and herdsmen on a treacherous migration. dangerous the ice is then as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life into the legendary sometimes luser cattle there was the cold war because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on al-jazeera. the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise one east investigates the threat this followed poses at this time when al jazeera. the all these government declares a state of emergency the former presidents have arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the government.

and you with all of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the u.n. security council fails to reach an agreement on the use of chemical weapons in syria the u.s. then structure. they're going to go into a rival protests in johannesburg over south africa's president jacob zuma calls are growing for him to quit. u.s. stocks fall sharply the dow jones has its biggest one day point drop in history. first to developments in the maldives where the president declared a fifteen day state of emergency shortly after the announcement was made security forces stormed the supreme court where the chief justice and others are believed to be sheltering a former president has also been arrested accused of plotting to overthrow the government shot at ls reports. opposition politicians film outside mollies

criminal court waiting to hear the facts of the colleagues ill have made and have to listen and they were arrested and charged with bribery upon arriving in the country on sunday a judge dropped the charges on release them they are two of my. twenty politicians affected by a supreme court ruling that has created a political crisis in the island nation. of eon celebrated on thursday when their top court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohammad machine and the judges reinstated twelve employees who had lost their seats for siding with the opposition but one day of celebration soon turned into four nights of protests when president abdullah you mean refused to comply with the rule was very. calm and was scheduled to reconvene after recess on monday but the president said it would be closed

indefinitely and imposed a state of emergency for fifteen days the mall devean parliament is now under military control opposition politicians want to get inside parliament to file impeachment motions against four top officials in the president's administration for not freeing the colleagues any effort. by me. i don't know an argument and the supreme. police targeted the administrative head of the supreme court on sunday writing his house the court issued a statement ruling police didn't have enough evidence to arrest a judicial executive president in maine has asked the court to reconsider the arrest warrant ruling he said he's told the court his prosecuting attorney needs more legal direction before he can release any political prisoners the president

says his people need to be patient critics have less faith i don't need. them. not really any of. the opposition thinks they can turn their domestic support into international pressure they want foreign intervention but the president and the supreme court are unified against it bellus al-jazeera well ahmed is an opposition politician and the mall daves and i spoke to him on the fall so they could describe how the situation escalated. yesterday in the morning at the attorney general along with the chief of defense force and be a typical missional for these. devastated moneyed saying that david is not for the elite all those on the supreme court and that they will only be following the orders of the can they got away from the attorney general be a little worried as you have measured the forty's and he literally have strolled

into the supreme court and we have reports that all the five judges of the supreme court has been arrested and made it back to the former president and one of those a human whose son means or has been arrested and even any former president that you would see how. he said any gregg's and he's already so mad before this moment also to remain in jail right now we didn't join saddam to do anything and the. office has been surrounded by the military and for these so we really ought to read . that we have reports that like. the judges said the former president there will be more asked of these and also former publisher and elf bodies and many more other politicians could be added at tonight so we are deeply worried and very very much concerned about all these.

security council meeting that was supposed to condemn there were four subjects of pulling gas by the assad government in syria has failed to agree on a statement u.s. planes russia blocking it al jazeera diplomatic editor james bass reports from the united nations. the attack was brazen and blatant at least eleven people were treated after an airstrike in syria chlorine was probably used this the latest in a series of what seem to have been chemical attacks it led to a war of words in the security council a meeting you were not supposed to see this regular monthly session on the issue is usually held behind closed doors but an angry us ambassador demanded it was made public nikki haley condemned russia for not even agreeing to a press statement on the latest attacks if we can't even take the first step of a stab us in accountability for chemical weapons use we have to seriously ask

ourselves why we are here russia which is used its veto to avoid action on this issue was strongly criticized by ambassador hailey and by her french and british colleagues it sam bassett of vaseline a benzema hit back the rigid annoying statements by these representatives as always contain very little truth mixed with mountains of lies and will do the imprisoned. where is the presumption of innocence prior to any investigation you are accusing the so-called regime quote unquote. with that point he appeared to ignore clear facts in twenty fifteen the un security council unanimously decided to create the joint investigative mechanism or jim to work out exactly who was guilty of chemical weapons use it concluded that in four cases the assad government was responsible for using chemical weapons soon afterwards russia used its veto to stop the renewal

of the gym leaving the security council powerless does it just not highlight the importance of the security council i think you are very right with the fact that these the use of chemical weapons continues time and again in syria is a challenge to the very authority of the security council watch the security council continues to talk but on this issue is unable to act the continuing sporadic chemical attacks underlining its weakness and undermining the international consensus against the use of some of the world's most hideous weapons james pays zero of the united nations south africa's ruling a.n.c. party says it will hold an emergency meeting on wednesday which could decide the future of president jacob zuma earlier scuffles broke out between rival factions of the a.n.c. at the party's headquarters in johannesburg seumas under intense pressure to resign

after several rounds polls are replaced him as the leader of the party talks of the weekend failed to secure his departure or when peyton is the head of africa research at various maple cross that's a risk consultancy he spoke to us about the likelihood of jacob zuma stepping down . well i things in this position is pretty desperate now it's quite clear that the leading officials within the a.n.c. have decided to remove the question really is whether those emo will go down fighting whether he'll continue to resist or whether he might realize perhaps after a vote is taken that is inevitable that he'll have to resign and will choose to save some face by going that way zuma still has some support particularly in his home province of course. and the a.n.c. is majority is under some threat at the next elections in twenty nineteen so there are some risks involved with with ousting zuma is possible that some of his supporters might abandon the a.n.c.

next year would defect to the nationalist opposition party that being so i would actually say that leaving zuma in place is a much bigger risk several graham oppose so in this continuing to to cause some chaos with unexpected policy announcements and i think most importantly it will simply look weak if you leave in power same with south africa cape town is pushed back daisy will that's the day that it may have to turn off its most taps because of a long drive by nearly a month officials say it's now expected to be maybe eleven they're anticipating a reduction in agricultural demand for water so they may not need to make the drastic move restrictions for water use are still in place with residents only allowed things up to fifty liters a day person to the u.s. now where the dow jones industrial average has raised its gains for the year sliding below twenty five thousand points its largest single day point drop that gabriel is on those sent us this update. it was a very volatile day on the u.s.

stock market the dow had its a biggest point drop ever in history at one point in the last hour of trading the dow had dropped six percent that's a huge drop it gained some in the closing minutes and it closed a little over four percent drop this is a really unheard of we haven't seen these kind of daily drops in the stock market in many years now president trump did not address address the stock market directly and his speech in cincinnati on monday but he did say that the fundamentals of the economy are good saying that the country has added two point six million jobs since he's been president and the unemployment to sit a forty five year low so clearly there are a lot of good fundamentals of the u.s. economy they're doing very well but the stock market now has seen a huge huge drop this again is very important because a lot of the global markets look to new york look to the united states to get

a better read on how the u.s. economy is doing this is certainly going to send trepidations or at least raise a lot of eyebrows in markets around the world. still ahead on the program. china's rapid progress. and the time has passed since the. long time. hello there receives a very heavy downpours over the northern parts of australia recently it's been over the northern parts of the northern territory's and also over the northern parts of queensland as well here some places have been reporting staggering amounts of rain this place a three hundred and fifty three millimeters of rain that is easily enough to give

us a problem with some flooding more showers are expected over the next few days and again some of these are likely to be very heavy further south and it's a very different story altogether here we've got an area of high pressure in charge and it's fine and it's also a very hot so force in adelaide the temperatures will be rising i think we might get as high as thirty eight during the day on wednesday for perth so we do have more in the way of showery weather that's making its way across us over towards new zealand and the thunderstorms in the north america away but the area of wet weather in the south is pushing its way northward and as it does so it's bringing in some far cooler air so it looks like the top temperature in christchurch will only be around seventeen on choose day not really getting much higher as we head into wednesday when they will still be milder will be up at around twenty four up towards japan and here there's been lots of snow over recent days a plenty more still to come and some of it in the west is going to be very heavy. the i. well it's.

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has worsened that the president declaring a state of the march and see the security forces have broken in to the supreme court. the un security council's failed to reach an agreement on the use of chemical weapons in syria with the us blaming russia. u.s. stocks have fallen sharply the dow jones has seen its biggest one day point drop as far. as the only surviving suspect from the paris attacks and twenty fifteen is on trial in belgium he is charged with trying to kill police during a shoot time in brussels nearly two years ago disallowing accused the court of bias and refused to answer questions about his actions or reports from brussels. flanked by massed police officers refused to stand up at his trial in brussels and told the judge that he would not answer questions the only surviving suspect in the november twenty fifth dean parris attacks which killed one hundred thirty people to

slums in court over a police shootout in the belgian capital the following year which eventually led to his arrest up to slum told the judge i do not wish to respond to any questions i defend myself by keeping silent muslims are judged and treated without pity there is no presumption of innocence outside the courtroom his lawyer refused to comment on his client's decision on the we are not at the alter going to give him a call up to say that we talked about procedural problems the fact that there are new civil parties and what it really is we're all about this. for police officers were wounded by gunfire in the brussels shootout abd islam and another man so if you're an ira also were trial escaped but were later arrested in the city after slums appearance in court was the first in public since his arrest his long hair and beard a contrast to photos of him released by police when he was on the run going into

this trial one of the big questions had been whether or not sylar dislike him would break his silence since his arrest he has been in jail in france where he faces another trial over the paris attacks and each time he has been questioned by french investigators he has refused to talk the head of a french victims association set up to slums refusal to cooperate with the justice system was a lack of respect for me this will absolve the evil he confirmed his disrespectful attitude towards the judicial authorities disrespectful and provocative he says he can't stand up because he is tired we see his cynicism but then we expected little else. because the prosecutor has requested a prison sentence of up to twenty years for attempted murder if up to slam remain silent on the questioning it could speed up proceedings and the trial could close before to show jewel to end on friday the al-jazeera brussels belgium

the philippines says it will keep close ties with china despite reports that china's now building military installations on the disputed spratly islands in the south china sea photos were released by the philippine inquirer show that china has built naval docks one ways wind turbines and several multi-story buildings jamila and all the reports these are aerial photographs of detained by the philippine daily inquirer newspaper it shows that china will soon finish its military zation of seven reefs in the south china sea an international tribunal in the hague in two thousand and sixteen rejected china's argument that it enjoys historic rights over most of the south china sea but the pictures clearly show that china has built a massive runway on mischief reef which the tribe you know ruled it was in philippine waters including control towers and radio meters often used in milegi

communication small the reefs now have wind turbines help pads and observation towers transport ships designed to carry are more details and up to eight hundred troops have also been spotted. according to security experts three of these reefs now have three kilometer long runways making them as effective as aircraft carriers china has also built the harbor facilities extending the reach of its maritime assets not only in the south china sea but also the central pacific i don't think the philippines can do anything about it from the military point of view. the least that the government should do is to ask the government what are their intentions on the south china sea the philippine government this misses this and blames the previous administration so what they want us to see all that we could do

is to extract a promise from china not to reclaim any new artificial islands. but what you featured people are all directly islands that were there even before the administration but these photos are believed to have been taken between june and december last year under president reagan due to his watch it also betrays their war the fact that the government itself has nor coherent policy even comes through the west for the princes saltiness the issue and that can only be the advantage of the chinese who will then use this situation president there to insist china should still be the country strongest ally he calls it an independent foreign policy veering away from the united states while trying to build closer relations with china and russia security experts say there appears to be little that the philippines or any other country can do to stop china from its military zation and

that the philippine government silence on the issue is enabling china's expansionist ambitions in the south china sea in danger of not only its own sovereignty but also the security of its allies in the pacific similarly in dog and al-jazeera manila a prominent american investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino trade has been stabbed to death in his home in the kenyan capital seventy five year old esmond bradley martin a spent decades investigating the illegal practice which threatens the two species with extinction his work spanned asia and africa he also served as the un special envoy on rhino conservation canada's facing criticism from human rights groups for its attempts to deport a twenty four year old man to somalia day was born in saudi arabia and came to canada as a child refugee he says he's got no ties to somalia and is fighting government attempts to send them there from toronto dunya lack reports. born to

a somali mother in saudi arabia abdul abdi was six when he came to canada as a refugee he was taken into care by child welfare authorities and shuffled among thirty one foster homes as a ward of the state his relatives couldn't get him citizenship a troubled teenager he committed crimes and went to jail when he was released this year border officials tried to deport him to somalia i don't remember anything i don't remember my culture i don't remember my language. and that terrified me even more to be deported to somewhere that you don't know anything in from god everything considers himself canadian but canada's government says he's somali why are you deporting my brother had come you not stopping it is sister for touma led a campaign to stop his deportation even raising it in an open meeting prime minister justin trudeau for now the move is postponed well his lawyers ask

a court to let him stay mr abbey is obviously. on. but i think one of the things that. also did not want other former children in care . is. somalia has been unstable for decades canada routinely accept asylum claims from there but it also deports people like object refugees who've committed crimes to a place that canadian officials won't visit a united nations panel ruled in two thousand and eleven canada was violating international law the practice continues it's a violation of the right to life it's a violation of family life is a violation of their rights to remain and and enter one country there is not a deportation this is an exile. has been released from custody well fighting is deportation that could still happen at any time but he's taking advantage of his release to tell the country he considers home why he should stay i am the man i i

am here for a new day. i got a job i've got a child i've got a family here you know i am a man i take responsibility for everything i do all i'm trying to do is get the government to take responsibly for what they do since two thousand and fifteen canada has welcomed more than forty thousand syrian refugees and is widely seen as open to immigrants of all kinds but many say this case and others like it tarnish a global image that is a source of pride to many canadians than your lack al-jazeera toronto former u.s. gymnastics team. has been sentenced to forty to one hundred and twenty five years in prison and a third conviction of sexual abuse of children he'd already been given more than two hundred years after pleading guilty to base a female team members hundred reports the focus is now turning to the organizations . they must be protected from larry nasser as the final sentence in

the largest sex abuse scandal in sports history came down larry nasser hardly moved you took an oath to do no harm and you have hand over two hundred fifty six women and that is beyond comprehension in a stance are. you all serf already to one hundred and twenty five years in the michigan department of corrections that sentence is added to those from other criminal cases in means the once famed sports doctor now faces up to three hundred sixty years behind bars while an emotionally charged impact statements his victims had spoken of their collective pain for his part nasser said he was sorry words expressed by everyone that has spoken including the parents have impacted me too to my innermost for. that being said i understand

that it pales in comparison to the pay. and emotions that you are feeling larry nasser had molested u.s. olympic gymnastic gold medalist and other athletes under the guise of an intimate treatment in the end two hundred sixty five girls and women came forward and many spoke in court because of your decision to molest you have caused me so much pain in my life for the rest of my life i'm going to have to heal from what you did last friday the father of three girls nasser had molested made an unusual request to grant me five minutes in a locked room of those demons one father's rage ended a man whose fate is sealed for us sport there is the fallout and with that question for the victims in this case it is not over many of them are upset at the usa olympic committee they're upset at usa gymnastics and they're upset at michigan state university all places where larry nasser work they say dozens of them were

abused after the f.b.i. first learned of this case in two thousand and fifteen i can't even begin to explain how my parents i mean has been their new knowing things. my mom blames herself my dad consent for foot in the courtroom. we're nowhere near the end of doing in coping with this the u.s. olympic committee has shut down the karoly ranch where victims such as olympic gold medalist simone biles were abused dealing with the rest of the aftermath of the case of larry nasser won't be so simple legally or for his victims emotionally john hendren al jazeera the bottom wallace if either of the germans during the cold war era has now been around for as long as it was up there by communist east germany it completely encircled west berlin paul brennan reports on the new exhibition looking at life with and with that the wall these days the famous checkpoint charlie is a magnet for tourists the colville of going holds up full vividly remembers the

cold war yes it was just seventeen when the wall was built and he devoted the next twenty eight years of his life to campaigning and demonstrating against it when. i was seventeen years old and i just cried i couldn't believe it when they told us after the war in one nine hundred forty five that injustice was meant to be over that people would never again be violently imprisoned at all and be the victim of political powers and then they put a wall into a world city in my home town written. from the thirteenth of august one thousand nine hundred sixty one billion was a city divided russian and american troops faced each other in a militarized standoff desperate civilians who tried to cross the so-called death strip risked being shot as traitors by east german border guards. when the war finally fell on november ninth one thousand nine hundred nine it stood

for ten thousand three hundred sixteen days monday marks the point that it has now been down for ten thousand three hundred sixteen days. for twenty eight years two months and twenty seven days the berlin wall stood for division now twenty eight years two months and twenty seven days after it fell the remaining parts of it stand for something altogether more positive. the new exhibition to mark the date is a collection of private photographs previously unseen glimpses of life in the divided city there are snapshots taken in the east where such photographs really got this one taken by a teenager plotting his escape route he succeeded a few weeks later the curator of the collection says the wall is as relevant today as it was then but what we can learn from the nineteen eighty nine the. urge for freedom by people in the end so strong that it made them wall fell

and this is something you cannot solve problems was was today the roots of the berlin wall is still visible in a line of couples marking its former location in the modern day tarmac and tourists come from all over the world to see the stretch of wall still standing as a reminder of those twenty eight years of division it has now been down for as long as it was up but the ultimate futility of the berlin wall when that would be forgotten paul brennan al-jazeera. process capital moscow is buried under record snowfalls after more than a month's worth came down in just two days flights have been delayed surrounding areas have experienced power cuts and one person was killed by a falling power line the army's been called in to help clear it up.

the top stories on al-jazeera a fifteen day state of emergency has been declared in the maldives by the president a delay get mean parliament is under military control and security forces have reportedly broken into the supreme court the president's defying calls from the supreme court to release political prisoners. members of the united nations security council in new york have been discussing a series of reports of chlorine gas attacks carried out by the syrian government the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley criticized russia for blocking a statement condemning the use of chemical weapons in syria so far russia has delayed the adoption of the statement a simple condemnation of syrian children being suffocated by chlorine gas i hope russia takes the appropriate step to adopt this text showing the council is unified in condemning chemical weapons attacks rival factions of south africa's ruling party of class during demonstrations

outside the party's headquarters in johannesburg the test is a demanding that president jacob zuma step down the ruling a.n.c. says it will hold an emergency meeting on wednesday could decide seumas chair. u.s. stocks fell sharply on wall street the dow jones thoughts biggest one day drop ever in terms of points it was down four point six percent what it was that's the biggest percentage drop since two thousand and eleven salah disallow the only surviving suspect from the paris attacks and twenty fifteen is on trial in belgium is charged with attempted murder for trying to kill police during a shootout in brussels nearly two years ago. accuse the court of being biased against was them and said he would defend himself by staying silent. american olympic gymnastics doctor larry not suspend sentence to foresee one hundred and twenty five years in prison and the third sentence related to a series of child molestation cases in michigan he's already been sentenced to more

than two hundred years for sexually abusing girls was working as adults for the usa gymnastics team he's also been convicted on child pornography charges up to date those are your headlines stay with al-jazeera redbull hicks is coming up next to see against in a buy. on counting the cost some of the biggest names in check out with recordings but they're also under scrutiny by regulators in what's being called a tech clash look at business relations between the u.k. and china plus another scandal in the german orto industry counting the cost at this time when i just did a. digital technology of these moments in time you see these men and. even t.g. confirmations you know. it seems this company diamonds. which i think you know lines. and try. and determine. which is

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