stories of life. and inspiration. and series of short documentaries from around the wilds. that celebrate the human spirit against the odds coming from. al-jazeera select change makers and this time. at least ten thousand civilians are posted to of left eastern holter in syria in the past few hours. and sam is a dam this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up moscow to expel twenty three

british diplomats in response to russian embassy staff being sent packing from london over the poisoning of a four must find his daughter. a great day for democracy says president trump after firing the f.b.i. his deputy director days before he was due to retire. and why lawyers in australia have filed a private prosecution against the leader of million moms. thousands of civilians are fleeing besieged enclaves and opposite ends of syria as two major battles intensify in the eastern of also near the capital damascus a new wave of ten thousand people left areas held by rebels in the past few hours they headed to syrian army positions after they were urged to leave and the state television broadcast. the new james. 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 meanwhile in the northern city are free thousands are evacuating territory held by kurdish wife b.g. fighters as turkish forces in the syrian allies try to break into the city there have been reports of more air and artillery bombardment in both areas dozens of people have been killed in the latest airstrikes on the town of the malka in eastern the halter under simmons has the latest from kilis on the turkish syrian border. not surprisingly solemn faces in this trial women and children amongst them trying to get away trying to stay alive the numbers are unclear russia claims that seven thousand people have less eastern ghouta on saturday morning alone and the

syrian regime puts the number much higher at tens of thousands but it is unclear exactly what the numbers amount to what is sure is the level of danger associated with this the syrian observatory for human rights is reporting that more than thirty civilians have been killed who were preparing to actually leave from which is a one area that's been under attack particularly on friday where there were claims that incendiary bombs were dropped by the russians the russians have denied that sonata has come under attack it would seem again on saturday along with the kaffir about now. also there is a situation whereby the syrian regime says it has given assurances of protection and safety to the civilians but they're obviously well they have no option but to run away whatever assurances they can receive and it would not be

likely that many would be questioned about the possible role with fighters entirely innocent many of them facing a situation where they are unsure of what happens next in a separate pocket of well not a pocket but a large area of conflicts nearer to the border here we have a situation now where the free syrian army is making further advances it's been circling free in the turkish military is angrily reacting to reports of its attacking a hospital in a free in which up to sixteen people were reported dead with showing images. on twitter all of the hospital completely intact with burn to an image of the time of these military pictures being nine forty three on saturday morning so they're saying it was fake news that a hospital was attacked however the united nations is expressing great concern

about civilian deaths the number of civilians being killed apparently it's claimed in turkish strikes which are all being denied by turkey itself houthi rebels in yemen say they're prepared to hold talks with saudi arabia to end the three year war there's been reports that they may have been meeting in secret but both sides have 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 a dialogue between parties to stop the war. russia's foreign ministries expelling twenty three british diplomats in response to similar action taken by the u.k.

over the poisoning of a former spy surrogate scrip all in his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in the english city of souls real most two weeks ago u.k. police say they've contacted several russian exiles over safety concerns after the killing of a prominent businessman nikolai was found dead in his home on monday police say he died from neck compression and a murder investigation is under way luzhkov was granted political asylum in two thousand and ten the u.k. had blocked attempts by russia to act extradited jonah hill has more from moscow. well the british ambassador laurie bristow was inside the foreign ministry here in moscow for just ten minutes during which he was handed a diplomatic note that spelled out russia's counter measures in response to to reason may's announcement earlier in the week and as expected diplomatic tit for tat twenty three u.k. diplomatic offices of being told to pack their bags declared persona non grata

they've got to leave within a week that was largely expected there is precedent for this sort of tit for tat measure but then there were additional measures so-called asymmetric measures that the russians are thrown in here in response to the avenue that the reason they went down in terms of and to further n.t.s.b. knowledge measures and to get their money laundering anti corruption measures they have decided to cease the activities of the british consulate in st petersburg russia's second city it's been open there since one thousand nine hundred two now that of course doesn't just reduce britain's diplomatic presence in russia's second city it also makes it considerably more difficult for people wishing to get british visas to be able to do so they'll have to travel to moscow now to do that and it says here this is the foreign ministry statement due to the unresolved status of the british council its activities to be shut down this is an outreach. arm of the british government promoting british culture abroad promoting british educational activities and opportunities abroad it's been caught in the crosshairs of espionage

scandal before after the litvinenko saga in two thousand and seven its activities were curtails now to be ceased altogether and then this line the british side has warned that if further actions of an unfriendly nature are taken against russia then the russian side reserves the right to take further retaliate three steps. well the russian election one day away authorities in crimea have reportedly been told to produce an overwhelming vote for president putin crimea became part of russia in two thousand and fourteen after the territory was an extreme ukraine for more on this rory chance joins us live from sebastopol in crimea so it's important for them at this stage i think most people expect who will win it's a question of the turnout and perhaps nowhere is that more important to get a big yes vote where you are right yeah i mean crimea considering its relatively small size has an outsized importance to the

kremlin at the moment and it will it's always been vital strategically because of its warm water ports and its position on the black sea but these days it's emotionally important as well because it symbolizes russia's resistance to the west and it's key to understanding these elections as well i think because for hussein for the kremlin crimea basically symbolizes the highest achievement of the president's last in power his previous term and i put together a report with my team here and we can watch that now for some more explanation of this. crimea with its dramatic coastline has long held a romantic place in russian hearts and since it was an extreme ukraine four years ago it's russian ones more. who says he took the decision to reclaim the peninsula held his last big campaign rally in the port of sevastopol on

wednesday he thanked the crowd for voting in the two thousand and fourteen referendum which most countries never recognized and which so soured relations with the west. with your decision you showed the entire world the meaning of true democracy not a sham one he took part in the referendum and made a decision you voted for your future and the future of your children. crimean za voting again on sunday the first time they've ever done so in a russian presidential election and the peninsula has been made a central symbol in the putin campaign by the way putin is reminding people that he is the gatherer of russian lands it's very hard for him to boast of any meaningful economic progress so defense security and national pride are his campaigning aces. in crimea in tar tar towns like historical back she's a right the mood is different. mainly oppose the annexation intend to boycott the

election but they say they're being pressured to vote. there were threats at all levels that people could lose their jobs for example in our local school the director says think again of local people don't go to the elections they might fire me therefore i think some of the teachers will go to. the national spotlight is on crimea fresh from an appearance on russia's main t.v. channel we spoke to crime is deputy prime minister and he denied any dirty tricks are being used for what it hopes the election is a completely free and democratic process there for crimean people go to the polling stations and make the choice they want we think turnout will be quite high since what we saw the referendum because crimea and people don't see it as an obligation it's a celebration for us. as the home of russia's black sea fleet crimea has always been strategically important for moscow this year it's elects a really important to. so let's assume the ready made putin with all the

autocratic tools he has at his disposal he's going to win this election and he's going to win it comfortably what does that actually mean well barring a revolution what will get is six more years of putinism and we know from our experience that putin basically responds to the vulnerabilities that he sees in russia's position with very forceful aggressive behavior so i think we're probably going to see more flashpoints with the west like what we're seeing at the moment i don't think either side wants a full scale confrontation let's hope for for all our sakes that doesn't happen but it's blowing a piece in i think it's also got a bit of an issue with the economy he's had plenty of opportunities to reform the economy diversified over the years but he hasn't taken those opportunities so what we're probably going to see is the continuation of this system where stay connected all agog to divide the spoils between them and most normal russians stay in

relative relative poverty so to keep all those people on the side he'll have to give them more crimea like carrots to boost national pride at the same time as finding hardest sticks to keep the the opposition down with repressions and restrictions on civil liberties but when he gets to twenty twenty four the end of putin's next term he will have been in power longer than any other leader of russia other than stalin what happens next we don't know the moment maybe he's going to find a loyalist to hand over power to maybe he's going to find a way of amending the constitution twisting it slightly so that he can stay on as ever with hussein expect the unexpected all right thanks so much for that rory chalons there. and the u.s. attorney general has fired the f.b.i. his deputy director less than two days before he was out of jubal to retire and to make eva dean a frequent target of criticism from president don't trumpet took to twitter to

cheer the sackings saying. fired a great day for the hardworking men and women of the f.b.i. a 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. rosen goldman has more 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 the cape to 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 in 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 all going 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 truong fired your rector call me that was jam you were going to call me we're actually going ahead with the investigation i'm not could be considered a struction of 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. still ahead on al-jazeera the political crisis in toto the president faces hours of

questioning over a corruption investigation they often pietschmann proceedings begin john his column and confirm see jingping as president for a second time to allies join him in office. hello there we've got some quiet weather across japan at the moment the last of the systems has worked a way towards the east that brought as a fair amount of rain and some snow as well but now things are looking a lot quieter and it should be fairly mild as well as we head through the day on sunday so we're looking at a top temperature of around fourteen degrees meanwhile a bit further towards the west there is more in the way of rain here but that's pushing its way south would say for some of us should be a little bit dry for monday that rain will be gradually trying to make its way across japan there as we head through monday so monday does look very much wet

a day ahead towards the south and for some of us here it's definitely spring now a lot of flowers out in full bloom these pictures are from the grazing province there's rain on its way though his the satellite picture shows plenty of cloud with this at the moment edging its way eastwards but the next system as it slips its way south with or bring us some heavy rain and that will also drag down the temperatures as well so for shanghai in the wet weather on monday all top temperatures will be around fifteen so a little bit different from the eighteen degrees and sunshine that we've been enjoying they've had the towards the south of for some of us here there's plenty of draw i settled weather few showers around the philippines but the majority of the weather recently has been over the southern parts of borneo and through java in here the showers a breaking up now. in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their family see

the most terrible things syria has to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship for more than sometimes a call to compete brother to god continue to be sure really to control. the disappeared of syria but this time on al jazeera. we're watching on syria time to recap our headlines now russia's foreign ministry is expelling twenty three british diplomats in response to similar action by the u.k. comes after the british ambassador to moscow was summoned for talks so gay screwball

and his daughter were found homes and in the english city of souls for almost two weeks ago the u.k. blames russia over the incident. about ten thousand civilians have left the eastern of all turn the northern syrian city of our free in the past few hours these are pictures from russia's defense ministry that appeared to show the evacuations from these things thousands are leaving the rebel on klav as well as the are free in the region. the u.s. attorney general has fired the f.b.i. his deputy director less than two days before he was eligible to retire and to make a bit been a frequent target of criticism president donald trump cables involved in the investigation into possible russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election. chinese presidents close political ally aung china's been voted in as vice president xi jinping in south has been confirmed for a second term in office with a unanimous support scott hyla has more from beijing. for

the first time in history the president of china took an oath of office president xi jinping raising his fist pledging loyalty to country and constitution as he begins his second five year term and that's a constitution that was changed last week during the national people's congress here in beijing. one of the biggest differences lifting term limits on the offices of presidents and vice president meaning this is almost certainly not the last time we will see she take the oath. last year as you. also took his oath on saturday his first five year term as vice president only one vote was cast against him out of the nearly three thousand carefully selected delegates known as a firefighter taking on tough tasks long front of the president's anti-corruption crackdown it punished more than one and a half million officials. the election of one was no surprise he's

a close ally of season ping and term limits have been lifted on the vice president's role but what will be different is that his power and influence will elevate the position that's traditionally been ceremonial get things done so see in life his loyalty and how he can follow he order to discipline chinese officials and he has been very successful in that and looking forward to see you would want to make sure that his power i would be stabilized for next decade or beyond that even before the curtains close on this year's national people's congress on tuesday wang will have his work cut out whatever his responsibilities is to deal with u.s. trade friction so i think president trump has intensified over the past few days it's got harder al-jazeera beijing. and as mounting in brazil over the death of a popular politician city councillor marianne franco was shot dead on wednesday she

was an outspoken critic of police violence rob matheson reports. brazilian voices raised in i go for a second day after the shooting of madea love franco who supporters say gave her voice to the poorest to rio's teaming for violence. but. 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. also sounds like a message for people who was the what's the politics just the name of the boys brazil's president michel tema has promised a fool and transparent investigation in february to put the army in charge of security in rio de janeiro a move condemned by mariela frankel and some of those demonstrating 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 al-jazeera. peru's

president had the republicans in scales faced a tells of questioning on his ties to a brazilian construction giant at the center of a corruption scandal it comes a day after congress voted to begin new impeachment proceedings on the sanchez reports from lima. they waited seven months before the president agreed to meet them said politicians of the love of god or so-called carwash corruption investigation took their time questioning president. he's accused of corruption over his links to brazilian construction giant all david h. and the role he played in contracts for a series of government infrastructure projects. the president has known for seven months if we detail of the issues that bring us here today he has a government lawyer so he will have the right to defend himself. after eight hours of questioning members of the multi-party committee emerged from the presidential

palace or hear more about everything winter kay the president has collaborated as part of his defense tragedy. the questioning happened one day after a majority in congress voted to start impeachment proceedings against the president for a second time analysts say this has turned into produce worst political crisis in decades. never improves history has a president been through impeachment twice in three months and after eighteen months in office even if he survives there is no guarantee there won't be another process the scenarios of this political process of very dark to say the least the president's future may now be much more complicated on thursday the state's financial intelligence unit revealed that he received money from all the of it when he was a finance minister more than a decade ago the thirty four page state intelligence report says all the rich and other business groups paid millions of dollars to companies and others linked to.

him for consultancy contracts president kaczynski has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing but political opponents say he's lying an opinion poll says sixty three percent of peruvians agree one to precedent to the. it's a horrible crisis so much instability we don't know what will happen but this corruption everywhere we want to stable country. dealings have made him deeply unpopular. i'm so angry they are still politicians are in office to steal the so you puta for ideas and then steal it almost makes you laugh unfortunately. president kaczynski has said he has nothing to hide analysts say even if he survives a second impeachment move next week he's weak and his ability to govern has already been hampered by the n.s.a. and his i just see that he might be two. lawyers in australia have followed the private prosecution against me. over her country's treatment of muslims she's in

sydney out of a summit of southeast asian leaders under thomas reports. it's not an image of aung sang suu kyi that anyone would have created a few years ago but now refugees in australia blame her for the persecution of the hinge in myanmar they are disgusted that australia's government has welcomed the sydney. lists and she indicated the problems that it was not a problem in her own country while aung sang suu kyi is in australia with all the latest 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 magistrates 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 it was very 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 on ambiguous message from the struggling government about consensus crackdown in cambodia i think it's you know the sake of 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 yes

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 based order and be be fierce advocates and persuasive advocates above all for free and open trade the as the end summit runs on both saturday and sunday the protesters are expected to as well andrew thomas al jazeera sydney. let's take you through some of the headlines here now does iran now about ten

thousand civilians have left the east in the halter and the northern syrian city of africa in the past few hours these are pictures from russia's defense ministry that appeared to show the evacuations from the east in the cold war thousands are leaving the rebel long clive as well as the athletes in the region houthi rebels in yemen say they're being they're prepared to hold talks with saudi arabia to end the three year war there have been reports they've been meeting in secret but both sides have denied this the war has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis affecting more than two hundred twenty two rather million people. and u.k. police say they've contacted several russian exiles over safety concerns after the killing of a prominent businessman nikolai was found dead in his home on monday police say he died from a compression to the neck and the murder investigation is underway luzhkov was granted political asylum in two thousand and ten. twenty three british diplomats

are being expelled from russia in response to similar action by the u.k. government it follows the poisoning of a former spies rafal and his daughter in the english city of solsbury osco denies it was involved the russian foreign ministry announced your actions against the u.k. and warned there could be more measures in the future. given the disparity in the number of consular institutions of the two countries the consent of the russian federation to the opening and functioning of the british consulate general in think petersburg is recalled due to the unresolved status of the british council in the russian federation its activities will be ceased the british side is warned that in case of further unfriendly actions against russia the russian side reserves the right to take other retaliatory measures the u.s. attorney general has fired the f.b.i. as deputy director less than two days before he was eligible to retire mccabe had been a frequent target of criticism from u.s.

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