so the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several built in museums taking part in the project called multicultural meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. and language he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is part of life it's culture. a key figure of the early twentieth century arab literary scene. and a feminist writer. had ever had time. so why did his story and in such tragedy. al-jazeera won't expose the life and why of maisie adda at this time on al-jazeera.

saudi arabia shoots down missiles including one near the capital riyadh yemen's who the rebels claim responsibility. barbarous are you watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up fifty two people are injured in clashes in barcelona after the former catalan leader caught in this push to mount is a rested in germany a fire rips through a mall in russia's remote say bierria region at least thirty seven people are killed dozens more are missing evacuations from the syrian government tightens its grip on the last the rebel stronghold near damascus.

saudi arabia's air forces say that they've intercepted and shot down missiles including one near its capital riyadh several loud booms could be heard there before midnight local time yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility for the strikes which they say targeted three airports in riyadh see it and on saudi arabia has been leading a four year campaign against the who the rebels in yemen well in a recorded statement broadcast on sunday the who the threaten to escalate the military response to saudi arabia's intervention in yemen. in the fourth year of fighting we will use a more developed and more diverse missile systems which will overcome all american and non american air defense systems will use our better and can missiles will use a long range drones which have excellent military capabilities we will activate the military institutions in an unprecedented way and open up more opportunities to

recruit the children and remain about people to fight earlier i spoke to. a former state department official and a senior fellow at the atlantic council's atrophy the center for the middle east he says the attack is a warning from the who these that they should not be underestimated. i imagine it's normal that the these are firing at riyadh to show that they are still capable and that they are not to be taken for granted militarily. it's not all in all it's it is not a good sign. particularly that m.b.a.'s are was in washington linda either he's still in the country in fact and one would have thought that donald trump would have discussed the perhaps a major new diplomatic push to end the war in yemen but it seems to be that the opposite is the case. and. the saudis continue to

see iran when they look at yemen which is a mistake whether or not iran is managing to get a few things and to yemen despite the blockade the problem is really amman it is inside the amman it is between the who is in the saudis really iran is not a party to this and if the saudis want to end this war they have to think of the yemeni problems and think of ways in which they could help resolve them. at least fifty two people have been injured and three others have been arrested in barcelona after clashes with police during protests about the arrest of former catalan president catalyst pushed along in germany the protesters are demanding the release of pushed them all to is waiting to hear if he will face extradition to

spain is wanted there on rebellion charges after leading a session vote which was that they had been legal by the government in madrid elect callen reports. since playing spain nearly five months ago the former catalan president has been able to move relatively freely thanks to europe's lack of internal borders but shortly after crossing this border from denmark into germany on sunday. was identified by motorway police and detained. after initial enquiries at the motorway police station huge to mom was driven away in a dark colored van the van was later photographed arriving at this detention center in the nearby town of noir monsta they bring him for a judge and the judge. judge if he house. in jail or he is free on the conditions. and forty eight hours news of pooja monza rest brought large numbers of protesters out onto the streets of the catalan

capital barcelona riot police blocked some roads in the atmosphere with. that that has some doesn't mean you have two million people who will not back down outraged and we will not feel spanish because they arrested. it will have the opposite effect each time we feel less spanish less included and less loved in this state only punishes us. demands many critics have branded him a coward and discount who gambled and lost with an illegal and unconstitutional referendum aimed at trying to force the issue of cattle on independence. but his support is insist he's a democrat and a political hero suffering for the cause of freedom. it's an image he himself has cultivated during the past five months of freedom most recently during a trip to finland on friday you will continue to struggle in order to

defend my rights as a citizen as a member of catalan barrowman as a president and the fending collective rights of people the people of scotland but on the same day back in madrid the spanish supreme court was issuing a european arrest warrant the charge rebellion connected to his leading role in october's catalan independence referendum in madrid the news of demands arrest has been largely welcomed but there are lingering concerns about the wider political damage this continues to inflict and. i don't agree with arresting politicians for ideological issues i think they should be more concerned with improving their dialogue. in communication rather than imposing the law. throughout his self-imposed exile from spain proves the man maintained he would cooperate fully with the relevant authorities that promise will now be put to the test here in germany when he decides whether to oppose or cooperate with his extradition to

spain like alan al-jazeera burning well david fisher joins us live now from barcelona david what's the expectation there about whether pushed the month will actually be extradited to spain and what would happen if he was i think there's a huge momentum building here they are alarmed at what's happened there alarm the colors put them on is now in custody whether he remains in custody or on bail will have a critical affect on exactly what the feelings are here on the streets but at the moment we've seen a lot of running clashes with police but i think the most important thing is the speaker of the cattle on parliament has said that he wants to form a new front bringing together the labor unions and the the the trade unions and civic society and he says this whole thing is an attack on the hearts of democracy

so these are just the beginnings of a protest movement it's going to get much wider many people here on the streets in barcelona have been calling for a general strike they've already halted several highways and motorways coming into this region so we can expect there will be increasing calls for much more action and of course that lays the ground for more violent clashes and absolutely and obviously that mean the referendum was held months ago and even if he's not extradited ultimately it was the moment can't really go back to catalonia or to spain i mean whatever the situation been like before this happened was there still a huge anger felt in catalonia about the events that followed the referendum. yes i mean essentially the the prison the prison the remand in prison of several prominent catalonian leaders who are facing up to thirty years in prisons if the

charges against them are proved in the supreme court in madrid that has stoked protests on friday and saturday and of course now we've seen the the running fights in the street behind me and there were more than forty six people injured there were relatively light injuries there were sort of battens used by the police and several arrests but i think what we're going to see is a build up of these protests i think when we see the pictures of colors to push push tomorrow in in germany being remanded in custody if he is going to be remanded in custody then this this huge protest movement will take hold there was great emotion here on the streets of barcelona during the course of the day and we saw these violent clashes i think that perhaps we will see a call for a general strike and once again the momentum is building this was. a period of quiet and calm during the stay in belgium of colors the colors to push them off

and i think now this is relaunched and resurrected these emotional feelings and we'll see the results here on the streets of barcelona david chaytor life for us in barcelona he will of course be following those developments for us for the moment thank you now at least thirty seven people many of them children have been killed in a fire at a shopping center in siberia for more let's speak to rory chalons in moscow rory it sounds horrific what else do we know about this tragedy well this is still unfolding but it is as far as we know. this fire started on the top floor the fourth floor of this building and ripped through an area of about one thousand six hundred square meters of it ignited the shopping mall in central. footage that's been taken by locals on mobile phones from outside the building

shows thick smoke pouring from her floors and some of the first it shows firefighters using ladders to get access to it but the windows from what we understand so far emergency services managed to get about one hundred people out of the building buying back you eating them and then risk another twenty or so but that death toll as it stands at the moment thirty seven there is of course attention off the steps to create high ash it is a pretty new public service the shopping mall was only opened in two thousand and thirteen and that's movie theaters and so i pressed wrong answer so when our bowling alleys and and the children's and it seems at the moment that lots of the casualties were eating one of the main movie homes and in this complex and oreo what's the government responsible so far. well this is quickly taken on the level of you know a national disaster so the kremlin is being kept up to speed with the

rescue efforts of course that the death count how it stands at the moment. the spokesperson for the kremlin to be sure to scoff says that person the president. sees a minister at the start of the tragedy to take all necessary measures to mobilize forces except for the various units from the emergency ministry increasingly robotics and drones and that kind of thing will be mobilized from moscow and also the city of krasnoyarsk in siberia and of course because this is such a severe event they also immediately opened a criminal investigation into what's happens or a challenge of the latest on the story from moscow roy thank you and still ahead on the program a warnings that the taps could one day be turned off in afghanistan as the forces of nature are melting a wonder of nature plus. it's two hundred fifty years since the founding of the

modern circus i mean who in the city of birmingham deicing would. how low we still got some really heavy rain just around northern parts of queensland still looking very disturbed here this is where tropical cyclone nora is going to start looking at some very heavy rain here not just for the next twenty four hours possibly the next thirty six or even forty eight hours by the time the systems finish with the some parts could see as much as five hundred to seven hundred millimeters of rain there's that wet weather for northern queensland then as you can see through monday elsewhere not too bad eighteen celsius in melbourne a cool south westerly wind coming in here twenty six celsius there for perth a cloud of rain a possibility here over the next day or so but things to quieten down as we go on

into tuesday central areas drawing hot and sunny thirty one celsius there for alice and yet up towards the northeast there we go still raining around townsville and up into the cape york peninsula further south it is generally dry but just a little bit of what weather just around the gulf coast sunshine coast press but could see some rather weather in the next day or two weather making its way towards south out of the new zealand drying up sprouting up it's looking good for the north island at least for the next couple of days there walking to twenty three degrees on monday tuesday some of that is on those temperatures it'll be a touch warmer in christchurch but turning increasingly well it's. i am doing this on the benefit of saddam people. so bad they see all the our guys.

who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia's air forces say they've intercepted and shot down missiles including one near the capital riyadh yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility saying they targeted three airports in riyadh assiut and just. at least fifty two people have been injured and three

others arrested in barcelona after clashes with police during protests about the arrest of former catalan president catalyst was demobbed was the moment is waiting to hear if he'll face extradition to spain after being detained in germany and at least thirty seven people many of them children have been killed in a fire at a shopping center in siberia sixty nine others are reported to be missing in the blaze which happened in the city of chemical. going to syria now where hundreds more rebel fighters and civilians have been evacuated from eastern who top government forces are close to controlling all of what had been the last rebel stronghold near damascus following a months long offensive just one group. is holding out and they're believed to be close to a deal in a holder is following developments from. the evacuations are continuing fighters their family members as well as civilians being bussed out of what was once the rebel controlled enclave of eastern to the rebel controlled province of idlib and

the northwest of the country this is part of course of the evacuation deals or what amounts really to a surrender the rebels didn't have much of a choice they were besieged by government forces and there was a relentless bombing campaign that was targeting civilians who were trapped inside so it's not only the fighters who are leaving it is people who are involved in opposition activities media activists people that we've been speaking to telling us that we're only able to pack a few belongings and we're going to the unknown we're leaving behind our homes our lives the will. we'll be able to rebuild our lives once again will we be able to return to our homes so these people are really afraid of what comes next because they're going to live which is also not a safe area it is an area which is a target really of the pro-government alliance but the pro-government alliance declaring victory as saying that they're clearing the area from what they call terrorists eastern huta has long been a thorn in the side of the government the last major rebel stronghold close to the

capital close to the government seat of power there have been numerous attempts over the years to recapture eastern huta but the government lacked the manpower they were busy on many front lines but this time around it was an all out military campaign and the only choice the opposition had was to surrender turkey's president threat of paper the says the town of taliban will be the next target of this cross border campaign in syria turkey says its army and allied syrian opposition fighters are now in total control of the enclave in northern syria they launched a ground offensive against kurdish fighters there in late january tens of thousands of people have reported to have fled the assault the turkish military is they'll sweeping the area for mines and explosives to allow a friens residents to return. al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for a car bomb that killed thirteen people in somalia several people were also injured in the blast which happened in the parliament in mogadishu the bomb was detonated

at a checkpoint after soldiers stopped a suspicious vehicle. unordered imports from mogadishu. now. we're here in front of the headquarters of the somalia parliament where a car bomb exploded next to a security checkpoint set up as the first line of security for the parliament at the presidential palace this is the second explosion in mogadishu in the last two the same street which is market street was hit with an explosion at a different area killing twenty four people and injuring others this is the second explosion. this is despite all the measures taken by the somali government to prevent such bombings which have been happening on a routine business as you can see nearby shops have been affected and have been shut down by citizens who fled the scene for safety authorities are present trying to investigate the incident and gather evidence. i saw says it was behind the

bombing that skilled at least one person in the western afghan city of herat two suicide bombers tried to enter a shia mosque when security guards opened fire one of them was shot dead and the other who himself up at least eight others that. while the government is the illing with its daily security battles a bigger threat of water scarcity is looming on the horizon not only do thousands die every year from poor sanitation and unclean water but the glaziers of the hindu kush are melting meaning that afghanistan's only source of clean water could be gone in thirty years time tony berkeley has the story from. the hindu kush mountain range a wonder of nature and the giver of life it has the highest concentration of snow in places outside the polar region and is afghanistan's main source of water. but it's under threat there has been a rapid retreat and melting of glaciers at the current rate they will disappear by twenty fifty. water water's. sources of there is no

life so with something happen something unfortunate happen of course does the loss of human. melting glaciers are not the only problem forty years of conflict and the gleg to take a toll on an antiquated water and sanitation system just twenty seven percent of the population has access to clean water only twenty percent in rural areas this is the way most of kabul's poor get their water stand pipes open for a few hours every day the water system was designed in the one nine hundred eighty s. to cope with a population of a few hundred thousand today nearly six million people live in the capital muscle that he says about like the man i go to school at six o'clock in the morning and when i return i have to carry water buckets to my home up the hillside and for that reason i'm too tired to do my homework. lack of education has led to poor hygiene

people deaf acadian rivers and few boil the water they drink most rivers are contaminated every day rule so each flows into the kabul river from six thousand channels and is having serious health consequences twenty five percent of the deaths of children under the age of five are due to what a great damnation and bad sanitation ten thousand children die every year because of die rule and water where an infection and disease account for more deaths in afghanistan the bombs and bullets forty years ago the population was thirteen million today it is around thirty six million causing a huge thirst but a shortage of reservoirs and pumping stations means just thirty percent of water is retained. improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community in the sector such as improving

water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit queuing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the tap tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul violence is casting a shadow over preparations for monday's presidential election in egypt the interior ministry says police have killed six people who they accuse of being involved in a deadly bombing in alexandria to policemen were killed and at least four others wounded in saturday's assault in the coastal city authorities have blamed the armed wing of the muslim brotherhood for the attack. the united nations is calling for an end to what it terms of brutal war on children in yemen it says the number of severely malnourished children there has doubled over the course of a three year civil war it also says an additional half

a million boys and girls can no longer go to score but saudi arabia and iran who back a different size in the conflict have been accused of blocking or delaying humanitarian shipments unicef's that damn not the stop the war on children in yemen that's the responsibility of the fighting parties that's the responsibility of those who are supporting the fighting parties and to date i have with symbols straight forward request all those are private or supporting the fighting parties how do you think your billions of dollars that you are currently investing in warfare how do you think this service children i can tell you as the children's organization that it doesn't serve a single child in yemen we only need a few hundreds of millions of dollars much much more where ensure that children get

down again that access to that's an illusion that children can go back and children to be safe and can be protected to join is is yours make that choice if you want to continue your destroyed children's lives rather convert your family and make it available to act to ensure fortress children a bright future. more than thirty people have been arrested in béla reuss ahead of a band march opposition groups are marking the one hundredth anniversary of freedom day an unofficial holiday celebrating the creation of the belorussian people's republic which existed between one thousand eight hundred and one thousand nine hundred supporters want to return to an independent by loose his presidential xander look a shame call of russified the former soviet republic victims of friday's shooting spree in southern france have been honored at palm sunday mass in the town of treb the. families of the victims

a sat in the front row for the service four people were killed in the attack including the police officer. who offered to take the place of a hostage who was being held inside the city market salusa. latest salute the self-sacrifice unique to soldiers ready to give their lives for the nation and their fellow citizens a life given cannot be lost it transcends hardship and unites us it calls to us to believe that life is stronger than death to believe in hope. protests been on the march in several australian cities calling for more tolerance and better treatment of refugees australia resettles thousands of refugees every year but the united nations has criticised its hardline policies designed to deter those fleeing their own countries from looking for a new life in australia. now whether watching acrobats flies through the sky or

animals performing in nature bending tricks the circus has been at the forefront of entertainment for two hundred fifty years but in recent years high operating costs and animal rights concerns have seen audiences for now a new generation of performers are hoping to revolutionize the old art form as barker reports from birmingham. these are tomorrow's circus stars the students are developing acts and pushing their bodies to the extreme. it's fascinating to watch something that looks so. that you know you can't made it just . every day which we do we do every day. you can really hear. the modern circus was born in britain in seventeen sixty eight when a showman called philip set up a tent in london and filled it with x.

this is a nineteenth century circus rolling into town an explosion of noise of color in a black and white world they would evolve into massive money making spectacles. today the circus like a theatre all the opera is seen as an art form in its own right people are stored in. the physicality of the things that. to be almost impossible to people just in this room that they're able to do but i think it's also a changed. there's been a matsushita in more audiences it's from entertainment from performance and from our tastes have certainly changed over the years. along with health and safety standards. an increasing number of countries have banned the use of animals over welfare concerns the u.k. will follow suit in two years' time. this is one traditional circuses have evolved

into big budgets movie like production values zippos now in theaters as well as temps. were very very clear experiences like you know like the way you. think about the what if you leave. it. there. for. two hundred fifty years on the circus still come to vegas audience is a place where fear and fun collide. al-jazeera. of flower lovers from across india are basking in the n.b.a. ansell of asia's biggest hulett garden then there again the garden in indian administered kashmir open to the public on sunday

a tourist favorite of sources say thousands visit every year to see the colorful home grown petals there they are more than one million two nips of fifty four righties were planted this year the flowers can usually last up to a month unless there is a harsh winter. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia's air forces say they've intercepted and shot down missiles including one near its capital riyadh several loud booms could be heard there before midnight local time yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility for the strikes which they say targeted three airports in riyadh a sinner and on saudi arabia has been leading a four year campaign against the who the rebels in in a recorded statement broadcast on sunday the who the leader is the leaders threatened to escalate the military response to saudi arabia's intervention in

yemen. in the fourth year of fighting we will use a more developed and more diverse missile systems which will overcome all american and north american air defense systems. and burckhardt missiles will use long range drones which have excellent military capabilities we will activate the military institutions in an unprecedented way and open up more opportunities to recruit the children and men of all people to fight at least fifty two people have been injured and three others arrested in barcelona after clashes with police during protests about the arrest of former catalan president catalyst wisdom old wisdom on twas the taint of a european arrest warrant in germany the belgian protesters are rallied in front of the european commission's office in barcelona and have stopped traffic on four major high wisdom and fled spain in october after leading an illegal referendum on

secession. at least thirty seven people many of them children have been killed in a fire at a shopping center in siberia sixty nine others are reported to be missing in the blaze in the city of chemical. hundreds more rebel fighters and civilians have been evacuated from the syrian region of eastern huta government forces are close to controlling all of what had been the last rebel stronghold near damascus following a month long offense well those are the headlines my colleagues and the how we'll have more news in half an hour coming up next on its witness thanks for watching. and for your.