the more islamic liberation front. hundreds of immigrants in australian detention centers are into their second week of a hunger strike to highlight their plight detainees in brisbane the melbourne joined others in western australia who've been protesting for eight days they accuse their guards of brutality and intimidation as well as separating families the government's being urged to order an independent review of prison practices but the more still ahead on the news hour including tells britain's prime minister have a plan b. for braggs it are about to find out its israel opens a brand new international airport we'll tell you why palestinians are stuck on the ground. and it's war find out why this tennis player lost his cool at least for you know. britain's prime minister's reason may is set to address parliament and lay out

a plan b. for the brigs that withdrawal agreement her original deal for leaving the bloc was heavily defeated in parliament last week she's already met rival party leaders in the hope of reaching a breakthrough the u.k. is scheduled to leave the e.u. on march the twenty ninth. paul brennan joins us live now from london i guess the big question paul is what might the prime minister be willing or able to offer to get the process out of its current dead end. it seems that she's not willing or prepared to offer hardly anything at all frankly the informed speculation here at westminster is that plan b. will be almost identical to what plan a was which was so emphatically rejected last tuesday by a majority of two hundred thirty votes in the building behind me the prime minister theresa may reached out to other parties held talks with them but it appears that

she's preferred to keep the splits within her own party as a priority as opposed to reaching across party consensus there was some speculation that she might try to renegotiate the good friday agreement as a bilateral with ireland maybe renegotiate the backstop situation as a bilateral deal with ireland both of those since been comprehensively kybosh if you like by both the irish and the europeans and it now appears that teresa mayes idea such that it is is to try to go back to brussels and try to wring some additional concessions from the e.u. twenty seven about the backstop so that she can then bring her brics a tier euro skeptic and. european reform group factions within their own party on side to support her deal here in the parliament i think those who are expecting

a new direction from theresa may will be severely disappointed when she takes her feet at three thirty this afternoon paul many think it's very unlikely the e.u. is going to give any more ground so what happens next if as you say in many do expect nothing dramatic new comes out of threes in a speech today. yeah i mean i can touch on some of the european reaction already sonic. the irish minister has spoken about being fully committed to the withdrawal agreement in its entirety the irish european affairs minister helen mcentee has said this morning that there will be no bilateral talks on the backstop and certainly no renegotiation of the good friday agreement the german foreign minister. considered a saying he wants britain to come forward with serious and realistic proposals and he says that if those are forthcoming then europe will certainly look at them but the question is whether they'll be serious or realistic and so what we're now looking at is the potential for a kind of rebellion here

a parliament there are two groups that are known to want to submit amendments from marilee around article fifty that is the transition period and then the the end of the deadline for breakfast on march twenty ninth one group wants to extend article fifty so that we would continue without falling off a cliff edge on march twenty ninth another grouping led by the former attorney general would like to suspend article fifty now these are up in the air at the moment certainly the suspension idea it's not actually been tabled yet neither has the first one actually but the reality is there are moves afoot to try to take matters out of the prime minister's hands and put parliament's in charge such is the level of disquiet here at the way to recently has been handling things so far paul brand thanks so much now african union representatives have canceled a visit to the democratic republic of congo to same that resolving the dispute over last month's presidential election constitutional court judges declared fedex just

a kidney as the winner despite an a you appealed to delay the announcement because of voter fraud allegations johnsonville yunus says he's the legitimate leader because last month's election was stolen from him to see katie is due to be sworn in on tuesday. so my boyfriends or them assuming go i will skip the world economic forum in return home as protests there intensify activists say at least a dozen people have been killed during demonstrations over the doubling of fuel prices police have been accused of cracking down on antigovernment protesters the names of the five candidates who want to be the next president of senegal have been announced but missing from the list are two main opposition leaders because they're banned critics accuse president make a sound of silencing dissent so he can win a second term because he has more from the capital dhaka. the destruction caused by

u.s. warplanes targeting al shabaab fighters near the port city of kiss my you in southern somalia bodies and one told shelter vehicles lies through not a moment to remind us of the intensity of their strikes they killed what the command center for u.s. forces in africa describes as fifty two militants the somali army says the total is higher. we managed to kill at least seventy five militants after they attacked us and many more were injured we are telling people about that victory today the airstrikes came hours after al shabaab fighters tomba somali army base three hundred seventy kilometers southwest of the capital mogadishu somalia commanders say six soldiers were killed in the time and two others died when a booby trapped vehicle blew up as the army bottled for hours to a cup at the base u.s. military helicopters were sent to help the pentagon as increase the rate of strikes

in somalia and recent tease partly because president donald trump has loosened restrictions on when the u.s. military can take action against what are described as terrorist targets the number of u.s. forces of history that was not not let's get us into nicholas hoc reporting on the situation. the decisions taken by the constitutional court behind me are usually a formality and go unnoticed but this year missing on her list of candidates for this upcoming presidential elections are two heavyweights the opposition the son of the former president of senegal karim wadded and the popular mayor of the car khalifa sol now they've both been sentenced to prison time for corruption charges one was freed and amnesty the other is still in prison but both were hoping to run in this election and this has paved the way for outsiders to take the limelight notably was very popular on social media and among young people he's taken to the

stage criticizing mikey saying that he's using the courts to clamp down on the opposition there's been a chorus of condemnation and reaction from not just politicians but also members of civil society questioning whether this can be a real free and fair election when two of the main opposition figures are not taking part in the race there is a lack of trust of opposition and even. much of citizens to want to bluster and act out of a national id but are so close a security force sees as a bee. in general in shouting peace and security is one of the most stable democracies on the continent organizing free and fair elections for the last fifty nine years president says this one will be no exception but with this decision from the constitutional court it certainly sets the tone for this election that will take place in just a month's time. now

a new offensive is being planned against the armed group al shabaab in somalia if yo here and somalia are preparing their troops for battle in the next few days at the weekend the united states carried out a series of air strikes targeting the group after its fighters attacked the somali army base hama that has this report must warn you that you may find some of the images to be disturbing. the destruction caused by u.s. warplanes targeting al shabaab fighters near the port city of kiss my you in southern somalia bodies and bundled shells of vehicles lies strewn around and remind us of the intensity of the airstrikes they killed what the command center for u.s. forces in africa describes as fifty two militants the somalia missy's the total is higher. we managed to kill at least seventy five militants after they attacked us and many more were injured we are telling people about the victory today the estimates came hours after al shabaab fighter stormed

a somali i mean base three hundred seventy kilometers southwest of the capital mogadishu. somalia commanders say six soldiers were killed in the time and two others died when a booby trapped vehicle blew up as the army bottled for hours took up to the base u.s. military helicopters were sent to help the pentagon has increased the rate of strikes in somalia and recent tease partly because president donald trump has loosened restrictions on when the u.s. military can take action against what are described as terrorist targets the number of u.s. forces in somalia house to delete increased in the past two years us about fighters who are linked to al qaida retain a strong presence in parts of southern and central somalia they also regularly attack targets in neighboring kenya after it's and troops to somalia as part of an african union peacekeeping force al-shabaab says it was behind tuesday's hotel at tuck in nairobi where four gunmen on

a suicide bomber killed twenty one people five suspects appeared in court on friday in connection with the heart attack police say all but one of the five gunmen who carried out the haka and something that is raising concern about the threat of homegrown terrorism mohammad on the wall jazeera nairobi. colombia's leftist rebels are claiming responsibility for a car bomb that killed twenty one people thousands took to the streets in bogota to condemn the attack president even took a draw in the demonstrations and ruled out any restart of peace negotiations with the land alexander m.p.'s he sends us this update from bogota. thousands of people both here in the capital and in cities across colombia march demanding an end to the violence after a car bomb attack on tears they killed twenty young cadets so people came out dressed in white or holding the white flags saying that life is sacred and that

they are tired of what they describe this terror attacks in their country while people are united here in this message against violence there were some tensions along the route as colombians remain at the same time deeply polarized and how to move forward especially on how to achieve complete peace in the country the president even ducat decided to shut the door to any possibility of continuing peace negotiations with year land but some people here are saying. the wrong decision going back to a state of war will bring more death and more attacks there's no doubt that there is this car bomb attack as jolted many nerves here in the country colombians were just starting to bring down their guards when it came to violence after

decades of internal conflict but at least for today they came out and said that all together they want an end to the violence with no end in sight to the government shutdown the united states many hours of work federal employees have been forced to find new jobs at a jobs fair in maryland found a government lawyer applying to be a bus driver and an oceanographer who holds a ph d. vying for a job as a substitute teacher. jamie rinehart seemingly has it all in life a wife three young daughters a home and a car and at ph d. in oceanography what's missing is his job after he was sent home without pay from his post as a federal government marine research scientists jamie is a victim of the government shutdown so he's now at this education job fair applying to be a substitute teacher i've interviewed with i think she must've been either an administrator

or a teacher they've asked me some questions regarding you know my experience is related to working with kids and and how i would respond in certain teaching situations and then obviously there's benefits to those of us who are furloughed and are looking we are you know looking to earn a little bit of money we're offering buildings service positions clerical position and so forth transportation less striker's these are the faces of the victims of the government shutdown and accountant applying to be a high school math teacher a lawyer applying to be a school bus driver people that unexpectedly find themselves out of a job for no fault of their own like darrell burton an investigator at the postal service now applying to be a school security officer a mensch thing with the cure in it because it's more mungo maccallum schools

because my background over the last ten years nearly it's been in the investigations this is the second day they've held this job fair on the first day there were more than two hundred people that were here looking for work today when the doors opened at ten am there were already a hundred people waiting in line to get in with no indian site the government shutdown the number of people looking for work is high several school districts are holding similar job fairs for federal employees schools normally providing education for. children may now also supply jobs for their parents our goal is really to say. if there is a temporary gap that people had we have opportunities as for jamie rinehart his interview is over he waits for a call back in the meantime he's become a driver for a ride share app to make some extra money to support his family. but he's hoping

that the shutdown end so he soon can drive back to work gabriel zonda oh. rockville maryland oh and moen will have all the weather with staffers still ahead on al-jazeera. how a licensing lorry is sounding the death knell for taiwan's ailing traditional medicine industry. and in sport the top ranked team at the asian cup advancing to the quarterfinals so i'll be here with that story. from cool brisk nose and fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. hello there the storm the border some snow and some flooding across parts of the middle east it's continuing to edge its way eastwards and it's still bringing us a few problems here's the latest satellite picture then showing that cloud as it works its way across parts of pakistan and then up into the northern parts of india as

well the some of the same kharaj here brought some rather unusual weather for this time of year normally we don't see any eight millimeters of rain in the entire month but we saw twenty nine in just a few hours and that caused us quite a few water logged streets there are made getting home a little bit of trial so plenty more cloud with us at the moment but it is for treating its way northward so for karate it looks like it's going to be drawn from here on in however that area of rain is working its way northward and it's going to bring a some very very heavy downpours mostly of snow so for the phone northern parts of pakistan and up into the northern parts of india they could be way over one meter of snow in the next couple of days in fact some places are looking at about one and a hof meters of snow so that will bring quite a few problems to the northern parts there as we've been had through the next few days that system gradually slips its way southwards and works its way towards the poor so this time it's going to be parts of particularly the northwestern parts in

nepal where we see some of the worst winter weather as we head through the following days. the weather sponsored by cats are always. russian filmmaker under a neck or soft continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life was like under putin during his travels he meets christians and muslims patriots and separatists i told him to go all closing the southeast with. when i arrive and offer something completely different some long to leave russia but for others a russian passport means hope and the challenge of happens in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera. right out of a mosque examining the headline with again with the fractious issue of palestine and israel and the us newsweek setting the discussions what makes them different as far as you're concerned sharing personal stories with a global audience nobody feel safe explore an abundance of world class programming

designed to inform motivate and inspire. the world is watching on al-jazeera. and watching out just the right time to recap our headlines now at least for syrian soldiers have been killed after israel launched an airstrike song iranian targets in syria video posted to social media here to show missiles intercepted near damascus russia says those during those air strikes syrian military air defenses destroyed more than thirty cruise missiles and guided bombs. polls are now closed

in the southern philippines region of mindanao an historic vote on autonomy a new proposal would mean greater control and less dependence on the national government. britain's prime minister to resign may is set to address parliament and lay out of plan b. for braggs it original deal for leaving the bloc was heavily defeated in parliament last week she's already met rival party leaders in the hope of reaching a breakthrough. for more now on our top story those airstrikes near damascus let's speak to sort of colvin moscow he's a professor at the moscow state institute of foreign relations good to have you with us so. how do you see israel's latest round of strikes are they designed to put pressure on russia to try and downsize the presence of iranian forces in syria . well i think

mostly those strikes are aimed at the iranians because there was a certain pause since september but now the israelis are prepared to. relaunch their air combat and it will be very in it and it will definitely intensify but i think. they worry is in agreement with russia because we had a very big israeli military did a geisha recently in moscow and the reason agreement to prevent more incidents i think there will be a prior warnings for the russian personnel to leave the dangerous areas but still the israelis will attack they are convinced that the iranians are advancing that they are increasing their pressure too and that they are providing more high precision weapons to hizbollah and to the sitting government and these various definitely think that they must do something so i expect that there will be more

strikes in the near future was moscow sending some of them something of a message back to israel by announcing that russian weapons were used to try and thwart some of these israeli attacks. well yes moscow has been sending duos signals since two thousand and eighteen actually the same situation we had a year ago when there were massive israeli strikes and moscow always stressed that new modernized russian weaponry systems were used against israeli missiles first of all not against planes but mostly against israeli cruise missiles so i think yes now moscow is now also warning that russia can easily can easily prevent those strikes if it decides to use its more sophisticated systems

so russia is trying to signal that israel must be cautious and not to overstrain this kind of blanched it has it at the current stage but it and korea clearly wants go doesn't want another. plane being downed so i think israelis will be much more careful careful when they work or strike in the areas where russian military personnel might be especially in looked akio or to us all right thank you very much phil analysis nikolai sort of called that israel is said to open its second international airport despite protests from neighboring jordan jordan says the ramon international airports location violates international law as well as jordan sovereignty over its aspace five hundred million dollar projects is located in these ready red sea resort town of the lot right next to the jordanian

border how to force it joins us now from a lot so why is it proving so controversial having. well this is a point that jordan has been making for some years that indeed wrote a letter to this effect back in twenty fifteen to the united nations civil aviation body complaining about this several similar grounds this is the evidence of the run on a national airport here just ten or eleven kilometers north of the resort town of a lot of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has just flown in from ben-gurion airport between television jerusalem to mark this opening event the israeli case for it is simply that the current system where they had to mystic lights going into an old airport inside the city a lot and international flights coming to a combined military and civilian airport some sixty kilometers away is outdated and

they want to solid ate it all here they say that airspace will not be affected and that indeed there may well be benefits to both jordan and egypt both of food. neighbor very closely a lot it's a real point that israel comes to on the red sea and they say that that everybody can benefit however i think there is a commercial argument as well that's being made as far as jordan is concerned they have their own airport inside aqaba they want to see the similar kind of traffic coming into that airport that serbian israel plans to out all coming in here and so this is a longstanding on usual has been making an opportunity to make it on this day that the opening mannerisms will military as you're speaking there moments ago we saw pictures next to your name in that's now the israeli prime minister looked like he was digging and planting a tree some kind of inauguration process going on why is this what initially i

understand will be just a domestic airport proving to be so important for israel is this something more than commercial concerns apply here. indeed there is obviously a security element to this as well back in twenty fourteen there was of course the gaza war in which rockets were fired out of gaza planes were diverted from the one international airport ben-gurion airport and that is part of the reason that the existing plants are disabled were expanded to allow into being a second reason residuary human you're in and at the moment if there are diversions the neighboring airports and cyprus and merissa all who are used and we have you know just now coming to cut the ribbon to mark this opening moment just a few meters away from where i'm standing and so it is seen as as a security concern to have a second viable response of the larger point which can handle initially up to two

million people a year they say by twenty thirty could be expanded to four million people a year and there is a huge security operation around it as well there is a long fence border that are going to be just that has been fortified along the jordanian border and right next to the runway and what they're calling an anti listowel nets extending twenty six meters into the air to try to combat against any attention news i'm nancy thank weaponry against rafting on the runways so obviously security is a is a big element here as well but they speed readies are saying that the dreaming is simply that they want to see more traffic coming to this part of israel promoting tourism you know as they have been seven years. and they're thanks so much as israel celebrates the opening of this project over in gaza a shell of a form a strong shelf as a symbol of what could have been many saw the one nine hundred ninety eight in all gratian of gaza or airport as a milestone paving the way for the creation of an independent palestinian state

a child strengthened reports cite now or stands as a reminder of how much progress needs to be made. gaza's airport was a symbol of hope for a future peace between israel and palestine because eighty six million dollars to build was funding from the japanese the germans the spanish saudi arabia and egypt but it was opened in november one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the opening ceremony was attended by yasser arafat and the us president bill clinton and this is the remains of it now so his own lot was a manager in the airports administration it saddens him to be here now. it was great working here we all loved our jobs we had like one time really from the manual workers to the high officials it was a beautiful symbol for palestine it showed the world that we palestinians could

operate an international airport in the us are in fact international airport as it was cooled could handle seven hundred thousand passengers they could fly to and from cyprus and various capitals around the middle east it was a symbol of hope after the nine hundred ninety three oslo accords. the airport stopped operating during the second intifada or uprising against israel's occupation in two thousand israeli fighter jets bombed the control tower and radar station in two thousand and one shovelful seen palestinians feel both sad and angry about this the airport would have helped our economy so much and it employed so many people now it lies in ruins but some. twenty five years after the failed peace initiative and three walls later. walks through the rubble despite the destruction of the life he wants briefly knew he says he still won't give up on

hope strafford al jazeera gaza. the old the streets in iraq's capital is finally reopened after being blocked off for seventeen years street was once the center of baghdad social and business life but it was closed during the u.s. led invasion of iraq many of the buildings fell into disrepair now the government has opened it up to try and show baghdad is secure for matheson explains this is our rushing street it's one of the most iconic streets in central baghdad there's been a street all in this route for the best part of a hundred years it dates back to the early days of the ottoman empire in the sixteenth century but all rashid street came into being right about nine hundred sixteen that's when the british suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the ottomans to the south of baghdad to commemorate that victory the military governor of baghdad pascha said that this

street should be built now during the u.s. led invasion of iraq the street was closed and that's because it's a very strategic importance for baghdad it links to all rough idea in the central bank behind me to baghdad's main base the business district which is just a few kilometers on the other side that was very important and it was very likely the. it was going to be a significant target so the street was closed but seventeen years later it's reopened for decades all of us seen street was the center of baghdad social life there were cinemas here and restaurants and cafes and hundreds of small businesses its heyday was in the one nine hundred fifty s. when money from oil started to make its way into the iraqi economy and people had more money to spend but over the years the buildings have fallen into disrepair particularly during the years when the streets being closed the government is hoping that this by reopening the street will send two messages first of all that the proxy i think problems in the center of baghdad might get

a little bit easier but perhaps more importantly that the city of baghdad is getting back to normal and it's safe for. stray shellfire in libya has killed the news camera man who works for al-jazeera and other leading media organizations thirty five year old mohammed bin khalifa died on saturday while on assignment with a libyan militia fighting between rival militias in libya has killed and injured hundreds visiting a traditional chinese medicine shop instead of going to the doctor is a popular choice for people who aren't feeling well in taiwan more and more shops a shutting down known as failed that when they die their industry will to the tail of the un explains why. leave chilling dispenses traditional chinese medicine from this herbal store in taiwan natural medicine shops like this one have been used for generations as an alternative to visiting

a doctor but the industry that depends on curing illnesses is dying taiwan's government hasn't issued a new operating license for twenty years. this profession in taiwan is on the decline it's become a so-called sunset industry older people have slowly left and younger ones don't have a license it's all very uncertain. the license shortage started in the one nine hundred ninety s. as the government trying to regulate traditional medicine shops government leaders feared combining western and eastern medicine could lead to unforeseen medical emergencies it was hoped train professionals would take jobs in traditional shops but that didn't happen while pay a limited benefits failed to attract young doctors and now more more and.