subzero temperatures. this is where the hard part because of the extraordinary journey from tajikistan. ordinary georgia. to hard there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasure. risking it all in the car to stop at this time. if there is a light. but not enough to keep him in state u.s. president files his top diplomat rex tillerson trump admits the pair had many differences of opinion.

this is al jazeera 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 demands access to the nerve agent used. a rare visit to gaza turns nasty for the palestinian prime minister a great side bomb targets his motorcade. and sharing a heritage or exporting communities the big brands using mexico's designs but not sharing the profits. of the state rex tillerson has been fired by president donald trump on twitter and it appears he wasn't told about it beforehand announcement and was fourteen months so what was often a rocky relationship to us and has repeatedly had to deny forming out to the president it could be multiple denials that he called him

a moron they publicly disagreed over a number of us. including the iran new kid 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 we got along actually quite well but we disagreed on thing when you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess he says it was ok i wanted he's a great kid or do something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same. as going to white house correspondent can really help it so it's not the first high profile casualty that this administration has had been the way he was fired appears to be particularly brutal. if you think hillary brutal and reminiscent of the firing of the former f.b.i. director james comey who also was kind of blindsided by the news that he was no

longer in his role this is something that happened to rex tillerson although you heard the president there saying that this had been discussed many times a press statement too by the state department indicates just the opposite the fact that that rex tillerson didn't know he was being fired and didn't know the reason why but there's no question these two men have had very different views on a number of foreign policy ideas and the fact that there was some frustration by rex tillerson in the micromanaging of foreign policy by this white house made it certainly difficult to do his job not just when it came to the iran agreement but also it came to issues like north korea were in fact when rex tillerson was on his trip to africa last week he found out about the meeting that will be taking place between kim jong un and donald trump in the future it was also issues like whether to back the embargo against qatar and even the paris climate accord so these men

had vast differences and and the fact of the matter of this fire is certainly getting some push back a top democrat in the senate a chuck schumer saying that the instability of this administration weakens america we hope that mr palmdale the former cia director who will be taking over the role of secretary of state if confirmed there's the hope that he will turn over a new leaf now this is certainly someone that the president himself says that he can work with in terms of might pump a zero. i've worked with mike bomb failed now for quite some time. prevent this energy from and this is the last you're always on the same wavelength . the relationship has been very good and that's what i did 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 pump will be

a truly great secretary of state i have total confidence in him with my my company a we have a very similar thought process i think it's going to go very well. and can be what about his proposal to best believe the cia agent has but what we know about her. well she has been sort of under the radar in terms of headlines but she certainly familiar to many people of the human rights committee or rather the community who are not too happy that she now will be if confirmed making history is the first female director of the cia not because of her gender but more because of some of the policy positions she's taken in the past which are highly controversial now she has served to several chiefs of station she is certainly very prominent in the intelligence community but she did run a cia prison a secret prison in thailand and that is where the controversy surrounding her actions has caught the attention of not just groups like muslim activist groups here in the united states but also the american civil liberties union who are

concerned about some of the techniques she used including waterboarding for the interrogation of so-called terror suspects in fact two statements coming out with regard to her taking over at the cia the a.c.l.u. saying she was central to one of the most illegal and shameful chapters in modern american history up to her eyeballs in torture writing secret torture prisons in thailand and then covering up the cripes there certainly can some concern about gina hospital taking over leading that intelligence agency and her actions of the past committee how could thank you very much indeed. moscow is refusing to cooperate with the u.k. and its investigation into the poisoning of a former russian agent and his daughter in england the foreign minister sergei lavrov says russia won't work with the british government until it gives evidence

of the substance used in the nerve agent attack the u.k. is blamed moscow for the poisoning last sunday in seoul's bree and i can the russia cools provocative or u.k. correspondent barnaby phillips has more. and the expectation here in london is that the reason may we'll 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 said 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 towson's 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 vastly in prime minister rami handler has escaped unhurt after a bomb exploded while his convoy was traveling in gaza which i've seen or thirty is called the move an assassination attempt and blamed her us but the group has denied any involvement and allah says the incident won't deter reconciliation efforts in

the region six security guards were wounded in the blast very force that has more from gaza. well this was a very powerful blast that took place just a few hundred meters inside garzon 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 handle himself was uninjured he went on to his engagement here in gaza inaugurating 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 authority 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 fight and recover that effort but this could potentially be another blow which will make it even more difficult. just ahead including escaping syria's war more than a hundred people are allowed to leave the reveling claims. class. under court reporting from antarctica as scientists build the case for the creation of the world's largest ocean side in three by sending a submarine down to the sea floor revealing beneath

a system. welcome back we'll start by looking at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia the suffolk imagery shows a lot of cloud across eastern areas and we've seen some breaks of snow still some around during the course of wednesday but you see it's fairly patchy stuff because i stand through it is becky stan tashkent i feel too bad temperatures there are nine degrees rowsley fine conditions around the caspian sea coastline back of it eight outside chance of a shower elsewhere little bit of rain rain but to weather conditions not too bad as it moves through to thursday with winds coming off the mediterranean so temperatures what you'd expect really about nineteen degrees in beirut in lebanon here in the arabian peninsula has seen temperatures running above average will be for a period of several months of temperatures meca thirty six about what you'd expect

but around the gulf states definitely warmer than usual thirty one and rising to thirty two as we head through into wednesday so less of across into southern portions of africa where we've got an area of low pressure moving in developing into a tropical cycle is to recycle thirty heading towards madagascan this is going to be very slow moving so we're going to see some large rain from accumulations down the east coast elsewhere some heavy showers across some be in zimbabwe with lusaka seen some heavy downpours heise here of twenty six.

top stories. u.s. president donald trump has sacked state rex tillerson via twitter citing differences in opinion on policy including the iran nuclear deal. plans to nominate cia director might replace to the nation's top diplomat it comes as the u.s. with new challenges including possible talks with north korea. and russia says it won't cooperate with a british investigation into the poisoning of a former russian agent unless it's given access to all of the. used on him.

small groups of people are being allowed out to rebel held east and in syria more than one hundred people have left enclave would be under intense government three weeks an official reports from near the syrian border. have come from eastern guta slowly perhaps hesitantly most definitely but glad to be out and 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 that we don't want to die whenever they tell me this i cry tears of blood and pray to

god to make. sure. others have been bussed out of the area after the group reached an. 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 at the u.n. and the red crescent where their new batches of sick people will follow for treatment outside. the agreement to get injured people lie to 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 syrian 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 of 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 position is unhappy with a new law which allows the electoral board to merge voting districts and makes ballots admissible without an official stamp and also security forces into polling stations. as president donald trump is on his way to san diego in california to view border wall prototypes the eight concrete and steel structures will be tested for thirty to sixty days to determine which design is best suited the trunks proposed border war with mexico authorities say they'll evaluate and breaching climbing and digging capabilities of each wall president trump believes

a border wall will curb illegal immigration into the u.s. . on monday night protest as march against the president's first official visit to california nearly two hundred people marched in downtown san diego to denounce the president's crackdown on illegal and legal immigration hundreds more are expected to protest against trying to move in a district on the mexico border just outside san diego later on tuesday was not the first protest against trump's hardline immigration policies they've been at the center of 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 face of america's muslim immigrants. in two thousand and 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 that 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 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. thousands of people in guinea are protesting against the government's handling of a teachers' strike which is close 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 for the economy still recovering from their burn a crisis the government says it can't afford it. reports.

of children in the capital conakry we site 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 kasumi of exploiting the crisis for personal gain ross going to want to come forth on his demands are to give a forty percent pay increase to every teacher without distinction and he is hiding

his only real motivation which is that mr zuma 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 hand over the presidency the. 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 victoria gates and.

a court in the west african nation of banning 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 the medicines appear to be legitimate but are actually fake or below regulatory standards and you know has a reputation for being a crossroads for trafficking in expired and counterfeit drugs. refugees who escaped the civil war in south sudan six months ago beginning to return to their homes more than four hundred thousand people sought safety by fleeing east across the border here and have a morgan reports from the border town of pa gag many are coming home to find the community is destroyed. 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 progress from refugee camps in ethiopia by god became too dangerous for them to live during the fighting last august. i

came back here with my teapot on 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 bag and one of four hundred thousand south sudanese who escaped with european. because the military headquarters of the armed opposition under the ousted former vice president riek machar there's 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 edging 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 your 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 scientists have been exploring one of the last pristine areas of the

antarctic to boast of the case for making 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 that clark is with the greenpeace expedition in antarctica. to tell. the weddell sea spreads over a vast area it 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 man and many well 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. came to find out what this little known zone holds and what she discovered was the stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life it has one hundred percent coverage in 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 sing about copter 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's oceans and pieces of the remotest waters in the world all of the same be very interesting for the crews established with the plastics and reaches farthest i will grant to spots to here yeah that's right just to see me into the sea surface without. question why this is evidence is growing around the studies that point the plastic before this tree the prisoner releases and they'll be found the right location

snowshoes samples are also taken on shore throughout the expedition in different locations to see if it is said he signed of my crew plastics that i have to see what we get out of. bigger de brie even finds its way to these remote coves here washed up fishing boys but it's p.f.c. s. grant of the team are on the lookout for which into the world's oceans through amongst other things washing every day clothes a group of chemicals that are. dominantly in textiles and their use for cortex finishes war for poland's repellents phylum 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 ocean century new clock al-jazeera and article and in part five of our series nick clark looks at the impact of krill

fishing in antarctica whether if it is overfishing could threaten the entire ecosystem that's a wednesday here an officer from mexico is famous for its highly patterned ornate indigenous clothing and the fashion world has taken notice major brands and designers have been selling clothing inspired by traditional designs but the communities those designs originate from say they often don't see the benefits from home and as more from mexico city. it's taken is a kill descend to a life time to get to here when the pain seems to guide itself what he sees in his community have to go mexico flies off the page made flesh by his wife. this intricate dream world has been built up in the imagination of generations of tonight and go across people. together the communities become famous for these type histories. now they're worried that their shared heritage is being exploited by big

brands who use their designs but don't share the profits but i must proportion. we can make anything we're asked to that we should be paying a fair amount that way we can get ahead generate employment here and the people write. a recent study by n.-g. o. impact to conclude a clothing brands of plagiarised indigenous designs. the spanish clothing firm mango used to design in this wetter after complaints they withdrew it from wrote a letter pledging to help the community several indigenous communities in mexico have their own distinctive designs which are sold locally in shops and markets these are often poor people so when they see their patterns being used to mass produced or luxury clothing without compensation or recognition it really rankles. the problem is judging when the thin line between inspiration and plagiarism is crossed defining that by copyright is tough because the designs are often the

cultural heritage of entire communities rather than just one person. congresswoman paolo félix says companies shouldn't see it is a legal question but one of moral duty yes i wanted us to comment that as they need to get ethically responsible because at the end of the day it's just stealing that is states of mexican people we have to have that word has to say you can't explode it is thanks in other countries and say they are yours. the person is going to know it's a complicated picture but the very fact it's been watch more closely than ever may mean a fairer deal from its cruise cross people john home and. city with. top stories are now jazeera the u.s. extra state rex tillerson has been fired by president donald trump on twitter and it appears he wasn't told about it beforehand and housman ends fourteen months of

what was often a rocky relationship to listen is 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. i wish rex tillerson well and as far as rex tillerson is concerned i very much appreciate his government but that is service and i wish him well direction i've been talking about this for a long time. we got a long actually quite well but we disagree don't think what you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess if it was ok i wanted to see the break good or something and he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same as president tom plans to nominate cia director michael payer 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 says it won't cooperate with the british investigation into the poisoning of a former russian double agent unless it's given access to a sample of the nerve agent used on him u.k. has blamed moscow for the attack last sunday in salzburg an accusation that russia calls provocative the british prime minister to resign may has vowed to take retaliatory measures if moscow offers no explanation. the palestinian prime minister rami hamdullah has been as escaped unhurt offer a bomb exploded while his convoy was traveling in gaza the palestinian authority has called it an assassination attempt and blame tell us the group has denied any involvement 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 of those have so far been allowed to leave eastern guta as part of an evacuation deal between the rebels and russia that follows three weeks of intense bombardment of the area at

the u.n. the u.s. is calling for an immediate cease fire to allow in humanitarian aid there's a top stories inside story is next on news after a straight up to that. the u.s. warns the u.n. act now on syria or will we go it alone syria strikes back by russia made. washington says enough is enough but what will the trump administrator and this is the inside story.