just. influencing. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between committee said and what comes after. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside polling the media opinion the listening post time on al-jazeera. deserves it like red. but not enough to keep him as secretary of state the us president files rex tillerson citing differences of opinion. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up

a narrow escape for the palestinian prime minister after a roadside bomb targets his motorcade on a rare visit to gaza. russia slams the u.k. for refusing to give it access to a song full of the nerve agent used in the spy poisoning case. i would take a look at antarctica stunning underwater world a revealing it could help to protect it. i know the u.s. or 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 listen and 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 will. rex tillerson

well. as far as rex tillerson is concerned i very much appreciate his commitment that his service and i wish him well i reckon i've 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 but it was ok i wanted to use a regular to something he felt a little bit differently so we were not really taking the same. well to his an address to the state department a short while ago telling them he's leaving office at the end of the month used his farewell speech to highlight diplomatic successes in north korea and afghanistan. first working with allies we exceeded the expectations of almost everyone with the d.p. r. k. maximum pressure campaign within ousmane on my very first trip as secretary of state to the region that the arab strategic patience was over and we committed the

steps to dramatically increase not just the scope but the effectiveness of the sanctions the adoption of the south asia strategy with a conditions based military plan is the tool to compel the taliban to reconciliation and peace talks with the afghan government finally equip our military planners with a strategy which they can execute as opposed to a succession of sixteen when your strategies roslyn jordan that was at the state department and she joins us from then what else did he have to say. well it was an emotional rex tillerson who addressed reporters in the past hour here at the u.s. state department he said that he had received a phone call from the president who was traveling at the time on air force one for a domestic security event discussed the situation with his posting here at state he also mentioned that he had spoken with the white house chief of staff john kelly

in order to make certain that there is an orderly transition that is carried out the deputy secretary of state john sullivan will be the acting secretary of state until the cia director mike pompei o goes through confirmation hearings and then is approved by the senate to take over as the nation's top diplomat he also did say to reporters that he didn't take any questions that he was proud of the service that people both on the civilian side and in the military are carrying out on behalf of the united states and he ended his remarks by saying that he felt that he too was proud of having opportunities to serve the united states and he had been at odds with the u.s. president over a number of subjects and what was the biggest strain. well it really depends on the day lauren it could have been north korea because he was publicly criticized by the president on twitter for trying to build some sort of network to engage with north

korea as it was really ramping up its nuclear weapons testing and its ballistic missiles testing it particularly in the latter half of last year they clashed of course on whether or not to maintain the iran nuclear deal or the way tiller's tillerson supported it the president campaigned on trying to get rid of it and replacing it with a much better deal on the matter of syria tillerson was much more interested in trying to broker things but instead the president had the u.n. ambassador nikki haley really take the lead on that matter even on mideast peace which is usually at the center of any secretary of state agenda this was not given to mr tellers and even though he wasn't a diplomat by training when he led exxon mobil he spent a lot of time in the middle east had understanding of the regional sensitivities and was prepared to take on this work instead of trying to broker mideast peace was given to jericho or the president's son in law and so there were

a lot of issues that brought these two men really at loggerheads for the better part of a year and it is worth pointing out loren that there is no single secretary of state probably in the last forty years who has been able to lead a very robust foreign policy it has been done pretty much by the people in the west wing over at the white house question in jordan thank you very much. tom white house correspondent can really help it so can we know a fast high profile casualty but the way he was fired seems to have been particularly brutal. indeed in fact it's really quite a contrast to those public statements we heard in the last hour from rex tillerson full of dignity and grace that certainly was not afforded to him in his firing taking place over social media and it really is reminiscent of another high profile firing last year and that of the former f.b.i.

director james comey who also was fired over social media by donald trump this is a president who comes from reality television who would have broccoli fire people on his television show the apprentice and certainly it's starting to feel a little bit like another episode of that in the way these men with very distinguished careers in terms of public service or also in the private sector in the case of rex tillerson seeing them sort of humiliated in such a public way in fact we're getting some reaction from capitol hill a top democratic senator ben cardin saying that it just shows trump's inability to take advice from his advisors chuck schumer the top democrat in the u.s. senate saying the inability of or rather the instability of this administration just what every area weakens america and then he goes on to say we hope that mr pump aoe who will be replacing rex tillerson once confirmed she were saying we hope that mr pompei will turn over a new leaf and we'll start toughening up our policies towards russia and indeed

this is an interesting point because when donald trump was leaving to go on to marine one he did speak to his relationship with mr pump aoe saying that it was a positive one and someone he could work with. i've worked with my mom 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 that's what i see that 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 peo will be a truly great secretary of state i have total confidence in mike mike from fail we have a very similar sort of process i think it's going to go very well and committed to know how to take over the cia as pompei it goes what we know about her but we

know she has a similar thought process to mike pompei on one issue and that is it has to tara geisha techniques which donald trump has also endorsed on the campaign trail and that is not sitting very well with a growing number of groups who have been sending out press releases opposing her appointment that will have to be confirmed by the senate muslim groups are concerned human rights community is concerned human rights watch sending out a press release all through the american civil liberties union concerned about the fact that she has in the fact run by a former cia black sites prison in thailand where there were techniques used such as waterboarding listen to the a.c.l.u. they say she was central to one of the most illegal in shameful chapters in modern american history up to her eyeballs in torture ran secret torture prisons in thailand and then covered up the crimes a controversy a woman being nominated to take over the cia in light of all of these moving parts

of the trumpet ministrations will certainly will be hearing more about her committee how good thank you very much. basename prime minister rami handler has escaped unhurt after a bomb exploded while his convoy was travelling in gaza at the palestinian authority has called the move an assassination attempt and claimed how must it has denied any involvement perry force it has more from gaza. the palestinian prime minister had come to gaza to demonstrate progress by attending the opening of a new water treatment plant. instead just a few hundred meters into gaza territory. visit became a demonstration of the level of insecurity here a powerful bomb buried by the road blasted the end of his convoy vehicles were damaged seven people were lightly injured. and his delegation pressed on to the

water project where he said the attack would only make him more determined to return. they blew up three of our cars on entering the gaza strip this proves to you one hundred percent that it will not prevent us from continuing our path toward putting an end to this day to division continued to come to girls. but that division between the palestinian authority dominated by fatah and its political rival hamas in gaza was once again on full display the palestinian president's office accused hamas of responsibility for the attack given its continued control of security in the strip house condemned both the explosion and the p.a.'s accusation. these three written accusations can only achieve the goals of the criminals that targeted the convoy of dollars in the bank suspects who want to destroy the palestinian clans if the occupation. started but some analysts suggest salafist groups aiming to cause political chaos were behind the attack on the

crater itself shows you just what a sizable device this was the immediate impact obviously substantial the question now is how far the shock waves of what happened here will carry over into the political process between fatah and hamas. reconciliation efforts have been stalled for months since hamas dissolved its administration last year so far there's been no full resumption of p.a. control in gaza with talks foundering on issues such as jobs for tens of thousands of hamas members and control of its military wings weapons we are living in by a lawyer in between that is with everything of hamas or that defacto government and that and your government that's indeed not they walk enough to. have it said it's positive that the palestinian prime minister arrived back in ramallah in the occupied west bank his spokesman accusing hamas leaders of declining an invitation to meet for gaza's people desperate for some kind of government to address

a worsening humanitarian and now security situation in the wait goes on air force it out is erupt gaza but russia has ramped up the rhetoric against the u.k. warning britain not to threaten a nuclear power prime minister to resign may's give russia a deadline of the end of tuesday to prove it was not involved in the nerve agent attack against former double agent and his daughter moscow so far refusing to cooperate with the u.k. in its investigation on a b phillips reports. is this the level before the storm the british government says it's looking at ways of responding to what it believes is now re just signed by russia this is part of a pattern of behavior by that putin and his regime and you'll seeing this reckless support for the use of chemical weapons all the way from syria to the streets of which are not in our country. being encouraged by the

determination of our friends to stand with us except that friends aren't so predictable these days the american president shortly after sacking a secretary of state who was highly regarded by the british government says it sounds to him as if russia. was involved in the nerve agent attack but in moscow the russian foreign minister said britain was being obstructive refusing to give russia samples of the nerve agent so that it could carry out its own investigation you know it's russia is not guilty but russia is ready to cooperate in the framework of the chemical weapons convention only the united kingdom takes pains to fulfill their legal obligations or cling to the same document that has been london's luxury properties luxury shops could britain target russians who spend money here an anti corruption group estimates more than a billion dollars of suspicious russian wealth is invested in u.k. property well it's certainly the case that some of the individuals that we've

identified in this research are well known to the kremlin so if they were to find themselves subjected to police investigations by unexplained well for days for example then that would send a very clear message to the kremlin but corrupt individuals and their illicit cash are no longer welcome here british politicians want to send a message to russia that they won't tolerate what they see as a brazen attack on british soil but they also hope to cooperate with russia on issues like containing iran and north korea's nuclear ambitions in other words russia's international significance presents britain with a diplomatic dilemma britain says it's ready to act but if this crisis escalates western unity could come under great strain to be phillip's al-jazeera. still to come on the program escaping syria's war more than one hundred people are allowed to leave the rebel enclave. under quote reporting from antarctica

scientists will be taken for the creation of the world's largest ocean flag three by sending a submarine down to the sea floor revealing unique include just. how i would had some nasty spring storms across central parts of the mediterranean still a fair amount of cloud showing up across safely into the balkans and this little area of disturbed weather brought some vomit storms into southern italy to see him in concert where we had the tornado bring down trees with some power outages even the local burger king took something of a grilling out of these nasty conditions and we will see quite in down a little as we go on through the next hour or so where to stay still a few showers in place on the side of the age of the attic further west very heavy

rain starting to pile its way into that western side of your very windy as well we are going to see those temps just getting up to thirteen or fourteen degrees so there's the spring warmth cooling off a touch as to gone through thursday and note by the end of the weekend temperatures will be struggling in the sleeper is that a sleeper is going to come in so temps is in london for example just about getting above freezing by sunday ahead of that as the warm little bit of snow way over the the alps temperatures hovering around freezing there for moscow with a little bit of snow coming in here as well for northern parts of africa not too bad twenty celsius there for kyra increasing tabel make its way into northern parts of iraq and looks like a wet one here on thursday with a top temperature just seventy degrees. in the past seven years over three million home stories. and eleven million people displaced.

syrians made homeless by war share their stories. in the ruins of a dream at this time on al-jazeera. elegant or much of the top stories here on our. state rex tillerson has confirmed he'll be leaving office at the end of the month he was fired by president donald trump decided differences of opinion on foreign policy. and in prime minister rudd may have dollar has escaped unhurt after

a bomb exploded while his convoy was travelling in gaza hamas has denied responsibility. 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. until us and regularly clashed over middle east policy even briefly backing opposite sides in the saudi led blockade of qatar for some a binge of age it looks back now at the turbulent relationship between a president and his top diplomat. yeah rex tillerson former boss says the deal with iran and other disagreements was why the us secretary of state was fired from media so far unfulfilled promise to roll back the nuclear deal with iran which is allowed an easing of sanctions the brewing cold war in the persian gulf between arab nations would have been a test for any career diplomat to listen let state department found itself scaling back comments and at times contradicting their own president when members of the gulf cooperation council decided to isolate carter we saw in the beginning of the

cut of a siege by the four countries last june that the initial statements that trump made were later dropped required to be reversed because he didn't know all the facts about u.s. relations in qatar and the region it's clear that the united states seems to want to resolve the g.c.c. crisis i think there's no doubt about that it's also clear that they haven't been able to use their influence to get that done with the kuwaitis so this is very strange in many ways in recent weeks more details have emerged on how a concerted effort was being made from the middle east to get rid of rex tillerson this man businessman george nader has been questioned about his ties to the m. iraqi government and his meetings with white house officials nader is reported to have links with another u.s. businessman but u.a.e. ties and get brody according to a leaked e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. brody reportedly lobbied against secretary of state ricks tennyson because he

opposed the blockade against cutter really wanted trump to hold secret talks with the u.s. crown prince and throw his support behind the blockade in countries. tillerson also disagreed with the current administration's backing of the saudi government a major weapons importer he criticized saudi arabia for its meddling in lebanon and disagreed with the saudi position over the ongoing war in yemen tillers and urged saudi arabia in his words to be a bit more measured and a bit more thoughtful in its actions the top u.s. diplomat cartridge his trip to african nations and abruptly return to washington this led to speculation in the u.s. media that president trump probably asked to listen to step aside while he was abroad it's been a short tenure with accusations that tillotson didn't have the staff or money to back him up as a top u.s. diplomat some of the job aides how does their. well yes present is in san diego in california to view the border will prototypes the eight concrete and steel structures will be tested for thirty to sixty days to determine which design is

best suited for trump's proposed border with mexico with or to say they'll evaluate until breaching climbing and digging capabilities of each will president trump unease affordable will curb illegal immigration into the u.s. let's go to robert who's on the u.s. mexican border in san diego so rob there are protests going on against the wall now what sort of reception is trump getting that. well in fact we're standing some distance from the border now in the neighborhood ascendency draw and there is a demonstration underway a rally behind me by groups of immigrants rights organizations church leaders labor leaders and the like all opposed to the wall and opposed to many of president trump's policies now drop is on the ground and i believe we have some video of him arriving at the. prototype wall area which is located right across

from the mexican border in the area called otay mesa he's going to inspect these prototypes and possibly give his opinion on which one he thinks would be the best for building his as yet unfunded wall but it is unlikely he'll see this protest that i met or really any others because the president probably for security reasons is traveling by plane and helicopter almost exclusively during this trip to california so it's unlikely that he'll see very many protests it will be as you say we've been looking at live pictures of donald trump looking at those prototypes there as has been a long history of problems between california and donald trump why is that. well i think that president is going to address this later on when he speaks at a military base in san diego about sanctuary cities that's one of the sore points

in california which is a predominantly democratic state which did not vote for president trump in two thousand and sixteen but by contrast voted rather heavily for his opponent hillary clinton many politicians favor sanctuary cities which is another term for not allowing police in the vigil jurisdictions from cooperating with federal officials particularly federal border patrol or immigrations officials and they're the state and it's governor jerry brown are at odds with the president on a host of issues not only immigration but also. in terms of the environment offshore drilling and the like and the governor jerry brown saying in a statement this week to president trump that california is about building bridges not walls thank you very much. a small group of people are being allowed out of rebel held in syria while one hundred people

a safe are left enclave which has been under intense government bombardment for three weeks alan fischer reports. they've come from eastern guta slowly perhaps hesitantly most definitely the 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 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. 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. today it 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. the agreement to get injured people. 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. the parliament in

somalia has voted to ban a port company owned by the united arab emirates from working in that country it follows a three way deal signed this month between the company d.p. world ethiopia and the breakaway somali region of somaliland somalia does not recognize somaliland and is accusing the dubai based company of undermining their sovereignty 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 were investigating the sea floor as well as trying to discover whether plastic pollution as reach these extremely remote waters that clark is with a greenpeace expedition in antarctica. to thank 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 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. to find out what this little known zone holds and what she discovered was the stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life it has one hundred percent coverage of the sea floor i'm going to assume has a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and if they're and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for a community to become potter and to stamp it such as bottom fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystems and hopefully we can get to this and other areas we come across a special protection. team were also searching for evidence of the less visible so one of the big stories my recalls is plastics in the world's oceans and these are some of the remotest waters in the world on a c.b. very interesting for the crew it's established little rock any plastics and reaches

far less than i will grant just about still here yeah that's right just to see me into the sea surface but that. quest for this evidence is growing around the world for studies that point the past before this street because. they'll be found the right remote location snowshoes samples are also taken on shore throughout the expedition in different locations to see if they said he signed of my crew plastics that will have to see what we get out of. this. bigger deborah even finds its way to these remote caves here washed up fishing boys but it's p f c's grant of the team are on the lookout for which end to the world's oceans through amongst other things washing every day clothes a group of chemicals that are years. dominantly in textiles and their use for cortex finishes war for poland's balance you find them even then how so carpets

these days and not just clothes all this new found knowledge will be studied and compiled once the expedition wraps up at the end of march to support the e.u. backed bid to turn a major part of the way they'll see it to an asian century nicholas al-jazeera and article and part five of our series our environment and to nick clark looks at the impact of krill fishing in antarctica where there are fears that overfishing could threaten the entire ecosystem and a quick reminder you can catch up to watch those on top of the pieces again and also catch of the rest of the news any time on our website address what is al-jazeera dot com. one of the top stories on our 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 it wasn't and is fourteen months of

what was often a rocky relationship to us and has repeatedly had to deny falling out with the president including multiple denials and he called him a moron they publicly disagreed over a number of issues including the iran nuclear deal. which was an address the state department to confirm his departure at the end of this month he used his farewell speech to highlight diplomatic successes in north korea and afghanistan. first working with our allies we exceeded the expectations of almost everyone with the d.p. r. k. maximum pressure campaign. within assman on my very first trip as secretary of state to the region that the arab strategic patience was over and we committed the steps to dramatically increase not just the scope but the effectiveness of the sanctions the adoption of the south asia strategy with the conditions vice military plan is the tool to compel the taliban to reconciliation and peace talks with the afghan government finally equip our military planners with

a strategy which they can execute as opposed to a succession of sixteen when your strategies trump plans to nominate cia director might pump a zero as to mrs replacement he says they have a good relationship and share similar views coming as the u.s. deals with new challenges including possible talks with north korea russia says it won't cooperate with a 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 so his daughter yulia were found unconscious in southern england last sunday after being exposed to a nerve agent british prime minister to resign may has vowed to take retaliatory measures if russia office no explanation boston in prime minister remy hamdullah has escaped unhurt after a bomb exploded while his convoy was travelling in gaza the palestinian authority has called the move an assassination attempt and blame time us but the group has

denied any involvement for headlines tuesday with syria the stream is up next. hi emily could be and you're in the stream you're joining us for our second show this week covering the south by southwest festival in the u.s. city of austin texas so they will look at how music.