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twenty two western nations announce they're expelling more than one hundred russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. . this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the best way to say the firearm system was switched off at exits were blocked in the russian shopping mall where sixty four people died in a fire. rebels rally their supporters and about a far more missiles into saudi arabia unless it stops bombing the country. and turnout low on day one of an election expected to hand of. a second term as egypt's president.

hello the u.s. canada and twenty european countries have annoyed with britain to expel more than a hundred russian diplomats over the poisoning of former spy asika stripped out of his daughter in the u.k. u.s. president donald trump has ordered sixty to leave including twelve attached to the united nations russia says it will respond in kind she had reports from washington . the trumpet ministration had said it would expel russian diplomats if its allies also did so in a coordinated action and on monday that coordination was revealed countries across western and eastern europe and canada joined the u.s. in the expulsions the british prime minister expressed her gratitude for the international solidarity following what the u.k. alleges was a russian nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter in an english town russia denies the charge this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence offices in history

. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the soulsby incident at the white house briefing the u.s. administration said russia could salvage times with corporation sorts on a range of international issues we want to have a cooperative relationship the president wants to work with russia but their actions sometimes don't allow that to happen. the poisoning in the u.k. that is kind of led to today's announcement was a very brazen action it was a reckless action u.s. officials said the expulsions weren't just about standing with the u.k. but also about curtailing russia's covert operations against u.s. national security they presented all of those being expelled from the russian embassy the seattle consulate and the u.n. as part of a pool of some one hundred agents moscow currently has in the country and that the u.s. is aware of administration officials has said that with these expulsions some fourteen

russian spies would remain in the u.s. but that russia's covert operations would be severely curtailed the russian ambassador to the u.s. expressed his concern at the explosions the deal would see would near said union leaders that they meet again what the united states of america is doing today they are destroying what little remained of us russian ties and i would add that all the responsibility for ruining russian american operations is on the united states of america what sloma however a different tone was struck on twitter the russian embassy are asking the public for suggestions on which u.s. consulate now to close in russia shepparton see al-jazeera washington. russia's foreign ministry says the u.k. has made european countries hostage to it anti russian policy challenges following the reaction in moscow while in the west it's called tit for tat in russian governmental circles it's called the principle of reciprocity and that's what we're likely to see in the coming days with russia essentially responding to all of these

diplomatic expulsions with its own set of diplomatic expulsions of the countries that have chosen to act against moscow the russian foreign ministry is putting together a list of options basically and they will supply this list to vladimir putin and the presidents will make his decision about what happens next now this i think is taken russia by surprise i don't think that it anticipated that the united kingdom what with these difficulties with the united states at the moment because of the trumpet ministration and of course its difficulties with the e.u. over brics in negotiations i don't think moscow thought that london will would be able to assemble such a broad coalition of allies essential but i also think that actually potentially russia feels that it's got off rather sadly lightly so far until western countries go off of the oligarchy assets the russian elites hold in financial

centers like london and new york measures like that would actually punish the russian government will structures until the west actually does that and it might do still then i think russia will be breathing a sigh of relief charles cup chan is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations he was also the senior director for european affairs for former us president barack obama he predicts there be more tit for tat measures between russia and the west. based on the past we can expect tit for tat that the russians will now move to kick out some european diplomats some more american diplomats they may close a few installations of one sort or another because the us close the consulate in seattle this is the way things usually go but i think it does indicate a continuing slide in the relationship between russia and the west that we're not seeing anything along the lines of the reproach market and trump hoped for when

president trump first came into office investigators looking into a fire that killed sixty four people in russia say a security guard switched off the building's fire alarm system exits were also blocked illegally in the shopping mall in the eastern city of care of a president that amir putin has yet to speak publicly about the tragedy which is the west father since the collapse of the soviet union china how reports firefighters had battled the blaze for hours by monday morning with most of the fire put out drone footage revealed the horrifying extent of the damage combustible walls and ceilings entirely collapsed where once they'd been cinemas and a children's play area they'd been full on sunday with families on a day out. rushes investigative committee at work in the remains of the shopping mall in the siberian city of came out of a says a security guard had switched off the alarm system some fire exits were blocked and

cinemas packed with children watching cartoons were said to be locked to stop those without tickets from sneaking in. for one person plunging from an upper window was the only hope the emergency services in came out of a have confirmed dozens of deaths with some bodies yet to be recovered. when the us leaves the most difficult areas for us all the to collapse in the malls because they've almost entirely fallen through to the third floor now bit by bit we continue to remove the construction. witnesses describe children becoming separated from adults as the mall filled with choking black smoke survivors were visibly distraught. this boy eleven years old jumped from a fourth floor window doctors say he's responding well to treatment but his parents and little sister didn't make it out. of course i'm shocked by what's

happened nothing like this has ever happened before in camero of our it's the first time and i feel so sorry for the people the children who were there this is terrible i'm speechless investigators say it's premature to discuss the cause but they have identified serious violations in the construction and use of the mall converted from what was once a factory for people including the mall's owners have been detained. saudi arabia has accused iran of helping yemen's rebels launch missile attacks across the border the saudi military says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen late on sunday but one egyptian man died who sees a vow to fire more unless saudi arabia stops bombing yemen. has the latest.

as the rockets rained down there were moments panic. this is what's left of a missile fired by hutu rebels in yemen which targeted the saudi capital riyadh on sunday. and the fragment landed on an island on a busy road. of seven ballistic missiles were intercepted by saudi arabia's air defense multiple social media users posted videos of the u.s. patriot missile defense system used by the saudi military. at least one egyptian resident was killed in the attack as forensic teams collect evidence the saudi coalition is again blaming iran for arming the hooty fighters. as you can see this is one of the other missiles fired on riyadh after the nineteenth of december all evidence shows that the regular regime has been involved in supplying the army who think militia missiles the world is facing the danger of supplying terrorists and organized crime groups with ballistic missiles there's

a strong evidence including the guards that exist on the missiles these types of attacks continue despite the saudi coalition announcing in two thousand and fifteen that most of the hutus ballistic arsenal was destroyed the objective is to continue to look for this guy and of missiles targeted destroyed. we believe that we destroy most of these abilities it's been three years since the coalition launched a military campaign to fight the hoodies in support of yemen's government hundreds of thousands have gathered in the capital sanaa just before the missile attack the hoody leader talked about his group's capabilities we. will use a long range drawings 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 our people to fight. the hoodies of been chairing images of the destruction caused by saudi attacks in yemen they say their missiles

are acts of revenge. these ten thousand people on all sides have been killed in yemen and millions more suffer in what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis in recent years and through all this the war continues some of the job aid out there. egyptians are voting in a three day presidential election that's expected to deliver an easy victory for incumbent of the c.c. the government is hoping for a high turnout but so far polling stations have been largely empty sisi led the military overthrow of the democratically elected muslim brotherhood government in twenty thirteen and was elected president the following year is only challenger is my stuff a moose or a little known politician who's a long time supporter of the president he joined the election at the last minute to stop it being a one horse race over the last few months six other challenges have been detained disqualified or forced to abandon their campaigns completely include a former general an ex prime minister and

a nephew of egypt's assassinated president anwar sadat national bar reports. a crucial moment for the band seeking reelection president i've been for to see once a comfortable win and a huge turnout among the nearly sixty million eligible voters his supporters see him as the only man capable of leading egypt at a time when the nation faces many challenges and an impish. i couldn't sleep from all the joy just to come here and say yes to my motherland egypt i came here to say yes to stability yes to development i came here to say yes to our military and. i will vote for sisi for the sake of the coming phase and i have a bachelor's degree in business administration and i feel like i have not been given what i deserve and i feel that this coming phase of a great things but the election has been widely seen as

a false potential rivals to c.c. have either been jailed or dropped out of the race after a campaign of intimidation the only candidate allowed to run is a staunch supporter of president sisi. whose leader of the centrist party told the media he doesn't want to challenge the authority of c.c. for critics who say the more that a candidate whose role is to give the impression of a legitimate election i don't think there's any question that it's a sham i'm not aware of any serious difference of opinion among you know political scientists or human rights groups or analysts i think the point of the election is to demonstrate cc's power and his popularity this is why the government is pushing so hard for a high turnout if there's a low turnout it will be bad optics for the regime. president c.c. will likely secure

a second term by the general turned politician faces bouncing discontent over the economy and armed groups operating in the sinai peninsula the vote will last for two war days a strong turnout could indicate a growing trust in cc's leadership has about al-jazeera. so ahead in the program cheerily aaron's high court puts the country's presidential election back on track plus the was the angry protest forced the leader of britain's opposition labor party to apologize after being accused of tolerating anti semitism. the at. the in. the in. the back hello there we've had a phenomenal amount of rain in some parts of australia recently for this for

a same port douglas five hundred and ninety three minute meters of rain that is an awful lot of wet weather and it has given us a lot of flooding and there's more rain still to come it's all thanks to a disintegrating cyclamen but it's just staying more or less where it is so we're just seeing more and more rain fall across the whole region so yet more wet weather there across the eastern parts of queensland as we had three choose day and even as we head into wednesday it's still looking rather wait here we've also got another circulation out towards the east but this is a cycling that's falling apart over the sea so it shouldn't cause us too many headaches towards the south well it's becoming warmer force in melbourne there for wednesday we're up at twenty eight degrees perth they are behaving itself at around twenty five towards new zealand and here we've got lots of heavy rain on its way towards the south island at the moment already a fair amount of cloud and a fair amount of what weather with us but it's going to turn increasingly wet as we head through chews day that systems pushing its way northward for some fairly brisk

winds associated with it as well then that gradually works its way across the north island as we head into wednesday as it works its way north though it is beginning to ease off so for the north island the rain will be quite so heavy here. the yacht. new lessons and new rules this is the time when you get your english teacher is for the next two years meet the teachers empowering best students might say i'm michael's all about freedom we're going to look at perspective i want you to develop the skill with which speak by letting them choose the lessons they learned. democratic schooling united kingdom at this time on al-jazeera you.

know going to one of the top stories. russia has vowed to retaliate after the u.s. canada and twenty european countries announced they're spending more than one hundred russian diplomats it's a coordinated response to a nerve agent attack on a former double agent in the u.k. earlier this month. investigators looking into a fire that killed sixty four people at a shopping center in russia say a security guard switched off the building as far as system. saudi arabia has accused iran of outing yemen's who he rebels in which missile attacks across the border one person died in riyadh after the saudi military shot down seven missiles fired from yemen late on sunday. sharon's high court has lifted a ruling that delayed the second round of the country's presidential elections the

court had postponed the runoff after a member of the ruling party called for an investigation and edging voting fraud the next round was should yield for tuesday but the electoral commission has now pushed it back to saturday when interest reports from freetown. well as judges deliberated and did not be fighting or suspending his presidential much right. on this site of protest to supporting the bill was asking for me to fill in the last election lecture i just got carried yeah i was and here are those who want the bill to go. well you know what we want to see change in this country we want change which will allow our children to be able to go to school in fact we need a new government in order to change a country. eventually the provost protesters want.

on saturday a high court judge issued an interim injunction stopping the port the presidential election earlier this month has sharply divided steadily on many years say the country has not been this polarized since the end of the civil war in two thousand and two some of already started planning this issue of tribalism something that has raised concern among citizens and the international community. activists blame what they call selfish politicians for pushing the country to the edge it's basically true in every of violence and we could have done without this as a country even for me. there's a lot riding on that. the national electoral commission is now under pressure to deliver and credible vote something several union school will lead to the healing of friendship relations committee priest al jazeera freetown. syrian government

forces have regained control of nearly all of eastern ghouta the area as one of the last rebel strongholds close to damascus the russian defense ministry says six and a half thousand people were evacuated from the southern towns in eastern guta as part of a deal there now and it lip only rebels in the town of doom are have yet to surrender saying a hotter reports from beirut. bus after bus arrived in the rebel controlled province of idlib in northwest syria thousands of people transported across a divided country rebel factions surrendered their strongholds in eastern huta after what was one of the fiercest offensives launched by the pro-government alliance fighters their families and members of the opposition deported as part of a negotiated with. everything even the bunkers we were hiding in if we left the bunkers we would get killed by air strikes i can't describe the situation we were in it was over. almost two thousand syrians were killed and

thousands were wounded in the attacks appeals for medical supplies for those trapped in a war zone went unheeded already there was a shortage of aid and medications because of a government imposed siege on the opposition area lesser from the. unfortunately the cases we received are very critical we also have cases of malnutrition as well as extremely sick people who couldn't receive proper treatment because of the lack of medications as a result of the siege more than ten thousand people have been displaced and not all are fighters so didn't want to risk arrest or be forced to join the army they left with whatever they could carry. we left our homes behind everything has been destroyed we left our history. we left behind because we go to a place of constant since. the has been under the control of the opposition since two thousand and thirteen not long after the government besieged the enclave. it

wasn't only under siege came under fire for years it was always an important military objective for the government being so close to the capital but the pro-government alliance was busy fighting on many fronts and it was always just a question of time when it would turn its attention to the rebel stronghold. it has been one tragedy after another for syrians caught in what seems to be an endless conflict. we lived in bomb clerks our lives were endangered we left after the international community let us down. it has become what some describe as a dumping ground over the years tens of thousands of rebels and their families who surrender territory to the government were sent here and there is little sign that they just like those who have been recently displaced will ever return to their homes and. beirut e.u. leaders say they failed to reach any agreement with turkey's president that will

help to patch up their damaged ties or shipped out about a one has been holding talks with the presidents of the european council and the european commission in bulgaria to try to improve relations with the e.u. leaders say they didn't get any concrete answers from adam won over his military operations in syria or the jailing of journalists in his country the turkish president says he's still hopeful the two sides can work together. so. we truly hope that the stage of bad relations between the e.u. and turkey have been left behind i mentioned during our meeting that both sides need to work more actively and we use discuss what we need to do you know to improve our relations a present in court has rejected former president luis in us your lula da silva his latest appeal against a corruption conviction a further blow to his bid for reelection in october his presidential race the unanimous decision by three judges means lerner is running out of options to overturn his twelve year jail sentence for accepting a luxury apartment as

a bribe is still leading the polls but is becoming an increasingly divisive figure with protests breaking out at a recent campaign rallies. israeli police have been questioning prime minister benjamin netanyahu over one of several corruption cases that could threaten his political future israeli media reports say the questioning relates to netanyahu as dealings with bezique israel's biggest telecommunications company is accused of giving basic regulatory benefits in exchange for favorable coverage on its news website or thirty's in germany have extended the period there hold the ousted catalan president as they weigh up a request to extradite him to spain it comes after catalyst pushed him on appeared in court in northern germany on monday a small group of procession demonstrators gathered outside the prison where he's being held in norman's to push them on is wanted in spain on charges of sedition and rebellion or a referendum in october last year. a top fundraiser for u.s.

president donald trump allegedly received millions of dollars from a political advisor to the united arab emirates last april according to an investigation by the associated press news agency a payment to george made it came just weeks before he began handing out a series of large donations to u.s. politicians who were considering legislation targeting qatar to kahane explains george nader is not well known in washington and not often photographed but he is closely linked to the leadership of the united arab emirates and now the associated press is reporting he is also linked to a top trump fundraiser businessman elliott brody according to the a.p. nader wired two point five million dollars to brody who sponsored a form where congressman ed royce spoke and called for cutter to be labeled a terrorist supporting state later brodie donated the max contribution five thousand four hundred dollars to royce in total the a.p. says brody gave six hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions since he

began lobbying against cutter at the time he didn't have any business dealings with the u.a.e. but in january he apparently signed a contract with the u.a.e. for more than two hundred million dollars there is no evidence he used the money from nader or the u.a.e. to make those campaign contributions but legal scholar bruce fein says he could still be in legal jeopardy even if you're not paid if you're operating on behalf. of a foreign country you need register even if it's volunteered services that you're trying to do something and it's obvious they're talking to the crown prince those highest levels and so there would be jeopardy is there whether he can prove a financial connection or not a search of the database the tracks for lobbyists does not indicate brody has we keep brody has registered for his part birdie told the a.p. he has long advocated tough position against cutter he reportedly filed a lawsuit on monday accusing cutter of hacking into his e-mail and leaking them to

reporters charges cutter has denied his e-mails were given to the new york times and it appears to show a pattern of brody telling foreign leaders about his access to trump and then pushing them to sign deals with his defense company nader is reportedly cooperating with special counsel robert mueller and after these stories it seems likely miller might want to talk to brody as well. al-jazeera washington. u.k. is opposition leader has been forced to apologize after allegations of anti semitism protests both for and against jeremy corbyn have been taking place outside the houses of parliament is all based on a six year old social media paste opposing the destruction of a controversial street near zero dollars leigh explains. now there are claims of anti-semitism within the british labor party are by no means a novelty but it appears the jewish lobby in the u.k. part of which has ties to the party has had enough they took their complaints

directly to labor members of parliament their argument being there makes you feel unwelcome and not supposed to be the most progressive side of british politics that quote it just so working together is think there is some precedents it stand the public think go on jeremy go then find out they study jeremy take some responsibility. for. this mural on a wall in east london was one thing the broad matters to a head portraying jews as rich tyrannical overlords wreaking havoc on the poor in the global conspiracy of any. sort or in your whatever you want the labor leader jeremy corbin was forced to apologize all to seeming to express his agreement several years ago for the sentiments in the mural. his apparent sympathy for hamas in gaza also in rage part of the jewish lobby. several of his staunchest followers like ken livingstone the former mayor of london have been

accused of anti-semitic opinions. according to jewish supporters insist that he and his party remain vigilant they've accused his critics of ignoring anti semitism in right wing politics to smear the left wing police sure. it's certainly uncomfortable for a party leader who has for decades portrayed himself as the authentic voice and see racism to himself be accused of that very thing. oh my god. colby himself will see it as a welcome distraction but he's trying to focus attention on things like the british also asked what happens to the u.k. after it leaves the european. mostly al-jazeera. a photo of a mother cradling her baby during a university entrance exam in afghanistan has gone viral the picture has created such an outpouring of admiration that offers of financial help have come in for the twenty five year old mother of three she had to pass the exam and now an online

crowdfunding campaign has raised more than fourteen thousand dollars to help pay for her fees the fund was launched by the afghan youth association to help her achieve her dream of becoming a doctor afghanistan's general literacy rate is one of the lowest in the world at just thirty six percent. a man of top stories on our zero russia has vowed to retaliate after the us canada and twenty european countries announced their expelling more than one hundred russian diplomats it's a coordinated response to a nerve agent attack on former double agent sergey script and his daughter in the u.k. earlier this month britain accuses moscow being behind the assault which the kremlin denies is president donald trump has ordered sixty russian diplomats to leave including twelve attached to the united nations for each others has more from

moscow. this will be easily spawn by the russian power structures as yet another example of anti russian sentiment in the west the hysterical. russophobe pick campaign from the united kingdom which has brought in gullible friends and allies of london and also i think that if there are no further measures measures that the russian elites are really worried about such as targeting of assets in financial centers around the world like london new york and say cyprus if those don't materialize over the coming days then perhaps moscow will feel the u.s. is taking a diplomatic here but it might have got off rather lightly investigators looking into a fire that killed sixty four people at a shopping center in russia say a security guard switched off the building as far alarm system exits were also illegally blocked in the mall in the city of kemah over the blaze has been extinguished but many people are still missing saudi arabia has accused iran of

helping yemen's hooty rebels who want to missile attacks across the border one person died in riyadh after the saudi military it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen late on sunday. egyptians are voting in the presidential election that set to deliver an easy victory for incumbent leader abdel fattah sisi the government is hoping for a high turnout but many polling stations appeared have been largely empty only one of a challenger is running against sisi there's your headlines stay with us next it's rebel education thanks for watching by for. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel an alum in your bra five jeans will mean off a day to time but ten times faster than forty we bring you the stories of the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera . education. the universal rights to expand.