sounds familiar it's because the senate has gone through the same motions before in december senators passed a similar resolution but it went nowhere in the republican controlled house now that the house has a democratic majority it's expected to sail through the real test is whether president donald trump will sign the resolution into law but trump has threatened to veto a white house statement argues the resolution which for the first time evokes the war powers resolution would set a bad legal precedent and despite pressure from members of his own party to distance himself from saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin some months trump has doubled down on his support for him that's despite the cia's conclusion that bin cell monday directed the killing of u.s. based journalist jamal. khashoggi was killed by government hitmen inside the saudi consulate in istanbul nearly six months ago since then the outrage over his murder

and dismemberment has been a resurgent topic in congress bringing together members of both parties in a divided government but that has not been enough to convince president donald trump to punish saudi arabia and there's no indication he'll do so now heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington so the head of al-jazeera. the law is having the allies having. britain's parliament rules out the deal breakers the legs they'll decide whether this was the e.u. for i delayed departure and we'll be reporting from solving the floods of killed dozens and made thousands homeless.

hello again and welcome back we're here crossing out states wednesday was a severe weather day across much of the united states here across the mississippi river area you can see all the clouds associate with that storm we also had a wintry side up towards the north with about six to seven states under blizzard conditions now this is what we are expecting to see as we go towards thursday the system is going to continue to make its way towards the east and we're going to be seeing a lesser threat but still severe weather down here across parts of alabama as well as georgia even florida may see some as well up towards the north it is still going to be that wintry mix that we see windy conditions a lot of snow not only for parts in the states but also into ontario ontario as well as into quebec will be watching that very carefully temptress though are coming up here washington a high temperature few on friday of about twenty degrees and lana one thousand nine hundred there well not seeing a lot of rain across parts of the caribbean this time of year but we're going to be seeing those temperatures reach into the high twenty's maybe even thirty degrees here in havana over towards santa domingo thirty one degrees is your high here on

thursday and as we go towards friday a beautiful day in nasa with a temperature of twenty seven degrees and then here across parts of argentina we are looking at clear skies few and attempt of twenty four with rain in the forecast for rio attempts are there of thirty three. pasta is everywhere and it's choking our planet very toxic and very dangerous and we could spend years painting if i allowed but breakthroughs are being made showing that it is possible to change our relationship with there's no innate substance to simply running out i am going to make me laugh can we pick up mom let me try to move on plastic waste earthrise on al-jazeera how do you turn this into this.

welcome back you're watching i'll just zero time to recap our headlines prosecutors in malaysia pushing ahead with the trial of a vietnamese woman charged with the killing of north korea's leader leaders rather half brother kim jong nam that's after they rejected calls from the vietnamese government for release boeing has grounded its global fleet of seven three seven craft after the u.s. president joined dozens of other countries in battling the planes from the skies it follows the crash of an ethiopian airliner hundred fifty seven people were killed. the u.s. senate has voted in favor of a resolution to withdraw support from the saudi and amorality backed coalition in yemen president donald trump threatened to veto the measure vote.

britain's parliament has rejected the prospect of a no deal brags that in another day of high drama of the u.k.'s departure from the european union now politicians will be leaving day just over two weeks away should be pushed back and the barbara falls from london. to the right three hundred twenty one. to the left two hundred seventy eight voting to rule out a no deal breaks it on to any circumstances but what's it worth the result yet another blow for prime minister to reserve my messages being sent by parliament the motion isn't legislation so as things stand the u.k. still leaves the european union and the twenty ninth of march the legal default. that the u.k. will leave the e.u. without a deal. i. left

something else is a three. the onus is now on every one of us in this house to find out what that is in the days that follow mr speaker myself the shadow breaks it secretary and others will have meetings with members across the house to find a compromise solution that can command support in the house the government in the name of the prime minister and i think the speaker of the commons announced a new government motion for thursday proposing a three month extension to the brics a deadline until the end of june if parliament can approve a deal in the next week otherwise the prime minister says the u.k. would need a much longer extension he need it would have to take part in may's european elections someone backing a swift resolution to be on passed is the most powerful politician. the three point you can talk and it's in everyone's interest that there is an orderly exit because on the one side it's britain that is leaving the e.u.

and on the other hand it's about the unity of the twenty seven but the european parliament just adopted contingency measures to lessen the damage from a no deal bracks it covering areas including transport and foreign students the parliament's brix a coordinator suggested british politicians unlikely to reach agreement for them actually it is up to let you know what and not an existential problem of a country and of a whole country that and that's a shame. with such chaos in parliament in recent weeks the public's none the wiser about how when or indeed if it will happen. but the rest of europe is also following events here extremely closely well parliament has now backed something that something is simply an a whether the u.k. gets more time to come up with a real plan of action could depend as much on the mood in brussels as on the message from westminster nadine barber al jazeera london. i saw fighters are still

holding out against u.s. backed forces in eastern syria who are continuing their bombardment of the group's last shred of territory near the iraqi border earlier syrian democratic forces said as many as two thousand five hundred fighters had surrendered within a twenty four hour period coalition forces launched a major offensive on sunday. the u.s. and the taliban say they've made progress in their latest round of talks aimed at ending afghanistan's seventeen year war more than two weeks of negotiations ended without a deal in their home on tuesday but delegates say a draft agreement has been reached on foreign troop withdrawal and not allowing fighters to operate inside afghanistan. at least eight people have been killed in a school shooting in brazil's biggest city sao paolo police say two gunmen targeted children and staff before turning their guns on themselves daniel schorr in the reports. but most brazilians these were scenes normally only seen on news reports

in the united states. government entered the professor old school in sudan or a suburb of law and opened fire with a revolver they were also reported to be armed with a bow and arrows and explosives you say you don't you know they didn't look at anyone they just started shooting at anyone he was close by. they started saying that there were gunshots so we opened the kitchen door and started grabbing as many kids as we could for children and two workers at the school were killed at the scene you know the two pupils died on the way to hospital more being treated in a critical condition. before they entered the school they fired at a staff member and another official they entered the school the students were on their break they went to the gym i fired on four more high school students at the time there were only high school students there they went to the language center the students of the language center locked themselves in the room with the teacher and then the shooters committed suicide in the hallway the authorities are still

trying to establish any links the attackers may have had with the school they say they're providing all the assistance they can to families and the surviving students. first of all to the victims to the parents of those young people to the relatives of those two female employees of the school and also to the parents and relatives of the murderers our solidarity this was the saddest thing i have dealt with in my whole life i'm very sad that an event such as this happened in our country and here in sao paolo. crime rates in brazil are high however attack such as this one on schools are relatively rare the last one was in rio de janeiro in two thousand and eleven when twelve children were killed president has promised to tackle crime especially violence with this latest attack adding greater urgency to his efforts and al-jazeera. colombians have rallied in defense of a peace accord with far crumbles they say. is trying to undermine the peace process

threatening to plunge the country back into violence. as they did back in two thousand and sixteen colombians took over plausible lever to defend the peace accord with fire rebels which they believe the government of iran is trying to undermine doesn't that mean that they must be fought for a very long time to get here we can go back it's been fifty years of killings killing people's hope and the strength thousands of families you want peace and reconciliation for that matter can see that so far by their god who was elected by a right wing coalition opposed to the deal announced last sunday he was between the law regulating a special tribunal known as it's tasked with judging the worst crimes committed during the civil conflict ducasse said he was seeking to revise several provisions already approved by the country's constitutional court. decided to object to six of

one hundred fifty nine articles of the specials jurisdictions for peace law since i consider them convenient i invite congress to debate the changes in a constructive manner. former fike rebels and members of colombia's military have already gone before the tribunal which offers reduced penalties and sentences other than prison for those who tell the truth and compensate victims. among other provisions aims to remove sexual crimes from the tribunals jurisdiction and create a separate system for military members responsible of crimes against humanity opposition parties accuse the president of breaching the constitution or if you open the stall the risk goes beyond the functions of the tribunal we are putting at risk our democracy and the rule of law. most political analysts believe the veto will weaken

the tribunal and they're mining the transitional justice system at the heart of the accord and here we're not only talking about team of allies guerrillas are talking about members of the military who have vocally expressed their desire to remain within the transitional justice system. these challenges show that colombia still far from overcoming their deep divisions to rounding the controversial piece in two thousand and six being the issue will most likely once again in the country's constitutional court in the meantime opposition parties are calling for a major protest against the veto next monday and from the. algerian opposition leaders are encouraging people to keep protesting against president abilities beautifully they accuse him of disregarding the constitution to stay in power after he canceled next month's election without setting a new date in an attempt to calm the rest of the fleet has promised not to run for

a fifth term is also replaced key government figures including the prime minister with loyalists sudan's prime minister earlier formed a new government with the job of fixing the economic crisis president ahmed bashir appointed him last month after declaring a state of emergency the prime minister says the new cabinet must limit inflation and prevent sudan's currency from plunging further at least three people are believed to have died from an outbreak of new baltic plague on the border between uganda and the democratic republic of congo it's adding to pressure on health workers in this part of the sea who are struggling to contain and major outbreak. it's great concerning here in uganda because. they are already an outbreak. in the and these additional outbreak of suspected blank. could find that complicate an

already difficult situation from the uganda will working closely with the ministry of health and the district health authority in the zone but district says. happened . we have been there with a team of the national response team rapid response team to effect control measures in the district highly yes but it's my treatable and. my district is undergoing treatment and is improving steadily on the congress and i we understand there is a conflict going on as well. i don't have all the details from the congress but from the uganda side working in it's quite stable. able to quickly hunt for. the suspect and. more than one hundred people have been killed in floods

devastating parts of southern africa especially malawi and mozambique hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the storms and whatever faults in the village of murkiness in allowing. everyone in the village of makino sheltering in this hospital hospital. they wanted to show us what happened to their homes. after four days of heavy rain last week swathes of southern malawi were flooded dozens of people have been killed. thousands of homes were destroyed. this is all that remains of an does the owner can ease. the rain started when we were sleeping when we woke up we found the water level was rising fast so we walked to higher ground and waited there until people came in boats and rescued us. the water levels lower now more storms are

forecast in the coming days but people here can't afford to wait and see if it will happen again. some people have already started rebuilding their homes and you can see they made almost entirely out of natural materials these sticks are stuck into the ground between the reed like this woven on and in the gaps they put mud it's all people here can afford but if it floods it gets washed away instantly. louis two hours rebuilding his that he's wondering what he and his family are going to eat in the weeks ahead his entire crop of maize was destroyed. says this happened nobody has come to help us in this area what we are hoping for is for somebody to wake up and come to our help because we are suffering elsewhere malawi's president peter

military visiting many of the affected communities promising help. we tried to get funding for similar nine sheets so that everyone who has been affected will benefit it takes time. back at mclean or something we make our way back to higher ground the government and charities provided food and shelter to many of the affected communities but not here. so the whole hospital remained home and now. the people who are keen are wondering if anyone will come to help. malcolm webb al-jazeera in southern malawi. and let's take you through some of the headlines here and al-jazeera the trial of it the maze woman charged with the killing of north korean leader's half brother

has been adjourned until next month prosecutors in malaysia are pushing ahead with the trial after rejecting calls from the vietnamese government for her release the woman's lawyers say she's barely sleeping and is in no condition to testify florence louis has more from outside the courthouse the kuala lumpur. defense lawyer said he was extremely disappointed he said this was unfair to one just days ago the charges prosecutors had withdrawn charges against one of her kohak used the indonesian national city i shine city was able to walk out of this court a free woman now prosecutors then did not say why they were withdrawing charges against city but with since learned that the indonesian government had been lobbying the malaysian government. boeing has grounded its global fleet of seven three seven max aircraft after u.s. president donald trump joined dozens of other countries in banning the planes from

the skies it follows the crash of an ethiopian airliner which killed one hundred fifty seven people the u.s. senate has voted in favor of a resolution to withdraw military support from the saudi backed coalition in the emmen president donald trump threatened to veto the measure rescuers are searching for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed three story building nigeria's commercial capital it contained apartments shops and the primary school at least eight people have been found dead . and so at least eight people including children and teachers have been killed in a school shooting in brazil police say two teenagers entered the school in a suburb of south paolo and opened fire before turning their guns in themselves at least fifteen others were injured the u.k. parliament has rejected the prospect of a no deal breakers this is another day of drama over britain's departure from the european union now politicians will be asked if their leaving date two weeks from

now should be delayed. there's a headline news continues after her thrice stay with us. a nation where corruption is endemic embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean if anybody was shining light on the romanians pressing for change and their unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remaining people on al-jazeera.

cheap and fast a tile plastic is used for everything furniture tools storage containers clothing even tea bags and glitter on birthday cards it's hard to imagine modern life without it. so much has been created that scientists it calculates the total amount ever made it eight point three billion tons. and most of these items are used for only short periods of time or even just once before being discarded to later land and see. if nothing is done we are heading towards a planet so full of plastic that the health of plants animals and humans alike will be threatened. and yet fossil fuel companies are investing billions of dollars in producing even more of it. we urgently needs rethink how we manage the plastic we use o. find an alternative. actually are shot on the west coast of canada to meet people dedicated to clearing plastic waste from our oceans. imo marketing for in france

where a movement is afoot to rivet country of oil based plastic. it is not believed that plastic waste can be found on every beach in the world from the business beaches to the most isolated and uninhabited islands now no shoreline is untouched by plastic. and if the current rate of global production continues there could be more plastic than fish by weight in our seas by two thousand and fifty. him british columbia people have decided enough is enough and i'm taking strive to stop the tragic destruction of our ocean. ocean legacy is a local foundation whose aim is to tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution along the twenty five thousand kilometers of coastline here. chloe dubois is one of the founders. i'm free to reach here through it all right the

first three days first. the british columbia coast is made up of deep inlets and rugged island shorelines so helicopter travel isn't just a joy ride it's essential. today we're headed to the clyde quite sound and one of the forty thousand islands that dot the coastline here. these trains are a bit tricky you need some really hard to tell just how much debris is actually here because of the logs and rocks we could spend years cleaning this island alone it's being estimated that there's about five point two five trillion piece of property in the ocean right now and a lot of those pieces that are free to move wherever they want to on the planet aside from you know the unsightly mess of pollution on these. problems. possibly because when. it turns out there's

a little sponges so any chemicals that are in the water will begin to absorb these chemicals in the parts he said and this is very talks. very dangerous. every day we're finding new animal or whale that's been washed ashore with some exposed atsic . given the amount of plastic here i'm not surprised wildlife is suffering we let it. out for us oh wow it's oh yeah you can tell this is an old refrigerator there's no way we could make a dent cleaning the speech by ourselves fortunately reinforcements are on the way so they came in are bringing more and more volunteers to this remote area to clean up the beans so every maybe two dozen volunteers that. many here come from different local environmental groups overall there are five thousand volunteers to call upon across the region. but with so much coastline to monitor chloe and her

team rely on tip offs posted on the ocean legacy website to prioritize the most crucial locations. i found the forty flipflop. and here. yeah some of these are bear. here and foam has been. fishing so when it washes up on shore. in searching for food and mistakes the sarah from from being in the. ones collected the plastic is ready for transport back to the mainland i am going to learn how to use playing our cats one of these super pacs and i hope. the helicopter so i can lift it out of here when you drop so hard all around the i can run it over to you guys i want to get out. since ocean legacy started the team of collected over five tons of plastic off islands like this. and they're keeping most of it out of landfills too. but what happens to the

plastic they collect chloe's invited me back to the recycling center in vancouver to find out. what's the next step in the process we take all of these are random hard plastic items and we're going to shred them up. the fragments will then be sold on to companies who will breathe new life into that styrofoam will become picture frames and picnic benches while bits of old tires will hit the road again as new tires ocean legacy is even starting to engage high street companies such as lush cosmetics who are using recycled plastic for their signature packaging so in order to make the black pots we've needed to turn this material basically into something that looks like this. so it's still a very small project but we're looking now in our own isolation to grow this much larger to engage more industry and more cleanup groups so that we can help create

an economic value for these materials they're organized as a nonprofit foundation which means that all their profits get funneled into research education and more clean up nothing goes to waste here. so what are we turning this into the next step to make us. what that's. how are you turning this into fuel. it's a clever solution plastic is made from fossil fuels after all. to learn more chloe is taking me to the boat where they have a prototype they're developing on a larger scale. we've set our parameters and the machine is essentially heating up and will start to vaporize the plastic. the plastic is converted into fuel through a process of thermal decomposition called pyrolysis the machine is air tight and oxygen free so that the plastic doesn't burn as the temperature heats up to four hundred ten degrees celsius it melts to become a liquid and then a gas. this passes through a tube into

a container filled with cool water where it condenses and forms oil so who could obtain a machine like us the larger scale technology that we're looking to develop would be ideal for remote coastal or even island communities that don't have readily accessible fuel sources that are and are also inundated with classic pollution everywhere it makes sense that these remote communities can use that passage as a resource to write something that will benefit the community. the machine will take three hours to turn the plastic into fuel in the meantime i'm off to check out another project less focus on recycling and more on changing mindsets it's an artist and author douglas copeland studio on the other side of town. what are you looking at here the same solve these are just crazy global head dogs there's a twentieth century twentieth century way of looking at fast as something shiny and

copying great there's a reality in the world radio and i were just into that and so these guys here plastic boy plastic girl they will be representing the future these figures are part of douglas's installation at the vancouver aquarium and i'm getting them ready for their debut. do you like your new group home he says. look at about. douglas is using eleven tons of ocean plastic in his show. what inspired jared to create this installation piece i go north this place called queen charlotte islands about four years ago i was up there and plastic bottles were suddenly washing up on my sacred beach and really it was like you know vandalizing moment for me so i thought well let's make an image of the trash one which has been his route motional untangled to it i guess copeland isn't pretending to offer

solutions but he is hoping to engage audiences who ordinarily wouldn't stop to think about the problem and ultimately he's hopeful we can turn things around before it's too late. i'm heartened by the energy british columbia is putting into tackling the problem of plastic pollution before i leave i want to return to the ocean legacy boat to see how much fuel the machine has produced. something different colors as it's been mixed are separating into different. so what's going to coming out of this machine is a mixed oil and in that oil we can separate into terrorists in oil diesel fuel and petroleum products so you can record tricity from it power your lawn mower heat your home how are you using this you currently we're not making enough of the fuel to use it in a practical application so this is just our small pilot we've really got the world's interest rate you know in launching these units worldwide. the fuel will

emit greenhouse gases and other pollutants but at least it takes plastic out of circulation and reduces the need for fossil fuel extraction. so can we use it in the ship yeah let's do it ok. and the whole she goes. very. running. now. i am ocean legacy are planning to roll out these machines starting in british columbia in one year's time they aren't the first organization to try to turn plastic into fuel or to recycle it. but what impresses me about chloe and her team is the determination which drives them to take a multi-pronged approach to tackling plastic pollution is a problem that won't go away if we continue to use and discard such huge amounts of plastic. but what i've seen here gives me hope that if other groups around the

world were to work in similar ways it could be possible to make a real difference. around the world more than forty countries have imposed to cut down on plastics. in two thousand and two bangladesh was the first to prohibit then plastic bags after they clocked storm drains during devastating floods. and in malaysia's federal territories a recent ban has been imposed on plastic bags in favor of biodegradable income possible bags and food containers. while in kenya it's become illegal to produce sell and use plastic bags with a penalty of up to four years in jail or a forty thousand dollars fine. but is it too little too late. maybe being banned on land but they've already made their way into the sea. floating between california.