part of the last several years there is an islamic system so the question is will the taleban accept what the rest of afghanistan regards as an acceptable islamic system or do they want something else something that is more a traditional pashtun system with a huge amount of oppression of women are they going to accept the presence of shia in the has are a minority which when they were in power before they discriminated against so we have to look at what they mean when they say islamic system a true islamic system would be fine but if it's one that is really just a pashtun tribal system that's another question. now the former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo has been released by the international criminal court he and his ally the former youth minister. to work acquitted last month but that decision's been appealed by prosecutors they have been accused of crimes against humanity including initiating a wave of violence following disputed elections in two thousand and ten while

jubilant supporters danced and chanted outside the call they say bank there is innocent and hope that will one day return to the ivory coast. that it was that there was five that they had their future because the time was a. time that the region that was said that we have been there for me it's been six months since the start of the latest a break in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization says more than four hundred sixty people are being killed is the worst outbreak in the country's history as priyanka gupta reports. the monday in task of scrapping shoes takes on a whole new meaning in the democratic republic of congo it's part of routine that keeps these health workers on the frontline of the world's second largest civil epidemic safe from infection. the latest outbreak here has killed hundreds of

people in the last six months eighteen year old. survives but to conceive unborn baby she's grateful for a second chance at life wasn't but when i was at the ebola treatment center many friends came to see me and they gave me confidence that i will be fine despite my mother crying when she saw me other people were afraid of me the doctor said that he could save me all the child i think the doctors for helping me survive the virus was first reported in the small town of mangino in the north keevil region last year in just six months it spread to some of the most densely populated areas making it difficult for health workers to predict his reach. and there are now fears that the virus may be inching closer to goa a city of over a million people along the heavily traveled border with rwanda reaching the affected areas means treading across an active conflict zone there are more than

one hundred armed groups active in north keevil the epicenter of the latest operator. health workers and civilians and go ahead areas have come under repeated attacks bearable fighting people are centers for vandalized and they want up to december's presidential election but they would have dogma zation says there is some room for optimism we vaccinated. sixty six thousand people with targeted bring vaccination and your new vaccine in the field for the for the first time in a situation like this and we have literally hundreds and hundreds of staff in the field doing this work so we believe that we've managed to contain the disease and in the areas concerned we've also worked very closely with the fork in the surrounding countries in neighboring south sudan health workers have started getting their first shots of the border vaccine screening facilities have been set up a lab or trees have been opened to stop the disease from spreading across the border

maximum preparedness for disease that's both dangerous and unpredictable but it's what they need to prevent a repeat of the twenty fortini boil epidemic in west africa with the same strain of virus that are going to eleven thousand people. are just that are all still here on al-jazeera what indian farmers say billions of extra dollars from the government isn't enough and will take you to the london exhibition that looks back at a fashion revolution by one of the world's most influential designers. hello you know welcome back we're here across the northern western part of the levant we are still seeing some clouds and we are going to be seeing some snow in the higher elevations of turkey over the next few days but who is also going to be seeing a mostly cloudy day there but as we go towards saturday the snow begins to dissipate

as we go through the end of the day down across the coast though for beirut we are going to see in seventeen degrees jerusalem at thirteen degrees there and baghdad is going to be about nineteen but we do expect to see the rain on the increase particular down here across the southern portions of iran and that is going to extend across the gulf as well so on saturday doha it's not looking too bad in terms of rain we are going to be seeing more clouds in the forecast twenty five degrees is going to be the high but by the time we get to a sunday that is when the rain is going to be coming in and the temperature is going to be dropping so we know that it could be heavy at times over towards abu dhabi same story as also going to be a problem with more rain in your forecasts and then down here across the southern parts of africa we are going to be seeing plenty of rain across much of the area anywhere from johannesburg down towards durban as well as into cape town and that could also be quite windy as well on sunday things look a little bit better across the region but we are still going to see some rain across to his spirit with the tempter twenty four in durban and about twenty eight

degrees for you. in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars join the medieval islamic period in the field of medicine. science tend to be a good subject to bring different people from all over the world together. to such like a magical the more i learn about the more. i respect science in a golden age with professor jim miller clearly on a. welcome

back you're watching of zero it means a whole round the reminder of our top stories venezuela's opposition leader one wind has told al jazeera that he's willing to do everything possible to put the country on the path to democracy and stability earlier he rejected the offer from mexico and your are going to mediate talks with president nicolas maduro saying the negotiations would not be neutral. and the united states is withdrawing from one of its main nuclear weapons agreements with russia saying the nine hundred eighty seven intermediate range nuclear forces treaty has been consistently violated. and the taliban says u.s. president donald trump appears to be serious about taking his troops out of afghanistan but also wants to establish an islamic system under any peace deal. u.s. immigration officials are force feeding detainees on hunger strike in protest against conditions at a texas detention center immigration and customs enforcement or ice as it's known says eleven detainees at the el paso processing center have been refusing food some

for more than a month a report by the associated press is found at two thirty. the people are striking most of from cuba and india in mid january us judge as the full speed of sixty t.v. is being hydrated and fed through plastic nasal tube the immigrants are protesting against verbal abuse and threats from deportation from guards they're also upset about lengthy lock ups while awaiting legal proceedings flow along is a senior research for human rights watch and she says force feeding can be regarded as an act of torture it's so invasive and so painful that human rights watch has agreed with medical experts that force feeding someone who is competent to decide to understand what the impact of not eating is reaches the level of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment under human rights law on it and it can also be torture we found that you know there are a troubling number of deaths in u.s.

immigration detention this is a system holding now record numbers of people forty eight thousand people as of this month more than ever before that's forty eight thousand at a time but it leaves that adds up to at least a half a million a year and it's a system in which we've seen dozens of deaths and in fact we found in a report we published last year that a large number of those deaths are linked to the neglect particularly medical neglect not responding to people's needs and not providing adequate care. dramatic video has emerged showing the moment a done collapse of mind in brazil last week the disaster unleashed a wave of sludge should merge in the south eastern states of misgovernance one hundred fifteen people are confirmed dead and always two hundred fifty i'm missing the security camera footage shows vehicles scrambling to escape the toad's of mining waste the waving goals buildings the signs including a term team where workers were having lunch. rescue teams briefly stop their search

on friday to pay tribute to the victims helicopters gathered information to release petals above the search area nobody has been found alive since last saturday. let's head over to south asia now where there have been protests in pakistan after the supreme court upheld the acquittal of a christian woman who'd been sentenced to death for blasphemy has more from islamabad. it brought. their religion. and they have deployed. that taking precautionary measure to. some of the.

by the government. i guess maybe relieved. they wanted you know to. stay in the region because india's government has promised billions of dollars to help. on the streets of new delhi many say the latest budget doesn't go far enough to address the concerns. these farmers protesting outside the indian parliament want the government to help their demanding loan waivers and better prices for their produce the government has pledged almost eleven billion dollars to help them india's interim finance minister is optimistic the economy will improve. once to become i was to become a five trillion dollars economy in the next five years i.

would be aspired to become a ten trillion dollars economy and that makes. but the farmers feel they are not sharing in india's economic growth this. farming has become a loss making proposition for the farmers because seeds and fertilizers have become very expensive it is also expensive to hire farm labor for irrigation sowing and harvesting the fields. prime minister. modi has been facing widespread discontent from farmers about six hundred million indians depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and many have huge debt debt they say that won't be lowered by what the government is now offering them this is was then a lot of pop. six thousand five hundred month it comes to fifteen rupees per day a cup of tea costs that much today in india i think that this is a total sellout. the farmers by the government budget among the crowd on friday many simply didn't believe the government's latest

promises would come to pass especially with elections expected in the coming months a shotgun more of these governments will end soon and be in their graves by the month of may so whatever they are now says now who will implement their schemes if a new government is elected later why should they agree to these budget proposals. and want analysts say the direct cash support being offered to farmers in this interim budget is a clear attempt by modi to shore up crucial political support in the countryside protesters say the plan doesn't go nearly far enough. and. it's confirmed australia's having a record says the summer january was its hottest month since records began in one thousand nine hundred ten the average temperature exceeded thirty degrees celsius the bureau of meteorology says the heat waves contributed to a summer of extremes the heavy wildfires in the drought stricken south and flooding in the tropical walls of the country. as strayer has recorded the warmest january

on record for maximum minimum and mean temperatures and in fact it's been the warmest of any months of record on record for straight. is recognised as one of the most influential fashion designers of the twentieth century now his work is being celebrated in the major exhibition in london. this is the outfit that sparked a fashion revolution simple and yet in one nine hundred forty seven so different in one show christian dior swept away boxy austere dresses and designed a bold new curvy look for the worn women of europe. this vast exhibition in london celebrates that moment and the themes that have defined his house of dior ever since in every stitch there is passion from the bull worn by princess margaret had twenty first birthday to this dress embellished with gold celebrities and

royalty clamored for his creations but ten years after his first show dior died suddenly making his legacy all the more impressive he had such an impact in those ten years the name of christie into your was sort of known throughout the world as a leader a fashion and so. you know the six successive artistic directors at the house of dior sort of maintained the relevance of to your high reinterpreting and reimagining the codes of the house to modern and contemporary audience is. the exhibition weaves together the work of those artistic directors including young frankel ferry and raf sevens. but it is the work of john galliano that really shouts drama and excess. a key theme for dior is flowers which spring up everywhere from embroidery to overflowing with petals

a theme embraced by currently creative. with her fairy tale creations some five hundred objects are here illustrations accessories miniatures and. and the meticulous process of is revealed in this room each creation is first tested in its purest form each of these pieces is a work of art built to last by crossman who are appreciated and. a far cry from the fashion industry today most clothes. and disposable. right now the fashion industry is under pressure to improve its sustainability credentials it could learn much from back to the past. qatar have stung the football world winning the asian cup for the very first time they'd be japan three one in the final. because tony and they were meant to. play limits

to serve the cutoff before the match because of the blockade imposed by the hosts the u.a.e. along with saudi arabia bahrain and egypt but there were plenty of celebrations school and richardson reports. well it's hard really so overstate the level of achievement to discuss all this a told off the game insists all that without any real track record of success at the asian cup and yet here they are lifting the trophy having hastened for their premier champions on their way to this three one win against little or sully with knowing goals that is not just a record historic it is a record for any asian carp believe you look a little bit deeper you can see the worst signs of these are young say on the rise even to head off the title success vast majority of just a mccain three year squire the national academy aaron cats are hugely ambitious project set up in the six thousand or so i can't call it kind of young tyler's money now it's not really young players finally coming to her wish him her at senior level and then you have the role of religion issues around you came from

barcelona to look up whether we're smart get me get your thousand and six a really good players or road up alongside a lead survivor senior. instrumentalists and say the same is now actually going on to the club on america's south america's biggest international calling whether any advice you suggest let me tell you like you are using you know. a lot here in neighboring but on the make snappishness team develops its awards marketing and playing out of the world cup finals in twenty twenty two now i'd like to just enjoy being asian. first time countries used to. cut all victory is the top story on our web site at al-jazeera dot com along with all of the stories that we're covering here on al-jazeera. your children their arms the whole rahman these are all top stories but as well as opposition leader one wydow has told our zero he's willing to do everything

possible to put the country on the path to democracy and stability is in a political standoff with president maduro well earlier he rejected an offer from mexico in europe going to mediate talks a lot of thing off here to there not to conflict insights at all we have he said entire country to the wants change and every tiny group that sustains itself with weapons stolen from the republic and with constant threats against the same army that sustains that and a citizenship that massacre i understand the very good intentions of mexico and europe and i understand the ultimatum the european union has given maduro the opposition has been willing to negotiate we tried everything we have voted we have abstained we gunna hunger strikes we have protested and they have killed us the united states is withdrawing from one of its main nuclear weapons agreements with russia or shinton says the nine hundred eighty seven intermediate range nuclear

forces treaty has been consistently violated the taliban says u.s. president donald trump appears to be serious about pulling its troops out of afghanistan it says a foreign withdrawal is the first goal towards resolving the seventeen year conflict the armed group also says it wants to establish an islamic system under any peace deal. for ivory coast president laurent gbagbo has been released by the international criminal court two weeks after being acquitted of crimes against humanity have been accused of inciting a wave of violence following disputed elections in two thousand and ten. dramatic video has emerged showing the moment a dam collapsed at the mine in brazil last week one hundred fifteen people are confirmed dead almost two hundred fifty of still missing the disaster unleashed a wave of sludge and mud in the south eastern state of minutes. australia has experienced its hottest month on record the average temperature in january exceeded thirty degrees celsius for the first time since records began in one nine hundred

ten the heat and dry conditions of spawn wildfires in the south the bureau of meteorology says global warming is partly to blame those weather headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera to stay with us. the world's largest oil company fails to become public water tap and. other kingdom the company inseparable here the world's largest oil producer and less than the world's largest definitely something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil the middle east most potent economic weapon. saudi arab. the company and the state on al-jazeera. modern high tech advances in medicine and health are of course the result of many centuries of development with search and experimentation much of which took place in the islam

that quote between the ninth and fourteenth centuries a golden age of saw it during this time scholars in the stomach world made huge contributions to medicine and created a body of knowledge that was tremendously important and influential around the world for many hundreds of years. which is professor of theoretical physics but born in baghdad and i'll be exploring states of the art biomedical science and the covering the contribution made to the field by the scholars the golden age.

it was during the islamic golden age that medicine started to be treated as a true science with emphasis on empirical evidence and repeatable procedures during that time medical books are written that became standard texts throughout the world for many hundreds of years come here to the hum of hospital in bellhop us are to see how the ideas of the scholars in the medieval to stomach world compare to our modern medicine. hospitals neonatal unit deals with premature newborn babies who are suffering from a variety of conditions is the only one of its kind and babies are referred here from across the country all in all said waller doors would probably have. chose to seventeen to eighteen hundred babies and that amounts to about ten to eleven percent of the total birth that occurs in this hospital so it is by comparison

one of the biggest units in the world we do look after babies who are as small as twenty three or twenty four weeks just station so if you're looking at a five months pregnancy autum on someone with pregnancy and that in itself is incredible i mean not that long ago twenty three twenty four we call just days and there's no way that it's evolving was a little and we've come a long way at this hospital they're carrying out pioneering research to improve the treatments of babies born with neonatal and suppose that's is babies born with serious neurological damage because of a problem with oxygen or blood supply in the womb. the gold standard of treatment is putting these babies on a cooling mattress to try to reduce the temperature and limit the potential ongoing damage that could ensue in the brain however it does not really provide an appropriate success rate worldwide here we're trying a simple remedy that we believe has potential which is that addition of

a drug called magnesium sulphate but it's never been tried in combination with the cooling method. to improve the reliability of their research the hospitals using what we call a control group some of the babies receive magnesium sulfate whereas a separate group the control group don't receive it this allows the hospital to compare fairly the effects of the treatment with and without the drug. so this particular study is a double blind placebo control which means that we are offering some of our babies a placebo or some or giving them magnets. himself and we don't really know which are which otherwise i mean why divide us a little boy is exactly one thing that's of tremendous interest to me is that this idea of a control group actually goes all the way back over a thousand years to

a persian position by the name of a razi who who built the first hospitals in baghdad who was looking into the causes and treatments of meningitis and i believe he had not only his sample of patients but he had a control group to which he wasn't it minister in the treatment in that case it was blood letting you know isn't the way you treat meningitis but the idea of a control group goes all the way back to to iraq this is actually one of the all most important components of research that we do how a control group to try to to ensure that you know our studies come out as non-biased as possible to comparing our absolutely i'm sort of. a ross he was born in the city of re to herat in the mid nineteenth century and he was an early proponents of applying a rigorous scientific approach to medicine during his distinguished career he served as chief physicians of hospitals in both ray and baghdad. in the early tenth

century the ruling telling them back that defeat after razi where in the city he should build a new hospital so a rise he designed experiments he hung up around different locations to see how quickly they rotted and so determined the place with the cleanest air this was typical of a razi you have a problem you design an experiment to find the answer. during the golden age the dissection of human bodies was considered disrespectful but there was one group of people who knew quite a bit about anatomy butches. albeit the anatomy of animals vomit and human. well even though this is just the lab not a human we can still see quite clearly the different compartments the different

chambers within the heart this isn't something very familiar to his physicians of the medieval age. in the seventeenth century william harvey famously carried out his groundbreaking research into the circulation of lard in the function of the heart but in nineteen twenty four an ancient document was discovered this was a text written by him in the thief's thirteenth century arab physicians in it he described the basics of pulmonary circulation how large doesn't move across from one side of the heart to the other has to take the long way round round the body this four hundred years before harvey. building on the writings of physicians like him enough he said william harvey our understanding of the heart has continued to develop harefield hospital in the u.k.

is part of the country's largest center for heart and lung disease they're cutting edge treatments build on the work of professor mag one of the world's leading heart specialists who set up the hospital's busy transplant unit and has received a knighthood in britain for his services to medicine the heart is such like a magical the more i learn about the more i respect because it goes on incessantly beaching quietly maintaining life professor yet who is also interested in the history of medicine as part of a paper he commission for a medical journal he's researched the life and work of it. here we. born in syria in the early part of the thirteenth century he was a policeman because he was studying he was. a field or chain and here was

a scientist's few. he was a discoverer but arguably his most important contribution was his commentary on medicine in which he looked at how blood moves through the heart so this is the heart and you can see quite clearly the right ventricle and the left ventricle and these are two completely separate chambers the question has been. how does blood go from the right ventricle to the left and through the centuries the accepted view had been that of the renowned greek physician galen galen said that blood passes directly between the rights and left ventricles of the heart through tiny holes in the septum the dividing wall that separates them from the feast was the first to challenge galen's view he established that there weren't any holes so they had to be another way for blood to pass from rights and left the

contention of some persons to say that this place is porous it's beneath on the preconceived idea that the blood from the right ventricle has to pass through the prosody and they are all. just as he's quoted as saying that for somebody as young at this person at the time when he was twenty nine to have the courage to state. such a thing it's absolutely remarkable. galen said that there are holes in the septum. but. if you open the right benfica like and doing now it is solid there on no channels whatsoever even a few switches absolutely right. in the feast dated that the blood must first pass

through the lungs where he said it mingled with them before it came back to the heart and was pumped around the body and now we know. the blood from the right's ventricle goes into the pond they are three these here goes around the lawn. comes back. in d.c. on the navy seals into the offensive so this is the problem of the research relation which comes here that is the discovery it's now obvious what it was and then. it linefeeds his description wasn't widely accepted at the time and it wasn't until his manuscript was rediscovered in the twentieth century that his work was universally recognized it's now part of the long history of medicine that continues to evolve today we have learnt a lot. more the grant how to stop it. how to replace it how to mend

it but my personal. journey continues. early hospitals did exist in the ninth century baghdad but these were little more than hospitals for the sick offering care but not much in the way of cure however hospitals as we recognize them today giving treatments and offering medicine for free they begin to appear around the empire in cities such as caro and damascus. in order for these hospitals to provide care they needed a knowledge of medicines and surgery the most important work of the golden age was written by the great tenth century philosopher and physician it been seen or better known by his latin name at the center this is my personal copy of his great text the talent of medicine.