they both suffered under the brutality of isis rule and are terrified by the thought the group could ever one day return. to more s.d.f. in syria have pushed eisel toward the iraq border the more difficult it has become for iraqis to work in the countryside nearby there i saw cells in the desert around here it's terrible that i kidnap innocent people the government and the army need to thoroughly search this area because i so are still hiding here the people here have suffered so much on their i celebrity. the head of iraq's intelligence says eisel fight is a regrouping and recruiting mainly in the rural areas of north and west in iraq they want controlled u.s. military intelligence believes the territorial battle against eisel across syria and iraq has been won but the fight small groups of fighters and sympathizers across this vast region will go on. mosul in the past hour or so they've been to deadly blasts in different parts of syria one was

a suspected car bomb near the village in an area held by the s.d.f. the latest we're hearing is fifteen people killed and dozens injured the other was in the town of afrin that happened in the center of the city thought to be a car bomb an update just in is that at least four people are dead and many injured earlier there was a military parade in the city for a new free syrian army recruits. now the issue of i saw brides and what to do with them has been in the news lately and widely discussed online revealing as more metaphors revealing thanks has a mole we wanted to narrow down the focus and take a look at what people were saying about the specific u.k. case of a teenager who married an arsenal far into. the begum and also the ban on her returning of the conversation is divided with many people believing that it was actually the right move for the british government to revoke begum citizenship and

then hand her over to bangladesh and it sparked debate around whether it's legal to make the teenager stateless in reaction to arsenal fighters trying to go back home to their own country several u.k. citizens are taking matters into their own hands in fact this online petition was set up last year calling for a complete ban on anyone that's been affiliated with eisel and removing their citizenship it's already received more than five hundred thousand signatures and is now pending a debate in parliament. well boxer american accuses begum of giving british muslims a bad name and joel says the bacon was fifteen when she joined the enemy five years over the age of criminal responsibility she has shown no regret or remorse and the u.k. is not a place she should be able to call home but not everybody agrees with these points four hundred says making someone stateless is denying them the right to have rights and mark owen jones asks why does the u.k.

think it is so special that it can take someone citizenship and leave another country to pick up the pieces well we heard from use of a freelance journalist in london and he's concerned about the repercussions this will be having on british society. i think it's important if not crucial that the voices of muslim men and particularly women are included into the debate not because they have the answers but purely because whatever the government decides to do whether they leave stateless or whether they allow the return to the u.k. it will be muslim women every day muslim women who don't push me know who be impacted the most of all this they'll be the ones having to deal with either thinly veiled or some of her ruslan just general bad experiences that will come out of this and i think they need to be listened to most if we're going to find a solution as to how we can help and there are another another number of cases have a say online like. from alabama in the us she went to syria at the age of nineteen

to join eisel and her request to return to the us was denied by the secretary of state and president will trump trump recently tweeted calling for several european countries including britain france and germany to put captured eisel fight is on trial but journalists came to him god says that the u.k. and the u.s. governments of both appeared to conclude that their former nationals who married into eisel are no longer citizens for doing so this is not about whether these young women did something wrong they did it's about due process while the story is ongoing and he would love to get your thoughts on it so they tweet us is the hash tag is great thanks really now we want to hear from you on these are stories you can send to your comments to any of our online platforms we're on twitter use the hashtag a.j. news great our handle is a.j. english rule so on facebook it's facebook dot com slash zina or you can send us

a message on whatsapp or telegram or plus nine seven four zero one trip or one forty nine there's a number in screen. now a rescue mission has been called off after a fire tore through the historic district in bangladesh is capped to at least seventy people are confirmed dead so far the blaze started deep inside a residential complex in dhaka which also house a chemical warehouse alexy o'brien reports i. firefighters and dhaka struggle to bring the inferno under control battling a wall of flames amid the chaos of crowded alleyways was the blaze broke out late on wednesday evening in the area of the bangladeshi capital and in the crammed old city it quickly spread to surrounding buildings by plastics and chemical warehouses . witnesses told local media that gas cylinders in the buildings exploded one after

another. and vehicles gridlocked in nearby streets were soon caught up in the flames. i saw with my own eyes that a sudden massive bang with fire and shock waves totally destroyed the road 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 com the rubble for bodies they don't expect to find any more survivors. in the hospital nearby distraught families crowd around lists of the living and the deed it's a saying that's been repeated far too often in bangladesh where large building fires a common because of holy enforced regulations. hundreds have been killed in recent years this latest fire only adding to that tally. on al-jazeera and

ten which area has more now on the investigation from the scene. at denver started singing choctaw just dhaka in the old city behind me is the house you want your mansion this is where the story is for the perfume chemicals right there which led to the main explosion but there are some concession as to how the fire started local people we interviewed say that it started from a pickup truck which was running on natural gas the cylinder explorer and that spread across on the left side there were restaurants and the restaurant a gas cell and that those exploded and the fire spread all across from the other side to haji mansion and because of the chemical is spread all across i spoke to the disaster specialist for the fire department major shock illinois this is what he had to say i want people to really go for the investigation and the through their investigation they will find a lot of clues. those clues and. what is the

reason for the five so we have done one of the from the investigation team disaster like this are not uncommon in bangor this particularly in this old city which is very densely populated and congested with living for other shots and where all combining wrong place now in two thousand and ten at least one hundred twenty three people died in a similar white house explosion which contain a lot of chemicals i spoke to a lot of the locals why they're not doing anything about this and compel the government to move these warehouses from their living quarter areas this is one of the personal what do you have to say basically our government is doing well there they have just. tell us to do what you do want to do but it's it's about us it's about people messed people all the mess people it's not ok those and i'm the land owner so if i'm not i'm letting them to their works here. in our government made a lot of promise that since two thousand and ten in clearing up these areas

obviously that is not happening it needs a lot of public social awareness. and enforcement otherwise clearly dangers like this still exist within the authentic quaters. now the leader of the catholic church is calling for concrete measures to end child sex abuse in the church pope francis opening an unprecedented summit at the vatican attended by senior church leaders from across the world survivors have also given testimony there the catholic church has been accused of covering up scandals for decades and has paid out billions of dollars to thousands of victims you nancy. basing the plague of sexual abuse by the churches men against minors i thought to consult you because all together we should hear the holy spirit and listen to the cry of the young who want justice the way to pass through an ecclesiastical sponsibility which forces us to discuss this together is a burden on our meeting about how to face this evil which afflicts the church and

the whole of humanity the holy people of god are watching us and wait not just for simple an expected conviction but concrete and effective measures and one of the cardinals attending that conference was reduced to tears while making a keynote speech the wounds of the recession carried the memory of illusion suffering but they also carry the memory of how we should feel. if we want to be agents of healing let us not reject any and then see that this part of the thinking that refuses to see and touch the wants of others which are christ who is in the wood the people those wounded by a pew should the scandal lead to be strong in faith in this moment. well

joining us now from vatican city is rory challenge so roy this is going to be a closely watched summit to see if the catholic church comes up with real reforms or whether as some of the abuse survivors seventy feel this might be just a p.r. exercise yeah a lot of them feel that this is perhaps just it's all king show and that the concrete measures that the pope has promised is advocating for are not going to materialize they have just spoken to me in the last ten fifteen minutes or so to discuss the documents the they say is the kind of working recommendations that are being discussed in this meeting already it's being called a document of reflection points twenty one causes long and it has things like

discussing a practical handbook within the catholic church for dealing with cases developing listening structures and that sort of thing now and the survivors who are just spoke to are upset vats what it doesn't contain is any talk of zero tolerance which is something that they have been advocating for basically that priests who have abused. kicked out of the priesthood that anyone who covers up abuse is also kicked out of the priest said they say that this shows that the church is just tweaking things slightly doing what it's done already but just maybe a little bit better so at the moment at least on the first day of this summit the survivors that we speak to are not happy with how it's going. and then as you say this is this is a summit that is going to go on for several days sized bows we should reserve judgment as to what finally comes out of all of those meetings at the end of it.

yeah i mean absolutely they did you know that the catholic church the vatican knows that this is a nexus tensional crisis for the organization across the wells that the scandal of sexual abuse has so tanishq the catholic church has credibility that it really has to do something to address that if it is going to survive in its current form and that's what this meeting is about it's about getting the most senior members of the church from around the world here to the vatican and making sure that they are aware how serious an issue this is how much suffering has been. by people at the hands of priests for years decades and impressing on the clergy that it is their responsibility collectively to do something about it so that is the the

synonyme that's the situation that the church is dealing with of course what it needs is a natural result and that is something that we're going to have to wait for because this is you know a discussion and we will have to see what happens on after this meeting and know whether this is actually going to make a tangible difference so the way that the catholic church operates particularly with regard to you know abuse against minus roy thanks very much rory challenge in that's considered a force. now a chinese a vice premier new he has arrived in washington for the latest trade talks with u.s. treasury secretary steve minutia the u.s. president has threatened to raise tariffs on a range of chinese imports worth two hundred billion dollars if a deal is not reached by march the first donald trump has also said the u.s. could tax european car imports if it fails to broker a fair trade deal with the e.u. he gave the warning after

a meeting with austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz at the white house the u.s. commerce department has been investigating whether imported cars and parts are a threat to u.s. national security or import duty on european cars could go up to twenty five percent but she have a chance he is following this story for us from washington so what is the latest you're hearing on those talks. well a great deal of effort is going in to presenting these talks is going rather swimmingly actually on both sides both the u.s. and china were having sources saying that standard negotiations under way they were on under way in beijing at the end of last week and now they've resumed in a rather positive manner this week from what we hear several memorandum of understanding of being negotiated on specific issues that separate the u.s. and china the big news in the last few hours is one of those and the use is apparently an agreement by china to buy an extra thirty billion dollars of agricultural products from the u.s.

that would go a long way to helping balance out or reduce the u.s. is trade deficit with china which is something donald trump is particularly excised about the other ammo used being discussed. forced technology transfer at least that's what the u.s. has called it and the polish china's denied this but it's the u.s. allegation that in order for u.s. businesses to do to operate in china they're forced to hand over that technological secrets also cyber theft currency and then this is the interesting one known tariff barriers to trade and i'm no use being discussed on that that's interesting because that suggests that china is discussing its subsidies to its industry its entire industrial policy and in the possibly and possibly even now china has accused the us of also to do nothing to us in a battle in its entire industry a policy of subsidizing chinese companies in order to compete on the global stage in order to export by twenty twenty five and still i would still really fast and

see what they agree on that one because that is a major sticking point and she had what about this march first deadline and to to to get all this done by then i mean how how committed is the u.s. to that date. well it depends on who you are so the trade representative in charge of the of these negotiations robert lighthouses says it is a deadline but don't trump and recent they said it's not a magical dates there's a lot of talk now and rumors about perhaps a sixty day extension for the talks if they seem to be going going well having said that there's a lot of evidence that both the u.s. and china want to make a deal sooner rather than later and they certainly don't want these talks to fall apart for donald trump if they fall apart it's another sign that in fact he's a terrible deal maker despite what he said about himself on the campaign trail it would be enormous pressure on his on the republican agricultural base agricultural exports of china have plummeted soybean exports plummeting ninety eight percent

last year to china this is going to be trouble going into twenty twenty the election year also the other effects for the economy don't trump needs a deal perhaps but also china needs a deal too they perhaps if they fall apart now these negotiations on the u.s. will come back with even tougher tougher and also the economic implications for china but also president xi is under pressure in china to prove that he is a reliable economic stewardship because of the chinese economic downturn and certainly a deal would go a long way so he symbolically to suggest at least take off some of the pressure of president xi back in china she had thanks very much you have a ton in washington now we want to hear from you on these stories you can send us your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter use the hash tag a.j. newsgroup dot handley's a.j. english and we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash. you can send us a message as well on whatsapp for telegram at plus nine seven four five zero one simple one for mine. if you're watching us on facebook live we've got

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