dozens are dead after a fire rips through an old industrial area in the bangladeshi capital. and this is. also coming up governments across the wilds face a decision whether to allow. their families to return her. these creatures dictionary still have a weekly therapy session seeking answers from the pope the head of a catholic conference on sexual abuse. it's compact and perfectly portable.

but when the device opens up. it's called to the fold. of the folding stuff. a devastating fire has raced through several buildings in an old pos of the bangladeshi capital dhaka at least fifty six people are dead fire officials say the blaze broke out on wednesday night in one building and still isn't under control local media are reporting that the four story structure was home to at least seven families as well as plastics and chemical way houses the death toll is expected to rise as emergency crews are still searching the area. i saw with my own eyes that a sudden massive bang with shock waves totally destroyed the road i was on

a rickshaw when the explosion took place i don't think my rickshaw driver is a log anymore. bangladesh has been harshly criticized for its poor safety record most buildings are used both for residential and commercial purposes at least twenty seven people died and more than one hundred were injured after a fire engulfed the high street retailer gap just outside dhaka twenty ten two years later one hundred twelve workers were killed when another clothing factory caught fire in twenty thirteen a building collapse on the outskirts of dhaka killed more than a thousand in twenty fifteen thirteen people perished in the plastics factory fire and twenty four people died and dozens more were injured when a blast ripped through a packaging factory president donald trump has directed the state department to stop an american born woman who joined eisel from returning to the u.s. autumn when thomas says she made

a mistake joining the armed group and wants to go back with her eighteen month old son but secretary of state my compares says the twenty four year old has no legal basis to claim american citizenship arsalan iftikhar is a human rights lawyer and senior editor does not make monthly he says madonna is entitled to due process. there have been several people who have been repatriated back to the united states to face trial for supporting isis several books young men in the minneapolis st paul suburbs have been brought i don't know if tribe is kind of he backed off the should mean a big chunk use in the u.k. which is quite different and that our american constitutional legal system provides for due process under the both for the fourteenth amendment and most importantly to renounce american citizenship you basically need to walk into a an embassy somewhere and publicly were not sit in front of people and that's none of it which she did then she wants to face the american legal system again you know

she doesn't want to free pass she wants american justice and you know there's no indication that she took part in any military hostilities and so again. you know the paper in the end there's a great deal hypocrisy from the top administration as you know if you weeks ago he said that europe should repeat three or eight hundred european isis fighters back to their own countries to face trial because he once said that it would create chaos in the region if they don't if he isn't really and say why don't you know twenty something year old girl from alabama back into the country to face trial again is just another piece of ocracy from donald trump and bangladesh's foreign minister says a british teenager who fed london to join i still will not be allowed into bangladesh on tuesday the u.k. move to strip show me my bag and that's how you case citizenship believing she also holds bank of deshon nationality or has more from london is finding clothes papers that relate to a decision taken by them this is how nineteen year old should mean that she was

being stripped of her british citizenship from a copy of a letter from the british home office. begum is in a refugee camp in syria where she was discovered earlier this month and. in twenty fifteen she and two friends left the u.k. to join eisel in syria she married a dutch eisel fighter soon after arriving and to be living in i saw the hold before arriving at the camp can i say to you i think british prime minister said the decision to revoke begum citizenship had been carefully considered the overall point the friend makes is absolutely right which is how important it is for this government and this country to make very clear that we will take action against those who are involved in terrorism the british government can withdraw a person citizenship if they deemed

a security risk providing it doesn't leave them stateless it's believed begum has bangladeshi heritage and is eligible for citizenship but when asked about the case the country's foreign ministry said teenage begum is not a bangladeshi citizen there is no question of begum being allowed to enter bangladesh bacon's infant son is a british national by birth the british government says his rights and unaffected. this is bethnal green where she grew up an area with a large bangladeshi community in london's eastend the case is divided opinion here . there's just so many factors in this and i'm actually quite bit torn to the one hundred it was the truth but this is a ship i want them to bring her in the baby ava but the other hand i'm like she did go away and she did join you know terrorist groups. only fifteen when she left for syria. including the former head of britain's foreign intelligence service m i six

to believe that british society should be strong enough to give her a second chance. to come to the u.k. to stand trial to possibly face a prison sentence and enter into a deep radicalize ation program. but says she doesn't regret travelling to syria she's also described the twenty seventy manchester arena bomb attack is justified retaliation the comments haven't won her much sympathy but one former senior police officer believes begum should be seen as a victim you know we talking about sexual exploitation we were talking about individuals that were on the on the internet being radicalized parents had no idea whatsoever what was happening. and estimated nine hundred british nationals have joined eisel but only forty of the prosecutor the government wants to send a tough signal to others hoping to return to the u.k. but every right or wrong decision the government makes sets a precedent for others. al-jazeera london well controlled most of eastern syria and

a third of iraq once but now it's on the brink of defeat with its territory reduced to just a sliver u.s. backed syrian democratic forces civilians from syria. it's a crucial sign the standoff that's lasted more than a week could soon and several trucks have left the area with men women and children it's believed. civilians as human shields. the head of the catholic church has angered survivors of sexual abuse before a four day conference at the vatican even begins the pope prisoners meet victims on wednesday ahead of the mission of senior clergy but he didn't show up chalons has moved from vatican city. each of these people have stories to tell their own stories or other people's stories of years of suffering of the hands of catholic priests bishops and cardinals. on the eve of an unprecedented meeting on sexual abuse at the vatican they brought their stories to tell pope francis. speaking to

journalists earlier in the day survivors explained what they wanted but zero tolerance if you've abused a child you're not going to be a priest anymore and if you've covered up for that abuse or. you too are not going to be a priest anymore. starting from when he was seven peter saunders was abused by three different men it was it was sexual assault i don't i don't i didn't really need to go into graphic detail but i was sexually assaulted by these characters and whilst i have recovered in the physical sense it didn't have any long lasting effect on me what these creatures did to me i still actually have a weekly therapy session because it messes your mind up it's abuse like this that the vatican says it's determined to put a stop to and that the four day meeting is vital in impressing on senior clarity who've come from around the world that it's their shared responsibility to do so

but although cardinals and bishops will hear video testimony from victims of sexual abuse no survivors have been given the chance to speak their own person so they were putting great importance on their expected separate meeting with the pope but it didn't go as planned first of all pope francis wasn't there but made it very clear some of us that's not ok where as a victim see it as a sign of disrespect that the leader of the catholic church sent bishops instead there's vatican summits on sexual abuse maybe unprecedented in its size and its scope but survivors have still told us that they are skeptical that it's going to lead to any meaningful change and their experiences on wednesday have only reinforced that feeling for them the summit has got off to a bad start before it's even begun glory chalons al-jazeera the vatican. returning to our top story of the fire that's ripped through several buildings in the bangladeshi capital killing at least fifty six people. he joins us now via phone

from dhaka tanveer what do we know about how this fire started and spread. because. i can then can you hear me can you hear him. can then just asking you about how we know what we know about how the fire started and how it spread so far. i've been always proud of. all that the five story building call have nearly one have long term and it's out there on the. rock i took about three thirty in the morning to bring what has been some a little bit under control however it's not totally controlled we have so far we know that. my table is. from defense for them to perform from the look of news as well as the fog the problem and. some of the local t.v.

news of still finding that the bed call could be much higher have because a lot of people are critically injured some of the news report says that seventy people so far side we cannot independently confirm that of a few blocks from the intervention of the fire this isn't very congested all that he felt from the property zero point. a lot of buildings on which was practically is what i saw. going to hades probably just as a densely populated and now we know this is not the first time to begin to the map and yet to one. hundred twenty feet people died in a similar fire incident just a month quater mile from the grand parade and there was a lot of protest during those trying to remove all that is illegal. then the moving product reasonless chemical were out from the area that obviously wasn't being

bombed the country was a military of separation for the. factory management prior incidents recently remind two thousand per diem plea for look thousand people in there made their garment factory back so then despite all those fires because that's still rotting in the student particularly in the old city which is heavily comes up. it is quite certain that more people might die from this incident because we want at least forty people are admitted right now in the bochum medical off to the critically injured that was out of here is tended chattery on the phone to us from dhaka thank you for that update candy we'll be hearing from him a touchy. weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera a new challenge for tourism a as three of our employees quit the party over breaks it. and depleted but not defeated the afghan army prepares for

a spring offensive in the hope of taking back territory from the taliban the group has seized control of twenty one districts. hello the heavy rain has been pouring in parts of north america recently the satellite picture is showing a winter storm as is the working its way towards the northeast that's given us a lot of snow as well and as we head through the day on thursday that will continue to move away towards the east still for the northeastern parts of more wintry weather here but that systems training his feet further south so if the some of us across the southern states there's going to be yet more wet weather on the ground his away ready waterlogged so we don't really need this wet weather we're told more rain still to come here as we head through friday for the west we'll also see another weather system make its way and that will turn increasingly wintery say for

some of us here there will be some fairly heavy snow during the day before this was the south a for most of us in the central america is this plenty of following dry weather to be had and lots of sunshine around two before a same person nicaragua and through honduras this just the chance of seeing a few showers particularly as we head through the day on friday a bit further towards the south and for many of us here there's some good to dry weather to be found but not across many parts of brazil here the showers to be very active over the past few days some of them giving us around one hundred millimeters of rain just in a twenty four hour period so more showers that are expected here on thursday and friday don't be surprised if one or two of these turns out to be very heavy. whether it's cute and cuddly in australia wild and ferocious in bangladesh earthrise dress is the balance between endangered wildlife and then noisy neighbors

. that live in the back or it's right there and there's nothing between the tiger habitat and human habitat learning to live together on al-jazeera how many people here have seen a tiger but they can go really. hello again i'm just. a reminder of the news this hour a massive fire has destroyed several buildings in an old pos of the bangladeshi capital dhaka at least sixty nine people are dead but that toll is expected to rise the buildings housed both residential apartments and plastics and chemical where.

western governments are ruling on whether eisel fighters and their families can return home nineteen year old beggar who has been stripped of her british citizenship and donald trump has directed the state department to stop american born from returning home. the head of the catholic church has angered survivors of sexual abuse before a four day conference at the vatican even begins the pope failed to show up to a meeting with victims on wednesday ahead of his summit with. the u.k.'s exit from the european union has been thrown into further chaos after three m.p.'s quits the ruling party over the prime minister's breaks that strategy they have joined eight m.p.'s from the opposition who formed a new political group for brennan has. britain and the e.u. are careering towards a bracks a deadline in less than forty days and the political tempo is only becoming more frantic and more uncertain and the british parliament internal party divisions have

accelerated into full blown resignations three conservatives now joining eight labor m.p.'s in going independent i also hope it gives courage to members of the government who are deeply concerned about this no deal becoming a real a real possibility and it will give them the coverage next week to do it but frankly some of them should on a long time. in their joint resignation letter the three former conservatives say that their final straw was the government's disastrous handling of it it was unconscionable they wrote that a conservative government was recklessly marching the country to the cliff edge of no deal and they lamented the failure of politics in general the resignations of the elephant in the room at the weekly session of prime minister's questions despite the eleven new independent tempi sitting very noticeably in new seats in the chamber by the theresa may nor jeremy corbyn acknowledge them here mark hurd. this place as at war with itself the tories and the labor party other employee.

scotland deserves better we. are hearing from you for a refund if the british prime minister's way out was to travel from london to brussels to meet the european commission president. and his chief negotiator michel barnier they did not shake hands for the cameras and in fact the fancy dress unicom protesters outside looked more optimistic than the diplomats inside. no breakthrough was predicted and by the time the prime minister's convoy departed no compromise had been reached but there is a growing sense of time running out and some suggest that the emergence of the independent group will embolden other dissenters we don't know how it will impact how it all turns out. it does make it look but now there's a new independent group but they'll make more independent action from other m.p.'s moreover the less likely perhaps the most interesting aspect of the resignations of these eleven am peace is not the individual grievances but the collective grievance

that politics in the u.k. is broken and that the political landscape dominated by just two main parties is ill equipped to deal with the polarizing nature of the brics it debates the real test will be how many more m.p.'s they can persuade to join them head of the meaningful vote or the next step for brics it next week paul brennan al-jazeera westminster french president has announced new measures to fight anti semitism after a series of high profile incidents was attending the annual dinner of a jewish organization saying anti semitism has reached its west level since world war two in some parts of europe he says legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in may it comes a day after thousands of people rallied in cities across france to denounce hostility towards jesus. donald trump says the u.s. could tax european car exports imports i'm sorry if it fails to broker

a fair trade deal with the e.u. the american president gave the warning after a meeting with the austrian chancellor sebastian cuts at the white house the commerce department has been investigating whether imported cars and parts are a threat to u.s. national security it could clear the way for a tax on european cars of up to twenty five percent. iran has accused the united states of hypocrisy after it emerged that members of the trumpet ministration sought to share nuclear technology with saudi arabia the white house pulled out of the landmark twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran in may last year the democrats have launched an investigation into whether corporate interests were put ahead of the law in dealings with the saudis this is the latest example of how the u.s. president sees his relationship with saudi arabia it's the first country donald trump visited after becoming president he's often talked about the importance of arms sales to the kingdom and says they're worth more than one hundred billion

dollars and despite growing anger over the saudi amorality war in yemen trump has opposed congressional efforts to stop u.s. involvement in the conflict trump says saudi relations must not be undermined ignoring international calls for an investigation into crown prince mohammed bin sounds role over the matter of jamal khashoggi afghan army commanders say they're confident a spring offensive will regained large areas of the territory from the taliban twenty one districts of four and under taliban control in recent months and fighting has resulted in the afghan army is the highest ever losses while its strength has fallen to its lowest level in years tony back to reports from kabul. this remote afghan army outpost is one of thousands nationwide often isolated and in inhospitable areas they are the first line of defense against taliban and i saw fighters as well as the most vulnerable. the grays of fallen soldiers since the

u.s. pulled out its ground forces three years ago the afghan army has borne the brunt of the fighting with the taliban and the casualties inflicting ever greater casualties to the forces who are now the number of casualties or dozens every these people have lost. the meaning of body counting we have become indifferent officially the government says forty five thousand members of the security services have been killed since two thousand and fifteen and officially afghan analysts say that number could easily be doubled the overall army strength has dropped to its lowest level in years as the military confronts his biggest ever crisis but army chiefs maintain that morale remains good. we have a volunteer army it's their own choice to serve there is no doubt that we suffer lots. of disabled. is high because the goal is freedom and to serve the people of afghanistan. in the past few months the military has lost control of more

than twenty areas to taliban fighters who seem able to strike anywhere. in total we have lost twenty one districts in all of afghanistan it is because of the change in tactics on the ground so we are planning a spring offensive it will take two to three months to retake all these districts from the taliban but real reimposed the rule of law. eight thousand recruits every year passed out of this training center in the capital kabul most of them are trained by afghan instructors taught by western military experts who despite the high casualty rate young men are still volunteering to fight it's partly out of a sense of touch duty but it's also because of the dire economic situation here they face the stark choice either stay at home and enjoy your poverty or face the taliban and risk death or injury i definitely yes i mean it's my duty to fight for my country to win our freedom i'm not afraid of the taliban for the magazine other

stuff i hadn't gone to the army i had nothing else planned professional soldiers say ideally training should last a minimum of a year in afghanistan it's three months. say we would like more time but we make the most of what time we do have and when they leave here they are able to fight the taliban. but the question is how able are they to fight effectively army pay is low the conditions poor and since the american ground forces left backup is limited recruits are taught to shoot but equally importantly they are taught emergency battlefront first aid increasingly important because of the shortage of medivac helicopters the yard was a bomb disposal experts for seven years until an explosion blew off both his legs he's one of a growing number of disabled war veterans discharged from the military and one is the most. i have no regret i am proud that i have contributed to the

fans of michael three and my second five was in pursuit of peace my people and my country but there is little help for heroes in afghanistan the father of four receives a meager disability pension of two hundred seventy dollars a year but he hasn't received any money for eight months and he can't afford further medical treatment. the afghan military has come a long way in the last eighteen years but is it far enough and if and when the u.s. forces finally withdraw completely afghans be able to stand alone tony berkeley al-jazeera. nigerian fuel supplies of cut the price of petrol in a bid to encourage people to travel to vote in presidential elections on saturday the vote has been delayed by a week and the main parties are concerned that it will reduce fires or turn out to airlines have also offer discounts to people who show their voting cards to

elections in uganda now and the country's ruling party has endorsed president yoweri seventy as its candidate for the twenty twenty one poll potentially extending his rule to forty years the seventy four year old would be seeking a sixth term in office making him africa's longest serving leader a bill was signed last year scrapping presidential age limits. tech giant google says its failure to inform users of a hidden microphone inside its nest guard home security device was a quote error on its part and it emerged the product had built in microphones when google announced it would start supporting the firm's voice command assistant google says the microphones have to be activated and are included to work with future updates and there's now a smartphone that you can bend and hoff samsung has just unveiled its new generation of devices including the galaxy fold but will it be enough for the industry leader to overcome a shrinking market kristensen amy has more from new york. the next generation

samsung smartphone will also serve as a tablet. has a four point six inch display it's compact and perfectly portable. but when the device opens up your world does too not surprisingly samsung's newest device is called the fold and it was unveiled with all of the fanfare you've come to expect from the world's leading smartphone maker. but shares with things get really caught it goes on sale in april but it and samsung's new as tannen as ten plus are being released amid faltering worldwide sales people have a little bit of phone fatigue all the phones look the same they feel the same this new galaxy s ten is not really going to break the mold but we've seen some hints of things that are coming in the future that might get people really excited the issue whether buying samsung or an apple device is increasingly price with the fold costing about two thousand dollars samsung will have to convince consumers that

they just have to have it pretty much all of the price to perform the performance of their own looking for. for a replacement phone every three or four years i'm not within the eighteen to twenty four month update cycle i'm not rich enough or that the global smartphone market is shrinking after years of rapid growth with consumers waiting for the next game changing feature and major markets like here in the united states that saturation still smartphone sales are a vital part of the global economy. in two thousand and seventeen smartphone sales reached nearly four hundred sixty billion dollars but the rising price tag for the better known smartphones is not just an issue in the developed world and there is heavy headwind against the high and smartphones we saw that i phone in the sales but not that great some macro issues as well china is slowing down. but

europe is slowing down with the release of the full industry leaders seem convinced that continuing innovation and the ability to access five g. data networks in the near future will be enough to keep smartphone. murs coming back for more christian salumi al jazeera new york. hello i'm mr doha with the headlines on al-jazeera a fire has destroyed several buildings in an old pot of the bangladeshi capital dhaka at least sixty nine people have died but that number is expected to rise the buildings housed residential apartments as well as plastics and chemical warehouses chowder you has the. m three hundred. very bad. you know our property management our incident well recently remind two problem. trooper brooke baldwin people i mean they're very dear garment factory who they're

about five zero zero zero zero called the little. girl in the old believe. that. it is. that more people might buy from the pentagon because the mother wanted people are admitted right now in the bottom where to go all the world particularly in europe western governments are ruling on whether i still fighters and their families can return home one thousand year old sameem a bag and has been stripped of have british citizenship and donald trump has directed the state department to stop american born home with tongue from returning home u.s. back to syrian democratic forces have started to move civilians from syria's eastern village of bugaboos the s.d.f. says a number of civilians and i still fighters are still inside the armed groups remaining and jane the head of the catholic church has angered survivors of sexual abuse

before a four day conference at the vatican even begins the pope failed to show up to a meeting with victims on wednesday ahead of his summit with senior. the u.k.'s prime minister to reason may has visited brussels for more talks aimed at breaking the brakes at deadlock have visit came as three pro european union politicians broke away from her ruling conservative party over amazed by exit strategy donald trump says the u.s. could tax european car imports if it fails to broker a fair trade deal with the e.u. the american president gave the warning after a meeting with austrian childs to sebastian cuts at the white house it could clear the way for a tax on european cars of up to twenty five percent those are the headlines next up earthrise. from sunrise to sunset across asia. the pacific explorer untold. story

one on one on al-jazeera. the relationship between humans and animals has always been one with elements of conflicts but as the number of people on the planet continues to grow it's becoming increasingly strained and in balance. with the world's human population approaching an extraordinary eight billion sprawling settlement some activities are encroaching on animal habitats more than ever scientists estimate humans are driving species extinction it's around one thousand times the natural rate largely due to.