four in the morning of electric shock treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution. in the arrest of those children. which became a battle with als and it was the beginning of beyond. the boy who started the syrian war this time on al jazeera. this is zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero this is the news hour live from london coming up. as one of its worst days for casualties as the syrian government captures the

enclave. the u.k.'s prime minister meets the saudi crown prince to reason they insist they will talk about human rights as well as security and trade. the former spy who suffered a nerve agent attack in the u.k. police say it was attempted murder. and destruction and violence in sri lanka is but a small burn muslim homes and businesses. i'm sorry it's well be here with all this for tottenham an event to battle it out at wembley for a place in the quarter finals of the champions league. the syrian government has taken half of eastern ghouta after intensifying its aerial bombardment of the rebel enclave the number of people killed has risen to sixty eight one of the highest daily death tolls and warning you may find images in this

report from senate hold a distressing. civil defense volunteers are appealing to the u.n. security council to make this stop they are calling what is happening in eastern huta a bloodbath. the rescuers are responding to cries from underneath the rubble in this case from a child. your mother something that you get me out of here this boy says. he survived was. well. it was 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 and claimed. 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 extremists and terrorists here

they are the ones who are killing children and god willing we will remain steadfast in 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 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 criticised 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 backers russia this month it is eastern which is in the words of the sector general hell on earth next month so the month after it will be somewhere else where 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 obama will cut the enclave in half making it more difficult for rebels to defend their territory sent to beirut. turkey is calling on the us to stop kurdish fighters from traveling to northern syria city of a free members of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces are heading there to help fight off a turkish offensive against their fellow kurds turkey says its operation is necessary to tackle terrorism on its border with syria reports. it's not just in eastern guta where fighting scars the syrian landscape north of a green the syrian free army backed by the turks continue operations the intention to take the mountain near the city a strategic military target. all the villages and towns controlled by the kurdish people's protection units a very strategic for us we need to clean up this whole area of these terrorists who

want syria to be divided syria must always be united and unified with the help of almighty and the heroes of the free syrian army the fighting in and around our friend provides a snapshot of how complicated the civil war in syria has become so why p.g. the kurdish militia enjoys american support when they're taking on i saw in other parts of the country they're now moving seven hundred fighters away from that battle to the front lines enough friend there they will confront turkish forces normally a u.s. ally the turkish government has told the u.s. it must use its influence to stop that troop movement the u.s. says the fighting in a friend is not its concern. that we expect the u.s. to certainly step in and halt the shifting of y. p.g.p. whitey forces from man bitch to affray forces under u.s. control this is almost natural rights whether they would do this or not is another matter but we took all measures necessary on the ground. in the border turn of

jobless a car bomb killed several people it's still not clear who carried out the attack in an area which has been relatively peaceful for the past several months the turks are calling the operation after in all the bridge into pushing a group they describe as terrorists the y.p. g five away from the border you salt and afghan city itself we start in the coming days all the world's been focus remains on eastern ghouta and the fighting there. alan fischer al jazeera in the truck you syrian border. the british prime minister to resign mayors defended the red carpet welcome given to saudi arabia's crown prince is the first day of mohammed bin sound man's three day trip to the u.k. which is aimed at developing economic ties between the two countries critics say the british government is turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in saudi arabia. has this report. been some man started off as you can trip with a visit to the queen will host the crown prince of palace

a sign of just how eager the u.k. used to bolster its ties with the saudi kingdom children from the saudi king crab academy work busking to cheer on the palm prince a continuation of the massive p.r. campaign that included huge adverts are possible on them amounting been some months visits human rights groups however chose to focus on children by highlighting the killing of thousands in yemen by the saudi military an army under the direct command of m.p.'s as he's known but eleven million children in yemen who are dependent on humanitarian aid that's the entire population of belgian this is the world's worst humanitarian disaster so for the trade deals for the niceties we have to remember that saudi arabia is a key player in this conflict the crown prince's visit is a very controversial one in parliament the leader of the main opposition party question the prime minister what message he would become bringing to the hamiltons and later today versus speaker the prime minister is due to meet crown prince

mohammed bin solomon as she makes her arm sales pitch will she also call on the crown prince to hold the shocking abuse of human rights in saudi arabia her response 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 i. when i need to be able not relationship prime minister left parliament to meet with m.p.'s at downing street prince mohammad when will you stop bombing innocent civilians in yemen when will you stop killing innocent civilians in your members but i met. as you can see this trip is not just a high profile one but it's also a very controlled trip with the both the british governments and the saudis not

wanting to have clear access there is no press conference that took place this is the closest we've had true access to the crown prince and the big reason behind that is the widespread opposition and criticism that has been accompanying this trip. parts of the opposition was demonstrated in this protest outside downing street organizers here say the u.k. government should not be turning a blind eye to saudi human rights abuses no matter how much the crown prince pledges to invest they want their politicians to demand real change and reform in saudi arabia and not to cheer on what they consider to be propaganda aimed at punishing the image of a man who's knocked up many of his political opponents. al jazeera london. who on this set on me this year is roxanne from and from iran she's a lecturer in politics and international studies at the university of cambridge thanks very much for coming in to talk to us so at that meeting that mentioned demonstrate it was announced afterwards that they'd agreed

a target of ninety billion dollars in trade investment in the future so clearly that's going to be a big part of the relationship in that context how nike is made to actually press the issue of human rights well this is a very important trip for both of them and it's highly controlled because saudi arabia itself is trying to promote a reformed face he is the image of this dynamic new view that they're taking in the wake of the fiasco of the moguls that were all seized in the ritz as an anti corruption move on his part there apparently has been quite a bit of capital flight outside of saudi arabia so that's very important for him to be here and showing that he can command british investment and of course for post breck's it britain he represents very much an opportunity to show that theresa may can truly make

a deal on this amount of trade promising is emblematic of that so she is very much. vested in making the relationship cemented and seeing that it does provide a future but as a result of the very moral ambivalence that a great number of people and we see it in the newspapers here as well have shown about the human rights issues and the yemen war she must press somehow and has certainly. said that one can only do so if one is at the table and in the room and on that issue of yemen one of things that jerry coburn raised was the fact that germany for instance into. suspended on south to saudi arabia where as britain is continuing them on the issue of yemen what kind of leverage does she really have or does the u.k. have well in terms of cutting down the human disaster that's

taking place there i don't think a great deal despite her claim that it was because she had raised the issue that the ports were opened and now some aid is getting through the interesting thing is that at the same time when germany stopped its arms sales british sales absolutely went through the roof it is the largest recipient of british arms sales of all the other recipients combined and this is the timing is interesting because this is just as the united states senate is beginning to consider a war bill that would actually give them the chance of stopping arms sales so in many ways threesome is an excellent position to exert quite a bit of leverage on this you mentioned as we first started then the issue of a deal of perhaps international anxiety about the the kind of economic stability of saudi arabia the context of people being locked up and that sort of thing yes what

about the international position on on something like yemen how much is it you does as potentially dangerous one hundred to could to keep on without warning and perhaps end up in a kind of quagmire the continent south africa well i don't think it's thought of as a winnable war and i think this is of great concern and of rising concern on the international theater however saudi arabia is a very difficult place to pressure and it's got leverage of its own it's certainly able to perhaps pressure theresa may into backing down on the iran deal of the nuclear deal that has been struck in exchange for possibly making the city the location for a pro ject the. a ram co share float so there are many who are vying for that particular phrase of creating the united states on the yes indeed well thank you very much indeed for coming to a pleasure. nato has signed an agreement with qatar to cooperate on military and

security issues it came as the emir of qatar was in brussels for talks with officials from both nato and the e.u. shake to mean in who was welcomed by the news foreign affairs chief in every community but as it came amid continuing tensions in the gulf last june saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt or cut ties with qatar they accuse doha of supporting terrorism a charge which it strenuously denies that as foreign minister was also in brussels and demanded to know the reasons behind a saudi led blockade actually a thought that has supported the kuwaiti mediation from the beginning and we were calling for the escalation and inviting all the parties for dialogue and we never went and use the same methods they have using in scale ation against our country right now that we have achieved nothing within the last nine months unfortunately the efforts of the emir of course being undermined by those countries mainly the

blockading states and now there is an effort also from the u.s. president we hope that if it will result something that they come to the table at least and come and face us with whatever they have in terms of accusations they've been accusing qatar for more than not nine months and they provide nothing until now for for anyone and we have that right now to understand what justified their block it. is live for us in brussels or what's come out of those talks today. basically lowering fishel say that the visit to the a u.s. day two is a crucial step two words expanding partnership with key international institutions for example with the shift i mean been hammered family of the emir of qatar talked about to the latest developments on the g.c.c. crisis but we also spoke about the regional issues with the

far enough as chief third to come and also with the e.u. commission president jiang clued. have been also talking about issues like syria because you know the qatar and the e.u. have been key players in the syrian conflict both having similar views about how to move forward and what kind of all the opposition should play in the future now with nato it's been quite a significant development qatar has assigned an agreement with data that paves the way for the nature to deploy its personnel in the type particularly of the day's military base along with their gear which they're going to use in their operations in afghanistan and in their fight against isis you know that with the start of the d.c. quizes in june these are the retarded rabia and his allies were basically trying to further isolate qatar by saying that qatar is supporting extremism now by this deal with nato they are trying hard ties are trying to say you know what you're not

you're failing in your approach because we are further consider dating ties with the international community and the international community is now teaming up with us in the global fight against extremism and also i guess i still and he mentioned some of the aspects of it but how much really can mean you need to do to to help counter. i have to say laurie there is absolutely no indication to suggest that there might be any political way out of the crises of the g.c.c. there's been an escalation of the rhetoric over the last few days saudi officials saying that's such a tiny place that we don't even think about about it and it is only a look a junior official of the missile fire of enough as a saudi arabia who handles the issue of qatar the qatari foreign minister said one of the other families back saying that this shows that the the saudis and their allies are not genuine about any attempt to try to solve the problem now the

americans are stepping in they're trying to bring all the parties by april to negotiate a settlement but i have to say that that doesn't seem to be the case right now it will take the international community and them with task to try to narrow the differences of the key and tag on this in this particular crisis but from a khatami perspective the fact that the emir is expertise on this diplomatic campaign building alliances with different regional and international institutions that's a sign that's part is breaking the in bugger that he's been imposed on is by the saudis and their own allies thank you very much indeed. still to come on the news hour a busy day of voting in sierra leone as sixteen political parties took to replace the outgoing president. president donald trump tries to temper fears of

a global trade war by suggesting there may be some exemptions to his hefty tariff plans. and no name are no problem as forward reminds fans that brazil still has plenty to offer at the world cup even without their star player. british police say a russian double agent was the victim of attempted murder they believe sergei script and his daughter yulia a poisoned by a rare nerve agent before being found slumped unconscious on a bench in salzburg on sunday they remain critically ill in hospital. he sees them being treated as a major incident involving attentive murder ministration of a nerve agents. as you know these three people remain critically ill in hospital. sadly in addition a police officer who was one of the first to return the scene to respond to the

incident is now also with a serious condition in hospital. so i'm going to go has more from source very. if you look behind me that still the area where one of the areas where police are concentrating on the site where people in his door to your were found unconscious but very tellingly they are not releasing exactly too many details only confirming that what they are led to believe at this time is a nerve agent that affected both mr and his daughter there was no discussion or all no further discussion certainly on what type of agent but of course the two most famous ones that come to mind and sarin gas sarin of course used with devastating effect in syria and so with that they

have declared this though the chief medical officer has declared that there is a low risk to the public but that hasn't stopped people from worrying. the white house says canada mexico and other countries may be exempted from planned u.s. import tariffs for security reasons it comes after president onil trump threaten to impose hefty duties on steel and a minyan and spanish bought criticism from china and the european union who threaten to respond with measures of their own and washington can really help at the ports. the us stock market did not respond well to news donald trump's top economic advisor is leaving it open rattled over fears of losing gary cones moderating influence in the white house cone with the chief architect of trump's business friendly tax cuts but investors are nervous about the president's protectionist tariffs plan for foreign aluminum and steel at a meeting of the world trade organization america's trade partners expressed

displeasure the european union has also announced plans to retaliate with tariffs on products like american tobacco and orange juice truck follows through with his threat if it does happen we would have to take measures to protect european jobs and workers thank you very much at a white house press conference on tuesday with sweden's prime minister trump was undeterred and lashed back at the e.u. threatened with the european union has been. particularly tough for the united states. they make it almost impossible for us to do business with them and yet they send their cars and everything else back into the united states and they can do whatever they'd like but if they do that then we put a big tax of twenty five percent in their cars and believe me they won't be doing it very long the position of trump's commerce secretary who clashed with cone trade policies with the e.u. are out of date concessions made to rebuild

a post-war europe don't make sense in the context of a strong modern european economy concessions that were perfectly reasonable to make to germany in nineteen forty five or trying to nineteen forty five. don't worry anymore those in the very mature big strong economies on wednesday and social media trump continued to deflect fears of a global trade war arguing the us has lost more than fifty five thousand factories six million manufacturing jobs and accumulated trade deficit of more than twelve trillion dollars the white house says donald trump will make his announcement on steel and aluminum tariffs official by the end of the week just in time for a planned visit this weekend to the u.s. state of pennsylvania it is a key steel manufacturing state trying one in two thousand and sixteen and the republicans need to win again in this year's congressional elections kimberly help

at al-jazeera washington religious violence is flaring up in central sri lanka despite a state of emergency but just lobs have been sweeping through towns and villages burning muslim homes and businesses some victims have been barricaded themselves inside mosques to say safe the government has blocked popular social media sites to stop the violence from spreading a curfew has also been ordered across much of canada district and its myth has moved from there. the curfew here in county that's been running from wednesday into thursday seems to be being much more closely observed or more rigorously enforced certainly compared to that that run over from tuesday into wednesday then the word it was ignored by some groups because the police didn't seem to have the numbers to enforce it now there's a much heavier heavier police presence backed up by having a military presence certainly on the streets of candy that we've driven through this evening this is also a twenty four hour curfew that began at four o'clock local time and when four

o'clock struck the streets emptied very quickly and people have been told to stay at home schools have also been closed indefinitely certainly perhaps of the joorabchian of the national state of emergency which is scheduled to last for about seven days of the government is essentially trying to keep a lid on this trouble the for the moment they've also cut tax settles severely slow down whatsapp and you can't get into facebook and nationwide because they say inflammatory extremist in material inciting violence is being spread through those social media networks the challenge in sri lanka is that there is this been this long simmering resentment towards a minority muslim community a long simmering resentment a perception that they own too many businesses they're too powerful in business and there's been this rise in the last two three years in sri lanka of the sinhalese but is nationalism and they they fed off that resentment to fuel this nationalism

this anger towards the minority muslim community. still to come on as their news hour the u.n. accuses mammals government of deliberately destroying evidence of war crimes against range of muslims. the afghan president peace with the taliban but on react and say they're not yet ready to forgive and forget. we'll hear from the world heavyweight boxing champion joseph had his unification battle against anthony joshua. hello and welcome to international weather forecast as we take a look at weather conditions across europe certainly seen a significant change of last few days much milder air pushing in across central parts of europe nowhere near as cold has been across eastern areas temperatures

week or so ago look at most ten manas fifteen there from moscow and then we got low pressure moving in across the u.k. brings a wet and windy weather with it before another area of low pressure starts to push in from the west a movie in across the iberian peninsula through into the bay of biscay region so temperatures well up across much of france was and through into germany at that stage across the mediterranean region weather conditions not looking too bad there roma fifteen athens seventeen on the other side of the mediterranean also looks largely fine though for coastal parts of algeria maybe to be rather cloudy at times with a chance of want to showers the bridge on the coast the clouds should gradually clear ways and through friday with karo seeing highs of twenty seven degrees heading into central parts of africa we have some showers for kenya tanzania up into uganda some showers still for gabon otherwise shows towards parts of west africa cherry few and far between a famine a shower expected accra in ghana sunshine and highs of thirty one for southern portion of the continent some heavy showers likely across eastern cape twenty seven

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al-jazeera. with every year. and one of the top stories here on our. syrian government forces are intensifying their bombardment of rebel held eastern go to sixty eight people have been killed in the latest strikes. saudi arabia's crown prince has begun a state visit to the u.k. critics accuse prime minister to resign may of turning a blind eye to the kingdom's human rights abuses. and the u.s. says canada mexico and not much countries may be exempt from planned import tariffs

for security reasons as the donald trump's plan has sparked fears of a global trade war. polls have closed in sierra leone where voters have been choosing a new president the sixteen candidates need to win fifty five percent of the vote if not achieve that they'll be a second round and interests reports from pretoria. president announced. like three million other city leonean is choosing his successor i am happy i have worked at i am happy that's the real you know what's in civilian hands of turnout in huge numbers and the process is full and at the end of the day the best man will emerge and civilian will continue supporting the new president there's been much enthusiasm for this election voters started queuing accent just before dawn to choose a new president legislators and municipal officials my region is

ninety four years old and i was among the early voters. many of my contemporaries aren't alive i voted for everything to be as they used to paste in people to afford the basic things of life. voters going to say the election was largely peaceful except for a few hitches in some constituencies the ballot. mill. kind of electrons did not come. and we did not notice on the when all of the problem by. the election results are expected within the next week. the election data center is ready for the outcome the results of the presidential election will be correlated and announced here there will be a runoff if no candidates win fifty five percent of the vote something many said of learning say it's looking increasingly likely if that happens it's not clear if voters will again come out in large numbers as

a first time around committee greece al-jazeera freetown. the u.s. or state rex tillerson has arrived in ethiopia the capital addis ababa is the first stop on his five nation tour of africa to business seeking to bolster security with a continent which is increasingly look to china for trade and aid his visit to the region comes just a few weeks after president donald trump was accused of making derogatory comments about some african countries. well joining me from washington d.c. is jeffrey smith is the executive director of vanguard africa a nonprofit organization that promotes democracy in africa thanks so much indeed for your time and how much bridge building is is this going to involve this trip from tunis and yeah that's a great question in your lead up you mentioned some of the statements that have been made by administration officials and clued in president trump so i think significant inroads need to be made in terms of building. the tarnished

relationships that we've seen across the continent and is to us in the manta to do that you think. unfortunately i think. secretary teller sin again like many people in the administration view u.s. africa policy in particular in a transactional sort of way if you look at the five countries that he's visiting ethiopia where he is today djibouti kenya nigeria and chad all of them are major security or military partners so i think the way in which both democrat and republican presidents in the u.s. have viewed u.s. africa policy have been in an entirely counterproductive ways where we're giving way too much emphasis and so-called security and stability while ignoring the key issues of democratic governance free and fair elections and of overall democracy

which is we've seen backsliding tremendously particularly in the countries that the secretary is visiting over the next week as you mentioned the issue of security was one of the things he talked about in a speech just before he left and that seemed to be as you say the focus of the trip but he also talked about american efforts to improve access to electricity and. if for instance access to drugs to treat hiv and aids but at the same time the trumpet instruction has just that it's going to cut or slash those kind of programs is that a a difference a view point between the state department and the white house again or is it just that they can be saying but those things at the same time and that they're both right to explain that difference for us. yeah i think overall there's just a lack of a coherent policy in place if you look at the leadership void at the state department president trump has still yet to appoint an assistant secretary for africa a position that remains on philip he has yet to appoint an assistant secretary for

human rights of. a top human rights official new knighted states that post remains a vacant upwards of twenty percent of our ambassadorial posts in africa remain vacant including in key pivotal what i would argue are linchpin countries on the continent from tanzania to south africa to the democratic republic of congo and i think this trip that secretary teller sin is taking is is sending the entirely wrong message if you look at the five countries that he's visiting only one of those countries nigeria has actually had a peaceful transfer of power in the past decade kenya is still reeling from a highly flawed election last year and if you look at chad djibouti and ethiopia. the average time that the regimes in those countries have been in power thirty two years. again so i think it's part of a larger problem of sending the wrong message we as a country and as a government should be upholding and championing democratic standard bearer is not the worst of the worst on the continent and unfortunately that seems to be what

this trip is reinforcing jeffrey smith thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on this subject thank you thanks so much appreciate it meanwhile as military is being accused of deliberately destroying evidence of possible crimes against humanity the united nations human rights chief says he strongly suspect that acts of genocide may have been committed against muslim or hinges in rakhine state since august and just to have reports. life urson 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. florida. we were all running away from me on march 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. to get out of we don't want to stay here because we don't feel safe in myanmar army fire shots at us they have taken people from here day and night we can't sleep and 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 large security forces the united nations human rights commissions has issued several condemnations of myanmar's treatment of the road into what 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 ruins of villages which were attacked in recent years and alleged mass

graves of the victims are being bulldozed. at the same time a bag with us 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 but repatriation plan has been controversial from the outset its groups and the un have more than that the conditions for to return are nowhere near refugees the good camps in southeastern bangladesh are also resisting the idea fearing they won't be safe if they return to their homes and al-jazeera afghan president has attended their native parliament just days after offering to hold peace talks with the taliban. has yet to respond to the request which would pave the way for them to be recognized eventually as a political party and attorney but he reports from kabul not all afghans happy for

ghani to pursue peace at any cost. it's the eight opening of parliament the third under his presidency it comes at a time of pressure as well as increase hopes for peace but after afghanis popularity rating is at its lowest since taking office three years ago in a recent survey more than half of afghans said they were dissatisfied with him and the government gunnies accused of breaking election promises unemployment has increased so has poppy cultivation people are less well off and he's argued that the country is more divided than when he was elected there's also been a mixed reaction to his surprising offer to the taliban last week of peace talks without precondition is offer welcomed by the international community but not by all afghans the people of afghanistan who serve or should be consulted should know that their court of the process the taliban has been using suicide bombings to devastating effect especially in kabul attacks including the killing of more than

one hundred people when an ambulance was blown up doublet twenty six year old son juma was killed in that attack in january. whoever has blood on their hands cannot come and negotiate pace they should be held accountable enough blood has been shed there are tens of thousands of people who have lost loved ones at the hands of the taliban not all are ready to forgive for peace at any cost and not all are happy with what his government has achieved. about thirty people have been expecting much more not even one percent of those expectations have been beds and the taliban has taken more towns and territory. it's almost a case of heads they win tails i lose for gani pressure is building internally and from international allies being president of afghanistan requires a delicate balancing act obviously you cannot make everybody happy especially when you have so many parties involved internally and externally and to the african

conflict but looking at. the african situation i think this is the best afghanistan has got. when we speak about alternatives we really don't have one at the moment the next presidential election isn't due for two years but hopes of building that before then parties including the taliban will have come to the negotiating table it's not just about peace most people here believe that will come eventually it's more about what that peace will cost in terms of concessions how they can hear the wounds of this terrible conflict and how afghanistan can achieve true reconciliation tony blair three al-jazeera. yes president trump says north korea seems sincere in its apparent willingness to negotiate on abandoning nuclear weapons south korea's president when jane says it's too early to be optimistic south korean officials met kim jong earlier this week and said he's willing to denuclearize if his country's security is assured south korea says it has no plans

to ease sanctions before next month's summit with the north. the law has been passed allowing the israeli government to remove residency rights for people who live in occupied east jerusalem the residency rights can be cancelled if obtained falsely or in cases where the individual has endangered public safety through acts of terrorism or treason the palestine liberation organization has called the legislation racist and a violation of international human rights israel has revoked the residency status of more than fourteen thousand palestinians from jerusalem since nine hundred sixty seven catherine always is that report a very large loss for this financial year according to the company's chief executive akbar bucker told reporters at a travel fair in berlin the blockade imposed by cutter's neighbors is putting financial strain on the airline cutter airways lost access to eighteen cities in saudi arabia united arab emirates egypt and bahrain as

a result of the embargo. and other economic sectors the international monetary fund says the financial impact caused by a rift in the g.c.c. is easing its latest figures show that the gulf crisis has acted as a catalyst for cattery self-reliance qatar has kickstarted its twenty thirty vision of self-sufficiency so hire out reports from doha. but that out of a crisis comes opportunity and for twenty three year old abdullah it's this a new machine to make it cottons made from recycled paper it can produce as many as one hundred thousand of them a day meeting outdoor low be able to meet a boom in local egg production since the blockade after the gulf crisis we lost all our main customers because they are mainly from saudi arabia by land and u.a.e. but we never gave up on our business and we continued searching another new way to

run our factory also weighed the owns the only paper recycling factory in kata which has four times as many customers since the blockade started in june and the factory exports eighty percent of its recycled paper to the likes of china sri lanka and amman and plans on expanding world series added to this and it turned in to help its aim fund and drive on this machine here the whole process a thirty second to end up with recycled paper but the one thing use is also recycled which means a very different way said costs are reduced and you see that it takes the company can deliver in this thing or it in the case of this one time. more than three thousand new businesses have opened in carthage since the gulf crisis spurred on by a sense of national pride and a need to rely less on imports the emir of qatar is keen to implement self-sufficiency as soon as possible we didn't actually feel of the blockade

accept the higher prices of of some some raw materials. the challenges of the blockade are continuing but development bank says it has enough resources to support startups and entrepreneurs to take it from the idea stage of until access to funding and investment access to markets and how we can take them globally little back in the paper recycling factory owner says a lack of trees in qatar helps teach the younger generation the importance of recycling and how the gulf crisis has helped him turn the wheel of fortune from one man's trash to another man's treasure. al-jazeera. still to come on the news it's an economic powerhouse but millions in china live on less than two dollars a day i'll tell you how the government is trying to fix it. and a new formula one record is said before the season even started that's coming up

a sport. business updates. we're going to get the.

business updates. together. is a major problem in china government statistics say more than thirty million chinese survive on less than two dollars a day the president is promising to tackle extreme poverty by twenty twenty and the local government is working hard to meet that deadline in cheyenne she province china correspondent adrian brown is there. a chunk of land has one hundred 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 heart where june chunk 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 their child gas or 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 share 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 there is here now with more support laurent thank you so much with that with football and italian champions eventis to book their place in the quarterfinals of the champions league they be in tottenham for three on aggregate tottenham were ahead in the second leg at wembley at half time of course from when zollo it away and. securing the come back when. here's confirmation of

results manchester city have also booked their spot as expected they lost on the night against basel but go through five two on aggregate brazilian star oscar show brazil fans there's plenty to be positive about ahead of this summer's world cup even with neymar far from certain to recover from injury on time oscar who's hoping to get picked for russia was in great form for china shanghai. as they face south korea's. in the asian champions league group stages the former chelsea man scored two impressive goals helping his team comeback twice from a goal down as i.p.g. took home a two two draw in the and remain top of the group with seven points and all son in second they were four group games in the asian champions league on wednesday japan's kawasaki from tile and melbourne victory also during group f. group h.

leaders beat sydney f.c. while second place two one remain one point ahead of shanghai shun wah after both sides through joseph parker says he's relishing being the underdog in his world heavyweight title unification fight against anthony joshua later this month eighty thousand people are expected in court a for the bout which sees both champions put their undefeated streaks on the lighting the fuse that's going on there's no more pressure on him there's a lot of pressure on him but he still pressure. in able to show that he can come back from being on the ground also. it's. always going to be a tough fight so to get back and forth you know it's going this way that was for this one. but i feel like it's. like it's a good time to be of the seaward. little . the rule.

six north korean athletes have arrived in south korea as the country prepares to take part in the winter olympics for the first time last month north korea took part in the kyung chang winter games this latest move comes a day after north and south korea unveiled a landmark agreement to ease political tensions on the past. and october two thousand and fourteen australian sean paul or was attacked by two great white sharks while surfing the then twenty three year old lost his left arm and right hand in in the incident within a year polaroid had tried no boarding for the first time and now he's getting ready to repeat to represent his country at the winter paralympics you know i i'm sure i'm a professional athlete from bunbury western australia. a little over three years ago i lost my left hand in

a shark attack since then i have many of the wives which i wanted to. i turn to snowboarding and i've got to go. definitely snowboarding has kind of through that whole that surfing that if i leave probably almost four thousand ties from the nearest scares or coming from bomber there's no it's not anywhere near a lot of fun trying to go off to do down the local skate park so i'll just go down there and lots. compete in the sports betting solomon and snowboard cross on the road top circuit and it's pretty much the bottom of the hill wins. whoever gets out quicker and gets across the lawn wins yeah if you stack it in the other go it doesn't fall off and usually they're going to make sure you're losing. and and a lot of them trying has to do with coal strength and so i'm down the gym a lot strengthening that corn a con to get driven to push myself knowing that you know last and got about the

best you can my diet i lost i get by using the prosthetic it took a while to learn and it took me a good couple of wasteland out a bout of ties and even just didn't dress it took a walk to get through everything figured out when it's right usually try to keep relaxed. around the contests it's chewed but as soon as you're in the stock i kind of switch to rice might and it's game on never really crossed on representing my country when i was younger and colin has since gone shark attack on enjoyed being challenged and it's been a big challenge to try and get to the top level my family's really exhausted it's rewarding for them and myself to say that i've got these amazing opportunity that i have now when. i'm just going to be happy to be represented on the big stage the biggest thing i've learned three more experience is you never know how things

are going to turn out you have to just have a go the big challenges and you'll be surprised what you can actually. daniel are harder broke a track record in barcelona at formula one in pre-season testing the red bull driver set the best separate laps in the new track was introduced in two thousand and seven defending champion with health and a mercedes with less than a tenth of the second behind cardinal followed by ferrari sebastian vettel all more problems for the clarion and fernando alonso as he was forced to retire because the been oily. didn't didn't think it would get much done it was an optimistic plan but we got through it was good. they all sleep well tonight but yeah good bunch a lot of us got some quick laps in there as well so it's a good day. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to lauren and london. thank you very much indeed a quick money can always catch up with all the stories we're reporting on by checking out our website just about his al-jazeera dot com. as

a for me but i'll be back with on the for an awful day's news thanks for watching seen a bit. part

of it. was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say going to be up at the gallup the government raised our hopes and then abandoned politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. full amman has decided to break with tradition and training to sail competitively will be not that we want to present a positive image and change the steering typical expectation of women for them it's

about more than just racing yes you can still be a good on lonely woman and also a very talented sailor going off around the world showing everybody how strong on money people are al jazeera world meets the first female sailing crew in the gulf a man's sailing stock at this time on al-jazeera. has one of its worst days for casualties as the syrian government bombardment intensifies and more territory is captured. on tape this is out.