reaks the board come through the leadership program the not be. such kind of a inside the syria but does not this sort of attack proof that isolates very far from defeated and the us is getting it wrong we've still got the vice president mike pence insisting that i so has been defeated yeah i can say that also i saw has been defeated but i can say also another issue that suri a is a safe have an iraq is a safe afghanistan is a safe haven for all kinds of terrorist activities stop someone knows the schedule of the us soldiers inside the moon beach area beach b.y.b. is the bigger the bigger fuss back in this issue can create issues site at that in anywhere inside syria anywhere you who are. any quite an action because your eyes fall because these areas are the. us and the internal war has start that is

a safe for all kind of terrorist activities and any kind of intelligence agency who tries them on a plate united states decision can create make ours in such the. cycles but my point is that this attack shows that i still hasn't been defeated this isn't even a particularly even area where iceland's got to any sort of stronghold its reach is still very far and the battle against eisel is going to be a long one. let me tell you one issue that united states is having two thousand soldiers in syria and such kind of at tax can be also done inside london and inside parties as we know from the previous years so i can say that two thousand unite soldiers state soldiers is already not enough to fight against terrorism that we know from afghanistan united states is fighting al qaida and its islam practice

inside afghanistan says from seventeen year and we cannot say that all kind of radical terrorist organizations including afghanistan and iraq has been terminated i can't he said an about it will be that that's the moment thanks very much for joining us from minecraft. still ahead on al-jazeera from the battlefield into the negotiating table we'll have an update on u.s. efforts to hold talks with the afghan taliban. and on the finishing line the world's toughest driving competition draws to a close. from long flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze you're. going to welcome back to international weather forecasts well here across central europe after three weeks of very heavy snow we are still dealing with a high risk of avalanches and here in austria they are dealing with it right now

soldiers are on the roofs trying to get rid of as much snow as they can before some of those roofs will collapse and on the mountains they are using helicopters with explosives to detonate so those those avalanche risk will be lowered as those avalanches come down across the area opening up the roads as well as the trains across the area there we're also going to be dealing with a little bit more snow coming through in the overnight hours we do have a frontal boundary right here that's going to be passing through very quickly so as we go from thursday into friday we could be seeing a little bit of snow across much of this area so as you can see zurich a little bit of rain and snow in your forecast but as we go into the overnight hours and into friday notice the snow passing through and then down here towards the southeast so it may get a shot of snow but nothing like what we have seen in the last few weeks here across parts of the northwest though we are dealing with a front coming through the u.k. that's going to bring some windy and wet weather for you as we enter the weekend and then here across parts of egypt we are dealing with a sandstorm right now dust storm across the area that's all due to that one big

system that is passing through we are going to be seeing improving conditions for cairo with attempt a few on thursday of seventeen. the weather sponsored body counts on race. whether 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 would be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has codebase and a legal protest and instructed police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice. and lots of different reasons what's different types of bricks join the global conversation amount to zero.

and again you're watching has reminder of our top stories this hour. is amazing urging m.p.'s to work together on a deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the u. she made the appeal just hours after the government survived a no confidence vote called by the off position. responsibility for a suicide attack that killed nineteen people in northern syria for americans to soldiers and civilians are amongst the dead. the armed group behind she's days attack in kenya says it was in retaliation for the u.s. presence decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital at least twenty one people died in the assault by al-shabaab fighters on a nairobi hotel complex the red cross says fifty people are still unaccounted for after and soy has more from nairobi. outside this morgue in nairobi and she's family members and quickly sweet for news some more than that. now this

over details of what happened inside the dusit hotel complex are beginning to march surveillance cameras captured the beginnings of the attack when heavily armed men walked into the up market complex. employees are running all over the place he was screaming for point to realize that the best thing to do is to find a service place to hide. for hours afterwards 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 evacuation but they make a big mistake because it was not secure 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 and 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 their tap was planned how the gunman got here oh they can be foreigners who are their friends who helped them where was their attack planned all this are questions that many kenyans want to quick answers to al-shabaab has in the past said their tasks are in response to kenya sending troops to somalia as part of

a un backed international force this comes on the third anniversary of the killing . of more than one hundred kenyan soldiers on a military base in south and somalia this must have been a. park there was a sleep in. in the country and was just activated for two reasons one of course al shabaab was commemorating the. verse sorry and secondly it was announcing that it is still there it is still irrelevant and it's too. late for the hotel is now a crime scene and the city is mourning once more. catherine sawyer al-jazeera nairobi. u.s. special envoy on afghan reconciliation has just arrived in pakistan to try to revive talks with the taliban so i'll make that as meeting pakistani leaders to try to bring the taliban back to the table taliban leaders canceled a meeting with him accusing me us of deflecting from the issue of withdrawing

forces from afghanistan and also rejecting the involvement of the afghan government in the dialogue that's joined from. of us what was on the agenda of the u.s. and u.s. envoys visit. where the. main focus will be how to get that dollar bond back to the talks. expected in islamabad this trip guard force formed several times and up against on the government on the other hand trying to run taliban to hold talks with the us on war however we are door that at this moment the issuance of our statement from the minute of honest on where this decide how and where and destroys their sort of right so it is going to be important to see where the pakistan will be able to go

and reins of one taliban to come to the dogs or another us. could in islamabad she's likely to join. in the talks with the bug astonied civilian and military leadership i did not yet clear whether the taliban will accept or sit in these talks they had said already that meeting and door had made it quite clear that the two point. one taliban number one the red drawl of foreign forces from of one is done and a faggot of one is done would not be used against any other country they say that the united states is now putting you know. additional conditions which i don't accept it to the taliban so difficult to see how this plays out absolutely and given the. pits and he told what role can pakistan play. well buggers on has already said that they can only play

a limited role because the afghan taliban are independent there have control over our watch stretch of their territory and do not listen to pakistan if you remember back in friend to fifteen pakistan had arranged for its first face to face meeting with the taliban and a u.s. diplomat after that after that the u.s. drone strike killed the taliban leader up their money and then the dog. started so destroying once again it appeared that the dollar bond nor degree doctor anybody and saying they're dead or all face is the one to contact ok come on and join us that far as i am but thanks from. now there is care as a council has voted unanimously to deploy up to seventy five observers to yemen's port city of hyundai into the marshes will be sent for six months or supervise a cease fire and the withdrawal of rival forces after a truce still was signed in sweden last month as ways reports from the un

a unanimous vote by the security council to extend and expand its monitoring mission in data they've now authorized up to seventy five unarmed u.n. monitors for a period of six months the big worry on the ground is that the cease fire won't hold for anything like that long it came into force last month but is extremely fragile and shaky with numerous violations reported u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorist says keeping and extending the peace is one of his key priorities for the year ahead last month stockholm agreement on yemen to avoid the catastrophic military confrontation in the data it would have greatly increases the risk of feminine. but much more needs to be done to ensure that the parties live up to their commitments and that the drew political process finally leads to peace beyond the date in amman jordan talks about an exchange of

prisoners something that was originally supposed to happen before last month's stockholm agreement finally got underway the prisoner exchange is one of the confidence building measures that the special envoy has negotiated so it's a very important part because it shows good faith and it was part of the agreements reached in stock and confidence building is good in its own same areas there's still not enough confidence though to name a date for the next stage of political talks they've now slipped to february kuwait was talked about as a venue but the who things are on easy about going there and now germany is being mentioned. zero at the united nations in libya five people have been killed in fighting between rival armed groups on the outskirts of tripoli the violence fractures a four month old u.n. brokered cease fire vehicles can be seen in the south of the city facts no

conflicts of plays libya since the two thousand and one uprising that toppled one like a daffy back government in tripoli has been working on a new security plan but has achieved little without a national police force or army doctors in zimbabwe say sixty eight people have been treated for gunshot wounds after protests this week seventeen of the victims had to have emergency surgery been days of violence between demonstrators and security forces many are angry over a state prize in fuel prices police have arrested hundreds of people including promise rights activists. in seattle criminal court has blocked the release of former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo after a new appeal by prosecutors the court at the hague has said backbone was free to go a day after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity he was tried of a post election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed . how one of the toughest driving competitions in the world is coming to an end but

that car rally has led teams to the peruvian desert to start and finish this year the course has been shorter but for many just as challenging miles sanchez has walked from pisco. 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 i like the u.s. is produced to raise familiar ground and it's given him the edge when we know. that . hundred percent we know what we need. because as. i am coming from qatar we have a lot of savvy enough. however and his team have been tested several times losing

their weight. because they think it's only. not only confusing it's been tough more than twenty five percent of the competitors abandon 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. spectators. 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 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 to prove his heritage to say it should go back to africa but for right in the dues it's 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 until 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. of brazil's national museum has opened its first exhibition since the building was gutted by a large fire last year eight of the one hundred sixty pieces on display were recovered from the ashes including the bone from

a terror attack till now museum is trying to rebuild its vast collection most of which was wiped out by the fire in september the two hundred year old institution was considered last in america's main natural history museum with more than twenty six thousand fossils. can be found on our website. dot com they will find all the latest. in kenya twenty one people dead and another fifty still unaccounted for according to the red cross also give up to date with doubts of perks. top stories bush prime minister treason may has reached out across the political divide. to work together on a deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the european union she made the playoffs of

the government surprise survived a no confidence vote called by the opposition leader jeremy corbyn so now i have made clear what they don't want we must all work constructively together to set out what parliament. that's why i'm inviting m.p.'s from all parties to come together to find a way forward one the both delivers on the referendum and the support of parliament this is now the time to put self interest. to us soldiers are monks at least nineteen people killed by a bomb in northern syria defense and supporting contractor were also killed. responsibility for the blast in. the first funerals for people killed in tuesday's attack is in nairobi hotel have been held relatives buried two men who worked for a somali based charity at least twenty one people died in the assault but with

dozens of people still unaccounted for there off is that death toll could rise. doctors in zimbabwe said at least sixty eight people have been treated for gunshot wounds after a mass protest this week well than a dozen had to have emergency surgery and been days of demonstrations across the country in protest against the doubling of fuel prices police arrested hundreds of people including a prominent activist the former president of ivory coast remains in jail in the hague despite his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity prosecutions of petition in stashed all criminal court to keep him detained on they appeal against his acquittal he was tried in the post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed brazil's national museum has opened its first exhibition since the building was gutted by a large fire last year just eight of the one hundred sixty pieces and splay were recovered from the ashes in the bone of

a terror dactyl museum is trying to rebuild its vast collection those are the headlines we're back with more news after the stream. more than two thousand five hundred leaders from government businesses and international organizations will meet at the next economics to discuss the global political and industry trends for twenty nineteen. special coverage al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a and i'm 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 king says so tweet us your thoughts all need 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 the illicit drug fentanyl a synthetic opioid roughly about one hundred times stronger than morphine and fact sentinel 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 that conversation well i will do that with the help of people online there was a hash tag about 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 and one of the best one of my best friends died from a fentanyl overdose yet i spend a lot of time debunking fintan all hysteria in 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 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 and you have seen what it can do to somebody can you give us no suggestion 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 and actually no needle pope doesn't necessarily mean you're going to catch up a tie to see or it should 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 you if you're around if you're not going over those it's all highly unlikely even if you get airborne but you do take precautions but the made a very good point about it being mixed with other drugs were there is always flow ebb and flow of drugs and we get so stuck on one thing instead of like you just talked 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 a funnel and some people are seeking it out so we can't have one response we can 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 stunning of 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 a list that manufactured and all right now in fact there are actually. and all analog all compounds that of them lead to 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 can 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 the opportunity to do that one of the reasons we see increase an overdose is because people think

they're using heroin but in fact it's inventor no which is much more potent 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 mixed. so terry 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 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 have just stated so i think for sort of people who people who use drugs who are more experienced with this there's ways to mitigate risk including federal test drives having the locks on and having someone present who can administer the knocks on 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 the 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 seeking phenol when carphone know that our streets we were actually shocked that some users were looking for carfare 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 would came out we sold back in two thousand and sixteen we sold in june and in august one thousand to the twenty seven to two thousand and sixteen we had nearly two hundred overdoses and 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 that's why we need multiple tools to strip we. 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 for death there are a group of people though that get opiate users i get a 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 it 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 it to have a drug ample really well and could be if people who use drugs on the street would be entered 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 full police department and a very violent health department and we saw that the mental tester in particular i have 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. ok in fact. i don't know if. i'm.

going with tennis back to your comic is we can he was you a slightly off camera that really can wait you want to take us staying on these test trips and of course we saw yours there also tracy our audience and our viewers say that they are barry helpful this is do scott mcdonald a former stream gas and doctor who says test strips help can be purchased at some dollar stores locally low cost tool 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 elmer says i've never used heroin before but i find it hard to believe that anyone would discard a street drug because it failed purity tass scott but you make about. sure and that and that might be true people substance use disorder might not discard. but we know that somehow from research on embryos islands in north carolina we know that.