dozens are dead after a fire rips through an old industrial area in the bangladeshi capital. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up governments across the wilds face a decision whether to allow eisel fighters and their families to return home. a new challenge for tourism

a as three of quit the party over break says plus. all the road should know what twelve hundred meters on the ground david change on the out. a devastating fire has raced through several buildings and an old part of the bangladeshi capital dhaka at least sixty nine people are confirmed dead so far but that toll is expected to rise media are reporting that the building where the fire started was home twenty seven families as well as plastics and chemical warehouses and brian reports. firefighters and dhaka struggle to bring the inferno under control battling a wall of flames amid the chaos of crowded alleyway. the blaze broke out later when stay. evening in the area of the bangladeshi capital in the crammed old city.

quickly spread to surrounding buildings few by plastics and chemical warehouses. witnesses told local media the gas cylinders in the buildings exploded one after another. in vehicles gridlocked in nearby streets in the flames. i saw with my own eyes that a sudden massive bang with fire and shock waves totally destroyed the right side wall i was on a rickshaw when the explosion took place i don't think my rickshaw driver is a log an evil. this mangled wreckage is all that's left now as emergency workers call for bodies they don't expect to find any survivors large building fires a common and bangladesh often because of poorly enforced regulations hundreds have been killed in recent years this latest fire only adding to that tally. al-jazeera

well bangladesh has been 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's factory just outside dhaka and twenty ten to one hundred twelve workers were killed when another clothing factory caught fire in twenty that tina building collapse on the outskirts of dhaka killed more than a thousand in twenty fifteen thirteen people perished in a 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 by self from returning to the u.s. how to 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 have families lawyer her son shibli says mouton a wants to be held accountable for head decision. i personally spoke to the f.b.i. on sunday and i said listen. wants to turn herself in to american authorities we simply want the legal process that we believe in to play itself out and she's willing to pay whatever debts she has to society she's not asking for a free pass we were you know on behalf of her family we were the ones who contacted the f.b.i. when we first learned that would have went to syria this is something that we absolutely condemn in the strongest of terms and the families always wanted her to come back and to face the legal system that we all believe in and now she's willing to do that and the government and i think it's missing out on a tremendous opportunity to one gain intelligence from her and to really be able to utilize her as a strong voice against a monstrous groups like isis that have brainwashed many individuals and manipulated them to do horrible things that i think somebody like could. sing isis speaking out

against them at great risk to her personal life is a sign a victory for the u.s. i think it's very hypocritical in fact why did her to get so much attention recently was exactly because donald trump tweeted that europe should take back its citizens who have joined isis so for him on one day to claim europe should take its citizens back because it would be dangerous to leave them just out and about and then for him to hypocritically almost the very next day deny taking back an american citizen who wants to turn herself in it just simply doesn't make sense i also think it speaks to a broader problem of presidential overreach which will affect more than just who it affects all americans when the president claims the authority now to direct the secretary of state to strip sufficient ship of americans that's a very very scary thing that u.s. citizenship is the most sacred thing and you don't lose it even by coming the worst of crimes i mean the united states you have people who commit murder mass murder and even get out of jail after serving twenty twenty five years and having paid their debt to society under their state laws and they still retain their

citizenship this is a young woman she made serious mistakes that we condemn that frankly discussed us and her family but she's willing to pay the price and she want to speak out to make sure nobody else repeats those mistakes. now bangladesh as foreign minister says a british teenager who joined will not be allowed into bangladesh on tuesday the u.k. government move to strip. of her citizenship and even she also holds bangladeshi nationality. finding close to a decision this is how nineteen year old. that she was being stripped of her british citizenship from a copy of a letter from the british home office. 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 i saw in syria she married a dutch eisel fighter soon after arriving and to be living in. the hold before arriving at the camp can i say to you i think british prime minister said the decision to revoke citizenship had been carefully considered the overall point my 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 teenager is not a bangladeshi citizen there is no question of bacon being allowed to enter bangladesh. infant son is a british national by birth the british government says his rights are not affected . this is bethnal green where should be but begun 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 that 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 group. 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 others want her to come to the u.k. to stand trial to possibly face a prison sentence and enter into a deal radicalize ation program. but she doesn't regret traveling to syria she's also described the twenty seventeen bunches to arena bomb attack is justified retaliation the comments have much sympathy but one former senior police officer believes begum should be seen as

a victim you know we took intimate sexual exploitation we were talking about individuals that were on the on the internet being radicalized parents had no idea whatsoever what was happening. an estimated nine hundred british nationals have joined i saw but only forty have been prosecuted 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 i saw once controlled most of eastern syria and a third of iraq now it's on the brink of defeat with its territory reduced to just a sliver u.s. backed syrian democratic forces have started to move civilians. in villages. crucial sign that the standoff that's lasted more than a week now could soon end several trucks have left the besieged area with men women and children it's believed. as human shields. britain's exit from the european union has been thrown into further chaos after three m.p.'s quit

the ruling party over the prime minister's strategy they've joined eight m.p.'s from the opposition who formed a new political group meanwhile to reason may has wrapped up talks in brussels where she's been trying to break the brakes at deadlock 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 or 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 acknowledged here mark hurd. this place as at war with itself the tories and the labor party are employed in startling deserves better we. are huge fans for it but 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 of l. make more independent action from other m.p.'s more rather than less likely perhaps the most interesting aspect of the resignations of these eleven am peace is not their 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 ahead of the meaningful vote on the next step for brics it next week. brennan al-jazeera westminster the weather is next about still ahead on al-jazeera. the. creature's

dictionary but still actually have a weekly therapy session taking on says from the pope a head of a catholic conference on sexual abuse. and a privacy glitch from google but the tech giant says it forgot to tell customers. with. the new. hello there the weather is all coming down for many of us in the middle east at the moment we've had one very active system that's working its way eastwards at the moment it has given us a fair amount of snow and rain to some of us in afghanistan and that's gradually clearing as we head through into thursday so if a couple the temperatures should get to around five degrees so we will see a lot of that snow melting further west and it should be calm and settled for many

places here i think we'll see a few will showers as we head through the day on friday but nothing too significant of a feather towards the south and here in doha it's going to stay cool as we head through thursday so a maximum temperature of twenty three degrees and you can see the winds firing down from the northwest so that's why it's feeling a little bit fresher than it might to if we had three wins a friday no major change for us but i think for some places in saudi arabia that wind will be coming up from the south and that will drag in some milder air as we head down to a southern parts of africa or plenty of showers in the northern part of stretching down towards madagascar madagascar the expecting more in the way of heavy rains the southern part there is drawing up there is should be an improvement and across the southern parts of southern africa there should be some dry weather to be found to devon twenty seven degrees will be our maximum temperature there on thursday and cape town a twenty five. with a sponsor. whether online.

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buildings housed residential apartments as well as plastics and chemicals. western governments are ruling on whether eisel fighters and their families can return home one thousand year old beggar has been stripped of her british citizenship and donald trump has directed the state department to stop american born. from returning her. the u.k.'s prime minister has been in brussels for more talks aimed at breaking the bricks at dead to up to his amazement that came as three approaching european union politicians broke away from the ruling conservative party i have a strategy. while the head of the catholic church has angered survivors of sexual abuse the four a four day conference at the vatican even begins the pope was made victims on wednesday ahead of the meeting of senior clergy but he didn't show up for a challenge reports from vatican city and. 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 abuser 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 we're going to see victims see it as a sign of disrespect that the leader of the catholic church sent bishops instead this vatican summits on sexual abuse may be 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 ory chalons al-jazeera the vatican. early is a church historian and visiting italian professor of theology and religious studies at villanova university he says the meeting is important to raise awareness. it's a big crisis that has entered if new faces twenty eighteen because as you mentioned the case of cardinal mccarrick the case of chile and because the pontificate of pope francis has be remarkably honest on some issues regarding sexuality sexuality so this meeting happens very different context for the sex abuse crisis compared to just a few years ago this meeting ease unprecedented but we shouldn't expect the production of new laws in these four days the most important aspect will be to raise. awareness especially in those countries were the situation is not like

in the u.s. or in canada australia were held of work has been included in my own italy my own country the situation the compared to the other states twenty or thirty years beyond i saw here it's a problem of raising the level of consciousness in the global church because having a meeting in the vatican means the vatican finally acknowledge is that global problem not just a few isolated cases french president among american has announced new measures to fight anti semitism after a series of high profile incidents necron was attending the annual dinner of a jewish organization saying anti semitism has reached its western ever 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 jews. palestinians are preparing to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the massacre in hebron with demonstrations on friday twenty nine palestinians were killed when an american israeli settler opened fire inside a mosque on the twenty fifth of february one thousand nine hundred ninety four and as harry forces reports from the occupied west bank the consequences of that mass shooting are still unfolding. even from a hillside overlooking her bronze old city it's clear that this is an ancient place rich in human heritage but also a visible fault lines of human conflict according to the traditions of the abrahamic faiths judaism christianity and islam abraham himself along with his wife his sons and their wives are buried in the caves above which the bahraini mosque now stands since israel occupied the west bank in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven jews and muslims have prayed here separately divided over the past twenty five years the division has deepened on the muslim side the call to prayer requires

an israeli soldier to unlock a door israeli army cameras survey the interior of the mosques in mom says more than half of what he describes as an exclusively muslim site has been cut off. totally reject the division which isn't meant for protection the real protection comes from the fact that this is an old islamic mosque and the settlers to live. on the twenty fifth of february one thousand nine hundred four an american israeli far right settler barry goldstein entered the mosque during prayers and started shooting he killed twenty nine worshipers and wounded nearly two hundred he himself was chased down and beaten to death the violence that barak old stain on least here may have been over in a matter of minutes but its consequences a still deeply felt this was a seismic event in the history of this town and from the epicenter here the fissures of that politically psychologically physically have spread out throughout . the immediate military lockdown forcing the palestinian market to close amid

other restrictions was followed by the hebron agreement of one thousand nine hundred seventy eighty percent of the city is known as h one mostly the urban sprawl of the west bank's main economic center and of the palestinian authority the remaining twenty percent home to several hundred israeli settlers and forty thousand palestinians became h. two and the israeli military control the illegal settlements of swollen attracting some of the most right wing settlers in the occupied west bank some eight hundred and are registered as living here the crisscross intimate nature of the division heightens the friction hebron is often a flashpoint of violence jews here remember an early a massacre in one thousand twenty nine when sixty seven people were killed the small jewish community forced from the city. for baruch rock amin what's happening now is a religious and historical homecoming under the protection of the israeli army they're just doing their job to try to keep the tension. down because without them it would probably be much more terms so that we see that we see them as the

positive presidents a few meters away a very different perspective run the gate has seen her home and her freedoms ever more constricted for the last two years by reinforced fence and a gate that soldiers can look at any time we used to come and go now they have to say to some constantly ghosts we say prisoners are in prison but we did a larger one twenty five years on from one of the deadliest days in the israeli palestinian conflict its legacy is undimmed in the daily reality of hostility disposition and division are a force that had grown in the occupied west bank while iran has accused the united states of hypocrisy after it emerged that members of the trump administration sought to share nuclear technology with saudi arabia the white house pulled out of the landmark twenty fifteen new kid 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 and 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 less about 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. tech giant says its failure to inform uses of the hidden microphone inside its nest god home security device was a quote era on its part it emerged the product had built in microphones when google announced it would soon start supporting the fans voice command assistant google says the microphones have to be activated and are included to work with future updates alexis hancock is a stuff technologist at the electronic frontier foundation she says consumers should foist their privacy concerns if a company hasn't had

a good track record with privacy i think along the way is being more cognizant of what you actually buy as a consumer and whether or not you're comfortable with products in your home that are internet connected regardless what company comes from so i think that's a great takeaway to take inventory what's going on and also being able to voice when there is a privacy concern to the companies in making sure that you alert to them that you are not comfortable if there is something that you found out about a device later on before you even bought it when it comes down to hardware that's something that you place in your home you know and consumers who place things their home there's a greater amount of trust that you encroach upon upon the user themselves in a consumer themselves when it's a difference between using an application and using a web site versus putting something into your home that you trust so that concerns a lot of users and i think in that way because of the fact that it feels like

someone has invaded their home and there's something existed there that they didn't realize were already there they claim that you know that the microphone was disabled and that you can enable it on your own but it's just a matter of having that knowledge of what's in your home is most important. the trans alpine will be one of europe's most expensive train lines once it's finished costing a whopping ten billion dollars the rail link will reduce travel time between milan and paris from almost seven hours to just over a four but the tunnel could now fall victim to trading relations between france and italy david taylor reports it's europe's most ambitious engineering project a high speed train link being cut beneath the alps separating france and italy but as diplomatic relations continue to unravel it's proving to be a tunnel too far at the heart of the ten billion dollar upper a sion is this drilling machine two thousand four hundred tons of steel churning to

the rock nonstop towards italy greece and emerge in the levees if this is really the project of my life i hope to keep on and finish this tunnel. but emerging from a citizen's guard house on the italian side of the border it's full vias a lifetime ambition to make sure the tunnel never breaks through. for years now thousands of locals here a big taking part in demonstrations against it down the simi lorry that we don't really have so many things to be down at things attributed to the community and let's say for progress what is being done with this tunnel is a waste of frowns we waste a montane of found wasted with and fulvio has some backing in high political circles it leads deputy prime minister luigi did mio head of the populace five star movement he's done most afraid relations with paris by meeting with members of the

end of best rebellion besieging president macron. the five stars deputy mayor of children described the project as insanity mr pays enough to pay them at the program you know or con three hundred fewer of them friends with a get a vest is that their recent need for public investments but they must be for what are the united states in its must back in france president emmanuel macro is struggling to keep dion taunt cody he didn't help when he described new populist movements as a form of political leprosy less than us to do to how it will be any transport links between the west and the east and that's why it is crucial and strategic once it's finished it will connect all the countries between putsch calling eastern europe it's like a small reconstruction of europe's version of the silk right. part that the italians think of that the other end that was taken on a life of five. dollars a year or if you run a profit take it like that for the whole of europe but at the moment it is.

fighting to keep it down every day telling you know what. each slab inserted into the tunnel wall was meant to cement relationships between france and italy instead a fiasco is in the making in the heart of europe david chase down jazeera under the french alps. you can read about how top story of a fire in the bandra dishy capital and much more on our website al-jazeera dot com . hello i'm mr doha with the headlines on al-jazeera a fire has destroyed several buildings in an old pos 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

. if i assume with more noise that a sudden massive bang with fire and shock waves totally destroyed the roads or i was in a rickshaw when the explosion took place i don't think my rickshaw driver is a log anymore western governments are ruling on whether i still faces and their families can return her nineteen year old beggar who has been stripped of her british citizen citizenship and donald trump has directed the state department to stop american born from returning home the u.k.'s prime minister tourism a has visited brussels for more talks aimed at breaking the brics a deadlock have visit came as three pro european union politicians broke away from her ruling conservative party over may's bricks it strategy 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. u.s.

backed syrian democratic forces have started to move civilians from syria's eastern village of booze the s.d.f. says a number of civilians and eisel feiss are still inside the armed groups remaining on plave. donald trump says the u.s. could tax european 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 chance to sebastian cuts of the white house it could clear the way for a tax on european cars of up to twenty five percent tech giant google says its failure to inform news as a hidden microphone inside its nest god home security device was a quote error on its part is a match the product had built in microphones when google announced it would soon start supporting the phones a voice command assistant who will says the microphones have to be activated those are the headlines next stop the stream to stay with us.

you were sent to jail with under two different prime minister has. now he is set to become the next prime minister of malaysia. and why abraham discusses what direction his country will turn. on talk to al-jazeera. ok and i'm really could be here in the stream today catalonia separatist leaders on trial where exactly this major court case and its impact on politics in spain what should happen to the people who led catalonia failed bid for independence let us know what you think in our live youtube chat or on twitter. twelve catalan separatist leaders could see up to twenty five years in prison if convicted of rebellion and of the offenses related to

a failed independence brigade in late two thousand and seventeen madrid tried to stop catalonia from holding its independence referendum first by declaring the vote .