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red carpet for saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon critics are not happy long queues in sierra leone as voters turn out in their droves to pick a new president. and it's an economic powerhouse that millions in china live on less than two dollars a day the government is trying to fix. the syrian government is intensifying its a real bombardment of eastern and appears to have captured more territory on the ground well that means it's a step closer to dividing the rebel held on played into the events that describing the situation in cool as a catastrophe and is denouncing claims by syria's government that it's doing all it can to protect civilians as quote ridiculous despite the day international condemnation nothing is changing for the tens of thousands of civilians inside the on a warning some people may find images in this report from say the halter to

stress. civil defense volunteers are appealing to the u.n. security council to make this. stop there calling what is happening in eastern huta a bloodbath. rescuers are responding to cries from underneath the rubble in this case from a child. you know was something that you get me out of here this boy says. he survived. but at least eight hundred syrians many of them women and children have already been killed in almost three weeks of relentless airstrikes and both bartman throughout the besieged enclave. shot but anyhow we are the free people of eastern little we want to freedom and the downfall of this murderous regimes which has committed crimes against the people there are more extremists and terrorists here

they are the ones who are killing children and god willing we will remain steadfast . the pro-government alliance is pushing ahead with its air and ground assault they have reportedly sent reinforcements hundreds of soldiers to join the battle rebels have lost territory but remain defiant one of the main factions. says the people and the fighters in eastern huta will defend their land. the faction is also denying negotiating a withdrawal proposed by the russian military the russian defense ministry says some groups in eastern who are ready to accept the amnesty offer and leave with their families the ministry did not name those groups and so far none have expressed readiness to leave even eastern civilians have not taken up the russian offer to evacuate many of them are afraid to cross into government controlled territory and many are afraid of permanent displacement western nations have

criticized the attacks on the densely populated opposition held territory but they have done little to stop them the united nations yet again using strong words against the syrian government and its backer russia this month. which is in the words of the sector general nurse. next month or the month after it will be somewhere else were people face an apocalypse an apocalypse intended planned and executed by individuals within the government apparently with the full backing of some of the foreign support is it is urgent to reverse this catastrophic course and to refer syria to the international criminal court hundreds of thousands of syrians are trapped in a war zone many are on the move as pro-government units advance further into the enclave the central town of misrata is the next target government forces are approaching the town from the east and the west just

a few kilometers of territory is separating those forces capturing mr will cut the enclave in half making it more difficult for rebels to defend their territory said a beirut. british prime minister to resume a has defended the red carpet welcome given to saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin someone is on a three day trip to the u.k. earlier he had lunch palace with the queen right now he's meeting the prime minister in downing street critics say the british government is turning a blind eye to saudi arabia's human rights abuses and smaller sheilds joins us now from central london hi there jim also britain's red carpet for their side with their spin rolled out and one newspaper is calling it shameless. was essentially truly dystrophin is centered on true things benefits for the united kingdom in that it is looking for increased investments from the saudis already pumping roughly eight billion dollars annually in chile u.k.'s economy and as far as the saudis are

concerned and specifically on the money he's looking for increased recognition is this a new leader not just of saudi arabia but of the region a reformist who is bringing about change in the middle east but obviously as you mentioned there are a lot of his critics say that's just not true and it's simply spin and we've seen this been in the massive billboards and advertising. instead of going to cross going up across the capital in recent days while coming the thirty true year old in fact there are protests taking place just outside downing street particular those critical of his policy in terms of the war in yemen that has killed thousands of people on the we saw that play out in parliament during pm cures a promise to question time where the leader of the opposition jeremy corbin all asked whether indeed the prime minister would be raising the issue of human rights and as she tries to sell more weapons through the saudi crown prince. tomorrow is international women's day a chance to both celebrate how far we've come on equality for women but also to reflect on how far we have to go not just in this country but around the world

later today mr speaker the prime minister is due to meet crown prince mohammed bin solomon as she makes her arms sales pitch will she also call on the crown prince to hold the shocking abuse of human rights in saudi arabia. the link that we have with saudi arabia is historic it is an important one and it's saved it has saved the lives of potentially hundreds of people. and i will be raising concerns about human rights with the crown prince when i meet him can i just say is the right honorable gentleman started on the issue of international women's day i welcome the fact that the crown prince will be sitting down with as the guest of a female prime minister. so jamal it was interesting to see some of the common trait online people say things like you know if the if the leader of iran was

coming here he wouldn't get the word carpet treatment so what's at the heart of the show bill saying if we can call it that of this relationship. well you know as you mentioned the difference between that is that the leader of iran doesn't pump in billions of dollars into the united kingdom and as far as the saudis are concerned and as far as really politics internationally is concerned money is king and money speaks and particularly if you're in a situation like the reason may find herself in she is the leader of a government which is struggling to find their way or pass through these breaks in negotiations and the economy is knocking confidence so to speak in that people are very unclear as to how the u.k. economy will look host of briggs's so she's desperate for essentially every penny that she can get in order to boost confidence in the u.k. markets and that is the difference but beyond that it was also important to know the security ties between the two countries as she tried to who are trying very

claiming that intelligence shared by the saudis to the british counterparts in m i six and m i five has helped them for all. terrorist attacks obviously the critics will point to the fact that many of these groups are either have been either funded by founded by if not the saudi authorities about at least saudi nationals and therefore all the more reason to cut off ties or at least be more critical in the relationship with riyadh but the fact of the matter is that all of those user knew the humor there because ultimately you have on the one hand rising star so to speak in saudi arabia mohamed bin someone who's taken power not just away from opponents but also from his own family within the ruling royal family and he is somebody who has managed to establish himself as a stalwart in that country in the u.k. wants to use him as their partner. that joining me from i would say than street you all thank you. israel's amended

a law allowing them to remove residency waits for people who live in occupied east jerusalem anyone who endangers public safety through acts of terrorism to have their residency revoked as well as anyone who does anything that's in violation of loyalty to the state of israel the palestine liberation organization called the legislation racist the violation of international human rights israel's revoke the residency status of more than fourteen thousand palestinians from jerusalem since one nine hundred sixty seven. voters in sierra leone are choosing a new president ernest bai koroma is stepping down after ten years and the leaders of sixteen political parties are vying to succeed him unemployment a lack of infrastructure corruption recovering from the ball a crisis or key campaign issues the vote will go to a runoff later this month if no candidate securus more than fifty five percent will act with interest is that one of the polling stations in the capital freetown. voting has started in almost all parts of southern europe on time it took a few places where voting was delayed recently and in terms of enthusiasm thousands

of people have been on queue since the early hours of the day some as early as five o'clock two hours ahead of the opening. and here at one of the polling stations in freetown it's called goodridge at this particular area in this particular area there are more than two hours of voting centers and a lot of people of cuba queued up early to vote to cast their votes and they come here with all their aspirations and right now i'm here with one vote early and who's been here early enough to try to access the ballot papers and carrousel rather talk to us leading why is this election important for you this election is very important because i need our rights as a good citizen of this and we need a conduit to develop to. know are you happy with the way things are be arrangements and what you're hearing from other parts of the country. somehow. what do you

expect the new government and what do you expect from the new government. wants a better. vision for us like education our facilities all food. no. the best sickness that cities are for life. now that's a sentiment shared by three three million other similar leoni and who are lining up to cast their ballots in this election now as soon as a voter is on the line and given the clearance he goes for a crew to teach him and then a ballot box or ballot paper will be issued to him after the issuance of that ballot paper his name will be marked in the register and then they come and cast their ballots in these boxes the blue one is actually for a president for presidential candidates and there are sixteen of them the next will be a four parliamentary seats and then local council elections for chairman and mayor

and then finally councillors they'll be doing this until five o'clock in the evening local time which is five o'clock g.m.t. when paul was expected to close unless of course there reste the need to extend cooling because of certain emergencies in syria leon after that the coalition of results will start to come on the program under siege inside can exclusively egypt's massive military campaign against tyson and images that shocked the world plastic pollution dominates the chant at the world ocean summit in mexico. hello spring wants to come in and it's been raining just to prove the point in china but given the wind direction you think well that's probably going to be chased out of there when you be right so level agrees and shanghai seventeen a not very warm seventeen comes again on thursday in

a subtle come out the temperature will rise but i think humidity is dropping in hong kong so it still won't feel as warm as you're like twelve degrees in shanghai in the sunshine in fact the sunshine through most of central and southern china has showers and carry cross to the coast of vietnam little is changing society and even the clouds in the follow and in northern pakistan afghanistan is tenuous at the moment so apart from occasional passing shots in sri lanka it's like a fairly dry picture the temperatures starting to rise thirty three in new delhi seventy five one hundred and thirty one in columbus or most places are above the thirty rock and they will continue to rise as you are well aware the next month or so the same story is true actually in arabia temps as high as they should be even thirty one in doha well above the average by about six degrees but not a record and that's like to be sustained i think over the next day or so but as to what's in the sky the she nothing to is blue sky and there's not much of a breeze all asserts occasionally dusty of the most part this is settled just woman

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our mind of our top stories here currently on al-jazeera syrian government forces are intensifying their bombardment of rebel held eastern built up twenty one people have been killed in the latest air strikes against human rights chief is describing the situation as a catastrophe saudi arabia's crown prince has begun a state visit to begin kate critics accuse prime minister to resign me of turning a blind eye to the kingdom's human rights abuses. in sierra leone are queuing up to choose a new president unemployment a lack of infrastructure and corruption were the key issues in the campaign to replace the airness by. religious violence is continuing to flare in central sri lanka despite a state of emergency buddhist mobs have been sweeping through times of villages burning leaves them homes and businesses some victims of them barricading themselves inside mosques to stay safe the government social media sites to stop the violence from spreading a curfew that's also been ordered across much of candy district well from their

male fernandes to. the main city of candy is like a ghost town as you can see behind me as everyone has shouted down and bunkered down for a twenty four hour curfew that came into effect this afternoon the police spokesman has said that any of the tri forces or the police can make any arrests of anyone causing violence or communal disharmony and these crimes will carry twenty years rigorous imprisonment under the emergency rules have been tightened and any of the security arms can crack down hard on those creating such incidents now we've been traveling around some of the cities and towns around candy and seen the number of flashpoints we've seen basically. still burning we've seen shops being burned many of them by. longing to those in the muslim community but we've also visited the temple that was basically leave vandalized by muslim youth according to

what we're hearing and the tensions seem to be spilling over which is the reason the government has come down strong with extending this curfew for a period of twenty four hours in a bid to get a handle on it but one must say that even with a heavy military presence we're seeing the violence continuing meanwhile his military has been accused of deliberately destroying evidence of possible crimes against humanity the united nations human rights chief says he strongly suspects that acts of genocide may have been committed against muslim or hinges in rakhine state tire reports. life first on what a begum and her young children is a struggle to survive for months they have been sheltering in this refugee camp in a no man's land between the border with bangladesh and me and more the mother says she lost nearly everything when she escaped the military crackdown in her home state of refuge. we were all running away from myanmar

trying to save our lives we had no chance to look back my son died along the way he died crying. the only way for refugees in the camp to get access to aid is to cross this river into bangladesh. like to get out. we don't want to stay here because we don't feel safe the myanmar army fire shots at us they have taken people from here day and night we can't sleep we're scared for our lives. nearly seven hundred thousand row hinge are seeking refuge in bangladesh many have described killings rape and arson by me and mars security forces the united nations human rights commissions has issued several condemnations of myanmar's treatment of the road into and is warning the ethnic cleansing is continuing and says the tactics have changed from mass killings and rape to force starvation this council is aware that my office has strong suspicions that acts of genocide may have taken

place in rakhine state since august i am therefore not surprised by reports that villages which were attacked in recent years and alleged mass graves of the victims are being bulldozed at the same time the bangladesh government ministers accusing me of obstructing efforts to repatriate refugees finance minister and they moved in said despite a repatriation deal signed between myanmar and bangladesh in november it's unlikely that this place muslims would ever return to their homeland that repatriation plan has been controversial from the outset its groups and the un have warned that the conditions for real hinge a to return are nowhere near refugees living in camps in southeastern bangladesh are also resisting the idea fearing they won't be safe if they return to their homes and al-jazeera. al-jazeera said taint exclusive video from the sinai peninsula showing the aftermath of an egyptian military operation armed forces

moved in one month ago i saw and other armed groups the residents in the area say they are under siege and their homes have been destroyed china bellus reports. buildings pulverized fire gyptian explosives. this exclusive video shows the carnage inside sinai one month after the egyptian ministry of defense began a major operation against eisel and other armed groups. witnesses total jazeera the military has demolished schools and dozens of homes displaced residents say they have nothing to return to their own lives the moment you and i am god will punish those who forced us to leave our homes in our lands we've been here since our great grandfather and we're very sad but we can't do anything always hope to come back again to our houses and land in our new. the military hasn't talked about the destruction of homes but in its latest statement it says one hundred forty five

hideouts outposts and store houses have been destroyed along with the workshop used for making explosives and twenty one plantations of marijuana and poppies used for opium they say they've made two hundred forty five arrests. the most recent defense video uploaded on saturday is unapologetic egypt's had five years of failed military campaigns in the sinai president abdul fattah el-sisi is doing everything in his power to change that using abrams battle tanks how woodson's if sixteen fighter jets and apache attack helicopters has very strong symbolic meaning by sending a message boards to that i guess i'm also the egyptian people maybe you feel that something is being done seriously messages are important for president sisi who's up for reelection in less than three weeks and is reeling from a run of attacks in twenty seventeen. in april forty six people were killed in twin

suicide bombings that coptic churches intend to and alexandria during easter a month later i saw the gunman shot days the christians south of cairo as they traveled to a monastery. in november the worst attack in egypt's modern history up to thirty islamics a gunman stormed a soofi mosque and killed more than three hundred people. this is payback but in these rare images the first from a source other than the government egyptians living in sinai side is surrounded under siege by their own military shelob ls al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says north korea seems sincere in its apparent willingness to negotiate on abandoning nuclear weapons south korea's president when jay and says it's too early to be optimistic south korean officials met kim jong un earlier

this week and said he is willing to denuclearize his country's security is assured that south korea says it has no plans to essentials before next month's summit with the north. the european union and the i.m.f. arthur urged to step back from the brink of a trade war many fear president donald trump will push ahead with tariffs on imported steel and aluminum after the resignation of his top economic adviser who opposed the plan these trade commissioner says it's prepared to take the case to the world trade organization would also in paul's counter tariffs on u.s. products ranging from poor been so harley davidson also bikes just truly hope that this will not touch them because a trade war has no winners and. if he doesn't the better than we can work with our american friends and other allies on the core issue of this problem overcapacity but if it does happen we would have to take measures to protect european jobs and workers for a season pup in new guinea say at least eighteen people have been killed during

a strong earthquake aftershock the six point seven magnitude earthquake struck p n g's mountainous southern highlands early on wednesday morning it is the most severe aftershock in an area that was badly damaged by a seven point five magnitude quake nine days ago killing fifty five people the poverty is a major problem in china government statistics say more than thirty million chinese survive on less than two dollars a day the president's promising to tackle extreme poverty by twenty twenty one local government is working hard to meet that deadline in changi province china correspondent adrian bryant is there. chung irlen has one hundred and sixty goats so in this impoverished part of china that makes her wealthy but a few months ago she was told to leave her farm by local government officials along with the rest of the village they left she stayed. taking people out of the countryside sometimes against their will is one of the ways the government's trying

to end rural poverty but this is the only livelihood chung has ever known. there were no i don't know why the government wants us to move today most people already left but i have the scouts i can't leave where will that put them the demolition of the village has begun the rubble will soon be cleared away but other reminders of the primitive way people lived will be harder to raise some created a home by burrowing into the clay hillsides china is now a world superpower but until a few months ago people here were living in caves with little protection from the heat or cold. the only source of water was half a kilometer away in winter little grows in the dry fields the hut where june chung hsien lived has gone it was wedged into this hillside he's been resettled in

a government provided apartment and doesn't miss this place for that showed us all this village is very poor most people barely had enough to eat potato used to be a main vegetable he couldn't get at the vegetables to eat eighty years ago china's nascent communist party was literally battling for its survival in this area today it's in the midst of another battle against poverty but local officials insist they are making some headway last year the local government said four thousand nine hundred people were lifted out of poverty in this county one hundred fifteen of them in this village last july china's president xi jinping came to visit villages which showed heaping praise on him later they were told they'd be moving now the president has set a lofty target in his campaign to eliminate poverty chair we must ensure that by twenty twenty all rural residents living below the current poverty line how

be lifted out of poverty we wanted to talk to other villages who'd made the move to hear what they thought about apartment living instead we were detained by police for more than two hours and then scored it out of town they said foreigners were not allowed here adrian brown al jazeera in chancey province northern china passing pollution and overfishing i don't many thousand years end of the world ocean summit in mexico it comes after a shocking video was released by a diver in bali szell's water is polluted with waste on an unprecedented scale that person reports from jakarta. indonesia is the world's second largest going to be able to marine plastic pollution after china that's why the country during last year's world ocean summit vowed to reduce plastic waste with seventy percent by twenty twenty five but this is the reality today a british diver captured these images while swimming through a sea of plastic waste not very far from where the world ocean summit was held last

year you went to a famous location where manta rays go to feed themselves with plankton it's also a famous tourist attraction where people go to watch these gigantic animals but both manta rays and tourists now find this location too dirty to go to instead the dive for a rich horn are captured images of plastic bags plastic bottles plastic cups and all kinds of plastic waste it's a sad reminder that instead of cleaner the oceans only become dirtier not only threatening the country's rich marine life but also birds who have been found with plastic inside their stomachs and also fish meant for consumption are contaminated with plastic fish is an important source for protein in indonesia all in all a huge challenge for the delegates at this year's world ocean summit held in mexico more than three hundred delegates from governments companies and research institutes will gather to find a solution for this increasing environmental disaster while organizers have called

two thousand and seventeen a year of promises they say two thousand and eighteen should be a year for decisions tough action is needed not only awareness campaigns if not in the nisha and world oceans summit last year will turn into a bad example of only empty promises and very little action. if ok no in southern japan or speed ash thousands of meters into the aerial fish of the powerful eruptions of life. authorities have issued a warning telling people not to approach the mountainous area volcano famously featured in the one nine hundred sixty seven james bond film you only live twice. top stories on al-jazeera the syrian government is intensifying its attack on the son coulter and appears to be making more games on the ground and that means it's a step closer to dividing the rebel held on klav into humans now describing the

situation include to as a catastrophe this month it is eastern water which is in the words of the secretary general hell on earth next month or the month after it will be someone i once were people face an apocalypse an apocalypse intended planned and executed by individuals within the government apparently with the full backing of some of the foreign supporters. british prime minister to resign mays defended the red carpet welcome given to saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon is on a three day trip to the u.k. for meeting the prime minister at downing street he had lunch with the queen critics say the british government's turning a blind eye to saudi arabia's human rights abuses. photos in sierra leone are choosing a new president sixteen candidates are vying to replace the ernest bai koroma is stepping down after ten years unemployment a lack of infrastructure and rampant corruption were key campaign issues. religious

violence is continuing to player in central sri lanka despite a state of emergency but a small have been sweeping through times of villages burning lose him homes and businesses some victims have been barricading themselves inside while six to state say. u.s. president donald trump says north korea seemed school sincere in its apparent willingness to negotiate on abandoning nuclear weapons said korea's president when jane says it's too early to be optimistic but he said korean officials met kim jong un earlier this week and said he's willing to denuclearize if his country's security is assured. here opinion on the i.m.f. of urge the u.s. to step back from the brink of a trade war many fear president trump will push ahead with tariffs on imported steel and aluminum after the resignation of his top economic adviser who opposed the plan trade commissioner says it's prepared to take the case to the world trade organization. here are up today those are current headlines state without a say or

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