this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion isn't what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important level what to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provocative whatever nice people do step in this stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. rescue crews in taiwan search for people trapped in this hotel after a powerful earthquake. hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha i'm martine that is also coming up.

more than one hundred thirty people were killed in forty eight hours as russian and syrian government jets hit rebel areas in it live in the eastern ghouta. for the first time in south africa the state of the nation address is postponed as pressure grows on president zuma to resign plus three. i. lift off in florida for the world's most powerful rocket it could be a turning point in space exploration. right let's start with that magnitude six point four earthquake that has hit eastern taiwan at least four people have died more than two hundred others have been injured now this is the scene live from the pulled city of quality and that's where firefighters say at least five people at. trapped inside of this building

which as you can see is at a dangerously precarious angle about one hundred forty five people overall remain unaccounted for report comes from the silver. working against the clock to search for survivors. rescuers are using cranes to get to those trapped in what's left of while ins marshall hotel when the earthquake struck just before midnight local time the ground floor katie dean leaving the entire building slanting on its site. you go. on to this is. there are two people left inside one is my older brother and another is colleagues the rescue is a trying to dig further down to look for my brother that's the situation for now. taiwan's president sign one arriving quali in on wednesday morning to say when they hear that and others in that their building still frames the prop up the collapsed

building this will ensure rescue received when they get it and we are racing against time and now is the crucial time. i once 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 quali and 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 oh it's in an area where half the 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 bigger 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 join the silver to zero. kenny everett is

a senior editor at time one news he says local authorities may have been caught unprepared following similar recent quakes in the area i think that a scar might have been down and. many believe that the biggest quake was on sunday which is a lie one eight and so there was even end of the officials were saying that that was a major shock there's going to be some minor aftershocks that will gradually get way and so this was a surprise that suddenly it was a matter of even bigger quake much more damaging than the previous one was that. well at this point as that happens thirty eight hundred thirty aftershocks on this alone or that we also add a layer on the. place since sunday so it's in any way as well that was possible is that it was diminishing the risk of private actually

a breeze but the fact of the depth of that is what really made it i will we could all feel any minute i say route the island a lot and i think that's also what og lot of the damage. was or it was much greater than what you'd normally expect from of six one zero earthquake. that's been described as the deadliest day in the rebel held syrian region in over a month at least seventy one people have been killed during airstrikes in the damascus suburbs which has been besieged by the government for four years syrian government and russian forces have increased their attacks there as well as on the rebel held parts of italy province they are two of the so-called deescalation zones ever four of them in total and they were agreed to by iran russia and turkey over all one hundred thirty eight people have been killed in both of these areas within the last forty eight hours and activists say many of them are civilians and

that includes children some experts say the siege of which involves indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population amounts to war crimes is also widespread belief that the syrian government has repeatedly used chemical weapons bennett smith reports. this is supposed to be a deescalation part of the russian truce to the territory held by armed forces to syria. but if anything the bombing is escalating here in eastern. 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 iranian backed 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 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 a russian and they are controlled by the russian intelligence of 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 be irritation of the turkish president. we can you produce all that you can why are you using it go ahead and leave who did you bring the y.p. g p k k you took them there and you're still telling us not to come to. come to members to 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. al-jazeera south africa's parliament has postponed president zuma state of the nation address which was due on thursday this is an unprecedented move the president is under increasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations the ruling and seize also

perspective and an emergency meeting of its executive committee that was due to be held later on wednesday the cancellation of that meeting came after the new party leaders here around the poser held talks with president zuma which were described as fruitful and constructive we decided to approach the president of the having to propose that we postpone the joint sitting in our down to three eight. four establishing a much more open to see. here in kenya a leading member of the opposition has been deported to canada after being charged with treason he was arrested for taking part in a mock swearing in ceremony for the opposition leader raul. mcguinness seen here on the left was next to. last week when he declared himself the people's president thereby rejecting who kenyatta is reelection me

a quitter is an africa policy analyst he says kenya's political instability is causing concern through the region. i am hoping that this who are generally nettlesome steam i do know that westing capitals are very very worried and behind the scenes the address to deescalate this situation. you know is divided and there tahsin is that between mr odinga. and the government support is but beyond kenya is so there is the whole world in some issue also madiao 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 western and western countries depend on kenya to help deal

with that situation apart from kenyans own importance in its own right the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has held talks with the colombian president juan manuel fantails in the colombian capital bogota missa tennyson's said the u.s. shares responsibility to help combat colombia's drug trade adding that it would continue to support its efforts president trump had previously threatened to withdraw u.s. assistance in the war against drugs unless colombia dramatically cut came production. we did discuss our concerns about the the surgeon 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 are 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 for more now from our correspondent in bogota alessandro. 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 were front and center in the meeting the hell do with the colombian president juan manuel list santos there were big expectations here to hear what tillerson have 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 for 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 where

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 sense 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. still to come here and al-jazeera. in lies on the global stock markets after wall street's rollercoaster ride. the world urban forum gets underway we'll look at how the host city is trying to

rejuvenating its neighbors. hello there the weather is quite quiet for many of us across the middle east at the moment we do have a fair amount of cloud showing up on the satellite picture but generally speaking it's not too thick and it's not giving us too much in the way of heavy rain instead we'll stay with the settled weather as we head through the next few days no woman are today are much from a temperature minus ten middle little bit milder forth in cobol towards the west it is also milder force in beirut or temperature overing at around twenty or twenty one degrees at the moment now but for the south it's feeling quite fresh in doha during the evening and overnight but during the day the temperatures are fairly decent getting to around twenty five maybe even twenty six degrees as we head into thursday further south also fun enjoy for many of us here with the lawless in the

temperature up to around twenty seven degrees now for the southern parts of africa there's far more wet weather here and recently it's been very very heavy particular parts of zimbabwe now this area of rain is still with us as we head through wednesday and into thursday and you can tell from the very dark colors that we're expecting some more very heavy downpours from it as well particularly around parts of madagascar in the south though of madagascar does look like it should be largely dry just a few showers along that east coast elsewhere largely fine and dry for many of us across the south africa just in the east there around joburg they could be the or shower. now listen. to the countries it flows through this normal single. claim it would be a little piece of the gold given the resources. but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country suspicious of each other's intentions the battle for control of the middle constituents following suit consultation was not

up to me to come to because of some unknown fear struck a little bit of this time on al-jazeera. a reminder of the main story is here it is there a magnitude six point four earthquake as it east in taiwan at least four people were killed and more than two hundred others were injured and this is the scene live in the port city of quali and where several people remain trapped inside buildings including in this to tell which is as you can see perilously close to collapse over all about one hundred seventy people remain unaccounted for. syria's

rebel held region of eastern ghouta has enjoyed its deadliest day in more than a month russian and syrian government air raids have killed at least seventy one people there on tuesday an estimated one hundred thirty eight people have now been killed in eastern guta and in the province in the last forty eight hours. the kenyan opposition politician. has been deported to canada after being charged with treason you can see him here on the left of your picture he was arrested after taking part in. that mock swearing in ceremony for the opposition leader raul or. the international community faces an even more difficult challenge in containing eisel then when the group was at its peak that's 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 to conquering and from conquering and holding territory and instead is now prioritizing individual and small cells eisel now wants to carry out attacks and in some cases they're willing to work with al qaeda to achieve that 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 western east africa as well essential asia. well this is foreign minister says there's a real risk in our vital fight as rebels returning to europe on the boats used by migrants to cross the mediterranean angelina alfonzo was speaking at a conference he's hosting in rome to discuss migration and security correspondent joe know how it was there. 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 of 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 rifles 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. palestinian has been shot and killed by a private security guard in the occupied west bank the palestinian stabbed an injured an israeli settler on wednesday morning the settler was stabbed in the hand and treated at the scene. israeli security forces have also killed a palestinian man who was wanted over the death of a secular twenty one year old ahmed not was shot dead he was accused of killing a rabbi. in an illegal israeli outpost last month imran khan has

more from the occupied west bank the israeli army says this is all materials 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 nablus in the early hours of tuesday morning around seventy jeeps and two bulldozers and this village. and focus their attention on this about building. 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 on ahmed draws village of but again 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 all 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 the palestinian people go on to freedom or martyrdom huge crowds are gathered outside of the mother's house and but. even. 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 at the settler led prime minister benjamin netanyahu to declare the settlement outposts legal under israeli law and bring it under official protection the bodies of the two palestinians killed in the israeli raids still haven't been handed over to the families iraq on al jazeera village occupied west. shares on wall street rallied on tuesday following the shop losses of the day before which calls for the markets around the world the dow jones industrial average open two percent down to add to monday's full of four and a half percent but on tuesday stocks stabilize gabriel elizondo has more. 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 news 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. dj's 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 russian investigation continuing donald trump's continuing fight with the f.b.i. signaling it apart haps 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 some of them four billion of us around the world now live in areas and that number is set to rise of a six billion a year twenty fifty and making those areas more livable if the main theme of the night session of the world been for him front flew the report. the confluence of to this is where kuala lumpur began more than one hundred sixty years ago the name means muddy estuary in the middle a language but as the city expanded what used to be the administrative and commercial hub soon lost its importance to new shiny of buildings parts of the old

downtown area fell into disuse but there are plans to revive this part of the city as more people move in cities there's a growing demand for species in cities and the challenges it is then regenerate existing urban areas as opposed to expanding and eventually result. in. negative outcomes like the illusion extracted we think city and urban regeneration body owned by malaysia's sovereign wealth fund believes one way to revitalize the city is by making existing spaces more inclusive that includes turning parking spots into small gardens some temporary othis permanent deal of the day there are many places around here where one can stop to reste so this is great when you're tired you can sit down here for a break there's also a plan to introduce the concept of micro housing and communal living this house is

a prototype built as part of a showcase for the ninth world open forum taking place in. actually a lack of housing choice in the city for young people who want to be here by using this sort of. communal living last record housing model and hopefully the young people want to come back built on the space measuring five by five natives the footprint of each house is just the size of two parking spots clear the designs and just space is not wasted these shelves and steps. once you're in the bedroom. and it becomes part of the flow. the house lacks a dining room because that's meant to be a shad area over the next few weeks those behind this project will gauge public

reaction to this type of housing model but what's clear is the drive to inject new life into the city has begun florence of the al-jazeera. the. mosques plans to colonize mars have taken another step forward his company space x. successfully launched its most powerful rocket yet. three. with its twenty seven rocket engines roaring the space x. falcon heavy sword 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. onboard 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 aboard 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. congress to take a look at the top stories here it out just a powerful earthquake measuring six point four has hit east in taiwan killing at

least four people and injuring more than two hundred others five five is in the port city of quali and say several people remain trapped in buildings that are on the brink of collapse and a hundred and seventy people remain unaccounted for candy everington is a senior editor at taiwan news he says the local authorities may have been caught on the way as the similar recent quakes in the area i think their guard might have been down. many believe that the biggest quake was on. and there was even then the officials were saying that that was a major shock there's going to be some minor aftershocks that will gradually get way and so this was a surprise at least it was an even bigger quake much more damage to. previous oil. the syrian region of eastern has endured it steadily day in more than

a month russian and syrian government strikes have killed at least seventy nine people there. an estimated one hundred thirteen people have now been killed in eastern and in the province in the past forty eight hours. and i'm president of moves south africa's parliament has postponed president zuma say to the nation address which was due on thursday the president is under increasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations the ruling a.n.c. is also postponed an emergency meeting of its top committee that was due to be held later on wednesday the cancellation of that meeting came after a new party leader cyril ramaphosa held talks with president zuma which were described as fruitful and constructive. in kenya a leading member of the opposition has been deported to canada after being charged with treason brought up to date to listen close is next.

for the benefit of saddam. so. all. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. have. rushed. me off. l o. o. o m i six point zero is to get my. hands on the west. coast the lower much of europe the listening post here are some of the media stories we've been tracking this week both russia and cambodia have elections upcoming it's not a great time to be an opposition figure or journalist in either having difficulty.