really worth fighting for plus the latest mind bending concept cars from the geneva also show counting the cost at this time. where are you. blaming the kremlin and british m.p.'s say the poisoning of a former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted murder. oh there are more of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. bangladeshi

plane crashes. in the pool dozens of people have been killed. the syrian government advances on the east and as a rebel group says it's reached a deal to evacuate the injured. and tens of thousands of families and to india's financial capital demanding a debt for me. the chairman of the u.k. parliament foreign affairs committee says the poisoning of former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted. treason by discussing the case at a national security council meeting that's just got underway. like a scrap pile on his door to you know are in

a critical condition after falling unconscious in the city of cold rain. at least thirty eight people have been killed in a plane crash in the polls the capital the wreckage is on the failed at the edge of kathmandu is apple's plane belonged to a private bangladeshi carry us banga deposit from dhaka lives landing in the pool of capital when it crashed was the biggest is joining us now from katmandu apple she's on the phone sabina what we know about the situation. so many talking to one of the people who actually started. between trying to lead a very. trying to bob good. morning to the benchtop. it didn't make tell you visited one of the towers and it aborted the landing and like second time around and it kind of just. passes on the plane.

at the airport as a just. as good as a lot of people a lot of ambulances and i was told that everyone. have to be taken to different hospitals channel is on the runway and we've been. getting a lot of the studies badly and. the story still developing we've. been told that there were many sixty seven people on the board on board to passengers on board and said to them in a toddy. didn't get it just in getting like a good agent nation and is still not exactly clear about how. to be sure k s a b a can you give us a bit of an idea of what the situation is like that and what the weather was like

what it's like trying to land that katmandu port i mean it's in a valley isn't a particularly difficult runway. it's supposed to be assured. compared to those other run days like there was but it's not the state it's those copies that company value has now to all those around. there's not much. catch accidents before because if. you have had accidents at the coach. shared a lot of things that could be wrong the cheats can do one and get them to the airport like into apprenticeships to change the share line and try to learn and i'm just. kidding. because of. the mention of those. three to want to know it's about the reputation of this particular airline us

buying the ad line and the car and the aircraft itself. you very much it and it is it says that it is easy to launch and it started. but. it is this is a measure that. leases these. last two games that is as a. good it is done the best to be is that is. not . the kind of pain that is. ok bring us the latest from katmandu on that crash keeping us updated all the latest details will keep across the story as more information comes in from katmandu thank sabina ok let's return now to our top story the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k.

in the national security council meeting is currently under way with the prime minister treason may top bali phillips joins us now live from downing street so bob the prime is to be discussing this issue in a meeting now how likely is it that the finger is going to officially be pointed at the kremlin. it seems that that is the direction that the british government is heading in and we may well have a statement from the prime minister in the house of commons the softer knew the momentum is there the pressure is there on the british government eight days later to come up with some sort of conclusion as to who carried out what the british government believes were two attempted murders using a nerve agent and ponder what action is available to the government if indeed it does seem that russia was responsible. for this this is the really

interesting thing what can britain do there's a range of options we could be looking at the expulsion of russian diplomats we could be looking at targeted sanctions against wealthy people close to be a putin prohibiting them for instance from owning property in london from sending their children to expensive boarding schools and so on there's other measures which have been discussed some people even saying that the england football team should not be going to the world cup in russia this summer i don't think that's very likely but i think what is more likely is that senior officials from the football association who would perhaps in theory include prince william he could have been going to russia they may now not be going will be getting a clear indication probably from the prime minister as i was saying this afternoon but one thing to remember and i think this is why the government feels under some pressure their response to the murder of alexander litvinenko here in london back

in two thousand and six with the benefit of hindsight or not only with the benefit of hindsight indeed was criticised at the time as being pretty late and pretty lame and so the onus is on the british government to come up with something more convincing then also of course be looking at multilateral options what's. sort of cooperation can they get from european partners this will be an interesting test of britain's credibility and weight in the e.u. whilst the process is under way because british officials have always been keen to say that breaks it or not our security ties with europe will remain strong so can they get the french the germans to cooperate on some sort of action what sort of response will they get from donald trump's administration in washington which so far to my knowledge has said absolutely nothing about this attempted murder whatsoever ok randy phillips joining us live from london thanks bonnie.

one of the rebel groups operating in syria's east agreed to allow wounded people to be evacuated from the enclave says it struck a deal with syria's government ally russia as the largest of three groups in the area where almost four hundred thousand civilians have been the siege since two thousand and thirteen more than one thousand people have died since the government offensive began three weeks ago they were on monday the security council be discussing how to implement a cease fire deal that's still only on paper. well elsewhere in syria kurdish fighters have called on civilian volunteers to form a human shield around the town of affray in turkish troops and free syrian army fighters have surrounded our friend and warned they will enter soon he launched an offensive into the area in january saying it wants to clear kurdish wife peetie faces a u.n. fact finding mission in men is due to present its initial findings on atrocities committed against days after the un human rights chief called for crimes to be referred to the international criminal court satellite images released by amnesty

international appear to show muslim villages being cleared to make way for a military base and other shows a road being built where homes were destroyed during the military crackdown last august in states. these images raise questions about the memo government's pledge to repatriate hundreds of thousands of re-injuring fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape the military crackdown many of the refugees are refusing to attack for fear of further violence. at a stranger's deakin university he doesn't think enough international pressure is being put on men miles government to the attacks we are witnessing a genocide in real time the mistreatment of the regime by me and mars' military and me and mars authorities surely meets the criteria to be considered a genocide then and that must compel the international community to act what we've seen so far is seven hundred thousand muslims pushed out of me and maher. report

today suggests that there are no military barracks been built on the land that those people used to live on and what we've seen from the international community short this been humanitarian assistance for the refugees but very little response in terms of demanding action from me and mom and nothing practical yes we actually need to see sanctions back on the table me and man needs to know that the international community is going to prioritize human lives rather than rather than commerce should be visa bans for the perpetrators of these atrocities and that should include not just the military should include the civilian authorities of me and maher who stood by and allowed this to happen. to get a new president on for the first time in almost sixty years his name will not be castro. taking place to elect a new national assembly which will then choose

a successor to president raul castro and the man tipped to take his place is promising the new government will be more responsive to the cuban people checking on a report from havana. no campaigning just one party and rarely any surprises elections in cuba are carefully managed in this vote the last step before cuba's national assembly chooses a replacement for raul castro was no different. with their ballots cubans essentially confirmed the names of six hundred five assembly delegates and electoral process that began months ago and will end on april nineteenth that's when the new assembly forms the council of state which in turn chooses the next president. it's widely expected this man vice president. castro. government that we are electing today will owe itself to the people the people will take part in the decisions that the government takes that government will work based on its relationships to the people and the people can also remove

those who don't meet their responsibilities. to generational transition that the cuban government says will guarantee the continuity of the revolution and in a country where the political power is largely in the hands of the communist party held castro won't be stepping down entirely he's expected to remain as first party secretary and continue to be a major power behind the scenes there's a palpable sense of resignation in cuba about who the next president will be in fact with only weeks to go cubans know very little about me or any of the other potential candidates one thing there is no uncertainty about though is what the next president's biggest challenge will be upon taking office and that is tackling the country's stagnant economy. over the last decade cuba has made efforts. modernize its economy most notably allowing some private businesses to operate but many here feel they have fallen short of what's needed to improve quality of life on the island the next president's job has also been made much harder by the

worsening relationship with the united states and you can on the collapse of venezuela cuba's main ally in the region. there will be positive changes both to our economy and our politics because some of the decisions made in the past have become obsolete but we're not all and. we have some big economic challenges ahead in particular the unification of our two currencies which creates a lot of problems but we trust those people in this new government will be able to find the best way forward without ever compromising our peace and freedom whoever is the next leader will find it tough to replace these historically recognized figures but despite the challenges ahead many cubans are hoping this is a moment their government can capitalize on for lasting economic reform julia galliano al-jazeera have anna. sell the car there al-jazeera our traditional medicine is leading to an increase in the number of patients in south sudan. and

the gulf say the song title was narey misses out on the first one of the twenty in five years was. hello there we're still seeing a fair amount of cloud of wintry weather over the northern parts of asia at the moment the satellite picture is picking up that cloud just making its way over the far east in parts of russia and out towards japan there and this will be giving us a few outbreaks of snow as we had three tuesday to the south of all of that though it's turning a lot milder air force in tokyo will get to around sixteen degrees on tuesday but on wednesday we should be up to twenty degrees and the last time we saw temperatures that high was back in november so it's been a long time coming but temperatures are also rising towards the west of beijing twenty one degrees also for the south things are getting malta here too we're

seeing the temperature of twenty four in hong kong but also force in shanghai say really very mild here things will begin to change though as we head through into wednesday you can see why the winds are feeding up plenty of moisture bringing in the cloud so from guizhou through hunan out towards shanghai we're likely to see quite a few outbreaks of rain during the day a bit further towards the south and for the southeastern parts of asia the actually quite a bit of sunshine around at the moment for many of us in the philippines as plenty of fine weather as there is towards the west as well it's here across parts of java three so much for and into borneo where we've got some particularly heavy downpours and those are going to stick around as we head through wednesday it's going to be. worth it you probably do something which is a geopolitical that's for governments international institutions to manage under one thousand refugees don't have the right to freely on the other hand goods can move freely as far and as much as they want it's

a huge multinational colonialism this is a v i'm not and over the democratic process these companies they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one at this time on al-jazeera. again you're watching out there as a reminder of our top stories this hour. the poisoning of a former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted murder by the kremlin. and his door so you remain critically ill in hospital a week off they were found unconscious promise of treason may is discussing the case of the national security council meeting now under way. at least fifty people

have been killed in a plane crash in nepal's capital the wreckage is on a field the edge of cap. belong to a private bangladeshi korea u.s. . and a rebel group in syria's east. of russia to evacuate wounded people from the. security council will in the coming hours again discuss a possible cease fire. fifty thousand farmers have reached india's financial capital month by after a five day protest march demanding aid from the government better crop prices and while access to land betrayed the reports the car. the atmosphere is upbeat but these farmers arrive in mumbai with a serious message to the indian government it's taken them five days in the hot sun to march one hundred eighty kilometers from the ancient holy city of nashville

stopping only for food and rest now they are determined to make their voices heard to state and federal government legislators just talk nice. coming all the way from mushnick on foot the government of the opera has not given us the land rights we will hold demonstrations outside the assembly until our demands are met yeah. we have a lot of demand the price of arcologies to death and the. farmers in india are having a tough time many have fallen into debt due to drought and increasingly erratic weather thousands involved in the farming industry commit suicide each year the farmers are demanding more government subsidies higher crop prices and for tribal farmers who mainly cultivated forests to be allowed to own land they also say that strict conditions on a government loan waiver program excludes the vast majority of families.

the government should accept some of our demands in the past they have blocked roads tried to fill days but the government is on a move with this long not yet determined to stay put outside the state assembly to lower demands are met and you're ready to put in days the state government says it will appoint a six member committee to look into the demands but that may be too little too late for many families who feel they've been ignored for too long and are impatient to change victoria gate and be out there. devaney chavez a food and agriculture analyst joins us now from kandahar via skype thanks for being with us one of these farmers being pushed to make such a dramatic protest why they've been ignored for so long. well this is a how the economic good design has been going to be the economic thinking is that a good go to has to be secure phased or if the economic reforms that have to survive or economic reforms have to claim and so therefore to go to is being deliberately going to be imposed all these years it's not only happening in the

last two years of three years of service happening over there see a few tickets and it's a cumulative impact there's a visible as a good movie see the long march happening in mumbai and don't want it to do farmers that are asking is it they want that they get full income that actually standing for them so they want justice to be done to them you know the government has got to our farmers as a glass which has been just ignored and we have believed that that the economic reform economic growth of the country big place just by industry or they can't but it's and that conflict is what is visible to the end i think of the farmers who are what on the street said who are no more the you know stay put in the movie and if you look to him to give a message that they're seeking justice ok so how have they caught the attention of the people that they're trying to tell that they're going to get their demands met . well it's going to be longer of course with the demands to be met but we know for sure about one thing that over the last few months or years we have seen is it

going to be said since happening as but as a domestic protest farmers going to some happening just just to give you an idea in the year two thousand and sixteen four thousand eight hundred thirty seven who just happened across the country farmers were just happen across the country but this was a jump of the six hundred eighty per cent over the last two years before that from two thousand four hundred without some sixty of this year two thousand seven hundred you have seen massive protests two thousand and eighteen of course to get the beginning and yet to be a singer whose borders happening across the country you see clear cut message that you cannot ignore fatwas for not not ok they have been different if you want and they're seeking justice at devon it just does quickly forget is that much sympathy for these farmers the monks and ins well to be honest not so and we just believe that in the cities you know when they come into the cities or they're going to disturb our traffic and new places to go up and so on and so forth the middle class of india is

a disconnected of the dualie india and that's the biggest address to be optimistic i would see it and middle class has to get a feed of it but that you know and i wouldn't be surprised if i'm a stops place to city last leg it happened you know nine months back in mumbai this stops a place to a city and then to be the last book up to do it due to the crisis the farming sector is facing now is not but there are groups of what we have seen mumbai people have come forward their big three doing this far most and. this includes different regions different so it was a groups that of course is happening but one thing which i find significant is this stan aim i find that there is very much sympathy for the farmers ok which is biggest which is that it pleasant business of baseball me and then the shallow if i could speak a thanks for joining us there from again. and york times has criticized the saudi crown prince for what he calls his anti corruption efforts days before mom and pencil man is due to visit the u.s. and the article says hundreds of powerful saudi says since have been forced to wear

electronic tracking tags which track their movements and their conversations may be monitored with the body of a general in the saudi national guard who died after being detained showed signs of torture in november the saudi government locked up hundreds of influential people in the riyadh ritz carlton hotel and 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 were sought methods as ever morgan reports from by the time the injured manage to reach a hospital it can often 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. the flesh was getting bad the bone was starting to show so

i took him to the clinic they fixed the bone and i don't know if i have 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 hard i can still feel the throbbing pain with my leg was. a joke is one of more than fifty thousand and petey's in africa 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 amputations 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. you say a problem. for some. the first person. is the producer and i would participate the biggest challenge

for this case of competition is a drug after the amputation it is very nice to. run for the patient associates. a challenge is already facing and one long ours mother a book fears her son may have to face if he loses his foot he will morgan on. south sudan. there's house of representatives votes this week on paying for more security at schools and students are planning more nationwide protests following the florida shootings last month of seventeen high school children and stuff brunell's has more from the. spur to action by the marjorie stoneman douglas high school protesters teenage students around the united states plan to walk out of class on march fourteenth they're demanding stricter gun laws in and look at the influence of the gun lobby now you're ramaswamy is

a thirteen year old student in los angeles it's the adults making the laws but the kids who are getting shot and so i feel like the kids are the ones who should be standing up for themselves now as mother sosh ramaswamy fully supports or i have told my you walk out if you want to walk out you walk out and we will deal with that but the administrator said knowing is school or discouraging student protests and threatening punishment her teacher told her that if anyone left the classroom at ten am then they would get in on satisfactory that they would lose their privileges like being able to put this new land with their class. other school districts around the u.s. are brandishing similar threats for example in houston texas a school district chief announced he would not allow student demonstrations for any protest or awareness unquote those threats violate numerous court rulings upholding students' rights to free speech school administrators and families need to

understand that students cannot be disciplined any more harshly under the constitution than they would be if they were just missing class or lunch period so they cannot be disciplined for protest and they cannot be disciplined generally for things that they say are political positions that they take civil liberties organization say they'll take school districts to court if they impose harsh punishment for non-disruptive stude. naya says threats won't prevent her from standing up for her beliefs they're not going to stop me from me or my friends student protesters are getting strong support from top university admissions officers universities including cal tech mit the university of massachusetts and others are all saying that even if high schools give black marks to their students for participating in walkouts it will have no impact on the likelihood of them being admitted to those colleges and many universities are encouraging students to

take action saying they should stand up for what they believe in robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. golf superstar tiger woods has not already missed out on a first tournament win and five he is at the championship and florida woods finished tied for second off to sunday's final round and paul casey was the winner isn't woods five one shot. him against progressing. as i was telling you guys yesterday i had really. some nice building blocks and honda and it's you know i've made a few tweaks for this week and it's paid off and i hit the ball well i'm missing parts this week and. you know it is a man i was the most happy about this week so when i did miss i missed some of crack sides again and you know that's what we have to do out here and i was able to do that so my up and downs were relatively easy this week.

is out there these are the top stories at least fifty people have been killed in a plane crash in the polls capital the wreckage is on a failed at the edge of cap. plane belong to a private bank carried us by and had departed from dhaka. the chairman of the u.k. parliament's foreign affairs committee says the poisoning of a former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted murder by mr treasonous it's got in the case of the national security council meeting now underway so guess kripalani his daughter of yulia and critical condition after falling on conscious in the city of solsbury one of the rebel groups operating in syria's eastern goose agreed to allow wounded people to be evacuated from the besieged enclave josh says it struck a deal with the syrian government's ally russia or the one thousand people have

died since the government offensive began three weeks ago later on monday the security council will be discussing how to implement a cease fire deal is still exists on paper only a u.n. fact finding mission in may in my eyes due to present its initial findings on atrocities committed against ranger days after the human rights un human rights chief called for crimes to be referred to the international criminal court satellite images released by amnesty international appeared to show muslim villages being cleared to make way for a military base and other shows a road being built where homes were destroyed during the military crackdown last august in iraq states. fifty thousand farmers have reached india's financial capital money by after a five day march demanding military aid from the government better quote prices and more access to land any of them fall into debt student droughts and increasingly erratic weather patterns thousands of farmers commit suicide every year in india

those are your headlines these continues here on al-jazeera that's after inside story. cuba has to get a new president and it won't be a cost of stepping down after he and brother he dad for almost sixty years but is it the end of the cost and when it's mean the change of politics of this island nation this is inside story.