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to be blamed for the poisoning of a former russian spy and. are raising. being replaced with military bases plus. i'm. hearing from climate change to tears. and security council. to implement a cease fire in syria to allow aid. terrorists expected to brief members on the situation in the rebel held and play three weeks of government . more than one thousand people. for three weeks the syrian army's bombs have fallen on eastern good while its

troops have moved in easing into rebel territory that has changed a lot of the story on many levels the butts of the syrian arab army continue their operations in eastern guta successfully day by day other areas in fast spaces of eastern ghouta are secured. and the last week rebel held territory shrank and split into what syrian state media saying the army had completely surrounded the town of duma now those same government forces have reported they kept the way even further into opposition territory splintering the rebel held territory into three the bombardment has been relentless and indiscriminate monitors and activists say more than eleven hundred people have died since the government offensive began the syrian civil defense accuses government forces of using chlorine gas phosphorus bombs in one u.s. defense secretary james mattis wants syria against using chemical weapons situation

in eastern good very very powerful and miserable the. another rebel held area feeling the bite of syrian government advances is edlund the largest chunk of syrian territory currently held by the opposition this footage shows russian and syrian government gets striking the central bank in adlib city syrian government supporters sit it was the command center for the group in charge of it hyatt studied al shan an opposition tweet described it as the base for a syrian risk you teens. many areas in the province of being targeted al-jazeera arabic scurry spondon to adam abu same witness the bombardment of the town have been nice. were being at the among their targets were these residential areas several people were killed others wounded civil defense units have been trying to get people out from underneath the rubble there have been global calls for cease fire in syria but syria and russia have paid little mind to the outcry it's

a familiar government strategy an intense unrelenting bombardment designed to weaken and ultimately divide the rebel held region and this strategy appears to be working but at an enormous human cost million to zero. chairman of the u.k. parliament's foreign affairs committee says the poisoning of a former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted murder prime minister trey's m a will discuss the case a national security council meeting in the next few hours so i guess cripple and his daughter yulia are in a critical condition after falling unconscious in the english city of souls break for a challenge joins us now live from moscow so roy it looks like the finger is officially being pointed at russia was moscow's response. well officially the message in moscow hasn't changed for days now since the aftermath of this of this poisoning and basically the message is this the war of

what's going on in the u.k. at the moment seems to be some sort of anti russian media campaign that is basically propaganda that's what so gay lover of the foreign minister has said and there's no proof to back up all of these allegations coming out of the u.k. meanwhile russian state t.v. is busy is busy doing its thing it's basically suggesting that traitors as they put it should not feel comfortable in the united kingdom haps mission settle there because of the high number of strange incidents there with grave outcomes there's also the suggestion that script and his daughter were poisoned by u.k. operatives basically to fuel russophobia in the united kingdom but also i think there's some awareness in parts of the russian media that there is going to be some sort of pushback some sort of retaliation from the united kingdom

russian correspondents in the u.k. are talking about russians who are living there starting to feel quite uncomfortable with using their mother tongue too much in public that perhaps there are going to be expulsions maybe this will be diplomats perhaps going further into russian society in the u.k. there's also the increased likelihood that the u.k. is going to push through some version of the united states magnitsky act which targets all agog links to the kremlin with. asset seizures and that sort of thing basically there's a there's a mood in the u.k. to take off the gloves now that the u.k. russia relationships has little worth saving and i think in russia in moscow there's an awareness that this sentiment is. growing in the u.k. if it does go through with this there will of course be some sort of pushback from moscow but we don't know what that is yet you know it's got a lot more that a little later with lawrence lay just in the meantime rory is quick to just remind

us of cripples story and how he came to be living in a new k. ok well i mean he is he was an agent for war or an operative for the g.r.u. which is the kind of intelligence directorate of the russian military but for quite a long time in the one nine hundred ninety s. he was working as a double agent for u.k. intelligence basically giving them. information about what was going on with russia's military intelligence now when he was rumbles in russia and science land in jail he stayed there for a few years and then was pardoned and swapped with a number of russian spies that have been caught in the united kingdom and the

united states anna chapman. being the most high profile of those so there was this grand big swap in i think two thousand and ten where these these different agents were handed backwards and forwards he then settles in the united kingdom and. for all we know basically ceased operation but of course there are some suspicions that maybe he was still working with m i six with the british intelligence and of course this is being viewed in light of what happened with alexander litvinenko another former spy who was poisoned in the u.k. alexander litvinenko died at the moment script hala still alive and ok many thanks to his there from moscow with those details of course evidence laurent he joins us live from london so long as do we expect the prime minister to his m a to point the finger at the kremlin later today. she might not today no i mean there are

indications from people in the foreign affairs committee that they think it's likely that she will do in the fullness of time it is quite difficult for a must admit i mean if you mention the living yank a case in two thousand and six after he was murdered there's the government then of david cameron spent a very long time looking like they were trying to do something while actually doing absolutely nothing about it at all and that was because at that time it was just seen that russia was too important to wind up in that sense now clearly that was that was before ukraine happened and crimea was annexed and they brought down the jets their proxies fighting in the east and ukraine it was before russia really dug in in syria as well. and so in that sense it might have felt at the times of the government that you know even though they knew the russian dunnies the mean that they couldn't do anything about it now because of all those things in the meantime as rory was saying there's not much left to salvage and other countries which have

invoked this thing called the magnitsky act where they've gone against rich and corrupt russians and refuse them visas working in countries like canada or in parts of europe that hasn't had any particular blowback against those countries or russia they just put up with it and so i think if you look at the range of options of the british government now has this is opposing it probably is the most palatable they can take russia on the war it's inconceivable they talking about some sanctions are they talking about expulsion of russian russian diplomats a much more tangible response is being discussed there as well those though those things they could do you think i mean they might get rid of a couple of russian diplomats just as a signal process but the bigger thing this thing called magnitsky act which is which is a piece of legislation that basically targets rich russians with direct links to rather be put in the kremlin and who are living you know around the corner in the richest bits of london in places like this who are worth vast amounts of money and and come to the u.k.

partly because. i think they want to protect their interests financially polley because they're frightened of putin in the water what he might do to them it is to russia and partly because they like it here it's a nicer place to live than the moscow but they do on some level or another all trails back to power in moscow and it seems to be that the most likely thing that they can do in terms of government here without aggravating relations yet is to go after people like that i mean i think they have to be seen to be doing something the thing at this point but that's that's probably the most expedient course for them and that's very interesting case indeed ok lawrence thanks very much for joining us there from london. the miramar government's being accused of building military bases on top of range of villages its soldiers burned down last year and since national has released satellite images that appear to show sites being cleared in northern iraq kind state of building work being carried out on one ranger one of the ranger townships and a road being constructed over the top of more homes that were destroyed and the

images raise questions about the man most governments pledged to repatriate hundreds of thousands of ranger who fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape the military crackdown many of the refugees are refusing to return for fear of further violence. a bank that a court has granted a four month interim bail to opposition leader and former prime minister there last month she was sentenced to a five year prison term for embezzlement says release could mean her party the bangladesh nationalist party will reverse its decision to boycott the general election treasurer for december this year. hong kong's democracy campaigners have lost ground in a crucial by election that's recaptured only two out of the four seats up for grabs that means the opposition won't be able to block any bills in the regions legislature the seats were vacated two years ago and democracy activists were ousted from office for using their oaths to defy china keith richburg is the director of the university of hong kong's journalism and media studies center he

says poor strategy by democracy activists contributed to their defeat it. you know this number this byelection didn't even need to be held except for mistakes made by the penn democratic and the locals candidates this byelection was necessitated because these candidates kind of mangled their oaths they deliberately when they were taking their oaths of office after the two thousand and sixteen elections deliberately threw in phrases about democracy or mispronounced the name of china in a derogatory way and those so those voters got kicked out and the government took a pretty heavy handed kind of vetting candidates who could then run again in this byelection to replace those who were kicked out some of the more local as candidates with some of the young candidates who the government accused of supporting independents were not allowed to run and i think voters may have been punishing the penn democrats a little bit for having botched this whole situation in the first place by not taking their seats when they had when they had the chance and you know there were

some local concerns as well the pan democrats the democratic party camp candidates thought that just the disqualifications alone might be enough to get them some more seats or some more votes but you know voters really cared about local issues they care about livelihood issues they care about you know employment issues so that could have been another reason why you had i mean mind you the loss was only of within about two thousand two thousand four hundred votes or souls that was the big loss but a loss is a loss. to the head head on down to their core in south sudan where there's been an increase and the number of i'm sure taste as we look at the leading fact has behind . hello there we're still got some very heavy showers over the southeastern parts of asia at the moment the satellite picture shows most of them are in the southern

part of our map and the majority of the worst of them are over parts of borneo across into somalia and in the northern parts of job for as well in this whole region is going to see plenty more in the way of what weather as we head to choose day and wednesday so a pretty wet period to come we're also seeing more cloud on wednesday push its way towards the north that's going to be working its way across the southern parts of vietnam and to the north of that there's likely to be quite a few showers around thailand too as we head further south for some of us in australia being pretty wet recently but the showers are now confined just to the northern parts of the northern territory there elsewhere it's largely fine and dry in the west it's pretty hot now the temperatures in perth put around thirty five degrees watch out for this little circulation here this is a developing feature that's running its way towards the south and it could well just graze that east coast of australia bring us a few heavy showers now as we head towards new zealand here we've been hit by a cycloid all the remains of one that's moving away though so as we head into

tuesday should be a lot drier force all cleaned up at twenty degrees that will allow us to pick up the pieces and force in christchurch will be at eighteen. the benefit of people so bad to see. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera.

is there as a reminder of our top stories russians spies and his daughter you have remained in a critical condition in the u.k. the chairman of the bush policy foreign affairs committee says that poison looks like state sponsored attempted crime as a reason may will discuss the case of the national security council meeting in the next few hours. dozens of people have been killed in government attacks and syria's eastern busa the rebel held has been under government seized since twenty thirteen . or will in the coming hours again discuss a possible cease fire. has released images that appear to show a range of villages i'm in ma being cleared to make way for military use overnight is ation says it believes an army base is being built on one of the townships that security forces a suspected of burning down last august. and in asia is trying to free up

its gridlocked capital a new plan to ease the choking congestion as motorists idea to drive to work on alternate days and explains. and not a government attempt to reduce jackass those famous traffic jams every weekday from six to nine am an odd and even license plate system will take effect here on the toll road it's a system that has been used already in the city as well and it's now been extended to the suburbs it's easy to remember because on the odd days an odd number plate is allowed to enter here the toll road and on the even days only even numbers and if someone tries to under the toll road with the wrong number there will be no mercy and you will immediately be sent back. for those who are not allowed to enter the toll road the government. busses have already left this morning for the government not only wants to reduce traffic but also wants to change the mindset of people

still taking the car to go to work only twenty percent of people in. public transport that's now see how can people are to take the bus. i take the bus every day already so i'm not getting tired being stuck in traffic in the bus i can sleep and wake up when i arrive the government to reduce traffic here by twenty five percent from around eight thousand cars a day to around six thousand and it also wants to increase the speed the cop can drive here from around twenty five kilometers an hour forty five but now we're already getting seventy kilometers an hour so we're doing pretty well but a lot of people fear that the traffic jams where. and this is a situation closer to a recent study found that. spend an average of twenty two days a year just simply being stuck in traffic this not only causes major air pollution but also the economy around five billion u.s.

dollars a year. colombians cast their votes on sunday in the first election since the signing of a peace agreement with us and the results are a resurgence of rightwing parties opposed to the deal. reports the polls to elect a new congress as a preview for a presidential elections in may. it's for the history books. and running for office in. all those it we did not think that this would happen so soon but we must think that this is thanks to the peace agreement signed in a momentous event all of us hoped for. but not everybody in the country agrees the peace deal guarantees the fark party ten seats in congress even if you colombians actually voted for them and the peace deal still profoundly divides voters our

candidates were pelted with tomatoes and rocks at campaign events. unfortunately our country is deeply polarized trying to repudiate violence a lot of people and acting violently people have the right to protest but we should do it exclusively through voting these legislative elections set the stage for the upcoming presidential race in may results show a strengthening of right wing parties that are posed the peace deal colombians also voted for two primaries on the right of the democratic center party of former president easily one attracting over three and a half million votes. we vote for a country where there is no class based hate but rather brotherhood we vote for a country that has development and that no productive sector is persecuted we vote for a social agenda to close the poverty gap to end poverty we vote for hope. a

controversial but very popular former mayor of bull and former good fighter of the m. one thousand movement was the expected when they're on the left yet the right wing primary attracted almost double the number of voters. this pipe detentions this was probably the most peaceful election day in the country's history with former farquhar both taking parts in it and still active your lan rebels or serving a ceasefire yet it also proves the deep resentment that many colombians feel towards the fark and establishment politicians the results seem to show that the most hard line conservative have a clear shot at the presidency putting risk the already fragile peace agreement alison i'll just read a book. agent has extended the detention of al-jazeera journalist who was hussein by another forty five days egyptian national was arrested once on holiday in

december two thousand and sixteen hussein was accused of incitement against state institutions and broadcasting false news with the aim of spreading chaos he has lawyers and strongly deny the allegations. in south sudan injuries that are relatively simple to treat by doctors in other countries often result in amputation three years of civil war have devastated the health care system and many resort to sedition or healing methods etc morgan reports from my dog by the time the injured decide to travel to a hospital it can be too late to save their limbs little long or has been suffering for more than a year he injured his foot while playing with his friends his mother says she resorted to traditional medicines initially because it was the nearest option but after she saw it getting worse she decided to make the long journey took clinic to get medical assistance we were armed guard all of the flesh was getting bad the

bone was starting to show so we took him to the clinic they fixed the bone and i don't know if i had already treated him or operate on him and cut his leg doctors are still assessing if longer would need an amputation but that's not the case for a joke a ball who recently had her left leg amputated after an injury became too infected to treat. there's nothing i can do now if i had my other leg i would have been able to help myself now it's a struggle to cook for myself to get water for myself now i struggle in life is hot i can still feel the throbbing pain with my leg was. a joke is one of more than fifty thousand in africa the country south sudan which descended into civil war in twenty thirteen less than three years after its independence from sudan although more than half of the amputees are the result of were related injuries amputation also happen for other reasons five years of war has affected delivery of health services to rural parts of the country here in

a dog where one hundred fifty thousand people live doctors say they perform more than two dozen amputations in the past six months alone one of the main factors contributing to amputation in south sudan is that health centers particularly those able to treat ones and infections are not often within easy reach because of bet patients tend to seek traditional treatments and only make the journey to hospitals when it's often too late many of those who come to are from neighboring counties more than half of the population lives in rural areas where there is limited health care according to the un over fifty percent of health facilities in the country are nonfunctional and while proximity to health centers is the reason doctors see other factors also contribute to delays in getting treatment. programs. for. the first person. is. the biggest. driver after i'm pretty sure it

is very nice to. a challenge a joke is already feasting and one long mars mother a book fears her son may have to face if he loses his foot he will morgan al-jazeera south sudan. three separate boat loads of migrants and refugees have been rescued in the mediterranean sea hundreds of people were attempting the dangerous journey from libya to italy on saturday rescuers say one of the boats was on the verge of sinking when they approached it off the coast of tripoli more aid is arriving in papua new guinea as it struggles to recover after last month's earthquake sense eight hundred tons of supplies including food water and medicine aid agencies have been scrambling to reach remote villages cut off by landslides and talks ago has the largest unspoiled wilderness on famous for its wildlife but

it's facing multiple threats from climate change to a dramatic rise in tourism clark is on a greenpeace expedition ship in the world l c king at the animals that call the continent home. life of the islands fringing the antarctic peninsula is abundant a place of seemingly endless variety the whole region is richly biodiverse a living example of how things are pretty much free from the influence of man. a place to breed feet and grow. its pristine oceans full of marine species including more than a dozen types of whale about getting to see the astonishing wildlife here is by no means straightforward. the weather makes everything a challenge bit of a threat on today it's gusting forty to forty five knots very very very good progress in the night we're now back in the antarctic that hoping to get back which

is where there's an argentine research station three want to visit that is also a colony of about one hundred thousand. and then by radio the argentine base says the winds have become impossibly strong and it now has enough things to me yet their mission is aborted and we have to wait another twenty four hours before making landfall on penguin island near the reasonably accessible tip of the antarctic peninsula a colony of chinstrap penguins territory with a large group of seals one making the most of the comfortable feathers of the molten juveniles of course the environment where these magnificent animals as wildlife is living is incredibly fragile incredibly delicate there's all sorts of threats that they're up against from climate change to cruel fishing and then of course there's this tourism and the tourists come here the audience close to king

george in their masses. some are prepared to pay top dollar to have the and all to experience there are some pressures that come from tourism so in the background we have a two hundred person tours ship take the number of tourists coming down here it's a beginning of the two thousands was somewhere around four five thousand a year we're now over thirty thousand people a year. two days later we arrive at hanna point on the southern edge of livingstone island here another colony of chinstrap penguins healthy and in good shape they overlook a group of gentoo penguins there's the distinctive beak of the southern giant but showing its young. or elephant seals all different species side by side on a grand scale but across the continent the pressure is building it's crazy the pace of change and at the moment colonies like this one seem to be doing ok but all it takes is one year and we saw in the east antarctic last year

a penguin colony collapsed due to chicks born. and and sort of the pace of change so quick we don't want to add additional threats things like fishing which is gradually expanding antarctica is still in pretty good shape but it's apparent this unique landscape needs to be very carefully managed as multiple threats interludes on the horizon. al-jazeera antarctica but in the fourth part of our antarctic series nick talk to scientists looking see if we might create plastics have made their way into some of the world's most remote waters. so what you got is are these our top stories the chairman of the u.k.'s parliament foreign affairs committee says the poisoning of a former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted murder from his attorneys

i'm a will discuss the case at a national security council meeting in the coming hours so i guess cripple and his daughter junia in a critical condition after falling unconscious in the english city of seoul spree dozens of people have been killed in government attacks in syria's eastern gusa the rebel held enclave has been under government siege since twenty thirteen council will in the coming hours again discuss a possible cease fire. a minimal government being accused of building military bases on top of range of villages its soldiers burned down last year. released satellite images that appear to show sites being cleared in northern iraq kind state of building work being carried out on one of the ranger townships and a road being constructed over top of more homes that were destroyed hong kong's pro-democracy campaigners have lost ground in a crucial by election kansas recaptured only two out of the four seats up for grabs

that means the opposition will not be able to block any bills in the chamber seats were vacated two years ago and pro-democracy candidates were ousted from office for using their oaths to defy china. just because of. the. fact that. there will be about the nation. and the result is that. we. don't you right have any. regrets in any. and we're getting reports of a bangladeshi private plane that catching fire and crashing landing at katmandu airport in the poor clouds of thick smoke could be seen rising from the plane was on a field at the edge of the airport casualties are not known at this point but we will

get you more details as we get them. over one years after witness. facing the realities of growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on the talk to al-jazeera at this time.