the motion is and what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important level wise to of the ship you argue to be offensive or provocative or whatever those people do setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. i. i. i. our forces have the inherent right to self-defense. the u.s. denies accusations of war crimes after a rare airstrike on pro assad forces killing almost one hundred fighters.

council raman you watch al jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up in the next thirty minutes. protests in bangladesh after the former prime minister is sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement plus. i'm daniel there in the far north of argentina where ten thousand people have been evacuated because the flooding roads are impassable communities cut off this is as far as we can get. the u.s. congress has less than five hours to approve a budget or risk yet another government shutdown will be there to take you through the whole process live. there are there are growing tensions between major geo political players involved in the war in syria with the assad government accusing the united states of committing a war crime it follows u.s.

air strikes and there is a province which the coalition says killed all those one hundred fighters loyal to the syrian government confliction blinded the area is supposed to prevent direct contact between u.s. and russian troops now the u.s. said the strikes would responds to what it called an unprovoked attack. on the headquarters of its ally the s.d.f. a force that opposes assad but russia which backs assad says the strikes are part of an effort by washington to control key economic assets in the region to prevent them from falling into the hands of the syrian government the us backed s.d.f. took hold of the strategically aboard oil fields north of the euphrates river is september or they had previously be deisel control forces loyal to the syrian government control the lead to the south wall for paired to good corresponded particle hades. i said at a briefing with secretary of defense jim that is he was off camera but on the record and he called what happened in syria

a quote perplexing situation and he said because for years the euphrates river has been a kind of do not cross line that if the u.s. or u.s. backed forces or russian or russian backed forces were going to cross it they talk about it before and he said that didn't happen this time he said u.s. forces were embedded along with the s.d.f. and they saw tanks and artillery start rolling in and say that one shell got within five hundred meters of the s.d.f. headquarters says that is when they picked up the phone they called their russian counterparts and he says he doesn't think that the group that moved in is actually controlled by russia he called this a great success story because in his words two great powers did not fight each other still the russian ambassador to the united nations was less than pleased i asked him to remember that the. syria illegally in fact. they were not invited. they claim with. the fight the international terrorism but we see that it goes beyond that. to confront those who really fight

the traditional terrorist with the glove with the syrians say is is giving secretary mabus didn't speculate on how many casualties were caused by the firing from u.s. jets and heavy artillery positions but he did say that they took out two of the incoming tanks and the heavy artillery positions the u.s. is calling this self-defense and warning that that happens again the elect again but also in syria for the fourth consecutive day bubs have been raiding the rebel held areas which were designated deescalation zones local media say government and russian air strikes have killed at least fifty seven people in eastern on the edge of damascus on state including children domestic they've escalated their attacks there and did it live province since a russian jet was shot down on saturday killing more than two hundred people in just four days jude reports of the rest of the violence.

by thursday the bombing raids in eastern hold ahead only intensified at least two dozen were carried out and activists say they see no end in sight to this horror from the sky. oh i was injured because of a plane. the night before fires in the town of modoc in the month the target of dozens of air strikes. that's despite it being in the northeastern province of a rebel held area and one of syria's so-called deescalation zones whose borders were agreed to by russia turkey and the on bombing raids carried out by russian and syrian forces have only intensified since a russian warplane was shot down by rebels on saturday when another blazes put out rescue efforts begin a new were seen as an escalation because isis has largely been defeated the.

zones were marked out around syria yes collation while the united states and russia were interested in destroying isis now that isis has largely been destroyed these deescalation zones have become up for grabs you see turkey rushing in to wrap up rain in the north united states say it's going to stay for the long haul in syria it owns twenty eight percent of syrian territory and the syrian regime is trying to grab the remaining rebel parts of syria including. which has been surrounded and bombarded last. eastern huta near syria's capital damascus is also still in the hands of rebels and like it is also under intense bombardment dozens of men women and children have been killed in the last four days. many residents believe pro-government forces are pushing for a decisive outcome to the war in syria while the united nations has called for a month long truce to evacuate the wounded that appeal hasn't made

a difference even for those accustomed to the carnage of the seemingly endless conflict this most recent bombardment has been terrifying. now the united nations security council has been discussing humanitarian concerns in syria the french ambassador says the situation is only worsening despite the creation of so-called deescalation zones. in theory we are now back to the darkest period of this conflict with the highest death toll among civilians over the last year. and as we speak the situation is deteriorating by the day in and. in particular. the syrian regime keeps bombing and beseeching its own population.

ease a new alipore in the making. meanwhile russia has rejected a u.n. proposal for a one month polls in ground fighting and strikes we would like to see a cease fire the end the war in syria would put the terrorists not sure they're in the government would they use perl use who has put them out. well to the u.s. where the senate and the house of representatives are both set to vote on the budget deal to avert a fast approaching government shutdown though it's facing stiff resistance in both republicans and democratic terms speaker paul ryan says he believes there will be in the votes to pass the bipartisan agreement which was struck in the senate the bill is expected to pass there with relative ease but it does face a tougher test in the house where it must also be approved mystical closer look at what this all means while a two year deal seeks to lift spending caps on both defense and domestic programs raising government investments by three hundred billion dollars it's

a high priority for republican defense hawks in congress the bill proposes to raise military budgets by one hundred sixty billion dollars there's also a big boosted domestic for digg covering areas such as health care education did viral mental programs so that satisfies many democrats for now but not all of them are happy democratic leader nancy pelosi says it does address immigration she wants a b.d.'s legislation that protects young immigrants who add to the u.s. illegally as children there's also opposition from republicans very conservative budget hawks have been very good by the significant spare dick hike proposed well our correspondent kristen saluki is following events in washington d.c. we wait with bated breath really about what the chances are of a deal tonight as the clock is ticking away. it sure is we're now five hours away from that deadline when the government will shut down and

a deal is looking increasingly in doubt about an hour ago senate leadership attempted to call a vote on this massive spending package that they've proposed but procedural delays are stalling this now bear with me here of course the senate has to vote on the package in the house has to vote on the package and then the president has to sign it before they can even take it to a vote in the senate all senators have to agree to call that vote and one senator who wants an amendment rand paul wants an amendment considered for this spending package and he's refusing to let this go to a vote and he's been speaking on the floor of the senate for the last hour about his concerns so we're hearing now that republican leadership are preparing some sort of a stopgap measure should this go into the wee hours of the morning which paul has promised to do because he's concerned about this the leadership says if we let a vote happen on your amendment there's a number of other lawmakers are going to want to propose their amendments and you

know we need to go we need to act now so there's pressure but again increasing doubts and then on the house side. they have said that they believe that the leadership has said that they believe they have enough votes just like in the senate they've said they believe they have enough votes if it ever gets to the vote . but nothing is clear there's a lot of pressure on lawmakers right now from activists in their base on various issues so i think nothing is certain at this point and as i say increasingly in doubt that they're going to make that twelve o'clock deadline. it can't be of the size of the friday the concern. is whether they be republican or democrat about this deal because their concerns are very different to that you say they range from military spending into sort of social welfare education to immigration. well for republicans the main concern is the cost of this package a three hundred billion dollar increase over two years that is believed to send the

deficit over a trillion dollars and that's a lot of money in order to get this deal they had to put a lot of things into the package a little bit of something for everyone and that cost a lot of money frankly and when you have conservative republicans who were elected on reducing the debt seeing such a huge increase combined with the tax cuts which is which were passed recently which are also adding to this deficit it's a hard sell for them if they have to go back and face their constituents and if they're up for reelection on the democratic side it's the immigration issue nancy pelosi the leader of the house has said she won't speak she won't vote for this because it does not include a deal to protect children who are brought to the united states undocumented for them to stay in the country and she's not pressuring the rest of her party to vote the way she is and her leadership role but she says she's not going to vote for it

so i think. a lot of democrats are facing that pressure as well from their constituents at home who want to see something for these. undocumented who came here by through no fault of their own well of course i will keep all events in washington d.c. with you kristen as the clock ticks away krasinski me this. while stocks have been plunging on wall street for the fifth time in six days and are now trading ten percent below all time highs set on january the twenty sixth of those days the dow jones fell by more than one thousand points after large gains in the first weeks of twenty eight they started dropping a week ago after the u.s. labor department said workers' salaries rose at a faster rate in january while that's good for the economy investors worried her wages will eat away at the corporate profits a problem to the federal reserve to raise interest rates first gabriel is under as more. make no mistake about it this was

a huge stocks plunge the big question is what's causing it now there are a whole host of reasons but most economists and traders are pointing to three key things number one concerns over rising deficit spending the federal budget that's being negotiated right now in washington is expected to add at least three hundred billion dollars in deficit spending over the next two years add that with one point five trillion in deficit spending for the new text overhaul plan that trump and the republicans pushed through late last year and you're seeing these huge amounts of money that is added to the deficit and that is really concerning wall street the second reason is inflationary concern and rising interest rates and the third being political uncertainty in washington with the trump administration's continued fights public battles with the f.b.i. and the continuing russia investigation leaving the markets uncertain about the

political future of the administration and how they're going to navigate all of this markets don't like any uncertainty and they don't like political uncertainty either well still ahead. and that's right the lawsuit reopens wins for the family of a palestinian killed in clashes three years ago. and a show of full spoke low key by usual standards will quiz military parade only evoke the south's olympics. from the clear blue sky of the dome home. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city. how the weather remains slushy dry across central and southern parts of china a little bit more clout than we have seen a recently having said that i would towards the southwest and maybe into that southeast and cold winds coming in from

a southerly direction so hong kong getting up to around twenty celsius twenty three in taipei we will still see the chance of what it says showers coming into taiwan over the next actually days as we go wanted to saturday breakfast guys coming in but notice the right there to central parts of china hong kong getting up to twenty two degrees celsius by this date but a while on the other side of the south china seas is looking fine and dry for good pass over in china but a chance of want to see showers into central areas of the philippines know the posh it be lost the settled and sunny but we have got some shabby rain just making its way into those southern parts malaysia still seeing some showers here the wetter weather will once again be across a good part of indonesia such accounts are still not out of the would say had recent flooding for the showers over the next as i type this getting up to around thirty degrees celsius meanwhile the clout there across eastern areas of india is making its way eastwards it will stay largely trife the truth be known temperatures in colombo twenty nine celsius and twenty six for karate. the weather sponsored by

qatar airways. fined for what is right on the shores of paradise progress for some can create a living hell for others challenging his government and big business one man risked his life to save the community he cherishes. to be that someone can do. this for. the opposition a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. welcome

back you're watching officer i'm so ho rob a reminder of our top stories syria is accusing the u.s. of committing a war crime by bombing fighters loyal to president bashar assad in a province the u.s. strikes were in response to what it called an unprovoked attack on the headquarters of s.d.s. . the u.s. senate and house of representatives are both cert to vote on a budget deal to avert a first approaching government shutdown it's facing stiff resistance in both republican and democratic. bangladesh's a former prime minister zero has been jailed for five years for embezzling around two thirty two and two hundred fifty pardon me thousand dollars in donations meant for an orphanage trust eldest son and four aides were given ten year sentences now the seventy two year old has served as prime minister three times but the sentence could now bar her from running in december's national elections zero also faces

another thirty charges including allegations of orchestrating political violence she and the current prime minister shaker has seen or rule the country alternately since nine hundred ninety one she says the allegations are part of a plot to keep her around her family out of politics there are fears that jail sentence could trigger political instability. or protests have broken out in the capital darker with police firing tear gas at sears supporters party has called for nationwide demonstrations of friday to protest against the verdict our correspondent child tree has been monitoring events from the bangladeshi capital. former prime minister and bangladesh nationalist party chairman cullen that's the i was brought to this old central jail in a makeshift accommodation basically a daycare center this central jail no longer exists here the central jail has been

moved to its got off the city she was brought to by a white s.u.v. accompanied by her dumb ass the cattle chill be kept until from their order now the defense counsel told me they will file for it and pill the high court that depends on how soon they get the start if i'd write it in their hand that could take weeks are going few days the court don't open til sunday a lot of onlookers the and curious people heavily cordoned off area and i would try to talk to a lot of people that didn't want to go on the camera because of heavy security presence and now we know a lot of people on the record told us the country faces a serious political uncertainty in the year of the election if the ruling party with a smaller party goes into election without the main opposition party critics an expert told us that probably won't be accepted by a majority of the population and the country will go into a turmoil and uncertainty without a inclusive election down the road three years ago palestinian the liver twas

crushed to death by the israeli military vehicle during violent clashes in the occupied west bank the israeli army is attempting to sue the twenty one year old ali his entire village for the damage caused to the military cheat the accused get a myth of throwing of the vehicle imran khan reports. the israeli army killed a name in june two thousand and fifteen and now it wants twenty eight thousand dollars for damages to this jeep to crush the twenty one year old after his death ability family filed a lawsuit against the israeli state the case continues then in january this year the army build the family. this is a copy of the lawsuit given to us by the family lawyer. they reopened this so shameless that they're demanding compensation not because they want the money because they want to make it impossible for us palestinians it's not about

the money they want us to give in but we say we have the right you won't break because. in june two thousand and fifteen there was a raid by the army. leader mullah that turned violent the israelis say a below three of five all of the jeep which then swerved into him for over three hours the family says the army wouldn't allow medics to treat a villa as he lay beneath the jeep he eventually played to death the entire village turned out funeral. lawyers say asking for compensation is part of a new strategy to penalize palestinians for any kind of resistance in motion. honestly we're not used to seeing this sort of claim but if you take it in context where israel is going when it comes to killing fines and bills of votes in the knesset i think they're heading to a level where anyone who utters the word occupation can be harassed arrested and possibly find as you might be considered to insult the state and its inhabitants.

al-jazeera reached out to the israeli ministry of defense for comment it says it has submitted a statement of defense to the court stating that the event in which the plaintiffs was killed constitutes wartime activity as defined by the law and therefore the state is immune from prosecution in this event in the light of the damage that was caused to the i.d.f. jeep as a result of the molotov cocktail through my the plaintiffs the ministry has filed a countersuit i've remembered very fondly here anything as a martyr to the palestinian cause graffiti of his faith adorns the walls of the village and people here say they'll never forget about him. the family say they will continue to fight for justice for the law and they've named their new born son after him they say they would rather face whatever consequences there may be than pay the israeli army any money imran khan how does it call for the maalik occupied west bank ukraine's president has dismissed his chief economic adviser after an

al-jazeera investigation showed he received millions of dollars that were raised fraudulent lee briers last weekend own to ukraine's largest media group u.m.a. before selling it in twenty thirteen there was investigative unit uncovered documents that showed over a hundred million dollars in payments for the group was raised as a load on the company linked to president petro poroshenko more than ten thousand people have fled their homes in argentina's northern salter province a river burst its banks causing major flooding psalter is home to several of argentina's remaining indigenous communities are the reports from santa victoria in argentina as north. when the waters rise they do so rapidly and they're ruthless there's just time to save what's essential a place of it. i saved my nephew but then i couldn't get back seven kilometers from

i haven't heard anything from my sister more than one hundred members of the indigenous community left everything behind when they fled santa victoria evacuated to this school in the nearby town of of what i that being fed they want to go home . we were ready to go back but we're scared the water is filtered through losing all things would be very we spent our lives there our children grew up there carlos is one of the few who risk staying behind you know not. like there's nothing to eat today it's been two days since we last eight carlos is waiting for his neighbors to return which they will when this you know you rode into town is repaired. the water is a subsiding these defenses and constant vigilance saved santa victoria this time but life here for the mostly indigenous communities is precarious they're returning

home but wondering when the floods will come again these two were not so lucky their community. flooded and is now reachable but they were rescued by the provincial civil defense force looking at police the army and the red cross. out of the many. it's not about preventing emergencies any more emergencies come by themselves there's no way of stopping them well it's got to do is reduce the risk determine what the risk is and be there. it's a plan that was proper pairing for disaster is one way to deal with ever more frequent flooding in forest fires song have other ideas. the river is a we have fisherman and we live from now she's good. the signal telling is children think of your future so we'll meet and decide whether to move away from here for the future of our children or grandchildren. eking out

a living keeping the community together isn't secure predictable the floods have made that challenge a whole lot more difficult than. santa victoria northern argentina. well i military parade has been held in north korea a day before the winter olympics opening ceremony in the south they to kim jong un told crowds in the capital pyongyang his nation is ready to defend its sovereignty but with north koreans about to compete in the games the show of military strength was smaller than usual the tasha reports from one of the main olympic venues.

this was a patriotic celebration at home and display of north korea's military might for those. who didn't leave our army defenseless and keeps us happy it's our people's army just like its name so this army founding day is a great day for all of us thursday was the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the north korean army the military parade in pyongyang comes after the world witnessed advances in the isolated countries weapons program last year leader kim jong un praised what he called quote a world class military with the most powerful force despite punishing saying sions i would say that it's a show of defiance but it's a solo artist and velma to fines. and government wants to emphasize that the. power and light need to remain side in the face you vote future no matter what the fears army parade wasn't broadcast live on state t.v. and no new high profile weapons were displayed the toned down approach was likely

a response to a criticism of the show of military force on the eve of the opening ceremony of the young training olympic. north koreans participating in an unprecedented way at these games south koreans are hoping the only suspense and drama will be during competition. i feel very proud that a global event like the olympics is taking place in south korea kim jong un sr is expected to attend the opening ceremony in which north in. south korean athletes planned to march under a unified flag should be the first member of the ruling kim family to step foot on south korean soil since the korean war in the one nine hundred fifty s. from government leaders to people on the street there is optimism that the beyond chain games will help rebuild the ties between the two koreas it's already being called the peace olympics natasha game el jazeera. south korea

will have bring on young as happy with north korea's considerately moves for the winter olympics protests broke out outside a venue where a north korean orchestra was performing demonstrators say the games are a propaganda tool for pyongyang but they were a relatively small group of the orchestra performed a performance attracted a large crowd of self koreans. the residents of serve korea's capital seoul have been doing a double take us to see donald trump and kim taking a friendly stroll down the street ahead of the olympics of course it's not a dramatic thawing of tensions between washington and pyongyang but a pair of professional lookalikes the two presidents have never met in real life. they want you know just their home cell robert these are all top stories syria is

accusing the u.s. of committing a war crime by bombing its fighters loyal to president bashar al assad it do resume a province the u.s. says the airstrikes were in response to what it called a provoked to tackle the headquarters of his ally the s.t.'s. the white house says it's preparing for a government shutdown with congress struggling to approve a budget deal before a big night deadline the deal reached by said it leaders is facing stiff resistance in both republican and democratic camps kristensen levy has the latest from washington d.c. whatever deal is looking increasingly in doubt about an hour ago the senate leadership attempted to call a vote on this massive spending package that they've proposed but procedural delays are stalling this now bear with me here of course the senate has to vote on the package and the house has to vote on the package and then the president has to sign it before they can even take it to a vote in the senate all senators have to agree to call that vote and one senator

who wants an amendment rand paul wants an amendment considered for this spending package and he's refusing to let this go to a vote and by that i just broke it out on the streets of baghdad there shafter the former prime minister kelly dizzier was jailed for corruption zia was charged with embezzling about two hundred fifty thousand dollars a day should spread for the orphanage trust all groups in south sudan or freed more than three hundred child soldiers it's the second largest release of its kind since the country's civil war began five years ago they were released today shows program which helps child soldiers return to normal life. the date candidates have been officially day for next month's presidential election and russian president vladimir putin is hoping to win a fourth term opinion polls give him a lead of all that sixty percent opposition leader alexina valley who organized mass protests gates corruption has been barred from running of course you can follow those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com about with bold use it

thirty minutes but we continue our coverage here on al-jazeera with inside story to stay with us. is north korea playing games with the winter olympics athletes from both polio set to last under a unified flag of the opening ceremony but as the south the red carpet the north on four paraded in pyongyang so can the honeymoon last this is inside story.