to end stephanie decker or jazeera on the turkey syria border still ahead on al-jazeera allegations egypt is fighting armed groups with the help of israel. a rocky ride for senegal's only passenger triumph we explore the ambitious plan to link east and west africa.

hello there we've seen a lot of wintery weather over parts of japan recently and there's plenty more snow still to come the satellite picture is stirring all the cloud that we've got over us at the moment to real areas of snowy weather first one over hokkaido and the second one a bit further towards the south but we're going to see plenty more snow out of these two systems as we head through the next few days some of that snow is likely to be very heavy and could well cause us a little bit of problem we have disruption towards the west here it looks like it should be fine and dry and the temperatures in beijing getting a little bit higher than they have done this time getting to three degrees now towards the southeastern parts of china the temperatures here have been recovering shanghai or monday will get to the dizzy heights of five degrees but as we fast forward into choose day we'll see the temperatures drop once more so this time no higher than around three so relatively mild though force in hong kong our temperatures off of fourteen and holding on to an eighteen there in hanoi bit further towards the south could be some showers in the northern parts of luzon but

further south should be fine and dry for simonetta of top temperatures getting to around thirty or thirty one degrees as we head down towards the southeastern parts of asia those showers rattling their way through parts of borneo down into java but further west it's largely dry. the palestine national locust was first founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. but has had to be revived in twenty ten always very important thing in palestine now musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories simple philistine like every palestinian living in the aspirant felt it was the first time that perform using their identity al-jazeera world hears music as a force for unity the diaspora orchestra at this time. of

come back you're watching out to syria time to recap the headlines now the opposition in the maldives says it will file a motion to impeach several top government figures troops have surrounded parliament after days of unrest rallies are being held in support of the supreme court's decision to release opposition leaders. italy's prime minister is condemning a shooting by a far right supporter saying hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants were injured in the central italian tile of much of the suspect is in police custody. hundreds of thousands of people are rallying in greece against the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic we're looking at live pictures of people protesting in athens now

greece argues that using the term could imply territorial claims over its own northern region of the same way. israeli planes have been carrying out as strikes in northern sinai with the approval of egyptian president and the fatah has sisi that's according to the new york times it says unmarked. israeli warplanes and helicopters conducted dozens of raids in egypt over the past two years gyptian forces have been fighting eisel linked armed groups which have launched attacks in the region that have been reports on the corporation between egypt and israel before but has always been denied by both governments and has the latest from west jerusalem. so his the original report in sunday's new york times they'll have to say the reporting is all from british and american former security officials who spoke to the new york times none of it's actually come from either israel or egypt

and we reached out to the israeli army for comment they say they weren't going to comment on this case but clearly it's a very big story both in the hebrew language and the english language post now take a look at this this horace they're reporting fairly similar things israel conducted over one hundred strikes on isis in egypt using the new york times as a base druce from post here as well just take a look at this israel struck over one hundred targets and sinai with caro's ok now this is going to be controversial for both countries there's a hard right here in israel that says it doesn't want any cooperation with its arab neighbors particularly when it comes to military that the israeli army should be completely independent also in egypt it's going to be controversial as well particular within the t.v. stations are very critical of any cooperation with israel when it comes to military matters now i did speak to a former israeli military official and i asked him why this cooperation might be taking place he says simply they're very worried about groups like isis and massing

on their borders so it makes sense for something like this to take place. and by the way is a senior researcher at the center for middle east and north african politics at least free university of berlin he says the revelations are embarrassing for egypt's president. the open secret has always been that there is very close security cooperation between egypt and israel in the sinai what i find puzzling in this report is that the egyptian air force after after the agreement after agreement with israel is allowed to operate freely all over sinai so it's not clear why is there a need why was there a need for the egyptian air force to strike in sinai the problem of the egyptian military has never been its striking capability but rather is intelligence gathering capability anyway if the information is correct and this of course would be healed really embarrassing for the egyptian government for one simple reason

because it indicates that the egyptian military is no longer able to protect its own territory and to do this it has to rely on its own for israel because the regime has been building its legitimacy on protecting its capacity to protect terrorists now when we ship sions wake up to realize that the regime is doing this with the cooperation of israel. is really strikes in sinai is a very sensitive issue for me. because they would perceive it as an infringement on egyptian sovereignty think palestine liberation organization is move to cut ties with israel p.l.o. leaders met in ramallah in the occupied west bank on saturday they ordered the palestinian government to draft a plan to cut off political economic and security contacts has been growing tensions since december when u.s. president donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital israeli

forces have killed a teenager palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied west bank they say they were searching for a man in janine who they say killed a rabbi in a drive by shooting in january palestinian man shot dead and several others were injured during similar raids last month. reports say dozens of people have been injured in a train crash in the us state of south carolina passenger train carrying around one hundred forty people collided with one transporting freight the town of k.c. fatalities are expected us president donald trump says a declassified memo written by republican congress members clears him in the probe into links between russia and his presidential campaign he says the memo totally vindicates probes the russian witch hunt goes on and on there was no collusion there was no obs truck the word now used because after one year of looking

endlessly and finding nothing collusion is dead he says an american disgrace of the memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee which is chaired by devin newness he was a member of trance transition team it was released on friday says the f.b.i. and justice department abused their powers by using unsubstantiated evidence to spy on a trump aide the f.b.i. argued against its release saying it had grave concerns about the document obtaining a meeting rather material fact democrats on the committee want to release their own memo in response they say the republican memo is aimed at the railing special counsel role models investigation into the campaign's alleged links to russia and the gallagher is following developments for us from washington d.c. . well there are a couple of key questions here as to what will happen or what may happen next and

chief among those is a concern that president trump will use this memo as a pretext to fire robert mueller the special counsel who's in charge of the russian investigation democrats say if he does that it will cause a constitutional crisis we know of course that he wanted to do that back in the summer but held off on that decision because some senior members of staff threatened to resign themselves the other question is now hanging over the future of the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein he is involved in the russian investigation president trump has been talking about him in very negative terms and it's not sure what will happen to him but the attorney general has been backing him up and of course the f.b.i. have been backing up their own people saying play hard and tackle hard because they are being permanently attacked by the president it really is an unprecedented situation you have a sitting u.s. president attacking his own intelligence community talking about this russian investigation as a witch hunt and saying this memo really clears his name it does not this is far

from over we're not sure what will happen next but the entire nation if not the entire world is watching very closely indeed germany's chancellor angela merkel is again warning talks to form a government are going to be tough christian conservatives parties been negotiating a coalition with the social democrats germany's been without a government since the major parties lost ground to the far right in september's election. if you don't start coming it's the only song that. one can tell by now how long this will take we worked well yesterday but there are still important points that we haven't cleared up so i'm going in with good will but of course with a certain expectation that we will face difficult negotiations at today's meeting. the british government is introducing new rules to tackle money laundering the times newspaper says the measures will give the government the power to seize what it sees as suspicious assets u.k. security minister ben wallace told the paper the government will investigate

foreign nationals with more than seventy thousand dollars in assets if they can't adequately explain how they got the money london's banking and property markets are propped up by hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign money investigators suspect some of the cash is illegal robert barrington is the executive director of the global anti corruption organization transparency international he says money laundering in the u.k. is widespread there is an interesting figures around the u.k.'s national crime agency says that the round one hundred billion dollars more dirty money that comes through london and stays in london every year so it's big in scale we also know that there are at least forty thousand properties in london whose owners are simply aren't there so there is certainly hundreds probably thousands of people this will apply to when the national crime agency or other similar rules or. see that somebody's property whether it's physical property like a house or other types of property that seems to be in excess of what they could.

legitimately acquired in terms of their wealth the national crime agency can ask the court to freeze the assets and then the person who owns the house will be asked to prove where they got the money from. travel within africa could be challenging at times but now and then vicious plan is being drawn up to connect east and west africa by rail senegal's president macky sall pushed for the project that's being paid for by the chinese government supported by the african union well those behind it hope it will increase trade on the continent the railway line will run through ten countries from senegal in the west to djibouti in the east currently takes at least five days to travel by road from the santa gillies capital dhaka to the capital of djibouti flights between east and west africa are opening up about fares are not cheap in the final part of our series looking at global trade routes nicholas hawk reports from t. is incentive. on board the five fifteen train from the car to chess most

passengers are on their way home after a long day of work in the city. the fifteen minute journey home always seems a bit longer than the morning commute. after years writing this one so has learned to enjoy this moment free from distractions. remember i was talking a good time for myself here if i drive to work it would take me at least four hours and i'd be stuck in traffic trains are still the quickest safest and cheapest way to travel. they call it the little blue train the locomotive was bought from pakistan the wagons from india. the ports were brought to senegal and refurbished in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's the only passenger train left in senegal all the other lines including the historic train to mali were abandoned because they were too costly to run much to the frustration of commuters and railway unions alike. and. privatizing the

railway lines was a clear mistake a country cannot grow without developing its roadway system but now we are excited with the steps in to go another states are taking the african union has an ambitious plan to connect the port of the car in the west to the port of djibouti. in eastern africa linking ten countries many of them landlocked it's called the trams african railway project. there are seven thousand eight hundred kilometers of unfinished railway tracks alone will cost thirteen billion dollars to build. it's an enormous amount each country is tasked with finding its own financing for their part of the railway chinese companies have signed deals to rebuild the former colonial rail lines that were bounded by the french both in the car and in djibouti it's the start of an epic engineering project that will take years to build and promises thousands of jobs across the continent. there are no roads or highways connecting the west of africa to the east nor is there a direct flight between the car and djibouti in fact no one has ever tried to

connect both coasts of africa neither the french nor the british the former colonial powers. construction hasn't started yet but the prospect of reopening the century old tracks has got many excited and hopeful. abound in train station may get a new lease on life and for the many passengers like so who use this every day. it may not be the end of the line for the five fifteen train from the car nicholas hark al-jazeera yes senegal. in the past four days we fiza trade routes in north america thailand and laos you can watch those reports on global trade routes on al jazeera as you tube channel that's you tube dot com forward slash al-jazeera english. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now the

opposition in the maldives says it will file a motion to impeach several top government figures including the defense minister and attorney general troops have surrounded parliament following days of unrest rallies have been held in support of the supreme court's decision to release opposition leaders judges also reinstated twelve m.p.'s who were expelled for siding with the opposition to m.p.'s who have since returned from exile being arrested at the airport. journalists junaid muhammed explains the charges against the m.p.'s. what's being charged with. bribing trying attempting to parliament members the same times that has been brought against the son of former president human m.p. five. so if that is an indication of how things will proceed if for example the former president returns i think that means that he will be arrested and taken

back to prison as well u.s. media say dozens of people have been injured in a train crash in the state of south carolina a passenger train carrying around one hundred forty people collided with another transporting freight near the town of k.c. . italy's prime minister is condemning a shooting by a far right supporter saying hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants were injured in the central italian town of much errata the suspect is in police custody hundreds of thousands of people are rallying in greece against the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic greece argues the using the term could imply territorial claims over its northern region of the same name. seven turkish soldiers have been killed in fighting with kurdish wife p g five is in northern syria turkey says it was its

army's worst day for casualties since launching the operation two weeks ago to push the why fiji out of the area it's inside story now stay with us. bitcoin and freefall that have turned currency hits a record high towards the end of twenty seventeen but in the last month it's lost almost half its value what's behind that and can virtual coins ever be trusted this is inside story.