all right apologies for that let's move on shall we because haiti's president has addressed the nation after a week of violent protests at least eight people have died since the rallies broke out in the capital port au prince last thursday protesters are calling for you to resign. of a rising inflation allegations of government corruption for more on this let's go live now to the money over the pillows in the capital port au prince money also we understand the president has been speaking what more he had to say. right now having some technical problems with him as well let's move on shall we because there's plenty more to come on the news hour including taking its business elsewhere find out why amazon no longer wants a big bite out of the big apple. and in sports history first back here at the world championships in sweden.

now two rival meetings addressing stability in the middle east have wrapped up in europe in sochi russia's president hosted turkish iranian leaders for talks on the house and the war in syria and what comes next while in poland the u.s. stepped up its efforts to isolate iran at a conference attended by sixty nations israel's prime minister was the only foreign head of state to attend with many european countries sending low level officials let's start with that summit in sochi with three countries vying to be the key foreign players in syria once the u.s. needs so hot as this report from tehran. this so-called guarantor is of the syrian peace process the presidents of russia iran and turkey are partners in the astronaut negotiating framework the leaders met to find consensus on how to carve up syrian territory following the planned u.s. withdrawal of american troops from an area under the control of the kurdish group

the why peachy it was clear even before these sorts began that they did agree russia and iran told turkey that the syrian government should we gain control of north east syria wants us troops leave at the end he planned to set up a safe zone in syria along its borders we need the consent of president bashar assad's government the turkish government's concern should be taken into consideration we believe cooperation with the legal government of syria and deployment of syrian soldiers alongside international borders is going to be more sustainable iran continues to be willing a long side russian friends to play its role in order to ensure friendship between syria and turkey turkey's president or the guard once a close friend of the syrian president has been a staunch supporter of the opposition since the uprising began in two. thousand and eleven. recently acknowledged that there have been low level contacts between turkey's and syria's intelligence agencies the turkish government wants.

it considers. to its national security. but they want. and provide guarantees. russia also have another demand they want turkey to clear a demilitarized zone for fighters in the province the province is under the control of. a group many in the international community consider linked to al qaida. i'd like to stress the creation of deescalation is a temporary measure the rest of the rebels should punished. that may be a threat of a russian backed syrian government offensive that turkey wants to prevent so as not to cause a humanitarian crisis on its border. syrian people especially and our

brothers and sisters are trying to stay alive they've suffered enough and pete significant we will continue to do what we should be doing based on the memorandum we're determined to make the situation worse the strategic interests of russia iran and turkey not just syria means their differences are unlikely to affect their alliance but turkey's feeling the pressure. meanwhile the u.s. and. iran is the main obstacle to peace in the middle east during two days of talks in poland the us vice president also said he was europe's. to withdraw from the twenty fifty nuclear deal. the u.s. may have changed the title of the warsaw meeting but that's had little impact on its focus from the outset it was clear that this was a gathering game that's garnering support for american and israeli policies against

iran you can't achieve the money to build the middle east without running iran it's just not enough there malign influence in lebanon. syria and iraq. create that he's lost and has a lot of these are real threats out there are others as well but you know you can't get peace in the middle east that pushed. the israeli prime minister who has one eye on the general election in april went one step further yesterday. and i struggled turning. to some sixteen foreign ministers representatives of dozens of government. and israeli prime minister. foreign ministers meeting arab countries stood together and spoke. too soon or so far in unity against a common threat to remain here the government of iran whose president was meeting sarkisian russian counterparts in the black sea resort of sochi described the

conference in poland as a circus the u.s. said sixty nations had convened in poland as requested by this agreement among the participants was evident some european union countries some low level diplomats apparently not happy with washington's with the pool from the iran nuclear deal american vice president mike pence said he was saddened at the psalms. the time has come for our european partners to stand with us and the iranian people. to stand with our allies and friends in the region. the time has come for our european partners to withdraw from the around nuclear deal and join with us as we bring the economic and diplomatic pressure necessary to give the arena people the region and the world the peace security and freedom they deserve arguably the biggest beneficiary from the warsaw conference was benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister meeting publicly with senior ministers from saudi arabia bahrain the

u.a.e. and on none furthering his agenda of normalization with arab governments the warsaw meeting was intended to for their peace and security in the middle east however critics will say that it may have very well done the opposite by enabling and yahoo government international loring continues to illegally occupy arab learns by favoring more confrontational this approach rather than a diplomatic one when it comes to iran. or so others of i saw a fight as of surrender to syrian democratic forces in the eastern region of derren saw that's where kurdish fighters have launched a final push against the group in the village of baghdad areas the last territory that i still controls in syria thousands of people in bug fled to help positions to escape the violence yes the efforts been sorting civilian men from women carrying islip fighters hiding among them and khan has moved on the turkey syria border. those patrols between the russians and the turkish forces began on thursday

president of the one the turkish president has actually spoken and said that as a sort of corp russia and turkey to agree to start joint patrols in order to contain radical groups his words not ours so this comes as the syrian democratic forces are still fighting the last i don't play all of i still fight with the village of al. jazeera now what we're hearing is at least two hundred forty one rifle fights is have surrendered to the syrian democratic forces the s t f the fighters will actually be taken to a prison just outside of the village and that's when they'll be held for processing but they're all women and children and women who have been married to isis fighters will be taken to a separate town we have been hearing from women and children and in the process to get from the women who say that they want to return back to their hundred countries

we've heard from some french women and some british women and last coming days speaking to media organizations now because all of a negotiation that's reportedly taking place between the s.t.'s fighters and leisel fights is about establishing a humanitarian corridor to allow people out yes to full says i'm actually moved into the village they were in the village a few days ago fighting but now they're on the outskirts where there is shelling taking place they are putting pressure on those isis fighters claim that pressure as well and that's why we say number of isis fighters reportedly two hundred forty one i survived just giving themselves up. just about to our story from haiti the president there has just been speaking in the last hour for more on this let's go back now to my new rappel who's in the capital port-au prince michael so what more has president once i had to say. this is the first time that we've heard from president bush in the last. since violence broke out more than one week

ago he spoke on national television condemning the violence on the streets of port au prince that have left several people dead over the course of this political crisis he did however fail to outline any concrete steps toward addressing the root cause of the problem other than saying that it's now going to be up to haiti's judicial body to find a solution to the crisis there was no mention of the corruption scandal that sparked these protests in the first place that drove thousands of haitians out into the streets of port au prince for more than a week in fact there's more questions now over what the president didn't say and how when ordinary people respond to the president's speech and is it likely to stop the protests do you think it's late at night here in haiti now but the response on twitter here in haiti has already been very negative we are we can already confirm that the president's political opposition has called for more demonstrations to to start again tomorrow we should mention that today was the

first day that we saw any sort of relative calm on the streets of port au prince people here want answers to what happened to more than two billion dollars in development funds that are unaccounted for the president made no mention of that in his speech today people here that respect that we've spoken to protesters say that they want the president to resign they have no confidence left in the government and they say that there is no room for a national dialogue which is what the president is calling for but we're also hearing from more moderate voices from cooler heads who are saying that the that the only true solution the only true path toward a lasting resolution to this crisis is a national dialogue but it has to be one that includes all of the voices from all sectors of haitian society. in port au prince in haiti michael thank you. india's prime minister is describing the bombing of a military convoy in indian administered kashmir as despicable explosion killed at least thirty nine people in poor districts momma jumped to reports. multiple

casualties after a blast along a highway in indian administered kashmir one of the worst attacks to hit the disputed himalayan region in almost three years according to reports the majority of those killed were indian paramilitary personnel when a car filled with explosives rammed into a military convoy in the district of pull the attack happened on a main road that connects the state capitol street to gar to the city of jammu pictures from the blast site showed bodies and body parts strewn across a wide area. now under very hard i was sitting inside my shop and all of a sudden an explosion happened it was very massive and felt like the building would come down i came out on so small that the side of the explosion and the breeze from vehicles in there kashmir has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred seven both countries claimed the area i think we've seen this coming. through gesture what they've been trying to get out.

for the last few months especially because. indigenous. groups like. this contained but in doing so your course especially in so you know. in the last two going to tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades in the uprising against the indian administration this latest violence comes just a day after dozens of high school students were wounded when there was an explosion in their classroom in kashmir. al jazeera. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back counting down to the day's election in nigeria with with the presidential contenders on the final leg of campaigning. every day it feels like the shooting is happening again or happened yesterday or will happen tomorrow one year after a deadly shooting at a school in florida survivors reflect on what life has been like since then in

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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. congress has passed a bipartisan bill to avoid another government shutdown it does not include money to donald trump's border war with mexico instead he has to declare a national emergency to secure the funding. the senior democrat on the u.s. senate foreign relations committee wants the trumpet ministration to hundreds of documents related to the killing of saudi journalist. records about whether any senior saudi official was responsible for his death had been requested. and president nicolas maduro has invited donald trump's new special envoy to venezuela to visit us trump an expression has repeatedly called him a do it to resign and recognized opposition leader. as the interim president. fourteenth is known as valentine's day in some countries but for the people of

parkland florida and the u.s. it marks a day when a shooter killed more than a dozen students at a high school in the year since the debates of the gun laws and whether to tighten them has continued but little has changed how did you castro. it's been a year since valentine's day turned into a day of horror at stoneman douglas high school a former student armed with an assault rifle opened fire on his classmates and teachers killing seventeen right here samantha grady dove behind a bookcase and lived but her best friend died beside her i do feel the question of why am i still here but because i know that i have some sort of purpose that kind of. thing that purpose for many cartland survivors manifested in a few led movement calling for stricter gun control laws in the u.s. marches in washington and around the world garnered close to a million supporters president donald. met with parklane survivors in the days

after the shooting and pledged to make american schools safer and said he was unafraid to take on the powerful n.r.a. gun lobby to do it but since then washington has done little to change gun laws and now the number of americans who want stricter gun laws has fallen from seventy one percent a year ago to fifty one percent today historically we have seen after any one of these big mass tragedies that draw a lot of media attention we see a spike we see people start to care we see people say we need better policies we need better action we need more than thoughts and prayers but then as time goes on people just lose interest meanwhile twelve hundred more children have died of gun violence in the u.s. since parkland a project by team journalists tell the story of each a six year old shot while playing video games a three year old in

a drive by shooting how many more children have to die before we take even the most basic of steps to limit the bloodshed. democrats in congress reintroduced legislation in recent days to ban the sale of high capacity magazines but in florida a new state law mandates more weapons in schools not less an armed guard is now present on every campus five mass shootings a week that is the current average in the united states according to independent data collectors the unrelenting pain begs the still unanswered question why do they keep happening and what can be done to stop them. castro al-jazeera washington. he was saying that a shooting sparked a national youth movement culminating in last spring's march for our lives and more than a million protesters turned out across the country lawmakers in twenty six states and washington d.c. passed sixty seven new gun safety laws in twenty eighteen four states raise the

minimum age for firearm purchases seven states strengthened or expanded background checks for gun buyers but nearly twelve hundred children were killed by gun violence or gun accidents in the last year and that does not include an estimated thousands more who kill themselves with guns want to talk more about this richard feldman joins me via skype from new hampshire rich is a former regional political director at the national rifle association the n.r.a. and author of the book ricochet confessions of a gun lobbyist richard i mean there's universal agreement that people like unsupervised juveniles criminals and dangerous mentally unstable people shouldn't have guns but how do you ensure they don't get guns if you don't have more robust regulation and tighter gun controls. well i think it begs the question it's it's simple when you say people bit i'm going to or like i did it misused got a lot not get them in the first place and it's always easy after the fact to say

that individual shouldn't have begun the key is being able to figure out in advance who shouldn't have the guns that's where the rubber meets the road and that's where we've done a very poor job in this country in zeroing in on the policies that would actually achieve those results unless seems to be some agreement on both sides isn't there specially on background checks but why do you think congress hasn't been able to do more in terms of i'm not seeing any significant legislation which is the point you're making well i think this whole gun issue in the united states of america has become so politicized that we've really ceased to talk about the policy that we want to achieve and we find ourselves really discussing the politics of the issue using the terminology of the policy and if all we're doing is talking about politics we're never going to achieve anything particularly useful in the policy

and i'm just not just the policy and the politics i mean there's a huge amount of money involved in the gun lobby itself the n.r.a. that used to work for me what's your response to the accusation that politicians are being bought by big money to prevent any action on gun violence. that's kind of like the scene in casablanca there's gambling going on here i'm shocked all issues have plenty of money if anything these days the gun control side probably has far more money than the pro-gun side but at the end of the day it's not money that votes it's people that vote and in the usa there are over one hundred million gun owners who are eligible to vote when you have those kinds of numbers who care about their gun rights it's not surprising that some percentage of them are going to vote on that issue and that small percentage can shift elections l

final solo time a final thought from the richard b. so it's about a president trump saying he intends to declare a national emergency on the border with mexico but the speaker of the house nancy pelosi rebutted that saying that actually trump has got his priorities wrong it's gun control that should be declared a national emergency zero gun violence do you agree well there are so many emergencies and so many issues facing this country at the moment it's hard to pick and choose which one rises to the top of the e.p.a. about twelve holidays here in the year and being killed richard. they're more children than that that die of the flu on a monthly basis perhaps the flu should be at the top of the list it's not the numbers the issue is what is it exactly that we can do about it without interfering in the village image rights of citizens in this country under this constitution to

own guns for legitimate purposes richard feldman thank you very much for your time thank you. now the former deputy director of the f.b.i. has revealed that top u.s. justice department officials had meetings in twenty seventeen to discuss removing president trump from office under mccabe says the move was considered because he colleagues were so alarmed by trump's decision to fire james comey the f.b.i. director at the time a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. it's the first time anyone working on the investigation into u.s. president donald trump's alleged campaign ties to russia has publicly stated there were discussions on whether he should be removed from office the work of the men and women of the f.b.i. andrew mccabe was the deputy director of the f.b.i. and was fired from his job last march for misconduct the white house denied any involvement in the decision even though trump has repeatedly claimed mccabe was out

to get him i was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and achieve and won the election for the presidency and who might have done so. with the aid of the government of russia it is first interview mccabe says the discussions over trump's removal came up just after trunk fired f.b.i. director james comey in may twenty seventeen for his involvement in the russia investigation i was very concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that war i removed quickly or reassigned or fired but the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace mccain says there were conversations about possibly removing under the twenty fifth amendment of the us constitution he also confirms deputy attorney

general rod rosenstein had offered to wear a wire around the president but their claims the justice department disputed on thursday calling mccabe's recollections inaccurate and factually incorrect mccabe's public statements have been rage trump who last out on twitter writing disgraced f.b.i. acting director andrew mckay pretends to be a poor little angel would in fact he was a big part of the crooked hillary scandal and the russia hoax a puppet for a leak in james komi mccain's account comes as the f.b.i. investigation led by special counsel robert mueller continues we dickie ellis partisan investigations trump has repeatedly criticized the probe into whether russia meddled in the twenty sixteen election calling it a witch hunt if there is going to be peace and legislation there cannot be war

and investigation a senate committee is reportedly wrapping up its own russia probe a report this week said they've uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between trump's campaign and the kremlin kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington. u.s. tech giant amazon is ditching a billion dollar plan to build its headquarters in new york the development deal announced in the venda was set to bring twenty five thousand jobs to the city but political opposition and a backlash from taxpayers has forced the online retailer to abandon the project as consumer reports. the announcement that amazon was canceling plans to move to this new york neighborhood brought cheers from city council member jimmy bramer and a grassroots coalition of opponents amazon chose to walk away rather than fight for what it believed in a man but not everyone was celebrating. god some local residents came out to heckle the politician

a minute jamie upset over the loss of jobs amazon had promised to bring twenty five thousand of them and local investment these guys didn't act on the behest of the community act in the behest of their own political careers period new york's mayor and governor were among dozens around the country that fought to woo amazon offering nearly three billion dollars in tax incentives and construction grants to bring the company right to this neighborhood in new york city but almost as soon as the deal was announced there was opposition and backlash. local legislators who weren't consulted on the deal held hearings and citizens berated amazon representatives concerned about increasing congestion as well as the cost of living in their neighborhood. while property owners and some trade unions favored the deal and the revenue it would bring other unions complained about the company's labor practices and you know there's no reason that we should have ever been giving or even considering giving three billion dollars to the richest corporation in the

entire world and to the richest man in the entire world amazon said in a statement that it was clear they didn't have the necessary support of local politicians the polls show the move was supported by seventy percent of new yorkers the governor called it a loss but i've never seen a more absurd situation where political pandering and obvious pandering so defeat it's a bona fide the economic development project amazon says it will not look for a replacement site at this time instead focusing on its existing offices and expansion plans elsewhere in the country kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. british m.p.'s have handed out another defeat to prime minister to resign mayor after rejecting a motion to endorse our government's approach to bragg's that m.p.'s voted against continuing to support may's plan to see changes to break that deal from brussels

proposal from the opposition labor party which would have forced the government to give parliament either a vote on a revised brigs that deal or a debate on the next steps by the end of this month was also checked. the final campaign rallies have been held in nigeria ahead of saturday's presidential and parliamentary elections the youth vote is likely to be key but unemployment and high inflation has left many young nigerians frustrated report some of the job. absolutely mohammed says he's voting for the first time in saturday's election but he is frustrated the twenty year old finish school and can't find work to try and survive he sells water on the street take it a lot of the my life here i want the government to look after the poor and give us jobs i also want to politicians to deal with insecurity in the country. when president muhammadu buhari won the election four years ago he promised to fix nigeria's economy it's an important issue. and ninety million nigerians are

extremely poor. extremely poor it's a major concern and. millions have been out of jobs. we didn't last for years so it's an important conversation for two thousand and nineteen. it's africa's biggest economy but that hasn't translated into jobs the majority of voters in africa's most populous nation are thirty five or younger presidential candidates promise to create more jobs if they win but some nigerians say they are tired of the promises they want action. you mohammed is one of those losing patience he repairs motorcycles but there are days when he has no clients and that means no money to take home. goods. to give us.

the twenty five year old like so many unemployed young people is hoping one day he will find a steady job how to make. up which. parliament has approved sweeping measures that would allow president sisi to extend his rule until twenty thirty four the proposed changes will also give the president new powers of reporting judges and the public prosecutor amendments need to be ratified in a popular referendum in the next several months an award winning journalist has been freed on bail in the philippines a day after she was arrested on libel charges. as the news website which is known for criticizing president regard to tapdance government she says her detention was an abuse of power and the government's trying to intimidate and silence her the charges relate to an article published in two hundred twelve about a businessman alleged links to organized crime.