great the largest protected area on the remote waters of the world don't see stay with al-jazeera for a series of special reports from the three piece expedition to antarctica as poverty and despair. women and girls are being bought and given away you refugee camps one on one east investigates yet another dark side of the crisis at this time on al jazeera. syrian government troops cut off two of his biggest towns as they intensify their assault on the enclave. live from london also coming up the british government holds emergency talks on

they suspected nerve agent attack on a russian former spy and his daughter. thousands of yemeni refugees in djibouti face a tough choice struggle on in the camps all return to their war torn country plus. i'm a clot reporting from an expedition in. the effort to. get to the largest protected area. i know the syrian army has surrounded the two largest towns and. after seizing more territory from rebels government shelling and asked have killed more than fifty people in the rebel enclave in the last twenty four hours. the syrian observatory for human rights says ground forces have advanced into areas between the main towns of duma and harassed or that effectively cuts off the main rebel supply line the government also says it has full control of miss rubber in the east of the enclave

cutting off another key road to duma ellen fisher has more from gaziantep on turkey's border with syria. what we've seen in eastern go to is a tactic that has been replayed throughout this war by the syrian government forces particularly since the enlisted the help of the russians both tactically and militarily the idea is to drive a wedge between the two areas take control of them isolate them and then negotiate some would see impose a peace deal which involves the removal of the part of fighters in that area and it seems that that's exactly what has happened here now it's been a difficult twenty four hours for eastern ghouta you remember that earlier this week we saw an aid convoy go in but not all of the forty six trucks could empty what they had in the back and so they had to leave because of airstrikes and fighting in and around where they were operating or the thirteen trucks that didn't manage to get back in to eastern ghouta late on friday but again not all of those trucks were able to unload and again it was because of fear strikes and fighting in

the area where they were working now overnight we heard that forty nine people had been killed but a number of structures had also been knocked down and there was a concern that there may be bodies in those buildings and so the number of dead me well rice been well down and friend and six villages to the north and to the south have been taken by the free syrian army backed by turkish forces it was expected that it would take a number of days before they would be this close to the edges of our friend one doctor in the city said he fears a massacre if this advance keeps going on and one leading member of the council there called on the united nations to intervene suppress that and do one more he said that if the touch weren't so concerned about humanitarian issues they could have soldiers in the middle of aspirin within three days but this military advance is moving so fast it may well be that the turks are on the edge if not enough rain in the coming hours and days.

britain has been holding a second meeting of its national emergency. committee in response to the poisoning of a russian former spy with a nerve agent ministers are discussing the latest police and intelligence reports meanwhile in souls very investigators are focusing their attention on house and the cemetery where his wife and son a buried the former spy and his daughter remain in a critical condition we're going to go is live for us outside the cabinet office in london so sonia what's being discussed at the cobra meeting. really is. an opportunity really full intelligence officers as well as senior cabinet ministers and security officials as well to be able to coordinate and plan exactly what the next step would be for the government to take in exactly how they're going to go forward with this on the on the information which they have course they are being quite tight lipped in terms of what their

plans are the only real confirmation of the gravity of the situation being given really is that it was an extremely. rare nerve agent that poisoned seven pilot his daughter as well as affecting the police officer who was the first responder to the scene while they are in critical condition the police officer had been able to engage with vesta gators somewhat but still he's in a serious condition but the investigation goes on in salzburg it is absolutely crucial to for them to try and get as much evidence as possible as many samples of the area as well as trying to figure out exactly what it was ordered and to try and get that evidence over to a government military facility that can conduct the scientific experiments needed to be able to identify exactly what the agent was and more

importantly as well where it was produced from then on then they would be able to find out exactly who was behind this and what are the implications in terms of relations with russia. well it's not been a secret that there has been finger pointing and of course certain most hearings that perhaps russia was responsible for this of course it does bear the hallmarks of other incidents the most famous one being that of course of the murder of the russian dissident alexander litvinenko some twelve years ago when he was poisoned by a radio active agent and so with that in mind there is the tendency to perhaps think that there is if not russia behind it in terms of being a state sponsor but then perhaps maybe it could have been the work of certain

criminal organizations which have their base in the now in russia but this is of course is triggered off a whole. slew of tensions between london and moscow most a furious the rebutting any involvement in this at the same time the british government is urging calm until evidence is clear and the evidence is confirmed similar to other tickler i was just so interesting to note as well is that it's bringing in a timeshare and some other debts that have occurred with people who are been linked to russia u.k. and in the states well those deaths were previously reported as having been suicides will coroner's reports having not gauged inadequate. response not response but evidence to in order to define exactly what was behind those matters but now there is pressure on the government to take a look into those deaths again because of the links with moscow there is some

serious questions and doubts as to whether they really were suicides and if they weren't and again who was behind those deaths as well aren't so you going to go thank you very much. thirty thirty five thousand refugees who sailed across the. straight to djibouti to escape the war in yemen but conditions in the refugee camps there are harsh with food supplies stretched to the limit from the port town of book has more of. its food distribution day at the markets he come for yemeni refugees in the dusty port town of. the law mohammed of the law has just picked his family's food a location for the month he came here two years ago when a missile hit and destroyed his house in ha ha self in the yemen now a mother had a hand look at the shooting that i say have given us there won't be enough for my family for even five days a situation is really bad. apart from the legal regimes people here also complain

of conditions of the come. the sweltering heat and ferocious sun systems hardly been many away and this is the place where many don't want to stay for long at one point this country was home to more than six thousand refugees today one thousand eight hundred one lived here most of them have either one talk of the town or to the capital djibouti yet others harbor tante lemon profiling that and something terrible was on to life in this can. also have chosen to stay see the option of a shared choice we have nowhere else to go where can we go we are forced to stay here yet the massive insecurity and shortage of some basic supplies in yemen is forcing many more refugees to cause the sea are some butter cut arrived of the come just three days ago from the city of thais which is under the control of both the fighters and again the human we fled from yemen because of war and hunger the hutu

militias are also making life unbearable destroying homes of bullying and arresting people that will it's a disaster back in yemen nearly thirty five thousand people have meant the jenna's southwards across the bubble mandeb straight to djibouti since march two thousand and fifteen from the beginning to open its doors to yemenis fleeing from the war the country has benefited from foreign investment in recent years due to it started you can look. but the extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say there's little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety and asylum one hundred at all just era of the djibouti. police in the united states of identified the gunman in a siege in which three hostages were killed as a former servicemen suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder three female employees in the gunman were found dead after an eight hour standoff at the nation's largest war veterans home in the californian town of yon through thirty six year old albert wall who served for a year in afghanistan had been

a patient at the holmes psychiatric facility. oh trump's surprise agreement to talks with kim jong un has been making headline news all over the world but not in north korea where it poses a major problem for the nation's propaganda machine it would be the first ever meeting of a u.s. president and north korean leader was mcbride's has more from south korea's capital seoul. if you are in north korea right now and you do not have access to an outside source of information then you will not know about the historic summit in all six pages of the road long since this is the state controlled main party newspaper there's not one mention of it the only related item is an article attacking the latest u.s. sanctions which it says are a further provocation possibly leading to war the problem in north korea is a propaganda machine that turns out a daily diet of common trees all the tacking the imperialist united states as the

great war monger how do you now turn around and tell your people your leader is about to sit down and have a friendly chat with the leader of your arch enemy even harder it seems will be explaining that in preparation for this is sturrock summit you have put on hold work on your intercontinental ballistic missile this has been heralded as a great achievement of the socialist north korea the thing that will offer salvation from the very same imperialist americans it seems the north koreans need time to work out this complicated narrative in order to be able to explain it to its people looking even further ahead becomes the prospect perhaps of normalized relationship if this talks continue between north korea and the united states maybe even relations veering towards possibly the friendly or at least less hostile should that happen north korea it seems will have to perform some kind of

propaganda contortionists act in order to explain it all luckily for the people in the propaganda department that prospect does seem a long way off. still to come this half hour leaving the stage what can dances do when the lights go down and they crank up the pumps for the last time the us moving to a different beat colombia's homophonic rebel struggle to find their feet on the electoral stage. hello there we've got a lot of travel rain that's working its way across the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing all the cloud gradually drifting its way towards the east and it's bringing some wet weather mostly through parts of afghanistan and a lawyer up into kazakstan and this area of damp weather is going to stick around

as we head through into monday as well a lot of rain on that and a fair amount of snow over the mountains as well behind that system there's another one that's drifting its way south with over the caspian sea giving some of us some rain and again some snow for the works it's looking quite quiet weather wise we're looking at a top temperature of around nineteen there in beirut a bit further towards the south and here in doha it's got pretty hot over the last few days alltop temperature on sunday is again going to be pretty high up around thirty two degrees but it will be less high as we head through into monday so this time temperature topic at around twenty nine this week feature is edging its way towards us a behind that the winds will change they'll be quite brisk and that will make things feel a bit cooler over the next few days further towards the south of there's plenty of showers over the southern parts of africa at the moment you see them all on our satellite picture stretching across into madagascar we're also seeing a little bit of cloud in the far south western parts of south africa will see a few showers in cape town.

and i'm going to run to the top stories here. syrian government troops have made further advances into eastern cutting off the rebel held town of duma and. held more emergency talks over the poisoning of a russian former spy and his daughter with a nerve agent one two hundred witnesses have been identified. concern is growing of the suffering of refugees who fled to djibouti from yemen in the thirty five thousand people have arrived in the country to escape war but food supplies and stretched to the limit. in front of the far right to lead a mind of pain is hoping to revive her party's fortunes at sixteenth congress by changing its name from the national front among the speakers addressing delegates at the congress was none other than donald trump's former advisor steve bannon. marine le pen said this week that you can't look at modern politics on the traditional left and right spectrum now we saw in italy in washington d.c.

this week the exact representation of that in italy two thirds of the population was an anti-establishment vote and in washington d.c. our belove president trump finally started to show the globalists the door. and it was a joint story joins us live from the congress and lisa david how did the palin appearance go down. i think one of the the best parts of his speech which was delivered with him pacing up and down the stage very short sound bytes so that the interpreter who cope with what he was saying he said to the national front delegates facing him that they were part of a worldwide movement and that the tide of history was on their side and would lead them to victory after victory after victory now you can imagine that got a very good response from the national front in the hit that he was actually facing

he is the dark wizard if you like of populist politics he's been to ring europeans in the land in rome for the elections and he's just been in zurich where is the members of the alternative for germany party the extreme right who got a wedge or something like ninety seats in the bundestag so he's here in a on a mission heat he describes as trying to train a new populist army to train the foot soldiers in the arts of the social media to try and get their message across to combat what he says is the wrong message from the liberal elite so he was taking aim at the european union he was taking aim at of course brussels and that was a very popular message here in the hall for the national front the last day that we called the national front because a change in the name tomorrow and given how important is this meeting for the national front. it's

a rebrand exercise lorand of course you must remember that it wasn't a huge failure in the last election from the marine le pen she managed to double the number of votes for the national front she got something like ten point six million voters that's about thirty four percent of the electorate but she was humiliated by a manual macro and that final one to one debate and she's been bruised ever since and losing support so she feels that. trying to detoxify the brand of the national front to change its name entirely will allow her to gain more alliances and that means that she can perhaps hope for more credible gains in the european elections next year and also she'll still be around if emanuel macro's policies fail here in france she's still young enough to be the leader of the renamed national front and to take on mark wrong once again so that's a tense think something that most of the people here in the hall support her for

but there is no doubt of course that her political star has been waning will this revive it she certainly hopes so she said quoting winston churchill britain's wartime leader of our failure is not fatal what is needed is the courage to continue a quote from churchill to the members here david chu to thank you very much. colombians will vote on sunday in the first parliamentary elections to include candidates from the former rebel group fog the peace deal which ended the fifty year war was signed in twenty sixteen but as i was under him getting reports from character the path through fighting the government to fighting elections has not been an easy one. it's the last day of complaining for former far commander big deal and it's a symbolic one she's back in her hometown. colombia the town she left thirty one years ago to become a given your fighter but this is the work. you have resisted you have had the

ability and the courage to endure the systematic violence that has been waged against our people when you fight party has been running on a platform of political and social welfare reform but it has had a hard time attracting people outside of its traditional base and in all attendance here are poor farmers mostly cocoa growers hoping peace will bring about change. the hope is that this party will help us move forward and that one day we can experience the peace we've been tonight's personae long by the war we can reach at this time. but the far campaign has largely attracted a different kind of attention. last month it suspended campaigning after. it stopped commander running for president was pelted with rocks he later ended his run because of health reasons too x. fighters campaigning for a candidate have been killed and most suffered attacks or traits and social media.

says columbia's private institutions systematically hampered their efforts and i feel but we've been trying but it has been very hard the goal was to reach as many people as possible but we weren't able to finance the campaign banks would not open us accounts we couldn't reach out on radio and t.v. like the other parties we suffered considerable stigmatise station and much slanging. as one of the facts stop him with a sound you know will likely fail one of ten congressional seats at the pace they will set aside for the new farts party regardless of their showing but it will be difficult for them to see them i don't see it if they don't get enough votes there is a tremendous degree of. negative feelings towards this group. have . adequately processed and taken measures to address. for extern zisha into

a legal electoral for. force was never going to be simple but this tentative steps are already and the story could she have meant in a country still struggling to find the way to turn the page on its long and bloody conflict alison. japan's trade minister sought an exemption from u.s. import tariffs on steel and aluminum and called for calm headed behavior e.u. japan and the u.s. have been holding trade talks in brussels japan's trade minister told a news conference his u.s. counterpart i don't explain the shuttle and procedure for the tariffs that use trade chief said the block is also seeking to be exempt from says president emanuel who wants france to replace britain as india's gateway to europe in many remark or stated his aim as he held talks with prime minister and narendra modi on his first official visit to india the pair of focusing on trade security and fighting climate

change signing fourteen agreements president michel also said he wants to welcome more indian citizens to france. the word out see in antarctica is the coldest on the planet it's home to an extraordinary ecosystem boasting an estimated fourteen thousand species killer whales to starfish now there's a proposal to turn the rich waters into the largest wildlife sanctuary on earth in part one of our dearest series on a what i'll say environment at a nightclub joined a greenpeace expedition to the sanctuary. it's a city near the end of the maritime history. in the main square in punta arenas but none miguel and looked out towards way go across the strait that bears his day from scott shackleton this is where famous antarctic expeditions came and sometimes returned and today it's home to the chilean arctic it's to toot a signatory to

a very important treaty preserving the integrity of the antarctic continent works as a kind of international co-operative as you walk into the chilean and talk to institute you're presented with a map of the concert incredibly rich in resources from copper to oil to gold and a lot of nations would like to get their hands on that but they caught because of the antarctic treaty which was signed back in one nine hundred fifty nine to ensure in the interest of all mankind that shall continue for ever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene object of international discord and so far that has worked to the principle the spirit is a corporation in a really if you don't compare it maybe you can be or can do anything because this is an extreme. with extreme conditions. from writers to king george island on the fringes of antarctica it's well below

zero and the tourists off the cruise ships are on their way home. here with no georgia. and articulated. like minded on. this is where the world's geography is turned upside down where russia neighbors chile along side it does not the nation's research stations it is the antarctic treaty in action. survival suits for the trip from shore to ship. on board we quickly on our way south bound for the site of the proposed ocean sanctuary an isolated wilderness of sea and ice home to an astonishing erev life campaign sort of is for the wealthy marine protected area proposal by the german government and backed by the e.u. and that sort of starts about sixty four degrees described by everyone who goes

there is pretty in the hospital i think that's the feeling we're going to have as we round this corner the greenpeace expedition is taking in scientific studies of the ocean floor as well as an exploration of this remote outpost how far we get will depend on whether ice conditions and a good deal of luck nick clarke al-jazeera antarctica. and in part two of our series on the proposed clark breaks through the ice to what activists hope will become the western edge of the protected some sunday here. now professional dancers like many sports stars are elite athletes with short careers but when injury strikes or retirement looms few have looked at endorsement deals to fall back on many struggle to move into other career is but a british organization is helping make the transition easier after it sounds so has more from london. dancers captivate audience with their beauty and grace but it cheating that delicate balance of athletic prowess and artistic expression

takes years of training and seemingly endless for her soles. daniel davidson started training when he was eleven he's not ready to leave the stage yet but at thirty three he knows that pushing the body beyond its limits inevitably takes its toll it's hard on the body with the long hours we have to train constantly. it's you know is difficult. but i feel like the emotionally exhausting aspects of the job is probably what makes me think more about what's next. like professional sports dance favors the very young and ironically it's often when dancers reach their artistic peak that the time comes to retire a professional dancers career tends to be very short while the average. thirty five and. it's because their bodies can no longer withstand the rigors of their profession and many dancers find one of the biggest things they want to do. that's

where dancers career development steps in the organization provides emotional and practical support helping dancers as they reach train in new fields is a very or long nothing career and very often that's from the age of three up until thirty five so you can imagine when that time comes of perhaps when you're no longer in the same place and it's time for you to think about doing something else it can be incredibly daunting isolating and also people have to hurry on shore of what they do they are what they are outside of a studio workshops like this help dancers looking ahead to retirement like tom clark who is struggling with injury and looking to pursue a career in photography what we get for is more business. ventures. my complete this year. so i'm saving already. after eight years onstage cabin mascot made his transition from the

dance studio to the design studio i was thirty at the time i knew i maybe had a few more but. at that point i knew i didn't want to do it forever i didn't want to be an old dancer so that kind of made up my mind for me i can stop this and i can retrain in something else kevin turned to dancers career development for help four years later he owns a thriving fashion business. proof that a life of a dancer can always have a second act catherine stansell al-jazeera london. and one of our main headlines are just zero syrian government troops have made further advances into eastern guta a suburb of damascus the surrounding the rebel held town of duma and harasta and have cut off a major supply line government shelling and airstrikes killed more than fifty

people in the rebel enclave in the last twenty four hours across from alan fischer reports from near the turkey syria border what we've seen in eastern go to is a tactic that has been replayed throughout this war by the syrian government forces particularly since the enlisted the help of the russians both tactically and militarily the idea is to drive a wedge between the two areas take control of them isolate them and then negotiate some would see impose a peace deal which involves the removal of the part of fighters in that area and it seems that that's exactly what has happened here in northwestern syria turkish forces have reached the outskirts of the town of affray in it's in the center of the region from which turkey has been trying to expel kurdish why p.g. fighters to his president has criticized nato in which his country is a member but their lack of support for the military operation. britain has held a second meeting of its national emergency committee in response to the poisoning

of a russian former spy with a nerve agent it was chaired by the u.k. home secretary amber rudd after the meeting she said investigators have identified more than two hundred witnesses and are looking at more than two hundred forty pieces of evidence from a spy and his daughter remain in a critical but stable condition. a former chief strategist to u.s. president donald trump has been speaking at the party conference of france's. steve benen says the election results in italy showed people were rejecting establishment political parties japan's trade minister has sought an exemption from the u.s. import tariffs on steel and aluminum and called for calm headed behavior that japan and the u.s. have been holding trade talks in brussels japan's trade minister told a news conference his u.s. counterpart attorney explain the shed and procedure of the terrace he said it was still time for japan to secure an exemption canada mexico and australia are already

exempt the top stories do stay with us inside story is up next more news after. that traded insults of what's now the u.s. president of north korea leaders say the can donald trump gets kim jong un to give up his duty ambition and what does young ones from the top this is inside story.