so. tony blair was the prime minister when he first came ashore saying things could only get better the iraqi president saddam hussein was still persecuting his fellow kurds to reason may is now u.k. leader but as home secretary she fought to keep them out. a whole new generation has now grown up here in hearts which wants house british soldiers that are riddled with us best toss. hussein i mean i'm fourteen month old live in number eighteen current and i have a new they are syrian kurds they too have been given clearance to enter the united kingdom. with her daughter translating what she had told me life for refugee is always like this we have to learn how to be patient so we can cope with the situation she said. i want to. i

also like to be. here in richmond village is the hope and the belief that they will reach the united kingdom but they don't believe that dream will be realized until they actually have a passport in the. last she is a much beloved companion of the children here they'd be heartbroken to leave her united nations officials have promised though she will get a pet passport but like everyone here she still waiting. to al-jazeera cyprus. a group of british anti deportation campaigners who chained themselves to a plane to stop it from taking off have escaped prison sentences the so-called stands at fifteen broke through a fence trying to reach the jet taking people to nigeria ghana and syria layo

lawrence lay reports from the court and chelmsford and one. community from cool the relief on their faces was old vs the case had time going over them for two years and they've been charged with offenses technically carrying a life term in prison but there was still an outrage that it's better to come to this fight isn't one you know a lot more for us to continue fighting for and until there's been a. fireman and. detention centers that people file here like was this was a smooth window into a suspect a systemic problem we need to sign up for the asylum claims the home office refuses to say this i write for ten dollars pail and what the government does at the time that we stopped the fight there was a policy of appeal. to fifteen activists to plant themselves through a plane at stansted airport near london in the knowledge that some of the people on board would face death threats if they were deported some of those people have

since been granted the right to stay in britain this woman had already told us they saved her life why do you want to put me i came to this contre because i was having the abuse you need. if i wasn't in this country probably wouldn't be here to sit in history recalled the actions of people who put themselves in harm's way for human rights as heroes think of emily davison who threw herself to her death under the king's horse women's rights well the lone protester in tiananmen square facing down the chinese tanks but trying to stop illegal deportations in the u.k. nowadays is not viewed in the same way. we are very familiar with this kind of. charge often terrorism related charges being brought against nonviolent human rights defenders but haven't seen it in the papers for a very long time and that's one of the reasons why we're watching this case so closely so all i want to do is to stop the protests and it isn't only the u.k.

criminalizing anti deportation activists this woman is currently being prosecuted in sweden for refusing to take a seat on the plane to stop an afghan on board from being deported but the u.k. is much broader so called hostile environment shows no sign of ending the deportation flight still go on with all the questions about human rights abuses there's a certain sort of a victory here which is peculiar since all that's happened is that a group of people have escaped going to prison for trying to stop the illegal deportations of asylum seekers but they still have it's heroism conviction to their names and this is one of the now say that it's a means to try to overturn. the al-jazeera chelmsford crown calls a joint report by researchers from two u.s. government agencies says two thousand eight hundred was the fourth warmest year on record scientists are warning of rising sea levels or drought and more destructive hurricanes heidegger caster reports. twenty eighteen was marked by natural

disasters that ravaged the u.s. from coast to coast in california the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history killed more than eighty people in the carolinas hurricane florence shattered rainfall and flood records and now scientists point to hard evidence that as the disasters intensified the earth's surface more md the average global temperature last year was fourteen point six nine degrees celsius that's point seven one degrees above the average for the twentieth century since the eight hundred eighty s. the global temperature has increased by one degree celsius with scientists blaming increase. the missions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity it is alarming it's not surprising because we've been the stick predicting this for thirty years and finally it's actually happening but it is alarming because the things that are

driving this the increases in greenhouse gases we're still increasing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere year on year a un climate change panel has warned the world has only twelve years to rein in global warming before hundreds of millions of people across the planet will suffer from extreme heat and poverty you're seeing very direct impacts in waves more intense rainfall events coastal flooding because of increased sea level rise we're seeing melting ice in the arctic greenland and in antarctica melting glaciers all around the world and that's having effects on our water resources we're seeing increased drying in the summers that's impacting droughts it's impacting forest fires it's impacting ecosystems the most ambitious goal of the paris climate accord limits global warming to one point five degrees celsius by the century and but even then more than a third of himalayan glaciers will have melted scientists say still much more

should be done to move away from fossil fuels and minimize humans carbon footprint hijo castro al jazeera. and then a few moments we will have the weather. still ahead on al-jazeera and even at yahoo launches a slick election campaign but will it be enough to win another term as israel's prime minister. and a body is recovered from the wreckage of the plane carrying football i merely on a solid far will have all the details for us. hello there we're going to start with a look at the weather over new zealand where we've got some wildfires at the moment these pictures are from nelson in the north of the south island where we've got the

worst of the fires at the moment and the fires may not have been sparked by the weather but the weather certainly isn't helping with the fight against them it's a bit of cloud just working its way across the north island a mass where we've got the great conditions and a few outbreaks of rain but elsewhere it's dry and the humidity is also a very low when there's no great change on the horizon so as we head through friday and into saturday the temperatures are just rising there for christchurch the winds will be a lot stronger as well so if you're trying to find toward far as what you want is some rain or definitely some light winds and it looks like we're not going to see either of those as we head through the next couple of days and not good news there over towards australia and here we've also got some very dry and dusty conditions in this great big sandstorm we've seen in the northern parts of victoria now it sounds too right this is quite a hoover although it looks fairly tranquil what you're outside of it inside a soon as that thing rolls across you you're going to see some very strong winds the visibility is going to drop right away and the temperature also drops within as

well as the system that borders the haboob but fortunately further north it looks like finally that monsoon flow is moving away and things are beginning to dry a frequent. take the worst possible material you radiate grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live it is a cause colossal event. as well and in so many people a few here this is the file in cuba but as it makes you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. or every your. let's recap the top stories this hour the u.s. president is predicting victory over eisel as early as next week donald trump says the coalition is close to reclaiming all the territory previously held by the group in syria and iraq and the u.n. is warning against using humanitarian aid as a political tool in venezuela the u.s.

says trucks carrying supplies have arrived in neighboring colombia they were sent there after applies by venezuela's declared interim president. rescue teams in turkey have pulled thirteen survivors from the rubble of a building that collapsed in istanbul the apartment block came down on wednesday evening at least three people are confirmed dead and it's believed that others are still trapped stephanie decker is there and istanbul stephanie what is the latest that is going on with these rescue efforts right now. well according to the minister of urbanization they are still hearing voices under the rubble of the building behind me i'll just. show you the rescue operation a lot of rescue workers here you can see them paul said where we are this is the access to the site the building as you mentioned collapsed. on wednesday that was actually caught on c.c.t.v. the building literally imploding on itself you see people running away from these

streets now hording to officials this building had three legal stories build the death toll is three at the moment twelve people have been injured around three in critical condition we know that a five year old girl was pulled from the rubble earlier today as well as the early manes a rescue operation the crane is here they've been lifting large part of concrete which would have been the walls of the building the walls of people homes we can see from where we are just some blanket some clothes so of course it is a concern what they're doing now also is assessing the buildings around here as to their structural soundness has always been a concern here in turkey particularly istanbul this is an earthquake area about the soundness of these buildings the government has over time recently particularly after the earthquake in one thousand nine hundred ninety which killed almost seven hundred thousand people in demolishing some of these buildings and building them

again but again things like this highlight just how much of an issue that is and now there is an investigation going on to what happened particularly in this building behind us. at that moment that rescue operation ongoing they believe there could still be people trapped under the rubble alive all right stephanie. stephanie thank you. benjamin netanyahu could become israel's long a sitting prime minister if he wins the upcoming parliamentary elections but he's facing increasing challenges from within his own party and legal troubles that include three corruption cases against him as a foster ports unless there is a new political contender so google may do. the real benjamin netanyahu tells the media magnate i just want real coverage of the israeli prime minister's public battle with the media he says of peddling fake news and cheerleading a witch hunt has led here to the launch of likud t.v. a campaign tool of his political party dressed up as a news channel nine yos relationship with the media is at the heart of two of the

three corruption cases dogging his election campaign allegations he traded illicit favors for better coverage the third surrounds expensive gifts from wealthy friends he denies the charges but an indictment decision is expected this month we're going to blockbuster decision from the attorney general is going to going to be announcement of an intention to indictment and yahoo that's not a final indictment which could come six to twelve months later but it basically says that's where he's going in the meantime the campaign and the primaries for netanyahu party are being conducted in what's become the mainstream of israeli politics the right the night before likud members cast their votes a series of senior party figures including the intelligence public security and culture ministers all signed on to a charter promoting a radical expansion of illegal settlements it calls for the adoption of a plan to settle two million jews in the occupied west bank signing up to it cements a politician's right wing credentials and also allows the party to define itself

more clearly against a new arrival on the political scene violet could voters benjamin netanyahu as legal troubles have done little to diminish either his power or his popularity here there is though a substantial anti netanyahu constituency among jewish israelis and fears they've been looking for a viable alternative to invest their hopes. and israel's former army chief benny gantz looking to occupy the role of centrist he's talked of strengthening settlements but also says lessons should be learned from the way israel removed settlers from gaza in the face of being called a weak leftist he's also released a campaign video claiming credit for the killing of one thousand three hundred sixty four palestinians calling them terrorists in the twenty fourteen gaza war in order for him to get really the votes you know to really challenge it and you know he's got to get some of those votes from the right so he comes as a leftist dressed in the rightists clothing ok as a liberal israeli dressed as

a conservative hard core pro settlement israeli dance is pulling just behind us and you know who is preferred prime minister but his path to victory is narrow given the numerical advantage of netanyahu existing coalition of right wing parties netanyahu continues to fight on multiple fronts knowing that even if he wins power once more in this election you have to battle on in the media and potentially in the courts to hold onto it ari force it out zero west jerusalem the palestinian authority has stopped paying salaries to thousands of employees and the gaza strip and that affects rather employees loyal to hamas islamic jihad and those close to leader mohamed dahlan now the decision also impacts families of prisoners and wounded palestinians wages have become a symbol of a bitter power struggle between hamas with its power base and gaza and the western backed palestinian authority led by the fatah group and ramallah. offered to pay their wages in november was refused by hamas democrats say they won't be and temin

dated by the u.s. president's warning against ridiculous partisan and best occasions those are his words they have voted to provide the special counsel robert muller with confidential testimonies related to his investigation into russian interference during the two thousand and sixteen election pedicle hain has more. by the close of wednesday special counsel robert muller had a lot more information for his investigation into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign fifty transcripts of people who testified in front of a house committee some of those closest to the us president his son son in law and his most trusted advisers with the democrats in charge now they voted to send all of the transcripts to muller and now if any of those people lied under oath they can be charged with a crime. president donald trump's close friend roger stone has already been charged with lying to congress and his former lawyer is going to prison for doing that this

comes on the heels of a warning from the president during his state of the union speech tuesday an economic miracle is taking place in the united states and the only thing that can stop it. are foolish wars politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. if there is going to be peace and legislation there cannot be war and investigation it just doesn't work that way. the democratic response it actually does that's a nonstarter in fact the committee says they will look into more than what muller is casting a broad net looking into the possibility that the president or those close to him are compromised the american people have a right to know indeed have a need to know that their president is acting on their behalf and not for some peculiarity or other reason that pertains to and the credible allegations of

leverage by the russians or the saudis or anyone else the u.s. president was not happy i don't what basis would he do that he has no basis to do that he actually does he's in charge now and he has the power to make people show up before his committee thank you very much thank the president and his closest advisors are about to find out what that looks like. al-jazeera washington. former president lula da silva has been convicted in a second corruption case it's been given another thirteen years prison time for a case involving a farmhouse in sao paulo state a court found him guilty of allowing construction firms to renovate the property in exchange for contracts with the state oil company catch a bus. is already serving a twelve year prison sentence for another corruption conviction.

senegal's currency has become a topic of debate ahead of its presidential election at the end of this month the c.f.i. frank was introduced by france in one thousand nine hundred five and issues by fourteen west african nations some senegalese though are opposed to it saying it's a legacy of. ports in dakar just enough until

next month. i would john is calling her younger brother and jack to thank him for the money he sent he's down in france having left his life in the car for a better one in europe he tells her it's not what he expected but he's still able to send a few hundred years every month to his sister to look after the family. it's not easy but without him we couldn't make ends meet there's no work for him here we need him there he's doing this for the money. in january italy's deputy prime minister luigi accused france of fueling the migrant crisis by controlling the economies of former african colonies through the local currency the c.s.a. france is one of those countries that by printing money for fourteen african states prevents the economic development and contributes to the fact that the refugees leave and then die in the sea or arrive on the coasts i didn't like the comment from then foreign minister i found it very patronizing africa to live near any

foreign minister then i want to speak on our behalf i the comment came days before the start of the presidential campaign in senegal and the c.f.a. is now part of the debate with each candidate taking positions on the matter some are going for it others against it like edriss sake why should white people in paris take decisions on their currency. the central african franc or the c.s.a. has a fixed exchange rate with the euro so europeans can bring euro's to africa and easily swap them for the c.f.a. but state regulators make it difficult for africans to take out of their country and swap them into euros under a new arrangement dating back more than seventy years france's central bank controls the treasury of all fourteen countries leaving these nations with a limited supply of liquidity. this here and he's

a certain level of stability to the currency allowing i would join to shop at her favorite friends super market because french companies profit from this arrangement that allows them easy access to a growing market there over a hundred million people but there's also growing resentment towards this currency not just here in senegal but throughout francophone west africa france get out the graffiti found in various avenues of the capital behind the messaging. pool and want to common currency but for wished african countries only with out fraunces involvement we have our own currency like morocco and algeria they are doing much better than us. france is so far yet so close well money travels more freely than people europe continues to attract young african men for john's family the journey is worth the risk because the car.

teachers striking over pay and zimbabwe say they're being intimidated by security forces. around two thirds of teachers have stayed home in protest at that government agents are monitoring them the strike comes after a violent crackdown on protests against a steep price and fuel prices just a month ago the reports from harare. blessing my parts i didn't go to work today. neither did some of the primary school teachers colleagues because they aren't strike public school teachers one better working conditions and to be paid in u.s. dollars instead of local bond nuts which constantly leisurely is so painful you know i am in a classroom teaching children and i cannot afford to have my child in that classroom it's or set it up said it's painful you cannot live with

that you cannot come to terms with. so this is where we are saying it's better that i stay at home because i'm not saying that isn't language or. that means some children aren't learning teachers say they earn about six hundred knots a month roughly one hundred fifty dollars other teachers on a go slow they come to work but do very little union leaders say after a security crackdown on demonstrators last month some teachers believe staying at home makes them government targets is some indication that some teachers are not all were feared for their security since the visit of us it was an agency that when they did look normal what we intended to do with information about the structure of what they'll be picking up the moves and to model it for a different day for our. government leaders deny the allegations and say teachers are being offered more pay there is no need to intimidate them how many times is

government put of us on the table and we have put all of us on the tables on the table we have given. the questioning allowances we have negotiated unbearable frae of we have put in a lot of other packages for teachers teachers say government interventions aren't helping when the price of fuel more than doubled last month prices a basic goods increased but not teaches diaries placing a part a says he is tired of being constantly in debt and always borrowing money to cover the cost of living staying at home is his way of protesting. how do we. have at. a time for sport now what for richelle thank you so much a couple del ray holders barcelona are all square with real madrid after the first leg of their semi final tie in barcelona started without leno messi and wales gareth bale was also left on the bench and it was rails lucas vazquez who gave them the lead less than six minutes then messi stand in malcolm scored the equaliser just before bar says all time leading scorer return to action might still nursing

an injury one one was the final score and it's all the play for in the second leg in madrid at the end of the month he would also draw in most of the hold of the one he felt a little bit better and i thought it was better for him to get into the pitch in the second half and when he came in he was decisive because every time he touches the ball we know he can create something and then not only if you see a lot in football it is very difficult to talk about justice in the football we had chance especially in the first half and also in the final part of the game we could have scored i think it's been a beautiful game tonight a lot of quality on the pitch a great watch for the fans even for us that working for me but especially for the fans for the fans of any team really. manchester city have gone top of the english premier league the defending champions beat everton to move ahead of liverpool in the table american report to end gabrielle his dues for the scores and to know we're not going to park city our top on goal difference but have played a game more than their title rivals liverpool so the reality we we.

we could have been one month ago ten points behind with the game against liverpool and four six seven days ago we could be seven points behind you know we have to open the league what is the lesson that never give up so that is the best advice for all the accolades so you everything is in your hands try to win the games because the life change immediately you know census. air crash investigators have recovered the body from the wreckage of a plane carrying at cardiff city player a million and his pilot the plane was found at the bottom of the english channel almost two weeks after it disappeared from radar or flying from friends the twenty eight year old arjun time had just said goodbye to his team mates at his former club not before is starting his new career with cardiff meanwhile the french club has demanded card of pay them the first instalment of the nineteen million dollars fee for solace transfer they've threatened legal action against the english premier

league club. it's trade deadline day in the n.b.a. a few trades have already taken place but the fate of publicans forward antony davis has yet to be decided it's rumored that the l.a. lakers are prepared to trade half their roster for the twenty five year old star the lakers think davis playing alongside le bron james would be a winning combination but all the rumors are having an impact on davis' pelicans teammates are obviously see their trades have been submerged and sometimes you do want to was going to happen with some experience with. the light for everybody. there's uncertainty for. some time but i'm here to report it's like it's been like a century. and we come together and try to mine are going to try to win defending champions golden state warriors blew away the salmon tonio spurs in california the warriors stuffed curry had nineteen point seven assists of fiber a bounce while kevin durant's had twenty three points to lead the golden state to

a one hundred and forty one two hundred victory the warriors won for the thirteenth time in their last fourteen games while the spurs who rested their top two scores had their five game winning streak now. and over in new york the brooklyn nets beat the visiting denver nuggets the d'angelo russell had twenty seven points to lead the nets to one hundred and thirty five two hundred thirty win this is the second straight loss for denver fallen out of the lead for the western conference. italy's dominant paris has won his first ever title at skiing as world championships a twenty nine year old to gold in the super g. event in sweden paris had previously won a seat at the twenty thirteen championships. it was one of my great biggest dreams through winning a medal. a gold medal that's what's. the

most important so. i didn't expect but for me means a love for my career a few months ago the future of the winter olympics seem to be going downhill calgary became the latest city to abandon a bid to host them on popularity with voters meant the two remaining bids also looked in danger of pulling out but a new approach may be saving both taxpayers' money and the games themselves from sweet. as a winter olympic host stockholm has a good head start on most cities plenty of snow and off piste slope fifteen minutes from the central station the stockholm is hoping they might live in their lunchtime ski pass to the olympic stars in twenty twenty six i would just try to take advantage and enjoy it we do like our winter sports no doubt i think it's great i think. sort of should slide on the mental impact as well and if we can do something

about that i think. also. a few months ago realizing these hopes became an uphill struggle the swedish election installed a new stockholm council that refused to provide any financial backing for the olympics as the chance to host in twenty twenty six was being rejected by city leaders around the world but the decision of the city of start hasn't killed off its bid the international olympic committee had already realized that money was putting cities off hosting the games a year ago they voted in a new way of doing things to emphasize cutting costs and not has turned what looked like a big problem for stock into one of its strengths. the politicians haven't changed course no games if it costs a single tax but nearly all of the news already built the bid includes currently hosting the alpine ski world championships. so with

a bit of blue sky thinking and private money. is budgeted to cost the average sweet precisely nothing a different olympic era from that which saw four point four billion dollars of the london summer games come from taxpayers. bid for the winter olympics and paralympics twenty twenty six is tailor made to fit into this new reality over the i.o.c. not only for twenty twenty six but can create the legacy that is positive for the future of big movement use what you have where you have it and don't be living there are still only two beds for twenty twenty six but both are in step with the new reality with italy's milan courts going up against the swedes with another or step pick offering the i.o.c. say the two cities are already four hundred million dollars under the projected costs of sochi and pyong chang's winning beds. but not hitting people in the pocket will have more would be. up for twenty thirty.

swindon. friess asking is a firm crowd favorite at any winter olympics and you can see from these competitors that the world championships in utah are back some bar off of russia to gold in the men's aerials valorous is aleksandra sky i captured her first major title in the win.