what went wrong in society that opened up the space. station is the european parliament it's not accountable and it's impossible for the people to bear the scholarly people don't trying to take money and then lead them to flow from a stronger man our song woman who was getting the growth of protectionism of this world because the models of europe's forbidden colony episode two at this time on al-jazeera. these are live pictures of a mass exodus from the east and the holter russia says more than seven thousand have been evacuated from the war torn region in the past few hours.

i'm sam is a down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. attorney general fires the f.b.i.'s deputy director a potential witness in the russian investigation just days before he was juicer retire. the vote was unanimous china's parliament confirmed xi jinping as president for a second term to allies to join him in office. frosty welcome for me and miles leader in australia the new legal push to have a prosecuted over the crisis while she's away from home. russia says thousands of civilians have left the eastern holter on the northern african region in the past few hours these are pictures from the russian department of defense which appears to. show the evacuations from eastern water thousands of

people have left the rebel enclave as well as the northern city of a three in it comes after dozens of people were killed in intense airstrikes in both areas more than seventy people were killed at a market in eastern halter while activists say fifteen died in a turkish strike on a friend's only working hospital. the command of the syrian army urges all civilians to leave the areas under control of the extremist organizations through the safe corridor we affirm that we will continue to fulfill our national and constitutional duty to defend the nation until the return of security and stability throughout the country calandra simmons our joins us live from. could see there the pictures coming in from the russians talking about an evacuation what is going on in eastern of altar are civilians leaving. they certainly are the precise numbers

are in doubt some claims that there are tens of thousands by the syrian regime itself but the russians are saying that around seven thousand to have already left the house being a steady stream visible on the video feed which is placed on the russian defense ministry website a steady stream of people many women and children carrying really light luggage certainly no heavy items whatever they could really lay their hands on what's going to happen to them is seemingly on clear although the syrian government is saying through its u.n. ambassador so the civilians will be treated well that there are reception centers set up for them to be processed down the process of doing this dates right back to the when the offensive was launched on this eastern ghouta nearly a month ago and only one can imagine what's going through the minds of these people

one of option if they got to flee there has been such an onslaught you can see the desperation written on their faces in this slightly poor quality video we're seeing you're also getting a vision from the air from a drone showing the level of devastation on the buildings below people are streaming into rural areas regime held areas very very nervous no doubt lies in store sami is this a tall indicative of the deal between the opposition forces there in eastern walter and the pro government forces and his allies. there is certainly no definitive explanation for what is going on here at this stage the trace all of it has been an announcement from the russians of course the talks have

been going on in a start but there is no definite link to those talks and the russians are insisting that this is highly organized the syrian government saying that it as i said earlier had started its operation to actually set up reception centers evacuation centers if you will for people but this is such quite reminiscent to the evacuation of aleppo it would seem there are two main areas two main border points warm to the north of the enclave and one to the south it's mainly we're seeing vision of people going through. to the south as checkpoint to the south now as all this goes on there's a reminder of just how hazardous so how awful the situation is for civilians in eastern guta we have attacks reported air attacks in.

latest word on the ground from some i'll call from activists is that there's a very heavy air raid going on right now in that area on friday there were reports of russian. aircraft using incendiary bombs in. which the russians are categorically denying but then there have been picked many many dead in scenes of devastation in somalia so get no doubt about it this is not a peaceful situation of a humanitarian evacuation route and this is a very briefly or indeed there's also talk about evacuations of just briefly what's going on there. other situation enough reno there is a pile of reports of large numbers of people evacuating from freeman where the of the turkish and opposition forces are pushing hard to

encircle the city and to get the y.p. g a kurdish forces out there is also a warning for the united nations about what it regards as disturbing reports of civilians being held in line in the city not allowed to leave by kurdish forces and also reports of large number of deaths from airstrikes from the turks and also artillery fire going into the city but the turks deny point blank any air strikes on the city center itself or right under simmons there thanks for updating us on the multiple situations unraveling in syria now russia's foreign ministry summoning the british ambassador to moscow over the poisoning of a former spy so ghostscript holland his daughter were found unconscious in the english city of soulsby almost two weeks ago the u.k.

blames russia and has expelled twenty three diplomats over the attack jonah hall joins us now live from moscow so what's the message from the russian foreign ministry. well we await that message sami as we speak we hopefully won't have to wait too long though because i think you may be looking at pictures now of the entrance to the russian foreign ministry here in moscow laurie bristow the u.k. ambassador is already inside that building having been summoned by the foreign ministry not too long ago it's a pretty short distance to travel frankly along the river from the british embassy to the foreign ministry and i measure it won't take too long for him to have this message delivered to him quite what russia's response is going to be to to reason may's announcement earlier in the week of the expulsion as you mentioned there of twenty three russian diplomats from the embassy in london said to have been undisclosed intelligence officers that amounted to some forty percent of the stuff

count in the russian embassy in london traditionally in these sorts of matters and there have of course been a few of these in the past the response is a tit for tat one a myriad response twenty three diplomats packing their bags in london met with twenty three diplomats here or perhaps a proportionate response forty percent of the embassy here there were also a number of other financial and anti corruption measures mentioned by trees in may will the russians follow suit and announce their own raft of additional measures we'll have to wait and see but the timing is extraordinary it's a day now before russians go to the polls in the presidential election on sunday and on contest at large the election of course but this will have the added benefit of the russian news waves being filled during the course of the day in the sea even with the news of russia's response a sort of fearless response it'll be presented as in the face of western intimidation and unjustified threats and provocations and of course the man who represents that strong stand against outside threat and assault is none other than

bloody me and putin timing is interesting that's come i can talk about this perhaps a little later when things get a little under way there in the foreign ministry for now thanks so much own home. the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has fired the f.b.i. his deputy director andrew mccabe less than two days before he could have retired with full pension benefits make a bit been a frequent target of criticism from donald trump who the us president took to twitter to chair the sacking saying under mccabe fired a great day for the hardworking men and women of the f.b.i. a great day for democracy sanctimonious james komi was these 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. rolls and jordan has more on the controversial tenure of under mckay andrew mccabe was an f.b.i. agent for twenty two years rising to deputy director and then acting director after

his boss james komi was fired by the trump white house in twenty seventeen but just before he planned to retire on march eighteenth mccabe too was dismissed in a statement released late on friday night the attorney general jeff sessions said that according to an internal agency investigation quote mr mccabe had made and an authorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor including under oath a multiple occasions i have terminated the employment of andrew mccabe effective immediately. right after this mckay told the news media his firing was payback for doing his job investigating ties between russia and donald trump's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign as well as overseeing the probe into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state now president trump has accused mccabe of partisan bias mccabe's wife a democrat received campaign donations from one of hillary clinton's allies then

mccabe added this quote the attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not to just slander me personally but to taint the f.b.i. law enforcement and intelligence professionals generally it is part of this administration's ongoing war on the f.b.i. and the efforts of the special counsel analysts say robert muller who is the special counsel will want to talk to mckay but now aides now will be testifying in front of mahler and he knows a lot now what happened. during the campaign and during the investigation mr mccain can talk about the fact that when president drama fired your rector call me that was i didn't see him call me we're actually going ahead with the investigation i'm not could be considered a structure in the justice being fired means andrew mccabe might lose his

retirement and health care benefits but mccabe might also have much more to gain by telling robert muller everything he knows about any russian links to the trump presidential campaign and that could mean the trumpet ministration might now have a much bigger problem on its hands rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. well still ahead on al-jazeera we turn to china as president xi jinping is confirmed for a second term in office. danger on the slopes the steel lift that injured almost a dozen holidaymakers. from the clear blue sky of the dome. to the french autumn breeze in the c.t.v. . hello there it's turning cold for many of us in europe at the moment the

north where we've got the coldest of the weather further south you see the rain all pushing its way northward this is giving us some fairly heavy downpours and on its northern edge where is his in that cold air we're seeing a fair amount of snow as well for the north where we've already got the cold air there's not a great deal of new wintry weather coming down say stockholm will be at minus three and for warsaw will be a minus two that cold air is pushing its way towards the west now we're seeing it over parts of the u.k. we're also seeing a fair amount of snow to that gradual retreat its way westwards as we head to sunday and here we'll see more in the way of wet weather rather than snow but elsewhere across europe still a mix of snow and rain across the central belt all the way up through parts of russia and generally to the north of that it's cold but generally drawing and in the south we're seeing a lot of wet weather for the other side of the mediterranean is fairly unsettled hey we've got lots of cloud has gradually edging its way eastwards and some of this is giving some fairly hefty downpours a lot of that is clearing as we head through the day on sunday but still

a few showers are likely to have a pulse of morocco algeria and there they could be some pretty sharp showers around the coast china sea as should be a little bit dry achiness seeing the sunshine getting up to around twenty degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar and peace. when the winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. just he's been feeling saying. we just don't know yet where the lines when to draw in between what can be said and what conduct. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access polling the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera.

they want to zero time to recap our headlines now the u.s. attorney general is fired the f.b.i. his deputy director less than two days before he was jus' to retire under mccain has been a frequent target criticism for president donald trump mccabe was involved in the investigation into possible russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election. russia says thousands of civilians have left east and northern syrian city of our three in the past few hours these are pictures from the russian department of defense that appear to show the evacuations from eastern thousands are leaving the rebel long clave as well as they are free in the region it comes after dozens of people were killed in intense air strikes in both areas and seventy people were killed at

a market at least and also while activists say fifteen died in a turkish airstrike on a friend's only working hospital. houthi rebels in yemen say they would like to hold talks with saudi arabia to end the three year war in reports they've been meeting in secret but both sides of denied this the war has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in need of food medicine and other aid. there was no direct meeting between us and saudi arabian miscanthus but when there was a chance for honorable peace there is no problem in having a direct dialogue between us and the saudi government that we are in a war with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and they are using all their military capabilities on yemen we need such dialogue between parties to stop the war. the chinese president's closest political ally chang has been voted in as vice president xi jinping was also confirmed for a second term with a unanimous support the national people's congress is approve the government's

reshuffle of its annual meeting in beijing earlier this week it removed term limits for the president and vice president gore highlight has more from beijing. a saturday session of the national people's congress here in beijing saw the election of some officials but more importantly two top officials the president xi jinping serving another five year term no one voted against him and want she now he is going to be the vice president for the next five years there was only one person who voted against him out of the nearly three thousand delegates here for the national people's congress now what's interesting about this now this is mr long's first term as vice president first time ever as vice president but he is seen as a very close ally of xi jinping so the role for the vice presidency is being elevated to one of the constitutional changes that have been made during this national people's congress is the term limits for president and vice president have been lifted so mr wong a close ally of she's been paying now in this role as vice president

a role means that that office will have much more power than it has traditionally and we know that he's going to be focused on trade issues particularly with the united states and friction that's been increasing with them so he's going to front that in the past he worked on anti corruption which was a very important if not the most important initiative that she jinping wanted done in his first five year term now moving forward he'll also mr wong the vice president focus on other foreign policy issues which there are many outside of the united states and trade friction there's also north korea that's something that's very important to the she's in pain administration so moving forward you know that his term officially starts on saturday and he will start to really crack down almost immediately because there's also some things going on in washington right now about a deal with an act that was passed with taiwan obviously that's an issue that beijing is very sensitive about so right out of the gate mr wong is going to have to deal with some pretty sensitive issues just as he starts his first five year term. tang in is

a china analyst and political commentator joins us now from beijing good to have you with us so what does the appointment of wang mean for president she's grip on power. well i don't know if we always have to look at is a grip on power what he's put in is people who share his vision china obviously wrong because he led the anti-corruption drive of somebody very key somebody who was trusted he's seen as being basically in volatile he's has no children he seems very very interested in the fate of country. also don't forget the n.p.c. very very important chairman of the n.p.c. has a very important position in terms of making sure that legislation is passed and that things are very smoothly done so so that is interesting because now all of that consolidate and said iris and control and power

absolutely he's put in place throughout the entire organization people who share his vision so you can look at it as he's vamping up his personal power or he is pushing his agenda remember it with china it's like looking at a glacier going it's not like the donald trump where you look at a wildfire. this is the removal of presidential term limits mean that she can now be president or will be president for life. well it there's a lot of speculation about the possibility but there's there's there's two ways of looking at it one you can assume that this is as you said president for life but this is not in character with a lot of things that he's done also the problem comes when you transition that that number of powers to another generation how do you pick them and how do you make sure they don't try to undo what you have done the other way of looking at it is he's simply consolidating

a lot of these things so that he can move very quickly as you just mentioned there are a lot of issues with the united states china feels that it needs to get over the middle income trap it has a very ambitious belt and road initiative it's pushing so with all of these things i think he is trying to send a signal to everybody there will be no lame duck session and do not think that in three years from now you should be looking around to see who is next he wants everybody in the government with their nose to the grindstone pushing along with the agenda that he's trying to create for china yeah but i mean how much can so and he said it's not in characters should a lot of important. somewhat cold checks and balances on pal be left to the character of the president how much concern in china is there about too much power and unlimited being left in the hands of one man. well i think there are obviously there are concerns the question is do you believe

in what he's trying to do and what will happen when he transitions in power i mean deng xiaoping did something very very similar he took in his hands the reins of power he appointed the next two people after him very unusual but then he made sure that the powers that he had could not be wielded by any one of them he made sure that they had to have a consensus government that they would have to work within a group and that's probably what's going to happen here i think this hysteria that somehow she jinping wants to be president for life is a little bit. conspiratorial i just doesn't fit his vision for getting doing away with poverty trying to push a very ambitious agenda which he's going to be responsible for all right good to get your thoughts on the things so much. a group of lawyers in australia has found the private prosecution against them in. the treatment of really good muslims suchi is in sydney is part of a xian summit of southeast asian leaders but her attendance hasn't been welcome by

all this andrew thomas explains. it's not an image of aung sang suu kyi that anyone would have created a few years ago but now refugees in australia claim her for the persecution of the hinge in myanmar they are disgusted that australia's government has welcomed at the sydney australia. a list and she indicated the problems that it was not a problem in her own country while aung sang suu kyi is in australia with other leaders for the association of southeast asian nations or as he and summit five lawyers are trying to get her prosecuted we have lodged a private prosecution application in the magistrate's court of victoria accusing unsung suchi of crimes against humanity specifically the crime of deportation and forcible transfer of people australis attorney general says but international

convention heads of government and ministers of foreign affairs have immunity from prosecution but human rights lawyers say that immunity shouldn't apply on song suchi is not officially the head of the en masse government and lawyers say what vera accusing her of has nothing to do with her foreign affairs portfolio so isn't covered by the immunity protocol others in sydney protested the presence of viet nam's prime minister neutron folk and cambodia's leader one saying who's been accused of crushing the opposition and violating human rights there's not a strong and ambiguous message from a struggling government about one sense crackdown in cambodia i think it's you know a big mistake for the government just so completely gloss over those issues or just deal with them quietly on the fringes they should be front and center of a summit like this police are not allowing protests right outside the convention center where the asean talks are happening but these protesters did get close as

young ladies will be out of here these protests where they're meeting but it's unlikely they'll be talking about them too much but then the focus is on trade and security. australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull says he'll raise the range of prices with aung sang suu kyi but his main focus on saturday was combating terrorism and how to pursue free trade opportunities in the face of protectionism together we can seize those opportunities but to do so governments and business must remain committed to the rules by store big beefy as advocates and persuasive advocates above all for free and open trite the as the end summit runs on both saturday and sunday the protests are expected to as well andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney at least eight scares are being treated for injuries after a skate chair lift malfunctioned in georgia videos posted on social media show the lift guard at the resort of reversing and running at high speed skis being

transported backwards will hold out of the seats of those opted to jump to safety an investigation is underway. it's been revealed that an engineer in the u.s. city of miami reported seeing cracks on a professor ian bridge that collapsed killing at least six people florida transport officials say the information came two days before the walkway crashed on to several lanes of traffic many cars were crushed and police say more bodies could be found once the rubble is removed. best gaiters from the national transportation safety board are confirming a crack or if that could have contributed to the bridge collapse a crack in a bridge does not necessarily mean that it's unsafe i know the crews were out there inspecting it and they were both applying tension the strength in a member i don't know if that was related to the cracks that they discovered that's still too early in the investigation for us to determine like nine construction workers have been killed in burundi when heavy rains triggered a landslide they were part of a group building

a channel to redirect floodwaters near the capital which in bora where the hillside collapsed. prosecutors in south africa have brought back sixteen corruption charges against former president jacob zuma they say the charges include fraud racketeering and money laundering case relates to a multi-billion dollar government arms deal which was signed in the one nine hundred ninety s. so it was deputy president at the time and was linked to the deal of his former and financial advisor was jailed for corruption so ima denies any wrongdoing egyptians living abroad are casting their votes for who they want this president but the elections being dismissed as a fix by some in the opposition after several candidates were arrested or intimidated into pulling out some experts say they're not going to bother voting shavar towns he reports from washington d.c. not everyone who came to vote in washington d.c. is a gyptian embassy were aware of the opposition boycott of the presidential election but all of those we spoke to were staunch supporters of incumbent president abdel

fattah el-sisi why don't you boy causing the orange. is crazy you know boy crap i'm supposed to really you know what were they doing in here you know about having before everybody have to come and vote i think it's constructive opposition is like saying no for no for any it's just no anything to do you think of the other office because it's clearly have been either frightened of intimidated out of the race or a bit put in prison. i'm not sure but with d.c. facing accountant 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 to go vote is pointless are you going to go and vote with 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 out an 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 american some of whom have been detained by the c.c. government came from across the u.s. to washington to lobby their 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 the men to be very quickly becoming coming. back at the embassy sisi supporters continue to vote i love. yes i would put him over 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. less time to take you through now the headlines here and i'll just say that the syrian

observatory for human rights says more than ten thousand civilians lefty's tentacles are on saturday these are pictures from the russian department of defense that appear to show the evacuations from eastern the whole town thousands have left the rebel held enclaves. it's also been evacuations from the northern region of our freeman it comes after dozens of people were killed in intense airstrikes in both areas of syria more than seventy people were killed at a market in the east in the quarter activists say fifteen people died in a turkish strike on africans only working hospital russia's foreign ministries expelling twenty three british diplomats in response to a similar action by the u.k. . and his daughter were found unconscious in the english city of soulsby almost two weeks ago the u.k. blames russia and has expelled twenty three diplomats over the incident now the u.k. ambassador says russia is planning to take further action in response to the measures britain has taken. with the rest of your league will.

be russia. if you think. the. russians believe this is the. way. the deputy director of the f.b.i. has been fired just over twenty four hours 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. the chinese president's close political ally one to shanna has been voted in as vice president xi jinping also has been confirmed for a second term with unanimous support the national people's congress approved the government's reshuffle at its annual meeting in beijing south africa's former president jacob zuma is facing prosecution for corruption charges against him

include fraud racketeering and money laundering over a two point five billion dollars arms deal signed in the nine hundred ninety s. those are your headlines the news continues after listening post. hold the benefit of saddam people so bad to see all. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. unexplained to tell us a russian domination second script how mainstream media was going to speculate that russia was kind of a thing is when the people of the moscow was like russian british that lowest point since the cold coming from the time because. hello i'm barbara sarah and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're tracking this week the poisoning of a russian spy in britain sets off a.