million refugees registered in lebanon live like this for them in particular it is proving to be a tough winter senator are still northeastern lebannon hot and long as vice president for programs and policy at refugees international and he says there's not a political will to provide sustainable housing full syrian refugees in lebanon if you're in turkey or you're in jordan and you're in staying in some of the camps that have been set up for syrian refugees there they're much more robust facilities because they've been established with the understanding that the syrian refugees were going to be there for years. for a series of reasons partially political partially because the government has been functioning for a number of years and also just their general approach to this crisis has been to avoid anything that would give a semblance of permanence to the syrian refugee camp refugee population i mean this is a bit of a hangover the goes back to the time of the palestinians the lebanese are very

concerned that the syrian refugee population may stay for a long period of time and they indeed have been there for a while now the real question is they refused to allow the kind of more permanent structures that would provide a baseline of humanitarian protection for these very vulnerable populations still ahead on the bulletin al shabaab says an attack on luxury hotel in kenya as a response to donald trump recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and on the finishing line at our value the walls toughest competition almost to a close. by the sky nine information. or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello there it's windy and cold for some of us across the region at the moment but look at the satellite picture we can see this great big area of cloud head that's

given us a lot of snow over parts of turkey and brought in some very strong winds as well some of that snow has also been dipping further south and as we head through thursday will see it spread further east winds as well so lots of wintery weather across parts of iraq and behind that it will be tony a good deal fresher than it has been and those winds will make it feel cooler than it actually is as well that system continues its journey eastwards as we head through friday moving pretty quickly looks like kabul will start to see that snow during the day that system will also be affecting the weather across the arabian peninsula as well even here in doha so it's fairly mild at the moment thursday we're looking at a top temperature of around twenty seven but the winds will be picking up during the day and that will drag in some fall cooler s.-o. jur in the night will be dropping down to around fourteen or fifteen in the city of doha and then during the day on friday will be struggling just to twenty one degrees so it will feel quite cool for us we're not really used to weather that low as we head down to a southern parts of africa there's quite

a few outbreaks of rain here stretching all the way down towards the southeast madagascar catching quite a few it's dry and. the with sponsored by qatar. where the online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the movement that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has cooled based on an eagle protest and instructed police to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice for votes and lots of different reasons for six different types of bricks to join the global conversation on how does iraq.

good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories bush promised a series of politicians to put self interest aside and work together on a consensus deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the european union she made the playoffs to her government survived a no confidence motion called by opposition leader jeremy corben. two u.s. soldiers are among at least nineteen people killed by a bomb and more than syria the department of defense worker and a supporting contractor were also killed i suppose claim responsibility for the blast in man and freezing weather in lebanon and syria is being blamed for the deaths of eight children and displacement camps heavy snow and torrential rain is continuing more than a million syrians are living in tents and makeshift shelters in lebanon. behind an attack in kenya and says it was in retaliation for the u.s. president's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel i think twenty

one people died in the assault. hotel complex on tuesday the red cross says fifty people are still unaccounted for catherine sawyer has more from nairobi. outside this morgue in nairobi and she has family members and colleagues wait for news some more than that. now the. details of what happened inside the dusit tell complex are beginning to march surveillance cameras captured the beginnings of the a talk when havey armed men walked into the upmarket complex. green mean. to her. for hours afterward. terrified workers and clients barricaded themselves in as gunfire and explosions rang out. some people are still missing

hundreds of others were taken to safety you know peroration that lasted through tuesday night we go out to say for the record but they make a big mistake because it was not we go and leave the ship to us kenya's president has about to bring those responsible to justice we are a country governed by laws rules and regulations a country that embraces peaceful coexistence we believe in these principles and values even in the face of adversity i must also state that we are also a nation that never forgets those who hurt our children police have started investigating they want to find out how that was

planned how the gunman got hero who was a canyon's of a foreign is who are their friends who helped them where was their attack plan and all this are questions that many kenyans want quick conses to al shabaab has in the past say they're tox are in response to kenya sending troops to somalia as part of a un backed international force this comes on the third and a vast area of the killing by al shabaab of more than one hundred kenyan soldiers on a military base in south in somalia. this must have been a. park there was sleep in. in the country and was just activated for two reasons one of course i was sure bob was called memory to be the only verse and secondly it was announcing that it is still there it is still around and it's too. late for the hotel is now a crime scene and the city is mourning once more. catherine soy oil to zero.

afghan peace talks of a stumbling block with the taliban threatening to walk away from negotiations the perception is the u.s. of deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from afghanistan amazing between the u.s. special envoy of reconciliation that. taliban leaders last week was canceled now has postponed a planned trip to islam are bad for talks with pakistani leaders meanwhile the taliban is accused in islamabad of cracking down on its leaders and members to pressure the group to open talks with the afghan government so how can i as an adjunct scholar of defense and foreign policy at the cato institute and she says part of farm will be able to bring the taliban back to the negotiating table. i think with pakistan plays a vital role in actually moving these talks forward and it is very telling that the special envoy. used to go to some about and response back side has been sort of

cracking down on balance safe havens and safe houses in going after certain leaders so i think what can be done to move these talks along there are two things basically one is that oksana can show that it is serious about trying to use the leverage that it has on the taliban to get them to the negotiating table and to get them to compromise on some of their demands and the second issue would be also arms and being in a more compromising position where he is willing to meet with the taleban and backs on officials together. and even when certain things have not been set in stone jesting. the international criminal court has halted the vilest of former ivory coast president following a new prosecutions early in the course of that event for you to go. to his wife and. inside the house.

friends family members politicians and supporters celebrate the international criminal court's decision to acquit the former president. it was a party organized by his wife's human backbone she's wanted by the international criminal court in august she was parted and freed after being sentenced by an ivorian court to twenty years in prison for her role in the two thousand and eleven civil war. since then she's refused to talk publicly until now breaking her silence to speak to al-jazeera she's due to watch and see her i am behaving in joy because we won remember the whole walled was mobilized against ivory coast against the regime of bug bo and today the international criminal court washed him from guilt the court has confirmed that he is innocent. during a seven year long legal fight prosecutors presented eighty witnesses and thousands of documents to the court in the hague faced with what the judges described as an

exceptionally weak prosecution argument the case collapsed prosecutors say they will appeal with lawyers worried about the possible repercussions the ruling could have on the surviving victims of the civil war they fear that maybe. hurt appearing in certain areas were very resigned and that maybe they could again be targeted as it was the case during the process. two thousand and eleven three thousand died and tens of thousands who were displaced when refused to hand over power in a contested presidential election in two thousand and ten. promises made by the government for reconciliation have largely been left unfulfilled victims and survivors of the crisis are still waiting for compensation and justice. many ivorians say that as long as bug bo has not returned home there can be no reconciliation he is the one that will bring the reconsolidation i ask when he will

return to ivory coast since. i don't know when he will return back to the motherland soon but i don't think he knows himself when he will return home. while many may fear return. for his supporters the party has just begun nicholas hawke al-jazeera. great promised alexis tsipras has survived a confidence motion by just one vote suppressed called a vote. last parliamentary majority on sunday when has main coalition partner walked out that was the result of a controversial. macedonia that's a tough. well construction will soon begin on china's biggest investment project and sri lanka the government says the one point four billion dollar port city project be a technological marvel critics say it's part of a crippling debt trap when alpha and its reports. this bad expensive landreth claim

from the season around columbus is where she lanka is building a port city that each hopes to become the financial hub of south asia china is helping pay full and build this new project its ambassador was on hand to check on progress was the colombo port city project is an important project of the one belt one road initiative in sri lanka which is one of the key countries along the maritime silk route it is also an important project to implement the consensus of china and sri lanka and is an important project for the benefit of sri lankan society and its people for its part china will own a little less than half the land for ninety nine years yet the government is confident that the new development will help sri lanka's economic prospects we are going to be the center of change in the next few years and port city will be the catalyst in getting us there china is dominant in sri lanka cannot be ignored

this its latest project sri lanka's largest single foreign direct investment a project to build a two hundred sixty nine ahead to financial city on land reclaimed from the sea and now china is back again offering sri lanka more million dollars loans. the government will likely use that money to pay some of its staggering debt which stands at around thirty billion dollars and chinese loans account for some of that four in debt this bought in the southern region of humber was built with loans from china but the government couldn't make its payments and had to give up control of the facility to be zhang for ninety nine years china has been criticised for pulling sri lanka into what some have called a death trap but others see it differently any investor. china will go where you see the opportunity. you know if you along has been not as still

as we would like you know who work in our preparedness we may pay the price so as it builds this new port city near colombo again with chinese money analysts say issue lanka's government needs to do better to manage its debts and ensure that it keeps going to sure of mega projects like these men are finance al-jazeera colomba . the presidents of brazil and argentina have increased pressure on venezuela's lead in a colossal calling him a dictator. and when he saw a mockery made the comments during the meeting in the brazilian capital market reaction is to mother of a long has presidency through fictitious elections comes a week after month little began a second term in office which many countries in the vision have called in the. now one of the toughest driving competitions in the world is coming to an end the deck our valley has led teams through the peruvian desert start and finish in lima this

year the course has been shorter but for many the race has been just as challenging by alice sanches has more from pisk all. the finish line is almost in sight and the dakar rally has a clear and very familiar leader he is two time winner nasser realty he's the first competitor from the middle east to have won the race. twice and now the driver from qatar has a fifteen minute lead and is favored to win again let the assist be deuced to raise familiar ground and it's given him the edge when we know. him a hundred percent we know what we need. because as. i am coming from you have a lot of savvy enough. however i let the fia and his team have been tested several times losing their ways. so you cannot. because

there is nothing it's only. not only confusing it's been tough more than twenty five percent of the competitors abandoned the race some for health reasons others crashed. and some were disqualified like russian truck driver and they caught again off for hitting a spectator and not stopping to help. spectator john kerry was also near the truck like many he rode with friends along the rally camping out in the open at times risking his life but he says it was worth it. to see the trucks in this place is spectacular how they move how the motor sound what they can do it to see it firsthand it's spectacular. the rallies route through the south of p two so desert were ancient civilizations have come and gone there's

been much criticism of this race from those who say it poses a threat across heritage to say it should go back to africa but from an radio no writing the dues is a common hobby for peruvians and he says it's ok to hold the rally here the wind brings the natural beauty back fast. it's like therapy you wait and. the weekend to go out in your car and play in the dunes. it's unclear if the rally will be held here again. but for now many peruvians continue to salute their favorite drivers as they get ready for the last stage. hello again i'm elizabeth of the headlines on al-jazeera prime minister has politicians to put self interest aside and work together on

a consensus deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the european union she made the playoffs to have gotten that survived in our confidence motion by opposition leader jeremy corbin so now m.p.'s have made clear what they don't want we must all work constructively together to set out what parliament does want that's why i'm inviting m.p.'s from all parties to come together to find a way forward one that both delivers on the referendum and come to the support of parliament. this is the time to put self-interest. group says tuesday's attack on a luxury hotel and shopping complex in kenya was in retaliation for the u.s. president's decision to recognized as israel's capital at least twenty one people were killed in the attack in nairobi the red cross says fifty are still unaccounted for the lives of displaced syrians living in camps under threat from

a second severe winter storm tens of thousands of more than lebanon including many children a battle in freezing temperatures in makeshift shelters fifteen children have died in camps inside syria in the past month. greek prime minister alexis tsipras has survived a confidence vote by just one vote suppressed called the vote after his government lost its parliamentary majority on sunday when his main coalition partner walked out that was the result of a controversial deal to rename greece's neighbor message or near northern macedonia . the international criminal court has halted the village of former ivory coast president after a new appeal by prosecutors earlier the court in there then said babo was free to go a day after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity he was tried over post-election violence eighty years ago afghan peace talks have had a stumbling block with the taliban threatening to walk away from negotiations the group has accused the us of deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from

afghanistan well those other headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next. talk to. you personally one of the main beneficiaries is that the case listen if you want to be a solution to that in new york that's not exactly my point we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter just zero. zero zero for me ok and i really could be today at the fight against spent in on our test strips the answer to an overdose crisis in the united states we will discuss a controversial told making haring safe for drug use to say tweet us your thoughts or leave them in a live chat and you too could be in the street. in

america you are now more likely to die from an opioid overdose than a car crash that's according to a new report out this week by the national safety council it is a sobering statistic due in part to the rise of illicit drug fentanyl a synthetic opioid roughly about one hundred times stronger than morphine and fact fenton are now surpasses heroin as the number one cause of opioid related deaths as law enforcement officials struggle to keep the drugs off the streets researchers have created a tool to prevent overdoses and joining us to talk about this in baltimore maryland june young park she's an assistant scientist at johns hopkins university and the director of a study examining the feasibility of drug checking as a public health tool in daly city california tracey helton she's an addiction specialist and author of the big fix hope after heroine she's also a recovering heroin addict. in burlington vermont scott paycheck recovering from

a substance abuse disorder he's working to get for months elected officials to address the overdose crisis and the newtown ohio tom signing he's the chief of the newtown police department hello everybody it's good to have you here with us on the stream we've been so careful to just get absolutely right what it is about fentanyl what we're talking about in terms of an overdose crisis really can you kind of steer us into the beginning of a conversation well i will do that with the help of people online there was a hash tag that caught our eye here at the stream and it was started by someone named ryan have a look at my screen here ryan says hi my name is ryan one of the best friends one of my best friends died from a fentanyl overdose yet i spend a lot of time debunking fintan all hysteria and my crazy probably but i'm also a physician who practices emergency medicine medical toxicology and addiction medicine and i'm tired of the misinformation hints this hash tag w t front and all it was born from saying that there is so much false reporting on

france and all and been told logs have been in st heroin since the late seventy's they're not contagious it's the newest excuse not to save lives and i wish we would treat people who use drugs better so scott i want to go to you with this series of tweets here talk to us about what you think the biggest misconception is when it comes to food and on your standing here in the u.s. . sure well first off i just have to say i love brian's work he's a great communicator on this issue and he certainly gets it right i think the misinformation stems in a lot of ways from talking about an opioid crisis and i think that brings to mind a lot of ideas about prescription from super bowls and the real issues here are driving the financial crisis or the overdose crisis here in america isn't because people are being overprescribed animal it's because famille is increasingly showing up in drug spot on the street and i think another important part to emphasize there is that when we're talking about financial we're not talking about something that

only affects people who use and seek opioids but we're really talking about something that's increasingly showing up in illicit bins or die as a penes in cocaine methamphetamine that's become a wider issue affecting a larger group of people. we talk about the strength of fentanyl and how powerful it is that i have to say it's in the medical profession all of the time so we are talking about illegal fentanyl you have seen what it can do to somebody can you give us an exception yes sure and there's definitely misconceptions especially from a law enforcement first responder side is that if you touch it you're going to overdose and die the white house put it on air for mation along with for general the police a lot of fire agencies know that part's not true there is those some danger that we can't discount from the first responder side i liken it to what we deal with with needles an accidental needle pope doesn't necessary mean you're going to catch up the type of serious i'd be but can you completely discount a no so we're going from the law enforcement side as we're taking those precautions

wearing gloves masks and eye glasses and telling people look if you're around if you're not going over those it's all highly unlikely even if it gets airborne but you do take precautions but to made a very good point about it being mixed with other drugs were there's always flow ebb and flow of drugs and we get so stuck on one thing instead of like you just talk about the addiction itself it is being mixed with methamphetamine and cocaine it's not one way some of it's mixed by the dealer some people are using multiple drugs including the funnel and some people are seeking it out so we can't have one response we can't have one blanket response we could have multiple tools which many of these people the experts you have are working on these multiple tools. do you as a scientist you've got a very can't understand enough what thing to know is can you unpack it for us describe if i suppose yes so as i mentioned we are really talking about illicit remanufactured and all right now in fact there are actually. and all analog all of compounds that of them

a lot of and you know and it is often sold at peril and actually on the street and the danger is that necessarily that chemical it well but the way that it is marketed and the fact that a lot of you know don't know what it is that their youth. it's interesting you mention that a we just got this live in on you tube from someone who says that people overdose because they don't know what concentration of the drugs they are getting on the street and that was echoed by another person on twitter who wrote this piece actually this is abraham goodman who wrote exposure seventeen and doesn't kill but misinformation does and he sent the stream of video comment talking about one of the main reasons for overdoses how to listen when you get a prescription from a doctor before you use it takes medication you look to the right people who buy drugs and market that is unregulated don't have to do that one of the reasons we see increase in overdose is because people think they're using

heroin but in fact it's inventor no which is much more put and sort requires a small dose so testing strips a lot of people to get one step closer to knowing what they're using it doesn't give them the exact composition but it gives a general direction of how potent and strong is the medication and then it was correctly and know you can get over those from touching or being next to them so true you see it talks about knowing the exact composition and really not knowing the exact composition when someone is going out to buy drugs is that something that they're looking for is that a question that people are asking. so i definitely would say if people are interested in harm reduction one of the big problems we're having now it's been a poisoning is people who are using stimulants so they're not expecting to be in their drug supply at all so in places like boston and the past few months the set on and the cookie deaths have has exceeded that all of the heroin so there's

different parts to this problem there is that people who are accidently overdosing on phenol that they were expecting and then there's the concentration of but also maybe are expecting that there might be something on there but the concentration is different than than what you just stated so i think first sort of people who people use drugs who are more experienced with this there's ways to mitigate risk including federal tester of having the locks on here and having someone present you can administer the knocks on but i think there's also a subset of people who are really opioid naive or they're not expecting said that this it's in a way that they weren't anticipating and then the you know their response or they're using alone so there's a lot of misinformation that's out there and there's a lot of information that needs to get out there and there and the war on drugs is really suppressing a lot of that you know now but i'm assuming that's yes go ahead go ahead it yeah i was going to jump in if you don't mind you some of this is that some of the users we've had a woman who thought it was cocaine or she overdosed was brought back because that was found on or however we can blanket it there are some people who are going out

and see confessional when carphone know that our streets we were actually shocked that some users were looking for car fare no you know obviously the other part of this is there are some drug users who use multiple drugs well that's marijuana depends on people who invested and if you say coughing to no yes what's coughing go or phone no wood came out we sold back in two thousand and sixteen we sold in june and august nineteenth of the twenty seventh of two thousand and sixteen we had nearly two hundred overdoses in three people died in one week it was a mixture of fennoy and carfare knows what i call the organic transition from the opiate of heroin to the synthetics so there is a mix so when we talk about there that's why we need multiple tools to strip. be great for those people who and like was brought up if you're a cocaine user or methamphetamine user and your body is not used to the opiates and you take something like a friend or car for no there's going to be a high degree chance that you're going to overdose there is potential for that there are a group of people though the good opiate users are going to kid right here my small

community we have a young generation and he talks about going up forty five minutes to another city and he seeks out pure so there's a mixture of things and that's what makes this so difficult an addiction so difficult there's different users different types of things going on we need multiple tools to attack this from all different angles let's talk about one of those multiple tools to let me bring you in here i'm just looking at my laptop with something that you walk in on right now detecting functional saving lives tell us more about that and also the functional tester. yes so we conducted a study back and you've got. to understand how accurate the tool that is there to have a drug ample really well and if people who use drugs on the street would be injured and that the whether they call it is particularly provided would be into an offering the. so we have two hundred that

will. meet with the both police department and a very violent health department and we thought that that meant. in particular i had asked. if i had a. bad trade ok and know that fentanyl tester all right let's break this down very simply get guys because you're way ahead of most of us of us who are not aware of what it means to test fentanyl so you have a strict show us the straight and then tell us what it does yes. keep talking as you keep showing us go ahead tell. you more oh. i want it now.

tennis back to your chemicals we can he was you a slightly off camera that really can what you want to take us staying on these test trips and of course we saw yours there also tracy our audience in our viewers say that they are barry help all this is due scott mcdonald a former stream gas and a doctor who says test strips help can be purchased at some dollar stores locally low cost tools to help consumers make informed choices reduce the amount used if it's an all for example but there's pushback online from people who aren't so sure and scott i'll give this to you says i've never used heroin before but i find it hard to believe that anyone would discard a street drug because it failed a purity tass scott do you think about. sure and that and that might be true people substance use disorder might not discard the troops if they're testing positive for football but we know that some have and from research on and rhode island and north carolina we know that in the presence of positive drugs the drug users are taking

steps to mitigate risk we know that people are using more slowly using less of a particular drug or taking a smaller dose not using alone and using only in the presence of mark's own and that's harm reduction techniques are steps they can be taken by anyone regardless of their intent regarding symbol if someone is interested in seeking out famille and once a positive test result they still have the ability to take those harm reduction measures and keep themselves safe when we get it so it's on yes yes i guess i was just going to say if i'm a console i'm wasn't there when user myself although at the time there wasn't that all of the drug supply but i would say as someone who is heroin myself if if i knew that if there were times where there be waves of overdoses in the city if i knew that our particular flood had higher potency that was something that i would take into account and so when we're talking about someone having a sample that might be adulterated with that now we're not saying they're going to

throw the other way we're saying they might inject slower they might make sure there is another person present they might use it a different way so if i'm in it if i'm injection drug user maybe i'll also order maybe all i'll have an informed choice on how to form debility to decide what it is i'm going to do as opposed to someone who doesn't have access to that also strips to just is basically going blind into the situation and not knowing what's going to happen to the point if they see the to keep people alive at a time go ahead to go ahead you know you know is going to say and that's part of this is you brought up nor can this this is one tool for a certain group of people that it may work with another tool is the norc and not using alone when we're talking about harm reduction and one of the things we've been pushing to is not just all that stuff and nor can but calling nine one one or please. officers firefighters many of our first responders are caring or can't and what we're finding with the especially the use of it is taking multiple doses of nor can we used to store two milligrams now were four milligrams it's not uncommon for us to give ten milligrams so it's important to call nine one one and then it's

important to try to find out where the person is if they're ready for treatment give them a treatment if they're not then how do we continue the army doctrine to make sure they stay alive it's a piece and that's what we've got to continue do is keep building pieces finding pieces to be able to make sure that people stay alive and ultimately hopefully into recovery if that's what they want to do a knock on is a drug blocks the opiates to stop that from getting from the system money and time of course because you mentioned in our can there it's the brand name of the drug now locks on this is david he started this hash tag on twitter he says let's start this i carry a can and spread the word at a time of two hundred overdose deaths a day a majority from oids we all should carry in our can which revives a person whose overdose every life is precious and so he has this hash tag and if you go to that online you'll see lots of other stories like that but i want to put it in juxtaposition with this tweet because we were talking about. these testing steps on our can is one tool and another is

a fentanyl testing strip we got this on you tube from someone who says where can we get the test strips how can an addict access test strips and then i'll add that to say how can an addict sas. as well tracy do want to take that on. so there's various web sites fine a lot so now so no locks on is the generic version of narcan and is primarily used syringes changes and that's if you have a syringe exchange in your area you can look at the nascent website and see if they have locks on available this is the four milligrams from a jobs these are this is seventy five dollars a dose most programs can't necessarily afford to carry these they're available and some pharmacy chains also they might be able to use your insurance to purchase that and you can look at sites like the locks on now. there's no locks and locator next distribution which is an organization i'm involved with might be able to help you find on the locks so that's you know the various sites that you can look for but

like i said the you know these when i started over those prevention two thousand and three these doses were you know could be thirty three cents apiece now you know they've they've the price of no locks on it's gone up something like three hundred percent and did these are some for purchase tracy and tom you came up with pay if you both know that when we mentioned that you would like to say. i think it's really important for people to see who watching what this drug can do and what to show you something from the pascoe county sheriff's office where they came across somebody who'd oversee overdosed and they wanted to use knock on him and i'm going to tell you this video is very hard to watch maybe to stopping it maybe triggering if you're actually in recovery or going through recovery or you have overdosed so i'm giving you a long lead up because you don't want to watch this this is not cut up work.

oh no. big whoop. fer the old. yeah the point. home. i think mark and avoid in the left nostril. may go. near him. dearly. tired to watch but of course the result without it would be even harder this is rebecca is she someone who uses that hash tag kerry can she says i wish it was easier to get a hold of particularly the nasal spray and she explained to the stream why she

carries it she says she hasn't had to administer it get but her daughter is an addict and she says i got the standard type by going to a clinic and having a one on one training when my daughter was in treatment last they gave her prescription for the nasal spray to have on hand so i have two and this is the first time she is hearing of the test strips for fentanyl she says i wasn't familiar with it but i just googled it and i like the concept but i worry knowing that there is spent and all is in it and that could unintentionally motivate people then to use it so it's got that worry that she has it's i could buy a member of least one of the trump administration what do you make of that fear that knowing that the drug has been stolen it will increase drug use. it's hard to say just because we haven't seen any research that i'm aware of that indicates a significant outcome of concern about providing strips are unsafe and you think we're seeing the exact opposite but we can't guarantee that supplying to change

a person's interest or motivations providing more knowledge is only empowering we're not going to lose much on the whole if we continue to. do it again i want to jump in but yet you i remember the president making the crisis something that he felt was very important that he wanted to address during his administration but here i'm just looking at a quote from the assistant secretary of health and human services we can't afford to create a false sense of security let's not rationalize putting tools in place to help them they said who are recovery continue their lifestyle or say only to you stop i know you want to jump in but. it is possible to you. fence and all in a safe way we've been using benson all in hospitals in a medical setting for many decades again it is the fact that people don't know what necessarily that fence will exist and present in baghdad i mean especially in areas

where an internal is only just emerging in the local drug market i think that fence will test strips are a way we can save lives now and that some areas like baltimore completely unavoidable that all in some areas it's just everywhere and so i think it makes them bomb to really focus on the. ideas people the drug traffic ahead. you know i was able to jump in the head orchards. tom i was going to say we can talk ok thanks i just want to say i want to be careful too because we can't discount the dangers of when we started the coalition when it was hair and we had about twenty to twenty five reduces a week on average of one to two people dying as soon as the synthetics industry we have an average of fifty to seventy over people overdosing every week well

fortified people dying every week we can't discount the dangers and like the doctor said there's a difference when you get it from a doctor from a hospital you're not setting it's controlled you know what's in there with these or cartel drug dealers are put on the streets are going to china labs there is no she there's no standards no one checking it no one check in the dosage of it or the potency of it so i don't want to say that we've got to be careful this is a dangerous drug and even though we save somebody if they're still using that no there's still a chance they could overdose and guys we have to be careful with that also you're not the only one sounding that warning there tracy i'll get this to you but i just wanted to echo what you heard tom say there eugene on twitter says fentanyl is coming into the u.s. through our ports of entry and not across the southern border where trump is demanding a wall is a synthetic opioid that's one hundred times stronger than morphine and made in a lab it's not grown on the farm and it's coming from china and not mexico so then how best to combat this strain see that that's where i'll let you pick up so i

would just say people have been using drugs for thousands of years and so for people who work on public health we want to help people make informed choices and do whatever they're going to do safely so when you think from a public health perspective we really don't want people's eating but we want to put seat belts in cars that people have the ability to say and so in the case of that we know people are using drugs and so you know shutting down access to various tools. i'm just the right approach and i would also say that you know in a lot of cases people say they aspire to abstinence but abstinence isn't necessarily something that's realistic i mean in my case i had tried to stop using drugs a different times and especially and then there are you know i tried different methods and i wasn't able to places like needle exchange i personally have been in our camp myself made it so i could live to the point to where now i have twenty years sober and i our children are not our job these various things so i'm grateful that those

tools were available that all isn't really coming through the bore though the southern border of the united states i mean for years i have known people who have purchased that all through you know various means and had it shipped to them from china this is not a new thing it's just the fact that it's teaming the u.s. drug supply and now it's in a broader scope that's become more alarming. if you have the last question that gives scott. oh that the i think you thought be great i think that all this conversation really underscores the fact the strips have in certain markets a good deal of utility now where not the entire drug supply has been seen by but it also shows in that video from pasco county really shows that a greater response is needed and i think what we're really building up to is the fact that we need overdose prevention scientists we need places where people can use drugs safely and be revived on site at scott.

thompson thank you so much that. that video said that we cannot arrest our way out of the problem. thank you so much for joining us.

you know corruption has reached a level like that before john kerry. counts. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will the american people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al-jazeera. it's time for us to come together put the national interest first and deliver on the referendum. the british prime minister survives and no confidence vote faces the tough task of taping a new deal or by monday. hello

and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth for autumn also ahead american soldiers and civilians are among the dead and i saw a popular restaurant and northern syria. that fled war and now they're struggling to stay warm who talk to syrian refugees facing a new threat to their lives plus. singing for support u.s. government workers rely on handouts rather than pay outs as the shutdown drags on. tourism a has less than one week to come up with for exit plan b. and the prime minister is seeking help from politicians urging them to put self-interest aside she's pleaded for consensus on the u.k.'s exit. the european

union after surviving a no confidence vote called by the opposition leader three hundred twenty five m.p.'s voted against johnny corbin's motion while he got the backing of three hundred six which means the government won nineteen votes paul brennan begins our coverage. she's not just clinging on she's fighting on this evening the government has won the confidence of parliament this now gives us all the opportunity to focus on finding a way forward on bricks it i believe it is my duty to deliver on the british people's instruction to leave the european union and i intend to do so far from quitting over tuesday night historic defeat to resign may return to parliament on wednesday in completive mood. the prime minister knew that the rebels who voted against her brics a deal would vote with her this time the eyes of the right three hundred six the no

use of the left three hundred twenty five. it gives her the breathing room to start talking to opposition leaders about her plan b. i would like to invite the leaders of parliamentary parties to meet with me individually and i would like to start these meetings tonight to speak out because the government approaches these meetings in a constructive spirit is an urge others to do the same in response the opposition labor party urged to take no deal off the table. the government must remove must remove clearly once and for all the prospect of the catastrophe of a no deal break certainly and all the chaos that would come as a result of that europe has reacted with some alarm to the turmoil at westminster the you nations have started accelerating their preparations for a no deal bracks it on march twenty ninth the commission regrets. rejection of the

word withdrawal agreements as representative of the council said because we do believe this was the best possible outcome yes we are making preparations for no just an area we have to do that now that doesn't loot checks the ports and airports but we're not making preparations for checks along the border but having said that . the only way they can avoid a hard border long term isn't through good will isn't through the right words it has to be through an agreement but suspicion is growing that the prime minister's plan b. will look remarkably similar to the deal so emphatically rejected already the u.k. is really now in the realms of the unprecedented many m.p.'s are so skeptical of teresa mayes chances of finding a workable plan before bricks it that one group is actively seeking to strip her of power and hand that instead to the powerful palm tree liaison committee for across party solution and the government will be legally obliged to follow its recommendations it could advocate

a new general election another referendum perhaps on the m.p.'s would effectively be in charge of the executive these are indeed extraordinary times paul brennan al-jazeera westminster one choice may has been meeting opposition leaders to try to secure baxendale law and famous monitoring mase lateline statement sent us this update. three's a maze appearance outside downing street designed to coincide exactly with the main evening news bulletins here didn't say anything at all that she hadn't said previously in the house of commons but what it did do was stamped her all forward see back on the entire process just twenty four hours ago after she lost by a record margin withdrawal agreement votes she's now saying i'm back in charge of the entire process she said that this evening she met leaders of all the opposition parties except for jeremy colvin the leader of the main labor opposition he's

refused to meet her because he says he's not going to until she rules out the prospects of the u.k. leaving the european union without any sort of deal at all and so there she was saying i'm in listening mode all talk to anybody who's prepared to listen we've all got to make concessions in the national interest and the only person who won't talk to me is jeremy colvin and boo sucks to him so it was a very important moment for the series in may not just to say i'm in charge and we have to pull together in the national interest but also to ease the jitters i think inside her own conservative policy which is deeply splays there's a rump which does want to leave the european union with no deal the rest of the policy has no idea anymore than the rest of us do what exactly the future holds over the next few weeks what we do know though is over the coming days these backstairs talks inside downing street will continue and on monday she has to come back to parliament with a new plan with them on to other news now and i son has claimed responsibility for

a suicide bomb attack that's killed nineteen people in northern syria among the dead of four americans to soldiers and two civilians it's happened just weeks after president trump announced he is pulling u.s. troops out of syria saying that i still had been defeated that he had reports from washington d.c. . blood on the streets a popular restaurant blown apart american helicopters. rushed in to help the wounded and remove the dead in the city of men bitch the u.s. military confirming on twitter that u.s. service members were killed the islamic state of iraq in the levant says they are responsible and that they were targeting the coalition u.s. senator lindsey graham directly blamed the attack on president donald trump's promise to pull u.s. troops out quickly my concern by the statements made by president trump is that you'd set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting you make people who are trying to kill wonder about us and as they get older the people

we're trying to help are going to going to get more uncertain saw this in iraq. i'm now seeing it in syria he urged the president to reconsider but that seems unlikely because just after the attack the vice president made this claim we're bringing our troops home the caliphate has crumbled and isis has been defeated. one of the leaders who most clearly does not want to see the u.s. president change course the president of turkey who weighed in the me. i asked his claim the responsibility for the attack and this may mean to affect the decision that mr trump has taken but as i know mr trump's determination about this issue i do not think he will step back against this kind of a terrorist attack. donald trump has been criticized by both parties for his decision to withdraw u.s. troops his secretary of defense quit in protest now his claim that i still has been

defeated will be openly questioned after this attack but he's still not showing any signs he will reconsider political hay al-jazeera washington. the lives of displaced syrians living in camps under threat again from a second viet one to stall tens of thousands in northern lebanon including many children of battling freezing temperatures and makeshift shelters as fifteen children have died in camps inside syria and the possible say no hava spoke of people and the northeast in lebanon close to the border with syria. is very ill. the two year old is suffering from respiratory problems temperatures regularly drop below zero during the winter months in this corner of lebanon but this year is particularly harsh and these children refugees from syria are the most vulnerable they live in tents made of flimsy plastic sheeting it is

a struggle to keep warm and it is hard to stay dry i'm sure when most of the united nations gave us money to buy gasoline for the whole winter but the amount you can purchase is not enough what a month and a half we need ten dollars a day i have three kids. it's hard for fathers like up to when they can't buy medicine and meet the needs of their children these desperate families have survived one severe storm already this year and now they're bracing for another storm the second in less than a week the united nations says twenty two thousand syrians were affected in the first storm flooding heavy rain and snow whipped by strong winds destroyed their tents last week many fear the worst is yet to come. the upcoming storm because i suffered and the last one my tent was flooded and we couldn't stay inside my family and i had to live with others in another. and i'm

sure this will happen again imagine how much harder it is for the elderly ninety four year old has and his daughters are up are trapped. when weather conditions are bad we can't do anything but stay inside and i wrap my father with a lot of blankets like a child to keep me warm and i have no choice but to wait for the storm to end before going outside there are no shelters to accommodate these refugees in times like this the united nations says seventy thousand people are at risk because of harsh weather conditions forty thousand of them are children they live and shelters that are prone to flooding and are in danger of collapse because of heavy snowfall levanon refuses to set up proper camps to prevent the long term resettlement of refugees the u.n. says one hundred seventy thousand of the one million refugees registered in lebanon live like this for them in particular it is proving to be

a tough winter. ourselves northeastern levanon heartland his vice president for programs and policy at refugees international and he says that there is no political will to provide sustainable housing for refugees. if you're in turkey or you're in jordan and you're in staying in some of the camps that have been set up for syrian refugees there they're much more robust facilities because they've been established with the understanding that the syrian refugees were going to be there for years lebannon for a series of reasons partially political partially because the government has been functioning for a number of years and also just their general approach to this crisis has been to avoid anything that would give a semblance of permanence to the syrian refugee camp refugee population i mean this is a bit of a hangover that goes back to the time of the palestinians the lebanese are very concerned that the syrian refugee population.