new food walls can she stay fruit invisible mothers parties did you find a lot in the manger scene at this time come out you. know what not. no i'm not there are no. no no as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to become a disclosure on the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok we'll send our e waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera. as it breaks these people are already some of the country's most vulnerable and now they say they need help with detail coverage here in gaza more than most places the contrast

between scenes like this and the realities of daily life for so many from around the world forty years ago it was all but impossible for a foreign man or woman to live in china let alone marry a chinese but today this on no longer exceptional. fear grows in the provinces syria and russia escalate their airstrikes dropping barrel bombs on towns and villages. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program iraq imposes a citywide curfew on after

a night of violent protests over poor government services an egyptian court sentences seventy five to death and jails hundreds more over a two thousand and thirteen sit in which ended with the killing of around nine hundred people plus. around the world protesters push for action against climate change as u.n. talks to seek to breathe new life into the paris agreement. hello thank you for joining us let's start the program in syria where syrian and russian warplanes have carried out some of the heaviest bombardments yet rebel positions in southern italy province. activists and rescue workers reported more than sixty airstrikes well helicopters dropped barrel bombs this comes a day after the leaders of russia and iran backed the military campaign to take

back the province this spy turkey's president pushing them for a cease fire syria's military is threatening a major offensive to retake it which is the last rebel stronghold in the country to go live now to stephanie decker who's in and tackling turkey's border with syria so just tell us a little bit more about what's happened today and what the latest is in italy. well that is the most severe scale ation that we've seen since airstrikes began on it live on tuesday they'd been over three weeks of silence guys really and as you mentioned you know russian jets syrian helicopters dropping barrel bombs six people killed a hospital that had been built into the mountain it was also hit so it gives you a sense you know as you mentioned just a day after that important meeting in the iranian capital between the iranians the russians and the turks that nothing was really achieved certainly when it came to turkey calling for a cease fire we've just heard from the turkish foreign minister he was expected to

speak today but he gave a brief statement again calling for a cease fire that the only way forward it was a political solution but of course you know looking at how the ground is played out today that doesn't seem to be working and just to give you a sense of what it's like for the civilians on the ground one some of our colleagues from al jazeera arabic who are on the ground in southern italy part of that province this is mainly countryside and they witnessed a syrian helicopter dropping barrel bombs and this is what they captured on camera . but it's something. that you know. you.

well i gives you a sense of what it's like for the civilians on the ground in these areas that are being hit throughout the day today this is countryside so it's far less populated a lot of the civilians have already left these areas in the main concern of course is if this military campaign moves on to more densely populated areas particularly the cities negotiations continue behind the scenes to try and stop that but many people will tell you it's going to be complicated because damascus is intent on taking back the entire province stephanie decker with the latest from an tuckey on turkey's border with syria stephanie thank you.

iraq's parliament has held an emergency session to work out how to contain protests in the city of basra a government imposed curfew is now in place across the city following a week of violent protests people are angry at the government for failing to provide work and basic services more than a dozen major buildings have been attacked including the iranian consulate which was set on friday fire on friday night and earlier airport was targeted by rocket fire at least twelve people have died in the demonstrations iraq's prime minister hyderabadi is urging lawmakers to help prevent on the confrontations we should draw a distinction between the political factors on the other issues namely security and services unfortunately events have developed rapidly since the parliament's first session of monday last as a result of the escalating political wrangling which if turned into armed confrontations will be gravely dangerous we are keen on steering away from plunging

into such danger now the situation in basra is owner control. matheson has more now from baghdad. the city of basra in iraq is now under curfew but iraqi politicians are still struggling to find some sort of solution to the violence that has hit the city over the last few days but today's meeting of the iraqi parliament is like every other meeting of this iraqi parliament that have been accusations there's been finger pointing and there's been a lot of blame the but there's been no tangible solution to the problems that the city of basra is facing the reason for that is very simple since may this parliament has effectively been blocked it's been deadlocked and that's because there was no result of the election that happened in may that everybody could agree on therefore nobody up until this point has been prepared to agree on anything this is made of course the people are very angry because they are hoping to get money

from the government to the prime minister that all the body has promised them will help them through the circumstances that they're facing but as the arguments go on in the iraqi parliament that money too is deadlocked and the big concern for the people in and around basra is how they are going to react to the security forces have been told to move in and contain the violence by prime minister body but he has warned them not to use live ammunition against the protesters but interestingly there is normally a social structure of tribal elders in and around basra and throughout iraq in fact who would normally control this kind of behavior before it reaches this stage but the objections that the protesters have are equally geared towards those tribal elders they're ignoring those tribal elders so now the protesters essentially have almost a free hand to do what they want because there is a concern that if the security forces step in all the tribal elders step in things

could spiral out of control right across the country. human rights groups have condemned egypt's mass sentencing of hundreds of people charged over a two thousand and thirteen pro muslim brotherhood sit in in cairo the protests lasted six weeks and ended with the killing of around nine hundred protesters by security forces in all seven hundred thirty nine people were tried on charges ranging from organizing a lawful protests to murder during the sit in the court confirmed death sentences on seventy five defendants including muslim brotherhood officials forty four were in the dock with the rest tried in absentia forty five were sentenced to life imprisonment including the muslim brotherhood's spiritual leader mohammed by the and almost six hundred were sentenced to between five and fifteen years in prison some including the full two journalists known as shock are expected to be freed having already been held for five years shelob ellis says more. it

began here in cairo as robust square in august twenty thirty protesters had staged a sisson demonstration against the military coup which deposed egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsy security forces moved in with the now as more than nine hundred protesters had been killed robbed of order from kill us just a con artist just to come out and now five years later president foster l.c.c. this government has decided to kill seventy five more. over its main mohammed asha one and you seen how mature women are sentenced to death. they were part of the mass trial of seven hundred thirty nine people all arrested as they protested against cc's twenty thirteen take over most were detained during the robot massacre the group was charged with murder incitement to break the law illegal gathering and

membership of an illegal group that group is the muslim brotherhood and now when i was a sion of former president morsi it spiritual leader mohammed badie a is one of forty seven people who received a life seem to nearly four hundred others will spend at least ten years in prison. you consider this meant to be a completely unfair one because of its nature its a master if you're prosecuting a large number of people let's say. in the responsibility in that case one of the most well known of the detainees is photo journalist mahmoud known to show he was detained at the rubble protest as he photographed security forces moving in on the crowds he's expected to be released in the coming days after receiving a five year seem to its which is already served in pretrial detention. was that can has nothing to do with anything he's a journalist and he has no affiliations with anyone he was holding

a camera and taking pictures not a weapon or anything like that. he recruited a day that changed the lives of many egyptians five years ago or a recorded voice want to protest is to. everyone wants to avoid any bloodshed it seared the bloodshed was not avoided being in a may not be now the egyptian courts have ordered the execution of seventy five people lawyers of the accused say they'll appeal. shallot ballasts al-jazeera. journalist before the saying has been in prison in egypt for six hundred and twenty seven days he hasn't been charged but his the tension has been extended for the sixteenth time he's accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to the fame egypt's state institutions he and al-jazeera strongly deny the allegations and the network continues to demand his release. yemen's government is

accusing who the rebels of trying to sabotage peace talks after the who the delegation failed to turn up for meetings in geneva but the u.n. envoy for yemen insists a roadmap for roadmap for peace is now in place the official government delegation waited two days for the who the rebel representatives to join the talks who these a say they didn't fly to switzerland because of concerns about their safety they didn't have a plane or permission from the u.s. and saudi governments to leave yemen but the u.n. special envoy doesn't see this as a breakdown in the peace process they would have liked to have got here we didn't make the conditions sufficiently correct to get them here the governor yemen came here we used the opportunity we had detailed discussions are very grateful to them it's not easy and it's not easy only every one text either so i don't i don't take this as a fundamental blockage in the process. yemen's foreign minister accused both the

who the delegation and the u.n. envoy of undermining the peace talks. about. each time these talks by so were all of irresponsibility by these coup plotters these groups who are exploiting the international efforts of the yemeni government to reach peace they are being totally irresponsible the special envoy was unfortunately accommodating the coup plotters and giving them excuses for the statements of mr martin griffiths with us and other partners had expressed his dissatisfaction with their unjustified position i feel i need to thank the government delegation for its work despite the many many provocations. so i think on this half hour a sweden's prime minister warns of dark forces. as support for the far right surges ahead in sunday's election and queuing for as long as it takes mexicans wait to present their problems and complaints to the country's incumbent president.

hello most of china there is in for a dry couple of days but not all this is the light of the moment you can see the tide coming size so that's blue skies heading size getting rid of the rain but for areas just south of shanghai dancer for jan towards hong kong that's particularly wet for the time being and coming into the west sichuan and maybe you know the chances are to be wet here but generally speaking it's a dryish picture compared with maybe a week ago the still plenty of rain around of course myanmar in town house and heavy rain recently there's been a massacre that moved from addition across to where it is now russia's dimes to produce some very useful right and heavy rainfall some there's

a bit more to come there as you can see otherwise the monsoon rains dispersing is up around the foothills the himalayas nepal as well and around addition probably bangladesh but this onshore breeze that's been given the western ghats and carol the rain of cools for much of the season it's looking fairly dry at the moment there's plenty of clatter and and that's a bit of a signal we often watch when it comes up on the forecast for a month and it's there again the usual presents a good chance of decent thunderstorms in the higher ground on the eastern side of the man that could be dramatic. taiwan. a sovereign island state. or a renegade province of china that must soon return to mainland control. as the battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the tactics of those to whom reunification is only

a matter of time. taiwan spies lies and prostrate ties on a. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera syrian and russian warplanes have carried out some of the heaviest bombardment yet of rebel positions in southern italy province activists and rescue workers report of more than sixty years strikes iraq's parliament has been holding an emergency session to work out how to contain protests in the city of basra a government imposed curfew is now in place across the city following a week of violent protests and then egyptian court has sentenced seventy five

people to death and hundreds more to prison terms over the two thousand and thirteen robots square city a total of seven hundred thirty nine defendants were charged in the mass trial. the united states has cut one of its last remaining aid programs for palestinians this time affecting cancer patients and children with serious conditions the state department has withdrawn twenty five million dollars earmarked for the east jerusalem hospital network a group of six hospitals providing treatment not available in the west bank and gaza two weeks ago the trumpet administration cancelled a two hundred million dollars of aid to fund programs in the palestinian territories and last week it was through all two hundred ninety million dollars of this year's u.s. funding which helps palestinian refugees in the west bank gaza and neighboring countries it had already without sixty five million dollars from the agency in january in the last few months countries including india catherine of the united

arab emirates and saudi arabia have stepped up giving a total of two hundred thirty eight million. dollars in extra funding to offset the u.s. cuts but the agency still faces a cash crisis while lead in a more is the c.e.o. of augusta victoria hospital and secretary for the eastern hospital's network he told al-jazeera patients should not be course in the middle of political issues i cannot describe such a decision and its effect on our people in jerusalem we are the only entity in the whole of british time that provides services that are not available elsewhere including radiation therapy to cancer patients including open heart surgeries to children because it was that including haemodialysis for children at the list of victoria has to this is immense this is of catastrophically michel i mean you don't use humans as elements for food because she says for for me this is

not a low but this is this is inhumane this is very cruel and now i i use this as a platform for the international community to intervene we cannot continue the lives of patients are at risk i'm talking about patients who are severely sick who are about to die who have you know who already put so much effort to arrive to egypt because of accessibility issues because of barriers at areas checkpoints in gaza and other sic points are on the west bank and now come up with the with the issue of finances this is not acceptable by any standards. a police officer in texas is expected to be charged with manslaughter after going into the wrong apartment and shooting a man dead mistaking him for an intruder police say the unnamed dallas officer entered the apartment after her shift on thursday night she confronted the victim

twenty six year old. thinking he was in her apartment the officer has been placed on leave and the charges are pending political parties in sweden are holding their final rallies as campaigning draws to a close ahead of sunday's general election prime minister and leader of the social democrats stephan lovin appealed to voters to unite against the rise of far right groups warning of dark forces mobilising the country is renowned for its inclusive policies but many voters are worried that housing health care and welfare services are under increasing pressure from immigration poll suggests that neither of the main political groups will win an outright majority and the country's far right party the sweet and democrats could play a key role in forming the next government for the economy. we are not going to retreat one millimeter in the face of hatred an extremism

others seem prepared to work and cooperate with the party that attached the media and spreads fear about minorities it says jews and the semi can't be real swedes a party that says muslims are not real people again and again they show their nazi and racist roots they're trying to destroy the e.u. at a time when we need that cooperation the most. well the rise in anti immigration feeling is left many swedes worried about the future of their country john a whole has more now from stockholm. is no longer quite sure what sort of country she's living in i felt. he made me feel very small. born in sweden to muslim parents who've lived here for decades far came face to face with unfamiliar prejudice when a job interview was terminated after she refused on religious grounds to shake the hand of her male interviewer she won her subsequent claim to the swedish labor

court if you are with us i mean this in a few years ago my answer would be that they are very accepting but. i am not sure i would answer the same thing because. i think that race is people that. are sowing themselves more and they are encouraged to so themselves more so people are not afraid to say i hate you because you're for us therefore i hate you because you're wearing the far right party that speaks for them these call to sweden democrats with neo nazi roots and its image cleaned up to appeal more broadly now this one movement is poised to play in the political landscape as sweden's second largest priority i think that what we're seeing is a sweden this is very important to kind of strive for our classical is as we say it's just values and it has to do with that we're equal we have a gender equality that is very very strong in comparison with other faiths this is

about keeping sweden swedish that's an additional thing sweden together i say it's a message resonating widely in what used to be one of europe's most open and free thinking societies expert magazine sweden's leading investigative journal has long charted the rise of the far right the catalyst of the of naziism which is this weekend yeah i mean the party has been through some. changes of course but there is a sort of a core are a radical nationalism a quest for home and generosity in sweden and placing immigrants and minorities at the center of everything that's wrong in society the relentless rise of the right here the sweden democrats winning five percent of the vote in twenty ten almost thirteen percent four years later and this time perhaps one in five votes twenty percent tells the story of a country changing fast reacting in part to the huge influx of refugees since

twenty fifty you know with some people nostalgic for a simpler time a more culturally modernist past a lot of people are telling me they're so this. but i weren't. there so what. a question of identity that lies at the heart of this election. will of course have all the results of that election tomorrow on sunday as it happens here enough to zero now protesters have been gathering in towns and cities around the world to urge world leaders to take more action against climate change this is the scene in paris where thousands rallied earlier on saturday it's part of an international day of protests timed to coincide with key united nations climate talks in bangkok the talks aimed to create a draft legal framework for limiting the global temperature rise which can be presented at the final round of discussions in poland in the summer but the

discussions have stalled in iraq how will the how poor countries access funding to fight climate change. insignia tall ship sailed through the harbor as part of the protest organizers say countries around the world must implement the measures agreed in the two thousand and fifteen paris accord to stop further global destruction climate change is that a significant impact on australia the country is currently suffering an extreme drought and global warming is blamed for destroying the great barrier reef in san francisco a dutch team is launching a giant plastic collector to clean up the sea the pacific ocean between california and hawaii is one of the most polluted areas in the world containing as many as two trillion pieces of plastic waste the special six hundred metre long system will scoop up bits of floating plastic and act as an artificial coastline predict critics say though that it targets only the small amount of plastic on the surface

and more should be done to stop the rubbish from actually entering the ocean. one of china's wealthiest men jack ma has stepped down as the chief of e-commerce giant . ma says he wants to focus on philanthropy and education the billionaire founded alibaba nearly two decades ago and since become one of the world's largest internet companies with a market value of more than four hundred billion dollars. a candlelit vigil has been held for the brazilian presidential hopeful who was stabbed earlier this week dozens of supporters gathered outside the south tower hospital of the far right candidate will set out always recovering he was stabbed in the stomach and i can pain rather use unlikely to return to campaigning before the first round of voter looked over seventh's which opinion polls show he could win now the former president of the silva has been forced to pull out. in mexico hundreds of

people are gathering every morning outside the office of the incoming president many travel for days for their chance to tell on the rest run away lopez obrador how we could help make their lives better over there will take office in the cyber but as john coleman reports executes of high expectations and hope that he'll be a leader who listens to his people. it's still nights in mexico city but already the queue is forming at this house the headquarters of president elect and that is money well nope is over the door to the left is populous doesn't take over till december but already people are hand deliver him petitions it's a pilgrimage of sorts to us to small miracles seventy year old raphael and his companions in a place to put their market stools after they were moved on by authorities fourteen years ago to him it's simple but. we believe in him and we know that he'll come through for us this huge faith here in the next president mixed with desperation

after years of knocking on the doors of seemingly uncaring authorities elses roof fell in with last year's earthquake she just wants someone to take a pic case i'm not mad being gang they just lie to me if the authorities say they're going to see me and then just send me from one office to another telling me to wait and that's just not fair there's around two hundred people coming every day with a spectacular array of requests to get a pension or medical treatment to find a missing relative or get someone out of jail many like road have traveled hundreds of kilometers those of anyone's of it but again we want him to give us a hand to get a dairy farm running and to get our local economy going again. as the day goes on the crowd swells and the man himself makes a brief appearance by mid-morning there's quite a scene here with people presenting their complaints lots of cameras and still belong line of petition is here waiting to be seen and this is something that's not usually in mexico where the political class is often seen as aloof and out of touch

it's happening now because president elect lopez obrador has worked to try and establish a direct link between himself and the poor and vulnerable and this is really going to critics that also presents dangers there are worries that he could become a strong man willing to circumvent mexico's already fragile institue. it's those here ready to take a chance. there's no one else left to get us out of this hole not because he's a messiah but because he's been power now and he said he'll bring change. to that change a very high in this street it doesn't come to disappoint be immense don't hold with zeal to make screw city. well not long ago we brought you the story of ballet dancers who brought traffic in mexico city to a standstill when they danced across for their string crossings to recruit drivers to the wonders of ballet well now there is this.

a mexican opera troupe has given an impromptu performance at a bustling market in an effort to raise more interest in the art forms should the stereotype that oprah isn't boring interacted with stallholders and shopper as well singing in favorites. much more on all those stories and more on our website there it is called. and now reminder of our main headlines. syrian and russian warplanes have carried out some of the heaviest bombardment to of rebel positions in southern italy province activists and rescue workers reported more than sixty airstrikes while helicopters dropped barrel bombs syria's military is threatening a major offensive to retake it live which is the last rebel stronghold in the

country iraq's parliament is holding an emergency session to work out how to contain protests in the city of basra a government imposed curfew is now in place across the city following a week of violent protests prime minister hi there on the body is urging lawmakers to help prevent the armed confrontations. we should draw a distinction between the political factors on the other issues namely security and services unfortunately events have developed rapidly since the parliament's first session of monday last as a result of the escalating political wrangling which if turned into armed confrontations will be gravely dangerous we are keen on steering away from plunging into such danger now the situation in basra is owned or controlled human rights groups that can then the sentencing of hundreds of people charged over a two thousand and thirteen pro muslim brotherhood sit in in cairo a total of seven hundred thirty nine defendants were charged in the mass trial the

court confirmed death sentences on seventy five people while forty five more were given life turns in prison. where protests lasted six weeks and ended with the killing of around nine hundred protesters by security forces political parties in sweden are holding their final rallies as campaigning draws to a close ahead of sunday's general election prime minister and leader of the social democrats. appealed to voters to unite against the rise of the extreme right groups poll suggests the far right sweden democrats could play a key role in forming the next. protestors have been gathering in towns and cities around the world to urge world leaders to take action against climate change this is the scene in paris where thousands rallied early on saturday as part of an international day of protests timed to coincide with key united nations climate talks and. that's it for now people in power.

taiwan a suffering garden state or a breakaway province of the people's republic of china that must inevitably return to make gun control as the battle intensifies to influence talk of unease hawks minds on this question we've been to investigate the tactics opposed to reunification is only a matter of time. asia's

most vibrant democracy is feeling the heat from an increasingly powerful neighbor that claims it has a renegade province over the perfect yet.