new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that lives. and die from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha fully back to go welcome to the news great fossils capital under a top gun fire and an explosion near the army headquarters in the french embassy in

want to do police are blaming what they're calling islamic extremists who have the very latest also on the grid russia under pressure to enforce a cease fire in syria and we counter passing a resolution calling for a thirty day truce the u.n. says nothing's changed on the ground no aid has been allowed to go into the siege areas and no civilians have been able to leave or hear from a journalist in eastern and an angry international response to president trump's blondie impose tariffs on. imports canada brazil and china are considering retaliatory says the u.s. president insists the measures are meant to protect american manufacturers but is politics at play here. indian stress one of carlos' has taken a don't turn some women saying harassment has been normalized during the annual celebration i'm sort of looking at the social media response and. next of the

season the hash tag a.j. . you are with a news great live on air and streaming online for you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining as we begin with news coming from booking our fossils capital ouagadougou in the past few hours have been reports of multiple attacks in the center of the city though there is still no clarity on what exactly is going on explosions and gunfire were heard near the prime minister's office in the heart of ouagadougou is diplomatic cobb the french embassy is also located nearby where helicopters have been flying overhead while pictures emerging on social media show a fake small billowing out of the nearby army headquarters the government says it's killed six gunmen a security operation is still underway we understand let's get the very latest and speak to tangata fondles a local journalist and joins us on the line from ouagadougou burkina faso capital

this been some confusion about which sites have been targeted in the capital tell us what you know and what the late is is right now. the u.n. . but. others. on the other but the. people who are out there who. believe. that. they are all. our apologies said the quality of our connection with ouagadougou they're not very good we were hearing there from local journalists for phone door telling us about this attack multiple attacks in brooklyn a fossils capital come just three months after the french president emanuel visited

the area the region working a fossil in other countries and talked about. forcing security in the region and putting up a force a military force to fight the radical groups in that region let's speak to our correspondent in paris now david chaytor who is joining us live on the news great david earlier reports had said that the attacks today in wanted to go were at the french embassy and the french institute what is the word from the french foreign ministry about the situation in booking a fossil. they've been keeping a close eye on these developments along with the president himself the elisei what they've been saying is that the situation at the french embassy in the capital is now what they say under control four of the five gunman who got out of a car and started spraying their bullets and launched attacks on the french embassy have actually being killed outside the french embassy and then there was

a coordinated attack about one kilometer away fully at the french cultural institute which is very close to the main army headquarters and there are three of the attackers of being killed we don't know if there are any other coordinated attacks at the time but it does seem the some of there are reports of gunfire still in the city but it is extraordinary that this attack has been launched but the french troops some four thousand of them in that region they flew in helicopters into the center of work to do go and they took part in the operation as well they have had more attacks like this over the last two years about two years ago january twenty sixth in there was an attack on the hotel and restaurant which thirty people died and that was claimed by a group an affiliate of al qaeda described as the al qaeda of the islamic magreb

and now nobody has claimed this attack yet nobody claimed the attack last year when about nineteen people were killed and more injured in another attack on a restaurant in the center of work to do so this is clearly a developing insurgency in the area it's a huge problem that's why there are four thousand french troops right in the region in both mali and in kenya fassel and police in booking a fossil currently blaming this attack right now on what it calls extremist islamist groups the french president was in book. as we've mentioned david just a few months ago where he called for assad health force to be set up against the various armed groups that are operating in this region because it's not just booking a fossil of course but also mali where their friendships currently stationed. that's right there are a century five what we would call fragile states on the southern remove the of the

sahara all of which are facing pressure from insurgents bases in that vast area of the sahara they're all under attack and what the french president joins a do was give a large amount of financial aid to try and set up a coup de native toss force to help with the fight to help with security but it is a very difficult area to control fosters senses and there are some hideouts which the groups can use very effectively in and launch these sort of attacks but it's notable so far no one has claimed responsibility for this one but the french president indeed the united states and europe are all aware of the developing situation in this region this is a real threat to some very fragile states and they need outside help they need military help from france particularly because they were the colonial power in this area but other states are trying to form

a coordinated task force to try and prevent these sort of attacks happening but so far they've not been successful david chaytor in paris thank you very much for that we'll keep a close eye on the situation in working a fossil force here on the newsgroup and bringing you the very latest as and when we have it on to other world news now and diplomatic pressure is mounting on the syrian regime and its russia to implementing a u.n. backed cease fire agreement the u.n. human rights council is meeting right now in geneva in an emergency session called by the u.k. to discuss the recent surge in violence in eastern guta that is a france germany and the u.s. to a spoke earlier today agreeing on the need for russia to exert maximum pressure on the syrian government to end hostilities and here's why this is what eastern ghouta looks like right now the opposition controlled eastern district of damascus is virtually flattened by relentless syrian and russian bombardment more than. six hundred people have been killed in just twelve days in the rubble n.k. that's been under a crippling government siege for almost five years now on friday syrian government

warplanes killed dozens of civilians russia's been promising a five hour daily ceasefire but that hasn't allowed any aid to trickle in at least a thousand people need urgent medical care now the un's human rights chief says what's happening in syria must be referred to the international criminal court or hussein has been speaking at the u.n. human rights council meeting that's underway in geneva where he apologized we apologize for the bad audio quality but take a listen to what he had to say about the situation in syria what we'll see in eastern four olds who are in syria are unlikely war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity civilians are being pounded into submission order the further truth is all these crimes must be that they are being identified but those years are being built up with

a view to the prosecution. again our policy is for the sound quality there let's not hear from noor adam who is a syrian journalist and photographer with the damascus media center he is live with us on skype from inside eastern guta thank you so much for speaking to us now on monday russia said that syrian forces would begin a five hour pause in attacks on eastern ghouta way you are every day to allow aid to go away has that happened at all have aid workers been able to use is find our policy get supplies into east and go to. thank you for having me first of all. there is no ceasefire not from russia not from assad not from from iran and about what russia say about the ceasefire five hours that is not actually true more than many are stricken from russian world nights and doesn't take

in the morning from assad or brains i mean today until this moment more than four hundred people killed between them one woman and two children and yesterday twenty two people also killed by a assad regime and the russian warplanes i mean about the any cease fire they're talking about here is there's no ceasefire at all so no ceasefire what's happening with the civilians the people who live inside eastern ghouta are they able to get out at all are they able to venture out during the day no no actually this is lindsey and the women and their children still in the shelter hide them from the bombing but also the shelter cannot protect them from. trick or from of the bombing or from their missiles because the. targets every building and every shelter and it's not go to. such as. deep inside there and.

just everything right now is about the shelter is to go to. try to. sorry to interrupt you. noor adam i know you're telling us about the situation in eastern time the fact that you know the bombing has been relentless and the civilians haven't been able to to get out and get food but i wonder how your they are your any single how are people able to live on a daily basis where are they getting food from what what's happening on a daily basis to people. that there is a daily about the aids and about the living many of the men trying to get out and get this some of the phone like just one male for five family one man for five audience it's about a male it's about bread i mean and the man arrested to live to get food for children and the food here is very expensive because it is under siege under the

siege now for more five years yet as you say the siege has been going on for for a number of years now more than four years do you feel that it's gotten worse lately and even with this cease fire that the u.n. has voted and these different powers have agreed on do you feel that there's been any improvement at all has it been worse in the last few months. no actually it is the wars and after the security council avoided for a ceasefire it's good and war is getting worse from a label or so from here or in this small area and we don't have any food if we have food it's very expensive because the seas and people here try to live on one meal and a day and there's children all the bands and they are hungry but the can do nothing because we don't have any food and the united nations security council and all the war did not everyone been dinars i mean no one no one actually has been honest

people here are the. ones because of the bombing and once we got the government to go supplies and medicine and food i mean what's kind of life that people here are disappointed people really are bannock to their i mean every skin actually destroyed the regime and russia warrants a destroyer more than eighteen our building gooda thank you so much for speaking to us know adam a syrian journalist giving us a picture there of the situation in eastern guta and for all the latest on what's happening in the damascus suburb of eastern ghouta check out the special page on al-jazeera dot com what's happening in eastern huta and why and you also find a map of the area which shows wide so strategic remember who has been under siege for years for four years more than four years and what we're seeing now is a syrian government attempt to claim it back and that's having a huge impact on civilians as we've heard there from that syrian journalist all of that on our website at al-jazeera dot com. now elsewhere in syria in the

north west on the northwestern front the turkish offensive against the kurds is dragging on with more casualties on both sides on thursday at least eight turkish soldiers were killed in fighting in a free turkey has lost forty one soldiers in its offensive against a kurdish group the white b.g. in a frame it launched that military offensive in january of this year they speak two hours there is a sama bin jahvid now who is in gaza other turkey syria border ossama some very heavy losses for the turks in a frame where they expecting such a tough battle. hopefully they have been expecting bottles but the ferocity of this i don't think that they were looking forward to because this is something that happened after they had deployed specialists forces which are specialized in the urban warfare people who've been fighting the p.k. k. in urban centers and this bush which came near our free in one of the villages was

using tunnels i mean these fighters came out the attacked the turkish soldiers they killed at least eight wounded thirteen attacked the helicopter that was accompanying them so it was one of the most brazen attacks that we've seen in recent weeks on the turkish troops one of the deadliest attacks for them as well because at least forty one soldiers have been killed in this campaign that have gone on for about six weeks now the turkish president a couple of weeks ago said that this will be a matter of days before they reach the center of a free and the military has been saying that there are guns and slow because they want to try and avoid civilian casualties but military experts have been telling us that this is very tough terrain this is a hilly area to fight this with turkey called terrorists know this area quite well they have been launching attacks they have been slowing the turkish advance and that the fighters that deterred turkish government backed the free syrian army predominantly out of quite as have also been trying to make advances around the

city of a free and they have not been able to encircled it completely they have not been able to talk off all of the supply lines that the kurds ideas have from not just the government forces which are backing them now but also other kurdish fighters which are backed by the united states thank you very much for that osama bin job headline forests in gaziantep me and a techie syria border as always we'd love to hear from you on this and other stories we're covering on the great today connect with us one facebook facebook dot com slash i'll just say on twitter our handle is at a.j. english and you can use the hash tag news grid of course and also on whatsapp and telegram or telegram both actually the number is press nine hundred four five a one ship a one four nine. moving on and germany's joined a chorus of countries against donald trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports shielding speculation of a possible global trade war canada the e.u. and mexico are threatening counter measures against u.s.

goals in response australia russia and japan have also voiced second cern's president trump prancer increase tabs on steel imports by twenty five percent and a noumenon by ten percent the announcement has already spoke to investors that impacted stock markets enormous but we don't need them good and all we have to find the opportunity to tell the united states that stealing our mean you mean ports from japan which is an allied nation poses absolutely no threat to its national security we're strong we regret the 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 our common problem in the steel sector instead of providing a solution this move can only accurate matters the u.s. being a close security ally of the u.s. for tickets we will not sit idly while our industry is hit with them for measures that put thousands of european jobs at risk the e.u. we reacted firmly and commensurately to defend our interests while china is the

world's largest steel producer but so far its reaction has been rob a cautious says agent brown reports now from beijing. well as china considers whether to retaliate against the united states the language from its officials has so far been quite measured the commerce ministry said on friday that it was concerned over president trump's announcement a foreign ministry spokesman said that china want to the united states to continue playing a positive role and urged washington to refrain from taking and carrying out what he called punishing actions now i think it's fair to assume that china had anticipated president from doing something like this because of course during the past few months he's repeatedly warned that he was going to impose heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports china of course actually produces more than half the world's steel but in fact very little chinese steel is now going to the united

states because in recent years china has been hit with heavy antidumping judi's involving steel now these two countries of course have an awful lot at stake the value of trade between china and the united states currently stands at around six hundred billion dollars and i suppose the real question now is is this trade friction between china and the united states really going to lead to a full blown trade war but that doesn't seem to concern president donald trump earlier today he tweeted this saying when a country the usa is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country does business with trade wars are good and easy to win example when we are down one hundred billion dollars with a certain country end may get cute can't don't trade anymore we win big it's easy. well let's get a better idea of which countries the u.s. gets most of its steel from using figures from the department of commerce here they

are highlighted in grade eight nations including canada mexico japan russia and brazil old sold one million tons of more products to the u.s. in twenty sixteen you noticed china is not among them as for aluminum while imports now make up about ninety percent of the aluminum consumed in the u.s. from sixty six percent in two thousand nine hundred twelve our present trump is using an obscure law to impose a tax essentially using national security as justification many have question this move saying other countries could also use a same reason to impose tabs on u.s. goods. is a professor at japan's university oh shit she's ok and here's what he told us about this this could trigger a notion of trade for throughout the world which would be very very negative considering that the fragility of sustaining the economic conditions around the

world is being cited so this is coming at a very bad time ie it's something that we need the least at this moment i think but the irony here is that japan and us if you look at from a security point of view were allies and the reasoning for this action comes from security measures now i fully understand or at least there's a reasoning if this is imposed against russia or china for security reasons but you know imposing it to canada mexico and japan is something that's really strange and at the same time if you look at china the the steel that is being used in the united states are on the very low range meaning that it does not really threaten the security measures in the united states so the logic behind imposing this new tariff is really out of the ballpark. well president transition has also put him at odds with members of his own republican party for more on this they speak to scott notice was a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham he joins us

now from birmingham in the u.k. on skype thank you so much for your time so basically what present trying to supposing is the opposite of the free trade policies that republicans tend to champion what do you think is in this now is sis a political decision oh of course it's political is all whether you see it in his tweets from the white house statement this whole idea of america first this idea that by turning inward whether it's economically or politically on immigration somehow the united states will be a better country and he will say it will help those who are poor or the working class in the united states now there are numerous reasons why we could go through why raising tariffs on steel and aluminum will not help the poor in the united states in fact it is likely to make them worse off it is likely to make us business or saw it is not going to help the american economy of the global economy but of course what trump is looking for is the short term political effect that he is the

protector of these people and that perhaps if he protects them why should we worry about things like say the russian bus to. if this goes ahead this would be one of the republican party's first major policy disagreements it would appear how do you think this will impact them going into the midterm elections later this year. well i think it's part of a broader picture in which republicans have had a number of differences with donald trump let me remember that there has only been one major piece of legislation which the administration has gotten through congress in fourteen months which is the tax cuts in december we don't even have passage of a budget however we don't even have an agreement on immigration but while republicans may have disagreements with trump they are sort of tied to him especially going into november's elections in that if they cut him loose they have no chance of getting their own agenda through so they put up with him now will they

put up with him once the american economy suffers the effects of say increase tariffs that will be a question they'll have to face but probably not immediately because it will take months for the effects of yesterday's move to really take hold thank you so much scott lucas for sharing your views with us can't look us is a professor of international politics at birmingham university are some breaking news to tell you about now on the news grid and this is out of the united states where there reports of shots being fired at. university in the state of michigan this happened at central michigan university in the campus of mount pleasant we understand the suspect is reportedly still at large a number of people have been killed according to various reports two we're hearing and this is a post from central michigan university on their website on twitter just a short while ago reports fired at campbell hole on campus the suspect is still at

large police vising old to take shelter and if you see something suspicious say see call nine one one so some breaking news out of the u.s. a shooting at central michigan university where are you on that as and when we have information and an update on our top story earlier today from so quick updates where we're hearing that seven security personnel have been killed. to various explosions in attacks in the capital wanted to go earlier today let's move on now and of the nelson mandela foundation in south africa has asked any quality court to ban the display of an apartheid era nationals drag a social media producer is here to tell us more. this is the side at the center of a south african debate now the nelson mandela foundation says displaying it or even waving it amounts to hate speech the orange white and brief live from one thousand

nine hundred twenty eight represents the era of white minority rule during apartheid a reminder for millions of black south africans of the dark colonial past now the positions of ban the flag will be presented to a court in johannesburg and those opposing the plan can make their case as well now that nelson mandela foundation does acknowledge though that the flag has got an educational purpose and can be displayed in the likes of museums but it was this so-called black monday protest last year the foundation says the old flag was seen . displayed by some protesters there thousands of white farmers demonstrated against of a wave of attacks and at the time the sight of the flies caused a bit of a social media storm both for and against now the members of south africa's white supremacist a.w.b. party also raised their flag during the funeral of the leader in twenty ten but the rights group representing the white minority afrikaans community argues that while

it doesn't use the old flag or any of its events it is still part of history in fact at sea oh sorry crow says this would be a setback for freedom of speech in our democracy if you stop banning things what next now we also south africans in pretoria if they think the petition should go ahead and his what they had to say i'm all for it i'm all for it i mean the new south africa has been there in remission for like twenty four years now so i mean i'm all for it like this you go ahead to petition i think if it's often some people who are going to shoot keeping me up after all if it is an apple or did we think it should be blamed if you don't seem to like some other people. ok. and over the way from. our country it's a free country you see everyone it's will come here so i think. you could still have it is because the truth. will come from. that if you have that though

some fantastic thing in the background you'll find me on twitter at sort of heart so you can always tweet me your thoughts so any stories you have locally to share with us from your country folly sarah thank you very much for that if you're watching us on facebook live coming up next on the grid we've got a story for you about a religious group in the u.s. with a passion for assault rifles and then later on the program russia is accused of breaching cold war era treaties after president putin promoted a new generation of weapons more on that in just a few minutes to stay with us. out of the weather throughout this part of the world western asia so iran back towards the levant is a lot quieter than it was this to oversee crowd around in the caucasus when turkey

and some in turkmenistan moving up through afghanistan but it's moving through because snow is possible on the higher ground on saturday but these daytime marks is two plus five. in baku it's ted if anything is getting warmer as the breeze is coming up from the south eighteen in the forecast by sunday twenty eight for baghdad a bit of cloud in the sky for iraq and to syria a bit of a breeze on the shore for beirut still talking about twenty three degrees you know it's warmed up considerably south this is also quiet and daryn from the point of view of showers there's been some pretty beefy ones you know monna last day or so brief bit of flooding but looks like title dispersement a sunny couple of days to come twenty seven thirty three in mecca seems about the right ratio east to west of the peninsula there are still major showers around every now and again in south africa but the concentration of white top clancy's rather further north a lot far from lusaka certainly down in mozambique and you'll notice over the oland

of madagascar who she's very closely coupled to a spinning jinnie. true confessions might or never be cleaned up or many but not all right senekal example of communist propaganda. too but at the base. i was out on. parole in twenty ten al-jazeera access to north korea to investigate be on the edge to use of biological warfare by the us during the korean war rewind revisits dirty little secrets this time on al-jazeera we headed to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with a lot of internet to recover includes that we don't dip in and out of this story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the

united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters. and. the.

headlines on al-jazeera and the stories trending on our website al-jazeera dot com at number one there the situation in syria and more than six hundred people killed as a cease fire has failed to stop the carnage in east in the old saw training our top story on the news great today and those multiple attacks and want to do good work in a fossils capitol records say at least seven security personnel have been killed and several other stories trending there on our website. dot com. we are going to update you now on another breaking news story on the news grid in the first pictures are coming into us from the u.s. state of michigan where several shots are reported to have been fired at the university of michigan central michigan central michigan university more precisely hopefully we can bring those pictures to you now we understand according to various

reports that the shooter is still at large a few casualties reported two people killed according to media reports out of a u.s. . live pictures from mount pleasant central michigan university the campus on mount pleasant where they has been a shooting incident the shooter reportedly still at large will update you of course on this breaking news story out of the u.s. when information becomes available. moving on now to other news and myanmar's army is being accused of bullying and intimidating ranger refugees in the no man's land between its border with bangladesh al jazeera has spoken to witnesses who say the troops fired slingshots and threw bottles at the refugees and some even tried to climb a fence into bangladeshi territory bangladesh has told me to pull its forces back from the shared border mariana honda has the details but these were some of the

first range of muslims to fling me and six months ago finding refuge on the thin strip of land between me and mine and bangladesh that hugs the two hundred canal now the troops that push them out of me and ma a back and 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 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 mars 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 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 threatens a controversial deal to seem 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 maidana hond al jazeera. and the range of prices explained on our websites in images and maps through several maps you can follow the path of you know the ranger from myanmar's rakhine state to other countries bangladesh notably and you've got some very good numbers say that explains this crisis in depth it's on al-jazeera dot com time now for a look at the day's other news led such a check in with mary in our london you sent to hi maria. hi there fall yes the british prime minister tourism a is been outlining her vision for the next stage of brics it in a speech here in london she said there were five key tests for negotiations with

the european union which included respecting the referendum vote take back control of the u.k.'s border laws and money may also refuted european union accusations that u.k. is trying to cherry pick the most favorable of its rules while stopping the ones they don't like just. the fact is that every free trade agreement has varying market access depending on the respective interests of the countries involved if this is cherry picking than every trade arrangement is cherry picking more over with all its neighbors the e.u. has varying levels of our access to the single market depending on the obligations those no neighbors are willing to undertake in barca has more from outside the mansion house in here in london where the speech took place. she's essentially doing is filling in many of the gaps and answering many of the questions that the people here in the u.k.

have about how britain will forge ahead with its trade relationship with the e.u. post breaks it has been spelled pretty much early on in negotiations with the e.u. is that the u.k. will be leaving the single market will be leaving the customs union but at the same time wants to have a continuation of frictionless trade with the e.u. but how will that work if the u.k. is not prepared to accept one of the main telent of all of that the freedom of movement of people what she is now saying is that. the u.k. should wherever possible mirror. you rules and regulations for instance when it comes to safety standards all exports and things like that allowing the u.k. to avoid the kind of checks and balances of borders that would slow down the flow of goods so nominees from europe it's the final day for italian politicians to win over voters ahead of this weekend's parliamentary election predicted to be one of the most polarizing in years most polls suggest

a hung parliament with former prime minister silvio berlusconi's alliance of center right groups imagine as the largest bloc but it is expected to fall short of the absolute majority required to govern well the anti establishment five star movement looks certain to gain the largest single party vote italy's lagging economy is a very important factor for many voters especially among the young with unemployment sitting at eleven percent let's hear from some italians on their hopes and expectations from this election. the small businesses the priority is that they lower the taxes because with this level of tech we can't go ahead this is the problem here is going to be a lot of you certainly for the lift yes because they represent my values values of the population of solidarity of inclusion and of modern society that all. will vote for the five star movement because in life i have had to confront a variety of challenges and come out the other side i want to change something and

i want to put them to the test i want to see if they can they will come from this new challenge and make a success of it but the to venezuela where the presidential election will now take place in may after being pushed back almost a month comes as beleaguered president nicolas maduro announced a fifty eight percent rise in the minimum wage is latest attempt to address his nation's deep economic crisis and national electoral council says and opposition parties have agreed to reschedule the election from april twenty second to may twentieth israeli police have questioned prime minister benjamin netanyahu over a corruption case involving the country's largest telecommunications company investigators spend around five hours at netanyahu residence lisa speck that the prime minister acted to benefit bezerk telecom in return for favorable coverage on a news website is a long time confidant and the owner of that was arrested last month police have also recommended the prime minister be indicted on corruption charges in two other

cases and yahoo denies any wrongdoing. i as you can see behind me london much of europe is in the grip of a deep freeze after the so-called beast from the east a blast of siberian air that brought widespread snow and freezing conditions at the start of the week united kingdom and ireland are now being battered by storm it's forcing dublin airport to close and twenty four thousand homes and businesses. as a without power across island while and person the army has been called in to help rescue hundreds of drivers stuck in the snow. i have more from a very cold and snowy london at later on now let's get back to fully stay warm out there thank you very much merriam for that and the u.s. is accusing russia of breaking treaties dating back to the cold war era after vladimir putin unveiled what he describes as invincible nuclear weapons the russian president presented the apparent arsenal with video animations one of which

depicted an attack on the us 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 save in nike's a distinguished fellow at the asia pacific foundation of canada he says putin's nouns meant is a demonstration of strength. i think with putin has been very much interested in demonstrating that russia does have the capability to push back against what is

perceived as united states aggression both in eastern europe but also growing belligerent in northeast asia in particular on the korean peninsula. from russia's standpoint and president putin standpoint is that the united states and liberal western institutions have gradually put more and more pressure in the post cold war period on russia decreasing its influence and russia would like to send the message that again russia is a powerful country it's still a great power and it can push back against american influence not only in the region but globally the systems that can. perhaps when we don't have any proof that can perhaps get through missile defense systems and get through american defense systems maybe one of the. strategies to deal with that but joel rubin from the washington strategy group says russia's announcement may be taken as a threat. certainly there is

a risk that this could escalate and it's because currently only one nuclear arms agreement is underway and currently working that the new start agreement absent that if we don't have that continued few years down the road there really are no other frameworks for agreement between the two countries on nuclear issues and when it comes to syria policy the united states and russia are not seeing eye to eye certainly in ukraine it's well there is some commonality on the iran nuclear deal certainly that's good but russia right here in washington has become a political source of deep toxicity for president trump he never talks about it and the rush investigation by bob muller is really digging deep into the networks that supported russian infiltration of our democratic elections in two thousand and sixteen and that's going to really impact any kind of strategic moves

that the president the pentagon and the president make now people across india celebrating the hindu festival holi but this you have a conversation around the holiday has taken a more serious style and found you know more details i'm not see you now think of the brightest and nicest fibrin of colors and do you have any. now holy is a celebration of good over evil and the hindu festival happens every spring in india with people dancing in the streets in white clothes throwing colored powders at each other as well as water balloons but it's all been tainted this year because a few days before a female student a lady shriram college posted this on instagram and she says she was hit by a balloon filled with semen that's right semen and another woman in the area complained about the same issue soon after now the university student union responded by asking for lease to patrol the area to prevent such attacks and women

protested outside the delhi police headquarters on thursday arsing them to do more but it launched a nationwide conversation about harassment jury holly now the insurance company reliance general released this video saying honey is not an excuse to harass women and the company says many women don't take part in holy celebrations out of fear of being assaulted now many people are using the hashtag holy not hooliganism this tweet is from the it's a pradesh state police telling men to celebrate like gentleman should and we also heard from several women speaking out about this issue and here is what they have to say to us. holy is a beautiful expression of culturalism elation but it's been done to hooliganism over the years because over the years we've been taught that our consent does not matter as much as it does any other day of the year because good undermine a holy hair or don't mind it when you see that phrase you had a century propagating the idea that we need to take what is normally considered

what is meant on any other day of the year instead it did it because we're celebrating something beautiful this has led to so much has meant that around us people are grouping assaulting touching one another under the farce of fun and play and often sexually and we're getting increasingly frustrated and i'm comfortable with it because bass and consent are important every single day of the how do we solve this problem one is actually teaching young children the importance of consent or training them at school level. by enforcement of strict law and order and stopping the incidents that happen and more importantly more and more women are being vocal about this they're coming out to protest. myside balloons is what imus says hurled at them they're raising their voice against this sort of hooliganism. now if you're in there we'd love to hear from you about your experiences and how we connect to us using the hash tag a.j.

and sarah we've been hearing from some of our viewers today on the great about the story pin to here on twitter who says it's true women normally don't play holi outside their paces the atmosphere is full of garrity and obscenity another comment here from rico also on twitter who says it's situation specific let's not generalize the harris men and make it seem normal thank you for your comments and you can keep them coming on the story and others we're covering on the great today connect with us using the hashtag a.j. news great on social media are let's get an update now on that breaking news story we're telling you about earlier in that shooting incident at central michigan university in the united states let's bring in our correspondent she have returned the you joins us from washington d.c. what's the latest on the situation. we have very little that we're able to confirm right now just of official tweet from central michigan university itself saying

that shots were fired of a dormitory building campbell hall on the campus the suspect was still at large but with the last time we got any official statement from central michigan university as often the case we are getting various on confirmed reports of injuries and perhaps were worse perhaps two injuries have been reported however we're not able to confirm that and as we know from our experience in covering these sorts of incidents all too often in the united states it's very important that we are skeptical as we look at the sort of reports that we're getting on social media but shots five in central michigan university out of dogwood tree hole piece that suspect is still at large according to officials at the university she have thank you very much for that update and of course we'll keep a close eye on the situation at central michigan university and bring you the very latest with shihab and the rest of our teams there in the united states swartz's

just ahead on the news great and while russia has had its alleged big ban lifted still no flying so low on funds for russian competitors at this week's world indoor athletics championships people will be here with more on that in just a few minutes but first a snapshot of the world by the. thank

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i like find out are people talking about in sports today peter farley athletics on thursday the international olympic committee welcomed russia back into the sporting fold following the ban for doping offenses which saw its athletes compete as neutrals at last month's winter olympic games in pyung chang south korea but russia remain banned from international athletics and russians who are right now taking part in the world indoor championships in birmingham are still competing as neutral athletes eight russians were cleared to take part in the world in those two to twenty year old then releasing called the one one of the first goals of the event on thursday in the men's high jump he finished second to.

him at last year's out to wolves in london. but that's result was reversed here twenty seventeen world athlete of the year bosham having to settle for the silver behind the young russian. and there was another russian gold in the women's high jump for maria last that scanner twenty five year old had been the overwhelming favorite to win the title she jumped eight same to metres higher than her challenges on route to a thirty eight consecutive victory. you heard that correctly thirty eight now here's a look at some of the online reaction to the double russian triumph on day one in birmingham this tweet is a picture of the flag raising during the middle thermally for the cinco notice that it's not the russian flag in the same to be instead it's the flag of the international athletics federation now tim chambers offers some perspective

on lester skinner's superbe run of thirty eight high jump wins in a row he says search and outstanding talent with the misfortune of being at the top of her of now as in right now this day and age must be getting to receive your middle to no end to the chambers and this one is quite from jonathan gold have a look at those sits a sweep for rush no not quite it's a sweep for authorized neutral athletes now russia has been suspended from athletics since november twenty fifth sebastian coe the president of the sports world governing body the i w f says that will not change until they're satisfied russia has cleaned up its act take a listen. well i think the i.o.c. has consistently recognized the the that the. eligibility criteria within the sport has to be with the international federations it has to be

for the international federations to decide. the the eligibility of the athletes and in what we mean by that simply you know are they in systems that are clean are they in systems that are the best satisfaction of the international federation is good enough so it has to be for the international federations to make that judgment and we have made that judgment you know the basic principle here. for me has always been very clear it's how can we separate the clean athletes from a tainted system how can we get clean athletes into competition and i think we've done that in a sensible and a proportionate way we will have neutral athletes here we have them in london we have them in other competitions next year but it is a very very clear process and it's a process that has served us well talking of doping i do it's a rod of the world's most famous sled dog race gets underway on saturday but allegations of doggy doping just won't go away in october for dogs belonging to

four time winner della cv tested positive for a banned painkiller cv finished second in last year's race but he has pulled out this year in protest maintaining his innocence and doping isn't the only problem facing race organizers have also lost a major sponsor and are under pressure from animal rights advocates following the death of five dogs last year. certainly we've we've had to deal with some some new a new issue and that. hopefully is in the rearview mirror at this point we think we've. figured out the best path forward in terms of changing. a rule relative for a drug testing program that will make things much easier to manage going forward finally take a look at this now we're not back in pyongyang this is england and fresh from winning big a bronze at the olympics but the morgan has been taking to the streets on a snowboard taking advantage of the usually snowy conditions. and i'm going to

leave it there if ali it specs for me in the eight hundred g.m.t. hour peter thank you very much for that that will do it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times the hash tag plate more news coming up for you on al-jazeera very shortly from our london news center from me from the back to the whole team thank you for watching and. what makes this movement this era we're living through so unique this is really an

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