on the benefit of saddam people. so bad they see the importance of the our guys. who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. resisters reagan would you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible yes he says you know. u.s. president donald trump sacks secretary of state rex tillerson after months of strained relations he'll be replaced by cia chief mike compare.

this is al jazeera live from doha will also ahead russia defies an ultimatum from the u.k. over the poisoning of a former spy. the palestinian authority blames rival group hamas for an attack on prime minister rami him dollars convoy in gaza and the polls have just goals in a u.s. special election that could offer clues about the fate of president trump's agenda . it's been a turbulent fourteen months in power for us present donald trump and tuesday was no different following the surprise sacking of his top diplomat no one was more taken aback by the news then secretary of state rex tillerson himself who only found out via twitter one of his top aides released a statement saying to listen was unaware of why he was fired that official was late

this act as well now trump insists policy differences ought to blame the two had clashed over a number of issues including the iran deal and the blockade of cuts up tennyson will be replaced by republican hardline and current cia director michael pale he promises a more aggressive stance on north korea and iran says they're on the same wavelength jeana half spall is set to become the first female leader of the cia but she could face a tough confirmation hearing in the senate given past allegations she oversaw the torture of detainees will get more on that in a just a moment but for as rosin jordan looks back at the friction between to listen and try. it's not every day you lose your job to be a social meeting but an emotional rex tillerson deliberately ignored that detail when he addressed reporters on tuesday all received a call today from the president night states at low afternoon time from air force one my commission as secretary of state will terminate at midnight march thirty

first tillerson served as u.s. secretary of state for a little more than a year he spent much of that time pushing back against reports that the president donald trump wanted to fire him on tuesday morning on twitter trump did just that mike pompei a will become our new secretary of state thank you to rex tillerson for his service trump then told reporters this we disagreed on thing when you look at the iran deal i think it's terrible i guess it was ok i wanted he's a regular to something he felt a little bit differently so we were not really thinking the same looking back it's clear trump and tillerson disagreed on the big problems of the day whether or not to engage directly with north korea how far to hold russia accountable brit's meddling in u.s. political and civic affairs something tillerson made a point of stressing the u.s. must do ultimately former u.s.

diplomats say taylor since firing is no surprise and neither is the choice of his replacement the cia director mike pompei oh he's well known for his support of trump's policy trump is impulsive and trump is temperamental trump wants. once a neighbor's and validators more than he wants advisors tillerson didn't have many fans at state because of his plans to cut staffing by nearly thirty percent some senior diplomats quit in protest but the firings of state didn't end there at lunchtime the white house dismissed steve goldstein after he released this statement suggesting tillerson thought his job was safe the secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason for his dismissal in any case tillerson said he had no regrets rex tillerson didn't lose his job because he didn't agree with the president analysts say he lost his job because he refused to

pretend that he agreed if confirmed my palm pale will face a very high standard of agreeing with the president all the time especially because the president believes he already does rosalynn jordan al-jazeera the state department joe who have been is a former deputy assistant secretary of state and president of the washington strategy group his concern tennyson's departure will take away a voice of reason from the white house. this is the chaos presidency right now this is an administration that seems to be in freefall in terms of its staffing it can't get its team straight and ultimately this means that the american people should be concerned about what direction we have in today's issue what their action we have on national security because the president by changing his team shifting them around moving new people into the state department in this case with. he's really demonstrating that he doesn't have a cohesive or coherent national security policy externally it's crucial for the

united states to have one voice the president and secretary of state defense they need to be on the same team communicating the same vision that's essential for maintaining our alliances and confronting our adversaries but internally and this is where i'm concerned internally it's crucial to have different voices and different opinions and debates and secretary tillerson for all his faults you did debate on the core issues that the president was thinking about including the iran which you make in your clip earlier if we lose debates internally in the white house it's going to be hard in terms of getting their best decisions for a national security let's get more now on the woman who is set to take over the cia gina haskell she's a controversial choice having face criticism for overseeing a secret prison in thailand why detainees were tortured political hand as well from washington. gina has spent most of her career at the cia undercover so there isn't

much video of her but as she prepares to try and take the top job we're going to see a lot more of her and hear much more about her past she was in charge of the facility in thailand codenamed detention site green the senate has detailed what happened to captors there like abu zubaida he was water boarded eighty three times beaten by having his head slammed into a wall deprived of sleep for days he was kept in a coffin sized box possibly with insects for more than eleven days and held in a small box less than a meter tall for twenty nine hours the report also says that. he was held and tortured at the same site according to reports she was clearly in charge according to one cia cable quote only the detention site green chief of base would be allowed to interrupt or stop an interrogation in process and that the chief of base would be the final decision making authority as to whether the cia's interrogation techniques applied to zubeida would be discontinued. zubaida had to be revived once

after waterboarding torture didn't stop human rights groups are outraged by her nomination the idea that she would be put in charge of the cia should send. shimmers terrorists are most people who care about international law this is a woman who was complicit directly in the torture of two detainees in thailand and then the chief of staff of the counterterrorism center back law as they rendered dozens and dozens of other detainees some of them merely innocent people who were swept up shall have to answer for more than that there were videos of some of that torture has reportedly signed the directive to have them destroyed all of this will be a big debate when she comes before the senate to try and get confirms democrats will be under pressure not to vote for her and if that's the case you can only afford to lose one republican vote and still get the job still president donald trump is

sending a message with this nomination just like he said on the campaign trail he's fine with torture and also apparently fine with promoting those involved with it. al-jazeera washington and other world news russia has defied an ultimatum from the u.k. over the poisoning of a former spy prime minister theresa may had given moscow till the end of tuesday to explain how a soviet era nerve agent was using the attack against scrape on his daughter but the kremlin has refused to cooperate with the investigation barnaby 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 not rageous act by russia to this is part of a pattern of behavior of by that may 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 the. 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. its russia is not guilty but russia is ready to cooperate in the framework of the chemical weapons convention only in the united kingdom takes pains to fulfill their legal obligations and cling to the same document that was that 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 barnaby phillips al-jazeera london. moxy makowski is a senior fellow at the atlantic council he joins us from washington for more on this story thank you so much for being with us the russians are digging in their heels as expected rejecting any knowledge of this attack how do you see the u.k.

responding next i mean what are they likely to do here you know i think the u.k. government is coming to a critical crossroads they understand that in the past they may not have acted in response as robustly as they should have because they obviously are now a target of a new attack and as a result they're going to want to try to prevent this from happening again so one i think they're looking very seriously at economic sanctions against russia similar to the united states magnitsky law that could target corrupt and human rights violators from the russian federation to obviously they're going to look potentially at expelling russian diplomats and intelligence officers from the embassy again that likely won't be enough and three they're likely to take this issue to multilateral institutions like the united nations nato and the e.u. with cooperation with u.k. allies to present a case that russia serves as a threat to u.k. interests and western interests and respond appropriately which which they should do but the russians will no doubt retaliate yeah absolutely the russians have made

it quite clear that they will retaliate obviously we have a russian presidential election coming up on sunday and president putin will want to look strong particularly as the west challenges him and the russians as well could take steps both to expel u.k. and western diplomats as well as make it difficult for economic cooperation between russia and the west and could take actions around the world that could somehow threaten the u.k. britain has as won the backing of president even if a little late some would say and also the european union in this showdown with moscow russia is in bold and right now in the international stage i mean i'm thinking of syria here of course is anyone going to be in the mood going to dare to take action against russia. you know this i think is what president putin is counting on he sees the divided west he sees a u.k. mired in negotiations over its exit with the e.u.

he sees the united states relatively isolated from its traditional allies in europe and in particular he sees chaos in the white house on how to deal with russia and he sees a u.s. president that is hesitant to respond to russian provocations so i think he is counting on more of the same from the u.k. and a lack of response and that's why i think we should expect something much more significant from london on responding to this attack thank you so much for sharing your views with us moxie makowski from the atlantic council joining us now from washington thank you for your time. palestinian prime minister has escaped unhurt after a bomb explosion hit his convoy in gaza the palestinian authority has accused of trying to assassinate him but it's denied any involvement how a faucet has more from. 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 hamas condemned both the explosion and the p.a.'s accusation that these three written accusations can only achieve the goals of the

criminals that targeted the convoy of. the bank suspects who want to destroy the palestinian clans is the occupation. started 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 between there is a possibility of hamas or that defacto government and the new government that's

indeed not enough to. have it said it's possible 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 the wait goes on kerry force it out his ear a gaza still ahead on al-jazeera escaping syria's war almost one hundred fifty people are allowed to leave the rubble and play the bass and go to class sharing a heritage of explore exploiting communities the big brands using mexico's designs but not sharing the profits. pinney's pink skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels . however temperatures not doing too badly across southern and central parts of

china getting up into the low to mid twenty's here twenty four celsius for hong kong even shanghai touching twenty three degrees but notice we have constant and rain coming in that rain will be pretty heavy at times will actually make its way further east words not really affecting the temperatures to adversity having said that hong kong still getting up to twenty five degrees and twenty three there for shanghai prices guys come in behind but still a fair amount of cloud twenty five celsius sunshine there for hanoi sunshine to across a good part of the philippines we've seen some really heavy rain there recently into southern parts of borneo into indonesia the big downpours hated the dice i was set to continue particularly heavy pocket of rain there just making its way across job and pushing a little of the east with me while we see some wet weather to coming into us for lanka chances of showers here i think thailand will see a good deal of dry weather having said that the wetter weather that's on the other side of the by of being goal was seen

a nasty little system this circulation here making its way up from the multis very heavy rain recently into sri lanka southern parts of india and you can see how our circulation just pushes a little further north woods and west was as we go through thursday elsewhere warm but cloudy. the weather sponsored by cats own it weighs. natural capital the capital which makes a creative. when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest buying landscapes protecting landscapes it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use a business model to achieve sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature they do that because they see a business from pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera.

our top stories on al-jazeera u.s. secretary of state rex harrison has been fired friends and donald trump announced a decision on twitter trump insists policy differences are to blame telus and will be replaced by cia director mike compel russia has defied an ultimatum from the u.k. over the poisoning of a former spy british prime minister theresa may had given moscow till the end of tuesday to explain how a soviet era nerve agent was used in the attack against and his daughter and palestinian prime minister rami hundred dollar has escaped unharmed after a bomb explosion hit his convoy in gaza the palestinian authority has accused rival group hamas of trying to assassinate him hamas has condemned the attack and has denied any involvement. the u.n. says nearly one hundred fifty civilians have managed to leave rebel held eastern

gotye in syria the government's ally russia and rebels have agreed to evacuate injured people from the area which has been under heavy bombardment for the past three weeks alan fischer reports. we've come from eastern guta perhaps physically most definitely would like to be out and what are you about we've left behind because. we were about two hundred people living in the cellar without light or electricity and very little food it was impossible to leave because of the events many people decided to leave and head to duma and only forty of us stayed behind in that cellar and decided not to leave until the syrian army entered the city. my children 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 me type and for them. 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 quarter 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 well given courage went to the united nations who obviously like to see the numbers increase in the coming days the fighting continues around the young cleve 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. u.s.

president donald trump has examined border wall prototypes for his proposed project to separate the u.s. from mexico he was shown eight towers that will be tested for thirty to sixty days to determine which design is best said he likely he likes rather a fully concrete wall because it was the hardest to climb but says it needs see through capabilities as well as his ass congress for eighteen billion dollars to build a structure but funding is yet to be secured saying in the u.s. polls will close a few actually close a few minutes ago in the state of pennsylvania where democrats are hoping to win a special election in a heavily republican congressional district donald trump carried the district by nearly twenty points in twenty sixteen and the democrats did not even field a candidate bed during the last two congressional elections but polls have shown a close race despite trump campaigning twice for republican breaks acoa let's bring in john hendren in washington for is john why is this election being so closely

watched. well foley this is a bellwether election at least that's how both parties are looking at a canary in the coal mine for the mid-term elections later this year in two thousand and eighteen and then the presidential elections in two thousand and twenty democrats are energized they feel like they are making progress they have lost five recent special elections for the u.s. house but in four out of five of those cases they have gained ground in the past couple of years and they think they have the perfect candidate here and connor lam is a young and energetic ex marine he is running against a republican but his views are much closer to the republicans than is usual in a race like this that has really worried the republican party they're worried they're going to lose the u.s. house of representatives and they have pumped ten million dollars in there compared to one point seven million that the democratic party has put in there so it's really a bellwether election the democrats hope that this is a sign that they're going to do well later this year and maybe recapture the house

now if cano to win or not only lose it how are republicans and the trump administration likely to react well if they win by anything if they lose by anything less than twenty percentage points that trump won by the democrats are going to could declare this a success and they're going to say the momentum is on their side president trump is likely to say what he said last week when he campaigned in this district and that is i won this district by twenty percent and essentially it's not on me that this is on the candidate the republicans will be saying that breaks a cone is a fairly weak candidate he's a state representative he has not done particularly well raising money on his own and he's running against a very attractive candidate so democrats are going to claim this means good things to come the republicans are going to say it's an anomaly thank you for that john hendren life force in washington. their reports stand trump is set to hit china with steep trade tag of sentiment that would further isolate the u.s.

from its trading partners as believe the us president is seeking to impose tax on up to sixty billion dollars worth of chinese imports the move would target the technology intercommunication sector last week trump announced on steel and aluminum imports prompting fears of a trade war sierra leone's presidential election is heading to a runoff in two weeks opposition leader julia. feel nalley won the first round that fell short of an outright majority he's up against the ruling all people's congress party candidate somewhere the vote will decide who replaces president enters by koroma who served the maximum ten years in office has more from syria former military head of state brigadier general julius mudd a buell wins the first round of saloons presidential election with forty three point three percent of the vote but not enough to avoid a runoff he leads the anointed candidate of president on his bike or almost up to come out who scored forty two point seven percent of the vote now the third and

fourth candidates who interestingly broke away from sierra leone's two main political parties to form their own and challenge for the seat of president may decide who becomes the country's next president according to the election commission ninety four point eight percent of registered voters like to preach it in the election so i run over several full two weeks from now that means that several units will be required to come out again on the twenty some of march to vote the next president of this country. fighting has broken out in turkey's parliament after a controversial law was passed changing election regulations government and opposition politicians shot each other traded punches and chase each other across the chamber the opposition is unhappy with the law which allows the electoral board to merge voting districts and make ballots admissible without an official stamp. that 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 where those designs originate from say they often don't see the benefits john heilemann has more from mexico city. it's taken a sick you'll be sent to a life time to get to here when the pain seems to go so when he sees in his community of tonight 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 cross people together the communities become famous for these top 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 or the most. people 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 pay people

right. a recent study by n.-g. o. impact to conclude a clothing brands who plagiarised indigenous designs. the spanish clothing firm mango used to design in this wetter after complaints they withdrew it and 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 guess what i wanted us to comment that

response i mean 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 their word is to say you can't explode it is sayings in other countries and say they are yours . it was when he was well it's a complicated picture but the very fact it's been watch more closely than the may mean a fair deal from its cruise cross people join homan. now again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. secretary of state rex innocent has been fired present donald trump announced a decision on twitter and it appears serious and wasn't told about it beforehand insists policy differences are to blame to listen will be replaced by cia director mike compatible. work with bonfire down for white jumped on.

the event its energy for granted in the last year always on the same wavelength. the relationship with the very good that's what i see it as secretary of state with mike mike from player we have a very similar story process i think it's going to go very well. gina haskell has been tipped to take over from mike on pay and become the first woman to lead the cia but she could face a tough confirmation hearing in the senate given past allegations she oversaw the torture of detainees in a secret cia prison in thailand she's been the agency's deputy director since twenty seventeen. polls have closed in the us state of pennsylvania where democrats are hoping to win a special election in a heavily republican congressional district donald trump carried the district by nearly twenty points in two thousand and sixteen and the democrats did not even field a candidate there during the last two congressional elections but polls have shown a close race despite campaigning twice for republican breaks

a code the seat opened up after its longtime republican congressman resigned because of a sex scandal. russia has defied an ultimatum from the u.k. over the poisoning of a former spy prime minister to resign may had given moscow till the end of his to use a to explain how a soviet era nerve agent was used in the attack against his daughter for the kremlin has refused to cooperate with the investigation palestinian prime minister has escaped unharmed after a bomb explosion hit his convoy in gaza the palestinian authority has accused rival group hamas of trying to assassinate him a mosque has condemned the attack and denied any involvement the blast complicates the conservation efforts between hamas and the palestinian authority the u.n. says nearly one hundred fifty civilians have managed to leave rebel he'd head rebel held eastern in syria the government ally russia and rebels agree to evacuate injured people from the area which has been under heavy bombardment for the past

three weeks. you're up to date with headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after inside story do stay with this. the u.s. walls the u.n. act now on syria always go it alone syrian backed by a bus a housemaid's. how washington says enough is enough but what will the trump administration do this is an inside story.

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