as an eyewitness that's what this job. in twenty twelve al-jazeera traveled to iraq people here are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of a country ravaged under us occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq turned into a battleground between the mighty army and the americans six years on rewind returns to iraq after the americans at this time on our g.c. . this is zero. hello i'm suitors and this is the news hour at live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes

a magnitude six point four earthquake rocks the east coast of taiwan two people have been killed and more than a hundred others injured syrian forces pound a so-called deescalation zone one hundred thirty eight people are killed in just forty eight hours. i. and lift off in florida the world's most powerful rocket with a car as its payload takes off from cape canaveral care a billionaire in long months. and i'm tatiana sanchez with the latest sports news where three days ahead of the winter olympics clean russian athletes begin to arrive in youngstown others are still fighting for the right to compete i'll have more on that story later. and tell you why a six point four magnitude earthquake has hit the east of the islands killing at

least two people and injuring more than one hundred others the quake has brought down the hotel and at least three other buildings the united states geological survey says it struck near the north when eastern port city of wiley and several people are thought to be trapped inside the hotel is the latest in a string of quakes that have hit the region in recent days but joyce wang is a taiwanese journalist based in taipei she spoke to us about the impact of the earthquake. according to the latest confirmation from the national for agency under the ministry of interior that a total of four buildings have collapsed one of which is a hotel in downtown c.t. in downtown. holly and and up to twenty nine people how was strapped. trapped inside a hotel by a local rescue worker have tried to get them out and so far it's hard to confirm or

so for local media saying that a total of three people are still trapped in the rubble and another building has also toted due in the earthquake also some roads in the city were all a damage and we've thing. pictures of gapping holes in cracks and hopefully local governments are trying to get the traffic back on track it's not a very densely populated area as alone that is to eastern coast of taiwan as a fish and many fish in an agricultural based county and at this time of year as near the chinese new year so there are tourists there the hotel as one of their one of the building that many true is would choose to stay. the u.n. is urgently calling for an immediate pulls in fighting in syria or offering for

a month long cease fire to allow them to get to evacuate the sick and wounded. we are trying to reach those most in need first so when we are on able to reach those most in need for example in this situation those in beseeched areas who have seen no aid whatsoever for weeks and months each school to and for and can friar we. we call from the rooftops if you like we are talking about it leap governor rat we have about two million people of concern. and called it the other day it's like one huge refugee camp and that is essentially what it is there are hundreds or thousands of people who are internally internally displaced there on the run extremely vulnerable and they are being they come under attack and under bombardment that is completely unacceptable. while

a syrian government backed by its key ally russia has been pounding rebel held areas in syria rescue workers are scrambling to keep up with the onslaught in it and the damascus suburb of eastern guta at least one hundred thirty eight people have been killed in the last forty eight hours activists say most of them are civilians bennett's reports. this is supposed to be a deescalation zone part of a russian led true steel the territory held by anti-government forces in syria. but if anything the bombing is escalating here in eastern guta. of the border the un's head of international commission of inquiry on syria says the government siege of the area involves the international crimes of indiscriminate bombing and deliberate starvation of the civilian population was. there are reports that at least three hospitals have been hit. with the help of the

russian air force on the rainy and back groups syria's president is pursuing the last major pockets of territory held by his opponents in western syria. defensive intensified after fighters from one rebel group shot down a russian aircraft and killed its pilot on saturday. now the syrian army says it's deployed add offenses and anti aircraft missiles to its front lines in aleppo and to cover northern airspace i had there from the us four hundred or russian and they are controlled by the russian intelligence not the syrian regime so this is russia we need to understand there is an direct confrontation between the u.s. and russia it's dangerous because at the same time turkey is trying to force its presence in the area northwestern syria is where turkey is carrying out an operation to push kurdish forces out of afrin it's using syrian airspace and has got russia's agreement to do so but at the same time the syrian government has

threatened to shoot down turkish jets turkey also wants to wipe e.g. out of another northern syrian town damage but there are u.s. forces there too much to the irritation of the turkish president. we can you. now that you can why are you there go ahead and leave who did you bring there the y.p. g p k k you took them there and you're still telling us not to come tomorrow we will come to you could deliver the land to its true owners. as ever across syria it's civilians who are caught in the middle the un wants fighting across the country to be suspended for a month to allow the sick and wounded to get out and aid to get in. zero. u.s. stocks of rebounded after a dismal trading day on monday that ended with the dow jones suffering its worst ever single day point loss the new york stock exchange has just close this time

significantly well let's get more now from gabriel is on the who's across in new york for us so a real volatile day game but there was a rally before the close of play. yeah volatility is the word everyone's mentioning here on wall street in new york over the last several days and especially today you know a lot of traders they say that the stock market should go up like an escalator very slow and steady at an angle but they also say it often goes down like an elevator straight down to the bottom or start to see a little bit of that you see why they use that i mean we see we saw the market open on tuesday with a sharp drop of nearly five hundred points but it rallied throughout the day slow and steady and it closed basically making up all of those early morning losses here but i'll tell you this has been a very volatile last little bit of time here on wall street markets stabilizing a little bit on tuesday but that came came after monday when it had the biggest

point drop in history and came after last week when the markets had its worst week in two years couple of that with the bigger picture i should say the medium term picture of the last year when the stock market has been doing very well here in the united states breaking all sorts of records so the big picture here is is this a crisis on the markets in the united states no not yet but is this certainly volatility that has a lot of people taking a second look at where the economy is and where things are definitely now how is the trumpet ministration spinning this steve minutia in the treasury secretary was speaking at a house financial services committee hearing on tuesday he was specifically asked to comment about this sharp drop in the markets over the last week or so and this is how he responded. well first our just comment they have been quite volatile today as i normally wouldn't be looking at my phone but given the market moves on

checking it it's now up one hundred eighty seven points so we're back up today i'm not overly concerned about the market volatility i think the fundamentals are quite strong i have checked in with market participants this morning before i came to make sure that there was orderly market activity clearance functioning no systemic issues and i'm happy to report that i got the green lights so gave us this correction done and dusted though are we still saying invest as a little jittery. definitely investors are still very jittery that era of free money so to speak in the united states seems to be over and what i mean by that is the market for the past year has gained in some ways over thirty percent of the value and now donald trump the current president the united states likes to pat himself on the back he comments and tweets about this a lot over the last year saying that taking

a lot of credit for the stock market historic gains over the last year a lot of this traced back to deregulation that trump is promoted and and also his big tax reform bill that he pushed through at the end of last year certainly that without a doubt that has helped the stock market but now that the market has has sort of recur acted itself so to speak and it's not doing so well as you saw there from a new ssion speaking the treasury secretary there basic saying oh not now don't look at the markets that's not important now look at the fundamentals of the economy the big picture is he is right the fundamentals of the u.s. economy still remain pretty strong unemployment is at record lows here in the united states and job. wages have gone up nearly three percent so that's all very good but leading potentially to inflation so again the big picture is here fundamentals of the u.s. economy look pretty strong however the markets are see me indicate that maybe the the markets were a little overheated here in the u.s.

now why is that important globally primarily because international markets europe asia others look to the united states markets to see how they should react we did see some dips in both asia and the european markets on tuesday we'll have to see if that carries into wednesday big picture though again though wall street sort of. sort of shaking itself saying this big run that there's been on the markets in the last year probably is over a little bit down more to reality now good to get out of that life as you. a palestinian man has been killed during raids by the israeli army in the occupied west bank city of nablus thirty people were wounded as israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets in the city earlier on tuesday five of them are in a critical condition on monday when israeli settler was stabbed and killed in the illegal settlement of ariel. and the israeli army has killed a palestinian man who was wanted over the death of

a settler last month twenty one year old ackroyd nasa was shot dead accused of killing rabbi. and illegal israeli outpost last month imran khan has more from the occupied west bank the israeli army says this is a major rose body they've been looking for him since general you know if he was accused of killing a settler rabbi from an illegal settlement outpost in the bliss in the early hours of tuesday morning around seventy jeeps into bulldozers and this village all your mood and focus their attention on this about building a new sort of almost sort of like law at exactly four thirty am i heard an explosion and we heard an exchange of gunfire and it quieted down for about five minutes and then they started shouting surrender but there was more shooting and then they brought in a robot that searched the room for about two hours. the killing has taken on a heightening significance because the settler was a religious leader. after the killing of the rabbi from

a nearby settlement the israeli army mounted almost nightly raids in village of the game and they eventually found him they say him in the yemen a massive reacted saying the palestinian resistance continues. this courageous martyrdom asserts that resistance in the west bank is still going in all its forms led by our military armaments and the resistant and fighting palestinian all the security measures of the israeli occupation the security organizations or israeli military cannot break the will of resistance and the palestinian youths resisting this intifada will continue the jerusalem intifada will continue and the palestinian people will go on to freedom or martyrdom huge crowds are gathered outside of the mother's house and good. to be even for us think i know that but it's not just my son he's the son of all of palestine he died his dignity fighting

the occupation he has made his people proud. on the seventeenth of january they thought they killed but that turned out to be a case of mistaken identity and an innocent man was killed. the killing of the settler led prime minister benjamin netanyahu to declare the settlement outposts legal under israeli law and bring it on the official protection the bodies of the two palestinians killed in the israeli raids still have been handed over to the families iraq on al-jazeera village occupied west. we have much more to come on this news hour the maltese president or does the arrest of two senior judges forcing the supreme court to roll back on a pro opposition ruling providing a live saving service and free to war we're on board one of market issues a volunteer run ambulances and in sports the netherlands hopes this man can turn around their footballing fortunes more on that later with tatiana.

place in kenya have failed to release opposition politician despite a court order that he be set free immediately is being charged with treason for participating in a controversial mock swearing in ceremony for opposition leader. seen here on the left was next to a dingle last week when he declared himself the people's president rejecting a rule kenya reelection katherine saw from nairobi. so even after court judges ruled this afternoon that mick gooda must be released immediately he's still in police custody his lawyers have not been able to see him since friday police are not telling them anything the judge had ordered that he be presented before him this morning passively by the inspector general of police that did not

happen so we were waiting in court all morning then we are told he has been moved he had been he has been taken to another court that is out of town and he has been charged with three offenses including one that is related to treason we've also seen several opposition m.p.'s have had their passports suspended some of had their state provided security taken away we've seen a media crackdown as well all this causing a lot of one sided in a lot of tension in the country today we saw you know protests in different parts of sin protestant or ruby and the sense of protestant western kenya as well so people are asking the police to really produce me when i'm gone and obeyed the court orders saying that the government ease rolling back democratic gains that have been made but officials of the government and interior ministry that i've been talking to say that investigations into that ceremony are going on no one is about the loss it's going to be very interesting to see if once this investigations are

completed whether. the leader of the opposition is also going to be arrested space x. has successfully launched its new folk and heavy spacecraft making it the world's most powerful rocket. three. the twenty three story falcon heavy blasted off from the kennedy space center in cape canaveral in florida on tuesday is considered a key turning point for billionaire entrepreneur must privately own space exploration technologies the launch was delayed by several hours because of high winds falcon heavy is carrying musk's tesla roadster convertible as a mock payload minutes after takeoff the two out of boosters landed at the nearby cape canaveral air force station. where the falcon heavy is propelled by twenty seven rocket engines giving it a thrust that's equal to eighteen boeing seven four seven jets that means it can

take incredibly heavy payloads of up to sixty three thousand kilo's a second only to the rocket nasa used for its moon missions its cost cutting reusable boosters also give space x. an edge over other companies competing for lucrative contracts with nasa satellite companies and u.s. military and it's that kind of technology that must copes will eventually send people to mars and build a colony there david quammen says an astrophysicist from london's imperial college explains what drives iran must to plan such bishops projects well there's been a trend towards this since over the last twenty years with private venture capitalist or in masks case funded from his own dot com entrepreneurship going off and doing space projects partly because they're enthusiastic about it but also because they see that it's another area of business

where destructive technologies could have a major impact and in them a lot of money. south african president jacob zuma says he's held quote fruitful talks with the leader of his ruling a.n.c. party as he comes under increasing pressure increasing pressure to step down on tuesday the south african parliament delayed zoomers state of the nation address and fears opposition m.p.'s would disrupt his speech opposition activists a.n.c. members have been calling for seumas as ignatius made a number of corruption scandals that cause widespread protests there and see has called for a special meeting of its top committee later this month to decide the president's fate have been violent protests in south sudan after the decision by the u.s. on friday to impose a unilateral arms embargo the state department said it was a poor old by the continuing violence perpetrated by both sides in the five year

civil war meanwhile human rights watch has also called for a weapons ban and warn that both sides of the conflict in south sudan continue to recruit child soldiers it says children as young as thirteen are being abducted detained and forced to fight or morgan reports. this is not the first report that has been put out by human rights watch on child recruitment in south sudan it says that children as young as thirteen has been have have been recruited to fight in the conflict which is now in its fifth year unicef also put out a report in late ten fifteen saying that there are sixteen thousand children who are recruited by armed groups now that report has a change in delayed in twenty seven thousand to reflect new figures which says that more than one nine hundred thousand children have been recruited by armed groups in the conflict this is a this is a problem that has been going on since south sudan sort of fighting in december twenty fifth teen and rights groups and children's organizations have called for a halt to this activity of recruiting child soldiers now

a lot of things make it easier to recruit child soldiers in south sudan first thing is the displacement with sixty five percent of the people who are displaced in the conflict are mostly are mainly women and children now the figures of displacement right now stands at four million people disclose displaced not just within the country but in neighboring countries as well it's sixty five percent of that are children making them easier to be targeted by armed groups to to be recruited within their ranks and there's also the issue of being separated from their families as well as schools being targeted to try to recruit children mainly boys to to fight in the ranks of on groups now the human rights watch report has accused both government and opposition forces of being involved in child recruitment of calls for halted operation of recruiting child soldiers as well as an arms embargo by the un and the e.u. and also for hybrid court to try every single person who's been responsible for uprooting charge children throughout the conflict but since the conflict is still ongoing it's very hard to see that actually happening and there are concerns that more children will be recruited until peace comes south sudan. the un's top envoy

to somalia has appealed for more support for a volunteer ambulance service as at the forefront of saving lives in mogadishu the somali capital has experienced numerous to the bombings and the government's medical services struggle to help those injured in the attacks from either miller has more from mogadishu. it's ten am and the seventh emergency call of the morning comes through you know it's from this call center in market issue that the only free ambulance service in the city is run it's not a huge operation but the staff are kept busy of the followed of the we are very busy when explosions happen when they do i have to do more than just drive i have to help the nurses with patients twelve years ago up to carter had used all these savings to buy his first ambulance today he has a fleet of ten they may be old and some on their last legs but they get the job

done or actually one i came to somalia in two thousand and six there was a war going on when the turban vision come into somalia and there was a lot of people was dying in front of my clinic i was half in the clinic and back out of market and destinies of people was dying and getting injured then i asked myself how can i help my people workers are not well trained but they have the basic skills they can start bleeding and give patients painkillers but that's about all but transporting patients to hospitals quickly and safely is often the difference between life and death the ambulance service needs more equipment and its staff better troll more training it's often the leading emergency service most recently when two blasts went off last october killing more than five hundred people and injuring hundreds of others for years many people were brought into hospitals using wooden wheelbarrows. often being pushed as far as five kilometers

to get help many wouldn't make the journey i mean ambulances are helping to improve mogadishu's health services especially as the few were available ambulances are on affordable for most people this is mogadishu's largest hospital its director mohamed use of hoss and says while they're able to do more surgeries than ever before they contrary to everyone some of them you need some sophisticated investigation that you cannot do because you don't have the. imaging scope is all this is needed but. we are not helpless we have many promises from outside now that help is increasingly coming from within the somalia adam runs the service using his own money and donations he says he dreams of one day having ambulances helping people not just in mogadishu but across

somalia from al-jazeera mogadishu still to come on this news hour with the leaks founder julian assange loses his bid to have his u.k. a-y. arrest warrant dismissed remembering the sacrifices of the suffragettes one hundred years since the first u.k. women got the right to vote and installed big girls have landed back in philadelphia after their super bowl victory for the party isn't over yet to us here and they will tell us more. hello there we've got a lot of snow over a year at the moment even poor old paris of course we've had a lot of flooding here around the center and now we're also seeing outbreaks of snow there's more snow elsewhere it's heavier over parts of spain and that's

working. it's way now cross the southern parts of france heavy snow falls here in those are gradually edging their way eastwards as we head through the next couple of days so heavy snow is expecting a positive austria that pushing its way east with as we head through wednesday and into thursday to the south of that where it's a little bit too mild to see from snow we see some heavy outbreaks of rain in dead towards the west it's also turning cooler of still so paris as a maximum only getting to two but at least here it should be drawing for the other side of the mediterranean it's been pretty unsettled in the northwestern parts of africa over the past few days and we have had a fair amount of snow in parts of morocco and algeria those are the worst of the snow is over there as we head through wednesday but there's still going to be some rain around the coast and that's around morocco is looking fairly heavy so also keeping the temperatures down so ribot won't see any high than around twelve degrees elsewhere you can see this little area of travis pushing its way east with that's mostly been high cloud but to too much to hamper the temperature.

for the pneumatic john cartwright survival is about reaching their destination. if we don't hurry never be able to get the time but the storm we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. and very dangerous to the ice is a thing as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life. sometimes luser cattle they were diving for because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on al-jazeera. well if we cannot have palestina my government was certainly not allowed britain to control french polish time would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east for more than a century to come and so. now we can durham. sikes

pekoe lines in the sand at this time on al jazeera. welcome back or remind the world the top stories here on al-jazeera at least two people have been killed and one hundred forty four injured after a six point four magnitude quake struck east and taiwan a number of buildings have collapsed in the city of wiley and u.s. stocks appeared to have bounced back half the posting that biggest falls in more than six years on monday the dow jones has closed up two point three percent. three

. i am space x. us successfully launched the world's most powerful rocket sending billionaire owner musk a sports call on the trip around the sun. let me see sarah dallas joins us now live from the kennedy space center in cape canaveral florida to talk about this extraordinary launch and he was extraordinary i guess because this wasn't a usual lawyer so was all the showmanship with a sportscar and a dummy and and sort of david bowie playing in the background. yeah it was something else to not only that side the rocket but all of the drama building up to it the launch was on that it was possibly off then the weather was creating delays and finally fifteen minutes before the launch window was scheduled to close we had a lift off and it was picture perfect exactly as planned just after a minute into the launch it hits max q it's really the maximum impact it's been had

on on on the rocket there were no issues it held up without problems as boosters separated and landed back early as scheduled space x. celebrating this afternoon on a very successful launch that's going to help shape the future of space travel i don't know sir where you from this rosmah time there's a lot been made about the fact that this rocket can carry incredibly enormous payloads and a lot been said that this particular rocket is quite pioneering is in a. very pioneering this is really the future of the privatization of the commercialization of space travel falcon heavy can carry up to seventy tons it's also can carry for example spy satellites it's expected now to begin to launch to launch these satellites it already has some government contracts but more importantly it's going to be a building block space x.

says for future versions that could carry people to the moon even mars elon musk has made no secret about it that is his goal a colony on the moon or mars and how do you think nasser is that watching this reacting to this and then they've got a plan for their own rocket even stronger than this one but not for some time i believe that it's not going to be launched how do you think they're seizing or they're eyeing up what's going on today. well they're keeping an eye on it for sure but not exactly you know they don't want to stop space x. by many any means keep in mind that this launch happened on nasa property with nasa here on site as well that could help bridge the gap for now but space x. it really has been pioneering in that it's able to do these rocket launches more frequently and add a cheaper cost because its rockets are actually reusable the boosters separated

they came back down as planned and they're not done you could go out and launch yet another rocket would be as it all goes to the sustainability and bringing the cost down of space travel great authority sarah sarah dollar speaking to us from the kennedy space center in cape canaveral tensions between turkey and kurdish militia inside syria are escalating kurdish why b.g. rockets have struck a turkish soil insuring and killing civilians cheryl has been meeting some of the victims whose lives have been affected by the violence the all osama told our receivers mourners outside his home and rest his mind is elsewhere he's still trying to process the death of his daughter fault who was killed last week she had just turned seventeen has some build it was injured in the same attack when a rocket fired by the kurdish militia the white p.g. hit their home in the early hours of the morning. we were sleeping last sun

woke me up i couldn't see anything for a second it was pitch black when i looked up there was a hole in the ceiling the wall next to me had collapsed i felt incredible pain on my ankle. doctors say that while bilk a will be able to walk again his leg will never fully recover he won't be able to run or jump again. the mourners here don't only share feelings of sorrow they're united in their opposition to the kurdish militia who they consider to be terrorists. need to see his house it's around ten kilometers away from the border with syria the destruction calls does extensive not only has he lost his daughter he's also lost his home this is the room where falk must spend her last night in this world she was sleeping when the rocket landed came through the ceiling and it killed her instantly clouds still stains the place where she lay on that fateful morning. as far as her father is concerned he has

no doubts he's very clear as to who is responsible for the killing of his young daughter and what needs to be done in order to ensure that other parents don't suffer the same as him but of course i'm an older man than the p.k. k n y p g are responsible for the death of my daughter they're attacking us from across the border it's their rockets and bombs that have killed our children the turkish army must kill them all despite his loss and evident grief or maybe is a direct result of it is defiant that is are they looking if the nation and our army need us and we are ready to join the war even if there are one hundred or thousand martyrs we will carry on the fight. turkey says it's fighting the why p.g. is part of its war against terrorism the y.p. genie accuses the turkish military of killing kurdish civilians in its bid to control parts of syria the undeniable fact however is that nothing will bring back this man's young girl and the sad truth is that more parents will see it's clinging

on to photos of their their children as this war continues. heavily on the turkey syria border. italy's foreign minister says eisel fighters may be attempting to return to europe on boats is by migrants to cross the mediterranean angeleno alfonzo is speaking at a conference he's been hosting in rome to discuss migration and security journo has more from the italian capital. this migration conference in rome drawing together more than forty countries it's not a one off it's part of an ongoing conversation trying to come up with solutions to some of the complex issues around the ongoing migration and refugee crisis and some of the solutions being discussed the political reengagement in countries of origin and transit in africa italy in particular reopening embassies in some of the countries of the sun held in north africa tens of millions of dollars being poured into capacity building and development budgets in countries of origin to try and

better the lives of people living there but among the ongoing problems are the thousands of people languishing in libya having failed to make it to europe in facilities the dam misty international describes as detention camps many of them vulnerable to all sorts of forms of exploitation well earlier i asked libya's foreign minister what his government was doing about them they are not in jail of course they are in detention camps where we are feeding them we are offering. health care for them and we are asking the union to help us to appear at the cost with us and it was agreed in the meeting in. between the african union and the european union in libya that we would permit the. immigration organization and some of the representative of these countries to get access to this detention camps and they. do some interviews with the immigrants

there and those can. provide them for them they can take them there is where they can. employment chance for them also they can take them and and there is we together we and the countries try to convenience their countries to take them back to their countries and we did succeed. to get some of them almost twenty thousand already back to their resource countries. now one of the key elements in the eventually controlling the flow of people is the political stability of libya as well as that controlling the smuggling and exploitation networks that operate so freely but in a country still so riven by political and military factions an election do later this year the pits two competing governments against one another seems to offer

only slim hope there are fears hospitals and guards could be shut down due to fuel shortages the united nations says fuel supplies will run out in the next ten days and is appealing for immediate donor support the u.n. says emergency services intensive care units and operating theaters are at risk the shortage stems from a dispute between girls as palestinian group hamas and the rival palestinian authority both signed the unity deal last year but have failed to finalize the details. the supreme court of the moldings has an old it sound order for the government to release a number of imprisoned opposition leaders this after the president accuses of engineering a coup president yeah i mean abdullah guy you refuse to comply with the order instead him post a fifteen day state of emergency and arrested two senior judges and the former president and his half brother assad binge of a hassle. just hours after

a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives this board carries a prominent opposition leader to the country's main jail on a remote island the. moment of the un was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says this politically motivated. his family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope. in this police came to arrest me i'm going with them i don't even know why they are arresting me i've done nothing wrong or unlawful i urge the people of multipath to be strong and stand with us we will win. with arrested but two judges for the deepening the political crisis. it all began on thursday when the supreme court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohamed nasheed just also reinstated twelve m.p.'s who had lost their seats for supporting the opposition but president of the yemeni refused to comply

with the ruling and celebrations turned into protests i mean yeah i mean also declared a fifteen day state of emergency and ordered the military to secure the parliament building for an indefinite period or any effort. by me and. i will not function and this is. in addition to the two judges police raided the house of the administrative head of the supreme court. the court says police didn't have enough evidence to arrest a judicial executive president here i mean who happens to be the half brother of arrested leader abdul gayoom came to power in two thousand and thirteen that was a year after police and army overthrew president mohamed nasheed but in a shaky democracy president jiang mean has faced similar allegations of becoming authoritarian and being corrupt his government insists that despite the state of emergency nonfunctioning supreme court and military posted outside parliament it's

business as usual for citizens and tourists that the supreme court was expected to do favorably on a petition to impeach i mean opposition leaders allege the president's loyalists made it clear that they would not comply with such a verdict and launched a crackdown. for now the country best known for its tranquil beaches is struggling to deal with yet another round of political turmoil some of the job there three high profile student leaders in hong kong are free after the city's highest court unanimously quashed the gel sentences joshua wang nathan law and alex chadwick which held in august last year for their role in the umbrella movement protests in twenty fourteen their case was seen as a test of the independence of the city's judiciary. a british court to send down a request by the wiki leaks founder julian assange to have his arrest warrant cancelled lawyers for a son she was in the ecuadorian embassy in london say they will continue to fight

in the courts and to seek assurances he will not be sent to the u.s. originally went there to avoid being extradited to sweden for over allegations of sexual assault so he does now drop that investigation but the u.k. still wants to arrest him for failing to turn off in court. this case isn't has always been about the risk of extradition she denied states and that risk remains real nobody can credibly deny that risk we've had the head of the cia to play a week late so hostile non-state intelligence agency which had the u.s. attorney general say that prosecuting join us on is a priority in these circumstances it is time to provide an assurance against extradition to that base untenable situation. on the back of how small from outside the ecuadorian embassy. westminster magistrates court has rejected an initial appeal by julian assange and his defense team to have

a arrest warrant for him skipping bail back in two thousand and twelve revoked on the grounds that it no longer applies after swedish investigators abandon their attempt to see him extradited to sweden to face charges of sexual misconduct and rape the judge said that she couldn't possibly lift this arrest warrant at this current stage his defense team though has launched a second appeal on the grounds that it wasn't in the public interest to maintain this war into this current stage the judge says that she will give her response to this appeal on february thirteenth saying that though there is a possibly much greater issues at stake here julian assange his defense team of raise concerns about the possible existence of a secret u.s. indictment to see him extradited from the u.k. to the u.s. to face him possibly serious charges including espionage that could see him behind

bars over there for many many years they want the british government to clarify whether such an extradition arrangement is in place whether it's and secretly indictment exists for now though julian assange and his life here the ecuadorian embassy remains very much the same as it has been for the last five years. stay with us on the. phone. business updates.

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now it's exactly one hundred years since britain's government started giving women the right to vote it was only for women over thirty and restricted to those who own property or had been versity but it was still a huge achievement after decades of struggle on the phillips. was. because it was. 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 darby 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're going to 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. she no doubt would agree emily pankhurst leader of the suffragettes and great grandmother of helen who wonders if the glass is only half full it every single measure of political equality we still have so far to go in every single parliament and in particular a new u.k.

we only have thirty two percent representation of all other aspects of democracy so the legal system and the the media reporting of parliaments and of politics we still have a lot to go knowing. that. comedy throws light on 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 ones their impossible is our normal life we are the hopes of the suffragettes. debt to the heroines of the pos maligned in their day as misguided radicals we remember

them as being on the right side of history bobby philips al-jazeera london now has tatiana with all the sports. thank you very much syria with just three days left until the winter olympics begin n.p.r. china and number of russians banta due to doping are giving up their fight to compete thirty two have appealed to the court of arbitration for sport including champion speed skater victor and herring will be likely held on wednesday it follows a decision last week to overturn the lifetime doping bans of twenty eight russian one hundred sixty nine have been cleared to compete in china's neutrals also known as a limp dick athletes from russia the issue was central as a meeting of the international olympic committee on tuesday your huge amount of work has gone into making sure that we can ensure that there will be a clean pass a clean athletes from russia to compete in these games here so i think we await the

decision as everyone else does but with the most important we are very confident of our position some of the russian athletes care to take part of already touched down in south korea including these the men's ice hockey players they were greeted by fans at the airport but no russian flags will be allowed to be displayed when they start competing as neutral team next week. when the games get underway one of the strangest sports to look out for will be curling where giant stones a swept along the ice britain is strong and men and women's curling and the secret of their success lies in the sport's history in scotland welling's reports. while some prepare for a winter olympics by hurtling down a ski slope others give a gentle throw a watch a giant slab of granite like it's why a loss what used to be known as housework. and then a giant stone settles closest to the center scoring points this is curling and

scarlet is home to some of the world's best colors even your head is the skipper of the multi medal winning british women's to a bronze medalists in such a four years ago the mia heads are a culling family has sheep brothers thomas and glamour in the men's team who won silver in such a father competed in the sport before it became an official olympic event in one nine hundred ninety eight one of the advantages and you might say was a couple disappointed as well of being a follow up to the intense competition at the olympic games i guess i love advantages it's like i'm going to support each other and we're there for each other and do whatever for each team and i think what's really. going really well there's this family members going i was going to cause you know a few locals are going. to see their faces when we go to culling is traditionally an outdoor sport but the ice has to be thick enough and siphon off and that last up and hair like of men saith in nineteen seventy nine and occasion cold the ground

much as legendary in scotland the great thing about curling is not so much the actual game of imagine sweeping it always accompanied the going to popularity having been part of life in scotland for hundreds of years is about to get another push for the winter olympics and the precious stones come from an island off the west coast of scotland by the name of. that mean the house of cards known to be used. the world curling federation prevail. as their use for all world championships and olympic games heavens yes they. certainly . but it's in this forum on a street paisley abbey nick glass guy that evidence of colleagues origins could be found. the piers that in the early part of the sixteenth century. a monk from the abbey here they settled a wager by throwing

a stone on ice. doesn't call it curling but to all intents and purposes it involved ice and throwing stones so that sounds very like a basic form of curving. nearly five hundred years later the british team will love history on its side in china canada sweden and switzerland just some of the teams who may provide formidable opposition as they gently nudge their way to what they hope will be god they willingly manage the netherlands as they try and rebuild after failing to qualify for the twenty eighteen world cup the former everton boss will take charge for the first time in a friendly against england in march seventy eight netherlands cups as a player and help them win hero nine hundred eighty eight he replaces dick advocaat he resigned after the world cup qualifying campaign we are not qualifying food this world champions we did not qualifying for the last europeans and but we have still

good players and we have still a lot of talent full players and i'm really positive about the future of the national team south africa's cricket team have it all to do in the six the match one day international series against india going into wednesday's third match in cape town the hosts all ready to nail down and they've also been hit by injuries to several of their key players but they have a good record in cape town winning twenty eight of their thirty three o.d.i. played. the most important things for us to stay positive and not really. seek too many questions or too many answers rather only winning you don't ask yourself any on any questions so great. so you just have to stay positive. keep trying to change a moment. i don't think so the ego is going to come visit. it's

big cities for us cause sort of bigger bleed we will indices saw the leg do. as hard as possible. to win. whatever games come in over. dub cyclist dylan granted they can won the opening stage of the divide top on tuesday granted they can hit the front of the pack with one hundred fifty meters the one hundred sixty seven kilometer course remaining beating magnus court nielson and viviana to the line those three finishing well clear of the other sprinters wednesday second stage will see riders head out across the huey. the eagles have landed back in philadelphia after their first ever super bowl when dozens of fans gathered outside philadelphia airport to see the team's return from minneapolis they beat the new england patriots forty one to thirty three on sunday a celebratory parade will be held in philadelphia on thursday. one man missing with

eagles quarterback nick foles the super bowl m.v.p. was at disney world in florida instead of where parade was thrown in his honor. and finally the roller derby world cup has been taking place in manchester over the last three days with thirty eight teams and thousands of spectators in attendance this ball could be described as a combination of roller skating and wrestling this was the first time the event was staged outside of north america the united states based australia in the final and after the aussies took the lead the americans fought back to edge in front and since the players are all women the cheerleaders may as well have been men right following the halftime show at the usa would go on to kill the title. of the sport for now it's back to london thank you tatiana now fans of luxury cars you may well want to look away now porsches miss sadie's jugglers and corvettes were among more than two dozen sea. luxury vehicles crashed in the philippines president ordered the destruction of the second hand vehicles to deter smugglers almost three million

dollars worth of smuggled vehicles were intercepted just last year. from may the news our team but i will be back in a moment with much more of the day's news thanks for watching. the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise one on one east investigates the

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