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coming up in the next sixty minutes the palestinian prime minister escapes without injury and girls are after a bomb explodes as his convoy passes by. we were about two hundred people living in a cellar without light electricity and very little food. syrians have a skate to speak of their ordeal. at midnight deadline from britain to president putin to explain how a russian military nerve agent poisoned a former spy and his daughter in the u.k. and i'm tatiana phantasm all the day's sports the seven time grand slam champion venus williams comes out on top of the fifty fifth to rivalry all of the latest from indian round later in the part. of the palestinian prime minister. i mean how has escaped unhurt after

a bomb exploded as his convoy was travelling in girls and no one has so far claimed responsibility but the presidential spokesman has blamed hamas it's denying any link in condemned the bombing as well as palestinian leaders hamas accuses them of having ready accusations. what's been done today on the beat crossing will make us more solid i confirm that we've had contact with the president and three cars have been detonated but this will make us more solid and we will see you guys again i'm travelling to morrow and they will be back to gaza no matter what the risks. are let's go live now to our correspondent imran khan he is in ramallah in the occupied west bank and emraan tell us exactly where did this attack happen and how long the heard the prime minister be on girls and territory.

well he's only in goals and territory for a few minutes he was crossing from the checkpoint which is controlled by the israelis i'm going down to the next checkpoint which is controlled by the palestinian authority now that's about a kilometer distance the explosion happened just as the cars were going over we had that two calls where there was also gunfire that happened just before the attack and now the palestinian president as all things as you just heard. condemned the blame the attack on how mass also the palestinian security services blamed for the attack as well i must say that they are not responsible for the attack however it's hamas that the defacto security so although they are being blamed for this is not unsure whether they are being blamed directly or because they are part of the security of goals and now this is a big incident to take place one of the biggest ones we've seen since two thousand and seven when hamas took control of the gaza strip they gave up control as i say

in two thousand and seventeen however they all still the defacto power of this so a lot of blame game going on right now hamas reacting very strongly and it is a very serious incident but the palestinian prime minister himself is actually now left the gaza strip he's on his way back to here in the occupied west bank and obviously whoever is behind this is a group or individuals who want to put pressure on that rather fragile unity between fatah and hamas which is only recently agreement. well hamas has a lot of internal problems within the gaza strip itself there are a number of groups that it doesn't control now those groups are very angry with the mouse because of its stance towards israel and because of its stance towards palestinian unity so there's a lot of groups that have reason to go after the prime minister as he was coming in

to inaugurate that desalination plants now hamas have questions to ask themselves how this was allowed to happen clearly the palestinian authority here blaming hamas for this squarely so there are a lot of problems internally within gaza hamas have to deal with so let's see what happens over the next couple of days will there be a rest will there be an investigation to take place the loss of already os the palestinian authority who called upon the palestinian authority to investigate this thoroughly how massive actually arrested one of the palestine t.v. cameras he was covering the convoy as it was coming in and they've confiscated his forty all right imran khan live in ramallah thank you for now now dozens of people who managed to get out of the besieged rebel on klav near to syria's capital damascus have now reached a reception center in government controlled territory around seventy six others have so far been allowed to leave. as part of an evacuation deal between the rebels

and russia it's almost a month since the syrian government intensified its campaign against the own claims at the u.n. the u.s. has called for an immediate cease fire and has threatened to act alone if it doesn't get the support of the security council russia says it will respond if there are any u.s. missile strikes we'll go live to alan fischer our correspondent who is in southern turkey in gaziantep that's very close to the border with syria and. despite everything despite the horrendous conditions it's quite encouraging that an increasing number of people are managing to get out. well what we're hearing from the united nations is that about one hundred people who were considered injured were able to get out in the last few hours you remember that an agreement has been reached between the rebel groups in that area and the russians and the united nations to low people humanitarian passage the united nations say there's

about a thousand people who need to leave for medical treatment and about seventy of them are critically ill and need serious medical treatment in damascus or perhaps even outside syria itself so what we've seen is the first batch of people leaving and there is a who with the united nations that will continue in the coming hours and certainly in the coming days number of other people have managed to escape from eastern go to as well under their own steam they've made their way from the fighting after having taken shelter for a considerable number of days and once they were in an area where they felt see if they were able to talk about what they've experienced over the last week or so. ludlow. 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 and as in lebanon 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. well there's not just fighting in her own guta there's also fighting don't towards our friend that's part of the turkish assault they call it operation all of branch no the turks have said in the last few hours that the city of our friend is completely surrounded the people in our friends say that's not true but they can see the turkish forces and they are so close to one another they're able to close off roads by simply be able to fire at will at anything that is moving we're also hearing that the water is often our friend the internet is down as well you know there is some talk that. the taxi at the y. p.g. the the kurdish militia are blocking people from leaving our friend there is no way

that we can confirm that but we do know that the y. p.g. said just at the weekend a number of civilians had offered themselves to be human shields to put themselves between the y. p.g. and the free syrian army but by the talks who are moving on are free and certainly the pace of the assault by the f.s.a. has been so fast that our free in we know no is at risk and certainly the final assault on the city could begin in the coming days. and official. thank you the u.s. has called for an urgent meeting in jordan after reports of syrian government test rides on there are that would be the first in months there are is in southwestern syria very close to the jordanian and israeli borders and some of the province is still under opposition control it's also part of a so-called deescalation zone that was negotiated last year by the u.s. russia and jordan so the reported strikes could be in 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 the southern port city of aden this is speak of ambulances having been rushing to the victims to the hospital. we've got a lot more to come here in the news hour including a multi-billion dollar deal between the u.s. and the singapore tech company is blocked donald trump says is a threat to national security. and we're in south sudan where refugees who fled fighting a facing new challenges as they try to return to their old lives and didier drogba announces his retirement from football tatiana will be here to explain.

the united states is back to britain's assessment that russia is likely responsible for the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. secretary of state rex tillerson has said that those responsible miss face serious consequences moscow denies any involvement. could apologies daughter remain in critical condition in hospital we can talk now live to our correspondent barnaby fillets who is in london and barnaby the u.k. seems to be getting support on its position with regard to this poisoning from a variety of courses. yes that's right martin as we wait for a response from the russian embassy the building complex you can see behind me from moscow itself i think the u.k. will be encouraged by the sort of response it's got from its allies from nato from paris from in from the e.u. institutions we're hearing remarks along the lines of and. attack on one is an

attack on all and i think that sort of multilateral approach will be very important to the british you mentioned the americans and rex tillerson very strong remarks on his tour of africa saying that the nerve agent clearly came from russia that hasn't been unnoticed here in the united kingdom that there is a distinction between what the section of state says not for the first time and what the white house is saying and during the white house press conference yesterday evening monday evening time in washington the white house explicitly refused or avoided drawing i can action with russia so i think that will cause some concern overall the british will be encouraged about the international response my report looks back at the last twenty four hours here in the united kingdom. the british police and military are still combing all over the town of salt spree but they and the government is now believe they have some monsters that surrogates

create 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 shot 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 sanctions it has adapted to a hostile climate of international relations british national commercial ties are not very good 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 and so barnaby that.

by theresa may to president putin is looming and he has twelve hours or so to respond. yes and i think there is every reason to assume that the russian position will continue to be one of denial even at least in public scorn and contempt for the british accusations and then what follows from there is what the british do next i mention the possibility of diplomats being expelled i would think that is likely i would assume that would be for tat expulsions of british diplomats from moscow i think also the british authorities will be trying to follow the money and there is a lot of russian money in these wealthy parts of london and perhaps in that way trying to hurt individuals who are close to putin looking at new laws that might freeze assets visa bans and so on there's been talk about other measures british or

english dignitaries not accompanying the football team to the world cup well i suppose that might have some symbolic importance but i don't think the russians would be losing too much sleep about that there's also been a lot of talk about the russian television channel russia today which broadcast internationally in english and whether it should be shut down and that there's a debate going on in the government or whether rather it's license to broadcast from the united kingdom should be withdrawn i think some people are saying that would be a good thing there are other people saying no no no you know that's exactly the kind of thing that would happen in a more authoritarian dictatorial kind of country and people should be able to watch russia today and they can draw their own conclusions about its editorial policy so those debates going on marty just. remember the broader context i think that british governments both this one and the previous labor government stung by the accusation that they were too weak in their response to what at least in british

eyes with a similar event that is the murder of alexander lifton been yanked back in two thousand and six what followed from that a handful of expulsions some people in britain saying well if we had been tougher then we would not be where we are now that debate raging at the moment in british political circles all right found to be fair let's live outside the russian embassy in central london now we can talk to the russian analysts seamus mohsin is a former moscow correspondent for the irish times and he's joining us from dublin what is your assessment of this current situation knowing russia in the way it operates the way. i think it's a lot more complicated. reasons may. look for example. on. direct. order from all the. wear

marks on the the. no go. to the. well to the. or more. to. the point. the more we draw many of the orders in the. back in one thousand nine hundred ninety three received documents when i was moscow correspondent of the irish times which indication that. not only don't we caught up with a number of overcoming by loving weapon. against the treaty of lima. i don't mean to interrupt time did i just want to but to find out what you think about the possibility of this this nerve agent novi child having having been

appropriated by she same drug elements within the russian political establishment or the russian guest telethons establishment not know us not only the political establishment but we but we could describe as the business the stuff of the. us why why does my g ninety three just twenty five years ago almost stall all the home internet with the third who told me that he was worried that nobody talked but possibly already that the russians better or not they made an offer. directly from rucker because what i could reproduce run in with a dump so about two hundred ninety nine three to eight in the form of the woman who was up to the big payoff for any theory. oh and you. know you come by a lot and they could easily. been quoted illegally

by people looking for money so usually sends just to summarize and in your opinion you think it's more likely that this would not have been authorized by the kremlin or any of the established arms of government but this has come from as i say the extra curricular part of of russian activity and maybe as you say that the only go community well that he done is possible and i can't prove it but it is interesting . it does progress. with a completely different who live in the. world who are in your body sphere as almost be an oligarch who thought of. them. and it was actually. that's a shame we have lost seamus lost it. sorry my way you know your back

could you just finish a sentence please yes. scribble it was not acting against the confederate in a part of that he was no he was also there are what do you you. there who are. the rock of. europe that means the wife while there are gong there are no little boys so it wasn't in their interests to do it all right thank you very much indeed seamus martin talking to us at life from dublin and apologies for the vagaries of modern technology. thank you but meanwhile russia's president is widely expected to win a fourth term in sunday's election despite frequent protests against vladimir putin in some of the larger cities but for many russians living outside the more liberal

urban centers there is no one but putin russia correspondent laura chose 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 in st petersburg for smaller places where vladimir putin support runs high and. so we've chosen the town of glitch four hours from the capital that's a day. which. is where you 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 to 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 were 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 when we can see ourselves in 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 miller 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. 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 that's something but there's no one to choose a soon as any candidate appears to slightly challenge him he gets drowned 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 the chief. down to zero russia. un investigators in miramar are blaming facebook for helping to spread hate towards the ranger they've described the military crackdown on mainly muslims in iraq and state as bearing the hallmarks of genocide and they say that social media has played a determining role in the crisis. you know that the ultra nationalist buddhists have their own facebook and really inciting a lot of violence and a lot of hatred against. the procedure or are there nic minorities. and i'm afraid that facebook has now turned into. too into a beast than what it was. originally intended to be used. well

the most prominent of me and miles to a nationalist monks is with us too and he use facebook to spread vitriol against the ranger after the government banned him from delivering public sermons that was a year ago his account was only recently suspended but his anti range of speech is a still easily accessible online another hardline monk known as palmer has used his large facebook following to stoke resentment and to organize protests against the muslim minority the un says all government communication is done via facebook to me i'm a government official still deny the existence of ranger insisting they're all illegal bengali immigrants. all right that we can speak now to benjamin who is a southeast asia and this he's in bangkok nice to talk to you do you agree then with young gay leave the un special rapporteur for me m r the facebook has actually

been instrumental in the oppression against the ranger. well there's no question that as a primary social media tool in myanmar yes facebook is being utilized by the purveyors of hate and incitement toward toward perpetrating in exacerbating this genocide but we shouldn't be too distracted by this i mean make no mistake facebook itself is not responsible for the genocide individuals are and the the majority responsibility continues to rest with the security forces of myanmar with the civilians of myanmar who are using facebook as well as with the civilian leadership including aung san suu kyi who remain silent about this this this genocide facebook may be as a said a significant contributing factor but it is not first and foremost in our in our sussed well as a as a kind of a purveyor of hate. just give you another quote from what the report said they said

facebook substantially contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict so facebook in and of itself must take a certain amount of responsibility for this. yes but facebook itself does not make a contribution the users of facebook do make no mistake facebook should do more can and should do more to appropriately police itself to ensure that encouragement of genocide and incitement of genocide does not take place on a social media platform but at the end of the day facebook itself cannot and should not be held responsible for the acts of the myanmar security forces with the encouragement and in some cases participation of myanmar citizens so facebook in your estimation is only part of the problem and the real root cool's of the problem is that the hate and the violence that is being carried out by people on the ground military and otherwise. facebook is a is both the means and the measure of the prevail and prevalent racism in the end

more at this time but it simply should not be replacing the myanmar security forces as the as the headlines in the international press finger and facebook runs the risk of taking the finger away from those who are perpetrating the genocide in those of the those are the people that should be held accountable and what do you think overall of the growing campaign there is. in favor of the rich. the identification of it what exactly is being done to them the kind of conditions that they're currently experiencing in bangladesh and indeed those who are responsible for their plight back in me and do you think that progress is being made in terms of finding those and making them accountable. but we're close to seven months from the beginning of this genocide seven months since close to seven hundred thousand ethnic and religious minority revenger were forcibly displaced in many cases in the case of seven thousand or so killed it's very

difficult to point to any meaningful measure that has taken place by the government of myanmar itself much less a foreign government toward bringing those responsible to account and so again to to have a a media cycle devoted to a foreign company as opposed to in some cases foreign countries never mind the country itself that issue namely myanmar i think is distracting at best and potentially irresponsible for those who are trying to bring those truly responsible for this to to account. benjamin's the lucky talking to us live from bangkok thank you very much. and president trump has blocked what would have been the largest tech manager in history singapore based micro-chip make broadcom wanted to buy american rival quail come for over one hundred fifty billion dollars the us president says the deal is a threat to national security now broken says his concerns are unfounded since it's about to complete its move to the u.s.

next month. in just a couple of minutes we'll have the weather with richard and also coming up on this out in syria news out. on the court reporting from antarctica as scientists build the case for the grid from the world's largest ocean flying through by sending a submarine down to the truth will remain unique into the system. and installed miami count turn up the heat against the portland trailblazers. we. tune in chanting. the. mild air has been working its way across europe which is generally welcome of course but the price we paid for that is that it's melting the snow in many areas so most of the cold weather we've had recently here in croatia the river.

overflowing as the snow melts and works its way down through the river courses where we've also had other problems across europe has been a pretty unsettled picture generally down in the southern parts of spain we've had tornadoes ripping through causing damage but no injuries are such that the general situation across here remains pretty unsettled we've got a series of weather systems around at the moment tonight one moving in towards more western areas but the general trend we're going to find in the coming days is that cold air is going to be pushing back from the east once again the high pressure is going to win out and cold air will be pushing across into century or in fact all the way as far as the u.k. with temperatures know much about freedom autonomy get the weekend but in the meantime still pretty mild twelve there in london some decent temperatures across central areas across eastern areas we've still got the cold again see across ukraine moldova into parts of russia the still the threat of some snow here for the temperatures across the central areas gradually falling away from

a few days as that cold air begins to win and. the weather sponsored by cat time release. subzero temperatures extreme altitudes. this is where the hard part because of the extraordinary journey from polish to tajikistan. ordinary joining us on what we do high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all in kurdistan but this time on al-jazeera also one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place were two worlds meet we can get to washington d.c. two hours we can get to on jurists in the rest of central america about the same

time but more importantly is where those two cultures north and south america beats us to teach it's a very important place for all to do it's a big. deal with al-jazeera it's time for us to take a look at the top stories this news our palestinian prime minister rami hamdullah has escaped unhurt after a bomb exploded close to his convoy. the palestinian president is blaming hamas hamas is denying any link in condemns the bombing as well as the palestinian leadership. dozens of people who managed to escape a rebel on klav near syria's capital damascus have reached

a reception center in government controlled territory more than one hundred people have safe been allowed to leave. as part of an evacuation deal. rebels and russia. and russia says it's not to blame for the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. the foreign minister sergei lavrov says the british government is refusing to provide moscow access to materials related to the attack and said ok strip owl and his daughter. cats are petroleum has signed an oil field concession deal with the emirate of abu dhabi despite the own going blockade against the agreement will allow ever r.t. companies to continue developing and operating an offshore oil field the united arab emirates egypt bahrain and saudi arabia have imposed an embargo on cata since june of last year they accuse cassar supporting terrorist groups do have very mentally denies the accusations the somali parliament has banned

a port company that is owned by the united arab emirates from working in the country if follows a deal signed earlier this month between the u.a.e. owned company deep world ethiopia and the breakaway region of somaliland now somalia doesn't recognize the deal and does accuse the did by a base company of undermining its sovereignty and a violating international law mohammad day is a chorus one of his live in the somali capital mogadishu mohamed somaliland broke away in the one nine hundred ninety s. by all accounts it's doing very well despite not being recognized by any country in the world what impact does a declaration coming from the mogadishu parliament have on somaliland which runs its own affairs. well martin yes the somali government has not stated how it will implement the bonn on on the d.p.

world but also declaring conflicts find between if you have. the united arab emirates and that breakaway republic all somaliland bond and they say not all under void so model and husband autonomous only. having taken care of its own maters having its own military police force to. chamba houses of parliament making its own rules and administering its own regions so far the government is not saying that but what it is relying on mostly is international law which still can see this some other land as an enclave of somalia because her husband got an international commission yet but it's also about the portal hostel in the north east of the mill town of most regional homes land

which is still part and parcel of somalia we had so far from the leadership of clinton and as to what they make about the decision by the federal parliament puntland itself is represented in parliament by members elected from there and the portal post also has also been warm a concession has been warned by d.p. world last year and this is as much as it is about it's about cost also as much as it is about but a better and mohamed it wasn't that long ago that we were talking about disputes in this c.n.n. and the right there it seems very much as say the tensions in the go free agents are being exported to the horn of africa. yes indeed this is very much about the gulf crisis as well. immediately of. the united arab emirates so that if you're behind in an imposed

a land sea and you don't cut the haul they started going around countries in the region and african countries as well thinking of coal for their decision and when they came to somalia somalia chose. to be neutral in the whole and from them all government officials will tell you the united arab emirates has been halting so money is not the rules. they are the leaders inviting them to dubai. whole thing them. every other few months and they say all these is to undermine the federal government and want to pump on somali unity. live in the somali capital mogadishu thank you the refugees who escaped fighting in south sudan just six months ago are now starting to go back to their homes more than four hundred thousand people had sought safety across the border in ethiopia but has he been

morgan reports from the border town of paga many of them are now going back home to find that life is not quite the same. mary gets course is preparing to start serving tea she says it's the only way for her to make money to look after her four children the family returned to a dock from refugee camps in ethiopia my dad became too dangerous for them to live during the fighting last august. i came back here with my teapot and my things to sell tea hoping that i'd get money for my children when the fighting started i went to the border with them when it calmed down i came back to sell tea so i could continue to earn money for them. mary was one of thousands who fled and one of four hundred thousand south sudanese who escaped. by god was the military headquarters of the armed opposition under the ousted former vice president riek machar this is very little to return to for the few who have ventured back. i was here when the fighting happened in

august and fled to i heard people were returning so i came back with my children but i didn't find anything when i came back it was destroyed what is left behind a reminder of fierce fighting thousands of civilians use this bridge to flee from baghdad to gamble in neighboring ethiopia when the armed opposition under rick much or lost control of the territory six months ago and while they may have lost their military headquarters the fighting between the opposition and the government is far from over with civilians being the price of the war that is now in its fifth year the united nation expects three million south sudanese will be displaced this year in africa's largest refugee crisis since the rwandan genocide in one thousand nine hundred four government ministers want everyone who fled to come back we are writing them to come all of them the governor and the deputy governor us and valley . make sure that there were received and the role of the president of the republic

of south sudan president salva kiir mayardit is to make sure that those who are killer turning will be provided with the services they need as a government we would like you to work to make sure that services are provided to all of them around four million of south sudan's twelve million population lost their homes as some start to return in other parts of the country the mass displacement continues peace seems elusive to africa's youngest nation people morgan al-jazeera in south sudan. thousands of people in guinea are protesting against the government's handling of a teachers' strike which is close schools for more than a month now union leaders want the government to increase teachers' salaries and lower the price of food and feel victorious and the reports. that. children in the capital conakry we cite the alphabet during a makeshift lesson in a dusty street and to steal a school is just metres away but it's closed due to a pay dispute between teaches and the government i was afraid i was it's been one

month since we've been in school so i have to teach the kids in the street you have final exams we have tests and we're still waiting we're sick of this it started in february when the government dismissed junior contract teachers who are not full time employees or cut their salaries guinea's two largest teaching unions went on strike in protest they want the contract teaches rehired and higher salaries for themselves the government says in the current economic climate those demands are unrealistic it accuses the general secretary of the teacher's union cost zuma of exploiting the crisis for personal gain. that. his demands are to give a forty percent pay increase to every teacher without distinction and he's hiding his only real motivation which is that mr summa wants to increase his own power. guinea's economy was already struggling before an epidemic of the abilities ease cost it half a billion dollars one tenth of its g.d.p.

new taxes introduced by the government to deal with the deficit have hiked up prices and led to more strikes and protests calling for president alpha condé to step down. i have seven children at school and i have to pay the fees every month whether there is school or not if president alpha condé can not settle this problem that in handover the presidency. pressure from the streets has brought the government to the negotiating table but if you expect concrete results i'm a do says the decision to take strike action was not taken lightly but the education system he says is no longer fit for purpose victoria gates and. as a gun debate continues in the united states many activists are calling for gun manufacturers to face more regulations or be shut down completely in florida where the parkland high school shooting took place there are more than six hundred companies that are licensed to make firearms and gallagher reports from orlando.

spikes tactical in central florida has been making guns for almost twenty years here the right to bear arms is more than just part of the u.s. constitution it's a way of life the business specializes in making variants of the a r fifteen weapon the national rifle association calls america's most popular rifle these are all variants of the air fifteen it was used in the marjorie stoneman douglas high school shooting in parkland but for gun rights advocates weapons on the issue i don't know why it took till this one for people to start talking and i do think that that the discussion needs to happen i just think it's going in the wrong direction. the the problem obviously is not guns the problem is people. on friday florida's governor rick scott signed a raft of new gun. laws they include raising the minimum age for buying rifles to twenty one and allowing some teachers to be armed i'm

a business person my job was when when something went wrong make something happen go try to do everything you can to prevent it again i mean you know you can't prevent everything from happening the world we've got show weapon trying to try to fix that's what we try to do here your time is running out the new laws of being challenge by the national rifle association which says that unconstitutional. gunsmith barbro book like many gun rights advocates says the focus should be on other things we should be worried about mental health issues and not worry about gun control but who has guns you know again if you're mentally. unstable you know i don't think you should have a gun in the weeks since the parkland high school shooting the gun debate in this country has led to some changes the new laws here in florida was unthinkable before seventeen people were killed i reflect a shift in public opinion but the right to bear arms remains a divisive issue here and that's not likely to change anytime soon i think alec or

al-jazeera miami florida. 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 discover whether plastic pollution has reached the extremely remote waters al-jazeera as nick clock is with the greenpeace expedition in antarctica. thank you very much 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 mary had marine species but it is not the realm of man 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 onboard the expedition sub is antarctic specialist look odd. keen to find out what this little known zone holds what she discovered was

a stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life and has one hundred percent coverage of the sea floor i'm going to assume it 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's debit such as bottom 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 vision to be some of the remotest waters in the world on us to 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 that. quest for this evidence is growing around the world studies that

point the past before the sonics treat me because i'm pretty certain that there will be found the right remote location snowshoes samples are also taken on sure throughout the expedition in different locations to see if the said he signed of my crew plastics the yeah we'll have to see what we get out of. this. big a day break even find his way to these remote coasts hail washed up fishing boys but it's p.f.c. as grant of the team are on the lookout for which end to the world's ations through amongst other things washing every day clothes. the chemicals that are you. don't want to textiles and their use for cortex finishes war for problems with islands you find them even then how soak up it's these days and not just close. but.

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a grand slam champion venus williams rolled back the years on monday to defeat her youngest sister serena at indian wells in the third round this is the fast win for venus over her sister since two thousand and fourteen peter that reports serena williams is back in big time tennis and on monday she faced a familiar rival her big sister venus the indian wells good round was the earliest the two were meeting at a tournament since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight australian open the second round serena came into this match with a seventeen eleven career head to head advantage of the venus. but on this occasion it was first close to the thirty seven year old williams sister first six six three to venus. the older sister capitalized and raced to an early lead in the second set but the thirty six

year old twenty three time grand slam singles champion serena was not lying down though despite being down three love she fought back to ensure the second say it like the first would be a competitive affair. but ultimately the might would belong to venus second said sixfold. it was. there's a lot of focus that goes on tearing that specially hence her opponent with a record like her talent level of her so really it's about his focusing on the tennis i think i'm going to try to move i spend a minute. definitely not thinking too far in the future ready for the next time it are you ready for that i have a lot to improve on you know. it's good that i have. to say that this is the best tennis ever played and i lost. my room

for improvement is incredible so i just go keep saying you determine my goal is just to be better than the last and i don't generally don't want to go backwards i just want to continue to go for it and i think as long as i can do that i'll keep getting better. so really williams will move down the back will now be this williams who defend the families on the regain stunna start of service still but in the fourth round he distended al-jazeera. in the men's draw while number one roger federer stormed his way through to the last sixteen in california as he closes in on a sick title this with swift big therapy as philip k. in a fit comfortably needing less than one hour to wrap up straight sets victory six two six one it was the school that has a six year old defending champion will face the frenchman jeremy shouting that. the way the champions league last sixteen fecche unlike game takes place later on

tuesday with manchester united hosting the via united head into the tie coming off of three successful results in the english premier league no doubt boosting their morale after the first leg ended nil nil united need to outscore their spanish rivals to progress to the quarterfinals gers a marine your men haven't reached the last eight of this competition since two thousand and fourteen i think we're not one of the best teams in the competition but i sing when a team arrives in the list states and isn't going to have them sink when you are in the last sixteen. it looks really really far but when the team gets in the last day you start smelling. some of the finals the other games the shocked adoniah travel to rome are shocked are have the lead to going into this tie having won the first leg of two one if the visitors go on to

win later on tuesday it will be their first quarter final spot since two thousand and eleven the last time a runner reached the last eight so was in the two thousand and seven two thousand and eight season meanwhile united's english premier league rivals manchester city have restored their sixteen point lead at the top of the table and with it largely increase their chances of winning the title pep guardiola side were two nil winners at stoke on monday david silva scoring both the goals of the match either side of the half time. now former chelsea and ivory coast striker didier drogba has announced tell retire from football at the end of the season struck but currently playing in the second tier of us but both of phoenix rising the forty year olds final season as a player will begin on sunday when phoenix visit orange county he spent most of his career playing for chelsea where he wrote his name into the club's record books

didier drogba signed for chelsea in two thousand and four from our say in france he would go on to score a hundred four goals for the club in two spells winning the premier league four times he also scored an equalizing goal in the twenty twelve champions league final against byron munich that led to a penalty shoot out victory for chelsea played three faithful world cups with his country ivory coast before retiring in twenty fourteen he was unable to win the africa cup of nations though twice that losing in the finals. in the n.b.a. the portland trailblazers have extended their winning streak to ten games with a victory over the miami heat on monday and in doing so they extended to the hate broke losing three to eight games portland had to leave wide from the start and despite cutting the deficit in the fourth quarter miami couldn't turn up the hate two of the time their opponents the trail blazers held on to a one hundred fifteen to ninety nine victory.

that a vote of some automated back to you on the thank you very much indeed. that's all for me and from tatiana for now but don't go away because coming up here and out as their house and see there will be in this very seat they bring you the very latest on all the top stories basically what's going on in girls of a with is being a bomb explosion very close to the prime minister's convoy say with us here about to zero.

an archaeology graduate from iraq is also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate and most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that moves us forward to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming

a new life is part of life it's culture to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists people in power investigates how the us supplies soviet style weapons to its allies through private companies and the us government could wash their hands and say well we didn't know where it was so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well and often being pointed at us soldiers yes absolutely we pick it up less than two months off in the professional america's gun secret pipeline to syria and this time on al jazeera. the palestinian prime minister scapes without injury in gaza after a bomb explodes as his convoy was passing by.