so weapon that was supplied by the u.s. government may well end up being pointed at u.s. soldiers we pick it up less than two months off in the professional america's secret pipeline to syria and this time on al jazeera it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the billion trillion dollars of debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the government to real people. we were about two hundred people living in a cellar without light electricity and very little food. syrians who escaped from east to speak of their ordeal during the siege.

and. also coming up. the united states joins britain in accusing russia of poisoning a former spy in the u.k. and says they'll be consequences. investigations underway after monday's plane crash in nepal that killed at least forty nine people plus. i believe our allows us to question authority to rebel to provoke. designing social change we meet the artist building a wall to counter president trump. a low dozens of people who've escaped the rebel enclave near syria's capital damascus have reached a reception center in government controlled territory seventy six others have so far been allowed to leave eastern huta as part of an evacuation deal between the rebels and the russian military at the united nations the u.s. is calling for more is calling for an immediate cease fire to allow in humanitarian

aid let's get more now from alan fischer who is live in gaziantep on the turkey syria border so allan what more on those evacuations. well we know that the the u.n. would like to see these evacuations happen sooner rather than later they say that there's more than a thousand people who need medical treatment seventy of them at least need urgent medical treatment so the fact that the first seventy six have happened is probably a good sign although the hoping for larger numbers in the coming hours even though this has been agreed the fighting in eastern guta still continues there are a number of towns that are no under siege have been completely encircled by the free syrian army by the syrian government forces backed up by the russians but there are those who've managed to escape from some of those on close before the fuel encirclement was complete and they have managed to make it to camps nearby

where they've been telling what it's been like in eastern guta over the past few days and we have a lot though. we were about two hundred people living in a cellar without light or electricity and very little food it was impossible to leave because of the events many people decided to leave and head to duma and only forty of us stayed behind in that cellar we decided not to leave until the syrian army entered the city so. we were afraid for our children's who would get them down into a tunnel that men would stay upstairs some woman couldn't take the pressure or lack of oxygen in the tunnel so they'd stay upstairs with the men but other women would go down that the children. and of course the conflict in syria and has many strands to it and there is right now a battle going on in the north of the country in around africa tell us about that. this is part of operation all of branch that was launched by the turks on january

the twenty of the free syrian army backed by the turkish military have made quite rapid advances towards the tone of our friend just twenty four hours ago they were within sight of our friend we are no told by the turkish military that the city of afrin has been completely surrounded that means there is no way in and out we also know from the people on the ground enough room that water has been cut and also that the internet has been cut no there are reports circulating in turkish media that the kurdish militia the y. p.g. are blocking people from leaving the city we have no we are absolutely confirming that but we do know that over the weekend the white p.g. said that there were many civilians who had volunteered to travel to our friend to present themselves as a human shield put themselves a centrally between the free syrian army and the turks and the y p g certainly. the one of turkey said that if turkey didn't consider all the humanitarian issues then they would be inside our friend in just three days it given the speed that they've

reached the edges of our friend and been able to surround it at the prediction he made on saturday may well come true and there could be soldiers moving into our room in the coming hours allan thanks for that allan special live in gaziantep. now the u.s. has also called for an urgent meeting in jordan after reports of syrian government ass trikes on that are the first in months there but i just to remind you is in southwestern syria near the jordanian and israeli border some of the province is still under opposition control it is also part of a so-called deescalation zone negotiated last year by the u.s. russia and jordan southern reported strikes could be a violation of that agreement. at least three people have been killed in an attack on a military facility used by yemeni forces backed by the united arab emirates the car bomb was detonated near a military kitchen in yemen s'pore city of adding witnesses say ambulances have

been rushing the victims to hospital. other somali parliament has banned a port company owned by the united arab emirates from working in that country that's after a deal signed earlier this month between d.p. world ethiopia and the breakaway region of somaliland somalia doesn't recognize the deal and is accused the dubai based company of undermining its sovereignty and violating international law somaliland declared itself a republic in one thousand nine hundred one but it's not recognized by mogadishu or most foreign countries the u.s. has backed britain's assessment that russia is likely responsible for poisoning a former spy and his daughter in the u.k. sector state rex tillerson says those responsible must face serious consequences so basically paul and his daughter remain in critical condition in hospital russia denies any involvement bonamy phillips reports the british police and military are

still combing all over the town of salt spree that they and the government is now believe they have some monsters that circus creep powell 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 shot by the russian state against our country or the russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophic lead 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 old 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 i'm actually going to me is understand 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 and unexpected test of their expertise for britain itself

a crisis that will test its continuing stature in the world barnaby phillips al-jazeera london. russia's president vladimir putin is widely expected to win a fourth term in elections on sunday that's despite frequent protests against him in the country's larger cities but why he may not be so popular in the more liberal urban centers for many russians there is no one but putin russia correspondent rory challenge reports from the town of. real russia as you're often told here isn't found in the biggest cities for that you've got to turn up the car radio and hit the road leave moscow and st petersburg for smaller places where the mere putin support runs high and. so we've chosen the town of glitch four hours from the capital that's the day. which. it's where and alexander live the couple in their eighties kind and hospitable and both

staunch putin voters. but he is a very almost man he would never say anything he didn't mean and if a person is all honest speaks genuinely and his deeds do good you can say only positive things about such a man they see putin as a strong leader and were particularly impressed by the recent state of the nation speech where he pulled back the veil on secret weapons development. of. lived through a tough history with this country we started our lives in a terrifying war there was starvation and losses and we understood this with our countries the ninety's undermined everything so much uncontrollable times but putin slowly went in the right direction and brought us to the moment where we can see ourselves as a state able to take on a man's tasks again. after talking and evening routine watching the

news unlike internet savvy youngsters older russians still get much of their information from t.v. most of it state controlled. there's a good reason why the support of people like alexander. is so important for vladimir putin and that's because when it comes to actually showing up on election day pensioners of the most reliable voters in russia. not everyone here is so enthusiastic go. out on the frozen river volga ice fisherman waits patiently for the bites but when it comes to the elections nicholai isn't impressed with the quality of the catch. to whom to vote for there's no choice no candidates i think all vote for putin i'd like him to catch the thieves and mend our roads he's reinforcing the army at least something but there's no want to choose a soon as any candidate appears to slightly challenge him he gets ground

immediately such disenchantments backs up the view that putin support may be brittle high only because of the lack of alternatives and worryingly for the kremlin state pollster just noted a twelve percent drop in putin's ratings in russia's big cities but alexander miller's allegiance is steadfast in their long lifetime russia has marched to very different music. and they're happy with the man currently calling that you. will reach alan's al-jazeera russia our eye when we come back on al-jazeera one man's quest to bring dignity in death to migrants who lost their lives trying to cross the mediterranean. multibillion dollar deal with twenty u.s. and a singapore tech company is blocked donald trump says it's a threat to national security.

by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello and welcome to international weather forecast as we look at the weather across europe plenty of frontal system is giving breaks of rain high pressure across eastern areas and this is going to gradually build during the coming few days so a cold air returning from the east to many areas so if you look at the forecast is pretty mild across western areas temperatures well into double figures but in this is still some snow over the top of the alps further towards the east so a little bit of snow in there with an eye to this weather system pushing into ukraine but the flows coming from the south not as cold as it has been across parts of ukraine and into russia heading into wednesday temperatures gerri not too bad for this time of the year but you see it low pressure center beginning to move into wards the u.k. and the iberian peninsula on the other side of the matter trends the risk of showers on the coast of morocco and into algeria but otherwise fine conditions for

central parts of africa we've got to plan to share clouds across d.r. congo at the moment and further towards kapan for parts of west africa some showers bubbling up now but to akron ghana cherry dixie should be dry with highs of thirty two degrees and then as we head down into the southern portion of the continents we've got a tropical cyclone thirteen developing towards madagascar and certain in the coming days this is going to give some very heavy rain across this island the way that sponsored by cat time release. the scene for us when they're on line which is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one can use or if you join a sunset there people that there are choosing between buying medication or eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories dozens of people who've escaped the rebel enclave near syria's capital damascus reached a reception center in government controlled territory seventy six others have so far been allowed to leave eastern huta as part of an evacuation deal between the rebels and russia at the united nations the u.s. is calling for an immediate cease fire to allow in humanitarian aid. at least three people have been killed in an attack on a military facility in the yemeni port city of ad a car bomb was detonated near a military kitchen used by yemeni forces backed by the united arab emirates. the

u.s. says those behind the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. must face serious consequences secretary of state rex tillerson has backed britain's assessment to russia is likely responsible. poor investigators are trying to find out why a bangladeshi airliner crashed killing forty nine people and injuring twenty two others the u.s. airlines flight from swerved repeatedly before missing the runway at katmandu airport it burst into flames in a nearby field swinish rush the reports from katmandu seventy one passengers and crew were on the flight from to do witnesses report seeing the turbo prop flying extremely low oh board it's landing and then turning to land again from the other end of the runway after narrowly missing other aircraft on the ground it crashed 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 tried to land it into this fatality but 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 in a leaked recording of the conversation between the flight deck an air traffic control other pilots listing were concerned that the flight might crash. an 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 singed on the ground it looks that there was a massive explosion. 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. at the deaths of three suspected rebel fighters in the indian administered kashmir has probably provoked protests at their funerals police have imposed

a curfew on some parts of the main cities srinagar have shut down schools and businesses priyanka gupta has more on the unrest. mourners packed the streets of chicago. it's a familiar scene in indian and instead kashmir. people caught between a government crackdown and an armed rebellion which has lasted for nearly thirty years india accuses pakistan of provoking the uprising government leaders in islamabad deny storing undressed against the interview. this time some are moving the killing of three suspected rebel fighters in a gun battle with indian troops police say they retaliated after coming under fire during a raid on a village in an impound district two of the team and killed have been identified as engineering students who police say became rebel fighters the other hasn't been identified. and we protested poured into the streets on news of their deaths street

battles were fought with stones. and tear gas. the government ordered schools and colleges to shot to prevent more violence very bad lot of very bad modeling done india is committing atrocities on the us india is violating the chastity of a system which we condemn in strong words what we would hold a lot here is cooperation there they're both sitting there blinding us rebellious we were brutal we don't want anything from anyone who does hollywood florida last week police killed four people and two suspected fighters at a military checkpoint soldiers were accused of indiscriminate shooting. indian troops are protected from prosecution by a controversial law in india and mr. human rights activists have routinely accused them of misusing their power priyanka gupta al jazeera and the u.s.

national security adviser says he is optimistic about the planned meeting between president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un the agreement to meet came after talks between kim and a senior south korean envoy last week h r mcmaster briefed the u.n. security council promising to keep up the pressure on pyongyang until there is real progress towards denuclearization of the korean peninsula now president trump has blocked what would have been the largest tech merger in history singapore based chip maker broadcom was looking to buy american rival qualcomm for one hundred seventeen billion dollars but trump says the deal is a threat to national security broadcom said those concerns were unfounded since it was about to complete its move to the u.s. in april they would veil is a cyber law specialist from the university of new south wales he says chance decision may be rooted in fears about china. because we're just on the cusp of converting all of the telecommunications mobile systems to the next generation the

five g. that requires a lot of extra investment and really the companies involved in qualcomm and broadcom and why way from china are really the only credible investors in this that a massively expensive operation to reach the lead in the next generation of mobile communications and the concern is that broadcom as an investor tends to sort of back off the investment and there's a concern that if they do that plate they take over qualcomm which is provides the chips in most of the phones most of the tablets that that most of us use around the world then it may be that the chinese firm a way which has been the subject of continuing allegations from the us about national security questions they may leap ahead a sudden turn is here is the final resting place for some of the more than three

thousand people who drowned in the mediterranean sea last year migrants and refugees died on people smuggling boats as they tried to start a new life in europe mohammad jim jim reports from czars this where one man is giving some of the dignity and death he says they were never afforded in life in a graveyard for the unknown one volunteer works to one of the migrants and refugees he says the world has forgotten. and then as. i feel like these people didn't have a family so i want to be a family for them because they were persecuted in their countries. tells us it was their suffering that compelled so many desperate people to try and cross into europe from libya but the mediterranean didn't deliver them to safety when their bodies washed ashore here in zahra's east tunisia tried to give them the peace he says they deserved all along. when we found a woman with

a child i thought to myself maybe he has her son the medical report said he was five years old i wanted to provide them with dignity in death in a symbolic way because a mother is always with her children in life and i bury them head to head. a few small toys sit atop the grave of the boy shamsuddin placed them there for a child he says should never have experienced such horror. i have two sons who are legally migrated from tunisia to europe maybe the work i'm doing for the dead helped them in some way maybe the spirits of the dead prayed for them to reach europe safely. dean a former fisherman and sometime taxi driver has been volunteering with the tunisian red crescent since well before the current migration crisis he says he's buried hundreds of people in the past decade last year alone he dug seventy six graves this small fishing town in southeastern tunisia sits only about eighty kilometers

from the country's border with libya which is a major gateway for migrants and refugees from africa and the middle east who are trying to reach europe. of all the things that dean has witnessed on this beach nothing was as bad as what he encountered one day in two thousand and fourteen. i saw the body of a lady who was attached to her son with a rope and another who had attached her son to a piece of wood and the waves were playing with them men women children as young as nine and ten that scene is burned in my mind back in the cemetery shum said dean keeps the site as clean as he can he and other volunteers are raising money to buy another plot of land that can be turned into a proper resting place but the economic problems in tunisia have made that very difficult in a place that continues to receive the dead they don't even have the money and equipment to collect d.n.a. which means that in a graveyard where the name of only one deceased migrant is known most of the graves

will for the time being at least remain anonymous. as these tunisia the un's world food program is warning colombia is facing a humanitarian catastrophe along its border with venezuela w.s.p. had david beasley visited the colombian town of cuckoo tah where up to fifty thousand venezuelans cross the border every day looking for food and medicine he says the country's economic crisis has left many of its people starving and he's calling on more international help for colombia. i will deliver this message like this for you to trash humanitarian crisis. in the business too big to go nations around the world in the hopes it will come to be just absolutely necessary you must. be in government negotiators are to restart peace talks with the last remaining rebel group after

a six week course because she actions were suspended after a bomb attack by the national liberation army when a temporary cease fire ended thirty four rebels in one thousand members of the armed forces have been killed in fighting since president juan manuel santos says it's time for more talks. 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.o. in new york's metropolitan opera as fired its longtime musical director after finding what it says is credible evidence of sexually abusive and harassing behavior james levine was suspended in december after several accusations of misconduct between the one nine hundred sixty s. in the one nine hundred eighty s. he's one of the most influential figures in classical music and has been the mets

musical director since one thousand nine hundred seventy six seventy four year old denies any wrongdoing. hundreds of people in san diego california protested on monday against the arrival of u.s. president donald trump oh god was. there angry over his visit to look at prototypes of the war he's promised to build along the u.s. border with mexico the white house says trump is determined to go ahead with the plans despite financial concerns from california's republican lawmakers and these are the first protests against. trump's hardline immigration policies they've been at the center of a debate not only in the u.s. but worldwide and one artist in washington has built her own wall to highlight the faces fears and faith of america's muslim immigrants. in twenty seventeen i started collecting id photos of muslim immigrants in my immediate community and the project

started because i really wanted to explore the psychological toll the human toll of unjust policies that not only are about racial profiling but also politicizing of identities i asked people in my community my family my friends for their id photos soon after i started the project people became refusing they said they were terrified a lot of people told me they were afraid of being recognized they didn't want their photo out there because they were scared of being a victim of a violent hate crime as the muslim ban went into effect and you kept hearing about people muslim americans people who were permanent residents here and travelers being detained at airports i felt stronger about using the id photo because at that point i saw it as a political symbol and in this case it became something that determined whether or not you were worthy of being here i want people to know that the current political climate is taking a toll on families and communities on

a very personal individual level and i also want to communicate how unjust policies often disregard the human toll the psychological toll on individuals i believe in the catalytic power of art for social change i believe art allows us to question authority to rebel to provoke to elicit a certain response and i really believe that art also allows us to call for justice this wall is a symbol of resistance an act of defiance almost but also of unity solidarity within the community this wasn't a separate this wasn't to keep anyone out this wall is to do the opposite to represent to show to engage people. this is just their mind. other top stories we're going to start with some breaking news we're just getting in now from gaza reports that the prime minister

palestinian prime minister army handlers convoy was targeted in a roadside bomb and initial reports say seven people were injured that's all the information that we have right now we will of course bring you more as and when we get it a dozens of people who've escaped a rebel enclave near syria's capital damascus have reached a reception center in government controlled territory seventy six others have so far been allowed to leave eastern hooter as part of an evacuation deal between the rebels and russia's military at the united nations the u.s. is calling for an immediate cease fire to allow in humanitarian aid some of people who escaped eastern huta have reached a camp where. ludlow. we were about two hundred people living in the cellar without light or electricity and very little food it was impossible to leave because of the events many people decided to leave and head to duma and only forty of us stayed behind in that cell and we decided not to leave until the syrian army entered the city so at least three people have been killed in

an attack on a military facility used by yemeni forces backed by the united arab emirates a car bomb was detonated near a military kitchen in yemen's core city of adam. the somali parliament has banned a poor company owned by the united arab emirates from working in that country that's after a deal signed earlier this month between d.p. world ethiopia and the breakaway region of somaliland somalia doesn't recognize the deal as accuse the dubai based company of undermining its sovereignty and violating international law. u.s. says whoever poisoned a former russian spy on his daughter in the u.k. must face serious consequences sectors they rex tillerson as bank friends assessment that russia is likely responsible russian government is denying any involvement as surrogates cripple and his daughter rohan in critical condition in hospital. u.s. president donald trump has blocked singapore chip maker broadcom his bid to take over u.s. rival qualcomm he says the one hundred seventeen billion dollars deal is

a security threat which broadcom denies those are the headlines the streams next. facing realities 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 while activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself here their story on the top down to zero at this time. i am really could be it's an exciting week ahead at the story my family is at the south by southwest conference and best of all in austin texas and we'll be bringing you a series of programs on technology and innovation today what are the ethical implications of immersive storytelling tools like augmented reality and virtual reality are growing in popularity but is it a valid all.