i'm afraid. i'm afraid of. my family needs the men who go to the extreme just to make a living. not you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and certainly risking it all vietnam at this time on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. alone down in jordan this is the al-jazeera news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes gunman in bikini launch attacks near the army headquarters and an area housing embassies in the capital. a diplomatic standoff between

bangladesh over the future of thousands of revenge or living in no man's land. fears of a trade war as the united states imposes heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. it's been a tug of love but now there's something to celebrate the restoration of one of russia's many rundown estates. welcome to the program let's start with some breaking news out of bikini fassel where gunmen have launched attacks in the capital security forces in wagadu google are on the scene in the area near the prime minister's office witnesses reported seeing gunmen with backpacks entering the army headquarters and hearing a large explosion near the french embassy france's ambassador is calling it a terrorist attack on president emanuel is being kept informed of what's happening

let's talk to tanga found out he's a local journalist and joins me on the phone from wagadu what more details are you hearing about the attack and is it still ongoing there at the moment. it's hard to be done it well can be. along the road back to god from the fund i'm betsy to the general quality of the army. and to be going to leave the prison recording to the witnesses and we've done charge by you don't identify people who said fine five feet for that this is my first that's quite a time being this information out. there is fired. downtown is there a humvee the army is preparing for the saddest we see. it it did this once ask me that i promise on the plantain

book enough to force security forces organizing for the i felt that for the time being no offense meant how do you given we don't know but it can be if that the teams how many there are for the time being the government tried to set. a crisis committee and to get more details about the park as we're speaking to you we're seeing pictures in off screens of what looks like what looks like french army helicopters and some form of troops or security forces moving into the area who is likely to been behind the attack do you think. who do you think could have been behind this attack. talk. at a time being we don't have many many many information about it. so people are

waiting for the communication of the governmental problem and idea because it's many types. and credit time being no no no no. and nobody can see. what that cleaning. we're hearing the attack took place near the french embassy can you describe to us what security is like that. people will try to do this fight to understand what is happening. mass of the population in a way that. went back to. the mission to. read you.

wrong information that everybody is sharing. ok sangakkara found in want to do the capital of the kenya fast so thank you very much indeed let's cross over now to paris and talk to al-jazeera is david chase and david as we're talking to trying to found in wanted to do it seems that the attack is still ongoing security forces positioning themselves perhaps to storm some kind of building but from your perspective there in paris david looking across the region how serious is this attack. well the previous most serious attack was launched last year by a group calling itself al-qaeda in the islamic magreb they killed thirty people at the beginning of the attack on a hotel and restaurant there was another attack with many deaths over the summer

that had no claim no group claimed responsibility for it but just to update you from the palace because the prison macro is actually watching looking at developments the situation at the french embassy is under control that is what they're saying there was a note on facebook from the embassy saying that the gunmen were attacking and it was ongoing but four of the attackers have been in their terms neutralized four of the attackers have been killed now the french embassy is only about a kilometer away from the other attack that was launched which is an area where the army base headquarters are where the prime minister has his office and i think that after the french troops were helicoptered in to the center of the google obviously they're trying to find out and launch an operation around that area so the danger to the french embassy is over about what's happened inside the compound housing

french cultural center housing the army base and the prime minister's office so i suspect that's where the operation is now looking at the broader level. number of former french qualities in the colonies in this region which are very fragile and the special force half a billion dollars to be given to it has been formed to boost security and at the moment there are something like four thousand french troops in mali and the fasl and something like twelve thousand u.n. troops also operating in that area they've been under and many attacks so clearly this insurgency is is. raising the heat they're raising the threat to the stability of those very fragile countries and so the french will be very very keen to to help out in or google because emmanuel macro was there visiting the president only at the end of last november so he'll be taking a very personal interest and in the safety and security of the president and the

government are to david to the end paris david thank you now boko haram fighters have killed at least three aide workers and eight security staff in northern nigeria a u.n. spokesman says the attack happened on thursday night in the remote town of ron that's in borno state a female nurse is also reported missing feared abducted the town is home to a military base and a camp for more than fifty thousand internally displaced people let's get more from mom advantage on us from so what more can you tell us about this latest boko haram attack. yes don the attack took place according to the sources in late on thursday and apparently the the attackers used the the shield of the darkness of the night to mount this attack and the target the primary target was a military post guarding this camp that hosts about fifty five thousand internally

displaced people and that it's information we have is that they used that truck mounted with guns and they used iraq propelled grenades to. mount this attack and for a while they overpowered the post but the security forces apparently took over and . took control of the situation a little while after that. you and has confirmed that three aide workers were killed in this attack two of them worked for the international organization for migration and one was a medical doctor with unicef a female nurse is missing and also there are reports there were reports about a fourth aid worker wounded in this attack not confirmed yet a security report has mentioned also the killing of four policemen and four military. people in this attack without giving details about the civilians at this camp daryn has come under attack many times in the past at least two

confirmed in the past one of the most in september when nine civilians were killed by boko haram and before that about one hundred civilians were killed in an air raid which the government said was a mistake and and launched an investigation about it and away from that what's the latest on the search for the missing nigerian schoolgirls. yes don this attack happens as the security forces military police and the intelligence units are launching what they call an unprecedented operation in that area in the neighboring state of your bay where those plus one hundred girls were abducted on the one nine hundred of february the government has confirmed or has come with reports every now and then saying that they have made advances that they now are trying to zero in on on the abductors and know where the girls are a parliament and they're speaking here. today said that he knows where the girls

are that they are somewhere in the state of your be under the government should be able to reach them there is a widespread discontent here in nigeria about this situation because this is not the first time as we know and the government should be prepared should be better prepared there are accusations and counter-accusations among the different branches of the government about the responsibility and whether really the military withdrew their units from around the village of duchy arise before those attackers came in sight came inside and attacked the school and abducted the girls the military denied this but also there are reports of leaked documents showing that no really this is what happened the intelligencer posts told the military in advance that the attackers boko haram where about to mount some attacks but the military did not take that into account and this is a situation that has been going on for a long time there are reports of boko haram infiltrating infiltrating the military

and knowing in advance the movement of the military units in that area thank you. now mayor mas army is being accused of bullying and intimidating a range of refugees in the no man's land between its border with bangladesh al-jazeera spoken to witnesses who say the troops fired slingshots and threw bottles at the refugees and some even tried to come a fence into bangladeshi territory but bangladesh has told me in march to put its forces back from the shared border around the horn has more. these were some of the first range of muslims to flame me and six months ago finding refuge on the thin strip of land between me and mine and bangladesh that hugs the tundra canal now the troops that pushed them out of me and a back into making it very clear they want the revenge is gone for good. as. they came out around ten am brought in seven trucks with two ladders in each vehicle a total of fourteen and they tried to cross the barbed wire fences to forcefully

destroy our camp. the area is widely referred to as a no man's land for weeks mean must soldiers have up the patrols of the border fence. and used loud hailer as toward the estimated six thousand revenger to leave but since thursday revenge and bangladesh border guards say the number of heavily armed soldiers has grown to as many as two hundred it prompted bangladesh to summon me in must ambassador and demand the troops be pulled back but hundreds of the refugees have already given in to the soldiers orders and crossed into bangladesh. at six months since almost seven hundred thousand revenge of muslims fled a military crackdown in may in mass rakhine state the united nations called it a textbook example of the ethnic cleansing refugees spoke of systematic murder

sexual violence and arson but the government of the suci insists it was simply defending itself after a text from. me in my reportedly claims some of those three hundred fighters are hiding within the border camp. and the last week three nobel peace prize winners urged fellow laureate suchi to speak out or risk prosecution for genocide alongside me in mass military and others responsible for violence against the red. the diplomatic route of a troop movement at the border now three since a controversial deal to seemed to hinge of refugees back to me and and many will now be questioning without will ever really be safe to make me and my home again media on one hand to zero. plus more to come here on the news hour including russia is accused of breaching cold war era treaties that admit putin and promotes a new generation the weapons. upping the offensive at least eight turkish soldiers

are killed in syria's a free region the operation against kurdish fighters. and more misery for arsenal as manchester city extend their lead at the top of the premier league joe we'll have the details a little bit later. donald trump is standing by his plan to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports the president's announcements and asian stocks tumbling with investors and members of trump's own public and party warning of a global trade war but trump argues the moves will rebuild america's industry and that other countries have treated them unfairly for decades in the last hour or so trump tweeted saying when a country usas losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country does business with trade wars are good and easy to win and america's biggest trading partners have condemned the plan canada if the us is larger supply of both steel and alimony i'm it says it will retaliate against any restrictions on

trade and that's been echoed by the european union. we're strongly regret this step which appears to represent a blatant intervention to protect us domestic industry and not to be based on any national security justification. protectionism kind of be the answer to a common problem in the steel sector has said of providing a solution this move can only aggravate much as the u. has been a close a curate ally of the us for decades we would not sits idly while our industry is hit with them for measures that would thousands of european jobs at risk the e.u. a reaction from me and commensurately to defend our interests well i want house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us live now from washington d.c. kimberly so another controversial tweet from the president what more has donald trump been saying this john. well just the last few minutes he continued to defend his position and his desire to put these tariffs on the lumina and steel in fact

saying we must protect our country and our workers are still industry is in bad shape in all castes he says if you don't have steel you don't have a country certainly donald trump has been making his case on social media not just early this morning but also on thursday his position is certainly controversial not just inside the united states but as you point out outside the united states already canada the european union mexico china brazil all threatening to bring countermeasures but certainly the president of donald trump is one that is not new he certainly made these promises that he would take this type of action on the campaign trail in fact it was pivotal in him winning the election particularly in two key states pennsylvania and also in michigan so donald trump really had to follow through on this particularly if in an election year he's hopeful for any republicans to win seats in those states and around the country the position of

this president has been and remains that the industries steel industry particularly has been decimated by not just globalization but also automation and well not all of those jobs are going to come back he's certainly trying to put in place trade practices that will project protect the jobs that exist for the future and combine them in donald trump's plans to impose these tariffs on steel aluminum imports and even cause concern within his own republican party is there a why the worry of a trade war. there's an absolute worry about a trade war mostly because the president seemed to jump the gun with this announcement it seemed to catch a lot of the white house off guard certainly it was in the works but seemed to be sort of announced spur of the moment before a lot of the fine details have been worked out so that's one concern the other concern is that many republicans tend to be globalist they favor free trade and they feel that this is not the policy for

a republican president that it feels more like a left leaning democratic politician might be putting in place the other concern about this in this is a big one is this this could act like a tax in the end given the fact that american products could be slapped with tariffs for example american spirits like kentucky bourbon or wisconsin cheese that these retaliate tory measures that are being threatened by other countries could be putting tariffs on u.s. products driving up the prices here in the united states for american consumers so that is the real concern not just from democratic politicians but also republicans who are concerned about the ripple effects here in the united states can really think you know the u.s. is accusing russia of breaking treaties dating back to the cold war. what he describes as invincible nuclear weapons the russian leader presented the arsenal with video i mean missions one of which depicted in the talk on the united states. certainly did not enjoy watching we don't regard that as the behavior of

a responsible international player president putin has confirmed what the united states government has known for a long time that russia has denied prior to this that russia has developed been developing destabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations president trump understands the threats facing america and our allies in this in this century and is determined to protect our homeland and preserve peace through strength u.s. defense capabilities are and will remain second to none. well nato has spoken out against russia's president saying his statements threatening to target allies are unacceptable and the trump administration chose the same day as putin speech to announce how it's moving ahead with plans to sell ukraine anti-tank missiles to help defend its territory from russia journal reports from moscow. an hour in and a speech that had seemed relentlessly domestic and suddenly took an explosive turn

. no one expected lot to me at putin's annual address to parliament to involve advanced missile systems and strategic weapons and maybe talk of job creation and better roads in the years ahead it was a response he said to years of unchecked advances by the united states in missile defense. russia has always been a big nuclear state no one wanted to speak constructively with us in the past and no one wanted to listen well listen to us now one missile in development putin explained could travel the globe with unlimited range and entirely undetected by radar defense systems but there's three weeks before the presidential election it was all greeted with ecstatic applause by russia's political elite president putin made a strong message to. russian audience which can be spelled out as the fall of

any of this occasion the world is pretty tense surrounded by aggressors but you have to be rest assured that till the country is run by a person whose name is of light given to putin. you will have nothing to worry about as well as showcasing these extraordinary new defense capabilities let me a putin speech was full of inspiring promises of investment lifting people out of poverty improving their lives in what was expected to be his last major speech before the election this was putin presented to the russian people as a pillar of political. stability economic stability and perhaps above all security its full impact may have been intended for a domestic audience but there was more than a hint of menace in putin's warning that any outside threat would be met with annihilation russia's current defense spending is only about one tenth of that of the united states obviously combined defense spending is even much larger

than that of the u.s. the trumpet mr asian announced plans to increase defense spending. and russia with its economic conditions is unlikely to be able to spend much more than it currently does. i don't think there will be a real arms race after eighteen years in power this was a mere putin reminding russians that their country is a world power once again the strength of its conventional military on full display in syria he said its nuclear capabilities now soon to be more than a match for us might join a home al jazeera moscow it's been a violent twenty four hours for all sides in turkey's cross border offensive against kurdish y p g fighters in a free in syria the turkish military says eight of its soldiers were killed on thursday some advantage of a it has update from gaza on the southern border with syria. another day of the

five other pause has ended without any help getting to eastern ghouta we've been hearing reports on the ground of multiple airstrikes and shelling in various neighborhoods inside eastern with reports of casualties among civilians people who have been using in the last few days this five hour pause to come out and try and salvage whatever they can from their homes and take it inside as this spend nights in basements because of the shelling and the airstrikes do not stop during the ninety's rest of the nineteen hours of the day we've been hearing today that they didn't even stop during the five hour pause aid workers have been telling us that they have gotten this indication from the syrian government that it will allow aid convoys to come in but they have reservations because five hour window is not going to be enough for these convoys to go in eight to be distributed and then these convoys to make it back safely also there's still no got indy's by the russians or the syrians out how medical evacuations are going to take place how people who want

to leave east and will to come out are very will they go to further north in the are free region we've now had confirmation and more details have emerged about distant tacked on turkish government forces that have been carrying out operations against the by p.g. kurdish rebels who they call terrorists we've heard from the turkish media that the turkish soldiers were instead by the by b.g. fighters and they came out of tunnels and attacked them killing at least eight injuring thirteen and also attacking a helicopter that was being used by the turkish soldiers the turkish government has carried out retaliatory air strikes in on not just targets of the by p.g. but also on the targets of the syrian government militias that have been coming in to help them by p.g. stave off this advance by the city and by the turkish forces and their allies the f.s.a. the most the arab fighters who are trying to encircle the city of a free cut off that region cut off supply lines to the rebels that have been coming in from the syrian government and also other kurdish allies along the turkish

syrian border they say their city of our free is within reach. meanwhile emmanuel mock ron donald trump a promise to work together to implement a un backed cease fire in eastern guta in a telephone call the u.s. and french leaders also agreed that russia needed to put maximum pressure on the syrian government to abide by the cease fire the un security council agreed to a thirty day truce last saturday but more than a thousand critically ill people are still unable to leave the rebel on clay on the outskirts of damascus israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his wife are reportedly being questioned over corruption case involving a telecom giant israeli media say police are investigating whether netanyahu promoted measures favoring the company bezdek in exchange for favorable coverage on its news website police have recommended indicting netanyahu one corruption charges in two other cases he denies any wrongdoing investigators say there's sufficient

evidence to charge netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of public trust. the new video has emerged of israeli soldiers beating and kicking a palestinian man just before he died in custody and israeli human rights group says the man didn't receive proper medical help for twenty five minutes his family is now considering legal action reports from jericho in the occupied west bank. yes in our society runs at israeli soldiers carrying a large iron rod one fires at close range he's kicked and beaten he grabs a rifle barrel and is dragged off the street into an alleyway now another video released by the israeli human rights group at selham shows what happened next damningly they say it was essentially nothing no proper medical attention for twenty five minutes as he lay bleeding on the ground they are kicking him they are beating him with their rifles they're dragging him into the alley as though he wasn't a human being let alone a wounded person and for very long in crucial minutes the avoid providing him with

any medical treatment a sorry he had been involved in confrontations before shot and wounded in two thousand and two thousand and four in this case he was eventually carried to an army jeep and later pronounced dead and initial investigation said the probable cause was tear gas inhalation a further investigation into the shooting and the behavior of army medics is now under way israeli media citing sources close to the soldiers say they weren't aware of his injury and couldn't see in the dark that he was bleeding so this is the only way in question yes in our society who was shot at fell and was beaten by israeli soldiers at the corner there before being dragged in here his family say he was aiming for that doorway the doorway to his uncle's house his uncle's family says soldiers searched the property demanding id papers as the group of local men began throwing rocks from the street nearby in a statement the israeli military said a military police investigation has been opened which includes investigating the

circumstances of his death as well as performing an autopsy meanwhile the full operational de-briefing of the event is ongoing. in jericho yes you know saudi's mother is still receiving mourners a week on from osama's death israeli army has yet to hand over his body. they could have had him but not like that imprisoned him i wish they had but don't kill him and withhold his body they didn't rescue him my darling i keep thinking of that he called for me when they had this is a young mother of god knows what he said my beloved son. i sardi's family say they're considering legal action over his death before that their priority is to be able to bury him are a force at al-jazeera jericho in the occupied west bank town for check on the weather now and all the latest on the freezing weather in europe the based from the east his rope yes and it's about to be beheaded by the warm storm ha. i now or shouldn't joke about it is actually being quite a nasty thing is killed about forty people the beast nice is this real cold has

been sitting over here but now going into it is storm and which has come out of the atlantic so it does have a warm heart and it will eventually we know but in the meantime it's a big mess it's part of a system that you can trace all the way down to the black sea and then up through western russia and everything in here is cold everything that's white is all the snow or freezing rain that's particularly true in the british isles however this is what's in the middle of the real call this is the river vistula that goes through warsaw that's probably what the arctic sea looks like and that's part of the problem the arctic sea should be completely frozen never open water like that it's woman it should be indeed the north pole is warmer now than the sweden is however to say snow has been the problem more recently and this is the picture in london that london's a warm city it has this effect as all cities do but there's still snow on the ground there the next eighteen hours or so will be more snow there's a blizzard blowing you know and to be honest i'm not line extends or down through

the western side of the alps and back say to us you crave a breeze a lot more snow but things are improving in this northwestern part of europe doc thanks rob so to come here and al-jazeera the news training mission helping the central african republic rebuild its national and. world cup champions open another tournament with victory joe we'll have that and the school board that stay with us . the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted

a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. right. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera but enough asos communications

minister says four people who were part of an armed attack in the capital wanted to could have been killed a security operation is still under way around the french embassy and army headquarters which were targeted in the attack. me in mazar he's being accused of bullying and intimidating ranger refugees in the no man's land between the border with bangladesh al jazeera has been to witnesses who say the troops fired slingshots and threw bottles of the refugees bangladeshis told me amount to put its forces back from the area. russia's president vladimir putin has unveiled plans for the development of its nuclear weapons arsenal including a video depicting an attack on the united states trump administration says it plans to sell ukraine hundreds of anti-tank missiles to help it defend its territory from russia. now forces from the european union have been training soldiers in central african republic and an attempt to rebuild the national army was part of an international effort to stabilize the country after years of conflict as part of

algeria was special series catherine so reports of a training camp in the capital bunky. it's an intense six month program by the european union training mission in central african republic this men and women will eventually be deployed across the country much of it controlled by armed groups after the training they'll be given new weapons from russia following an exemption to an arms embargo by the u.n. security council when you have a civil war or a crisis in a country. the rules become. less. so when they are in a situation of stress and when the military in situations of stress of combat. you have to be real trained and well trained to remember the rules. in the same comp more training but for ex competence they've recently laid down their weapons as

part of a disarmament and going to gratian program there are about a hundred and says he says in this phase here. they get basic training and also importantly. bush but implementing the program has been slow it's strapped for cash and some groups are opposed to it not mean that. it is gone because we want to conserve people. ibrahim allow what is one of the leaders of the popular front for the renaissance of the central african republic a group that controls most of the north he said the government has fields too on a previous agreements. right now ten thousand un peacekeepers are holding the fort without them the security situation would probably be much worse but the forces of a stretched read old accusations of human rights abuses and peacekeepers are working in perilous conditions fourteen were killed in fighting last year in this

country also road conditions are very bad it's a forest for troops to stick with the roads the cargo into which we were means they have a.p.c.'s. the truck the government wants to take control of the country and having better trained and equipped soldiers will help. but with more than eighty percent of c. are under rebel rule regaining control is clearly a difficult hoddle catherine saw it all just zero central african republic. now somalia says it doesn't recognize a port deal between the breakaway region of somaliland the u.a.e. and ethiopia the bigger a port agreement was signed with the u.a.e. owned company d.p. world in dubai on thursday somaliland declared itself a republican one thousand nine hundred one though it's not recognized by mogadishu or much of the international community somalis as the port deal undermines unity

and goes against its constitution well the port provide some transport links for its landlocked neighbor ethiopia which has friendly relations with somaliland the development follows the cancellation of a port deal between djibouti for the north and the u.a.e. owned company djibouti had accused d.p. world of damaging its economic independence through a car bomb packed with explosives as rammed into a military base thirty kilometers northwest of somalia's capital mogadishu it happened in the afghan district local police say the number of casualties is not no . now officials from the five countries contributing to the african union force in somalia are in your ganders capital discussing plans to withdraw their troops by the end of twenty twenty the force known as amazon has been battling al shabaab for ten years it's now training local police forces and for me the miller spent a day embedded with an african union police patrol in mogadishu. these local police

officers a stationed at one of several high risk areas in mogadishu it's not far from the old parliament building an african union police patrol made up of kenyan nigerian and ugandan offices stop to check in where the other way out. but the local police meant to keep the area safe and not armed we have done the training we have been giving them in terms of knowledge and skills what is remaining in the equipment if they're going to help equipment ok much more than we expect somalia is a national police force is twenty thousand strong but sometimes haphazard it's still finding its feet securing the capital often relying on residents to gather intelligence some areas in mogadishu are targets fighters trying to overthrow the government. one challenge is that sometimes places explosives and paper bags and

dust builds african union patrols like this one a meant to coordinate security activities between foreign and local police the patrol takes us through some of the busiest parts of the city crowded with people and traffic aside from being used to assist and train local police these patrols by the african union's amma some force there's a very much about making people here feel safe the more police is seen the war people feel secure the government is preparing its own security forces to take over when african. union police and soldiers leave the country in two years the united nations says al shabaab has been weakened in the past year but the somali government says its security forces also face challenges our security force used to have the training outside the problem became when they come back. they don't have.

the nationalistic. view. and why they're fighting. there were not fully prepared in terms of the current situation in somalia. the government says its twenty six thousand troops are stretched thin somalia lacks the institutions to properly supported the police and soldiers sudden changes in leadership clan affiliations political infighting and low salaries don't make it any easier we are not going to be here for good right now as we talk the discussion is transition so i'm astonished to moving out and that's the reality in december one thousand amma some soldiers pulled out of somalia the african union says it could consider extending its mission in somalia but ultimately its mandate will end

for me to al-jazeera mogadishu. seven men have been arrested in slovakia and connection with the death of an investigative journalist police raided houses linked to suspected members of the italian mafia in two towns twenty seven year old young project was shot dead on sunday when investigating a high level corruption allegations and mafia links in the country. that's most storms are causing widespread destruction across europe for a third day at least forty people have died icy weather from siberia dubbed the beast from the east we're joined by storm emma rolling in from the atlantic sun and here to reports from the u.k. . if the first day of march is supposed to him to the spring to come there's little evidence of it here after a visit from the beast from the east the worst storm to hit britain in seventeen years and chaos in its wake many train service is ground to a halt in scotland more than three hundred people were stranded on this highway some for up to twenty hours in their cars. with the old model mark all

conditions so bad that the first minister nicola sturgeon even urge people not to travel. schools in the worst affected areas have to close down make the most of it others gave up fighting against the conditions i phoned in to work so hard. for britain's meteorological office has issued red warnings throughout the country meaning a risk to life as the siberian storm front is set to collide with storm heading north from the atlantic snowstorms of this a varity are highly unusual in europe at this time of the year and it affected countries all the way from the far north down to the mediterranean it may look pretty but these storms have been highly disruptive and dangerous all over the continent flights were cancelled and airports closed from switzerland to island

with thousands of homes were left without electricity and people were advised to stay at home dozens of people mainly rough sleepers have been reported dead across europe even venice the city of canals didn't escape the big freeze it's historic buildings and monuments blanketed in white the waterways still flowing just about and in parts of croatia a road maintenance team even used explosives. to remove the piles of snow. with more gales of blizzards expected over the next couple of days the worst may not be over yet. al-jazeera london. britain's prime minister to resign may is outlining her government's policy for the next step of negotiations on briggs it is expected to unveil her vision for a free trade deal with the e.u. let's listen to what the prime minister has to say when we take the big calls we'll think not of the powerful but you when we pass new laws will listen not to the

mighty but to you when it comes to taxes will prioritize not the wealthy but you when it comes to opportunity we won't entrenched the advantages of the fortunate few we will do everything we can to help anybody whatever your background to go as far as your talents will take you we are living through an important moment in our country's history as we leave the european union we will forge a bold new positive role for ourselves in the world and we will make britain a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us that pledge to the people of our united kingdom is what guides me in our negotiations with the e.u. . and for me that means five things first the agreement we reached with the e.u. must respect the referendum it was a vote to take control of our borders laws and money and a vote for wider change so that no community in britain would ever be left behind

again but it was not a vote for a distant relationship with our neighbors second the new agreement we reach with the new must ensure after brics it both the u.k. and the e.u. want to forge ahead with building a better future for our people not find ourselves back at the negotiating table because things have broken down. third it must protect people's jobs and security people in the u.k. voted for our country to have a new and different relationship with europe but while the means may change our shared goals surely have not to work together to grow our economies and keep our people safe fourth it must be consistent with the kind of country we want to be as we leave a modern open outward looking tolerant european democracy a nation of pioneers innovators explorers and creators

a country that celebrates our history and diversity confident of our place in the world that meets its obligations to our near neighbors and far off friends and is proud to stand up for its values. and fis in doing all of these things it must strengthen our union of nations and our union of people we must bring our country back together taking into account the views of everyone who cares about this issue from both sides of the debate as prime minister it is my duty to represent all of our united kingdom england scotland wales and northern ireland north and south from coastal towns and rural villages to our great cities. so these are the five tests for the deal that we will negotiate implementing the decision of the british people . reaching an angel you watching live pictures of the british prime minister to resign may giving how much anticipated anticipated speech on spending her vision

for a free trade deal with the e.u. let's talk to me back and i joins us live from london neves the prime minister still speaking another big moment for her another big speech on bragg's it was different this time meat. that's right hi well this is you've probably already heard is clearly turning into a rallying cry for breaks it a rallying cry for unity as well reason may of course faces accusations of being paralyzed by divisions within her own political policy between those who want a hard breaks and those who prefer a much softer departure she's been accused by certain figures within the european union of failing to deliver anything but vague an unworkable proposals so what this is really is an attempt to restore a degree of political credibility into reason may's ability to deliver on breaks it

and all of its promises and also to fill in some of the gaps when it comes to what she and her government hopes will be britain's future trade relationship with the e.u. going forward we know what to reason maybe doesn't want for the u.k. to remain part of the single market and the customers need but what we're hoping that she will do now is explain exactly how the british economy and the heart of the city of london surrounded by huge businesses and banks how the british economy will continue to flourish post breaks it there will be some details we expect coming soon just briefly before trade talks can begin there's still a host of unresolved issues surrounding the border between northern ireland on the republic of olive them and those issues just won't go away me why is that. i know that's right a host of outstanding issues but yes the border between northern ireland part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland remains a key sticking point really that needs to be thrashed out even more in december the

british government committed to making sure that they would not be a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of violent but has failed to deliver any clearcuts idea is about how that will work in practice there have been to some suggestions of using high tech solutions of the kind used to monitor cars going in and out of central london and as congestion but then with the lack of any clear cut plan what the e.u. have rushed in and suggested is a plan that would see northern ireland remaining part of a wider customs arrangement with the e.u. post breaks in of course the british government to come out quickly and said that that is not something they could ever agree to the idea of a possible border down the middle of the irish sea is not something that any presiding prime minister to resign may said could agree to it it's also and good unionists in northern ireland upon which the british government relies upon for

support in parliament here in the u.k. and they've threatened to potentially pull out of support for the british government should that go ahead a very thorny and difficult situation that needs solving before we can move forward on to trade all right and the bulk of their london need thank you now russia's a wrist aquatica states are disintegrating many a nationalized during soviet times and are still in state hands were private investors are being put off by the high costs and bureaucracy that comes with the restoration is really a chance. silence and snowflakes inhabit a grave and over now but before its current desolation this grand estates thirty kilometers northeast of moscow was home to royalty and rich merchants tuberculosis patients and finally soviet science students such a history should make this place special but across russia eight to ten thousand a states a quietly crumbling to dust says this conservationist. most of these things are in

the horrible condition where someone could put money in for many years with an unclear idea how they take it back and you'd have to work hard on it and you want the movies i should think like great never most estates are formally owned by the state the communist seeds them off to the one nine hundred seventeen revolution and in the years following the u.s.s.r. as collapse very few have passed back into private hands. one of the handful of success stories is so redneck over when we visited it was hosting boisterous maslin it's a festivities the slavic celebration of winter's imminent demise. and her going to know her. work from like a state where the life or your routines are one in the right circumstances oh like my tug of war efforts restoring set of nick over wasn't easy but it's new custody

in this did at least when now they host weddings film crews charge admission to the grounds and the profits help restore other bits of the estates mccollum and solve the namesake and relative of one of russia's most famous nineteenth century poets calls himself a romantic but he believes this time well on necessary attributes for taking on such a project. and a state is how a russian person understands what heaven on earth should look like and it represents the philosophy in the soul of a russian man today this is being just. reuter's that's why it's important to restore not just one or two states but the entire culture of all the greatest poets writers and philosophers were raised among disputed or through quantum. mechanical is now working with other owners and the governments to nurture and estate tourist industry and simplify many tax and regulate free complexities that person vest is off for grabs me of or perhaps it's already too late it's been more

than a hundred winters since this place was lost her family home perhaps thirty or so since it was last used to tall and if someone can be found to show the love and warmth that it deserves then who knows how many more winters it has before it finally vary by the snow where we talons al-jazeera was written by time for sport now his job daryn thank you man just as he appeared to be cruising to the third in wish premier league title in seven years they need just five points from their last ten games to secure the crown after beating also three nil on thursday city beat arsenal by the same scoreline in the league cup final on sunday the home team's misery was compounded by a missed penalty from america barmy an awesome thing as team are in sixth place ten points adrift of a champions league qualification spot while city and now sixteen points ahead of second place much as he knighted. you're a champion when you are champion when used to need fifty point you are in the

football can say ok yeah. we won a lot of games we just lost one customers five of course but we're not going to happen in football to happen actually oh well some of the world's best women footballers are an international action the she believes cup is a fourteen tournament played out between the usa england france and germany and they got underway on thursday top ranked usa hosting the tournament in ohio and the stars were out in force against germany megan rapinoe schooled in the seventeenth minute for the world cup champions to seal one win. the usa is next opponents will be france who comes straight from a four one thrashing at the hands of england goals from tony dugan jill scott jody taylor and chester kirby helped former england international phil never make a successful start taze coaching career. now football's rule makers will

decide on saturday whether to adopt v.a.r. video replay technology across football to help cut down on refereeing mistakes if it's approved it could be brought in for this year's world cup in russia but critics say it's not without its faults and could make the game much more stop start as was the case at friday's melbourne darby in australia the match began with control mostly when the victory thought they'd taken the lead after just fifty seconds until the referee stopped to use the v.a.r. system more than ninety seconds later victory celebrations were halted when one of the players was just be off site or melbourne victory eventually got to go in the twelve minutes and despite city's equaliser the void george sealed two one win. while monti down potter has reached the mexican open semifinals were also maintaining his perfect career record against opponent. dominic team the former u.s. open champion beat the austrian in straight sets in acapulco on friday del potro

stormed his way to a first set victory but team showed more resistance in the second set with it going down to a tie break still managed to clinch in the end office a successful challenge on team's final serve he now leads the pairs head to head record to nothing. next hour for del potro is this man well number five alexander vera the german made the semi's after his victory over american ryan harrison a comfortable win for the twenty year old six four six one the final score. also making it to the last four in mexico is kevin anderson the fifth seeded south african beating australian open semifinalist chung of south korea and others straight sets win here seven six six four. and waiting for anderson in the semifinal will be twenty one year old unseated american gerrard donaldson who shocked spanish veteran felicity on

a lopez rushing him six three six one to advance these three four time world champion knows how it is looking like the man to beat once again heading into the new formula one season the mercedes driver was on top of the time sheets in pre-season testing in barcelona on thursday mclaren stoffel van dorn was second quickest ahead of sebastian vettel the final pre-season test starts on march the sixth head first roam free in australia on march the twenty fifth. now the world's most famous dog sled race gets underway on saturday but allegations of doctor pain just won't go away in october it was announced that four dogs belonging to four time winner dallas seavey tested positive for a banned painkiller cv finished second in last year's race but has pulled out of this year's one in protest over his innocence doping isn't the only problem race organizers face they've lost a major sponsor and are under pressure from animal rights advocates following the death of five dogs last year. and that is the sport for now they'll be more sport

a little bit later darren will see them just thank you very much but also for me down in jordan for this news out but i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news stay with us to watch. less than one generation of developing countries one of the developed countries in the world we have grief. and fear. and. singapore's founding father created a nation of political dynasty family disputes undermining that legacy what's happened to their family and what's happened in singapore's institutions i just don't know what would have cost them grief people in power investigates the house that lead at this time on al-jazeera. is different from other channels because we're not just there when something happens we are there before it happens where

there while it happens and we say we do have a permit for this and a lot of places there's so much that. in the back ground being eleven on is very important it's about syria it's about lebanon it's about the power struggle between iran and saudi arabia it's all there and that's the challenge. for us to be displaced by their governments in one nine hundred twenty three it was very greek and turkish villagers return to their roots only most essential really turn. and reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. people should be forced to move from. the great population exchange at this time.

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