zero. and three. people and chemicals and at least seventy are killed. and richelle carey this is live from doha also coming up. wasn't there made it very clear. that's not ok spotlight on the pope as

a historic. catholic church. depleted but not defeated the afghan army prepares for an offensive to recapture territory from the taliban. but. the last laugh when they elect a new leader. at least seventy people have been killed in a large fire that ripped through several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka a fire broke out in the congested old city and a multi-story residential complex which also housed a chemical warehouse. reports. controlled battling a wall of flames amid the chaos of crowded to. the blaze broke out. in

the area the capital in the crammed old city. quickly spread to surrounding buildings by plastics and chemical warehouses. witnesses told local media that gas cylinders in the buildings exploded. in vehicles gridlocked in nearby streets in the flames. it was so with my own eyes that a sudden massive bang with fire and shockwave 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. this mangled wreckage is old it's late now as emergency workers calm the rubble for bodies they don't expect to find any survivors. in the hospital nearby distraught families crowd around lists of the living and the deed it's a saying that's been repeated too often in bangladesh building five

a common because of holy and full. heart hundreds have been killed in recent years this latest fire only adding to that tally. on al-jazeera and joins us live now from. what is the latest there. apparently we're having some technical difficulties with the with that shot but we will try to connect to get you the very latest on that deadly fire bangladesh has been criticized for its for safety record most buildings are used for both residential and commercial purposes at least twenty seven people died and more than one hundred were injured after a fire engulfed a high street retailer gap factory just outside dhaka and two thousand and ten two years later and hundred twelve workers were killed when another clothing factory caught fire and two thousand and thirteen

a building collapse on the outskirts of dhaka killed more than a thousand people out of two thousand and fifteen thirteen people died in a plastics factory fire and then a year later twenty four people and dozens more were and when a blast ripped through a packaging factory. bishops from around the world are gathering in the vatican for a stork summit trying to end years of sexual abuse but the head of the roman catholic church has angered survivors francis was due to meet with victims on wednesday but he didn't show up for a challenge reports from attic and 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 of 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 two 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 don't need to go into graphic detail but i was sexually assaulted by these characters and i have recovered in the physical sense that didn't have any long lasting effect on the 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 all 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 to reach alan's al-jazeera the vatican. returning now to our top story that deadly fire and that left at least seventy people. live there on the same so what else can you tell us about what happened.

from the fire service so. that forty people have been taken to that document. hospital. disaster management fire specialist major. no was told me that now as you can see this is a very busy street this is a holy day today language memory a day despite that it's a very busy and congested. shops as well as living quite and this is the old part of the city not the capital the central part of the city very densely populated so what happened yesterday and we have some conflict in the fort from the witnesses in the neighborhood there said that there was an explosion in a pickup truck most possibly the cylinder because a lot of the cars and trucks a run on natural gas that exploded and spread the fire into a nearby restaurant which also had a natural gas cylinder and that explosion costs the dimension which towards

a lot of chemicals four parts and that spread fire all across and that was a wedding procession going that particular moment and people become victims of that particular wedding procession several cars went by and rickshaws three wheelers by barn people died on this. now we know this sort of incident happened here in two thousand and ten in a way at least one hundred and twenty three people died and the government took a lot of precautions since then but despite all that there are a lot of warehouses still stores. small molding factories shops and living quarter in the same areas now a lot of the people said look don't blame the government people the building on us a lot of this thing to happen this business owner it's a way of life in the old city small businesses people living in the quarter some houses are as old as a hundred years old or fifty years old it is not something that you can overnight change it it is the people's public awareness and knowing about this sort of danger

they left to take the initiative not just the government. despite everything is a major tragedy here people are very sad for the number of people died we'll have to see how the new initiative by the government and people take in coming days because obviously the clear danger remains in this old city where a very densely congested quarter of people living and shopping and having houses in the same class a clear sign for new disaster to happen if people don't take any precautions right temperature entre live for us in dhaka tamar thank you. us one woman who joined i saw has been barred from returning to america or madonna says she made a mistake by traveling to syria four years ago and wants to return with her eighteen month old son a secular state might pompei o says the twenty four year old has no legal basis to claim citizenship do not explain why with on is not considered a u.s. citizen a lawyer says she was born in new jersey and has

a valid passport. she's absolutely american national she's absolutely an american citizen she was born in the united states in new jersey and she did not do anything to renounce her citizenship and all she's asking right now is for due process the president of the united states does not have the authority to strip citizenship from those born on u.s. soil 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 i went to syria this is something that we absolutely condemn in the strong this 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 once again intelligence from her and to really be able to utilize her as a strong voice against a monstrous groups like isis that are brainwashed many individuals and manipulated

them to do horrible things that i think somebody like could remounting isis speaking out against them at great risk to her personal life is assigned a victory for the u.s. i still looks to be on the brink of defeat as u.s. fact forces battle for the groups last remaining territory in eastern syria more than two thousand men women and children have been rescued from the village of it's a sign the standoff there could in soon it's believed eisel fighters have been using the civilians as human shields. tech giant google says it made an error after failing to inform users of a hidden microphone inside its home security device consumers only found out about the nest cards built in microphone when google announced it was updating the product with the voice command assistant the company says it was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed as a feature who also said the microphones must be activated to work alexis hancock is a staff technologist at the electronic frontier foundation she says consumers

should voice 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 of what company it 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's 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 and consumers themselves when it's a difference between using it advocation and using a web site versus putting something into your home that you trust so that's

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 what was 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 any more ahead on al-jazeera including twenty five years since a mass shooting at a west bank mosque we report on alba consequences are still unfolding. hello there it's still gloriously warm for many of us across europe february really hasn't turned into the dollar gray month that it normally is instead we've had plenty of sunshine and plenty of warm weather too with the temperatures generally

around five or ten degrees above average you see all that bright weather extending across many parts of europe and for many of us it's going to stay bright sunny and warm as we head through the next few days so on thursday we're expecting the top temperature in paris to be around sixteen degrees at sixty one in fahrenheit and we do have this weather system in the northeastern parts of thursday that's going to cause its a few problems it's going to sink its way southward over the next few days and it is gradually intensify so on friday and on saturday it's going to be the southeastern parts of europe where we see the windy conditions and some wet and wintery ones as well across the other side of the mediterranean the last we fine and dry for many of us here i think for about though is going to get a bit warmer as we head into friday so our temperatures will be topping this time at around twenty four degrees the central belt of africa is also going to see plenty of sunshine as we head through the next day or so i think for us in lagos we get to around thirty two just the chance of the old shower here but i think the greatest chance of a shower is going to be for the south so bone is likely to see quite a few during the day.

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watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now at least seventy people have been killed in a large fire the grip of several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka a fire broke out in a residential complex and complex that is an old part of the city and that building also house chemicals and i asked. the head of the roman catholic church has angered survivors of sexual abuse after he failed to show up at a planned meeting with them that france is holding a summit to discuss the issue on thursday. google says it made an error after failing to inform users have a hidden microphone inside its home security device simmers only found out about the built in microphone google announced it was updating the product the company says it was never intended to be a secret. army commanders in afghanistan say or they're confident a spring offensive will help in taking back large areas of territory from the taliban twenty one districts have fallen to the armed group in recent months has

resulted in the army's highest ever losses while its strength has fallen to its lowest level in years twenty berkeley reports from kabul. this remote afghan army outpost is one of thousands nationwide often isolated and in inhospitable areas there the first line of defense against taliban and i still fight is 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 has borne the brunt of the fighting with the taliban and the casualties inflicting ever greater casualties to the forces so now the number of casualties or dozens of 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. in fifteen an 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 but it's their own choice to serve is no doubt that we suffer a lot. of disabled but our morale is high because the goal is freedom and to serve the people of afghanistan and. 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 over afghanistan it is because of the change in tactics on the ground so we are planning a spring offensive where 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 pass 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 part of your duty but it's also because of the dire economic situation here they face the stark choice either stay at home and in your poverty or face the taliban and risk death or injury and that from the e.s.m. it's my duty to fight for my country to win our freedom and i'm not afraid of the taliban or the magazine other system if 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 that. 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 pay is low the conditions poor and since. the american ground forces left back up 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. it 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 when this most. i have no regret i am proud that i have contributed to the fans of michael three and my second fires 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 will the afghans be able to stand alone tony

berkley al jazeera. and senegal are turning to satire to find out more about the candidates for the presidency a nation goes to the polls on sunday and other african nations comedians making fun of politicians have found themselves in jail that's not the case though in senegal reports in the capital dakar thank you thank you thank you there may be no televised presidential debate but there is special election coverage. this is a comedian is impersonating all five candidates including president mikey sol on the campaign trail. thanks follows cells every move poking fun at the president who for now seems to be the favorite in the race. but the problem is he got so fat that it's not easy to run a race when you put on so much weight if he wants another five years he's going to

explode and so for his own well being he needs to pull out of the race thanks laughing at a sitting president is no joke in many african countries and beyond it could land a comedian in jail but not in senegal political satire has a longer tradition than democracy itself none of the five candidates have complained about the skits because humor is part of the campaign. the danger to get on with the daily news in iraq the political satire show on the election the aim is to hold to account each promise made by candidates a reminder that people not politicians are in charge ahead of the polls you can live for people just for the chief your goal in the stand what do you. want to but we're not we're not. we're not running for. for goldwyn no we're not running for mayor will run for mocking redoing for the people. as each candidate tries to stand out comedians bring them down to an even footing where they're powerful president

or a candidate running for office india and seems to say out loud what many politicians perhaps think but wouldn't see in public nicholas hawke carr. says the u.s. could tax european car imports if it fails to procure a fair trade deal with the e.u. tried gave the warning after a meeting with austrian chancellor sebastian curse at the white house the commerce department has been investigating whether imported cars and parts are a threat to u.s. national security important duty on european cars could go up to twenty five percent the u.k.'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 practice and strategy on wednesday they joined eight other in paste from the opposition labor party who formed a new political group later theresa may have more meetings in brussels where she's been pushing to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement britain has more. 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 not jeremy corbyn acknowledge them here mark hurd. this place as at war with itself the tories and the labor party unemployment scotland deserves better of 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 is a new independent group but they'll 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 m. 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 ahead of the meaningful vote on the next step for brics it next week paul brennan al-jazeera westminster french president manuel macron has announced a new measures to fight anti-semitism after a series of incidents speaking at an event organized by the jewish community said legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in may it comes a day after thousands of people rallied across france to denounce hostility towards jews. palestinians or more preparing to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the

massacre and have drawn at 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 four at a sorry boss at reports on the occupied west bank the consequences of that mass shooting are still being felt. 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 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 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 stain on least here may have been over in a matter of minutes but its consequences 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. i mean 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 tense 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 have freedoms at

a more constricted for the last two years by a reinforced fence and a gate that soldiers can look at any time. we used to come and go now they have a system can. 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. had in the occupied west bank. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines on al-jazeera. l.a. seventy people had been killed in a large fire at the bridge there several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka a fire broke out in a residential complex in an old part of the city the building where the fire began also house chemicals and. what happened yesterday we have some

conflicting report from the witnesses in the neighborhood that said that there was an explosion in a pickup truck most possibly. because a lot of the cars and trucks a natural gas explosion and fire into a nearby restaurant which also had an. explosion costs. which a lot of chemicals for parts. spread all across. the head of the roman catholic church has angered survivors of sexual abuse after he failed to show up at a planned meeting with them pope francis holding a summit to discuss the issue on thursday tech giant google says it made an error after failing to inform users of a hidden microphone inside its home security device consumers only found out about the nest cards built in microphone when google announced it was updating the product company says it was never meant to be a secret u.s.

born woman who joined eisel has been barred from returning to america. he says she made a mistake by traveling to syria four years ago and wants to return with their eighteen month old son such a statement pompei o says the twenty four year old has no legal basis to claim citizenship and do not explain why with ana is not considered a u.s. citizen or lawyer says she was born in new jersey and has a valid passport. donald trump says the u.s. could tax european car imports if it fails to procure a fair trade deal with the e.u. gave the warning after a meeting with austrian chancellor sebastian curs this was at the white house commerce department has been investigating whether imported cars and parts are a threat to u.s. national security as trump has alleged import duty on european cars could go up to twenty five percent. as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news to come inside story as that next. he was sent to jail with one to two

different prime minister is. now he is set to become the next prime minister of malaysia. and why abraham and discuss is what direction his country will take. to al-jazeera. the race to be u.s. president in twenty twenty is under way bernie sanders is running again looking to replace the man he describes as the most dangerous president in modern american history but his son and the other democratic candidates. i'll turn a tip to donald trump this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. three years ago bernie sanders started what he

called revolution had run for u.s. president on a platform of progressive ideas such as free health care for.