city getting to the heart of the matter while you activist in jail just because he expressed himself he had a storm on the talk to him at this time. it's impossible to underestimate the sars scare the economic crisis it's not just about the billion. dollar debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the. united states joins press and accusing russia of the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. and says they'll be consequences. this is on syria live from doha also coming up u.s.

calls for an immediate cease fire in syria's eastern coast and threatens you with astral action if the international community doesn't act. u.s. congressional republicans say the investigation into collusion between the trunk campaign and russia is over democrats disagree and. quote reporting from. saunters grilled with praise for the group from the world's largest drug through by sending a submarine down to three pool we really need include the. united states is back persons assessment that russia is likely responsible for the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. . rex tillerson says those responsible last faced serious consequences and vowed it will trigger a response they say his chief has expressed great concern over the attack on. the main in a critical condition in hospital the u.k.

prime minister to raise a maze of the military grade nerve agent that was used had been developed by russia however denies any involvement on the phillips reports from london. the british police and military are still combing all over the town of salt but they and the government now believe they have some monsters that circus creep paul and his daughter yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent developed by russia and that leads the prime minister to one of two conclusions either this was a direct act by the russian state against our country or the russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophic lee damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others she presented the russians with an ultimatum we must now stand ready to take much more extensive measures. mr speaker on wednesday we will consider in detail the response from the russian state should there be no

credible response we will conclude that this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom. but from russia so far blanket denial vladimir putin's spokesman says surrogates group all work for british intelligence the incident happened in britain so it has nothing to do with russia it seems that anglo russian relations are bound to get significantly worse now and the british will be hoping for international support from european and nato allies as they seek to put pressure on moscow but what measures can britain take that will really be felt in the kremlin diplomatic expulsions sanctions against powerful individuals both seem likely but their impact may be limited the russian economy is under such it has adapted to a hostile climate of international relations british national commercial ties.

so. things of symbolic nature do not hurt russia anymore because they expect. for the investigators on the ground an unusual not expected test of their expertise for britain itself a crisis that will test its continuing stature in the world body phillips al-jazeera london adam aaron is a former u.s. state department spokesman he says moscow has a plausible motive for carrying out such an attack russia wanted to send a very strong signal not just to britain and the west but also to its own people that if you betray us and the motherland we can get you and we will get you wherever whenever we want to and so this poisoning was meant to be seen as by everybody the west and russians as a russian mounted operation to put the fear of god into anybody thinking of

betraying russia the u.s. is calling for an immediate cease fire in syria's eastern cotto and has threatened to act alone if the international community doesn't the situation inside the rubble enclave has been described as hell on earth following three weeks of heavy bombing by the government and russia rebels and russia struck in fact russia's most he says so far seventy six people have been able to leave christensen amy has more cities bleeding inside and dogs two weeks after agreeing to a cease fire the security council learned their words were having little the facts for civilians on the ground in syria in eastern loan according to the u.n. more than one thousand have died in recent weeks amid continued shelling the united states said it was prepared to offer a second resolution calling for an immediate end to all military action in eastern guta and damascus city the massacre nikki haley backed her words with

a threat we support the united nations political process that seeks to end the war in syria. but we also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and end human suffering most especially the outlaw syrian regime the united states remains prepared to act if we must in the last year as haley reminded everyone the u.s. bombed an airfield in syria believed to be associated with a chemical attack syria's ally the russians question the u.n. source of information saying syria continues to act within its rights to the counterterrorism operation which has continued by the syrian military is not in contradiction with resolution twenty four i want the government of syria has every right to try and remove the threat to the safety of its citizens the cease fire resolution proposed by the united states would take effect immediately with no exceptions for groups on the un's terrorist list but it would require russian

support to pass highlighting yet again the limits the border divided security council can do for the people of syria christian salumi al-jazeera the united nations the u.s. has also called for a meeting in jordan of what's the syrian government asked rice on in the first and months there are is in southwestern syria near the jordanian border some of the provinces still on the opposition control there are also part of an at d.s. collation zone negotiated last year by the u.s. russia and jordan that means there's meant to be no fighting for the report and strikes could be of violation of that agreement as president has repeated assertions by republican members of the house intelligence committee that they found no evidence of collusion between the twenty sixteen trump campaign and russia but the top house intelligence democrat has disputed the claim saying there is clear evidence that russia tried to help trump in the run up to the vote john

hendren has more from washington d.c. . the house intelligence committee on capitol hill as ended its russia investigation that committee concluded after listening to seventy three witnesses and reading three hundred thousand documents that there was no collusion between the campaign of donald trump and the government of russia the republican leadership of that committee says there were active measures taken by the russians to interfere in the election but they disagreed with us intelligence officials saying that that was not done to aid donald trump and they say that while donald trump jr and jared cushion are the president's son in law and aide both met with a russian lawyer in june of two thousand and sixteen that was just bad judgment that was not collusion so as that investigation winds down the independent investigation of special counts or robert mueller has ramped up he has already indicted thirteen russians in absentia and several top u.s.

officials none of those people was interviewed by that house committee and some of the people who were interviewed gave very little information democrats were incensed joaquin castro on that committee called it a stunning betrayal of the american people and the top democrat on that committee adam schiff called it a capitulation saying that republicans placed the interests of protecting the president over protecting the country so this investigation will go on independently but in the house intelligence committee it is over the process the political commentator on board member of the republican women for progress she says republicans shouldn't be drawing conclusions until the investigation is complete. i do think that this is a bit shady in some ways laura because of the fact that the investigation is obviously still continuing and there's then roughly about nineteen indictments from that so basically this house intelligence committee is coming out and saying there's nothing to see here one of course there is way more to this story and i

would just like to point out some of these republican house committee members on the intelligence committee are ones who were in fact saying things such as hillary clinton needed to be investigated for her e-mails and for her connections to the clinton foundation and her relationship with foreign governments and all they're willing to say about this current president is he acted inappropriately and maybe made some bad judgment calls when his campaign officials made these knowing advancements when they were meeting with some of these russian officials when they were making some of these financial agreements so i do think that this is a larger issue that they really need to start looking into and i guess we'll see what comes out of this and the senate intelligence committee will continue their investigation and i'm hopeful that maybe they'll take a deeper look into this as the moeller pro continues japanese prime and so shinzo of a wants north korea to take concrete action towards ending its nuclear program he's met the head of south korean intelligence to get the latest on talks with pyongyang

says the north must much as words with actions souls' national security chief has been holding similar talks in china and is now heading to russia with u.s. national security adviser says washington is optimistic about the planned meeting between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il the agreement to meet followed talks between kim and south korea last week the move to suspend nuclear missile tests. also briefed members of the u.n. security council on progress promising to keep up the pressure on pyongyang. we all agreed that we're optimistic about this opportunity but we're determined we're determined to keep up the campaign imagine the pressure until we see words matched with deeds and we'll progress toward you grizz asian. and the poor have vesa gay says trying to find out why a binder crashed killing forty nine people and injuring twenty two others the

airlines flight from dock for a piece of the before missing runway at katmandu port it burst into flames and thereby failed so we discussed the reports from cap monday seventy one passengers and crew were on the flight from to do witnesses report seeing the turbo prop flying extremely low aborted slanting and then turning to land again from the other end of the runway after narrowly missing other aircraft on the ground it crashed on a stoop at the side of the runway and burst into flames. fire engines ambulances and security personnel rushed to the wreckage inside the airport paramita. some passengers managed to break a window and scrambled out almost on skates others were pulled free and taken to hospital many of the dead were charred beyond recognition nepal's prime minister visited the scene. this is a terrible accident from what i understand from the airport officials the plane was

in difficult position but the pilot did not ask for emergency landing and tries to land it into this fatality we offer our condolences to the government and the people. the airlines chief executive in bonn that they she is blaming air traffic controllers and elite recording of the conversation between the flight deck an air traffic control other pilots listening were concerned that the flight might crash. and investigation committee has been set up to find the cause behind me is that wreckage off the plane where the last of the bodies are being recovered and police and army personnel are taking out personal belongings off the passengers and putting its aside as you can see the plane has been burned beyond recognition except for the tail and if you look at the area that's been saying the grass that has been synced on the ground it looks that there was a massive explosion. and it has

a poor air safety record with more than seventy crashes since one thousand nine hundred forty nine but most fatalities have involved planes flying into the himalayas or trying to land at mountain airports the bombard dash eight involved in this latest disaster is built in canada and executives are expected to fly in to join the crash investigation. al-jazeera government do. the head of the un's world food program is warning that colombia is facing a humanitarian catastrophe along its border with venezuela david beasley visited the colombian town of kuta up to fifty thousand people stream across the border from venezuela every day in search of food and medicine he says venezuela's economic crisis has left many of its people starving and he's calling on the international community to help colombia cope with the crisis. i will deliver this message that i think is an absolute detached humanitarian crisis. you know

your business to make donations around the world in the hopes it will come to believe it's absolutely necessary the muslim. center has had on al-jazeera. the regional tension and the civil war gives more i mean it shouldn't take the label on the sales. or the weather squatting down eistein out across the middle east at home last the amounts of cloud still pushing over towards afghanistan took many stands back to stop we are going to see some playing maybe some sleet the snow here to go on through the next few days but i'll swear as you can see us looking fine and dry with pleasantly warm sunshine coming for nineteen or twenty celsius that by road over the next couple of days still

a child so wanted to share was up towards the black season to he could still see a little bit of wet weather maybe some wet weather some winter weather still in place over towards far east of the region before maybe it's going to be settled and sunny a touch cooler in tashkent and i'll match a touch warmer in kabul at around fifteen degrees celsius but it won't cross the arabian peninsula it's getting more mist in this we go on through the next few days hopefully the winds dying down here in qatar twenty nine celsius on tuesday picking up to thirty one three one three wettest day a gentle breeze of that stays there really will feel very nice as we go on through into the middle pos all things sweet not to bad too across southern africa there are more clout pushing towards the western cape i saw a great run for i'm afraid the eastern cape charles of wanted to shall see but the wetter weather into sense when more than piles of mozambique and the good parts of tanzania.

amaan has decided to break with tradition and train to sail competitively maybe not that we want to present a positive image and change this to your typical expectation of women for them it's about more than just racing it's you can still be a good i'm only a woman and also a very talented sailor going off around the world showing everybody how strong mommy people are al-jazeera world meets the first only female same crew in the guns oman's sailing stars at this time on al-jazeera. and again you're watching out as there has reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. has backed britain's assessment that russia was like

a responsible for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in southern england more than a week ago government says. attacked using a military grade nerve agent developed in russia moscow has denied any involvement . the united states is calling for an immediate cease fire in syria's rebel held eastern ghouta its ambassador to the u.n. says the u.s. will act salone if the international community doesn't more than a thousand people have died since the syrian government stepped up its offensive in eastern goods out last month. and the u.s. national security adviser says washington's optimistic about the planned meeting between donald trump the north korean leader kim jong il and south korean envoys are in japan russia updating them on progress in the talks with pyongyang. imus international has released satellite images said to show a man laws military building infrastructure and i was once home to hand to muslims as described the construction as a land grab meanwhile the un has accused men miles government of using a policy of forestalled vacation against her hands at the edges and reports

life continues to be a misery at this ridge a refugee camp in eastern bangladesh many of those who live here say they just want to go back to their homes in myanmar's rakhine state but if you are certain if they ever will what's also unclear is whether they will ever see justice for the abuses they faced abuses the u.n. describes as bearing the hallmarks of genocide there appears to be a policy of forced starvation and place designed to make life in northern rock kind unsustainable for a hunter who remain amnesty international is also questioning whether the more than seven hundred thousand rick injured displaced in months of violence will ever be able to return to their homes be satellite images appear to show areas where rohingya houses mosques and businesses once stood and where since the sort of the year there has been a rapid increase in the construction of myanmar military infrastructure including

three new army bases construction the rights group is describing as a land grab. around three hundred fifty ridge of villages have been destroyed since unrest in rakhine state began last august eyewitnesses say the myanmar military directed the burning of the villages and accusation the government denies despite an agreement with neighboring bangladesh to repatriate the hundreds of thousands of the hindu who fled over the border to safety it's looking increasingly unlikely many will be able to return to where their homes once stood as well as the new military infrastructure rapid road construction and other building has been seen in the area and one case for him to villagers who had remained in myanmar were forcibly evicted to make way for an army base we're witnessing a genocide in real time the mistreatment of the rich by me and my military and me and mas authorities surely meets the criteria to be considered a genocide then we actually need to see sanctions back on the table this should be

visa bans for the perpetrators of these atrocities and that should include not just the military but it should should should include the civilian authorities of me and the me and mar government doesn't deny bulldozing the remains of the wreckage of villages in recent months but says it did so to make way for the new homes for returning refugees u.n. investigators say it's been difficult to ascertain what's happening in rakhine state because it has largely been sealed off from them rights groups and the media in al-jazeera. and when so is a historian in southeast asian affairs he says the south lies them and says prove the military campaign was done never. well i think it is a point of thought all along that this thing has been choreographed by the burmese military me and my military if you go back to the end of august when some. rebels would even want to call them launch pretty small scale attacks in three stations the response from the. men more military was massive totally out of

proportion but wharton that it turns out that they had been a buildup of troops within wreckin state which is where all those things. from the beginning of war because now we're faced with what's called after all these working and they'd be mass exodus as before but this is on a scale into two and and now it turns out that they are building on the land which has been deserted who have been driven out for and again it looks as if it's part of a premeditated picture colombia's government well they start peace talks with the country's last remaining rebel group after a six week course negotiations were suspended in january after the l.m. launched a bomb attack following the end of a temporary cease fire nineteen members of the armed forces thirty four rebels have been killed in fighting since president harmonial santos says it's time for a new round of talks but that the u.s.

citizen would under those the alternative is to continue killing ourselves to continue confronting one another for many more years or decades to come i firmly believe the country has no need to resign itself to this for that reason thinking of life in saving lives in achieving peace for colombia i've decided to resume peace talks with the e l n i was under he has more from the guitar. the announcement surprised many here in colombia coming at a time when most people thought that peace negotiations with the land were doomed and the fact that it came just one day after anti peace party's one the legislative elections but it also shows the willingness of part of president to climb on why listen to persevere until the end of his presidency in august in trying to end all civil conflicts in the country the government that asks the land for a signal to restart these negotiations that signal came in the form of

a cease fire during the elections the year len respected that there were no attacks on election day and the days preceding the vote so president santos took that as the possibility to announce a restart of the talks to send this negotiating team back to keep ecuador but if you ask practically any analyst here in colombia they'll tell you that even if this is good news it will be very difficult to reach an agreement with the land that's because this rebel group is less centralized then the fark and that divisions exist among its leadership or how and if continued the peace negotiations with the government. arms sales are increasing around the world with age in the middle east the leading buyers pause while stock home in stash of peace research institute says reasonal tensions are driving india's growing demand between twenty

thirteen and twenty seventeen india was the world's biggest arms importer accounting for twelve percent of total sales the report also found imports of arms of the middle east has doubled in the past ten years saudi arabia the world's second largest importer increased by buying it by this is buying by two hundred twenty five percent between two thousand and eight and two thousand and seventeen ninety eight percent of those weapons were supplied by the u.s. and u.k. but a wiser man is from the stockholm stash of peace research institute he says systems need to put more pressure on their leaders to block weapons sales there are a few you don't trees where did the bait has led to the solution bogo almost no longer allow new arms sales to. saudi arabia and also to the emirates but that's not going to make a very big difference on the arms no studio region because of course there's so many other states which can if you could use arms and are going to sell weapons to

the region and certainly not noticed well that the you know just signed or is kind of moving on a major to you now do you know if you go again or whether it's going to be like russia or china which have tried to get a share out of markets in the region which they didn't have before to that extent super society has to try to understand this kind of figures we present today and other similar information why do you understand what impact has and then governments the industry to some extent to try to be more responsible in their arms or do you. new york's metropolitan opera has fired its longtime conductor a musical director of allegations of sexual misconduct an inquiry an independent inquiry into james levine says it found credible evidence of sexually abusive and harassing behavior seventy four year old was suspended in december after several accusations of misconduct in the one nine hundred sixty s.

and one nine hundred eighty s. venus one of the world's most widely noted influential figures in classical music he's been the mets musical director since one thousand nine hundred seventy six he denies any wrongdoing a former nazi s.s. guard who is known as the book keeper of house which has died at the age of ninety six. was convicted in two thousand and fifteen of being an accessory to the murder of three hundred thousand jews during world war two he was sentenced to four years but died before the beginning of his jail gurning said he didn't take boston any killings but counted cash taken from victims upon their arrival at the concentration camp. scientists have been exploring one of the last pristine areas of the antarctic in an effort to bolster the case for creating a huge marine protected area they've been investigating the sea floor as well as trying to scupper with a plastic pollution as well as the extremely remote war says the clock is with a greenpeace expedition in antarctica. or to the weddell

sea spreads over a vast area in winter seventy five percent of its surface is covered in ice it is the realm of the penguin myriad marine species but it is not the realm of mun and many want to keep it that way so the more information the team can gather the better the chances of winning protection for these unique waters on board the expedition sub is antarctic specialists is on lookout to find out what this little known zone holds and what she discovered was the stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life it has one hundred percent coverage of the sea floor i'm going to assume has a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and if they and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for a community to become hotter it disturb it such as part of the fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystem and hopefully we can get to this and other

areas we come across that special protection. team are also searching for evidence of the less visible so one of the big stories in my recalls is plastics in the world's addition to the bases of the remote just waters in the world on earth should be very interesting for the crew it's established with the look of the plastics and reaches farthest i will grant just about still here yeah that's right just seeing sent me into the sea surface with. my quest for this evidence is growing around the boat studies that like the plastic before this three because replacing there will be from the right let's look at snowshoe samples are also taken on shore throughout the expedition in different locations to see if the said he signed of my crew plastics the will have to see what we get out of. this. bigger deborah even finds its way to these remote caves here washed up voice but

it's p.f.c. s. grant of the team are on the lookout for which into the world's oceans through amongst other things washing every day clothes a group of chemicals that are. dominantly in textiles and use for cortex finishes water appellants the balance you find them even in household carpets these days and not just clothes all this new found knowledge will be studied and compiled once the expedition wraps up at the end of march to support the e.u. backed bid to turn a major part of the way they'll see it to an asian century nicholas al-jazeera and article. without zero these are the top stories the u.s. has backed bresson's assessment that russia was likely responsible for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in southern england more than a week ago the british government says ok and nearly but attacks using

a military grade nerve agent developed and russia to his amazement an explanation from moscow which denies any involvement. we must now stand ready to take much more extensive measures. mr speaker on wednesday we will consider in detail the response from the russian state should there be no credible response we will complete this action amounts to an awful use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom. the u.s. is calling for an immediate cease fire in syria's rebel held eastern guta as ambassador to the u.n. warms the u.s. will act and loan if the international community doesn't more than a thousand people have died since the syrian government stepped up its offensive in eastern guta last month. the u.s. national security adviser says washington is optimistic about the planned meeting between donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong south korean envoys are in japan and russia updating them on progress in the talks with pyongyang japanese

prime minister shinzo are a once north korea to take concrete action towards ending its nuclear program investigators are trying to find out why a bangladeshi airline crashed in the pools capital killing forty nine people and injuring twenty two others the u.s. banga airlines flight from dhaka missed the runway at katmandu airport and burst into flames in a nearby field witnesses say it's worth repeatedly as are prepared to land. president donald trump as repeated assertions by republican members of the house intelligence committee they found no evidence of collusion between the twenty sixteen trump campaign and russia that the top house intelligence democrat has disputed the claim saying that is clear evidence that russia tried to help in the run up to the vote colombia's government will restart peace talks with the country's last remaining rebel group after a six week pause negotiations were suspended in january after the l.m. launched a bomb attack following an end of

a temporary cease fire those are the headlines we're back with another news update here on al-jazeera counting the cost. just is it in the seeing. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out in the media or the listening post at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm casm seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics in what's been a big week for global trade we'll look at how the u.s. is up bending the rules of commerce and if free trade really is worth fighting for . i'm wayne hay reporting from vietnam where we look at how this country has in just a few decades emerged from economic isolation and how it stands to been.