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a state of emergency is declared and top judges arrested as the political crisis in the movies deepens. asian financial markets a down off the stock markets in the u.s. suffered big losses. new doubts about the future of south africa's president as the a.n.c. calls a special meeting to discuss his fate. but first the u.s. is accusing russia of blocking a u.n. security council statement which would have condemned the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government at a meeting of the fifteen men the body the u.s. ambassador nikki haley said there was quote obvious evidence of recent chlorine gas attacks by the assad regime but russia has accused the u.s. of waging a propaganda campaign that while the debate was taking place at the u.n. in new york on the ground in. syria at least forty nine people were killed by

government and russian airstrikes in both italy province and in eastern guta that's according to activists and in another development aid agencies are warning that hundreds of thousands of refugees are at risk of being false oblio returned to their homes despite the continuing violence is a diplomatic editor james bays. 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 hayley and by her french and british colleagues it's some bastard of vaseline a benzema hit back to which the statements by these representatives as always contain very little truth mixed with mountains of lives through the prism. where is the presumption of innocence prior to any investigation you are accusing the so-called regime quote unquote. with that point here appeared to make nor 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 those exuma 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 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 out of the united nations that dr ahmed turned out to be as president of the syrian american medical society and his organization has counted almost two hundred chemical weapons

attacks since the war began in twenty eleven dr to that he says most victims can no longer access medical treatment. there has been many attacks on medical facilities over the last few weeks we know that the medical system at this time and live and suburban hama is completely paralyzed with those attacks be destroying the ability of the first responders and medics to respond to these at the x. now those chemical attacks are terrifying to civilians we know that chlorine might cause symptoms of retake shortness of breath education in which people are not able to grasp their breath and they're struggling with that those symptoms can be treated specially of the concentration that people were exposed to are low but still they're terrified there are no medical facilities that are functional close to them the medical facilities are already overwhelmed with the traumas and

injuries and the regular health needs of the civilians in those areas now those attacks come in people come in they might not even not even be able to find oxygen or not realize or to improve their breathing and that is what's going on in that area where people feel that those chemical weapons are being used to displace people out of their towns and scared them to the point where they would leave and maybe secret shoes somewhere out of syria. two supreme court judges and an opposition leader have now been arrested in the movies as a political crisis said even this the arrests came hours after president abdullah yemeni declared a fifteen day state of emergency last week the caught adored the release of nine leading opposition figures shelob ellis has the latest. opposition politicians film outside criminal court waiting to hear the fate of their colleagues are mad and dualists and there they were arrested and charged with

bribery upon arriving in the country on sunday a judge dropped the charges and release them they are two of nearly twenty politicians affected by a supreme court ruling that has created a political crisis in the island nation. of ian celebrations on thursday when their top court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohammed 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. aliment was scheduled to reconvene after a recess on monday but the president said it would be closed indefinitely and imposed a state of emergency for fifteen days the moldavian 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. i don't know what function and this is function at the moment 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 wrist warrant ruling he said he's told reporters prosecuting attorney needs more legal direction before he can release any political prisoners the president says his people need to be patient critics have me saying i don't need. the events. that have been directly that even the community any of.

the office ition things they can turn a domestic support into international pressure they want foreign intervention but the president and the supreme court are unified against this challenge ballasts. abraham was saying she had a spokesman for the motive in president he says normal life will continue despite the state of emergency. carvery we are in a state of emergency but there are no less daily life will go on as usual schools will remain open businesses. travel within the country actually from the country will be unimpeded and. life will go on as usual but. because of the supreme court ruling also on february.

and then the constitutional implications that that was lifted we are now in the state of. unrest in terms of how local politics is interacting with the separation of powers. now asian markets are down in early trading after stocks in new york suffered big losses on monday with concerns over a possible interest rate rise in the u.s. the dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark why being off all the gains it had made over the last month earlier on monday there were also losses across the main european markets let's go live to age and brown now our correspondent who's in the chinese capital beijing and so the asian markets i'm following the precedent set by the u.s. and earlier before that even your. yes that's right the stock markets here in shanghai and chains then have followed

really the lead of the united states the markets in both these places were down by around about two percent on early trading on tuesday morning hong kong was down by a lot more by more than five percent the reason for that martine is that a lot of international companies trade on the hong kong stock market and those companies are much more exposed to the united states here in china the companies the trade on the shen zone and shanghai indexes are largely domestic companies now we haven't seen the dramatic falls that we saw in two thousand and fifteen when the markets crashed by between five and seven percent that cause the government to intervene on those occasions we did see some panic on this occasion as yet we're seeing no panic and i think there are other reasons for that overall the fundamentals of the chinese economy appear according to many economists you speak to to be pretty good at the moment and there is a sort of feeling that maybe g.d.p.

is actually a little bit higher than the government thought it would be and we'll get a a clear idea of course of what china's g.d.p. is going to be in the year ahead when china's parliament the national people's congress meets in a few weeks time and chinese leaders will be hoping that this volatility we're seeing on the u.s. markets and other overseas markets is something that is temporary the markets obviously go up and they go down what does it mean for the real economy how tapped in to market maneuvers are the ordinary people in asia. well i think you know in the past few years investors here in china have become a bit more mature i've been doing my own little sort of straw poll this morning here in beijing and several people i spoke to work particularly spooked they sort of understand how the markets go up markets go down and here in china of course people don't have many investment options you either you know invest in property

which is not doing so well right now or you go into the stock market which is that which is also a little bit flat and that's one of the reasons why you know in recent years chinese people have been doing what they can to get their money out of the country the so-called currency flight which the government is doing all it can to stop but as i say at the moment we're not seeing at the moment any early signs of panic and if the falls in shanghai and changes in stay the way they are that i think there won't be that sort of panic right a.j. and thank you for that. well there are a lot more to come here at al-jazeera including is the asian markets placed their losses warnings of a potential financial crisis in the region we report from laos. and the e.u. bones the u.k. that it needs much more information to clarify the kind of relationship that it wants with europe in the future.

from the waves of the snow. to the contours of the east. and i there were plenty of clouds pushing its way across the middle east at the moment it shows up on the satellite picture drifting its way towards the east the think is clouded in the northern parts and not still with us as we head through the day on tuesday but for the south it's breaking up largely and we've just got some that you plowed a bit further towards the south but that will make you wait twenty one degrees will be maximum here and here it could be a little bit dusty at times before you head further south we can see that in doha there won't be a great change in our weather over the next few days at least the winds eased off now so it's not quite as cool and fresh as it has been and twenty four degrees or seventy five fahrenheit will be our maximum for the south it's malda for us as usual insula temperatures making it to around twenty seven or twenty eight degrees as we head through the next few days down to was the southern parts of africa there's lots of heavy rain here and some of that is giving us quite

a few problems you can see that what with all stretching its way through big zimbabwe there and across towards madagascar very heavy downpours here we have seen some flooding out of the system as well for the south just a couple of showers there in the eastern parts of money gascon and elsewhere is looking largely dry we could see a couple of showers in the western parts of south africa there on choose day but by wednesday they ease off cape town there is to looking dry a temperature of twenty five. the way sponsored by the time he's. the scene for us where there are online what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation at this time on

al-jazeera. let's have a look at the top stories here it is here and now the u.s. has accused russia of blocking u.n. security council condemnation of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government the u.s. ambassador nikki haley says that there is quote only fierce evidence that president assad's forces recently used chlorine gas in rebel held areas syria denies using chemical weapons the crisis in the maldives is deepening to supreme court judges and an opposition leader of being arrested hours after president declared a fifteen day state of emergency last week the court ordered the release of nine

leading opposition thickens. global stock markets have suffered serious losses after the u.s. dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark wiping out gains it had made over the past month a possible interest rate rise is being seen as the main calls for the the drop. but it's been just over twenty years since the asian financial crisis and that started you may remember with the collapse of thailand's currency the bot and it spread. quickly across east asia one of the contributing factors then was high public debt in the affected countries including laos and now there are similar warnings about governments in the region pouring too much money weighing hay reports now from laos . the coffee industry in laos is one of the fastest growing in asia its output is still small compared with regional leaders like vietnam and indonesia but fuelled

by increasing demand from neighboring china production grew by more than eight percent last year ro is say laos has a real opportunity to take the industry to the next level through improved infrastructure like better processing facilities he must have financing but despite it being one of the few lao export products is no sign the government is willing to help. put. on the radar projects on hydropower on mining on tory right no small are not enough supporters. indeed the government has big plans to shake off the tag of one of asia's poorest countries it wants to graduate from the united nations least developed country status in the next twelve years and it's turned to china to help fund big projects like this economic zone just outside the capital. which is being built in anticipation of the city expanding quickly and

a six billion dollar high speed train line that are run from southern china. but the amount of money the lao government is borrowing for the projects is causing concern. public debt is estimated at around sixty eight percent of g.d.p. and almost half of the money is being borrowed from one source china. financial sources. to be risky because. this country really be exposed to this business i created. the lao government says big investment is vital if it's to improve the livelihood of its people one priority is health care which like many aspects of laos society has fallen into disrepair through poor governance and neglect the main hospital in the capital was built by the french in one thousand nine hundred three and is head few improvements since but as part of the government's health care reforms work will soon begin on

a new hospital to be built on the same size built with chinese money wayne hay al-jazeera. south korea says north korean hackers were behind the theft of more than five hundred million dollars worth of digital coins from the japanese firm calling check south korean spy chief told politicians the virtual coin market remains a target for possible theft coin check one of asia's leading crypto currency exchange companies was hacked last month the philippines says it will maintain its close relations with china despite more evidence of activity on the disputed islands in the south china sea the president's spokesman says the philippines can't afford a war with beijing local media has released images showing chinese naval docks runways and several multi-story buildings to male and window there are reports now from manila. 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 milledge communication small the reefs now have wind turbines halla 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 a 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. that the government should do this to us the government will tell you what are their intentions and 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 are not going to claim any new artificial islands. but what you feature in. the are all directly islands that were there even before the administration came but these photos are believed to have been taken between june and december last year under president rodrigo due to his watch that also betrays

the fact that the government itself has no coherent policy of incomes to the west for the princes. and that can only be the advantage of the chinese who will then use this situation president hu there to insists china should still be the country's 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. dog and al jazeera. only us the house of representatives intelligence committee has voted to make public a memo prepared by the committee's democrats this is a rebuttal to

a controversial republican document released on friday the republican memo was declassified by president trump and contained allegations of f.b.i. thoughtless and abuse of power in the way it spied on a trial. the f.b.i. questioned the accuracy of the republican memo saying it contained emissions of fact the committee's top democrat adam schiff says the president will need to approve the rival papers release. i think it's going to be very hard for the white house like it was hard for the republicans on the committee to block release of this i am more concerned that they make political redactions with actions to protect sources and methods and that's why we're going to insist that the department of justice and the f.b.i. report to us on what reactions they think are necessary so that we can segregate any political interference from the white house the european union's chief breck's it negotiator has warned the u.k.

that it needs to clarify the kind of relationship that it wants to have with europe after it leaves the european union michel barnier is making his first official visit to the u.k. since the case ations began he's been speaking to the secretary david davis as well as prime minister to resume a he's warned that the time has come for the u.k. to make a choice over the nature of its future trade relations. south africa's ruling party has called an urgent meeting to discuss the president's future as pressure grows on jacob zuma to step down supporters and opponents of the president within the a.n.c. held rival demonstrations outside the headquarters of the party in johannesburg president zuma has become increasingly unpopular because of a series of corruption scandals kmita miller has more from johannesburg. the african national congress is continuing to grapple with what he calls

a transitional period after still remop was there was named president of the party while jacob zuma remains president of south africa and that's amid intensifying calls for zuma to step down this of course relates back to allegations of corruption and his relationship with a prominent family in south africa who are accused of influencing president zuma as well as a government policy and appointments now that solar day is president of the. and c. would appear that zuma is position is we can to some extent and they all calls from within the party and also from outside for the president to step down now unconfirmed reports indicate that zuma has said he won't resign that he's done nothing wrong and that he will indeed make the state of the nation address later this week opposition parties have requested the speaker of parliament to perspire own the address and if they don't have an answer any time soon they say they will

approach the courts to have this address possible until after a motion of no confidence in parliament scheduled for the twenty second of february is email appears to be facing increased pressure to step down to leave office but he appears to be standing for that's despite what appears to be an increasing rift within the within the ruling party meanwhile further south in cape town officials of push back day zero by nearly a month that's the day when the city's taps are expected to be shut off because of a lack of water officials say is now expected to be may the eleventh they are anticipating a reduction in agricultural demand for water so they may not need to make the drastic move restrictions for water use is still in place with residents allowed only up to fifty liters per day per person. the humanitarian crisis which is

caused by yemen's civil war is growing more desperate every day the u.n. says forty seven thousand people have been displaced in the past month alone among the humanitarian access is improving there are still major shortages of food and water mohammed jam jhoom reports. with the only available drinking water located miles away the children carry what they can collect on the backs of donkeys but the rough terrain makes an already difficult situation even more arduous violence caused these families to flee their homes in the village of your yes in southern yemen bought governorate another reminder of how the conflict in yemen is deepening what the u.n. calls the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world. who said we're not living in caves as a result of the will we are facing harsh living conditions especially that ferocious cold homes have been destroyed. hardship has become the norm for these

yemenis the adults worry the children will suffer the worst and in this makeshift camp hope is dwindling as temperatures drop that it gets a little bit i mean i said hey that this year's winter is the worst in years the temperature is hit minus five degrees the displaced families are living through harsh conditions that most of them take shelter and it is a humanitarian crisis they need immediate shelter and relief aid in a country where children have been at higher risk of contracting cholera and diptheria this boy is suffering from severe pneumonia and hoping the hospital will have enough medication to help him recover. even the internally displaced who managed to escape to a nearby town are still living in extremely harsh conditions constantly searching for water and always seeking warmth. from the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has hit warnings of u.s. sanctions against his country saying they won't harm its own industry president was

responding to comments by the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson who is in peru is part of a tour of latin america it's partly aimed at putting pressure on venezuela which is gripped an economic and political crisis president says mr tillotson is wasting his time on his trip. and during that visit to peru mr tillerson didn't rule out the possibility of a meeting between u.s. and north korean officials during the winter olympics in south korea president vice president my parents will be leading the american delegation. targets take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the u.s. has accused russia of blocking u.n. security council condemnation of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government ambassador nikki haley's says there is quote obvious evidence that

president assad's forces recently used chlorine gas in rebel held areas syria denies using chemical weapons. it's a true tragedy that russia has sent us back to square one in the effort to end chemical weapons use in syria but we will not cease and our efforts to know the truth of the assad regime and ensure that the truth is known and acted on by the international community the political crisis in the mood deaves is deafening two supreme court judges and an opposition leader have been arrested just hours after president mean declared a fifteen day state of emergency last week the court ordered the release of nine leading opposition figures. asian markets were down in a early trading off the stocks in new york suffered big losses on monday with concerns over possible interest rate rise in the u.s. the dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark wiping off

all the gains it had made of the last month earlier on monday there were also losses across the main european markets. south korea says north korean hackett's hackers were behind the theft of more than five hundred million dollars worth of digital coins from japanese firm cleantech south korean spy chiefs told politicians the virtual coin market remains a target for possible theft coin check one of asia's leading crypto currency exchange companies was hacked last month south africa's ruling party has cooled an urgent meeting to discuss president zuma as future as pressure grows on him to step down supporters and opponents of the president held rival demonstrations outside party headquarters in johannesburg president zuma has become increasingly unpopular because of a series of corruption scandals are right up to date those are the latest headlines from here at al-jazeera coming up next it's the streaming.

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