more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards . everywhere. for infrastructure and some form corp. now a politician activists are building a homegrown solution. and secure the nation's technological sovereignty. will be the citizens network at this time. there is a lot. but not enough to keep him as secretary of state the u.s. president as his top diplomat rex tillerson trump admits the pair had many

differences of opinion. there are live from london also coming up. a defiant russia slams the u.k. for issuing it with an ultimatum over the poisoning of a former spy and demand access to a sample of the nerve agent used. a rare visit to gaza turns nasty for the palestinian prime minister a roadside bomb targets his motorcade. and we take a look at antarctica's stunning underwater world how revealing it could help to protect it. and state rex tillerson has been fired by president donald trump on twitter and it appears he wasn't told about it beforehand announcement and fourteen months of what was often a rocky relationship to us and has repeatedly had to deny forming out for the

president including multiple denials that he called him a moron like publicly disagreed over a number of issues including the iran nuclear deal. i wish rex tillerson well and as far as rex tillerson is concerned i very much appreciate his commitment that his service and i wish him well rex and i had been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well but we disagreed on what you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess it was ok i wanted the break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking that. he's going to a white house correspondent can really help it so can be not the first time profile casualty for this administration but the way he was fired seems to be taking be brutal. right and as you pointed out we just heard from the president there where

he said he and rex tillerson had discussed this well that certainly isn't the case in terms of a statement coming from the state department where in fact the the statement reads the secretary did not speak to the present this morning and is unaware of the reason that he was fired so you're right this is particularly brutal and reminiscent of the firing of james komi you'll recall also that was done on social media by the president in fact james komi finding out by watching media reports that he had been removed from his post so certainly this is getting a lot of attention in washington and around the world and it certainly is sort of emblematic of the way that donald trump runs his white house he keeps people in a bit of a a state of fear on edge there's a bit of chaos and that's how he likes it he says and it has said in the past that this is how he gets energy and ideas and gets people of the sort of competitive nature but it's not sitting well with some of the washington establishment if you

will in fact there have been a couple of top democrats in the u.s. senate who are reacting one of them chuck schumer who says that the inability of this administration just what every area weakens america he's hoping that might pump a oh who is to replace rex tillerson was currently the cia director hoping this will turn over a new leaf and will start toughening up her policies particularly toward russia and ben cardin a senior member of the foreign relations committee saying that this this this action that we've seen in terms of this firing really underscores trumps inability to take advice from his advisors so the matter which is this has being done once again not sitting well with some very senior democrats on capitol hill and the reason is i mean we heard some of the mention they had been holds on a number of subjects what you think the biggest strain was. certainly north korea comes to mind in terms of where these two men differed dramatically you talked about at the start of the program there were rex tillerson once famously had to

kind of didn't know i in rather in a roundabout terms calling the president a moron and it was the issue of donald trump's handling of north korea he was not comfortable with the fire and fury comments that were being made by this president not just vocally but on social media and then of course when we found out that there would be a meeting between donald trump and kim jong un date and time to be determined that rex tillerson really was caught off guard in the midst of a trip in africa finding out almost from the media again so it's this micromanaging of foreign policy that i think really frustrated the secretary of state and certainly those that i've spoken to inside the state department would concur that there was a frustration that much of the decisions were being made by this president not just without consultation of top diplomats with diplomat experience but almost on the fly on the spur of the moment based on the president's mood and that certainly

underscored the difference of opinion not just on north korea on client on the climate accord the paris climate accord the iran nuclear agreement and even whether or not to back the embargo against qatar so certainly these men had major differences can really help thank you very much indeed or as we've heard trungpa says the cia direct to my pump will replace to listen he says they have a good relationship and share similar views. i've worked with mike from now for quite some time. prevent this energy from and in the last you're always going to say wait like. the relationship has been very good that's what i see it as secretary of state i'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the capital and other things that i want but i think mike from will be a really great secretary of state i have total confidence with mike mike from failure we have a very similar sort of process i think it's going to go over well. before joining

politics founded and headed companies in the aerospace and oil sectors the fifty four year old had served three terms in congress when trump appointed him to head the cia considered a republican hard line a compare was an outspoken critic of former president obama's new kid deal with a wrong he said that while there was russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election it did not affect the outcome was when jordan is lifers at the state department in washington so rose how will the transition between tennis and pompei affect u.s. foreign policy in the next few months. well realistically foreign policy has been run out of the flight house not out of the state department as my colleague can really help it was just telling our viewers in fact at this hour there is a meeting about the status of the mideast peace talks and how to best help the palestinian people a meeting at which by the way members of the palestinian authority are are not

participating but this is something being run out of the white house the president chose his son in law jarrett questioner who has known foreign policy experience no diplomatic experience to take the lead on this critical national security and diplomatic matter it's also worth noting that on things such as how to respond to allegations of russian interference in the u.s. elections or in u.s. civic life again that has been dealt with out of the white house not out of the state department and whenever the secretary of state rex tillerson try to raise questions about moscow's behavior he found himself being publicly chastised by the president and certainly the situation with north korea the president chastised tillerson not in private in the oval office or in a meeting in the situation room but on social media for trying to find ways of engaging with the north koreans about their nuclear weapons program so from

a practical standpoint it doesn't really matter however for countries around the world it does matter whether there was someone sitting in the seventh floor office here at the state department who is in basically the lead diplomat for the u.s. government and so given that the nominee maicon pale will not be going before the senate foreign relations committee before april at the earliest you can expect that there's going to be a break in here of at least several weeks if not a few months while bat senate approval process is underway and was what we. you say the legacy of tennyson is. well it's a very complicated like a scene there's a sense that while he may have been a good manager in the private sector he was most famously the c.e.o. of exxon mobil the global petroleum a conglomerate he was not particularly well respected here at state because of his

efforts to cut the number of people who work for the state department by about thirty percent the state department only has about seventy thousand employees both diplomats and support staff and that's very very small and when you consider that the pentagon has more than two and a half million people working around the world and so there is a sense that cutting the number of people involved in frontline diplomacy would harm u.s. national security interests but on the other hand he was considered someone who was trying to learn on the job and trying to apply the things that he had learned in the private sector to his diplomatic role and people basically assumed that he would be here for at least another year so the news of his firing did come as a shock today in jordan thank you very much. of one there says bring in our senior political analyst on what you make the timing of a sport you think to tip the relationship over the edge i think especially

a very important question because we all know that this is been boiling for a while certain new since middle of last year when it became public that there are some things very little of the president and in fact he has called him an f. and more on etc etc i think the timing has a lot to do with three things that are happening at the same time one is the whole question to renew or not to renew and what to do about the nuclear deal with iran. two it has to do with the negotiations with north korea and i think president trump will not forget the fact that he humiliated the secretary of state when rex tillerson pursued diplomatic. venue with north korea when he was in south korea trying to deal with china and others and the president told him don't waste your time we're going to deal with it in other ways and third than i think more important probably the most important is the fact that this comes when one week before mohammed when saddam and the crown prince of saudi arabia two weeks before.

the crown prince of united arab emirates would be visiting washington and what we know about the two gentlemen is that they have been working behind the scenes with trump's son and lo in order to oust. rex tillerson and i think it would have been quite embarrassing to have the two crown prince's show up in washington when everyone knows that he had been trying to fire or to get the secular state fired so what do you mean the question will be then or of that new plan in position and compare how do you think he will affect the u.s. relationship with the broader world but also perhaps as he says in the middle east as you mentioned just now clearly as we heard in various reports in our report that he's a hard liner a hard line there's of course means a lot of things but certainly means that when it comes to president trump's worst instincts most nationalistic most populist most i'm going to call it war

mongering instincts i think pompei would be on board so in terms of scrapping that nuclear deal with iran in terms of further deployment in the middle east in terms of islamophobia and the whole war on terror and so on so forth and in terms of a continued to polarize relations in the greater middle east especially between iran and saudi arabia i think we're going to see pompeo tick in front seat with the next. he was more of a sobering or had the more of a sobering influence on the president and he disagreed whenever he thought the president was going overboard and it's always interesting watching this relationship between politics and policy and in the top administration over the last year you know between not this time there can also fourth there was a lot of politics going on but that did not affect itself specifically on policy while now you know on pay or the president and so so forth are clearly on the same

line and i think president said oh thank you thank you. for the day's news is just ahead escaping syria's war more than a hundred people are allowed to leave the rebel enclave. and it caught reporting from antarctica scientists build the case for the creation of the world's largest ocean in fact three by sending a submarine down to the sea floor. includes just the. hello again across southern and eastern parts of china we've got an area of low pressure giving some outbreaks of rain here but the flow is from the south so it's pretty warm there for hong kong up towards food issue and indeed shanghai system

moves further towards the southeast through the course of thursday so temperatures just dipping slightly but some heavy rain likely to come from hong kong across much of vietnam the weather's fine hanoi should be sunshine further towards the south we have got a few showers around so let's move down into south asia and here we've got largely fine conditions but you see this area of cloud this means circulation of low pressure developing and that's moving further towards the west so for connecticut and carol that could be a few showers soon the course of wednesday thing to draw a picture for sri lanka generally also some rain indeed snow higher elevations into the far north of india and pakistan but for delhi we're looking at highs of thirty three and it should be a largely sunny picture but notice bengaluru there picking up the chance of wanted to share as here in the arabian peninsula no showers summers well and truly here after say temperatures thirty one into her other side the potential mecca looking at highs of thirty six and some move through towards thursday not a great deal of change expected never a breeze possible bit of lifted dust but really around the gulf states temperatures

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the mind of the top stories. sacked. by twitter citing differences in opinion on policy including the iran nuclear deal. plans to nominate cia director might compared to a place as the nation's top diplomat it comes as the u.s. has with. possible talks with north korea. is refusing to cooperate with the u.k. and its investigation into the poisoning of a former russian agent and his daughter in england foreign minister sergei lavrov says russia won't work with the british government until it gives them a sample of the nerve agent used in the attack the u.k. says it's highly likely to vote in the poisoning last sunday and i can action that russia calls provocative. because you're being questioned has the right to access the substance to carry out its own analysis this

is what we asked for as soon as a rumor started being spread by practically every member of the british government that the substance group was poisoned with a from the russian federation we also asked for access to all the facts associated with the investigation even though one of the victims is yulia screwball a russian citizen but these legal request was more or less refused. one of ellipses with me in the studio said monday the russian seemed to be trying to retaliate with accusations of their own house the u.k. reacting to those that hasn't been any official reaction but all the indications are in that the british are going to see this as. and delaying tactics by the russians and the expectation here in london is that the reason they will announce more measures tomorrow wednesday afternoon in parliament against russia in retaliation for what the british believe was a brazen attack on british soil and that relationship between russia and britain which has frankly been so poor for more than a decade now will worsen even further and what about any kind of support from

donald trump over this what's the status of that at this stage well donald trump shortly after he fired secretary of state who was seen in london as a reliable friend of the united kingdom and that that is the context so that he would take the brits word for it that the russians had been involved not quite as clear as what rex tillerson had said earlier in the day which was that the russians were clearly involved he said it as a fact so officially the line from westminster is that rex tillerson is departure changes nothing the special relationship the relationship between institutions military intelligence carries on as before in reality the will be concerned that this is an unpredictable administration in washington and a friend who was there a lifeline i think seen by some people in the british foreign office has gone at a critical time for the united kingdom or to be thank you very much. her busting in

prime minister remy handler has escaped unhurt after a bomb exploded while his convoy was traveling in gaza past in your thirty's called it an assassination attempt and blamed have asked that the group has denied any involvement and donna says the incident went to terror continuation efforts in the region six security guards who were injured in the blast harry force it has more from gaza this was a very powerful blast that took place just a few hundred meters inside gazan territory past the area's crossing into israel so the convoy carrying the palestinian prime minister i mean one dollar had really just been inside gaza for a matter of seconds before this attack took place it hit the tail end of the convoy damaging a number of cars injuring likely seven people mr one dollar himself was an injured he went on to his engagement here in gaza in order a ting a water treatment facility and he spoke there about the need to carry on with the

reconciliation process between fatah which governs essentially the palestinian authority in the occupied west bank and hamas which has been in power here in gaza for more than a decade and had given up its de facto government here to try to rican sile with the palestinian or ferrety the p.a. is blaming hamas for this hamas has condemned it it is also condemned the accusation that it was in any way responsible other factions also have condemned the attack including islamic jihad the p.f. lp the rival fatah a breakaway group led by mohammad dahlan but this is a major event here both in terms of security and in terms of the politics at play the attempts to reconcile these two different palestinian political factions have been going for some five months now egyptians and egyptian delegation is still in gaza trying to review the fi and recover that effort but this could potentially be

another blow which will make it even more difficult. small groups of people are being allowed out of rebel held eastern ghouta in syria well one hundred people have so far left the enclave which has been under intense government bombardment for three weeks an official reports from gaziantep from the turkish syrian border. they've come from eastern guta slowly perhaps hesitantly most definitely the glad to be out and what about those they've left behind. 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 and decided not to leave until the syrian army entered the city. my children would tell me dad we don't want to die whenever they tell me this i cry tears of blood and pray to god to make me die before the. others have been bussed out of the area after the

group reached an agreement with the united nations the russians and others around a thousand people need to leave for medical treatment the first batch of around one hundred have no left. to date has been agreed to take those who want to go to damascus or even approach to be treated and returned back once again to good the first batch consisting of around forty families have left to damascus for treatment the u.n. and the red crescent where their new batches of sick people will follow for treatment outside gupta the agreement to get injured people out of eastern good has been around for a little while the fact that the process is actually started will give encouragement to the united nations who obviously like to see the numbers increase in the coming days the fighting continues around the un cle which is no been split in three by sitting government forces backed by the russians. it may not be as fierce as recent days but that's little consolation to those still trapped in sight. alan fischer

al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. fighting has broken out in the turkish parliament after a controversial law was passed changing election regulations government and opposition politicians shoved each other traded punches and chased each other across the chamber their position is all happy with the new law which allows the electoral board to merge voting districts and makes ballots admissible without an official stamp that a petroleum has signed an oil field concession deal with the emirate of abu dhabi despite the ongoing blockade against toha the agreement to allow iraq to companies to continue developing and operating an offshore oil field united arab emirates egypt behind and saudi arabia in person and bargo in qatar since june twenty seventeen they accuse qatar of supporting terrorist groups so hard denies the accusations. thousands of people in kenya are protesting as the government's

handling of a teachers' strike which has closed schools in the west african nation for more than a month union leaders want an increase in teachers' salaries and lower prices for food and fuel but with the economy still recovering from a bowl a crisis the government says it can't afford it triggered by reports. that. children in the capital conakry we site the alphabet during a makeshift lesson in a dusty street and to seal 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 on the one that cricket boards on 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 a bowl of disease caused 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 mean 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 jew says the decision to take strike action was not taken lightly but the education system he says is no longer fit for purpose the tory gates and. a court in the west african nation of bernini has jailed seven pharmaceutical executives for selling expired and counterfeit medicines the trial is seen as a breakthrough in west africa's campaign against fake drugs medicines appear to be to judgment but are actually fake or below regulatory standards. scientists have been exploring one of the last pristine areas of the antarctic to bolster the case to make it a 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. but the greenpeace expedition in antarctica. or from 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 mine that 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 specialist. to find out what this little known zone holds and what she discovered was the stunning underwater composed of all manner of life it has one hundred percent coverage of the sea floor i have. 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 after a disturbance such as bottom fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystem and hopefully we can get to this and other areas we come across special protection

. the 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 oceans and these are some of the remotest waters in the world. for the crew to establish with the plastics and reaches far this i will grant is still here yeah that's right just seeing. the sea surface but that. quest for this evidence is growing around the studies that the past. three because. they found the right. snow is samples are also taken on shore throughout the expedition in different locations to see if they said he signed of my crew plastics the will have to see. bigger debora even finds its way to these remote caves here washed up fishing boys but it's p f c's grounds of the team are on the lookout for which end to the

world's oceans through amongst other things washing every day clothes. chemicals that are. dominantly in textiles and their use for cortex finishes war for poland's repellents 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 arctica and in part five of our series nick clark looks at the impact of krill fishing in antarctica where there are fears that overfishing could threaten the entire ecosystem that's on wednesday right here on out is there. for months now the top stories around zero. eight rex tillerson has been fired by

president donald trump on twitter and it appears he wasn't told about it beforehand in osment and fourteen months of what was often a rocky relationship to sin has repeatedly had to deny falling out with the president including multiple denials that he called him a moron they publicly disagreed over a number of issues including the iran nuclear deal. i wish rex tillerson well and as far as rex tillerson concerned i very much appreciate the bit that is service and i wish him well direction i've been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well but we disagreed on what you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess but it was ok i wanted to use the break good or something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same. time plans to nominate cia director mike pompei as his replacement he says they have

a good relationship and share similar views it comes as the u.s. deals with new challenges including possible talks with north korea russia has handed the bush ambassador a note of protest over its accusation that mosco is behind the poisoning of a russian double agent sergei st paul and his daughter junia were found unconscious in southern england last sunday after meetings exposed to a military grade know of agent british prime minister treason may has vowed to take retaliatory measures if russia has no explanation russia insists it needs to see a sample of the substance used before it cooperates with the inquiry. palestinian prime minister rami had done a escaped unhurt bomb exploded while his convoy was travelling in gaza the palestinian authority has called it an assassination attempt and blamed hamas but the group has denied any involvement. dozens of people who've escaped a rebel enclave miss syria's capital damascus have reached

a reception center in government controlled territory seventy six of those have so far been allowed to leave eastern guta as part of that of an evacuation deal between the rebels and russia as you had on tuesday with us techno is up next. this is techno a show about innovations that could change lives the science of fighting the fire we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity would doing you good unique way. this is a show about science no no high scientists tonight's techno

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