political party the europeans are playing this and try to have this trade deal with iran where they. will lift all the good thing sanctions so the united states is intent on stopping out of focus so no one is sure how this will go because you clear our situation with iran is still in compliance you can see according to all the inspections by the united nations. the international body the atomic energy authority according to all accounts they all still updating all of the polls is in that twenty fifty nuclear deal is what it's about that is the key question all right as a henderson and from what he is facing the enemies of the united states and dynamism our rights and our simmons thank you for giving us that update from a it's ironic and. on the live pictures for just

a moment where iranians as you can see have come out in droves they are marking the fortieth anniversary of the iranian revolution that is the president hassan rouhani as speaking right now for. now a top u.s. official is in afghanistan and the latest step towards ending a seventeen year war the acting defense secretary patrick shanahan is making the surprise visit to the capital kabul he's meeting the u.s. military and the afghan president ashraf ghani to discuss national security issues shanahan says it's crucial the government as part of peace talks with the taliban tony berkley is joining us from kabul and tony of course the afghan government has been sidelined from these peace talks because the taliban regards it as illegitimate so what message is shanahan carrying to the governments. i

think he's going to reassure the government that they haven't been sidelined they haven't been forgotten he did say that it's very important that afghans at the end of the day who will achieve peace there will have to live with peace so therefore they must take part in this i think the taliban position that they would never do negotiate directly with the afghan government is one that will probably change in the coming months but there are questions about how quickly this whole process is going because shanahan will be assessing the strength on the ground you will be assessing what the taliban is doing you'll find out the taliban is still very much an active force and want to be contended with so he will be going back we don't have any idea about his preconceived ideas in afghanistan his views are not widely known but his his previous boss jim matthews resigned because of president from attempts to withdraw troops from syria and i think he probably may of this be of the same ilk as well so there are concerns here about the speed of the whole process so he will want to reassure he's also said that there are no plans afoot to

withdraw the fourteen thousand u.s. troops here you may remember there was a leaked documents of the taliban had said that they had an agreement that seven thousand of those troops home if the force would be withdrawn by april but he is insisting that no instructions for that to happen and tony of course after seventeen years of war there are now splinter groups in the country so how can we be sure that the taliban is speaking for all groups in these peace talks currently going on. well actually we can be sure there are as you say many splinter groups many factions many people with different ideas i think the concern is that if you look back at the taliban over all the one that had sharia law the harsh punishments if that taliban is still in existence all factions like that is going to make a peace settlement very difficult but as we understand there is a new for taliban and they've been reformed they have a different image now they want to negotiate on a different basis so if that's the case it's ok but you still have these factions

what the haqqani network for example has carried out some atrocious bombings many people killed at their hands and also you have cover i saw in eastern afghanistan they're not going away and the fear is that as isis pushed out of syria those forces may come to afghanistan all right tony berkley with an update from kabul thank you so the u.s. is likely to start pulling its troops out of syria in a few weeks time be trumpet mr asian has been sending mixed messages on the timing but the president's top commander in the middle east says it all depends on how things pan out on the ground and u.s. backed rebels say they've been making advances against ice on what's being called the final battle to seize the armed groups last enclave the kurdish led syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. have been focused on who's in the east of the country they say they've captured forty one isaw positions since the start of an offensive on saturday twenty thousand civilians have left but hundreds of others are still far to be trapped in the area. seventeen australian residents are believed to have been detained in

china a spark of a crackdown on the muslim weaker minority activists say the individuals were visiting relatives when they were arrested about a million weaker as are believed to be in camps against their will china's government though says the camps are voluntary and designed to stamp out extremist tendencies australia's government says it's not aware of any residents being held in china and to thomas has more from sydney. there are about three thousand chinese people of the week at this is he here in australia and i spoke to the representative of that community on monday and she's told me that while she's very reluctant to go public with her concerns she feels she's getting nowhere behind closed doors with the australian government she's concerned about seventeen we get chinese people living in australia either on spouse visas or as permanent residents here in australia those are people who've returned to china for short holidays and then disappeared initially that had their passports confiscated and then they've

just gone off the radar people in their families here just do not know what has happened to them and they say they've been asking a starting government to find out what's happened to them whether even they're alive or dead for some months and they're just not getting on says the lady i've spoken to says that if these were australian citizens rather than permanent residents then she thinks a lot more would be done she says she's spoken to people in the u.s. state department who say that if they were u.s. residents the u.s. state department would have done a lot more to find out what was going on but she doesn't think enough is being done by camera to find out what has happened to these people. still ahead on al-jazeera where as a mass casualties body saudi arabia says it still doesn't know. how

they were about to see another tranche of snow running through central europe you can already see it winding up the circulation here running through germany and then moving eastwards across the behind it is dragon is a northerlies cold so the first snow appears during monday on the nose lips the out structure austria as well start back cold and we still talk about nine degrees in london seven in berlin we're not subzero anyways just an awful lot of snow particularly in the baltic states and overnights the cult and the snow moving further east into once again pos of a mania and ukraine the temp drops a bit behind it was sold max by day's end he three bought london's up to twelve and the sunshine brings madrid to thirteen so western europe seeing revival with a bit of warmth that also means of course north west africa doesn't get much of than a brush with a bit of close attention all that high it is awful still midwinter is fifty six degrees now has tunas but the skies elastically as they do cloud up for obvious

reasons in libya and then fall north of egypt during tuesday that much of north africa is fine and dry as you might expect now the showers that you do see funnels as government particularly further east rwanda and kampala in uganda particularly. good weather sponsored by cats out anyways. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business for them on board with a smelly bill thanks to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are blended together then recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the science that office solutions is very easy for us to have a hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera.

hello again the top stories on al jazeera iran's president hassan rouhani has been addressing tens of thousands of people to mark the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution nationwide commemorations started on february first marking the day i. return from exile in one nine hundred seventy nine. the acting united states defense secretary is in afghanistan for peace talks for talks with president. wants to encourage the government to involve the taliban in its negotiations to end the seventeen year war. the us is likely to start pulling its troops out of syria in a few weeks but ministration has so far been sending mixed messages on the timing

but his top commander in the middle east says it all depends on how things pan out on the ground. nicolas maduro is vowing to defend venezuela against any attacks the president says his soldiers are ready to fight the u.s. and the rest of its enemies the southern african development community made up of eleven nations. it's criticized any attempts to interfere in venezuela's domestic affairs has appeared on state television with his vice president and defense minister he was at a military exercise in the northern state of miranda. today the most important military exercises that are republican history recalls have been successfully initiated throughout the national territory the most important because of the situation we are living in of real threat from the imperialist government of donald trump against the peace of venezuela the head of the empire has threatened us and that has generated indignation rejection by all the people of venezuela and

of the world's public opinion the opposition leader high dose efforts to stop aid getting into venezuela are a crime against humanity tons of food and medicine sent from the us has been stuck at the colombian border since thursday and as well as the military has refused to let it in under orders from the president who says the aid is part of a u.s. ploy to remove him from power why though says he'll use volunteers to open new ways to get the aid into the country. i understand that they want to block the aid because that's what the victimizer does it makes them seem almost genocidal by their actions they're killing venezuelans killing children who are protesting killing fernando abandon opposition lawmaker i understand that they would want to deny this and not allowing the humanitarian aid the regime should know it this is a crime against humanity gentlemen of the armed forces as well as economic hardship is hurting its most vulnerable people are latin america editor of the soon newman

went to a care home to see how residents there are coping. this is hill of hope western been in old age home where destitute or abandoned senior citizens are meant to live out their last years with dignity. but as always in times of acute economic hardship it's the youngest and the oldest who suffer most in the absence of full time staff seventy nine year old. keeps the gate locked and helps those who can't walk because he still can. we help each other out amongst ourselves michael most everyone he suffers from hypertension but there's no medicine here. and silas could walk and see when he came here three years ago now he's blind from untreated cataracts can't walk and is tormented by a hernia i think. last night i was in terrible pain.

i cry from the pain. i am very sad. only god knows how long i'll remain. sometimes there's nothing to eat we have no help from the government there is no one to help us. the home is a foundation that runs on donations but they've dried up so there are no nurses or doctors and very very little food. the cook says it wasn't always that way. they used to throw away the food there was abandoned. until the crisis came the crisis began six years ago she says most of the donors have left the country hyperinflation has led to widespread poverty and scarcity of almost everything. it's time for dinner and so you have a c.e.o.

who's confined to a wheelchair helps guide for the beneath this who's blind to the dining room and this is the dinner for the i will eat also grandfathers as they're called it's corn flour boiled in water because we're told it's been more than a year since they received any donations of milk and this will be the last thing they're going to eat until tomorrow. the cook and the cleaner will be leaving soon and they'll be left alone to put themselves to bed no later than six so they won't feel so hungry until breakfast. they are resigned they say to being forgotten in a country with so many other desperate need. to see in human. in this way that. saudi arabia has a doesn't know where the body of murdered. is in an interview on u.s. television the minister of state of foreign affairs says the kingdom is still investigating. accuses turkey of not sharing intelligence was killed in october

in the saudi consulate in istanbul. where is jamal khashoggi body we don't know what do you mean you don't know we don't know they said that the public prosecutor is working to try to establish this fact we have asked for evidence from turkey and he asked them several times formally through formal legal channels to provide evidence we're still waiting to receive any of the. forest fires in new zealand are expected to burn for several weeks but they no longer threaten homes many of the two and a half thousand people who were forced to move to safety in the south island have been allowed to return farming equipment us thought to have sparked the blaze near the city of nelson dry and windy weather fuel the flames. thailand is one of the world's largest export or is off fish but it's industry has faced accusations of human trafficking and abuse two very different movies at berlin's film festival are

highlighting the problem in an attempt to make us think more about the food we eat now has the story. when chuck crow is a teenager he leaves home in rural cambodia for a job in thailand at least that's what he thinks he's doing. soon he's in the hands of people smugglers and forced to work without pay on a tiny fishing boat his story forms the backbone of buoyancy getting its world premiere at the berlin ali and the fifteen year old playing him says filming gave him a small insight into how much suffering is involved. and how hard is . it really. when a plane so. truly had cannot and. i'm. the director base the film on interviews with survivors of human trafficking in

cambodia he's now planning to show the finished product that. made me a little bit i would love for the film to work back in cambodia on a kind of educational level for those guys are thinking about going to thailand and i understand there's some risk but don't fully know what's at stake if if they get trafficked tricked out of on one of these trolls. how will i meet ya know them tackling the issue from another angle the documentary ghost fleet follows tie activists committed to freeing in slave fisherman and getting justice for them. by mixing first person testimony with a reenactment that shows how an industry exporting fish around the world sometimes deals in misery to. lose an essential part of this film first of all from street stalls like this to soirees with the stars and it even gets its own film strands

called cullen reese in amar. i don't deny his hope by showing films such as ghost fleets they can help people think about the origin of what they eat every food has a story the fish has a story vegetable has a story has a story and the filmmakers are much more diligent and more aware of telling these stories. however they're told these tales are raves less it making the audience feel bad at the net getting them to make a change. but al-jazeera bulletin. well just a reminder that you can head online to al-jazeera dot com to read much more on the day's news. headlines on al-jazeera this hour president hassan rouhani says iran will continue to expand its missile program he's been addressing tens of thousands of people to

mark the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution nationwide commemoration started on february first marking the day i have told over halachah many return from exile in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine. the u.s. acting defense secretary is in afghanistan in the latest step towards ending the seventeen year war patrick shanahan is meeting president in the capital kabul the u.s. is likely to start pulling its troops out of syria in a few weeks the trumpet ministration has so far been sending mixed messages on the timing but his top commander in the middle east says it all depends on how things pan out on the grounds. venezuela's president says the armed forces are ready to fight the u.s. and other enemies but the self declared interim president is warning the blocking aids by nicolas maduro is almost genocide oh. yeah i understand that they want to block the aid because that's what the victimizer does it makes them

seem almost genocidal by their actions they're killing venezuelans killing children who are protesting killing fernando abandon opposition lawmaker i understand that they would want to deny this and not allowing the humanitarian aid the regime should know it this is a crime against humanity gentlemen of the armed forces saudi arabia doesn't know where the body of murdered journalist. in an interview on u.s. television the minister of state of foreign affairs says the kingdom is still investigating. turkey if not sharing intelligence was killed in october and the saudi consulate in istanbul. back down on demands for refugee footballer to return home to face charges twenty five year old lives in australia was arrested in november while holidaying in thailand wanted him extradited from bangkok to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism or prosecutors have decided to drop the

case and forest fires in new zealand expected to burn for several weeks but they no longer threaten homes many people have been allowed to return those are the headlines on al jazeera techno is coming up next stay with us. africa's largest democracy goes to the full story next to president parliament and governance corruption and security and economic uncertainty that nigerian politics remain widespread al-jazeera brings to coverage of the issues the candidates and voters i j f o r's. with the utmost billion people in the world food production is under increasing strain to keep pace with the growing global population zero is environmental solutions program discovers new ways of feeding the world sustainably . eighty thousand just on this bit of liquid it's unbelievable and it seemed as the vegetable of the scene right there. on al-jazeera.

this is techno to show innovations that can change lives the science of fighting wildfires we're going to explore the intersection of hardware interim manatees and we're doing it when. this is a show about science lol are now nice scientists tonight true. it's everywhere our. landfills overflowing it's those smells so sound but some of our trash. should be recycled why isn't it being done more techno investigates the problem with plastic they toiled on the streets or to oil in the ocean we have the technology. so why don't we use it so you don't know it will happen surprise to you because a doctor should be so morrow it is a mechanical engineer dr crystal dilworth is

a neuroscientist than i am i get labeled a lot in one field taurus i'm an entomologist that's our team they are now let's do some science. hey guys walking the techno i'm phil taurus today we're going to talk and trash and a ton of it and joining me with this trash talk dr crystal door and dr shu some are now first up. waterborne know by some estimates here in the u.s. fifty billion of these every year in the midst number one is that this is going to be recycled correct actually it's probably not going to be recycled a lot of the water bottles that we think are headed for recycling facility and up in landfills and there's landfills that has a really negative impacts on the surrounding communities is actually quite shocking for the material that is designed to be used over and over again actually only gets

used once and what we've done is take a water bottle just like this one of its journey after it's been lubin to see exactly what. the world is addicted to plastic. it was sold to us as the product of the future product. this educational video from the one nine hundred forty s. celebrates the convenience of plastic arrow not. letting our camper. back then it was a symbol of the modern times to come six decades later the reality is. the earth is choking on it. according to the united states environmental protection agency only nine percent of plastic is making its way into the recycling stream

that's a people problem as they toured on the streets or troy in the ocean or unfortunately that's a habit that has to be stopped it's our addiction to single use plastic for fast food storage and packaging convenience that's at the root of the problem we're guilty of and we should just admit it dr steven not is a professor of materials science at u.s.c. he studies the physics and chemistry of materials like plastic seems to have been a material that was developed for convenience but we're now you know almost one hundred years later paying the price if you look at the population as a whole probably a majority have not yet realized the magnitude of the problem. and nothing symbolizes the problem like the present plastic water bottle americans consume water from about fifty billion bottles a year. made from what's called p t polyethylene turf late two

monomers ethylene glycol and purify tariff acid combine to create a polymer resulting in a lightweight strong material why then does a lost all my stuff to infinity and the landfill these are essentially the same type of bonds that hold together diamond if you're conscientious enough to throw a water bottle into a blue recycle bin like we do here at techno and you probably think that water bottle is going to be turned into another water bottle but that may not necessarily be the case techno wants to find out what happens next so we followed the water bottle. this is the massive twenty facility near los angeles california. located near a large metropolis it can take a lot of trash. if you take

a football field from post to post ten feet high. fill it up with trash about a third of that water that comes over here every day. three thousand tons a day this facility of is a glimpse into the wilds of single stream recycling because all of the recycled material it receives comes from a single source been like this convenient because all recyclables end up in one basket but there's a price you can't unscramble an egg susan collins is a manufacturing engineer who heads up a nonprofit recycling institute once materials get mixed together too much like glass shards ending up in paper. or plastic bottles ending up in the paper stream or a limit in cans ending up in the plastic stream all of that is detrimental to recycling sorting seems to be a massive component there are multiple compositions of plastic when these different

plastics are blended together then the recycling become difficult to impossible that's exactly what's happening at the plenty of pounds that means of those who won't be turned back into another bottle but instead it will go on another journey into the secondary plastic market one of the myths is that once you place the water possible in a blue recycle bin it can actually be made back into water bottle again the technology is that why isn't it being done more you know i can't really speak to the industry what happens after you know the water bottle leaves our facility we just make sure that the containers that come in here are recovered as much as possible so you don't know what happens to the plastic that you recover once you've given it to the break up both you know but from what we understand that there is a local market for the. for the most part

a lot of the material is shipped overseas mostly to be asia pacific in two thousand and fourteen the second the plastic market sent about hoffa's of california's plastic trash to china because it's a mix of all the different types of plastics it can only be melted down repurposed a process known as down cycling it could be t. shirts it could be teddy bear stuffing it could be carpets. because down cycle products and. they just take a longer trip before they eventually end up in a landfill and there's another inherent problem with single stream recycling half of the country has access to recycling and the other half might have a drop off program that might be nearby or it might be ten or twenty miles away in . us were able to use about five to seven percent recycled content beverage bottles in the united states the number in germany is twenty five to thirty five percent in the u.s. bills are rare california is only one of six states that places

a redemption value on non-carbonated p.t.t. bottles but here we have a national possibile because it seems to be so successful sure it's purely for political reasons but one bottles of purchased in california consumers pay anywhere from a nickel to a dime deposit on them at checkout. we see about a million and a half customers a canadian based company replanted with seven hundred locations in the u.s. offers a plastic buyback program. there are sorts of middleman in the plastics trade they redeem bottles for deposit. the result is dramatic the recycling rating california is typically three times higher than that of the rest of the nation here at this replanted sorting facility they process over two million bottles a day packaging up the best quality p. t. these mountains of plastic oppressed cracked and then by among the by is this p.t.

. is carbonite it's a two hundred twenty thousand square foot plant with a chance to use chopsticks into material from the bottles. as a mechanical engineer. i feel like a kid in a candy store that is ready in the morning i know you have. found spore here were broken in the past it is separated from any debris and then washed in hot water in our second stage that washes the very clearly separates the cabs and labels from the p.c. bottles is then separated into clear petey greene. the clear and p.t. is ground into flakes and washed again heated then melted and then becomes tell its . one to one full bottle to bottle recycling the plastic from one bottle is used to

make it nothing and often not until they even recycle the labels and casts. in pepsi's make it g.'s among the companies heavily invested in one to one. so if we get the recycled retiring up in the us you know it's very easy. hundred percent recycled material for use if you keep something in a closed loop he replacing version resources over and over and over again catches up with you in a pretty awesome way and is responsible for avoiding a whole bunch of environmental consequences. throw away living. a promise of liberation. americans are free at last this feature and life magazine one thousand nine hundred fifty five signaled the beginning of

a throwaway society. if people only knew the problem that they were creating when they extolled the virtues of throwaway living this is a monster and creating a tear. do you know about something. they want to make and then experience the alders oh constantly for years. these neighbors are talking trash as a group of milpitas california residents go door to door to buy the expansion of the newbie island landfill located in the neighboring city of san jose. they hold weekly meetings and steaks and they host town halls there is a significant odor that comes from the movie island facility sometime you know when i just go out and take a walk i just feel.