another dark side of the crisis at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. the syrian government tightens its grip on rebel held eastern and it seems to be using any means necessary including the apparent use of chlorine gas and phosphorus . this is al jazeera live from london also coming up new u.s.

no problem a revamped version of the trans-pacific trade partnership is about to become a done deal. the use of an operator told you case is a brazen and reckless act tough talk in the u.k. of the poisoning of a former russian double agent. and boy by me too and time's up millions mark international women's day it is it will talk and no action. and there are chilling new video has emerged from inside syria showing what appeared to be phosphorous bombs being dropped on the rebel held and claim of eastern. activists say they were dropped on a residential area in the town of how the bombs start fires where they land and cause excruciating burns if contact is made with the skin. activists have also posted video showing what looks like

a chlorine gas attack syrian government forces are pursuing a relentless offensive against a rebel held stronghold the now on the verge of cutting the territory into two isolated pockets so hard is following developments from neighboring lebanon. the assault on eastern who is intensifying pro-government forces have pushed deep inside the besieged enclave rebels are finding it increasingly difficult to hold their ground there has been heavy shelling extreme levels of bombardment to help ground troops. even civilians are not. over nine hundred people have been killed in nearly three weeks of what many describe as one if not the fiercest military campaigns of the syrian. medical workers reported yet another chlorine gas attack the government denied the claims and blamed what it called desperate rebels for distorting facts but videos appear to show victims struggling to breathe and i was. most.

used. just the bombs. but me because it's like two thousand and thirteen when. the remaining aid supplies that were not are floated on monday because of the shelling were supposed to reach the besieged population on thursday but according to the international committee of the red cross the conditions on the ground did not allow that. sources have told us that the russian government and the rebel factions in eastern huta are holding the gauche ations over a withdrawal it may involve them one of the main rebel factions leaving two rebel controlled territories in the southern province of daraa the other main faction men will leave to areas under the control of turkey backed rebels in the north of the

country. also understands that international humanitarian organizations are meeting to prepare for what could be a mass evacuation even though that is not what the hundreds of thousands of people in eastern say they want. i swear by god i will never leave our country i'll stay here till death look at the structure around you they are asking for in countries to help them get rid of us this is inhumane and you're killing children and displacing people you are displacing the people of your own country. that has been part of the ceasefire deals reached in the past an effective surrender rebels their families and civilians who are either afraid of arrest or who don't want to return to government areas have little choice but to leave bussed out to other rebel controlled areas that is what the pro-government alliance wants to happen in eastern it's the deal on the table if

it's not accepted it has made it clear it will push for an all out military victory . state has warned african nations against surrendering their sovereignty to china in return for loans rex tillerson has been meeting the chairman of the african union in the capital addis ababa as part of his first official visit to africa you know he states is the leading aid donor to africa but china supposed it as a trade partner in two thousand and nine. we are not in any way attempting to keep chinese investment dollars out of africa they are badly needed however we think it's important that african countries carefully consider the terms of those investments and we witness the model that the chinese follow follow.

very they do not bring significant job creation locally they don't bring significant training programs that enable african citizens to participate more fully in the future and often times the financing models are structured in a way that the country when it gets into trouble financially loses control of its own infrastructure or its own resources through default britain's home secretary has vowed the u.k. will pursue whoever is behind a note of poison attack on a former russian double agent sixty six year old sergei's great ball and his daughter remained in a critical but stable condition after being found unconscious on sunday a police officer also homed by the red nerve agent is still in a serious condition. the use of a nerve agent on u.k. soil is a brazen and reckless act. this was attempted murder in the most cruel and public way people are right to want to know who to hold to account but

if we are to be rigorous in this investigation we must avoid speculation we are committed to doing all we can to bring the perpetrators to justice whoever they are and wherever they may be investigation is moving at a pace and this government more act without hesitation as the facts become clear so negotiate a has war from soulsby where the attack happened. the status of the police officer who is now able to engage with investigators is certainly being heralded as a positive development as well but so far the other two victims who are still in hospital they are in critical condition but stable meanwhile of course the investigations are ongoing just behind me there the tent covering the bench where. his dog to you were discovered samples from around there were sent to portion down

a military scientific lab that is going to be used to test exactly what it was that poisoned the two victims that as far as we have as we have it confirmed from government officials they are saying that it is a very rare nerve agent so far no identity of the nerve agent itself thoughts. and investigators will be able to point out once it is discovered exactly what it is they will also be able to tell where which the bar or treat was produced it and from then on the investigation can go into exactly who was behind this now course while politicians have been reluctant to point out who may have been behind this attack there have been murmurings that maybe russia was behind it certainly the method has been seen before but it has caused again another. has been another source of diplomatic tension between london and moscow and certainly this latest

incident involving mr and his daughter is worsening that. a new version of the trans-pacific partnership agreement known as the t p p eleven is due to be signed in chile after languishing for more than a year after the u.s. withdrew twelve countries signed the original t p p agreement back in late twenty sixteen a controversial deal designed to unlock markets promotion vestment and boost sales and with the potential to create a single market much like the euro zone when donald trump pulled the u.s. out just three days into his presidency the tepees collective g.d.p. shrank by sixty percent and trade within the group by forty percent the eleven remaining members spent most of last year trying to salvage the deal this new version of the t p p eleven is the product of their labor a slim down agreement designed to what eliminate tariffs in a marketplace worth close to fourteen trillion dollars one of the biggest winners is expected to be vietnam when hey reports from his or her own. the oldest

porcelain factory in vietnam hasn't changed much since it was opened in one thousand nine hundred sixty back then it was operated by the communist government of the former north vietnam when the country was divided today it's united under communist rule but the government has embraced capitalism and like most state owned enterprises this factory has been privatized and will soon move to a new purpose built industrial park on the move into a new factory will help us develop you can see all our machines our old so will invest in more modern production lines for more than twenty years vietnam was torn apart by war it ended in one thousand nine hundred seventy five with the north defeating the south which was backed by the united states communism emerged victorious but the leaders soon realized that their centralized economic system had to change economy was your best picture the government embarked on

a series of reforms to open the country up and allow market forces that now has one of the best performing economies in the world when vietnam began reforming in one nine hundred eighty six its total trade was worth only six hundred forty million dollars a year it was really only doing business with the likes of china and the former soviet union just over thirty years on as its economic borders have opened that figure has slipped to more than four hundred and twenty billion dollars but some believe it could do even better and say the government must continue evolving to combat problems like rising inequality it goes by corruption. in an informal economy and vietnam must try to reduce it and now that now might create new into the to modernize economy the process is ongoing and reforms like increasing efficiency and breaking down bureaucracy may be pushed along by trade deals like the trans-pacific partnership some may question the pace but certainly

the route direction of the. reform is very welcome but some of that will need to be accelerated for for the domestic private sector to be able to grow more that it has been so far but certainly the goal of this company which used to import its clay and export the finished products price fluctuations made to the bench really became a domestic supply wrongly d.p.p. and a new model factory manpower to realize its goal of returning to the international markets when hey al-jazeera has won vietnam. latin america genesee newman joins us now from santiago so how important is this agreement without the u.s. in it well lauren it's so important that the united states is already having second thoughts the u.s. treasury secretary in fact says he's already having conversations about trying to rejoin the deal but once the ink is dry and that's going to be in about two more hours it may be an even more tough deal for the united states to accept because it

has changed through the united states with the united states it amounted to forty percent of global g.d.p. now it's less but there are a lot of other countries that now do want to join like taiwan the philippines south korea all these countries with very dynamic economies and even perhaps the great britain after reg's it so it is a deal that's going to keep growing more people are joining and it basically serves as a kind of an antidote towards the increasing protectionism that's being promoted by president donald trump right now lawrence racine human thank you very much indeed so to come on the program sri lanka reimpose is a curfew to quell anti muslim violence as leaders warn of the impact on the vital tourism industry are back in a minute. hello

after a bit of a coup feel today with the wind in the north run this eastern side of china that is a long way our neighbor from shanghai down to hong kong is cool it should be and probably feels that way with that when tents get cut off and saturdays across a day if anything it's virtually no winter tolls it could be a bit of a foggy stop inland and i think it will just be a fine day sixteen to twenty one degrees fairly typically there's not much movement to the west of the steadily rising temperatures nicer out india pakistan the still cloud in afghanistan not right bring a little rain or snow depending your height above sea level at a significant increase in the cloud and potentially the number of showers running in sri lanka but generally we're looking now a slow increase in temperatures as you well know we do this this time of the year and we've seen it already happen in the arabian peninsula was thirty two degrees yesterday and you want to still the forecast for friday notice is well above where it should be it's not reflected in many other places to be honest it should be

round about middle thirty's for medicare and twenty eight not be dobby's not much out of the way twenty nine to getting on the high side you'll notice the breezes coming in from the sides with the empty quarter in fact so it could be a bit dusty but really it's pretty quiet if warm spell. they gather evidence. so we. american cyber activists that. we have more cameras than they do because we're the people i. read. this on.

our money our top stories. new video has emerged from inside syria showing what appeared to be a phosphorus bombs being dropped on the rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta activists say they were dropped on a residential area in the town of how area. a new version of the transpacific partnership agreement known as the t p p eleven is due to be signed in chile after languishing for more than a year after the u.s. withdrew. and britain's home secretary has vowed they will prosecute whoever is behind a nerve poison attack on former russian double agent. and his daughter. thursday is international women's day and women have rallied across the world to market the head of the un's refugee agency visited

a camp in lebanon to speak to women who fled violence in syria grandy said the biggest challenges facing them are violence and early marriage lebanon is hosting around one and a half million syrian refugees. hundreds of women are gathering at turkey's border with syria to raise the plight of syrian women after years of civil war organizers of approaches say more than six thousand women are currently being held in prisons in syria and some of being subjected to torture and rape some culturally reports from istanbul. it's an all women can watch dozens of buses carrying women activists have been on the rules for two days from istanbul to hot site on the turkish syrian border the organizers of the so-called comes to school or you want to remind the world of syria's forgotten women who have suffered dire conditions and syrian regime prisons and been tortured since the war

began in two thousand and eleven lawyer to mahmoud sauces the conditions violate not only international law but also syrian law absolutely no rights and a lot of times the families have some sort of idea where they are but for the most part they don't know which security branch they're imprisoned in or which present and for many they are forcibly disappeared which means we don't even know if they're actually detained in a prison or they've been taken hostage according to the organizers of the convoy more than six thousand seven hundred women are currently in jail at these five hundred thousand people have lost their lives in syria during the seven year conflict the british based syrian observatory for human rights says more than nine thousand were women and at least ten thousand were children thirty one year old neural his jersey was tortured for several weeks the police and the massacres

arrested her because she was an activist in two thousand and twelve she is one of the convoys leaders for. the. i haven't repeatedly beaten during interrogations they did everything including electrocution they also humiliated us and tortured us the worst moment was when i officer ordered other soldiers to rape me if i don't talk for me there was always the threat of or some other girls they were so lucky the women in the school and more are from different religious and ethnic groups. they aim to create international awareness about the violations and crimes committed against the women in syrian prisons it is the least they can do on an international women's day for them and for their children no one here is expecting president bashar assad to be watching but what they are demanding is that the international community puts more pressure on his government to act at the doorstep of syria these women call out to those in prison

beyond the border we are coming to save you see them al-jazeera stumble. joining me in the studio is bush if and unders schmidt she is the executive director of women for women international and we always you can start with referring to your t. shirt which was bought as you walked in the door don't tell me what the message is there yeah i think you said feds do it for grandma and the via narrows the as a lean and set top of talks about how her grandmother spend so influential in her life and how important it is for us as women to remember the women who've come before us who've helped us to be where we are now and to interest women say what you are with an organization that helps women who survive conflict what's the biggest challenge for those women the biggest chance for women in countries affected by conflict is the fact that not only are they extremely poor they are living in poverty and in conflict but also there are women and as we know worldwide women are completely disadvantaged simply because they're born women so they

experience violence significant levels of violence in particular sexual violence so i think that is the biggest challenge and there's been a lot of talk recently about the me to campaign and so on how much global influence does that have really is always it's simply a kind of a western phenomena that everyone talks about on social media if they're lucky enough to be on social media yeah i think for now it probably is more of a western phenomena and suddenly after spent a cause of war and i know in countries like afghanistan the women that we work with will not have heard about the me too movement but i know that the ripple effect of the need to movement will have an impact on women that we work with in those countries eventually ripple effect in what way am in the way that we are talking about the impact of gender inequality all around the world because what impacts me personally as a woman here is actually very similar to what impacts women in countries affected by conflict the root causes are the same and so by us speaking out and suddenly turning the tide that will have an impact on our ability to help women in difficult

circumstances like countries affected by conflict and what sort of i mean there's always a lot that can be done in future what you mentioned at the start there the kind of roles of kind of grandmothers or the previous generations what are the lessons that that are important to learn from that generation when it comes to women who are in conflict or in what way can they help. i believe that the most important thing is to know that you have the power to change with the right support and the right resources i have seen in countries affected by conflict where women for women international is supporting over fifteen thousand women a year that you can really transform women's lives women go from being victims to survivors to become active citizens speaking out demanding their rights knowing their rights having an education and having access to employment and it is things like education that the key to reducing i think education is key and that's why girls' education is phenomenally important but it is also important we realise that

there's a vast number of women who have never had education eighty percent of the when we work with have been are completely illiterate and giving them access to education is also very important because they are the ones who will then ensure that girls go to school just very briefly how does the culture do you need a culture change or do you actually in the end needs legislation to it to make sure that things really different thank you for asking this because we focus often on and legislative changes and they are important but cultural changes are equally as important because if you have laws of they're not being regarded and they're not being implemented they are of no use and it's very important that we cannot let at this is not a women's issue this is something for all of us to work for and we need men on side and needed men on international and stay and every other day of the year to say i know how important it is that women have access to the same opportunities and rights that we do are different in the smith thank you very much indeed for starters for shooting. our sri lanka's prime minister says recent anti muslim

violence has damaged the island's reputation as a tourism hotspot rioting in the central district of candy has left three dead and damaged more than two hundred muslim owned businesses a curfew has also been reimposed after was temporarily lifted earlier from candy bernard smith reports. the muslim business owners here don't need to take to tell them who's destroying their shops in the hope. nationalist groups have again been exploiting long simmering resentment among some ethnic sinhalese who think muslims dominate the economy i am see this is my country i want here and i going to die here i don't know how i'm feeling then after that i don't know that this is nothing but simple isn't it but i am. proud of my three month. using social media rumors of alleged muslim wrongdoing spread fast and angry

groups quickly for an hour before the mob came through the military and the police told the muslims living here to get out so they did when they came home and it was all over they came back to this and many of the people living here have told us that they have been left with the impression however right or wrong the security forces weren't interested in looking after their property the local police chief tells us they did everything they could. the government to send troops imposed a curfew and cut access to social media with the coalition administration led by prime minister rana wickramasinghe is politically weak and some have accused it of not doing enough to tackle rising nationalism it's very difficult these are going to be a question to answer because of the emotions involved it's very easy to fall from but it will give me that. that idea and something in me and then and get my emotions to run riot in me maybe in the future there may be things that we can do

better so. it's a topic that we have to discuss in the future of the three quarters of shoreline because population is sinhalese and overwhelmingly booklist but nationalist promoted long held fears that the character of the island is under threat first from british colonialism then there was a twenty six year civil war with tamils now it's muslims and they are destroying up all the sites and we definitely cannot stand by sinhalese as both this and watch as that is happening. one or two temples have been targeted but most victims of the violence are muslim the region of candy is vital to sri lanka's multi-billion dollar tourist industry but it's on the curfew once again but it's meant al-jazeera can be rumanian and german officials say they've smashed one of the biggest illegal migrant trafficking rings in europe lost police raided homes and hotels in both countries in the remaining city of two thousand people are believed to have been trafficked ring is accused of charging them over six thousand u.s.

dollars to help get out of serbia and into germany. three members of the more deaves main opposition party have been arrested they were taken into custody after police raided the mall devean democratic party's office and police reportedly refused to disclose their charges and said the arrests were made under the state of emergency declared last month president abdoulaye you mean granted sweeping powers to the police to investigate a suspected coup after the top court released nine political prisoners medical business and environmental leaders from around the globe are gathering in mexico for the world oceans summit the aim is to come up with ways to use maritime resources sustainably as john holmes reports the location of the meeting itself is a cautionary tale of financial gains trumping environmental concerns. for the delegates gathering to discuss how best to save the seas in the world ocean summit is a textbook example of what not to do in the very town that they flew into cancun it

attracted seven million international visitors just last year but financial success has meant abandoning the principles of sustainability at the summit is trying hard to promote. also changing the way the territory west conformed into a touristic area really brought lots of problems because for example we started to lose these natural barriers for the natural he says there's not only the coral reefs but also the mangroves and what do you do this transformation you cannot go back easily. mangroves have been ripped out to make way for development it reflects a global trend more than thirty percent of the unique trees crucial for storing carbon dioxide have been destroyed worldwide cancun's lagoon and seas have been polluted that together with global warming has damaged the mess where american reefs the largest in the western hemisphere worldwide over three quarters of reefs

are under threat cancun is like holding up a mirror to the world or what happens when urban development tourism explode largely unrestricted by authorities it might look good for now but environmentalist say that here and elsewhere time is running out. but just as globally here there's a local fight back going on this project is one of several farming coral to replenish the damaged reef one piece at a time it's the key to the ocean ecosystem that's had a sea face reefs and corals generates so many habitats for fish mollusks quest haitians it's as if they were an all races in the desert warfare or fishing corporate is working with authorities and n.g.o.s are enforcing no cuts sones the fishermen themselves monitor the protected areas and have seen biomass go up by more than four hundred percent though this is a work order if we didn't do this now we'd only be thinking

a short little be here now would disappear are fairly wealthy but the state government long lacks in holding hotel isn't developers to account says it's also now on board you know you can put on these so there is a serious commitment from the government to focus on the environment because. he recognizes that tourism attends only natural resources if we exhaust them tourism is spinning i just words for now but it's a local vision in line with the yangs of this global summit united and business leaders conservationists and government before it's too late don't hold out does it or trying to. and one of today's top stories new video has emerged from inside syria showing what appeared to be phosphorous bombs being dropped on the rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta activists say they were dropped on a residential area in the town of halabja syrian government forces are pursuing

a relentless offensive against a rebel held stronghold center honda has the latest sources have told us that the russian government and the rebel factions in eastern huta are holding the gauche ations over a withdrawal it may involve islam one of the main rebel factions leaving two rebel controlled territories in the southern province of daraa the other main faction man will leave to areas under the control of turkey backed rebels in the north of the country the u.s. extra state has warned african nations against surrendering their sovereignty to china in return for loans rex tillerson has been meeting with chairman of the african union in ethiopian capital at a site of a as part of his first official visit to africa a new version of the transpacific partnership agreement known as the t.t.p. eleven is due to be signed in chile after languishing for more than a year after the u.s. withdrew a slimmed down agreement is designed to all but eliminate terrorists in

a market place worth close to fourteen trillion dollars. britain's home secretary has vowed the u.k. will pursue whoever is behind a nerve poison attack on a former russian double agent sixty six year old sergei scriptural and his daughter remain in a critical but stable condition after being found unconscious on sunday a police officer also harmed by the rana of agent is still in a serious condition sri lanka's prime minister says recent anti muslim violence has damaged the island's reputation as a tourism hotspot writing in the central district of candy as the free dead and damaged when two hundred muslim owned businesses. the head of a un refugee agency has visited a camp in lebanon on international women's day to speak to women who fled firelands in syria the program he said the biggest challenges facing them on violence and early marriage that's over our back in just under half an hour with more news stay

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