that's something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working around the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. the u.s. claims russia for blocking u.n. condemnation of the syrian government's use of chemical weapon. lobos and two others are live from doha unmounting dennis also coming up

a state of emergency is declared and top judges arrested as the political crisis in the moody's deepens. asian financial markets a down after stocks in the u.s. suffer big losses and new doubts about the future of south africa's president as he n c holds a special meeting to discuss his fate. the u.s. is accusing russia of blocking a u.n. security council statements which would have condemned the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government at a meeting of the fifteen member body the u.s. ambassador nikki haley said there was quote all vs evidence of recent chlorine attacks by the assad regime about russia's accuse the us of waging a propaganda campaign meanwhile on the ground in syria itself activists say at least sixty people have been killed by government and russian air strikes in both

italy province and decent cusa the going fighting has led to a warning from aid agencies to governments in europe the u.s. and the wider region not to force refugees to go home before the situation is stable here's our diplomatic editor james ways. 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 has 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 the rigid annoying statements by these representatives as always contain very little truth mixed with mountains of lies and will do the. 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 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 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 jazeera of the united nations. two supreme court judges and an opposition leader have been arrested in the movies as the political crisis there deepens the arrests came hours after president yemeni declared

a fifteen day state of emergency last week the supreme court had ordered the release of nine leading opposition figures show that bellis has the latest. opposition politicians film outside mollies criminal court waiting to hear the fate of the colleagues il ham and abdul listen and 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 celebrated 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 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 colleagues or any. i don't know what function and this is functioning but 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 the judicial executive

president in maine has asked the court to reconsider the wrist worn ruling he said he 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 heavily saying i don't need. the event. in directing. that even knock me 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 janet ballasts and. abraham hussein shihab is a spokesman for the moldavian president he says normal life will continue despite the state of emergency most. cars really are in a state of emergency but there are no curfew is in place. will go on as usual

schools will remain open businesses. travel within the country have to work 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 cause. we are now a state of. unrest in terms of how local politics is interacting with the separation of powers. asian markets are down in early trading after stocks in new york suffered big losses on monday over concerns of a possible interest rate rise in the u.s. the dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark meaning it wiped off all the gains it had made over the past month earlier on monday there

were also losses across the european markets were chinese shares fell sharply on tuesday morning in response to wall street's losses adrian brown is in beijing with the details. well the markets here in asia really took the lead from wall street the markets in chan zen and shanghai were both down around about two percent in morning trading hong kong did a lot worse though down by more than five percent the reason for that is that in hong kong a lot of international companies trade on that index and a lot of those companies are exposed to the united states whereas companies here the traders on the markets in shanghai and then tend to be domestic companies that don't trade internationally we haven't seen the falls that we saw of course in two thousand and fifteen when the markets here in china plunged by between five and seven percent on that occasion we did see panic we did see anger and we did see

government intervention now chinese people have very few places to invest their money it's either property or shares and neither have been doing particularly well in recent months but overall chinese people seem to feel their economy is doing ok that's what a columnist tell you in state controlled media and there is a sense that perhaps g.d.p. is in fact a little bit higher than the government been hoping for and we'll get confirmation of what china's g.d.p. forecast will be in the year ahead when china's parliament the national people's congress convenes in just a few weeks' time a chinese leaders will be hoping that the market volatility we're seeing right now will be over by then well it's been just over twenty years since the asian financial crisis and it all started with the collapse of thailand's currency the bart and then it spread across east asia and one of the contributing factors was high public debt in the affected countries which included laos now there are

similar warnings about governments in the region borrowing too much money wayne hey reports from the laotian capital the n.t.n. . 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 bro is say laos has a real opportunity to take the industry to the next level through improved infrastructure like better processing facilities reverse her financing but despite it being one of the few lao export products is no sign the government is willing to help. on projects on hard on mining on tory right no small r. 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 will 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 exposed through this business. 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 as 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 has accused north korean hackers of being behind the theft of more than five hundred million dollars worth of digital calling from a japanese firm called coin check south korean spy chiefs told politicians the virtual coin market remains a target for possible theft. one of ages leading cryptocurrency exchange companies that last month. let's hold a come here at al-jazeera including the new warnings the u.k.

that it needs more detail about how london sees future trade with europe and. henri. that car in the u.k. celebrates the suffragettes of the heroic efforts to get the very it's a hundred years ago. 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 something in cloud 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 buds involved by that and across towards madagascar very heavy downpours here we have seen some flooding out of this system as well further south just a couple of showers there in the eastern parts of madagascar 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 and twenty five.

on counting the car some of the biggest names in tag out with record earnings but they're also under scrutiny by regulators in what's being called a tech clash a look at business relations between the u.k. and china plus another scandal in the german auto industry counting the cost at this time. where al jazeera is eyes and ears on the ground in southern africa identifying the crucially important stories for an audience that's incredibly diverse. to take a look at the top stories here it out to sierra the u.s. has accused russia of blocking u.n. security council condemnation of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian

government of the nikki haley says there is quote obvious evidence that president assad's forces recently used chlorine in rebel held areas syria denies using chemical weapons the crisis in the movies is deafening to supreme court judges and an opposition leader have been arrested hours after president jemini declared a fifteen day state of emergency last week the supreme court ordered the release of nine leading opposition figures. global stock markets have suffered serious losses after the u.s. dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark why figure out all the gains it had made over the past month a possible interest rate rise is being seen as the main cause for the drop. crime law now on the situation in syria and aid agencies are saying that syrian refugees are at risk of. being forced to return home despite the fighting that's continuing

a new report says gains by the syrian government are giving a false impression that many areas a stable enough to go back to them the harder it has more from lebanon's bekaa valley. is the sheriff says some of his family members were killed in the war in neighboring syria he has also lost contact with others who have been displaced lebanon has been his home for six years he is from the opposition held province of idlib and for him going back is not an option. we want to save zone to return to otherwise where do they want us to go back to do they want us to die if we go back will be able to there's nowhere safe there's only death. it live is a deescalation zone there is supposed to be a ceasefire here instead civilians are being killed in almost daily airstrikes by syrian and russian planes humanitarian agencies say the violence in some parts of syria means it's still not safe for refugees to return they are warning governments

in europe the united states and the region not to force them back we the humanitarian organizations that are on the ground in syria and in the neighboring countries we call this report dangerous grounds for the simple reason that these women children and men have to be informed of the conditions and we have to assure that it is voluntary when they go back and then we have to assist and protect the return. the u.n. doesn't have exact numbers but the figures available show some seventy thousand refugees returned on their own from neighboring countries last year but aid agencies say for every returning there were three more uli displaced because of the violence since mid december more than two hundred thousand people had to leave their homes because of fighting in the southern edges of adlib province. government forces control the main cities they've recaptured

a lot of territory from the opposition has been pushed out of many areas and there are local cease fire agreements in place but the picture is misleading there are many areas where fighting continues it's not just safety there is widespread destruction there are few civilian facilities left of hospitals have been hit mass returns can't be sustainable if these people can't find jobs and if there is no health care or schools. there are no proper living conditions imagine if i need to take my children to a doctor there are no health centers there is no life there i'm afraid of the day when they kick us out of here lebanon's government says there will be no forced returns and any returns will be coordinated with the united nations but refugees here are still worried so are aid agencies that is why they are warning no one should be forced back to syria without a plan that takes into account their safety and wellbeing. because valley lebannon

. south africa's ruling party has called an urgent meeting to discuss president zuma future as pressure grows on him to step down supporters and opponents of the president within the party held rival demonstrations outside party headquarters in johannesburg president zuma has become increasingly unpopular because of a series of corruption scandals. meanwhile officials in the city of cape town have pushed back days era by almost a month that's the day when the city's taps are expected to be turned off because of the lack of water officials say is now expected to be made the eleventh they anticipate farmers will use less water in the coming weeks restrictions for water use still in place residents are only allowed up to fifty liters a day per person the venezuelan president has hit back at warnings of u.s. sanctions against his country saying they won't harm it's all industry nicolas

maduro was responding to comments by the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson who's on a latin america tour. the tour is partly aimed at putting pressure on venezuela which is gripped by an economic and political crisis president daughter says mr tillotson is wasting his time. and u.s. vice president mike pence hasn't ruled out the possibility of meeting north korean officials during the winter olympics in south korea mr pence will be leading the american delegation at the p.r. chang games on its way to asia he told a u.s. missile defense a city in alaska that could respond to a missile launch in pyongyang. president trump is steady he always believes in talking. but i haven't requested any meeting. but we'll see what happens but my message whatever the setting whoever's president will be the same and that is that north korea must once and for all abandon its nuclear weapons program and

ballistic missile ambitions and it must succeed to the wishes not only of nations across the region of the united states but nations across the world. the u.s. house of representatives intelligence committee has voted to make public a memo prepared by the committee's democrats as a rebuttal to a controversial republican document that was really some friday the republican memo was declassified by president trump and it contained allegations of f.b.i. bias and a piece of. 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 peyton's 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 not 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 but we've been speaking to richard goodstein who's a democratic political consultant and a former adviser to president clinton he believes the president trumps reaction to the rush or inquiry so far suggests he may have something to holly. could the president monkey with it he could but i think that frankly look every step in my humble opinion that the president's take it is not consistent with the steps taken by somebody who believes and is in a sense he's taking steps firing komi firing you know getting rid of the number two man at the f.b.i. mccabe lying about a meeting that his son was involved in with the russians in june of two thousand and sixteen every step he's done things that are not consistent with the actions of

somebody who's innocent so if you proceed to redact things or withhold it altogether honestly i think that would kind of reinforce the notion that he thinks he's got something to hide this is gracefully usa gymnastics up to larry nasa has been sentenced to an additional forty and one hundred twenty five years in prison the sexually assaulting young female athletes the verdict follows weeks of testimony from almost two hundred fictive he's already been sentenced to more than two hundred g. is for abusing girls whilst working as a national gymnastics team doctor he's also been convicted on charles child pornography charges the european union chief. to has warned the u.k. that it needs to clarify the kind of relationship that it wants to have with europe after leaving the bloc michel bonney 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 the prime minister to resuming and he warned the time has come for the u.k. to make a choice over the nature of its future trade relations. the customs union. for. hope signed a single market. to trade on goods and services. another. school choice. more now from our correspondent needs barca we're entering the critical next stage of bricks in negotiations focusing on the to be a transition period when britain formally leaves the european union on the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen it is a two year period of adjustment as proposed by the british prime minister reason may in her government to allow companies businesses and investors to get used to the new reality of life outside the e.u. but the truth is nobody really knows what that reality looks like there are some

key sticking points regarding how this two year period will play out hardline breaks it is within two reason may own party and government are worried that it will simply just mean a continuation of the status quo michel barnier the east chief negotiator has hinted that the e.u. will indeed continue to run the show jury that two year period. also demanded that any e.u. nationals arriving in the u.k. during that two year period be given the same rights as e.u. citizens or that of arrived in the u.k. before breaks it something to reason may refuse to let happen one of a number of sticking points that need to be hammered out before there's any chance of moving on to the next key stage in bric sic talks about trade crucial to britain's future economy outside the e.u. . that one hundred years ago exactly today february the sixth sense women in the u.k. but given the right to vote activists at the forefront of the campaign at the time

as a suffragette one of the phillips has a story. the day i die that was not cheering was an epic victory celebrated in the museum of london one hundred years since the first british women got the vote all thanks to the suffragettes who took on the establishment and won. it wasn't easy they chained themselves to fences outside parliament many were arrested beaten went on hunger strike one even threw herself at the king's horse in the famous dopy race. she died but the cause did not the suffragette struggles but they ultimately won for what they make british society today one hundred years on with they believe that women have achieved true equality. it wasn't until nine hundred twenty eight that younger and poorer women were also given the vote and says this very in

character actor the suffragettes always hoped to inspire future generations when we went off i that's not going to be the end of all the fights you know we have to keep fighting i'm sure and i just hope that we can set the precedent for that and they know keep fighting just as hard as we are. she no doubt would agree and believe pankhurst leader of the suffragettes and great grandmother of helen who wonders if the glass is only half full if every single measure of political equality we still have so far to go in every single parliament and in particular i need you k. we only have thirty two percent representation of all other aspects of democracy so the legal system the the media reporting of parliament and of politics we still have a lot to go. comedy he throws light on the women struggles today this is humiliating but it also made the families because the first week in

our relationship that i earned him. with british institutions from parliament to the b.b.c. hit by revelations of gender discrimination. it feels like we're just failing over and over but we have to remember the suffragettes failed for over fifty years they only succeeded once and we only need to succeed once they are impossible is our normal life we are the hopes of the suffragettes was. our debt to the heroines of the past maligned in their day as misguided radicals we remember them as being on the right side of history bobby philips al jazeera london . these are the top stories here at al-jazeera the u.s. has accused russia of blocking the u.n. security council and its condemnation of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian

government ambassador nikki haley said there is quote all various evidence that president assad's forces recently used chlorine 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 crisis in the movies is deafening two supreme court judges and an opposition leader have been arrested hours after president to mean declared a fifteen days state of emergency last week the court ordered the release of nine leading opposition figures. bubble sort market suffered serious losses after the u.s. dow jones index crashed back through the twenty five thousand mark wiping out all

the gains it made over the past month a possible interest rate rise is being seen as the main cause for the drop south korea has accused north korean hackers of being behind the theft of more than five hundred million dollars worth of digital coils from a japanese calling check south korean spy chiefs told politicians the virtual coin market remains a target for potential theft coin jack one of asia's leading crypto currency exchange companies was hacked last month south africa's ruling party is 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 african national congress held rival demonstrations outside the headquarters of the policy in johannesburg. and officials in the south african city of cape town of push back days aero by a month that's the day when the city's taps are expected to be shut off because of

a lack of water project today those are the lated latest headlines coming up next it's cutting the cost. the palestine national orchestra was first founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. but has had to be revived in twenty chan all was a very important thing in palestine now musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories so good for nothing it's like every palestinian living in the aspirant felt it was the first time they performed using their identity al-jazeera world hears music as a force for unity the diaspora orchestra at this time. alarmed as i'm sick of this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week some of the world's biggest technology names out with earnings.