in a war to the city. a magic documents the stories of the survivors recording their hopes and dreams for a peaceful future after american troops withdrawal. but the conflict is far from over. he turns the camera on himself when take control and his family are forced to flee. a witness documentary this time on al-jazeera. you're fired the white house sacks the deputy director of the f.b.i. on the eve of his retirement. jadedness is al jazeera live from doha it was

a coming up back in charge china's parliament confirms shushan paying as president with a close ally alongside. the war in syria escalates on two fronts airstrikes in east and go to while activists say turkey's military has bombed a hospital in a free. we're on the front lines of ghana stands battle to save the thousands of men and women struggling with drug addiction. realize deputy director has been fired but he's fired back at the u.s. president on the way out and john mccain has been sacked for misconduct just before he would have been eligible for full retirement benefits mccabe says his firing is part of the trumpet ministrations war on the f.b.i. he believes he's been singled out for events he witnessed off to trump fired f.b.i. director james comey wasn't jordan has the latest from washington d.c.

. the firing of andrew mccabe from the f.b.i. has long been rumored here in washington but it's still a bit of a shock that it came at ten pm on a friday night two days before mccabe was supposed to retire stance of bling having earned his full pension after nearly twenty two years as a special agent with the f.b.i. mccabe came under political pressure it's almost as soon as donald trump became president and that's because we all he was serving as the deputy director of the f.b.i. one of mccabe's jobs was to investigate the ongoing allegations of some sort of collusion between the russian government and donald trump's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign the cave was also very much involved in the investigation of the establishment of a private e-mail server which hillary clinton used while she was secretary of state

doing so instead of using the state department's own government website for her official communications trump felt that because mccain's wife is a democrat and received political funding from one of hillary clinton's allies that he was naturally biased against donald trump and his campaign he also felt that mccabe may have been covering up for what trump believes was clinton's illegal behavior by using this private e-mail server so at the end of the day it looks at least in andrew mccabe's eyes that his firing is nothing more than political payback and in statements to a number of media organizations on friday evening andrew mccabe says that while he and his family will be fine that he regrets that his professional reputation has been slandered and that he feels that this is a larger effort of trying to undermine the credibility of law enforcement in the

united states something which andrew mccabe argues is a very dangerous development. the internal inquiry recommended the sacking of mccabe not just for leaking to the media but for quote lacking candle when speaking to investigators mccabe denies he was dishonest saying he was entitle to interact with the media through the public affairs office in his role as deputy director many expect he will be an important witness in the mule investigation which is examining links between the campaign and russia he was in the position when trump sacked. james comey at the time comey was leading the f.b.i. case looking into the same issue the president's single advocate for criticism a number of times chung claims he protected hillary clinton from prosecution revises director at the hudson institute center for political military analysis he joins us now on skype from washington d.c. very good to see you what's going on here is this

a political vendetta is it personal is it. it's a complicated case the f.b.i. in several internal interviews and the f.b.i. found that he had committed a behavior it's time of his behavioral was something to warrant a dismissal of the leaking to the leaking material to reporters and then showing as as you said a lack of and or with the inquiries and addition there are many many people dismissed in this way or are suddenly or unexpectedly by the top of this russian so it's it's a bit unclear to what extent this is related to any the sofa tensions between him and the president as opposed to just a general pattern or something that would have occurred under another ministration the same way what sort of messes do you think it is considering that says soon but before his retirement obviously we don't know what was key to this firing moment is

it is it a message to those around him that they need to support him that he needs to be surrounded by sycophants if necessary. well this is a concern there is a lot of kernel or in this to administration and you're right that's one way people could read it that their their jobs are very insecure that if they take controversial positions quickly those pose to the president then they're going to place their jobs at risk so it's a safer and just go along on various policy and it can also discourage people from joining the administration i mean there are many qualified people who might serve under president trunk's agree with them india logically but would be concerned that they would only be able to stay for a year or so and then have to find another job but it could also. think that the president trump seems to. be very instrumental in how he approaches the people he

works with us when he picks a concern with one issue such as we're a man who put together a team and then after that's been dealt with he's quite comfortable then we placing these people so it appears to be with a the president's style he seems you very comfortable with rafa charnel for and and despite potentially negative effects and return to recruitment and retention where do you think this leaves the investigation if he survives. this is this is the big puzzle i mean because clearly whatever the reason it could it's going to be read by some as an attempt to rupture or affect the investigation however as far as we can towel this investigation is and seeing holes in despite what happens in congress or in the white house and it's not very visible and it's probably good and it's been we hear periodic plea announcements about somebody being indicted or arrested are under review so i don't think this is going to

really just rob what appears slow but steady progress in trying to define precisely what happened which is still unclear to most of us during the election good to talk to you richard and i thank you. thank you for having the chinese president close political shang has been voted in as vice president xi jinping has also been confirmed for a second term with unanimous support the national people's congress is rubber stamping a government reshuffle and its annual meeting in beijing the congress approved the removal of ten limits for the president and vice president this week scott hyde joins us live from beijing said the president vice president being chosen and usual with the people's congress have been no real surprises but there are differences this time and there are genuine that's quite interesting is you know once

those elections took place nine o'clock local time this morning that's when the ballots were cast written on and cast and then within two hours after that that's something we saw that hasn't happened in china before the president and the vice president and some other officials actually taking an oath of office this is something that hasn't happened before so this is something that she jinping is changing along with these other this other reshuffling of the government he says his administration says is to streamline it to make it more official efficient and there are also some constitutional reforms and you alluded to those jane one of the bigger ones and that is the term limits being lifted from the presidency in the vice presidency now the new vice president is a very close ally of she's been playing the front of the anti-corruption efforts over the last five years so he's a very close and trusted ally so it's interesting now as they move forward because . essentially they can both serve as long as they like because the term limits have been lifted ok when he showing in these role as vice president what do you think

his focus will be. well wearing the vice presidency now the position because of him because of the term limits being lifted and his role with he's in pain over the last five years plus is being elevated because the position usually traditionally had been ceremonial not much power but because of his position and what he's being tasked with and what he's been tasked with are pretty weighty issues one is dealing with the united states particularly comes to trade issues vice president wang has a history in the economy so he can focus on that and obviously that's a point of friction between the united states and china that china obviously wants to smooth over he will probably mr wong will probably front that now he's kind of been known as a fire fighter put into the very difficult situations to get results that's probably why president she wants him there but then also who work on other issues you know anti-corruption is something he did in the past but now his focus is going to be smoothing things over with the united states but also. international issues

will be a focus obviously the situation on the korean peninsula is very important to china they'll be fronting that and working on that and becoming a little bit more of a kind of vocal position for what's happening in foreign policy with china so a lot of big responsibilities for this position that used to be ceremonial but mr wang now is changing that and his his presence now as it started today on saturday it's going to live in beijing thank you dozens of people have been killed in separate strikes in syria in rebel held eastern go to market was hit leaving more than seventy people dead and activists say fifteen others died when texas forces bombed the only functioning hospital in kurdish controlled free and fishes the story. disputed the of stock brutal contrasts. with the line between life and death arbitrary this is a city that's been shown by the free syrian army by the turks.

with the number of dead rises by the day with a pall of smoke from another attack hangs in the year now surrounded by the f.s.a. and the turkish military the final assault take the city is underway civilians on the ground have expressed serious worries to us regarding their safety including as a result of fighters placing rocket launchers in residential areas we're deeply concerned about the high risk of civilians who are effectively trapped being injured or killed besieged used as human shields or displaced as a result of the fighting people are being allowed to leave taking your road to the so the humanitarian corridor to skip the fear and the expectation of what's to come . on and our friends in the cause of turkey we fled from a friend because of the heavy turkish bombardment there frightening people yesterday i couldn't sleep we suffer to get here. used to go to different actors

but a similar situation cozens left part of the besieged on cleeve on thursday thousands more have no joy to put it simple and straightforward children have been and continue living in their hellish conditions in places like eastern good luck but also a strain it is good to see that at last a few thousands of people have been able to leave these hellish conditions in any single day enough rain. a popular market now was hit boardings piled up in the streets. the syrian civil war no. alliances of the battle lines of changed but what is no different is that some people will live until to morrow so many innocent people will die. alan fischer algy zero on the talkie syria border

lots more still to come questionable arms deal corruption charges are reinstated against former south african president jacob zuma last. week i believe that protests are getting louder and angrier in brazil over the killing of a popular politician. from flowing. to an enchanting breeze you're. probably will see a little more showery rain pushing across iran i was afghanistan over the next couple of days clad easing across iraq will continue on its eastley track and it'll bring some bits and pieces of wetter weather into the region then sunshine there for kabul and also for tashkent getting up to twenty degrees celsius cold enough and i'll match it with a high of five degrees warm dry and sunny over towards the levant but aleppo

getting up to twenty degrees similar values there for barrett over the next i think a little warmer as you go on through sunday with a southerly push on the way and little more cloud coming into that eastern side of the makes you notice possibility of a few spots of right it's in cyprus for example myspace is of rights to into the eastern side of iran heading towards afghanistan just a warm enough in the couple to lift those temperatures to a rat eighteen degrees celsius still warm enough across the peninsula give us highs into the thirty's thirty one celsius here in doha and sassed a little cold as ago on into sunday but no sign of any clout and right as we go on through the coming days any plenty of rain into madagascar at the moment the wet and windy weather in the form of our socks and that will continue to drive its way further south was with the possibility of widespread flooding for many. the weather sponsored by cats on race. facing realities growing up when did you realize

that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because he expressed himself he had their story on the talk to al-jazeera at this time. when. he. played hard life like. you're watching al-jazeera amount of our top stories this hour the deputy director of the f.b.i. has been fired a little over a day before he was due to retire and

a mccain had been the subject of an internal investigation into leaks to the news media he says his dismissal is part of the trump administration's ongoing war on the f.b.i. we've been seeing a string of tweets from trump before this but this is what we got in the last five minutes from donald trump and mccabe fired a great day for the hardworking men and women of the f.b.i. great day for democracy sanctimonious james komi was his boss and made mccabe look like a choir boy he knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the f.b.i. exclamation mark. the chinese president's close political ally wang to shine has been voted in as vice president xi jinping has also been confirmed for a second term with unanimous support the national people's congress approved the government reshuffle at its annual meeting in beijing. dozens of people are being killed in airstrikes into areas of syria in rebel held eastern go to a market was hit leaving more than seventy people dead and activists say fifteen

others died when turkish forces bombed the only function hospital in kurdish controlled or free. so that his former president jacob zuma is facing prosecution for corruption charges include fraud racketeering and money laundering over a two point five billion dollars arms deal signed in the one nine hundred ninety s. zuma denies any wrongdoing as malcolm webb reports from pretoria. it began with a two billion dollars deal between south africa and a french arms company in the one nine hundred ninety s. . these fighter jets were part of it. and prosecutors say this man jacob zuma was paid bribes to secure the deal he was charged with corruption in two thousand and five the charges were later dropped shortly before he became president zuma resigned in february and now africa's

prosecutor says the case is back on i am of the of the view that a trial court would be the most appropriate forum for these issues to be ventilated and to be decided upon after consideration of the matter i am of the view that there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution of mr zuma on the charges listed in the indictment. charges one of several scandals that hung i resume as a nine year presidency. here he's seen leaving one of his many court hearings press in opposition accused him of handing control of parts of the state to private interest. in ways the night charges and accusations. the prosecutors who work in this office drops the arms deal corruption charges against zuma that he became president they said they had recordings of conversations that showed that there had been political meddling in the case those recordings were never published the

opposition fought hard ever since to get the charges reinstated karen morns a journalist who first broke the story of the charges being dropped and covered the issue ever since and it's been a very long time in coming almost a decade it was in april two thousand and nine in the very same rematch on abrams has now just made his historic announcement that a former head of state for the first time in south african history is going to be prosecuted for corruption dumas controversial president over prosecutors and the press billions of dollars of public money was stolen before and during his tenure south africans are still waiting to see if. anyone from his government will be held to account. al-jazeera pretoria south africa to israeli soldiers have been killed and two others are being treated for serious injuries after a car ramming in the occupied west bank the israeli military considers it considers it a deliberate attack the driver fled but was caught shortly after and taken to hospital

unconfirmed reports say he's a twenty six year old palestinian. egyptians living abroad are casting their votes for who they want as president but elections being dismissed as a fix by some of the opposition after several candidates were arrested or intimidated into pulling out some experts say they're not going to bother voting. reports from washington d.c. . not everyone who came to vote in washington d.c. as a gyptian embassy were aware of the opposition boycott of the presidential election but all of those we spoke to were strong supporters of incumbent president abdel fattah el-sisi what want you boy causing the election. is crazy you know boycott they supposed to really you know what the what they doing in here never having before everybody have to come and vote i think constructive opposition is like saying no for no for any no anything but then you think of the other office and kind of it's clearly have been either frightened intimidated out of the race or of

a put in prison. i'm not sure but with sisi facing a candidate who's indorsed him and with the other opposition candidates withdrawing as a result of a rest or intimidation some in the diaspora say that cost of the vote is pointless are you going to go and vote at the embassy i have no intention so why not so they used to have this look like you know electing mubarak or mubarak as i think they know that is out in advance and i think that in this particular election they know also that is all to advance and that's why many of them are not enthusiastic about going and casting ballots the polls open in egypt on march twenty sixth and earlier this week gyptian americans some of whom have been detained by the c.c. government came from across the u.s. to washington to lobby the members of congress to pass a resolution among the demands tying u.s. aid to human rights and for the u.s. to support independent election monitors participants say they had a receptive hearing on capitol hill the degradation. to democratic aspirations. for

some fermenting society who very quickly could become the new government once again she was asked back at the embassy sisi supporters continue to vote i love. yes i would for him for what. but for now it's difficult to quantify how many egyptian americans have heeded the call for a boycott shihab rattansi al-jazeera washington. anger is mounting in brazil over the death of a popular politician city councilor mario franco was shot on wednesday what's being called an assassination some reports. brazilian voices raised in i go for a second day after the shooting of mahdi allah franco who supporters say gave her voice to the poorest of rio's teeming for violence. and i'm here not just for mariela but for many other women and people from the periphery we have the idea that it doesn't matter what color you are and it doesn't matter where you come from if you have an important cause you should be respected for that. idea

franco was a gay black woman who regularly condemned police aggression in rio's poorest areas she was shot four times in the head as she sat in her car the police say she was targeted deliberately in the last year the number of killings of the generator was once two hundred people killed by the police in rio de janeiro on it was the highest number since the numbers are recorded so we have a huge problem now that we have a problem but we are in the well funded election we're going to have elections. in october it's only keating also sounds like a message for people who was the woes of politics just the name of the boys brazil's president to michel tema has promised a fool and transparent investigation in february tema put the army in charge of security in rio de janeiro

a move condemned by mariella franco and some of those demonstrators in brazilian cities which will actually edition i am here for black women who make it despite all the difficulties and for all of those who don't make it those who are down in the those who have been killed by the state which is killing us every day. a vocal critic of brazil's security forces. may have been silenced but her supporters are still determined to be heard rob matheson. a legal applications being filed in australia against lida uncensored cheese and said this is part of a special asin summit of south east asian leaders lawyers there are attempting to prosecute her while she's in the country on charges of crimes against humanity in relation to the treatment of men. under thomas is the city. this protest of about six hundred people is taking place just near where the afghan leaders are meeting those who say that leaders from their respective countries

mostly cambodia vietnam me and shouldn't be here on sun suchi of course being held responsible and their eyes for the atrocities against the revenge and in parallel to their protests a legal case is now on the way he writes lawyers including allison baths and have launched an application in a melbourne cold for crimes against humanity against them is this really going to go anywhere yes we believe it will. be evidence is overwhelming about what is happening in ring states and against the right it precisely matches the australian statute and that of the international criminal court for crimes against humanity for the deportation and for school transfer fee lation but she's only here for a few days you need the support ultimately that's a start as attorney general in government you're not going to get back is this really anything more than a stunt no it is absolutely not a stunt. we have followed in the victorian magistrates court.

that we expect an answer from them to meet next week and some sea change is still. least she stayed in parallel with that is the briefs that went to the attorney general there's a slight loophole here in a stylish domestic legislation that we can start a. prosecution against unsung suchi while c.a.g. is considering our application and his decision is reviewable. alison thank you very much long time c.j. as allison said will be here in australia until she stay talking mostly security and trade with australia's government and the other governments from the regions on saturday these protests are going to go on all weekend opium production in afghanistan has been on the rise since the us invasion in two thousand and one last year nine thousand tonnes will produce an increase of eighty seven percent anybody

reports in kabul where record numbers of people are turning to drugs in desperation . in afghanistan there is a level below rock bottom it's where these lifeless expressionist drug addicts exist men who lost dignity a long time ago they've been rounded up and herded into one of the country's biggest drug rehabilitation units in kabul. these are the other victims of this never ending war collateral damage if you like people who've lost loved ones lost jobs lost hope and their numbers are growing in afghanistan every day the forty five day program of this former military warehouse complex is basic and caters for nine hundred patients the treatment consists mainly of keeping the addicts away from drugs but it can't keep them away from the desire most relapse when they leave and that they're not that we need international hill we are struggling drug addiction is everywhere in the world but unfortunately it's affecting us more we

have double impact one is the war and the other is that people are jobless. no ruse turn to drugs eight years ago when he lost his job he abandoned all hope and his wife and six children. my from north dakota with no job or income you have no choice but to steal and rob to get drugs addicts who have money eventually spend it all on drugs and when the money is gone they join us poor under the bridge we are no use to family society or country the bridges police doctor in kabul where the addicts live in a desolate world the afghan government estimates that three million people ten percent of the population is addicted to heroin forty percent of those are women opium cultivation is a major source of funding for the taliban and a major target for the u.s. an air campaign to destroy crops and production has been intensified the international community's sixteen year battle against drugs in afghanistan has cost

billions of dollars but poppy growing is flourishing like never before last year there was a sixty three percent growth in land use for cultivation and an eighty seven percent increase in opium production the most in afghan history varmus of turn to poppies because there's more money in them the conventional crops but the threats from the air always there but. we are worried that foreigners are the afghan government are going to destroy our fields the farmers are the ones who face the entire hardship of cultivation but the smugglers and others are the ones who benefit the most. that is beyond the concern of the addicks under the poly sakta bridge their only concern is how to get the next fix they are in direct victims of this war but their image will haunt afghanistan for many years to come. out to kabul.

and the top stories on al jazeera the deputy director of the f.b.i. has been fired a little over a day before he was due to retire and mccabe had been the subject of an internal investigation into leaks to the news media he says his dismissal is part of the trump administration's war on the f.b.i. resident jordan has more from washington d.c. the attorney general jeff sessions put out a statement saying that this is because he released information that should not have been released inside the f.b.i. to a reporter and that when he was questioned about it by investigators within the f.b.i. suskind said that mccabe miss led those investigators those are two big offenses inside the f.b.i. and so such and said that he has made the decision to dismiss him immediately well obviously this is something that andrew mccabe strongly disagrees with the chinese president's closest political ally wang qishan has been voted as vice president xi

jinping is also being confirmed for a second term with unanimous support the national people's congress approved the government reshuffle at its annual meeting in beijing dozens of people have been killed in separate airstrikes in syria in rebel held eastern go to a market was hit leaving more than seventy people dead and activists say fifteen others died when turkish forces bombed the only functioning hospital in kurdish controlled a free. south africa's former president jacob zuma is facing prosecution prosecution for corruption the charges against him include fraud record tearing and money laundering of a two point five billion dollars deal signed in the one nine hundred ninety s. zuma denies any wrongdoing. illegal applications being filed in australia against me and. she's in sydney as part of a special summit of southeast asian leaders lawyers are attempting to prosecute her

on charges of crimes against humanity in relation to the treatment of me and. those are the headlines talked to al-jazeera is up this is really an attack on the truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context of hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. international. you will. see. cyprus has long had an important geopolitical position in the mediterranean but it's been at the center of disputes nine hundred seventy which is divided beyond. the republic of cyprus is controlled by greek cypriots and is recognized by the international community in fact it became a member of the european union in two thousand and four.