they are sometimes loser cattle they were called for because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on al-jazeera. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. over one hundred thirty people killed in just forty eight hours as russian and syrian jets hit rebel areas in the eastern ghouta.

hello welcome to al-jazeera live from. dennis also coming up in the program. rescue crews search for survivors after a powerful earthquake hits taiwan this is the scene live from quality and. for the first time in south africa the state of the nation address is postponed as pressure grows on president zuma to resign. all eyes on the global stock markets after wall street rallies following a cuban moshe's twenty four hours. now it's being described as the deadliest day in the rebel held syrian region of eastern ghouta in over a month at least seventy one people were killed in airstrikes on the damascus suburb which has been besieged by the government for for years now government and

russian forces have increased their attacks there as well as on the rebel held parts of it. province they are two of four so-called deescalation zones agreed by iran russia and turkey a total of one hundred thirty eight people have been killed in both these areas within the last two days activists say many of them were civilians and they include children some experts say the siege of which involves indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population and these amount to war crimes there's also widespread belief that the syrian government has repeatedly used chemical weapons in its attacks bernard smith reports. this is supposed to be a deescalation zone part of the russian troops to the territory held by anti-government forces the syrian. but if anything the bombing is escalating here

in eastern guta. the un's head of the 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. 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. the offensive 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 it led 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 that 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 be irritation of the turkish president begin your producer now that you can why are you there go ahead and leave who did you bring there the y.p. g e p k k you took them there and you're still telling us not to come too many we will come to could deliver the land to its true owners. as ever

across syria it's civilians who are caught in the middle the u.n. wants fighting across the country to flee suspended for a month to allow the sick and wounded to get out and aid to get in. but the u.n. is calling for an immediate holes in the fighting in syria. 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 in east ghouta and in for and can friar we. we call from the rooftops if you like we are talking about it leap over a 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 compartment that is completely unacceptable but we've been speaking to nadine she heard he is from the fletcher school of diplomacy at tufts university and he says the syrian government no longer take seriously any warnings from the international community. there has to be a full international investigation on the war crimes of the regime regardless of what excuses they use to bomb hospitals and civilian population in and the use of chemical weapons i mean the use of chemical weapons is is now almost per emitted to the regime after the united states returned i mean. did not respect the red line in two thousand and thirteen this is interpreted

. as a green light for the regime and for russia and iran that they have a license to kill absolutely and with no destruction and that no and they are confident that nobody will do anything about it in time on a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit the east of the island killing at least two people more than two hundred or so far injured now this is the scene live from the port city of wiley and that's where firefighters say at least five people remain trapped inside a hotel that's on the brink of collapse and you can see it there at a very crazy angle indeed at least one hundred seventy people are unaccounted for our correspondent jeweled a silver has the latest. this was the scene port city of quali after the earthquake struck just ten minutes before midnight rescuers moved in groups and

cranes to get those trapped in what was left of the hotel back to safety. it's believed the occupancy rate was particularly high this time of the year it's not a very densely populated area alone that is to the eastern coast of taiwan as the fisherman many fish in an agricultural day. county and most people there are focused most most with their live in tourism and fishing agriculture as this because of the year as we are the chinese new year. to learn new year so there are tourists there so the hotel is as one of their one of the building that many true is would choose to stay search teams from around the island are headed to qualify to help with rescue efforts. silent fire agency reports that five more buildings including

a hospital were also damaged as were several roads leading to the city this earthquake followed another one over the weekend off the coast of this earthquake today in the sequence for the last few days has been right in one of the hot spots on the northeast coast of taiwan so it's not a surprise it's an area where have to sharks are inevitable you know the question is how many big aftershocks will there be in our usual odds are one in ten or one in twenty chance of a big earthquake so they need to be prepared at least for a few days for more action the city lies along the pacific rim of fire known for regular seismic activity from alaska to southeast asia which won the silver al-jazeera. to kenya now where lawyers for opposition member of parliament have told al-jazeera that he's been deported to canada after being charged with treason he was arrested after taking part in a mock swearing in ceremony for the opposition leader raul beginner seen here on

the left was standing next to raul odinga last week when he declared himself the people's president thereby rejecting all who can yet as reelection begin to hold both canadian and kenyan passports well need a question a is an africa policy analyst he says kenya's political instability is causing concern through the region. might be. a silver lining on this because events moving too quickly the government is reacting quickly on the other and mr a his support is pretty incensed still about what went on in the in the elections now. deportee mr me guna. the silver lining may be that maybe it to are now things to to calm down because

the trying to charge him in the courts the minute that he was i rested and brought to court today in kenya tuesday in kenya we know that street protests broke out in kisumu and other parts of western kenya which is the stronghold of nasa and mr odinga so i am hoping that this will actually lead off some steam i do know that westing capitals are very very worried and behind the scenes iyad trying to deescalate the situation. you know is divided and there are tensions between mr odinga. and the government support is but beyond kenya is cell there is the whole worry some issue of somalia which is rocked by a civil war terror war and then further north across the red sea you have you have

. yemen and therefore this is a very dangerous area west and western countries depend on kenya to help deal with that situation apart from kenyans own importance in its own right so what is happening in kenya has a lot of repercussions and people are worried so i'm saying that it seems to me people might even say ok we will go out along with some. moves if we to bring stability and peace and to get the two sides talking to deescalate the situation. in an unprecedented move south africa's parliament has prospered and president zuma state of the nation address which was june on thursday the president is under increasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations the ruling a.n.c. has also postponed an emergency meeting of its top committee that was due to be

held later today that's wednesday. we decided to approach the president of the ivory to propose that we postpone detroit city in order to create eight room for establishments and much more open to steve. mills. lots more to come here at ows are included colombia's stored peace accords become a major topic during the visit of the u.s. secretary of state plus. three. words liftoff in florida for the world's most powerful rocket it could be a turning point for space exploration was. the a.

hello there we've got more rain and snow galloping its way across north america at the moment has that system here gradually working its way eastwards and behind it it's cold for many of us in the northern parts of the south it is mild we're looking at a top temperature in atlanta there seventeen degrees on wednesday and that's despite the rain and you see how heavy some of that what weather is going to be turns to snow eventually as you make your way up towards the northeastern part of the u.s. and eastern parts of canada the whole system most are fairly quickly it's largely gone by the time we get to thursday lunchtime but it's still dragging its feet towards the southeastern parts here mostly cloud rather than anything particularly heavy rain wise though it wasn't all western but another weather system working its way in here so lots of snow is expected for the southwestern parts of canada that's edging its way eastwards now for the central america's largely fine and settled for many of us here we do have a few showers here and there want to run the uk a temperature and there's a stretching down towards costa rica and i think we'll see a few more showers here as we head through thursday on thursday though we're also

going to see more wet weather beginning to gather over parts of mexico so particularly in the eastern parts as we head down towards south america the rains hey continue the heaviest at the moment around the eastern parts of brazil more still to come. well as. good rick remender. tax returns to activism with a new mission i seldom ever get my job why build software for. educated dissidents within the technological. leaps to get certain limitations in their field from a capitalist part of the record. at this time on al jazeera. to

take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera syria's rebel held region of eastern ghouta has endured its deadliest day in more than a month russian and syrian government air raids killed at least seventy one people on tuesday an estimated one hundred thirty eight people have now been killed in both eastern ghouta and in italy a province over the last forty eight hours. a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit eastern taiwan killing at least two people more than two hundred others are injured this is the scene live as you can see rescue workers there at the hotel where they say that at least five people remain trapped in the hotel which as you

can see appears to be on the brink of of collapse one hundred seventy people are unaccounted for. lawyers for the kenyan opposition members. have told elgin's there that he's been deported to canada after being charged with treason you see him here on the left he was arrested after taking part in a mosque. swearing in ceremony for the opposition leader riley he holds for his canadian and kenyan passports. so the international community faces an even more difficult challenging containing eisel the when the group was at its peak that the assessment of a new report from the un security council which says the fight against eisel is entering a new phase according to the report eisel has changed its focus on conquering and holding territory instead is prioritizing individual and small cells i saw now wants to carry out attacks and in some cases are willing to work with al-qaeda to

would achieve their objectives the report warns countries need to improve intelligence sharing and cooperation to deal with the renewed threat it also says the threat from eisel linked groups is quickly spreading across libya west and east and south africa and central asia well richard is director of the just security twenty twenty program at the stimson center and he says humanitarian groups also have a role to play in combating eisel. as has shown over several decades other extremist groups prior to the arrival of the islamic state all you need is a good sense of organization funding but a set of ideas ideas that will rally a militant group of terrorist fighters then you can bring about great damage and spread tambour terror not just within regions such as the middle east that have been the brunt of most of these attacks but in nearby regions and central in

southwest asia the report highlights one to four thousand isis fighters exist in afghanistan today they are threatening countries such as russia they are threatening the whole of europe which has a problem of foreign returned fighters from these theatres such as syria and iraq today they have cited in the report that there are identity and travel documents that have been illegally stolen it's going to be very difficult to differentiate refugees from militants associated with the islamic state this problem will be around for some time to come it's important though that it's not treated as strictly a law and order intelligence response type of question but one that involves development humanitarian organizations this is where organizations such as the un can help take an integrated approach to addressing the causes of extremist violence and this is forum in this is a real risk of i suffices returning to europe on the boats that are used by migrants to cross the mediterranean and jay leno i was speaking at

a conference he is hosting in rome to discuss migration security representatives from several african countries where there is well as from the e.u. and the united nations jonah how was there to. so fourteen nations at least forty nations in gauge here at the italian foreign ministry in rome in what is an ongoing conversation between the countries in africa that actors countries of origin and transit for the many many thousands of people trying to make their way to europe and the so-called host countries in europe that receive them which of course italy is a prime one the conference heard that the numbers had been decreasing quite encouraging really over the two thousand and sixteen seventeen period in large part or they haven't said it here because of italian methods of dealing with the libyan coast guard encouraging them to turn people back but in fact turning them back to camps that have been described by aid groups and activists as prison camps and detention centers where smuggling networks are rife and exploitation right as well that will

have to be dealt with here in terms of protecting the human rights of those involved in this migration and as well as that as outlined by the italian foreign minister defeating the so-called business model of smugglers but he said finance terrorism and looking out for the return of fighters i still fighters coming back to their countries of origin in europe using these routes it's all about human rights it's all about protecting and saving lives it's all about bringing together many many countries in a common cause common and difficult cause with multiple competing interests and more than one hundred migrants have escaped from detention in libya the group who were mostly from somalia say they were being held by people smugglers close to the town of tassie a bill that's in the desert they say they were beaten and given food once every twenty four. shares on wall street rallied on tuesday following the sharp

losses of the day before which calls for as in markets around the world the dow jones industrial average opened two percent down to add to monday's fall of four and a half percent but choose day stocks stabilized to recover the morning losses gaining two percent by close of business gabriel elizondo who's been watching the u.s. markets in new york. we've seen big swings in the market over the last couple days and volatility is really the word being used here on wall street a lot of bankers say that the stock market should go up like an escalator slow and steady but they say it often goes down like an elevator drops straight down and a little bit of what we've started to see now the market lost nearly five hundred points in early trading on tuesday but then gained a lot of that back slow and steadily as the trading day went on seeing that the big sell offs that we saw on monday and last week seem to be slowing a bit although market has stabilized things are still very volatile because it came

off of monday when the dow dropped more points than it had in history coming off a week meeting last week when the market dropped or saw its worst week in nearly two years now the trumpet ministration is watching this volatility very closely the treasury secretary steve minutiae and spoke to a house financial services committee hearing on tuesday he was specifically asked about the dow and the stock market volatility and this is what he had to say well first are just comment they have been quite volatile today as i normally wouldn't be looking at my phone but given the market moves i'm 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 it is important to point out that the stock market doesn't really represent the real economy and the real economy in the united states on main street if you will is doing pretty well according to the latest jobs numbers the u.s. added about two hundred thousand jobs in january alone and wait. jews rose nearly three percent again all of that very good for main street usa there's a lot of consumer confidence right now but wall street looks at that and sees potential inflation worries and that partially is what's leading to this market volatility beyond that though you have political uncertainty in washington with this ongoing russia investigation continuing donald trump's continuing fight with the f.b.i. signaling a protest with wall street looking at washington is perhaps seeing some institutional crisis on the horizon at all of this up and that's

a big reason you're seeing this volatility well president trump has said he would welcome a government shutdown if congress doesn't agree to measures that would tighten immigration laws his comments came as legislators are trying to reach a deal on federal spending two days before a stop gap government funding bill is due to expire after with the white house released a statement clarifying that the president was not advocating a shutdown saying he doesn't want to see a deal done. if we don't change the way we don't get rid of these killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill gang members and we're just talking about him mr dean there are many gang members are the reason ranchers. let's have a shutdown will do a shutdown and it's worth it for our country i'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care. meanwhile secretary of state rex tillerson has been holding talks with the colombian president juan manuel santos in

the colombian capital. mr tillotson said the u.s. shares responsibility to help combat colombia's drug trade and that it would continue to support its efforts president trump had previously threatened to withdraw u.s. assistance in the war against drugs unless it dramatically cut cocaine production. we did discuss our concerns about the the surge in coca cultivation and cocaine production in colombia but the president also gave me a very good report of the steps that are being taken the progress is being made and he just spoke to much of that and we're quite encouraged by what we hear and we will continue to work with colombia to support these efforts where we can be of assistance as well this is a shared challenge for both of our nations as well more now from our correspondent on the front row of i'm poor. this was the second to last stop before the u.s.

secretary of state in what has been a quite challenging latin american trip again drug trafficking and the escalating crisis in venezuela where front and center in the meeting he held where the colombian president juan manuel santos there were big expectations here to hear what hiller son had to say about colombia's efforts to try and reduce the amount of coca-cola to be in the country especially after the u.s. president donald trump essentially tretton to cut aid to and specified countries that weren't according to him not doing enough to fight drug trafficking to listen said he was encouraged from what he heard from president santos and that he was expecting to see some real figures that showed that reduction in this way everybody seems to worry about the crises what's missing here. what to do to move forward it's clear that there's no united front in that tillerson wasn't really

able to move much forward in that direction which also prompted the venezuelan president nicolas maduro to essentially describe to listen trip as a failure finally on wednesday the u.s. secretary the secretary of state will travel to jamaica which also has been increasingly turning in a major drug trafficking hub. and to power has left parts of the fed israel and capital in the dark commuters were among the worst did the outage pull some train stations to claim is shut down traffic lights and disrupted phone services the government blamed seventeen. one hundred forty north korean musicians are in south korea ahead of rare performances at the pure chiang winter olympics the orchestra disembarked from their ferry a day after it arrived in the south korean port of code it's part of

a thaw in relations between pyongyang and seoul they'll be performing several concerts well south of the border for the first time in sixteen years. the billionaire entrepreneur in on mosques ambitious plans to colonize monza take another step forward his company space x. has successfully launched its most powerful rocket yet the twenty three story falcon heavy but also it all from the kennedy space center in florida but the test the sports car inside. with its twenty seven rocket engines roaring the space x. falcon heavy soared into the florida sky it's the most powerful rocket on earth with a thrust equal to eighteen seven forty seven jumbo jets working simultaneously at full power the successful launch gives a powerful boost to billionaire entrepreneur elon musk's company which wants

lucrative contracts with nasa the u.s. military and satellite companies on board the unmanned ship musk's own cherry red tesla roadster from his electric car company with the space suit a dummy in the seat and a stereo playing the late david bowie's space oddity on repeat the rockets side boosters separated from the main body and flew back to earth touching down in a perfectly choreographed double landing the boosters will eventually be reused on another mission another booster was designed to land of board a ship at sea musk says falcon to have these payload will go into an elliptical orbit of the sun that extends as far out as the orbit of mars and will continue circling for hundreds of millions of years robert oulds al-jazeera.

these are the top stories here it out is there a syria's rebel held region of eastern ghouta has enjoyed its deadliest day in more than a month russian and syrian government air raids killed at least seventy one people there on cheese say an estimated one hundred thirty eight people have now been killed in both eastern ghouta and province within the past forty eight hours. among the true six point four earthquake because earthquake has hit east in taiwan at least two people have been killed more than two hundred others have been injured in far five is in the city of quality and say at least five people remain trapped inside a hotel that is on the brink of collapse and around one hundred seventy people remain unaccounted for. in a man president of new south africa's parliament has postponed president zuma as state of the nation address which will strain on thursday president zuma is under

increasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations the ruling a.n.c. has also cancelled an emergency meeting of its top committee that was due to be held later on wednesday. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has talks with the colombian president juan manuel santos in bogota mr tillotson said the u.s. says responsibility to help combat colombia's drug trade. we did discuss our concerns about the the surge in coca cultivation and cocaine production and colombia but the president also gave me a very good report of the steps that are being taken the progress is being made and he just spoke to much of that and we're fighting courage by what we hear and we will continue to work with plan b a to support these efforts where we can be of assistance as well this is a shared challenge for both of our nations as well. well those are the latest

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