isn't one kilometer from the shoreline while commercial planes have been ordered to avoid the area all kind of cash is a mix euro and gas and rock programs and minerals and volcanic glass and it's very very scratchy or can et so the dangers of that going up in the air so planes if there is not a large of. the planes flying back now must be a hazard well adeline's the increased warning level comes as a blow to the thousands of people displaced by the tsunami or wanting to return home many seeking shelter on higher ground where even a few metres above sea level office a greater sense of security. schools and community centers in the town of level one have been turned into makeshift homes giving a feeling of semipermanent most of these people rely upon the sea for their livelihoods by god. they're mostly fishermen they can go to sea because their boats

are gone so they can make a living. and many don't know if the houses they fled from are still standing we haven't been back to see the condition of our homes because we are still a freight. truck a towers latest eruptions will do nothing to ease those fears macbride al jazeera north west java indonesia. still to come on al-jazeera the un brings together the warring sides of yemen's conflict in the latest effort to help and for here is a fighting. and guns for cash the city of baltimore buys back weapons in a push to get them off the streets. hello there the weather is all quite quiet over many parts of china at the moment

it's also quite cool so maximum temperature in shanghai just to five degrees this area of cloud here there in the center of amapa could squeeze out a few outbreaks of rain and snow but it's really going to intensify as we head through the day on saturday this time is part of the province and across into where we're likely to see some particularly heavy outbreaks of snow really does look quite wintery for some of us here as we head out towards the west so the weather here is quite quiet just a little bit of sharri weather in the far south but most of that is staying away from land so even in the southern parts of india and for sure lanka is largely fine and dry at the moment and that's the way it will stay as we head through friday and into sunday in the north it's also dry fast with the problem with quality as you'd expect at this time of year and not feeling that well with the top temperature in new delhi just around seventeen or eighteen as you head out towards the west that's quite an active system to the north of us i might just get its way into the northern parts of his say i think for q eight we'll see a few showers perhaps and then we'll see it over iran but not here in doha it will

just see the winds pick up as we head into saturday friday will be a little bit calmer there will be a fair amount of the over parts of the u.a.e. . after joining the greenpeace steenkamp aiming to protect the weddell sea in antarctica we're now in australia for the outcome with the first generation to realize the gravity of this crisis. but we may be the last to be able to do something about in another thread special find out if the effort to create the largest sentry on earth has succeeded thrice on al-jazeera.

in one of the top stories here saudi arabia's king solomon has announced a major government as the kingdom tries to contain the fallout from the murder. of a saudi foreign minister has been demoted to minister of state for foreign affairs as. tensions are flaring ahead of sunday's long delayed presidential election in the democratic republic of congo riot police have fired shots to disperse protesters in the eastern opposition stronghold of benny the voting has been delayed until march. and indonesia has raised the danger level for the and crack a tab ok no that erupted last saturday you know me killed four hundred thirty people experts have widened the no go zone around the volcano as they fear another option. iraqi politicians and opposition leaders have condemned don't want trump's

unannounced visit to their country accusing him of violating its sovereignty the u.s. president spent three hours visiting troops at an ad base in baghdad he'd been under scrutiny for not visiting u.s. service personnel stationed abroad before christmas our reynolds reports. president donald trump got a warm welcome from u.s. troops during his brief visit to iraq. we came to aldershot this year our eternal gratitude for everything you do to keep america safe strong and free. accompanied by first lady maloney a trump the president shook hands with service members at an air base one hundred sixty kilometers from baghdad he posed for selfies and signed autographs including one on a bake america great again campaign cap he bragged about the defeat of eisel on his watch two years ago when i became president there were

a very dominant group. they were very dominant today they're not so dominant anymore the visit came amid continuing fallout from trump's abrupt decision to pull out all u.s. forces from syria our presence in syria was not open ended and was never intended to be permanent trump said the withdrawal from syria would be strong deliberate and orderly he also met with military commanders i think it's an opportunity for him to explain to his generals on the ground and the troops on the ground what the syria withdrawal means and most importantly hear from those generals how they plan to execute that withdrawal trump said the u.s. has no plans at all to pull out of iraq a day earlier during a phone call with the commander of the air base in qatar trump asked about the ongoing blockade of qatar by saudi arabia and the u.a.e.

together with egypt and bahrain so how are they doing it cutter how are they doing getting together with saudi arabia and u.a.e. you know we don't track in a certainly the political followings of saudi arabian u.a.e. with regards to cutter but i will tell you they're fantastic on this this is trump's first visit to u.s. troops in a conflict zone during his twenty three months in office the visit is likely to quell critics who say he should have followed the example of his predecessors presidents bush and obama who visited troops in harm's way earlier in their terms rob reynolds al jazeera washington. all trying to meet anyone from iraq you need a ship but he did speak to promise to i don't have to londell by saying to invite him to the white house and non-con has more from baghdad. the u.s. president's visit to iraq was just three hours long but it has had an impact here

in baghdad now there was supposed to be a meeting or a phone call between the iraqi prime minister. and president donald trump that didn't happen because they couldn't agree on the parameters of that meeting what was supposed to be discussed within that meeting president the u.s. president donald trump made a commitment to his troops. basically and he said that they would remain in the country however he hasn't actually discussed that with his iraqi counterpart so far the iraqis are actually right now debating on what the future role should be within iraq itself now there is a commanding control base here there is a forward operating bases here and they've been using them as part of their campaign in syria however they're now withdrawing from syria and this concerns iraq ease because they feel that there are still pockets of eisel fighters both in the west of iraq and in syria itself and if there's no u.s.

presence there then that may mean that may well mean those pockets of ice will fight as can regroup and that might become a problem for iraq however the real concern here is one of politics there doesn't seem to be any play strategy coming from the u.s. president other than withdraw withdraw but not withdraw out of iraq itself and like i say the iraqis debating what kind of future role the u.s. may well have here in this country. warring sides in yemen battling for control of the port city of hyundai to have been meeting face to face the u.n. has been hosting talks as part of the latest efforts to end four years of conflict a cease fire city has been in place since december the eighteenth but both sides accuse each other of breaking it from matheson reports. patiently hoping for peace the people of the yemeni city of hard data are putting their faith in a fragile truce as nearby a meeting is held between forces loyal to president kennedy and who feel.

the conflict is now in its fourth year more than sixty thousand people have been killed in the fighting. in two thousand and one thousand we want to see peace love and brotherhood among all yemenis we also hope for perspiring we are counting on god and on our politicians we don't want more war. the united nations is coordinating the talks it's armored vehicles carrying members of the yemeni government have only been able to get through after rebel fighters cleared mines from the road leading to where the meeting was to be held. the hope he's in the yemeni government which is backed by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. blame each other for repeatedly breaking a cease fire which has been in place in her data since december the eighteenth the city is a key port on the route for yemen's much needed supplies of medicines food and fuel

millions are said to be close to starvation it's estimated as many as eighty five thousand children have died from malnutrition but the. next year we hope the city will enjoy peace and security we also hope that services such as transportation an oil will be available. delegates of wednesday's meeting are said to have agreed on a process for withdrawing pro-government troops from her data and handing control to a local committee they're also reported to have agreed to stop fighting in and around the city the u.n. representative for monitoring the cease fire retired dutch general patrick come out says the meeting on wednesday has made progress but until the gun battles and the bombings and peace in her data still hangs in the balance rob matheson odyssey. refugee camps in northern syria have been severely flooded after a series of heavy rainstorms. several camps in northern province have been affected

with roads cut off and tents destroyed displaced syrians they're already facing freezing winter temperatures aid groups say they're working to move people to drive around. the palestinian authority has announced it will stop all imports of israeli vegetables fruits and poultry the ban is a reciprocal move after israel recently said it would stop importing fruit and vegetables produced in the occupied west bank by palestinian farmers israel's initial ban was brought in despite warnings that it would damage the already fragile palestinian economy or spittles and greece are still feeling the crippling effects of the global financial crisis ten years ago doctors are warning about a growing crisis in some public hospitals as the government continues to make cuts in health spending surgical supplies are running out operations are being for spurned and there are severe staff shortages drones are up for us reports from the

town of patra. it takes several pieces of equipment to install an intravenous line in a patient needles taps catheters and rubber gloves must be sterile and discarded after use these are the cheapest of materials for one of the simplest of procedures there are no apparent shortages here at the outpatient clinics of st and asked hospital in part that but staff say appearances are misleading. cool we had a budget a sixty to sixty five million euro crisis today outrageous fifteen to eighteen million of this creates enormous problems back up at the bottom the hospital is also short stuffed this doctor says there are just two nurses for the outpatient clinics serving the city of two hundred thousand seat a c. medicine and most days this room is full of stretchers with a queue of more outside shouting and pushing to get in and they come from towns all over the region it can be a stick we can barely walk to where shortages have shut down clinics in smaller

regional hospitals so same town there is also takes in patients from the broader region of more than a million people with hospital had a staff of twelve hundred before the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it is now down to thirty one hundred fifty and at least fifty doctors are urgently needed these trends and personnel and materials reflect the broader cuts in government health funding and just the past three years it has fallen from seven billion dollars to four point two billion that means greece is spending less than ten percent of its budget on health care the european union averages over fifteen percent it's driven many who can afford it into private health care he went only here for financial reasons of course national health doctors are more experienced than private sector doctors but in the moment you arrive here you're tied up for hours patients get wary there are lots of people in line the dedication of the doctors and nurses who remain in the public sector has been rewarded with

a forty plus. pay cuts during the crisis and no government has tightened health spending more than that controlled by the city's a party which has made a point of producing even higher surpluses than creditors demand with which to repay the country's debt next year's budget contains a further reduction in salaries for hospital staff a move which will anger many jobs are open us al-jazeera. provisional results from madagascar's election show former president andry rajoelina has won with more than fifty five percent of the vote roger leno was up against another former president. i'm going on a has already announced what he calls massive fraud in the december nineteenth vote and called for an investigation the constitutional court has nine days to declare a final result. and he's in the u.s. city of baltimore have you watched a guns for cash campaign aimed at getting weapons off the streets as hope the roof

will help to curb gun violence in a city where more than three hundred people have been killed in the past for his but with trust of the police at an all time low and gun ownership so widespread it's all good such campaigns and every war the p.r. stunts john hendren reports. if you know if they stop for you that's ok in one of america's deadliest cities police are trying to even beyond. to reduce the number of weapons they face on the streets of baltimore they're buying them one hundred dollars for revolver and five hundred for a fully automated firearm no questions asked. couple pieces i think i need to get rid of i think just great idea gets some guns off the street the problem. there is little appetite on capitol hill to change gun laws the national rifle association has opposed any effort to curb gun rights and remains the most powerful lobbying group in america so police here are taking weapons off the street one of

the few ways they can. one donor dropped off this rocket launcher with more than three hundred murders this year baltimore is one of the most violent cities in the united states and police say they hope with each weapon they take in just a little bit safer so the gun buyback program is about getting guns off the streets of baltimore today is day number three of the program on the first day we took in five hundred seventy eight guns the second day five hundred eleven and we're only about an hour into the vents a day and there's already a pretty long line inside with people turning in god's brazil managed to take more than a million guns off the street with gun buyback from two thousand and three to two thousand and nine but with four hundred million guns in the u.s. more than one for every person the effect here is at best limited. typically a very small number of gaza turned in fifty one hundred two hundred guns you might have cities like los angeles when you get

a lot like two thousand but they're still small relative to the number of guns in the united states but at the end of the day i think most research suggests that it's actually simply p.r. for some bad p.r. right. now that. now that we can we keep. track of the problem with about one hundred thousand shootings each year nearly a third of them fatal in more than three hundred mass shootings across the u.s. in two thousand and eighteen in little chance of new gun restrictions police here say they are doing what they can john hendren. baltimore. and that is a great reminder you can always catch up with all the stories we're reporting on rushing out our website address what is ours there dot com and you're also watch us live by clicking on the orange line like on al-jazeera dot com.

the mind of the top stories here on jazeera saudi arabia's king has announced a major government reshuffle as the kingdom struggles to contain the political fallout for in the matter. in a series of rule decrees king solomon announced changes to key national security posts including the demotion of high profile saudi foreign minister adel of to bear to minister of state of foreign affairs as his replacement abraham was one of hundreds of saudi royals detained in the ritz carlton last november as part of a crackdown spearheaded by crown prince mohammed bin sound but he was released two months later reportedly without penalty and jordan has more now on what the race shuffle could mean for u.s. saudi relations. it's likely not to the have much of an impression on. members of congress either in the senate or in the house there is widespread discussed still with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin psalm on whom both republicans and

democrats have said that they believe was responsible for the murder. back on october second and in fact they are citing the cia's investigation and conclusions that this merger would not have happened without the direct involvement of the saudi crown prince and because this cabinet shuffle does not involve him directly the reaction we couldn't to supply a would be well really what difference does it make tensions are high ahead of sunday's long delayed presidential election in democratic republic of congo riot police have fired shots to disperse protesters in the east an opposition stronghold if any where voting has been delayed until march the government says the move is necessary to contain a boner outbreak which has killed more than three hundred fifty people voting has also been delayed in the opposition strongholds of pretend and human. indonesia has raised the danger level for the and

a cracker tower volcano that erupted last saturday causing a tsunami that killed four hundred thirty people experts have widened the no go zone around the volcano to a five kilometer radius as they fear another eruption residents are being warned to stay away from the coastline there's the headlines today without his air mass rise is up next.

the way they'll see in antarctica the size of an extraordinary bids to create the largest protected area on a. for this special episode of a thrice we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker optic sunrise following one of the biggest campaigns in the environmental movement is ations history witnessing the spectacular biodiversity and the many threats to life from climate change to a good fishing as a team of scientists photographers and ocean experts set out to prove these vos remote waters must become an antarctic ocean sanctuary.

before i set off down south i'm going to find out a little about the journey i'm about to embark on tucked away in this maze of old london streets something quite extraordinary. ever since i was a boy i've been mesmerized. by tales of the golden age of antarctic exploration of the early twentieth century names of polar explorers like roald amundsen and captain scott. well this is where some of those expeditions came to get them aps it was really because of the low good to see this is a kind of treasure trove of paul's exploration to come out of that. turns out mankind has forever been hooked on the concept of a mysterious continent at the end of the world. from the fifteen eighties is the last of the classical worldview this is the world as it would have been understood

by the ancient greeks and romans still got this great terrell called me to the unknown something less spin forward three centuries to the time of men like captain scott who died on his return from the south pole philip shows me a sledging match from that expedition is true. this is what you used to place the food has for the attempt on the pole incredible here we have been reaching the south pole and then of course the terrible trick. back in school time here just demonstrates how hot it was then just how challenging was that a far cry from today it was this period is known as the heroic age they were truly great heroes up until the one nine hundred twenty days there were probably less than i should think fifty or sixty people had

actually ever stepped into the cold loop. of course no thousands again every year. like many of the old explorers i first had for punta arenas in southern chile but unlike them i'll be flying into antarctica to king george island at the northern tip here all join the greenpeace ship the arctic sunrise and head into the weddell sea with luck will reach our target the sixty fourth parallel which marks the northern edge of the proposed asian century an internationally supported marine reserve covering one point eight million square kilometers that would be protected from direct human impact like fishing oil drilling and deep sea mining. how times have changed immediately it's clear how connected the outer reaches of the antarctic continent to become the plane is full of tourists. what was once

a grueling journey of months maybe is now can be done in an hour and a half with lunch and if you. want to. be an elf they are there for fun. it's a cold murky arrival and surprised at how many people there are around dozens are coming in going to here without king george island and downscale related business like that don't. look so remote as warm a transport. you can see lots of trailers. taking ribs out to inflatable boats out to meet cruise ships for the holidays i also hear a lot of research stations. with the weather closing in we need to get a move on. to

. the next two weeks. thank you. write a. program. well we're underway immediately heading for the proposed ocean sanctuary isn't any time to lose not just for the arctic sunrise winter is not far away and the ice will soon close in about its business or a race against time to protect areas like the weddell sea before it's too late will maccallum it's a greenpeace campaign leader we're campaigning for will be the liberals largest protected area is an antarctic ocean sanction an area of the bible say to be about five times the size of germany the proposal is already on the table it's already got the backing of the. scientists are saying we need to protect a third of the world's oceans at least every one to let fish stocks recover we want to mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change and man thought is

a great place to start in just nine months time in hobart australia the decision will be made by the antarctic ocean commission the international body responsible for the conservation of these waters on whether to accept the sentry proposal the aim of the expedition is to build the case that it needs to happen. the hours go by and the temperature drops significantly. on the bridge they're on high alert we're heading into dangerous waters tense times with skipper who'll ruzicka you have what they call birdie bits growlers and icebergs depending on the size. but they can all damage a ship when you're steaming at night key thing about ice is avoiding it but now we're going to look for the ice and we will intentionally go into some of the ice and there is room down here now i think to push our way through a bit. of our. very.

short. cut to cool climbs into the crow's nest to transport leads through the ice. come through the ontology sound which i would buy sexy and talk to put into that we're not in the weather the sea but not yet at the point at which they want to protect it but to get there we go to get through all this ice there's a lot of it around and we're finding these clear passages trying to wean you always through the ice. everyone on board is just willing the ship to make it into the proposed sanctuary the big problem is getting people to realize why they should care about the i'm talking to you know this is lot of light that most people have never come across will never come across and so being able to tell that story relies on us getting there are lots of us getting the footage back and tell talking about the importance of marine sanctuaries so the fact that they stopped would only recover if we put these areas of them it's the fact that climate change will be not as bad if we let a supposed large areas of the ocean know that. dog

has falls but there is no rest on the bridge for the captain and the night crew there is an illusion there are. flood lights on the bows show the ship now milledge dumped quietly against the ice and intentional maneuver for the remainder of the night but everyone is keyed up flying off. the next day at la. asked the arctic sunrise has arrived surrounded by some of the coldest most diverse waters there are and was all on board who may yet be the largest protected area on the planet we were wanting good days good news very good news made it made it to this is for parallel sitting there now. as are some one other ship in this entire space and you just go over this side and recently saw

getting sold tens of of ships both cruise liners cargo ships fishing vessels the moment you get through this sound as us another ship about there and that's it and they're all whole area that's slightly scary yet terrifying. very exciting as well but exciting how to just make the case that this is pristine this area is not developed is not all industry has never had industry sort of area that's kind of the most untouched even within and part of. our own are. not right now thank you for trying to run our agreement with. what we're looking at here is faulty yes sea ice is great icebergs to be dr glass is sweeping up james russell island at the weddell sea spent way to the distant

proposed area pretty much are touched by human activity always scientific research is taking place it is an incredible sight but deeply troubling to glasses have always collapsed and carved into the antarctic ocean however with global warming they're doing so with increasing speed and as the ice sheets retreat sea levels rise. this right here is humanity's problem for decades perhaps centuries ahead. it is laundry day off at sunrise and here's the thing we were given being good citizens by wearing fleeces which is made out of recycled plastic also bottles that sort of thing. but when you watch the. hundreds of thousands of micro five years

end up in the well the oceans so here are important it wouldn't and not for god. and of course plastic pollution in our seas is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time and the team makes the most of a rare opportunity for research. these are some of the americas was on the planet there could be a ploy to do they could be blasting seriously greenpeace to conduct this experiment taking samples from the water to see if any microbe plastics have infiltrated this environment. just simply into the sea so just like quest for five is that maybe first so they're both taking something she fully trusted more to. the. extent. bush said he hoped to find that he at this is very hot water is the way the seas are very close try

a system and there's very few local sources of micro plastic fibers should be coming from however evidence is growing around the world studies that like the plastic.